Cultivating To Immortality

Counting it all, Fang Hong now possessed five heavenly spiritual treasure: the high-grade nirvana divine thunder sword, the mid-grade Swift Wind Wings, and the low-grade demon soul banner, fire cloud gourd, and Soul Nurturing Pearl.

With these five treasures protecting and empowering him, Fang Hong's combat power had reached an unprecedented height.

As for the remaining spiritual treasures that hadn't been upgraded, he could only wait until he had gathered more resources.

Now, Fang Hong's cultivation had reached the peak of the Body Integration realm, and it was time to prepare for advancing to the next realm.

Earlier, Fang Hong had consulted Azure Emperor on how to advance to the Mahayana Realm.

Azure Emperor informed him that to step into the Mahayana realm, he must meet two conditions.

Firstly, he needed to prepare a large quantity of medicinal pills to provide an ample supply of Origin Qi during the breakthrough.

Without the support of numerous medicinal pills, even if his Divine Soul and magical power were at Perfection, he could still very likely fail at the last moment.

Secondly, he had to cultivate his essence, Qi, and Divine Soul to the Perfection realm.

Only by doing so would the success rate of breaking through be significantly increased.

The so-called essence, Qi, and Divine Soul represent a cultivator's physical body essence, magical power cultivation, and soul realm.

The three are interdependent and indispensable.

In terms of essence, Qi, and Divine Soul, Fang Hong believed he had no problems; all had reached the peak of the Body Integration realm.

Therefore, all he needed to do next was prepare a large quantity of breakthrough spirit pills.

Once he had accumulated enough, he could choose an opportune moment to enter seclusion and attempt to break through to the coveted Mahayana realm.

Thinking of this, Fang Hong had already set a plan in his mind.

He planned to travel across the Wilderness Continent, secretly hunting down powerful Demonic Kings.

Just like when he assassinated the Black Bear Clan's Demonic King and the Golden Armored Centipede Demonic King a while ago, each Demonic King he killed would allow him to refine a high-grade spirit pill, and he could also seize the opportunity to gather resources.

He needed to prepare more high-grade spirit pills, preferably several thousand, to ensure a more secure advancement.

This vast and boundless Wilderness Continent had an immense territory, with numerous demon races and countless powerful individuals.

Fang Hong firmly believed that as long as he patiently collected, he would eventually be able to gather the thousands of spirit pills he needed.

With this thought, Fang Hong traveled south.

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Half a month later, Fang Hong finally arrived at Sky Phoenix City, the core of the Phoenix Domain.

Sky Phoenix City was the largest city in the Phoenix Domain, and also the largest gathering place for Demon Beasts in the entire Phoenix Domain.

Fang Hong stood not far outside the city, his gaze sweeping across the landscape.

Compared to the Human cities he had seen before, the demon race cities did not differ much in appearance.

Sky Phoenix City also had tall, sturdy city gates, and within the city stood numerous tall buildings.

However, unlike the delicate, intricate, and ever-changing layouts of Human cities, demon race architecture was mostly constructed from huge stacked stones, simple in style, yet possessing a grand and majestic feel.

More importantly, Fang Hong could tell at a glance that the entire Sky Phoenix City was enveloped by a powerful restriction barrier.

It was almost impossible to sneak in silently.

The only feasible method was to enter through the city gate, dutifully pay the spirit stones, and undergo inspection.

Fang Hong did not want to cause trouble, so he obediently entered through the city gate; his purpose for this trip was not to be an enemy of the Phoenix Race, but to use Sky Phoenix City's teleportation array and incidentally gather intelligence about various Demonic Kings.

Before entering the city, Fang Hong took out a bottle of essence blood he had obtained from the Black Bear Demonic King and refined it into a mist with his magical power.

Then, he formed hand seals and performed an ancient secret art—the Blood Spirit Art.

In an instant, the blood mist coiled around his body like a living thing, completely altering his aura.

Fang Hong did this to imitate the Black Bear's aura and conceal his Human identity.

After all, he wasn't sure if the city had restrictions specifically designed to detect human auras.

If he were to expose himself rashly and let the Phoenix Race discover a human secretly entering Phoenix City, it would be very troublesome.

Speaking of which, this Blood Spirit Art was a secret art he had learned years ago when he killed the Blood Spirit Old Ancestor on the Heavenly Azure Continent.

This art was exceptionally profound; as long as one obtained someone's blood, they could simulate that person's aura.

Previously, Fang Hong rarely had the opportunity to use it, but now it proved to be of great use.

After performing the Blood Spirit Art, Fang Hong unhurriedly performed the Transformation Technique.

His figure twisted and changed, and in a moment, he transformed into a tall, bear-headed man, his aura deliberately suppressed to the Early Stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.

Fang Hong's current appearance was completely indistinguishable from the real thing.

Unless a Mahayana Cultivator meticulously investigated him at close range, they would not suspect he was an impostor.

With his identity properly concealed, Fang Hong confidently strode towards the city gate.

From a distance, there were over a dozen passages outside Sky Phoenix City's gate, each with a long queue of Demonic Cultivators waiting to pay the fee and enter the city.

Fang Hong chose one of the less crowded queues of Demonic Cultivators and quietly joined it.

Since setting foot on the Wilderness Continent, Fang Hong had noticed a very interesting phenomenon: the Demonic Cultivators of the Wilderness Continent were very different from those elsewhere.

In other places, Demon Beasts only experienced a rapid increase in intelligence after reaching the Nascent Soul Transformation, but the Demon Beasts here generally possessed very high intelligence.

On the Wilderness Continent, almost all Demonic Cultivators were in a half-human, half-beast form; they not only possessed extremely high intelligence but could also speak and dress skillfully, and even developed their own demon race cultural inheritance.

Even a small Demon Beast in the Qi Refinement Stage could speak and possessed considerable intelligence, which was unimaginable elsewhere.

Initially, Fang Hong was extremely surprised by this.

But after killing the Black Bear Clan and Centipede Race Demonic Cultivators and performing soul searching, he finally understood the truth.

It turned out that in ancient times, there was an incredibly powerful Demonic God who created an astonishing secret art called the Spirit Enlightenment Secret Art.

This secret art allowed low-grade Demon Beasts to rapidly awaken their intelligence, thereby significantly increasing their cultivation speed and quickly entering the dao of cultivation.

Because of this secret art, the Demon Beasts of the Wilderness Continent were able to receive enlightenment at birth, and their intelligence far surpassed that of their counterparts elsewhere.

Over time, the Spirit Enlightenment Secret Art had become widely circulated throughout the Wilderness Continent, passed down by various great demon races for generations.

Almost every Demon Beast learned this art at birth.

Thus, this unique situation arose here, where the intelligence of the entire continent's Demon Beasts was generally higher than elsewhere.

With intelligence, coupled with their inherently powerful Physical Bodies and innate Divine Abilities, it was natural that the overall strength of the Wilderness Continent's Demonic Cultivators was stronger than those in other places.

As Fang Hong pondered, the queue had already moved to the city gate.

Guarding the gate were two young Demonic Cultivators dressed in red robes, both at the Core Formation Stage.

Each had a fiery red mark imprinted on their forehead, and the flame-like patterns indicated their bloodline origin—they were clearly disciples of the Phoenix Race.

Facing such guards, Fang Hong remained expressionless, obediently took out ten thousand spirit stones, and handed them over.

After the Phoenix Race disciple inspected them and found no issues, he allowed him to enter the city smoothly.