A moment later, the Inheritance Soul Jade + attribute bar provided the status information of General Xuelang, and it was severe; its Bloodline Evolution Level had even fallen to 40%.

Even the suggestion from the Inheritance Soul Jade was to abandon it and use it for alchemy.

Old Thief Xiong Pi, damn you.

Wang Wu, however, remained calm. After some contemplation, he instead ordered the Companion Demon Vine to begin boldly poisoning General Xuelang from within.

It's not to poison it to death!

But to use the Demon King Level toxin to precisely stimulate General Xuelang's bloodline.

Precision poisoning on one hand, precise control on the other, and also ensuring it wouldn't excessively affect General Xuelang—such difficulty, indeed.

Only the Companion Demon Vine could achieve this.

It's a completely high-precision, ultra-fantasy surgical mode.

Once the local stimulation of the bloodline was completed, causing the bloodline itself to develop resistance, Wang Wu immediately gave General Xuelang a Ninth-Grade Five Elements Spirit Pill.

This Spirit Pill is very important.

Otherwise, even the miraculous precision poisoning surgery of the Companion Demon Vine could not complete the second half.

The Five Elements Spirit Pill, unlike other Spirit Pills, is a treasure inherently able to condition the cultivation foundation.

After swallowing this Five Elements Spirit Pill, Wang Wu then controlled General Xuelang's Qi Blood, activating it, and in this process, integrating the newly developed resistance.

When the effect of the Five Elements Spirit Pill dissipated after 12 seconds, the resistance perfectly merged with it.

Next, Wang Wu used the Companion Demon Vine to remotely control General Xuelang's Qi Blood, making it run slowly, circulating the resistance throughout the body, gradually adapting.

This was considered the first treatment course.

After all this work, an entire night had passed.

Wang Wu was nearly exhausted, and looking outside, everything seemed calm. The disguise of the Companion Demon Vine was still very effective, and it was, after all, a Fourth-Grade Demon Vine, capable of self-defense.

With that, he sank into a deep sleep.

When he awoke, it was already a new day outside.

Wang Wu felt somewhat better himself; despite being seriously injured this time, his foundational framework was not damaged, so given time, he could recover by himself.

However, General Xuelang remained unconscious; it seemed to have only lost a Demon Pill when actually, it had almost lost its life.

Thus, Wang Wu began the second course of treatment.

Still letting the Companion Demon Vine precisely poison within its body, then fostering the bloodline resistance, finally supplementing it with a Ninth-Grade Five Elements Spirit Pill.

Madam Yu initially gave him twenty, of which he used four, leaving sixteen.

This should be enough.

Next, a treatment course took place daily, and after five days, good news finally arrived; General Xuelang's Bloodline Evolution Level increased by 1%, reaching 41%.

Simultaneously, it awoke for the first time.

Waking up is a victory.

"Don't worry, we're both still alive. I'm trying to help you consolidate two more Acupoint Opening Spirit Pills, and you must cooperate with me. Trust me, remember what I told you before—there's a chance you'll advance to Second Grade if a master helps you. Fortunately, I'm that master."

Wang Wu smiled easily, "Now, don't speak or think about useless things; you need to keep circulating your Qi Blood around the clock. I guarantee that within fifty years, you'll certainly advance to Third Grade, and within a hundred years, definitely reach Second Grade."

Wang Wu was truly confident because he was essentially following the path he had cultivated back then.

Although General Xuelang's Bloodline Evolution Level couldn't catch up with his, well, that's the biggest challenge.

But that's also good news.

Because starting from a low point, the gains are greater.

After Wang Wu completed ten courses of treatment for General Xuelang, and it consumed a total of ten Ninth-Grade Five Elements Spirit Pills, the effect finally appeared.

First, General Xuelang's toxin resistance increased another 1% in Bloodline Evolution Level, and then the boon from the Five Elements Spirit Pill added another 1% Bloodline Evolution Level.

Now its Bloodline Evolution Level smoothly broke through to 43%, 1% higher than before.

After ten days of adjustment, General Xuelang had regained basic mobility, though it remained quite weak.

Its first spoken words were,

"Xiong Wu, where did you get the Five Elements Spirit Pills? Using them on me is really wasteful; I have only a few decades of life left, not worth it..."

"I made them myself."

"Do you think I'm foolish? The Five Elements Spirit Pill is the most precious Spirit Pill among the Human Race, suitable for consolidating foundations and breaking realms. Back when I was at the Great Snow Mountain, the Great Ape King somehow obtained three Eighth-Grade Five Elements Spirit Pills; I kneeled before it, discarding my dignity, begging for one, and it wouldn't even give me one. Yet you, you just gave me ten... I'm not worth that."

General Xuelang said weakly, tears shimmering in its eyes.

"Nonsense, don't worry. It's really something I made, and I still have six left. When there's a chance another day, I'll make a batch for you." Wang Wu laughed.

"You're the one talking nonsense, Xiong Wu. Did you steal these? Your Ancient Bear Race loves stealing things—honey, Spirit Pills, Spirit Grass, Magical Treasures, Daoist Techniques, Divine Techniques—it's notorious..."

"It's really not." Wang Wu was drenched in sweat, "Old Thief Xiong Pi, just look at what you've done."

"Then, was it given to you by that human woman?"

"Alright, you guessed right." Wang Wu didn't want to get entangled in the matter.

General Xuelang, however, gave a weak smile and then sighed softly, "I always thought that you had encountered a disciple of the Hehuan Sect and were infatuated to the point of no return. But it turns out that the woman was the one who was madly in love with you. If it were me, I would never have given you the Five Elements Spirit Pills. Even for human race cultivators, acquiring sixteen Ninth-Grade Five Elements Spirit Pills is very difficult. She must have worked very hard to save up that many."

"Xiong Wu, I am old and frail, I can't withstand your torment, don't let her down."

With that, General Xuelang closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep. Wang Wu wanted to say something but didn't know what to say.

Fortunately, perhaps the two of them had indeed overcome their hardships and everything had become smoother.

For ten days, Wang Wu hadn't taken care of himself, but relying on his intact foundation and the circulation of his Qi and blood, the Ice and Fire Talisman naturally restored. His strength had returned to eighty percent of what it once was.

The Inheritance Soul Jade and the attribute bar had been grumbling that it would take three months, but at this rate, he would be back to his peak in no more than five days.

The only regret was that he had lost fifteen hundred years of lifespan, and in ten months and nine days, he would completely enter the next stage of life.

As for General Xuelang, Wang Wu practically forced it to consume the six extra Five Elements Spirit Pills. These were good things, the more consumed, the better.

Previously, Wang Wu's innate and acquired system could coordinate, much less when General Xuelang only needed to supplement its innate foundation?

In fact, when it consumed the sixteenth Five Elements Spirit Pill, its Bloodline Evolution Level successfully reached 43.5%. Now, it had paved a smooth path to forming a new demon pill.

All that was needed was enough vitality and time.

Ironically, Wang Wu had run out of Ginseng Vitality Pills, and the pure spiritual qi in the small tripod given to him by Madam Yu was also depleted.

Even the Companion Demon Vine, which had been working overtime as a battlefield hospital, suffered severe depletion, and once Wang Wu extracted the last batch of vitality from it, it went into a self-preservation mode.

"Damn, how strange is this place? Not a single sea monster, not even ordinary fish or shrimp. There's no Spirit Essence either!"

Wang Wu was very agitated.

Indeed, for half a month, he hadn't managed to snag a single Spirit Essence. It's not that there weren't any, but the Sea Great Demons would collect them 100,000 meters above.

Turns out the sea has a monopoly too!

"Don't rush, don't rush. My situation has improved a lot now. The important thing is your condition. We should find a way to leave this area and see if we can find land or an island. But absolutely avoid hunting sea monsters, or you'll offend the sea demon race."

General Xuelang kept persuading Wang Wu. It had indeed recovered well, capable of transforming into a human, and was bound to Wang Wu's back with cloth strips.

Originally, Wang Wu wanted to make a vine chair for it with the Companion Demon Vine for comfort, but the thing refused to work without vitality and went into a sleep mode.

In fact, Wang Wu's own vitality wasn't plenty. The Ice and Fire Spiritual Qi was temporarily sealed because it needed to fuse with a wisp of Yin Fire.

In the future, he would need to absorb more Ice and Fire Spiritual Qi to unlock the Ice and Fire Spirit Root.

"Alright, I'll listen to you."

Wang Wu also knew not to offend the sea demon race. Compared to the fragmentary West Wilderness Demon Race, the sea demon race seemed much more united.

With that in mind, he set a direction and jumped into the water, swimming only using his limbs and carrying General Xuelang across what seemed like an endless ocean.

The good news was that he could swim a hundred miles a day with this level of effort and could continue for ten years.

The bad news was he'd already swum for three consecutive months, and the situation hadn't improved.

There were Spirit Essences in the sky every day, but they were mostly monopolized by the various sea Great Demons.

He would encounter sea monsters on the way, but they usually moved in groups of hundreds or thousands, grand and imposing, and critically they herded large schools of fish.

Yes, the sea monsters herded fish.

Not even a lone small fish in sight.

Of course, there were lone sea monsters, but they were generally of Fifth Grade or higher, capable of controlling water and summoning waves with excellent Water Escape skills, making them incredibly fast.

Wang Wu wanted to sincerely beg for some, but there was no chance.

He was quite frustrated, but General Xuelang kept a positive attitude, constantly encouraging him that if they swam in one direction, they would surely find something.

Occasionally, it would sing to him.

Or when they stopped, it would give him a massage to relax and energize his body, although it didn't really help.

And in this vast ocean, after leaving the initial reef island, they had nowhere to set foot.

All the Qi and blood, all usable spiritual qi had to be conserved because they didn't know how long they needed to hold on.

Another three months went by.

Wang Wu had swum nearly 20,000 miles yet hadn't encountered any island or land, as if all the islets had been relocated.

He even suspected he might have gone the wrong way.

"No, I have to catch a sea monster to ask directions. Don't try to persuade me; even if you do, I'm still going to catch one."

"Alright, at this point, it seems we have no other choice."

Even General Xuelang agreed this time.

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