Cultivating To Immortality

When Fang Hong heard Azure Emperor's words, the stone in his heart finally settled.

It seemed there was indeed a subtle balance of power among those three Immortal sects, which made him breathe a slight sigh of relief.

"Your aura has been locked by the soul-Fixing Plate, and it will take at least two or three years to completely dissipate."

"During this time, you'd best not go out; just stay and cultivate within the Holy Land," Azure Emperor instructed.

"Yes," Fang Hong respectfully replied, engraving her words into his memory.

He had offended the Fallen Immortal Sect, so he truly needed to be more careful when going out in the future; he had to increase his cultivation as quickly as possible.

Azure Emperor gave a few more words of caution before returning to Azure Emperor Palace.

With Azure Emperor's departure, the Holy Land gradually returned to its usual tranquility.

Fang Hong also returned to his Immortal Cave, where Su Shan immediately came to him, her eyes full of worry.

Fang Hong gave her a gentle smile, indicating that she needn't worry.

In the time that followed, Fang Hong planned to simply stay and cultivate in his Immortal Cave.

Absorbing spirit pills to increase his cultivation, carefully cultivating various spiritual plants and spirit medicines within the guangyin stele, artifact refining, comprehending various cultivation technique ancient texts, accompanying his beloved wife in cultivation.

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Cultivation knows no years; time flies by.

Fang Hong stayed in his Immortal Cave this time, and that stay lasted twenty years.

At this moment, Fang Hong was sitting cross-legged in the space on the fourth floor of the Star Tower, his eyes tightly closed, emitting a powerful and vast aura, far surpassing what it was twenty years ago.

Over these twenty years, Fang Hong's cultivation had undergone earth-shattering changes once again; he had successfully advanced to the Late Stage of the Body Integration realm.

That year, after the guangyin stele absorbed a large number of spiritual artifacts and spiritual treasures, it successfully advanced to another level of spiritual treasure, and its power greatly increased.

Just as Fang Hong had anticipated, the guangyin stele's time acceleration effect had increased to five hundred times.

In other words, one year in the outside world was equivalent to five hundred years of growth for the spirit medicine within the guangyin stele.

It was precisely by relying on this Heaven-Defying Divine Ability of the guangyin stele that Fang Hong cultivated a large batch of spirit medicine with thousands of years of cultivation in just a few short years.

Fang Hong refined all these spirit medicines into medicinal pills, and then, combined with the spirit pills produced by the demon gourd, he consumed and refined them day after day.

His cultivation therefore advanced by leaps and bounds, breaking through repeatedly, soaring all the way from the Early Stage Body Integration to the Late Stage Body Integration, encountering almost no bottlenecks, and was not far from the peak Body Integration.

In terms of Divine Sense, Fang Hong successfully integrated the Soul Nurturing Pearl and the soul-Suppressing Pearl, two treasures.

The new Soul Nurturing Pearl, after Fusion, reached the high-grade spiritual treasure level, and its effect of nourishing the soul was more than ten times stronger than before.

Under its nourishment, Fang Hong's Divine Sense also broke through to the peak Body Integration level.

However, the improvement in physical body strength was somewhat unsatisfactory.

Ever since losing the tempering of the Dragon Suppressing Cauldron, Fang Hong's physical body progress had been slow, and now it could at most reach the Late Stage Body Integration level, lagging slightly behind his Divine Sense.

In addition to his Cultivation progressing, Fang Hong also refined the Demon Roc's wings into his Swift Wind Wings.

This attempt did not disappoint him; the Swift Wind Wings successfully advanced to a mid-grade Tongtian spiritual treasure.

Fang Hong gained another Tongtian spiritual treasure; with the enhancement of the Swift Wind Wings, the speed of his escape technique had increased by an unknown number of times. Looking at the entire Profound Fallen Realm, perhaps only Mahayana Cultivators could pose a threat to him.

As for the demon soul banner, soul severing sword, and fire cloud gourd, these spiritual treasures, since Fang Hong had no extra spiritual treasures for them to absorb, their grades did not change much, still maintaining their previous levels.

Over these twenty years, Fang Hong spent most of his time cultivating medicinal herbs, refining medicinal pills, and quietly cultivating, with less of the daily fighting and killing, and more stability and peace.

Although such days were plain, they made his state of mind increasingly steady.

In addition to his own cultivation improvement, Fang Hong also refined a large number of Demon God Pills.

This kind of medicinal pill had a significant effect on the cultivation improvement of Spiritual Beasts, and Little Rainbow benefited greatly from it.

It ate thousands of Demon God Pills, and its cultivation also advanced by leaps and bounds, successfully breaking through to the Void Refining peak. It was currently in seclusion in a secret room of the Star Tower, attempting to Break through to the Body Integration Stage.

Of course, Fang Hong's beloved wife, Su Shan, was not left behind; she often cultivated with Fang Hong.

With the assistance of a large number of medicinal pills, she also broke through to the Void Refining peak, and is currently in seclusion in Azure Emperor Palace. According to her progress, it shouldn't be long before she advances to the Body Integration Stage.

Fang Hong slowly opened his eyes, ending his cultivation state.

Over the years, he had consumed a large number of medicinal pills, and his body had developed resistance to many of them.

Many previously effective pill formulas were now mostly ineffective, and he had no better pill formulas available. It seemed he had to find other ways to increase his strength.

Fang Hong flicked his finger lightly, and a completely black spherical bead appeared out of thin air in front of him, floating and slowly rotating in the air.

This spherical bead was a mysterious item he had accidentally bought at a trade fair back then. It contained information about a certain location on the Wilderness Continent, and it was very likely the key to an ancient cultivator's Immortal Cave.

Fang Hong pondered for a moment and decided it was time to venture into the Wilderness Continent.

Firstly, he could hunt high-level Demon Beasts there and refine them into spirit pills with the demon gourd, solving the problem of medicinal pill resistance.

Secondly, he could also explore the secret behind this spherical bead; perhaps there would be unexpected gains.

The Wilderness Continent, that was the territory of Demon Beasts, known as a Forbidden Land for the human, with various Divine Beasts and savage Vicious Beasts entrenched within it, making it extremely dangerous.

Before going to train, Fang Hong had to make thorough preparations and could not be careless in the slightest.

Fang Hong put away the mysterious spherical bead and came to a corner of the main hall.

There, the guangyin stele stood quietly on the ground, enveloped by a layer of pale golden formation, with the formation's aura flowing, supporting the guangyin stele to operate at all times.

With a thought, Fang Hong's figure flickered and he entered the guangyin stele space, carefully checking the growth of various spirit medicines.

Now that twenty years had passed in the outside world, under the acceleration of the guangyin formation, the sky thunder bamboo, Dragon Power Fruit, and Yinming Tree he had planted back then should have matured.

Fang Hong flashed to a small valley and found that lightning flashed and thunder rumbled in the sky above the valley, with golden electric arcs faintly shooting out.

He walked into the valley to take a look, and a large patch of sky thunder bamboo had all turned golden, transforming into ten-thousand-year golden thunder bamboo, giving birth to Evil-repelling divine thunder.

"Hahahaha. Good."

Fang Hong looked at the golden bamboo forest in front of him and laughed heartily.

Over the years, Fang Hong had picked many sky thunder bamboo roots and cultivated a patch of sky thunder bamboo forest.

Now, under the accelerated growth of the guangyin formation, this bamboo forest had transformed into a golden thunder bamboo forest.

With so much golden thunder bamboo, whether it was for artifact refining or crafting puppets in the future, he would no longer have to worry about materials.

Fang Hong gently hooked his finger, and thirty-six of the thickest and most upright golden thunder bamboo responded by pulling out of the soil and slowly flying in front of him.