Cultivating To Immortality

Fang Hong gazed at the spatial passage before him, lost in thought.

He remembered Elder Huang Xiong once warning him that Evergreen Blessed Herb Garden was protected by powerful restrictions, and even a Nascent Soul Cultivator would be instantly struck dead upon entering, unable to survive.

He just didn't know if these restrictions still posed a threat to him, now that he was at the Void Refining Early Stage.

After a moment of thought, Fang Hong formed a hand seal, instantly condensing a avatar identical to himself.

The origin of Evergreen Blessed Herb Garden was too mysterious, and the situation of the restrictions within it was completely unknown. For safety, Fang Hong decided to send this avatar to explore first.

This way, even if the avatar was indeed killed by the restrictions inside, it wouldn't have much impact on his main body. This was undoubtedly the safest method currently.

Subsequently, Fang Hong's avatar leaped, flying into the spatial passage, and quickly disappeared within the passage.

Meanwhile, his main body remained outside, continuously outputting law power to maintain the existence of the spatial passage.

...

As Fang Hong stepped into Evergreen Blessed Herb Garden, the sky above him darkened, and several streaks of purplish-black lightning fiercely struck down, accurately landing on him.

In an instant, Fang Hong was engulfed by the violent lightning, but a calm expression remained on his face.

With a flick of his fingertip, a condensed surge of law power spread out, and the rampant lightning around him was instantly deflected in all directions, crashing to the ground with crackling sounds.

Fang Hong had clearly tested the power of Evergreen Blessed Herb Garden's restrictions.

These lightning bolts were indeed not weak, enough to turn a Divine Transformation Peak Cultivator into ashes in an instant, but for him, who was already at the Void Refining Early Stage, they were merely tickle-like attacks, posing no threat whatsoever.

Confirming this, Fang Hong's heart immediately settled down considerably.

Since these spatial restrictions could not harm him, he could now act freely and boldly explore this mysterious place.

The restriction lightning above his head continued to strike down ceaselessly.

Fang Hong raised his hand and conjured a pale golden protective light barrier, shielding himself completely. He allowed the lightning to crackle and explode, but the light barrier didn't even ripple.

Having dealt with the interference of the restrictions, Fang Hong immediately released his powerful Divine Sense, instantly covering the entire Evergreen Blessed Herb Garden space.

This space was not vast, spanning about seventy to eighty thousand miles. With his current Divine Sense strength, he could easily take in its full scope.

Where his Divine Sense swept, he did not detect any powerful auras, only some low-grade Demon Beasts moving through the forest foraging. Let alone Divine Transformation Stage, there wasn't even a single Nascent Soul grade Demon Beast.

Fang Hong's figure flickered slightly, employing his escape art. A blur flashed, and in an instant, he traversed tens of thousands of miles, arriving at the central area of Evergreen Blessed Herb Garden.

Back when he was at the Foundation Establishment Stage, although he had fortunately entered the edge of the central area, he had never been able to step into the most core region due to his fear of the fierce power of those grade 6 Demon Beasts.

Now, revisiting the old place, his strength had long since become vastly different, and he had no more reservations.

At this moment, Fang Hong stood at the central point of Evergreen Blessed Herb Garden.

Looking around, there were no exotic flowers, rare grasses, or magnificent buildings as he had imagined. There was only a simple thatched hut and a circular stone pillar over ten zhang tall.

The surface of the stone pillar was covered with dense formation seals.

In his Divine Sense perception, this circular stone pillar was by no means ordinary.

A highly complex formation was laid out on it, with intersecting formation seals, faintly exuding a profound rhythm. It was the most intricate formation he had encountered so far.

Fang Hong's heart stirred. If his guess was correct, this should be the core formation of Evergreen Blessed Herb Garden.

As long as he could refine it, he would be able to completely control this space.

As for the thatched hut, a sweep of his Divine Sense revealed nothing special; it appeared to be just an ordinary dwelling.

Fang Hong stepped into the thatched hut to examine it. The hut was empty, its furnishings extremely simple, and a thick layer of dust accumulated on the floor.

Let alone decent furniture, there wasn't even a stone stool.

It seemed that the Senior who once lived here in seclusion was a very simple person.

Exiting the thatched hut, Fang Hong circled the circular stone pillar, examining it carefully.

An hour later, Fang Hong finally basically figured out the direction and operational rules of the formation seals on the stone pillar.

Thus, Fang Hong condensed his Divine Sense, conjured a ball of Heaven and Earth Fire, and sat cross-legged in the sky, beginning to refine it.

...

Three days quietly passed.

On this morning, the circular stone pillar suddenly trembled violently, followed by a sudden burst of green light that illuminated the entire central area as if it were an illusion.

Fang Hong slowly opened his eyes, an undisguised look of joy on his face. He had finally initially refined this core formation.

As the formation was refined, the restriction lightning overhead seemed to lose its source and instantly stopped striking down.

From now on, Fang Hong could freely enter and exit Evergreen Blessed Herb Garden without any hindrance.

Fang Hong now understood the origin of Evergreen Blessed Herb Garden. Its original name was guangyin stele, a top-grade spiritual treasure, on the same grade as the Dragon Suppressing Cauldron.

The most core Divine Power of the guangyin stele was the guangyin formation he had just refined.

Once the guangyin formation was activated, the sky would rain down guangyin spiritual rain containing mysterious time laws.

These spiritual rains, falling on spirit medicine, could greatly accelerate their growth rate, reaching up to three hundred times at most.

In other words, while one year passed in the outside world, the spirit medicine within the guangyin stele space would have experienced a three-hundred-year growth cycle.

Knowing the Divine Power of the guangyin stele, Fang Hong was overjoyed, exclaiming that it was Heaven-Defying. This was simply a Heaven-Defying treasure for cultivating spirit medicine.

With the guangyin stele, he would no longer have to worry about finding thousand-year spirit medicine, and even ten-thousand-year spirit medicine could be cultivated through time acceleration, as long as he could find some spirit medicine seeds or roots.

However, Fang Hong also found that with the current degree of refinement, the guangyin stele could not exert its three-hundred-fold acceleration effect.

Because the guangyin stele still had the original owner's spiritual imprint, which limited some of its power. Currently, it could only achieve a maximum of one hundred times acceleration.

Fang Hong was not worried about this problem at all.

He had the fire cloud gourd in hand. Once the fire cloud gourd was upgraded to a top-grade spiritual treasure in the future, he could use its power to completely erase the original owner's imprint and re-refine the guangyin stele.

By then, this top-grade spiritual treasure would surely be able to exert all its Divine Abilities.

To be able to leave such a precious top-grade spiritual treasure here, the original owner of the guangyin stele must have been a powerful Senior who was proficient in the Law of Time, with unfathomable cultivation.

Fang Hong gazed at the circular stone pillar before him. The guangyin formation on the stone pillar contained the mysteries of the Law of Time. As long as he diligently studied it, he might even be able to comprehend a trace of the true meaning of the Law of Time from it.

At this moment, Fang Hong was in an excellent mood. Controlling the guangyin stele meant that all the spirit medicine growing in the space became his.

So, in the following days, Fang Hong took out the spirit sensing disk and began to sweep the entire space.

He collected spirit medicine while clearing out those useless low-grade Demon Beasts, lest they steal his spirit medicine and ruin his good fortune.