Heaven Refining physique

"To have a part of your original body with you, it can be anything from skin to blood, even a very minuscule amount would do.

If you have that, then once your soul is healed, in case it was damaged too, you connect with it on a spiritual level and after that—your whole body will regenerate to its original state.

This method is only possible for high realm cultivators, where physical injuries heal in mere seconds.

And considering my realm, I can regenerate myself from a single dried drop of my blood, much less a fully preserved one, which I have kept till now."

Jiang Hao was stunned. He was sure he hadn't seen any blood drop inside the ring. He instinctively checked again, as he truly wanted to see the blood of a cultivator who had reached the peak of everything.

After reaching the Nascent Soul realm, he knew that his blood was far more potent than when he was mortal; even a single drop of his blood would be enough to provide vitality to thousands of mortals. So how potent was Senior Yin's blood?

"Can't find it?" Yin Ni asked with a smile.

Jiang Hao came to his senses and shook his head. He really couldn't find it in the ring. Was it in the broken dimension that needed to be fixed?

"Well, every part of my body is filled with immense dimensional laws, so how could my blood stay normal? It created its own dimension inside the ring, and yes, it is the dimension where I reside."

Jiang Hao was surprised. So the dimension where he had first met Senior Yin was inside her blood drop. That drop of blood had not only created a dimension inside the ring but even created another dimension within itself where Senior Yin resided.

If a single drop of her blood was capable of doing this, then one could only imagine what Senior Yin was capable of when she was at her strongest state.

Yet she had been forced into this state. Jiang Hao sighed. It seemed that the truly strongest were still beyond his comprehension... interacting with Senior Yin, who always acted quite playfully with him, had made him forget her true status.

She was someone whom others might not even be able to gaze upon, much less speak to. She truly was a unique case. He couldn't help but smile a little.

"What the hell? What did I miss in all these days... how come you have learned about smiling?"

Jiang Hao was dumbfounded and reverted his expression back to its natural state. It wasn't as if smiling was something he needed to comprehend like the Dao.

"Of course it is, for you at least," Yin said while smiling, and Jiang Hao was thoroughly stunned.

He looked at her with a strange expression. Now he was completely certain that Senior Yin could read his thoughts even when he was not inside her dimension.

He had suspected it before, but she always had a way of making him lower his guard. Now she directly said it without even trying to hide it.

"Since when, Senior?" Jiang Hao asked with a sigh.

"What?" Yin Ni feigned ignorance, while Yao Ying shook her head and ignored them. She already knew about it.

"Senior, about reading my thoughts."

Yin Ni finally decided not to tease him and said, "Don't worry, I wasn't able to read your thoughts before... previously, I could only predict what you were thinking to some extent, but now that I have recovered, I can almost read them.

It is because the ring is bound to you, and similarly, this ring is bound to me too, and bindings are done on the soul level... so it's easy to read another's thoughts. Of course, you are too weak to read mine."

Jiang Hao looked at the ring. After bonding with it, he could feel a strange type of connection to it. So, this ring acted as a bridge between him and Senior Yin—she could easily cross to his side, but he couldn't because of his lack of strength.

Should he remove the ring for some time? Forget it, it wasn't like he had anything that needed to be hidden from her anyway.

"Removing the ring wouldn't work anyway. You would have to break the bond itself, and if I don't want it broken, then you can't break it," Yin Ni spoke with a mischievous smile.

Jiang Hao was speechless and stopped himself from thinking anything unnecessary. Dammit, now he was just getting bullied by an old—

"Old what?" Yin Ni raised her eyebrows.

"Cough... you should let me complete the whole sentence, Senior, it's older generation," Jiang Hao said with an expressionless face.

"Oh really? Guess I have to show you what bullying really means." Yin Ni's smile grew larger with each word, and Jiang Hao felt a chill running down his spine.

"What? You like Yao Ying?" Yin Ni spoke with a stunned expression.

Jiang Hao felt his blood turn cold. He had feared something like this would happen, although he didn't quite know why he felt a little afraid about it.

He was sure that Senior Yao already knew about it, and it was mutual—maybe it was driven by their bond. He didn't care about it now, but still, hearing it directly from someone had a far different effect. Forget it, he would just ignore her.

After thinking it through, he put spiritual qi to cover his ears and looked towards the sea, completely ignoring whatever happened next.

Yao Ying sighed inwardly. Why was she being dragged into this? Those words didn't just corner Jiang Hao.

"Tsk, no fun... at least get flustered. Whatever... I am going to fix the ring. It will take a while, so don't disturb me now." After saying that, Yin Ni disappeared.

Even though Jiang Hao was using spiritual qi to block his ears, he heard her clearly. It seemed she could easily bypass his spiritual barrier. This was her way of reminding him that small tricks were meaningless in front of her.

Jiang Hao removed his barrier. He felt a little awkward standing near Senior Yao. He sighed and decided to go through with it—it was also an emotion he had never felt before.

He didn't know if he had felt flustered when he was a child or not, but he didn't remember it, so this was the first time he truly understood it clearly.

He kept looking at the sea while wondering how Senior Huan, Senior Zhi, Senior Sister Ming, Sister Meiying, and Fenglai were doing right now.

They had decided to visit the Northern Region first, so they might have already reached there. Unlike the Central Region, which didn't have a teleportation array connecting to the other regions, all other regions had them to connect themselves... because trade among the other regions was quite good.