After sorting through the rest of the items, all that remained was a single book: the *Blood Refining Divine Technique*.
The pages appeared pitch-black, but to the touch, they were as smooth as a child's skin.
Opening it revealed lines of crooked, blood-red text.
Xiao Chen could tell it wasn't a matter of the author having poor penmanship.
Rather, it was as if the author had drunkenly scrawled the contents of the Heart Method like random graffiti.
The characters were a mix of large and small, and amidst the absurdity, they seemed to follow some strange pattern.
At first, it was frustrating and made one want to stop reading.
But after finishing a page, it suddenly became captivating, tempting him to turn to the next.
It detailed three types of Magic.
The *Blood Collection Technique*, which could forcibly extract Essence Blood from other Cultivators.
The *Blood Drinking Technique*, which accelerated one's Cultivation speed by absorbing the Essence Blood of others.
