Mortal To Immortal (Book 1)
Ep. 85 - Blood Cider

After Hua Ren's departure, Yao Han met Shenghao, Honghao, and Bolang and said he would shut himself up overnight. The three people nodded in understanding and thought Yao Han wanted to undergo a closed-door training for a moment.

Their estimates are not wrong. Yao Han did not want to delay for too long to raise his practice. After entering a restroom and closing the door, Yao Han went to the Dimension of the Pagoda and greeted his two teachers.

Yao Han was worried that when he managed to reach the seventeen level Basic Realm, there would appear the phenomenon of light pillars soaring into the sky. He also did not want his actual practice to be known by Shenghao and the others, so inevitably Yao Han trained in the Dimension of the Pagoda.

Due to the thinner density of the Dimensional Qi Pagoda than the Flower Hill City, Yao Han decided to take a pill to raise the practice. Something he almost never did because he usually absorbed Qi naturally.

The pills he consumed were not the ones commonly used for Elementary Realm cultivators, but rather the Foundation Realm of even the Core Realm. Due to the condition of his body, the Qi requirement for Yao Han's practice increase was much greater than that of fellow Elementary realm cultivators.

It was approximately half an hour since Yao Han swallowed twenty pills simultaneously and continued with practice, from his body emitting a dazzling bright golden blue light and a huge Qi.

Meirong and Yutian smiled widely seeing Yao Han's success entering the seventeen level Basic Realm for his fire element spirit root. Not stopping there, Yao Han continued to train to improve the other spirit root.

After swallowing dozens of pills and spending roughly the next eight hours, Yao Han managed to make all five of his pure spirit roots at the peak of the seventeenth level of the Basic Realm.

"It seems Yao Han's worry didn't happen." Meirong commented answered Yutian's slow nod.

For others, the training Yao Han was going through was very risky making the practice fragile, but it was not very applicable to him. Over the next few times, Yao Han stabilized the practice and tried to get used to the new strength he had achieved.

When he opened his eyes, Yao Han looked at Meirong nearby and stroked his head gently with a sweet smile. There was nothing Meirong was more proud of than having a super rare and magical disciple like Yao Han.

"Happy Han'er, you were great."

"Thank you, Teacher Hong." Yao Han returned Meirong's smile.

The beautiful woman also did not want to lose to her student. Together with Yutian, Meirong practiced using the magic plants that Feng Xian had given them. The practices of those two Yao Han masters had only slightly reached the peak Golden Core Realm stage.

Yutian proposed to celebrate Yao Han's success raising the practice with the Moon Peach Drinking Party, Meirong had a slow clack because Yutian seemed to teach Yao Han to be a drinker at a young age. However, Moon Peach Arak was different from other types of arak because it was not intoxicating, even efficacious in regenerating wounds and restoring lost Qi, so Meirong let it go.

Yao Han presented the Silver Grass Tea to Meirong as well as the Peach Moon Arak to Yutian and himself. Yao Han did not directly return to his room because he felt that he had not gathered with his teacher for long enough. While drinking wine, Yao Han occasionally noticed the small garden not far from the three.

If Feng Xian had a private magic plant garden next to his residence, Yao Han also had one in the Dimension of the Pagoda. Merely, the harvest time of the magic plants Yao Han planted was clearly much longer than if he planted them on Star Moon Island.

"Han'er, it's been a while since we gave you our blood essence, until when are you waiting to absorb it?" meirong asked making Yao Han pause for a moment before letting out a long sigh.

Yao Han brought up two glass bottles. Each contained a small amount of golden-red and jade-grey colored liquid. These two fluids are none other than the blood essence that Meirong refers to.

"Come, Master Hong.. the student is not sure..." Yao Han sighed again.

Blood essence is the purest part of blood that belongs to spirit and demon animals. Each blood essence has different properties depending on the level and type of spirit and demon animals, but the most common useful increases the physical strength of cultivators up to several times.

A few months after reaching the Core Realm, each of Meirong and Yutian gave three drops of their blood essence. The first time while receiving the blood essence of his two teachers, Yao Han was shaken and balked at absorbing it.

Yao Han understood if the blood essence of spirit and demon beasts was also as a marker that they would establish a blood contract with cultivators. The side effect, if the cultivator died then the spirit beast or demon would die, but it did not apply otherwise.

In the world of cultivators, there were some cultivators who realized that this blood contract created an injustice for spirit beasts or demons who handed over their blood essence.

The same thing happened to Meirong and Yutian. But their condition recovered quite quickly because Feng Xian helped the two find a magic plant that was useful to recover their blood essence. According to Feng Xian, if on the Star Moon Island there was a magic plant called the Sky Dragon Tree, they could utilize its fruit to restore the condition of the two much faster.

Yao Han was obviously unwilling to make his two teachers 'slaves' after absorbing their blood essence. Meirong and Yutian understood Yao Han's rejection and were moved to see their disciples so devoted. Yet they gave it blood essence just because they wanted Yao Han to become a stronger cultivator, at least jiak compared to the young cultivators who were a generation with him.

Feng Xian went on to explain that Meirong and Yutian did not seem to accept such side effects as blood contracts because Meirong and Yutian were not 'born' as spirit animals. However, for months Yao Han had only kept from the blood of his two teachers and waited for the right time.

"There are still a few hours left by morning, and you have more than enough time to absorb our blood essence."

Meirong tried to persuade Yao Han subtly knowing Yao Han was stubborn in terms of little or much against his little heart.

"Teacher Hong, Teacher She... The student promised to be diligent in training and to be a proud disciple of the teachers..."

Yao Han suddenly kowtowed before Meirong and Yutian, making the two of them look at each other and smile thinly.

"You will always be our proud disciple, Han'er." Meirong gently stroked Yao Han's hair. His students finally decided to absorb the blood essence they gave.

Yao Han then moved away three steps and sat down cross-legged. Yao Han first absorbed the golden red blood essence of the Phoenix. Surprisingly, each of the Phenix blood essence he absorbed was different as he swallowed a few drops of Phoenix tears which instantly raised his body temperature.

Yao Han could feel the efficacy after absorbing out the blood essence of the Phoenix. His regeneration ability increased several times as well as his life energy.

Next Yao Han absorbed Yutian's jade snake blood essence. The efficacy Yao Han felt was that his body became more immune to poison, his skin felt hard, and his pores opened as if absorbing Qi slowly by itself without him having to practice.

"Let's pop a fireball with a small size."

Yao Han obeyed Meirong and to his surprise the color of the fireball in his hand became golden red. The fire is now a Fenix Fire like Meirong.

"It took some time until you got used to the fire. In the meantime, you can just use the Phoenix Flame to attack your opponent."

Yao Han nodded enthusiastically. He could not wait to use the Phoenix Flame as a healing medium as well.

"Thank you, Master..." Yao Han quickly approached Meirong and gave a tight hug. Meirong laughed softly and reciprocated Yao Han's embrace was no less tight.

"Ehem... don't you want to hug your handsome teacher, Han'er?"

Yao Han slightly glanced at Yutian, "Sorry, Teacher She, I'm still normal..."

Yutian clucked softly and vented a bit of his frustration by drinking Moon Peach Arak.

Note:

Blood Sari is the equivalent word used by the author to replace the word "Blood Essence".