Cultivating To Immortality

Among these relics, there were spiritual artifacts, spiritual treasures, heavenly spiritual treasures, Immortal Artifacts, as well as spirit stones, origin stones, cultivation techniques, pill formulas, various materials, and medicinal herbs.

There were simply too many resources, so Fang Hong inspected them one by one, from highest to lowest, to see if he could find any hidden treasures. After about half an hour, Fang Hong finally finished organizing these resources.

Just the spiritual artifacts, spiritual treasures, and heavenly spiritual treasures alone amounted to over a hundred thousand items.

Such a vast amount of idle resources was a great boon for Fang Hong.

With this pile of idle spiritual artifacts and spiritual treasures, he would no longer have to worry about lacking materials for upgrading his spiritual treasures.

Fang Hong immediately took out the nirvana divine thunder sword, fire cloud gourd, soul severing sword, and others, applying the Spirit Devouring Secret Art to all of them, letting them consume their fill this time.

Speaking of Immortal Artifacts, Fang Hong had already given away the Demon-Slaying Immortal Sword and the Evil Heaven Mirror, leaving him with two Immortal Artifacts.

One was the Creation Cauldron from the Creation Sect, and the other was the Demon-Slaying Immortal Sword that Gu Fen had used.

Both of these Immortal Artifacts still bore the mental imprints of their original owners, so Fang Hong couldn't unleash their full power yet, nor could he refine the fire cloud gourd at the moment.

Fang Hong had originally planned to extract the power from these two Immortal Artifacts and feed it to his Swift Wind Wings, allowing the Swift Wind Wings to also be enhanced.

However, just as he was about to use the Spirit Devouring Secret Art, he suddenly discovered that the technique, which had always worked flawlessly, was completely ineffective against Immortal Artifacts.

Upon learning of this, Fang Hong felt a slight sense of disappointment.

The Spirit Devouring Secret Art had always been an important method for him to enhance the power of spiritual artifacts. Its ineffectiveness against Immortal Artifacts meant that he would have to find other ways to continuously upgrade Immortal Artifacts in the future.

Fang Hong did not give up, planning to thoroughly research the principles of the Spirit Devouring Secret Art when he had time, to see if he could improve it so that it would also work on Immortal Artifacts.

Besides conventional cultivation resources, pill formulas were also a significant gain this time.

Fang Hong found many ancient pill formulas in Gu Fen's storage artifact.

Among these pill formulas, there were not only ones suitable for Mahayana Stage Cultivators, but also two Immortal Pill Formulas called the Ascension Pill and the Immortal Essence Pill.

Refining the Immortal Essence Pill was no easy feat; the spirit medicine required alone numbered in the hundreds, and each one had to be a rare treasure over a thousand years old.

More crucially, Immortal Qi was essential during the refining process. Without it, even if all the spirit medicine were gathered, there would be no way to refine the Immortal Essence Pill.

As for the effects of the Immortal Essence Pill, they were even more astonishing.

A Mahayana Realm cultivators taking it could rapidly increase his cultivation, no longer needing to slowly cultivate over long years as before.

And if a cultivator below the Mahayana realm obtained one, the effects after consumption would only be better.

After all, this was an Immortal Pill, an ultimate treasure for low-realm cultivators, practically allowing them to ascend to heaven in one step.

Precisely because the refining conditions for the Immortal Essence Pill were so stringent, for most cultivators, gathering the materials to refine it was practically an impossible task.

Setting aside how difficult it was to find hundreds of thousand-year-old spirit medicine, the single requirement of Immortal Qi alone was enough to deter ninety-nine percent of cultivators.

However, such a difficult task was nothing to Fang Hong.

Because he had long since mastered Immortal Qi, this most crucial step posed no obstacle for him.

As for the medicinal herbs, he had previously plundered a massive amount of resources in the Misty Immortal Mansion, already gathering the hundreds of thousand-year-old spirit medicine needed to refine the Immortal Essence Pill.

Now he only needed to put these spirit medicine into the years pearl, let the years pearl cultivate them well, and in another year or two, he would be able to start refining this Immortal Pill.

As for the Ascension Pill, it was also an ancient Immortal Pill with equally astonishing effects; taking it could increase the success rate of Undergoing Tribulation by twenty percent.

Undergoing Tribulation was inherently risky, with even a slight mistake potentially leading to death, so this twenty percent increase in success rate was very precious.

Fang Hong planned to refine the Ascension Pill as well, to consume it when he underwent his own Tribulation.

The success rate of Undergoing Tribulation was, of course, the higher the better; no one would complain about too high a success rate, as an extra guarantee provided an extra sense of security.

In terms of cultivation techniques, Fang Hong found two good cultivation techniques on Gu Fen's person this time: one was the Heavenly Insect Art and the other was the Misty Heaven Art.

Among them, the Heavenly Insect Art was the cultivation technique that Gu Fen himself had been cultivating, and it contained many practical secret techniques, specializing in controlling various Demon Locusts and demonic beasts.

Fang Hong found these secret techniques useful and planned to study them thoroughly, drawing inspiration from the techniques within.

As for the other Misty Heaven Art, it was the Misty Immortal Mansion's foundational cultivation technique, and a top-tier cultivation technique that could lead to the Immortal Ascension realm, its value self-evident and worth learning from.

However, it was somewhat regrettable that, apart from these two cultivation techniques, Fang Hong did not find the inheritance cultivation techniques of the Fallen Immortal Sect, Sword Immortal Sect, Creation Sect, and other major sects on the Old Ancestors of these sects.

Those Old Ancestors most likely did not carry the core cultivation techniques of their sects with them, as inheritance cultivation techniques were too important and generally stored in the sect's Scripture Pavilion.

Furthermore, those Old Ancestors were devoured by the Demon Locusts so quickly that they died instantly.

Fang Hong didn't even have the chance to perform soul-searching, so he naturally couldn't obtain cultivation technique information from their memories.

Fang Hong didn't care about this.

The Old Ancestors and high-level combatants of those sects had all perished in the Misty Immortal Mansion; now those major sects were like Dragons without a head, their strength greatly diminished.

Since he couldn't find the cultivation techniques on the Old Ancestors, he could simply go directly to the headquarters of these sects and consult their Scripture Pavilions; with his current strength, no one could stop him.

Besides important resources commonly used by cultivators such as weapons, pill formulas, and cultivation techniques, Fang Hong also discovered ten humanoid Vajra puppets in Gu Fen's storage artifact.

The quality of these ten puppets was extremely high, and their strength was quite formidable; once activated, each one could unleash combat power comparable to a Mahayana peak Cultivator.

Later, Fang Hong learned from Gu Fen's memory that these ten humanoid puppets were originally the Misty Immortal Mansion's guardian puppets, specifically used to protect the Immortal Mansion.

When Gu Fen awakened in the Misty Immortal Mansion, he also collected these ten guardian puppets, but unexpectedly, they ultimately became Fang Hong's spoils of war.

Overall, Fang Hong's trip to the Misty Immortal Mansion this time yielded far more than expected, acquiring an extremely vast amount of resources.

Next, Fang Hong only needed to use the years pearl to cultivate more Immortal Qi, and at the same time, wait for the spirit medicine to mature, then quickly refine the Immortal Essence Pill and Ascension Pill.

Once all preparations were made, and the time was ripe, he could attempt Undergoing Tribulation and try to Ascend to Immortality.

Having made up his mind, Fang Hong immediately used the Void Secret Technique, his figure flashed, and he disappeared from the Azure Emperor Holy Land, heading towards the direction of those major sects.