âPutong!â
Jian Chen stripped off all of his clothes, and jumped straight into the blood-filled cask. At the same time, he retrieved the snake gall from within the jade bottle, and directly swallowed it.
Not long after the gall entered his stomach, Jian Chen immediately felt a surge of activty from his five senses within his body. His stomach began to grumble loudly against his will, as if he was currently having diarrhea.
Jian Chen sat cross-legged within the cask. The blood in the cask submerged everything up to his neck, leaving only his head exposed outside.
Feeling the ice-cold air emitted from the blood, Jian Chen gradually relaxed. He closed his eyes, and began to absorb the unique genes from within the blood, following the procedure he had read in books.
It was because of the existence of these unique elements within the Silver Striped Golden Snakeâs blood that gave the blood its ability to detoxify poison. According to the books, one must absorb all of these unique elements within the body, and then fuse them into their own blood in order to gain an unpoisonable body. The blood would support the body, and grant oneâs flesh an overpowering ability to resist poisons; the ability was so powerful that one could even become completely immune to poisons.
Once the Silver Striped Golden Snakeâs blood was used to refine the Ten Thousand Immunity, one would be entirely immune to any poisons weaker than the Silver Striped Golden Snakeâs. One would even gain the effect of being able to strongly resist poisons at the same level as the Silver Striped Golden Snakeâs (although one cannot be immune to it). Thus, the amount of danger the poison would be able to inflict would be drastically decreased, or the spread of the poison would be greatly deterred.
Although the Ten Thousand Immunity wasnât immune to all the poisons that existed, it was enough to make Jian Chen excited. After all, the Silver Striped Golden Snakeâs poison had widespread fame on the Tian Yuan Continent. There were just a handful of poisons more potent than the Silver Striped Golden Snakeâs. Moreover, such poisons were extremely uncommon, and were as rare to see as the Silver Striped Golden Snake itself.
Jian Chen sat cross-legged in the cask with his eyes tightly shut. His stomach continued to loudly grumble extremely loudly. If anyone was standing next to Jian Chen, they would be able to clearly hear the sound.
Within Jian Chenâs stomach was something similar to a roaring sea; it was very stormy. At the same time, an extremely nauseating feeling arose from Jian Chenâs heart, and Jian Chen could barely stop himself from vomiting.
âI guess the snakeâs gall bladder is being dissolved; the bile inside is leaking out.â Jian Chen resisted the nausea with great difficulty. He inwardly recalled that the books had stated if one wanted to refine the Ten Thousand Immunity, aside from blood, the most important part was the gall bladder. Both the gall bladder and the blood were essential components, because the bloodâs poison-resistant special elements could only be absorbed into oneâs body by being drawn in by the gall bladder.
These poison-resistant elements werenât like World Essence that could be absorbed whenever one wanted to. If one didnât have the appropriate object to draw them in, then even if one had the blood, they wouldnât be able to absorb the elements. Although directly drinking the fresh blood could also detoxify the poison, this could only temporarily address the issue. Not long after, a simple trip to the toilet would drain the consumed blood; there was no way one could even think the way to obtaining an unpoisonable body would be like that.
At that moment, a warm current suddenly appeared in Jian Chenâs abdomen. The warmth continued to increase, and in that instant, Jian Chen felt like his abdomen was burning, as if a fire was blazing within it. Along with this abrupt uprising of changes within his abdomen, Jian Chenâs pores all opened, as if linked together.
At the same time, inside of the cask, traces of that bizarre and special energy began to materialize like small fish within the crimson blood. They all began to gradually swim toward Jian Chen and enter his body through his pores.
Just as this energy was entering his body, Jian Chenâs originally serene expression suddenly changed. The bizarre energy entering him instantly changed from being docile like a small sheep into a ferocious group of tigers. They wildly revolted within Jian Chenâs body, making his entire body suffer from intense pain.
âThis is bad, there are unexpectedly some magical beastâs unique berserk elements within this blood. Moreover, itâs even stronger than those within a monster core.â Sensing his bodyâs changes, Jian Chen instantly understood what was happening. All magical beastâs energies contained berserk elements; this was something that everyone in Tian Yuan Continent has known for ages. However, these berserk elements were almost all hidden within monster cores, so Jian Chen hadnât expected that they would also exist in the Silver Striped Golden Snakeâs blood. Moreover, these berserk elements were much more powerful than the ones that he had absorbed from monster cores during cultivation, perhaps even a hundredfold stronger.
Resisting the powerful pain arising from his body with much difficulty, an extremely baffled thought popped up in Jian Chenâs mind. âHow come I hadnât felt these berserk elements at all when I first drank the Silver Striped Golden Snakeâs blood?â
Jian Chen sat in the cask, his body beginning to shake as his entire body down to even his pores were in intense pain, and the muscles on Jian Chenâs couldnât help but twitch. His originally flush face had gradually begun to turn pale.
The traces of the bizarre and special energy within the snakeâs blood seemed to be attracted by something, and continuously rushed into Jian Chenâs pores. As the amount of energy in his body continued to increase, the berserk elements contained within also increased, and became more and more powerful. The pain brought forth onto his body by these berserk elements made Jian Chen sweat profusely. However, he clenched his teeth and fists tightly, and continued to resist it.
At that moment, the azure and violet glows in Jian Chenâs dantian suddenly emitted faint light rays. Meanwhile, the fierce pain Jian Chen was feeling suddenly disappeared without a trace. The berserk elements absorbed by him that had accompanied the bizarre energy within the blood seemed to have been attracted by some strange force. As soon as they entered Jian Chenâs body, they immediately began to fly towards the azure and violet glows in his dantian.
For a while, Jian Chen was a bit at loss at the sudden changes. However, he soon realized what had happened, and immediately sighed in relief. He knew that every time he absorbed energy from monster cores, the berserk elements contained would also be ingested by the azure and violet glows in his dantian. Therefore, there was nothing strange about what had just happened.
Without the torment of the berserk elements, Jian Chenâs previously pained expression immediately loosened. However, he still didnât relax from this, and immediately surveyed the current situation his inner body was in.
The only thing he could sense was the special elements. The berserk elements within the snakeâs blood had been completely absorbed by the azure and violet glows in his dantian upon entering his body. There were only some harmless special elements remaining, and they were gradually gathering in the direction of where the snakeâs gall bladder was. Eventually, they completely surrounded the gall bladder.
The absorption of these special elements was extremely slow. Jian Chen stayed in the cask for an entire day and night before he was finally able to finish absorbing all of the special elements in the blood. Currently, the snakeâs gall bladder in Jian Chenâs stomach had already gathered all of the special elements, and formed a thick layer.
After a day and night of absorbing all of the elements within the blood, the blood in the cask not only lost all of its color and luster, even the intolerable smell of it had disappeared without a trace.
Right now, there was only one step remaining until Jian Chen could refine the Ten Thousand Immunity. This step was also the most important one; whether or not he would be successful completely depended on this step.