Having schemed until now, he was still greatly injured and only one step away from success, yet this Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator, whose name he had never heard, ruined his efforts. The Blood God Child was truly unwilling.
Therefore, he had to give it a try. At worst, if he lost, it wouldn't be too late to use his Blood Escape to leave.
"Lightning Release: False Darkness!"
After unleashing a wave of Lightning Release, the Shadow Clones didn't stop for a moment, immediately following up with a second wave.
Meanwhile, Li Chuan secretly took out a handful of soldier pillss.
"I wonder if I can hold on."
With five hundred Shadow Clones, the Chakra amount of each Shadow Clone naturally couldn't be that much. Low-level Ninjutsu was fine, but for high-level Lightning Release like False Darkness, they could at most use it ten times.
This meant that once the five hundred Shadow Clones had used Lightning Release ten times, they would all disappear due to Chakra depletion. If the Blood River hadn't dried up by then, he would only be able to recover Chakra by eating soldier pillss and then continue to release Shadow Clones.
Although his body was strong, there was certainly a limit to how much he could recover by eating soldier pillss.
So now, he could only take a gamble. If he won, that would be for the best. If he lost, he would teleport everyone away with him.
"It seems I am still superior!"
Seeing that Li Chuan's clones below collectively disappeared after ten consecutive joint Lightning Release attacks, the Blood God Child immediately burst into arrogant laughter.
However, he had only laughed halfway when he suddenly widened his eyes and stopped laughing, because he saw Li Chuan below shove all the soldier pillss in his hand into his mouth and once again split out five hundred Shadow Clones.
"Blood God Child, be careful not to bite your tongue off from all that hot air!"
Continuing to have the Shadow Clones release Lightning Release, Li Chuan took out another handful of soldier pillss.
He definitely had enough soldier pillss, but the main issue was whether his body could withstand it. According to his estimation, he could at most eat like this four more times before his body reached its limit.
"Impossible, no pill can restore that much True Essence at once!"
The Blood God Child watched Li Chuan eat a handful of pills that looked like medicine and then split out another five hundred Shadow Clones. While continuing to output the Blood River, he muttered in disbelief.
Pills that restore True Essence were not low-grade pills at all; they were even rarer than pills that increased cultivation.
Imagine, for a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator like him, how vast his True Essence would be after cultivating for a hundred years.
And how precious would the heavenly spiritual objects used to refine a pill that could restore so much True Essence in an instant need to be to achieve that?
Even a Spirit Enhancement Pill, which could increase cultivation, did not contain more energy than the cultivator's own Dantian. It was just that after consuming a Spirit Enhancement Pill, it could use special energy to improve the Dantian and increase its upper limit.
Furthermore, the True Essence within each cultivator's body varied due to different cultivation techniques. Even if one took a pill to restore True Essence, it would take time to convert the energy it contained into the True Essence specific to one's own cultivation technique.
With that conversion time, it would be better to sit down and absorb spiritual energy from the outside world to recover; the speed wouldn't be much slower.
If it were a real battle, the enemy wouldn't be so kind as to let you absorb pills to restore True Essence.
So, in fact, no one in the cultivation world bothered to refine pills that restored True Essence.
This was also why the Blood God Child was so surprised to see Li Chuan recover immediately after eating a handful of pills.
Not only was he surprised, but the Yun Zhong Seven behind Li Chuan, and the Lotus Fairy, the alchemy master who had just recovered her human form and was holding the Ganoderma doll, were also equally stunned.
What they didn't know was that Li Chuan wasn't recovering True Essence at all, but Chakra. The soldier pillss merely compensated the body's energy after consumption, thereby indirectly restoring Chakra extraction.
"I don't believe you have that many pills that can restore True Essence!"
The Blood God Child still refused to give up, gritting his teeth and releasing even more of the Blood River.
"A Nascent Soul Stage cultivator's True Essence is truly an absurd amount!"
When Li Chuan ate his fourth handful of soldier pillss and released Shadow Clones, he saw that although the Blood God Child's face was pale, he was still persisting, and he couldn't help but sigh in admiration.
"It seems I can only escape for now."
Feeling his body begin to tremble, he knew he had reached his limit and probably couldn't outfight the Blood God Child.
So he was about to explain the situation to Chu Yuxiang and tell them to follow him and escape first.
However, when he saw the Lotus Fairy, who had dispelled the filthy blood and recovered her human form, his eyes darted, and he suddenly changed his words.
The Lotus Fairy was not skilled in combat, and she had just been struck by the Blood God Child. Even though she had dispelled the filthy blood and recovered her human form, she couldn't help him in battle.
But, the Lotus Fairy was an alchemy master. If she could refine medicine that increased True Essence, would she also have pills that enhanced the physical body?
If there were medicines that enhanced the physical body, then his physical strength would increase, and his Chakra amount would naturally also increase. At the same time, because his physical strength increased, he would be able to eat more soldier pillss and become more durable.
This wasn't even the most important thing. The most important thing was that in this current situation, he was fighting to protect the Lotus Fairy and Ganoderma, which was a perfect opportunity to shamelessly get free pills!
"No, I can't hold on!"
"Qingfeng Junior Brother, have you run out of those True Essence restoring pills?"
Seeing that the battle had reached a critical moment, and Li Chuan no longer had those miraculous True Essence restoring pills in his hand, the Yun Zhong Seven immediately revealed expressions of despair.
To see hope and then fall into despair was more disheartening than simply being in despair from the start.
But they also understood that for Li Chuan, as a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator, to fight the mid-Nascent Soul Stage Blood God Child to this extent was already beyond their imagination, and how could those miraculous pills that instantly restored True Essence be inexhaustible?
"Those aren't True Essence restoring pills, but secret medicines that restore the body. To be honest, Junior Brother has had special secret techniques in his memory since birth. These secret techniques don't consume True Essence, but a special power that combines the physical body and the soul.
The kick I delivered earlier and the clones and Lightning Release I'm using now are all based on this secret technique.
It's just that my physical strength has now reached its limit, and I can no longer continue to take the secret medicine and release Lightning Release."
Li Chuan reached out and once again took out a handful of soldier pillss.
Hearing Li Chuan's explanation, everyone suddenly realized. No wonder Li Chuan, despite being only at the Foundation Establishment Stage, was so strong. It turned out he had special secret techniques left over from a previous life.
Not everyone who undergoes Body Dissolution Reincarnation can retain all their memories. Especially in ancient times, when the Body Dissolution Reincarnation method was incomplete, many ancient cultivators, after reincarnating, might only remember some fragments, or some cultivation techniques and spells.
Moreover, the time for Body Dissolution Reincarnation was not fixed. It wasn't like one could reincarnate immediately the day after undergoing Body Dissolution.
Some took a dozen years, some decades, and some even hundreds or thousands of years.
Reincarnation wasn't necessarily into a human; it could be an animal, a flower, or grass. Even if it was a human, they might not necessarily have cultivation talent.
And with more reincarnations, memories would gradually fade, and the true spirit would also be unable to maintain itself.
Clearly, Li Chuan was likely an ancient cultivator who had reincarnated, with only some special secret techniques remaining in his memory.
"So, if your physical body and soul become stronger, can you continue to take the secret medicine and release Lightning Release?"
At this moment, the Lotus Fairy, holding the Ganoderma child, suddenly took a step forward excitedly and asked Li Chuan.
Li Chuan feigned a moment of hesitation, then nodded:
"Although I haven't tried it, if my physical body is enhanced and my soul also becomes stronger, perhaps I really can consume more secret medicine and continue to release Lightning Release."
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