Cultivating To Immortality

Putting aside his distracting thoughts, Fang Hong turned his attention to the black giant cauldron he had obtained from the Ancient Treasure House.

He placed the giant cauldron in front of him, sat down steadily, and once again spewed out his Dan Fire, enveloping the cauldron's body, and began to refine it, to see what Divine Power this cauldron possessed.

Boom… boom boom…

As time passed, the black giant cauldron suddenly emitted a dull roar, its body vibrated violently, and golden halos continuously appeared within the cauldron.

It took a full month for the black giant cauldron to finally quiet down.

Fang Hong's eyes suddenly opened wide, filled with an unconcealable look of shock.

He had completely refined this cauldron and finally understood its true origin and purpose.

The origin of the black giant cauldron truly shocked Fang Hong.

According to the information he obtained, this giant cauldron was named "Dragon Suppressing Cauldron" and was actually refined by the Dragon God himself, using materials that came from the Dragon scales of an ancient barbarian Dragon.

These Dragon scales were indestructible, containing residual Qi of the ancient Dragon bloodline, capable of attracting Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, and perfectly fusing with artifact refining techniques, ultimately forming this cauldron.

Such methods and materials were already beyond the reach of an ordinary Artifact Refiner, and most importantly, it was actually a top-grade spiritual treasure.

"This is actually a top-grade spiritual treasure." Fang Hong could hardly believe the information he had received, his face full of shock.

He stared intently at the tall black cauldron in front of him, his heart churning with turbulent waves, an indescribable sense of shock.

Fang Hong had seen descriptions of spiritual treasures in many ancient texts.

A spiritual treasure, so-called, is an artifact one level higher than a spiritual artifact. Only when a spiritual artifact cultivates a tool spirit and its spirituality greatly increases can it advance to a spiritual treasure.

Once a spiritual artifact completes this leap-forward advancement and transforms into a spiritual treasure, its Divine Power and power will increase several times over.

It can even easily crush ninety-nine percent of ordinary spiritual artifacts, possessing a decisive suppressive advantage in combat.

However, making a spiritual artifact advance to a spiritual treasure is not an easy task.

According to ancient texts, unless extremely rare Heaven And Earth Treasures are found and integrated into the spiritual artifact's body, and refined through special artifact refining methods, there is only a chance to advance to a spiritual treasure; otherwise, it is almost hopeless.

Take Fang Hong's Lifebound Treasure, the "Heavenly Thunder Needle," for example. It was refined from three precious materials: ten-thousand-year-old golden thunder bamboo, glass sand, and profound iron essence, making it a top-grade spiritual artifact.

But if he couldn't find some rare materials to refine into the spiritual artifact, no matter how much he refined and nurtured it, Fang Hong's Heavenly Thunder Needle would probably remain at the spiritual artifact level for its entire life.

Currently, the Dragon Suppressing Cauldron in front of Fang Hong was a genuine top-grade spiritual treasure, its grade a whole major level higher than the Heavenly Thunder Needle, a world of difference.

Thinking of this, how could he not be shocked and pleasantly surprised?

As for the Dragon Suppressing Cauldron's Divine Power, Fang Hong was even more satisfied. Its Divine Power was called "body tempering," an auxiliary Divine Power.

Once this Divine Power was activated, it could stimulate the power of the ancient barbarian Dragon contained within the cauldron, resonating with the cultivator's tendons, bones, and flesh, thereby greatly enhancing the toughness and strength of the physical body.

In other words, the Dragon Suppressing Cauldron was a spiritual treasure that assisted in body refinement.

As long as Fang Hong sat in the cauldron while Cultivating, he would receive its tempering, and his physical body would continuously strengthen.

Fang Hong stood up and slowly paced around the black cauldron, carefully examining it and secretly rejoicing, liking it more and more the more he looked at it.

With this precious cauldron, even without Cultivating any body refinement cultivation technique, his physical body strength would continuously increase.

Fang Hong formed a hand seal and struck a stream of magical power into the Dragon Suppressing Cauldron.

Immediately, the cauldron's body burst forth with brilliant golden light, and a small golden Dragon, about a foot long, flew out from within the cauldron, exceptionally nimble, circling between his palms with bared fangs and claws. This was the manifestation of the Dragon Suppressing Cauldron's tool spirit.

As a top-grade spiritual treasure, the tool spirit nurtured by the Dragon Suppressing Cauldron already possessed rudimentary intelligence. If it could advance further, it would become a Heaven-Reaching spiritual treasure.

Above spiritual treasures are Heaven-Reaching spiritual treasures. Once they advance to this realm, their Divine Power and power will multiply several times again. Such treasures, even Mahayana powerhouses would covet them.

And above Heaven-Reaching spiritual treasures, there are the legendary Immortal Artifacts. When a tool spirit cultivates to become an Immortal, it becomes an Immortal Artifact.

Having an Immortal Artifact in hand is equivalent to having an Immortal protecting one's Dao, its power is unimaginable.

As for whether there are higher-level treasures above Immortal Artifacts, Fang Hong did not know.

Fang Hong composed himself. Immortal Artifacts and Heaven-Reaching spiritual treasures were distant future goals. The immediate priority was to make good use of this top-grade spiritual treasure he already possessed.

Immediately, Fang Hong leaped up, flew into the air, and landed steadily inside the Dragon Suppressing Cauldron, sitting cross-legged.

Then, he took out three soul-nourishing fruits, shimmering with a purple luster, from his storage bag. It was time to refine them.

Fang Hong turned his palm, striking in a few streams of magical power, instantly separating the pulp from the core.

The pulp of the soul-nourishing fruit was rich in medicinal power that nourished the Divine Sense, while the core could be kept as materials for refining spiritual artifacts in the future, equally precious.

Fang Hong opened his mouth and spewed out a ball of Dan Fire, beginning to refine the pulp. While absorbing the medicinal power from the pulp, he activated the Dragon Suppressing Cauldron's Divine Power, causing it to release golden halos, continuously tempering his physical body.

As the medicinal power of the soul-nourishing fruit was gradually refined and absorbed, Fang Hong felt his sea ​​of ​​consciousness expand and his Divine Sense power surge wildly.

At the same time, with the Dragon Suppressing Cauldron's enhancement, his tendons, bones, and flesh were also quietly transforming, and his physical body strength was continuously increasing.

…

Time flew by, and three months passed in a flash.

Buzz.

On this day, in the alchemy room, the Dragon Suppressing Cauldron still stood quietly, but suddenly, the cauldron's body burst with golden light, and a ball of light shot up from within the cauldron, transforming into a blazing golden glow.

As the golden light slowly dispersed, a tall figure appeared from within the light, it was Fang Hong, who had been in seclusion for three months.

In three months, Fang Hong had completely refined the three soul-nourishing fruits, his Divine Sense had greatly advanced, breaking through the bottleneck, reaching the Early Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.

This was the true value of the soul-nourishing fruit. Although his Cultivation still remained at the Core Formation peak, his Divine Sense level had already stepped into the Nascent Soul Realm first.

In addition to the improvement in Divine Sense, Fang Hong's physical body strength had also undergone earth-shattering changes.

Now, even without using any magical power or spiritual artifacts, Fang Hong could confront a Nascent Soul Cultivator head-on with just his physical body strength.

Fang Hong even had a feeling that he could now punch and kill that old ghost Zhao Yongxiu.

This was the power of the top-grade spiritual treasure Dragon Suppressing Cauldron. In just three short months, it allowed his physical body to transform, making it strong enough to contend against a Nascent Soul Cultivator.

Fang Hong dared not imagine what terrifying level his physical body could reach if he were to cultivate in the cauldron for years on end?