Cultivating To Immortality

The Azure Cloud Mountain Range is located in the very center of Qin, with rolling mountains, beautiful peaks, and swirling clouds and mist, resembling a picturesque landscape painting of natural beauty.

Not only is the scenery here breathtaking, but it is also a place where spiritual energy gathers, with the Origin Qi of heaven and earth being abundant and surging.

The Azure Cloud Mountain Range is precisely situated at the intersection of the forces of the three major sects: Danxian Valley, Taiyi Sect, and Beast Taming Sect, and it has now become the core headquarters of the Demon Subduing Alliance.

Although the Demonslaying War had long since concluded, after weighing the pros and cons, the high-rank officials of the three major sects finally reached a consensus.

They decided to retain the structure of the Demon Subduing Alliance, transforming it into a bond for the common development of the three factions, in case another great calamity should arise in the future that they could jointly resist.

To the west of the Azure Cloud Mountain Range stands an exceptionally tall main peak, majestic and towering, with a surging sea of clouds at its summit and brilliant rays of light.

On the mountaintop, magnificent palaces and exquisite pavilions are faintly visible, appearing and disappearing as if they were celestial palaces in an immortal realm.

This peak is called Yuan Huang Peak, and it is not only the place with the most concentrated and abundant spiritual energy in the Azure Cloud Mountain Range but also the secluded Cultivation place of Fang Hong and Su Shan.

After returning to their Immortal Cave, the husband and wife, reunited after a long separation, naturally shared tender moments, spent a wonderful night together, and relived their long-missed intimacy.

Amidst their affection, the two also jointly discussed a Dual cultivation technique called Dragon Phoenix Demonic Technique, comprehending and exchanging insights with each other, gaining much from it.

This cultivation technique was precisely the demonic path secret manual that Old Devil Chunyang relied on for his cultivation, and its profoundness was far beyond what ordinary people could imagine.

Fang Hong and Su Shan did not intend to cultivate this technique to its extreme, so as to avoid excessive indulgence; using it to assist dual cultivation usually yielded very good results, with infinite wondrous uses.

Of course, besides dual cultivation between husband and wife, normal cultivation could not be neglected either.

At this moment, Fang Hong was sitting quietly in a cultivation secret chamber deep within his Immortal Cave, his eyes slightly closed, beginning to meticulously inventory the various spoils of war obtained during the Demonslaying War.

In summary, he had reaped a considerable harvest from this great war, with resources piled up like mountains.

These included a large amount of spirit stones, an astonishing number of spirit pills, various spiritual artifacts, and various cultivation technique secret manuals, a dazzling array of items.

Among the many gains, an ancient secret manual caught Fang Hong's great interest.

This secret manual was named Spirit Devouring Art, which he had found in the memories of Blood Spirit Old Ghost.

Spirit Devouring Art is not an offensive secret manual, but rather an auxiliary secret manual specifically used for spiritual treasures.

Once successfully cast, it can engrave a special secret pattern on the surface of a spiritual treasure, called the Spirit Devouring Secret Pattern.

Once the secret pattern is engraved, the spiritual treasure gains the divine power to devour the spirituality of other spiritual artifacts.

The moment he understood the efficacy of the Spirit Devouring Art, Fang Hong's heart trembled violently, and he was incredibly excited; this was no ordinary divine power.

Once a spiritual treasure can devour spirituality, it can continuously devour other spiritual artifacts, thereby rapidly enhancing its own grade in a short period, achieving the goal of quick advancement.

Originally, it was very difficult for a spiritual treasure to advance; if no rare materials were found to refine into it, it was basically very hard to promote its grade.

But now, with the Spirit Devouring Art, it means there is one more way for a spiritual treasure to advance; as long as it is fed spiritual artifacts, it saves time and effort, which is simply wonderful.

Coincidentally, Fang Hong now had a large number of low-grade spiritual artifacts accumulated from the spoils of war; these idle and useless low-grade spiritual artifacts now became excellent rations for the spiritual treasure's advancement.

Fang Hong secretly rejoiced, this Spirit Devouring secret manual came at just the right time.

It needs to be noted that the Spirit Devouring Art can only be used on spiritual treasures.

Although Blood Spirit Old Ghost had decent Cultivation, he never possessed a true spiritual treasure, so this secret manual was merely a useless chicken rib in his hands, a pity.

But in Fang Hong's hands, the situation was completely different; after all, he had several spiritual treasures, on which he could cast the Spirit Devouring Art.

Fang Hong no longer hesitated and immediately conjured the soul severing sword, intending to test the effect of the Spirit Devouring Art on it.

Following the steps in the secret manual, Fang Hong meticulously began to engrave the Spirit Devouring Secret Pattern on the surface of the soul severing sword.

After just one day, Fang Hong had completely mastered the Spirit Devouring secret manual and had carved many strange golden patterns onto the soul severing sword.

These exquisite rune lines, with faint divine light flowing through them, were the most core Spirit Devouring Secret Patterns of the Spirit Devouring Art.

Fang Hong flicked his fingertip, sending a ball of magical power into the secret patterns; in an instant, the golden patterns became even brighter, and a subtle wave of devouring power emanated from them.

Seeing this, a hint of anticipation flashed in Fang Hong's eyes.

He immediately took out a low-grade spiritual artifact from his storage bag and casually placed it beside the soul severing sword.

The layer of golden secret patterns on the soul severing sword suddenly burst into bright light, and a powerful suction force erupted.

The spiritual light on that low-grade spiritual artifact began to dim rapidly, and the spirituality contained within it was extracted little by little, all pouring into the soul severing sword.

"It really works."

Fang Hong's heart trembled as he watched, an uncontrollable look of joy appearing on his face.

The spirituality of that low-grade spiritual artifact was continuously being extracted, and the spiritual light on its surface was gradually fading.

In contrast, the precious light on the surface of the soul severing sword gradually strengthened, indicating that its spirituality was constantly increasing.

Fang Hong was incredibly excited; with this Spirit Devouring Art, even if he couldn't find rare artifact refining materials, his spiritual treasures could still be upgraded.

Amidst his excitement, Fang Hong simply took out all the idle and useless spiritual artifacts he had, piling them all around the soul severing sword, allowing it to slowly absorb and refine them.

After dealing with the Spirit Devouring Art, Fang Hong took out the demon soul banner and a large pile of high-grade Demon Beast materials, preparing to re-refine this Demonic Tool, refining all the vengeful souls within it and integrating them into the demon soul banner to enhance its power.

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A full month passed before Fang Hong finally completed the re-refinement of the demon soul banner.

With nearly a hundred thousand vengeful souls refined into it, along with a large amount of high-grade Demon Beast materials, the demon soul banner indeed did not disappoint Fang Hong, successfully advancing to the spiritual treasure rank.

Moreover, it directly reached the mid-grade spiritual treasure rank, adding another trump card for Fang Hong.

Fang Hong sat cross-legged on the ground, gently caressing the ink-black Soul Banner, a look of satisfaction on his face.

The artifact spirit of this demon soul banner was a three-headed, six-armed skeleton, ferocious and terrifying, emanating dense Yin Qi, perfectly matching its Demonic Tool nature, radiating immense power.

The Divine Power of the demon soul banner is quite special, capable of greatly suppressing the enemy's magical power circulation, an effect quite similar to Fang Hong's soul severing sword.

If both spiritual treasures were used simultaneously and in conjunction, they would produce an extremely powerful suppressive force, instantly putting the enemy at a disadvantage.

Speaking of the soul severing sword, during this period, it had already devoured all idle spiritual artifacts, and its grade had once again increased, also reaching the mid-grade spiritual treasure rank.

However, this result left Fang Hong feeling slightly dejected.

One must know that he had allowed the soul severing sword to devour a full hundred spiritual artifacts, yet it had only barely increased by one minor grade.

Fang Hong once again realized the difficulty of a spiritual treasure's advancement.

Relying solely on the Spirit Devouring Art is far from enough; he still needs to find some rare materials, such as golden thunder bamboo.

After all, although feeding spiritual artifacts to spiritual treasures is feasible, it is truly too extravagant, and Fang Hong doesn't have that many spiritual artifacts to feed them.

Now, all the idle spiritual artifacts on Fang Hong that could be devoured have been used up, and if he wants to continue enhancing his spiritual treasures, he can only find another way.