The next morning, Long Chen got a tub with boiling water prepared for him, in which he added the ginseng, Ganoderma, demon beast blood essence, some spirit flowers, and the rest of the dragon fuse grass.

Then using his spiritual force he mixed them thoroughly, to make a paste.

This was called jade wave paste, suitable for Long Chen's current needs.

Jumping in the pool Long Chen felt every part of his body is being torn apart, gritting his teeth he started practicing his body cultivation method the Primordial dragon transformation method.

The primordial dragon transformation method could be considered as one of the top body cultivation methods in the immortal realm. Even saying it to be unparalleled would not be an overstatement.

Long Chen found it in ancient ruins where he almost lost his life.

In the immortal realm, he found this technique too late.

By that time he had already been cultivating another body cultivation method, so his foundation was already set, so the effect of the method was greatly reduced as compared to, if he had been cultivating it from the beginning.

Since the cultivation method would alter his body into a true primordial dragon, which was even extinct in the Immortal realms.

The method is consistent with 3 major transformations for a species like humans. albeit it needed the blood essence of a dragon to proceed.

The first layer was in which he would become a Dragonmen.

The second layer was Dragonewt.

The third layer was a Weredragon

The 4th and final layer being a True Dragon.

A true primordial dragon that was the highest bloodline for dragons, in his last life Long Chen was a Royal Ice Dragon which could be considered as the second highest realm.

All the creatures Long Chen would evolve into would be in a primordial form.

Meaning the highest purest blood would be flowing through them

Before jumping in the first transformation Long Chen had to set up a basic foundation in this method which comprised of 4 parts.

1)Purifying his blood

2)Strengthening his viscera

3)Enriching the vitality

4)Forging the bones

As he is practicing the method, Long Chen is purifying his blood and excreting the impurities in form of black pus.

The color of his blood is lightening, and when it's just a little bit of reddish is when he could have considered done the first step to grand completion.

In this life, Long Chen's biggest advantage was he had an array of amazing methods and arts to cultivate the most solid foundation possible.

It took 2 hours for Long Chen to completely consume the liquid and purify his blood. After which Long Chen's body looked a lot more full.

His previously super skinny body had developed a lot of muscle, although it was still very compact.

These were the changes externally, internally his body packed a lot more strength almost comparable to a peak body condensation martial artist.

Now if he fights Ling Ming, he could make him faint with just a punch.

Still, he was miles away from completely purifying his blood.

After that Long Chen took the demon cores he brought yesterday.

Demonic cores contain essence which is very chaotic to be directly consumed by lower-level cultivators, so they are always converted into some sort of pills or mixtures.

But contrary to popular belief, Long Chen directly took in the core directly and as expected it started rampaging around his meridians and veins.

Long Chen gritted his teeth and forcefully rotated the energy around his body, as it passed through his body, it nearly tore apart his meridians and veins.

It left his body ravaged still Long Chen managed to complete a full cycle with it.

Long Chen then threw up the energy he consumed, after which he started cultivating and hitting the 6th major meridians, after an hour he repeated the process.

In the end, his meridians had gotten almost doubled in size and his veins had expanded in size. Any sort of body cultivation method usually doesn't do anything special for these parts but with Long Chen's method, he can correct this weakness.

This was a special method to strengthen and enlarge the veins and meridians.

By the time he was done, it was almost afternoon so he went towards his father's estate.

Long Aotian was busy dealing with some work, but when he got to know that Long Chen had come for a visit, he dropped everything and went to meet him.

"Father we need to talk in private".

Seeing his son being so serious, Long Aotian led him to a secret meeting room.

"Father I am gonna pass you very high-level body cultivation. It would not only help you get rid of the poison and recover your strength, but it will also improve your potential"

"Really "

Long Aotian legs went jelly with excitement, as for the past decade or so, he had practically made no progress in cultivation.

"Now tell me the nature of your essence qi ?"

"Well I go for a mix of fire, thunder, and water elemental essence qi"

Long Chen pondered about which method to pass to his father. He needed to pass a top-grade mortal cultivation method as immortal methods generally require stringent methods.

Long Chen after pondering a method, used his spiritual force to condense a memory and put it in Long Aotian's head.

"Father this is called 5 element body transformation art. It will help you achieve a 5 elemental body which would even help you with the comprehension of 5 elemental essence qi"

The spiritual energy in the environment was insufficient to practice this method so Long Chen ushered his father into his estate, where he made the exact mixture he made for himself and asked Long Aotian to cultivate inside a barrel of it.

Long Chen also passed him [5 elemental emperor destruction method] to cultivate the essence.

Only a few minutes had passed but Long Aotian spat out a mouthful of foul liquid.

"This this this …

Long Aotian hands were shaking because he could feel his body getting better, his veins which had previously were clogged were getting cleansed.

"Father get grandpa Nie to get these items for you in bulk "

The difference in the liquid was that he used 2nd order demonic beast blood essence for his father along with some black ranked herbs, instead of yellow ranked ones like himself.

Instead of jadewave liquid his father's was called silverwave liquid.

Although his father was excited, seeing the list Long Aotian couldn't help but be shocked a little this endeavor was certainly costly.

After cleaning himself both father and son met with Grandpa Nie.

Long Aotian had a total of 8 commanders under him, all of which had a cultivation at essence gathering. 4 of which had been his caretakers since childhood and followed him out of the Long clan.

Grandpa Nie was a benevolent-looking old man, who was one of the few people the previous Long Chen genuinely respected.

Although he appeared old and frail, he was an absolute monstrosity in combat in his late youth he made a lot of enemies in the clan due to his nature until he was recruited by Long Aotian.

Seeing the father and son Grandpa Nie couldn't help but feel gratified.

Reading the list he was inwardly shaken

"Lord all this stuff is gonna cost around half a million silver"

Although Long Aotian was the city lord half a million silver was no small amount to him.

Seeing this Long Chen asked a servant nearby to get him something to write on.

After he finished writing he passed the paper to Grandpa Nie.

He did not think much of it at first but after reading it a little he gasped.

"What is it, Grandpa Nie ?"

"This this "

"This is mountain palm a low-ranked black level art. Grandpa Nie gets this treasure pavilion to be auctioned in the imperial city and asks them to convert all the money it fetches to these items, also you can copy its content to teach it to the other commanders and soldiers as you please"

"Many thanks, young lord" Grandpa Nie cupped his fists and bowed towards Long Chen. He was very grateful towards Long Chen as this would help genuinely strengthen their force by a level or 2.

Black level skills were very rare, the Ling clan one of the biggest clans of Southern Phoenix city only had 2 black ranked arts and that was too low ranked ones.

"Haha you don't have to thank me grandpa Nie, I am the young lord of this city it's my duty to strengthen our faction"

"Alright, I will be leaving now "With that, he went towards the Bei clan residence.

The Bei clan is a very low profile clan and its patriarch is Bei Song who is bosom friends with Long Aotian.

Although he is the patriarch, he does not have absolute power in the clan.

There is a council of elders which are divided into 3 factions, one of which is headed by Bei Song himself who supports the city lord and wants to enter an absolute alliance with them.

Another faction is headed by the grand elder, who feels that the Ling clan might be more promising, and lastly is the faction that wants to continue to stay neutral.

Today Long Chen is visiting, so a lot of people are gonna have eyes on him to see if he is as good as rumors make him out to be.