Cultivating To Immortality

Fang Hong now held five precious balls of Immortal Qi, which should be enough to allow a top-tier heavenly spiritual treasure to break through to the Immortal Artifact level.

However, refining an Immortal Artifact was a matter of great importance and allowed for no carelessness.

If preparations were insufficient, a slight mistake could not only waste the incomparably precious Immortal Qi but also potentially damage the spiritual treasure during its advancement, leading to a net loss.

Fang Hong had always been confident in his artifact refining skills; he had refined countless artifacts and accumulated extensive experience throughout his journey.

But refining an Immortal Artifact was his first attempt, and the risks involved were difficult to estimate, so he had to be more focused and make thorough preparations.

Considering this, Fang Hong did not rush to refine the Immortal Artifact. He still had four precious Late Stage Mahayana spirit pills in his possession.

It would be better to first refine and absorb these four spirit pills to elevate his cultivation to another level.

Then, when his strength was greater and his condition better, he would proceed with refining the Immortal Artifact, which would significantly increase the success rate.

After making up his mind, Fang Hong exited the Star Tower and went to the years pearl Medicine Valley to carefully check the growth of the immortal spirit flowers.

Seeing them growing vigorously, Fang Hong could then rest assured and go into seclusion to cultivate.

Fang Hong went to the Immortal Cave's secret chamber, took out four precious spirit pills, and began to consume and refine them.

Time flew by, and in a blink of an eye, three more years passed.

At this moment, Fang Hong was in the Medicine Valley checking the growth of the immortal spirit flowers.

Although only three years had passed in the outside world, under the 1,500-fold time acceleration of the years pearl, the immortal spirit flowers had actually grown for over 4,500 years.

At this point, the immortal spirit flowers had fully matured, their petals displaying a myriad of colors.

At this growth rate, in another three and a half years, these immortal spirit flowers should be completely mature and emit incomparably precious Immortal Qi again.

Looking at the soon-to-be-mature immortal spirit flowers, Fang Hong's eyes were filled with anticipation.

He then no longer lingered, his figure flashed, and he returned to the Artifact Refining Room, taking out five balls of Immortal Qi and the top-tier heavenly spiritual treasure, Swift Wind Wings.

Now that his cultivation had improved and his preparations were complete, it was time to refine the Immortal Artifact.

During these three years, Fang Hong successfully refined the four Late Stage Mahayana spirit pills, causing his internal magical power to surge, and his cultivation smoothly broke through to the Late Stage Mahayana realm, just one step away from the peak Mahayana realm.

In addition, the dragon strength fruits planted earlier had matured once more during these past few years.

Fang Hong once again refined one hundred dragon strength fruits.

Under the nourishment of the dragon strength fruits, his physical body strength was enhanced once more, successfully reaching the peak Mahayana realm level.

However, this was Fang Hong's last time refining dragon strength fruits.

Because after this refinement, he discovered that his physical body had developed a certain resistance to the power of the dragon strength fruits.

The energy within the dragon strength fruits could no longer provide any amplification effect to his physical body; even if he continued to refine them, it would only be a waste.

Not only that, but over these years, under the continuous nourishment of the Soul Nurturing Pearl, Fang Hong's Divine Sense also steadily improved, now reaching the peak Mahayana realm level, even stronger than his magical power cultivation.

Finally, Fang Hong also refined the Water-element Immortal Peach, Gold-element Immortal Peach, and Earth-element Immortal Peach, comprehending three more Laws and significantly enhancing his combat power.

At this moment, as long as Fang Hong did not encounter enemies with Immortal Artifacts and was not attacked by them, within the entire Profound Fallen Realm, he could almost act as he pleased, with very few capable of contending against him.

Of course, besides Fang Hong himself, his Spirit Beast, Little Rainbow, successfully advanced to the Mahayana realm after eating the Fire-element Immortal Peach.

However, Little Rainbow still had not transformed into human form; besides her fur becoming more vibrant, her appearance remained unchanged, which Fang Hong had grown accustomed to.

Also, half a year ago, Su Shan triggered a celestial phenomenon and also advanced to the Mahayana realm; she was currently stabilizing her realm within her Immortal Cave.

The news of Su Shan's advancement quickly spread throughout the entire Continent, shocking all cultivators on the Continent.

The world now knew that the Azure Emperor Holy Land had once again produced a Mahayana Cultivator, making its strength even greater.

However, the world did not know that the Azure Emperor Holy Land also had Fang Hong, this great deity, because Fang Hong advanced to the Mahayana realm in the Wilderness Continent, which did not cause much commotion.

Only Su Shan and Azure Emperor knew about Fang Hong's advancement to the Mahayana realm.

Soon, Fang Hong set up the Fusion Array in the Artifact Refining Room and threw a ball of Immortal Qi into the array.

Fang Hong immediately activated the powerful Heaven and Earth Fire, beginning to refine that ball of Immortal Qi to extract its Immortal Essence Power, which would be used to temper the entire Swift Wind Wings.

There was a huge gap between heavenly spiritual treasures and Immortal Artifacts.

To allow a heavenly spiritual treasure to advance to an Immortal Artifact, it must be tempered with Immortal Qi, allowing the spiritual treasure to thoroughly absorb Immortal Qi and integrate Immortal Essence Power, only then can it truly transform into an Immortal Artifact.

If it is not tempered with Immortal Qi, no matter how many spiritual artifacts are fed to it, it will not be able to break through the bottleneck and advance to an Immortal Artifact.

Sizzle. Sizzle. Sizzle.

The Heaven and Earth Fire enveloped the Immortal Qi, refining it furiously, emitting bursts of sound, and the firelight illuminated the entire Artifact Refining Room brightly.

However, after a day of refining, Fang Hong suddenly felt that something was off.

This Immortal Qi was too difficult to refine; there was no change at all!

Fang Hong realized this was a long battle and could only persevere. As long as he had enough time, he didn't believe he couldn't refine this ball of Immortal Qi.

Thus, in the following period, Fang Hong stayed in the Artifact Refining Room, fully concentrating on refining the Immortal Qi.

A month later, Fang Hong suddenly noticed a faint stir in the Immortal Qi.

Two months later, the Immortal Qi was slowly being refined.

By the third month, Fang Hong finally extracted a thin wisp of Immortal Essence Power.

Time flew by, and in a blink of an eye, a year passed.

At this moment, in the Artifact Refining Room, Fang Hong's face appeared somewhat pale, and his eyes carried a hint of undeniable fatigue.

He had maintained a high-intensity refining state throughout the year, and his originally abundant magical power was almost depleted after a year of continuous consumption.

Looking at the center of the Fusion Array, the ball of Immortal Qi had disappeared, leaving only a white, filamentous spiritual light.

This was precisely the Immortal Essence Power that Fang Hong had painstakingly extracted from that ball of Immortal Qi, having spent a full year on it.

Looking at this hard-won Immortal Essence Power, Fang Hong let out a long sigh of relief, finally having succeeded in the extraction.

He hadn't felt this sense of magical power depletion in countless years.

Fang Hong secretly sighed, the difficulty of refining Immortal Qi was far greater than he had initially anticipated.

If he hadn't already been in the Late Stage Mahayana realm with profound magical power, he probably wouldn't have been able to successfully refine this ball of Immortal Qi, let alone extract Immortal Essence Power.

Immortal Qi, this substance, was originally the Origin Qi that Immortals could freely refine. It was quite impressive that Fang Hong, at the Mahayana realm, could successfully refine it.