After all, his interest should be quite understandable. Ever since he got the Blood Asura Descent from the Number 9 Qing Shan Marketplace, he had never actually cultivated it the way normal Asura Blood Path members did. He just invested Slaughter Points and upgraded his realm at the highest efficiency with the best possible quality.

What this woman was doing was essentially the correct method of practice—to drain one's target of their blood at the peak of their fear and resentment, then absorb it using the Blood Asura Descent to refine into the body and enhance one's Blood Energy.

Looking at her seasoned and skillful actions, Li Ling could only feel admiration as a person who understood the theory but had never done the practicals. He was curious to see how much of his abilities he could manifest like this, so he prompted the Infinite Slaughter System to perform a scan on her.

｢Name: Ding Yan

Status: Healthy.

Age: 54/160

Slaughter Points Value: 59

Cultivation Base: Qi Refinement level 9 (2%) || Body Foundation level 5 (67%)

Remarks: This woman is an undercover spy from the Seven Sins Demon Sect to spy on their 'brother sect' at the lower levels, just one out of many chess pieces. She was initially unhappy about her placement here as it was far from the center of attention, but recently found out that you were her neighbor, granting her a sudden surge of relevance among her cell, her handler personally contacting her but a few minutes ago. Overjoyed, she has decided to celebrate by sacrificing her best catches these past few days at the war front to raise her cultivation a bit.｣

Li Ling was somewhat numb to it at this point. He was only curious about the method of hiding their spy status from the Asura Blood Token, and wondered if he could copy it for his own uses later on. Hmm, when this woman was not in an area monitored by the sect and took the initiative to switch off her Asura Blood Token, he would strike and extract her memories.

Li Ling continued to watch her celebrate, going out of his way to scan his other neighbors to find that most had secret plans or other identities that were not always related to him, but were proof that everyone was the protagonist of their own lives.

Who would have thought that in just the radius of his own courtyard in one low-level war outpost, there would be so many interesting fellows?

After about a minute or two, he finally began to feel a cutting sensation on his spirit sense, as if someone was lightly dragging a knife over it. Knowing that it was time to go, Li Ling recollected his spirit sense and sighed, noting down the limited timeframe to see if the later cultivation of the Nine Heights Pagoda would boost it further.

He then glanced at the Tai Xu Mysterious Method, which now required 2000 Slaughter Points to develop to the Advanced stage. Looking at his remaining Slaughter Points, which could only support one more evolution of the technique, and gauging what he knew of the next realm, Li Ling decided it was worth it.

2000 Slaughter Points gone, leaving only 1,717!

However, Li Ling once again closed his eyes to receive the changes, which lasted a period of five minutes, slightly longer than the near-instant process from before. When he opened his eyes, he had a weird gleam in them, his dark blue pupils briefly showing a dark purple color.

The requirement for the Advanced stage of the Tai Xu Mysterious Method was to possess the Void Seeking Physique, which was the number 3 physique on the Tian Ming Continent's rankings.

This physique granted one a full and perfect chance to enter and completely master Void Refinement, with a boost of at least two times cultivation speed in this major realm. Basically, as long as you could tough your way to Dao Integration Perfection, you would absolutely get to Void Refinement Perfection.

As for whether you could ascend past to Nihility, that was up to your luck and talent with the Time element.

On top of that, possessors of this physique could use any void element daoist art they wanted and would see a significant increase in power when utilizing such rare methods. Li Ling knew of one in the Whispering Blood Wing called the Void Blade, which was a conjured slash of pure void energy that could cut through most elements and substances, priced at 100,000 Blood Credits.

If he were to acquire it, his conjured slash at each stage would at least be twice as strong as the next best person to practice the technique.

More than that was the ability that was gained from the Advanced stage, which was one so crucial to the current Li Ling that, despite eating into his current Slaughter Point reserves, he still chose to go ahead with it.

It was naturally the Void Space!

Li Ling almost wanted to perform a fist bump and shout out loud to express his joy, but only coughed to suppress the urge. It might seem a bit redundant to want a personal void space in a cultivation world where storage rings existed, but Li Ling was thinking of bigger things.

For one, the True Dragon Ball that Majin Three was protecting for him could not be put in any spatial ring, but his Void Space could store it!

It wasn't that his Void Space was stronger—though it was—but also because of the nature of the ability itself versus the artifact. A spatial ring was crafted using a mineral called Void Stone as its core material, along with special inscriptions to create and maintain the space within.

But such a space was a dead space, unable to ever grow or sustain life, whereas Li Ling's Void Space would grow with his cultivation, and even living things could be stuffed within, though he would have to produce oxygen, heat, light, and other things for them to sustain themselves.

Usually, that automatically came bit by bit with a higher qi cultivation realm, but some placebos and stopgap measures could be taken to temporarily achieve the effect of these things. Naturally, such a thing was quite a bother and troublesome, but for the True Dragon Ball, Li Ling didn't feel it was much of a problem.

He immediately accessed his Void Space, entering it with his spirit sense. Unlike raw sub-space, this realm was entirely pitch black with not a hint of light, but it was stable in its entirety, feeling like it could last forever and presenting no danger to even the weakest fly.

Despite being unable to 'see', Li Ling could, through his complete mastery over this entire realm, feel its dimension and its state. He could tell that at his current level, the size of the Void Space was equivalent to his spirit sense radius once again, leaving him pleasantly surprised.

It seemed that the importance of spirit sense in cultivation could not be understated enough. He wondered how pure body cultivators who lacked this were able to manage, but then again, one could not have everything in life.

For one, body cultivators were able to easily advance through major realms in the higher stages because they could tank the Heavenly Tribulation with their strong bodies, only worried about the resources needed, while qi cultivators had to stake their lives, using artifacts, talismans, and various tricks just to survive.

Immediately, Li Ling emptied his void ring's contents into the Void Space with a simple flick of his finger in reality, watching through spirit sense as they appeared in this void. Luckily, he could arrange them here, and so brought them together in front of himself, noting that due to a lack of gravity, they remained floating in the void.

This was the same as with a void ring, so there was not much he could do unless he raised his realm and could allow his Void Space to evolve with him, eventually simulating gravity.

Li Ling explored the edges of the Void Space and noted that there was a solid yet semi-transparent film that encased his void realm, and outside of it was raw sub-space. If he went out there, he would be fine, but his things in here would be rent to mere particles, making his expression solemn.

In the end, he could only trust in himself and the control he had of this Void Space to maintain its integrity. Anyway, from what he could tell, one would need the strength of the Fourth Realm at the least to be able to break through this world barrier, and it would continue to strengthen with his cultivation.

Fully assessing his new ability, Li Ling retracted his spirit sense and rubbed his brows, feeling a bit fatigued after heavily using it for so long. Each usage of spirit sense came at a small cost, but it was usually nothing in the face of his monstrous foundation, though this time he did push it a bit far.

At this moment, Li Ling sensed that the commotion at Luo Roumei's side died down, meaning that the young woman had likely digested her benefits successfully!

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