Cultivating To Immortality

Fang Hong took out the formation disk, quickly formed hand seals, and activated the Five Elements Demon-Trapping Formation and the Four Symbols Formation, instantly trapping the Earth Dragon Beast within the formation.

At the same time, he summoned the Four Symbols Formation Spirit to launch a fierce encirclement and attack against it.

This Four Symbols Formation, strengthened with grade 7 demon blood, possessed considerable power. The Array Spirit quickly gained the upper hand, fiercely knocking the massive Earth Dragon Beast onto the shore, causing it to roar repeatedly.

However, this Earth Dragon Beast was, after all, a peak grade 7 demonic beast, and being an earth-attribute demonic beast, its defense was extremely strong.

Fang Hong didn't expect the Four Symbols Formation to kill it; it would be good enough to suppress it, buying him time for his subsequent attacks.

While the Array Spirit suppressed the Earth Dragon Beast, Fang Hong, using his familiar technique, suddenly threw out ten Ice Seal Talismans.

The talismans fluttered in the air, bringing with them bursts of cold Qi as they fell, continuously freezing the Earth Dragon Beast's movements and making its progress increasingly sluggish.

Roar!

The Earth Dragon Beast was enraged. It roared, tilting its head back, and continuously spat out several Qi blasts containing powerful Demonic Qi.

The Demonic Qi exploded, actually knocking several Array Spirits flying.

Immediately after, yellow light flickered in its massive pincer claws, and with a thunderous strike, it smashed against the formation barrier.

Boom!

A colossal sound shook heaven and earth. The light barrier of the Five Elements Demon-Trapping Formation was forcefully shattered, and the formation flags flew backward, embedding themselves in the distant rock wall.

Fortunately, the Four Symbols Formation's barrier remained indestructible, trapping the Earth Dragon Beast within the formation and preventing its escape.

"Your strength is decent, but it's time for this to end."

Fang Hong immediately conjured the Heavenly Thunder Needle, unleashed the Thousand Shadows Heart Piercing Technique, and countless needle shadows fiercely stabbed into the Earth Dragon Beast's body.

Although the Earth Dragon Beast's defense was strong, it still seemed insufficient against the overwhelming offensive of the Heavenly Thunder Needle.

The flying needles instantly pierced through its thick scales, deeply embedding themselves in its flesh and blood.

The Earth Dragon Beast roared a few times, only lasting for a moment before its body was mercilessly pierced through by the flying needles. Its Qi completely vanished, and its corpse heavily crashed onto the shore.

Fang Hong retrieved the flying needles, and with a flash of his figure, he landed beside the Earth Dragon Beast's corpse, beginning to "process" this colossal beast.

First, he dug out its demon core. A peak grade 7 earth-attribute demon core was an indispensable Material, whether for refining Heaven Mending Pills or Nascent Soul Pills.

Next, Fang Hong used his Magic Power to form a blade, stripping off the Earth Dragon Beast's demon bones and collecting its demon blood. These two items were essential materials for refining Turtle Shell Talismans; neither could be missing.

As for the remaining flesh and blood, Fang Hong then used his demon gourd to absorb them and refine them into spirit pills. Although the effect would be slightly less potent, he could still refine spirit pills from them.

"They say the higher the grade of a demonic beast, the more treasures it possesses. That statement is truly not false," Fang Hong muttered to himself, contentedly putting away his demon gourd and continuing to use Demon Attraction Powder to hunt demonic beasts.

...

Time flew by in a flash. It wasn't until dusk that Fang Hong left the small island.

He did not linger but instead found another secluded desolate island, where he opened up a temporary Immortal Cave in the center of the island to serve as a resting place for the night.

Inside the Immortal Cave, Fang Hong sat cross-legged and took out his demon gourd.

With a flash of spiritual light, the demon gourd spat out the fruits of the day's labor: a total of sixteen spirit pills, fifteen of which were grade 7 spirit pills, and one had reached the peak grade 7 grade.

This was precisely the efficacy of the grade 7 Demon Attraction Powder. Without it as a means of enticement, he would have found it difficult to locate and hunt so many high-grade demonic beasts in such a short period.

Fang Hong took out an exquisite jade box and carefully placed the spirit pills inside.

Suddenly, he remembered a "jade plate ancient treasure" he had acquired in the ancient Immortal Cave that he had not yet refined, and a sense of anticipation arose within him.

He flipped his hand and took out the jade plate. This ancient treasure floated quietly in his palm, emitting a faint spiritual light throughout its body.

So-called ancient treasures were actually a type of Spiritual Treasure, but these Spiritual Treasures were mostly refined using special ancient secret methods and often contained unique Divine Abilities.

Fang Hong immediately spat out his Dan Fire. Once he refined it, he would know what Divine Power it possessed.

Two hours passed, and the jade plate was finally completely refined by Fang Hong.

A stream of information then flooded his Sea of Consciousness, allowing him to understand the Divine Power of this ancient treasure.

It turned out that this jade plate was called the spirit sensing disk. It was not an offensive spiritual treasure but an auxiliary ancient treasure, and its sole Divine Power was to sense the aura of spirit medicine within a hundred li radius.

Moreover, the higher the grade of the spirit medicine, the more intensely the jade plate's pointer would rotate, and more of the scales on the plate would light up accordingly.

Fang Hong was greatly surprised by this Divine Power. To be able to sense the aura of spirit medicine, much like a special Spiritual Beast, it should be of great use in specific situations.

To verify its effect, Fang Hong immediately took out a millennium spirit medicine, casually threw it into a corner of the Immortal Cave, and then injected Magic Power to activate the spirit sensing disk.

Something astonishing happened: the pointer on the spirit sensing disk spun rapidly, eventually pointing precisely to the location of the spirit medicine, and nearly half of the scales on the plate lit up.

"Not bad," Fang Hong smiled slightly, very satisfied with the practicality of this ancient treasure. In the future, if he needed to search for any spirit medicine, he just had to activate it.

He put away the spirit medicine, then placed the spirit sensing disk into his storage bag. Afterward, he picked up a grade 7 spirit pill, tossed it into his mouth, absorbed the spiritual power within it, and began to cultivate.

Thus, Fang Hong returned to his usual life, hunting demonic beasts, absorbing spirit pills, and focusing on improving his cultivation every day.

...

In the blink of an eye, another year passed.

At this moment, Fang Hong was still sitting cross-legged in his Immortal Cave, controlling his Dan Fire to refine some demonic beast bones and demon blood; he was making Turtle Shell Talismans.

During this year, Fang Hong's cultivation steadily improved through continuous hunting of demonic beasts and absorption of spirit pills, eventually successfully Breaking Through to Core Formation peak. One more step, and he would be a Nascent Soul Cultivator.

However, the time to attempt a breakthrough to Nascent Soul was not yet ripe. In this year, most of the demonic beasts he hunted were grade 7 demonic beasts, with relatively few peak grade 7 demonic beasts.

The demon cores needed to refine Nascent Soul Pills and Heaven Mending Pills were not yet fully collected, and all the demonic beast spirit pills he had were also absorbed.

Breaking Through to Nascent Soul was a major event and required ample preparation; now was not the right time.

Fang Hong was not anxious. If he couldn't gather the demon cores needed for refining medicinal pills in the White Mist Island sea area, then he would go to Demon Island. There should be quite a few peak grade 7 demonic beasts there, right?

Demon Island ranked first in danger grade in the Outer Sea. It was mostly the habitat of grade 8 and 9 Great Demons. Even with Fang Hong's greatly increased Magic Power now, he still dared not provoke them.

If he were to go, he would have to prepare means of self-preservation.

After refining the last talismanic pattern, Fang Hong withdrew his Dan Fire, and an earthy yellow talisman slowly formed in the air, spiritual light flowing. This was the Turtle Shell Talisman he had newly refined.

Fang Hong's face lit up with joy. He put the Turtle Shell Talisman into his storage bag. In this year, he had hunted a total of three peak grade 7 earth-attribute demonic beasts.

He had refined all the bones and demon blood of these demonic beasts into Turtle Shell Talismans. Including the one just made, he had accumulated a total of twenty Turtle Shell Talismans.