898 Mining

Blood suddenly poured out from every single pore in Alex's body as he covered him up in intricate armor.

The blood armor was the easiest way for Alex to bring out blood from his body, so he did just that.

Having just learned a little about the Dao of techniques, Alex got a little confused when the armor appeared from his body. How did that happen?

He understood that one needed Qi and a pathway for a technique to work, but the blood didn't follow that surely.

The Blood Armor disappeared back into his body as Alex carefully brought it out again. It was only then that he noticed something.

Qi was indeed being used to bring out the armor. Most of the work was actually done by Blood Aura itself, but Qi did indeed help a bit. Qi also helped strengthen the armor.

Considering that Blood Aura was the equivalent of Qi, it did make sense that it would be required in forming the armor too, alongside intent.

However, that still left out a pathway for the aura to go through to use the technique. Or was it that Qi itself was enough and Blood Aura didn't need to be counted in this technique? It would make some sense when he thought about it.

In fact, going a bit ahead, Alex turned the blood into a sword as it landed on his hand.

The technique on the second page of the Blood God's Manual, Blood Manipulation.

Alex used the technique to pour Qi into the blood around him to fluidly change its shape.

"So, even if it is not one of the 7 elements, it still uses Qi to move, huh?" Alex thought to himself.

However, he immediately remembered something that made his assessment wrong, or at least he believed so.

Back in the Demon realm, when he was being forcefully ejected out of the realm by the escape talisman, he had somehow made the teleportation power disappear.

Or more accurately… he had made the space to stop being affected.

"Wait, I didn't use Qi those times when I killed them while they were covered in Space aura, and I don't have a Space dao," Alex thought. "Then the only reason I could have moved space back then was through… wait, do I have Space aura?"

He had a basic understanding of half of what was going on, so everything that felt similar was in no way the same at all.

Space aura and Blood aura were two different things, sure, but they should somehow act similar, right? There had to be a rule.

"Hmm, you can in fact manipulate space with Qi," Alex thought. "That's how I teleport in the first place. That's how formations work, that's how runes work."

"Then… is what happened that time in some way similar to what I am doing with blood aura?"

"Wait, Sword Intent, Qi, and then Aura. They don't need a pathway either, just like Space, in my case. Then… is blood different somehow?" he thought.

"I can see how Sword and Blood aura can be different. One I'm using with a technique I found from a book, while the other is something I'm gaining through my understanding of it," Alex thought. "Then, going by the same logic, does Space somehow fall under the same category as Sword and not blood?"

That only meant one thing. "Am I understanding Space somehow? How? Why? How could I learn something without knowing I'm learning it?"

Alex was left scratching his head.

"This is confusing, I will have to think about it later," Alex stopped thinking about it and continued his training.

The blood sword struck the wall in front of him and didn't even make any sparks despite how strong it was.

There was barely a dent in the wall, so Alex struck again, and again, and again. He switched it up from time to time.

He would freely transform the shapes the blood was in. Sometimes it would be staff, sometimes a spear, sometimes a scythe, and sometimes a hammer.

He tried every other weapon, but he wasn't very good at them, so he returned to a sword every so often.

Aside from that, also tried ranged attacks. He copied what Song Shing had done to him and created droplets out of his blood to shoot out like bullets.

Those were quite strong attacks if he did say so himself.

Since all of the attacks were powered using blood aura, the attacks themselves depended on just how strong the blood he was using was, and if his body could handle such a strong blood aura.

The Qi was there to supplement the blood in case it was weaker than the Qi itself.

Alex practiced every variation of the attack he could think of, but he was limited by his imagination and experiences. As such, his blood art would only improve as he learned more about cultivation in general from the many Saint realms of the Northern Continent.

Alex continued his training for a little while longer before stopping it.

He had spent nearly 5 hours on his training, so it was time for him to actually mine the ores.

While Alex hadn't used his strongest attacks or had even planned on mining at all, despite attacking the walls so much, all he had managed to do was dislodge a single fist-sized ore of the metal, which he put into his storage ring.

Now that he was seriously going to mine it, he needed a much better system than just attacking the wall with all he had.

During the first 2 days, Alex had thought of renting a hammer outside the gates for not a lot of price. However, he had come up with a way better technique on the third day.

Alex brought out a sword. The sword.

It was the strongest object that Alex had ever seen. He couldn't be sure who forged it, or how such a metal could even exist, but there was nothing in this world that was stronger than this sword.

However, that was perhaps to be expected. After all, one wouldn't simply bind someone like Godslayer to an everyday sword. Alex couldn't even imagine the origin of such a sword.

Alex used his Saint realm body and his Sword Qi to drive the sword into the wall. Only the tip of the sword was in, but Alex didn't need more than that.

Once the tip was in, Alex took out a massive ore from his storage bag that was the size of a human head and weighed about a hundred kilograms.

Then, he started hitting the sword from the back like he was putting a nail in the wall.

He hit the sword until it was more than halfway into the wall, then it started hitting it sideways to slowly push the sword horizontally on the wall.

Every so often, he tilted the sword so that instead of going just horizontally, it would also go upwards in an arc.

By the time 2 hours had passed, Alex had barely managed to make a quarter of a circle whose radius would be around a meter.

He needed about 5 hours before he was fully done with the city. By the end of it, Alex's muscles started burning with pain.

Given how little he knew about the various other methods of Body cultivation, Alex would bet that this would certainly make someone very strong if they kept it going for a long time.

Alex stopped for a while to cultivate and heal his body. The Undying physique easily healed him, but the fatigue still remained and that was what he was trying to truly get rid of.

After a couple or so hours, he got back up and started mining again. Now that he had made a deep cut on the wall, all that remained was for him to start carving away the walls.

He struck the sword diagonally on the wall and started hitting it again until the sword came out of the circle that was cleared away.

Once again, he started striking sideways until he carved the wall to the point that there was nothing holding that piece of the wall anymore and it just fell off.

About a ton of ore fell off just like that. Once he put the ore into his storage bag, he continued with the rest of the ore, in what would certainly be over 20 tons by itself.