Born Almighty Warrior
Chapter 75 Reaching Blood Purification

Inside the Spiritual Energy Gathering Array, thousands of strands of pure energy poured into Ricky'sand Edgar's body continuously. Both of their powers and cultivation levels were being improvedsharply with every passing second. Smoothly the strands sailed as they not only enhanced theirstrength, but also healed them from their deficiencies.

They felt as if their bodies were burning with fire as the pure energy constantly circulated theirvessels. Sweat came out of their foreheads as the intense heat engulfed them. The change in Rickywas more obvious, though, for he absorbed the spiritual energy way faster than Edgar.

On day six, Edgar's body shook all of a sudden. The aura of blood vitality around his body sprang upwith a loud crash. The blood in his body circulated so violently that people could even hear it loudand clear.

Without a question, this incident was a clear sign indicating that Edgar had already successfullybroken through into the Blood Purification. He was now an official warrior of Blood PurificationEdgar was at the ninth grade of Skin Refinement, the highest level of the method. It made sense forhim to achieve the next state faster than Ricky. After that, Edgar still did not come to his senses.Instead, he continued to absorb the pure spiritual energy in the Spiritual Energy Gathering Array, soas to consolidate his controlling ability over the power at the first grade of Blood Purification. Ricky,on the other hand, kept working on his breaking-through process while perspiring heavily allthroughout his body.

But on the seventh day, he rose from his position and eagerly checked himself. To him, this was hisbig day.

The last six days’ cultivation had set the stage for him to the next step.

He activated the Devouring Skill, and enforced the Devourer Zone. Then he picked out a stand offorceful spiritual energy and transferred it into the Zone. After the energy was strengthened in thezone, he injected it into his spiritual meridian.

As the name suggested, Blood Purification was the process of absorption of the spiritual energy ofheaven and earth to refine the warrior's blood.

Blood carried the energy the body needed and circulated in the vessels to keep the flesh alive. Themore powerful the energy in the blood was, the stronger the body would be, and the moreinvincible a warrior became. The warrior with this enormous energy would be able to perform at thepeak of his power for a long period of time.

Theoretically, he who reached the stage of Blood Purification would not need to sleep to recoverhimself as long as he kept his blood vitality powerful. That was the significant difference betweenthe warrior of Skin Refinement and that of Blood Purification.

Ricky activated his spiritual meridian to break the pure spiritual energy into thousands of strands.Immediately, those strands immersed into every vein. Then the energy started to eliminate theimpurities and purify his blood to cleanse him

It was by no means a comfortable process. Ricky was in pain as his whole body trembled withburning heat. He was engulfed with agony. Ricky proceeded with his refinement as he gritted histeeth to endure it and kept in mind that if there was no pain, there was no gain.

Finally, blood vitality was released from his blood, which marked the end of this painful and almosttorture of a procedure. Alas, Ricky was born into the world of Blood Purification.

Every pore on his body slightly opened, and innumerable streams of blood vitality sprang up, andfinally met with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the Spiritual Energy Gathering Array.The moment the two energies bumped into each other, the aura from Ricky changed accordingly.Apart from his spiritual energy, blood vitality was mixed with it.

The fusion of the blood vitality and the spiritual energy would definitely cause a qualitative changeto a warrior. That was the reason why the warrior of Blood Purification had an absolute advantageover that of Skin Refinement. Blood was in the innermost portion of the warrior while skin wassuperficial, hence Blood Purification warriors were surely stronger than Skin Refinement ones.There were also exceptions, of course. As a genius, Ricky was an excellent example of those whochallenged and defeated a warrior of Blood Refinement with a body of Skin Refinement. A legend inthat aspect, Ricky was hailed a fierce competitor in any kind of battle. Being lower and theoreticallyweaker than Blood Refinement warriors, he was different in a good way.

Just like Edgar's situation, Ricky did not wake up immediately, either. He kept his eyes closed, andassimilated the pure spiritual energy to solidify the power of the first grade of Blood Purification.The power of the Spiritual Energy Gathering Array faded away gradually as the last three days flewby. The snowy woods turned as peaceful in the outside world. Ricky and Edgar were not in touchwith whatever was happening outside their bodies for they gradually regained their strength in theprocess.

The moment they became sober, they felt powerful energy floating in their fleshes. They wereenergized, refueled. They exchanged a look with each other and thrilled smiles formed on theirfaces. Both of them realized that they already made it to the world of Blood Purification. Theystepped into another region of great power officially in the martial arts world now!

"Is this the Blood Purification? It feels so good! I made it!" Edgar stretched his body and had a bigsmile on his excited face.

The next second, he shot his eyes at Ricky. He wanted to fight. He wanted to test his power. Hewanted to beat someone to prove his ability. So he suggested with a serious look, "Ricky, I thinkboth of us have already made it to the first stage of Blood Purification. How about a fight? Let's seeif this really works! *

"Anytime!" Ricky looked back at him bravely and replied with a smirk. He was thinking of the sameidea as well.

He also wanted to see how powerful of a Blood Purification warrior he would be. Fighting againstEdgar was the best way to check it out for the time being. Both being born into a new aspect ofmartial arts, the two warriors were eager to see what their bodies could do after the process.Eagerness and excitement echoed all throughout the atmosphere.

Both warriors prepared for their friendly battle. With blasts of energies from the two figures, theirpowers bumped into each other forcefully. Their spiritual energies and blood vitalities wereentangled together, and attacked each other violently.

This was just a friendly match and they were not trying to kill each other. The longer they fought,the better they would know about their abilities of Blood Purification. Hence, it took them almostone hour before they ended the fight and assessed how better they became after the painfulprocess.

"It feels so different in the world of Blood Purification! I can feel the blood vitality coming out of mybody at any time and keep myself in tip-top shape during the whole process of a fight! That isamazing!" muttered Ricky with happiness and disbelief.

"Yeah! I felt the same! It feels so damn good to have the power of Blood Purification! * Edgar alsochimed in with him, nodding.

Then he asked with a serious look, "Hey, buddy! How much strength did you just employ when wefought?”

"I am not sure exactly. Probably about sixty percent of all my strength, " Ricky replied with a smile,fishing the same question with Edgar.

"Oh, got it! I guessed it right. I used about eighty percent of all my strength and we nearly ended ina draw. You are more powerful than me. It seems that I would not be able to defeat you if we weretruly in a death fight though we are at the same grade of Blood Purification,” Edgar groaned indisappointment upon Ricky's honest words.

However, what Edgar did not know was that Ricky actually just exerted less than half of his strength.Part of the power he showed just now came from the power of the devouring rune.

"What? Edgar. Are you going to admit that you are a loser so easily? I believe you're more thanthat,” Ricky said in a low voice. He could not bear enjoy his new strength when he saw Edgar withlow self-esteem. He tried to inspire him with his words because he knew that Edgar was more thanhe thought.

As expected, the frustration on Edgar's face disappeared all of a sudden and was replaced withstrong self-confidence. Ricky's words worked like a charm, and encouraged his fellow into a positivelight.

"I understand it, Ricky. Thank you for believing in me. Just get ready to take up my challenge whenyou feel like it!" Edgar announced loud with a decisive and friendly look. Edgar was looking for achallenge, to see how far his powers could go. And thankfully enough, Ricky's words brought outthe fire in him to be the best in his area of martial arts.

"Ha-ha! Like I said, anytime!" Ricky smiled and winked.

Although they just got along for a very short time, Ricky already got to know what kind of personEdgar was. He could be a friend of his. But, befriending Edgar was the furthest Ricky could go forthe time being. It would take him a long time before he could trust Edgar, or anyone for that matter.It was something not to be taken abruptly, for trust was a major factor when befriending a warrior,especially when you had already fought him in numerous battles.

Ricky and Edgar were beyond thrilled for their newly found strengths. They fixed their things, tidiedthemselves up, and left the snowy woods and headed back to where Zenith was.

Greeted by the two strong disciples who had already broken into the world of Blood Purification,Zenith was more than cheerful. In his mind, he already considered Ricky and Edgar to be the futureof the Snow Sect. So, seeing them make great achievements was a great relief to him. As the chiefof the Snow Sect, he had to be extremely strict on choosing his successor.

Zenith gave them a lecture about his knowledge in the cultivation of Blood Purification. Ricky andEdgar were thrilled by his effort to teach them. This kind of chance was rare, as being instructed bythe chief of the Snow Sect was deemed once in a blue moon and such an honor for anyone whowould benefit from it.

They listened carefully without distractions. To them, every second counted as they might not have asecond chance at it. All the suggestions and pointers Zenith talked about were so useful to them.After Zenith was done with the talking, he sent Ricky away. "Alright, let's end up here. Both of youhave done an excellent job. I'm proud of you. You can go back now."

"Thank you, Chief Zenith," Ricky bade farewell to them before he left. But Zenith suddenly signaledhim to stay for a little while longer. On the other hand, Ricky had no idea what it was about.

"Ricky, you are smart. And I'd like to talk with you more about the Nine-degree Body RefiningFormula,” Zenith said in a peaceful tone. Zenith talked with him for about half an hour about histhoughts on the Formula before he ended the conversation. He saw Ricky's eyes drop at some partsof the discussion and that was when he thought it was enough for today's instruction for Ricky.After that, Ricky thanked him with respect before he left the Zenith Mountain and went back to hisplace.

Grace and Heather already knew that Ricky had already broken into the Blood Purification. Both ofthem were surprised a lot. Hearing rumors that the two warriors were given a chance to beinstructed by Zenith, Grace and Heather were curious about what kind of instructions Zenith hadgiven Ricky during the past ten days.

This fact of Ricky's improvement inspired Heather. She practiced even harder than usual. She didnot want to lag behind Ricky, as she wanted to be as strong and powerful as him.

Ricky gave the five Blood Purification Pills to Heather as gifts. Now that he had already been awarrior of Blood Purification and owned the Devouring Skill, the Blood Purification Pills were nomore useful for him. So he made a kind offer to Heather, and expected her to make some progress.During the next few days of Ricky's road to improvement, he started to comprehend the Five BeastsArts. He did whatever it took for him to become an exceptional warrior. Book after book he read,even during afternoons he would practice his craft.

He planned to leave the Snow Sect to experience the world outside the Sect after he finished thecultivation of the Five Beasts Arts. There might be dangers, but only through that could he becomestronger and tougher than he had always been.

There were many people who kept an eye on his every move; the Refinement Faction, the CastingFaction, and Nate. Ricky was well aware of that. He had to grow stronger as soon as possible beforethey had him disappear in the jungle.

He would not make any extravagant wish, for example, to defeat them. But at least, he needed to bestrong enough to protect himself from other warriors, bandits, or from any natural disaster thatmight come his way.

Another reason would be that he wanted freedom away from rules that could prevent him fromeven killing a fellow sect member even if they tried to prey on him for his powers. He did not feelsafe in the Snow Sect even though there was someone protecting him, like Grace, or somethingprotecting him, like one of the rules which stated that fellow disciples of the Snow Sect wereforbidden to kill each other. Those people would definitely have a plan on him when they figuredout he was too powerful and he would threaten their positions. They would kill him when thechance came. Ricky was certain about that.

Hence, leaving the Sect to experience and toughen himself would be the best choice.

As long as he left this place, he could go anywhere he liked. By that time, the search for him wouldbe like searching for a needle in a haystack for those men

It did not take long before he got an initial comprehension of the Five Beasts Arts. After that, Rickywas mentally and physically ready to bid goodbye to Grace and leave. However, someone droppedin in the dead of night before he even had the chance to do anything. He glanced at the door andto his surprise, it was Agnes.

Ricky felt rather puzzled at her showing up. He and Agnes barely knew each other and they werenot close at all.

But why did she pay him a midnight visit? Was there anything important to talk about in the middleof the night? Ricky thought of all explanations as to why Agnes would go to him, out of all people.