Cultivating To Immortality

Fang Hong could only temporarily set aside the matter of killing the Demon Beasts, waiting until his cultivation had improved further and he had enough confidence before going to visit these two Demon Beast Kings.

Besides the news of the other two Demon Beast Kings, the Purple Flame Serpent's memory also held an even greater surprise.

In its Immortal Cave, an immortal essence fruit tree was actually growing.

immortal essence fruit contains rich and pure Immortal Origin Qi, which greatly aids True Immortal Cultivators in improving their cultivation.

The reason the Purple Flame Serpent was able to breakthrough its bottleneck and successfully achieve Immortal Ascension was precisely by relying on the immortal essence fruit in its Immortal Cave.

It had eaten quite a bit over the years, gradually cultivating to its current realm.

Upon learning about the immortal essence fruit tree, Fang Hong was overjoyed and immediately put away the years pearl, rushing towards the Purple Flame Serpent's Immortal Cave at the fastest possible speed.

He certainly wouldn't let go of such a good thing as an immortal essence fruit tree, which could directly boost cultivation; he had to get his hands on it as soon as possible.

An hour later, Fang Hong had returned from the Purple Flame Serpent's Immortal Cave and successfully transplanted the immortal essence fruit tree into the years pearl.

However, the downside was that the immortal essence fruit that had grown on the tree had long been completely eaten by the Purple Flame Serpent over the years.

Fortunately, Fang Hong had the years pearl, and in another half a year, he would be able to eat thousand-year-old immortal essence fruit, making his cultivation improvement just around the corner.

Fang Hong took out the demon gourd and slowly infused his Immortal Power into it, intending to try and use the demon gourd to collect the corpses of Zhang Hai and his wife, and the Purple Flame Serpent.

These three corpses were all True Immortal bodies, containing a considerable amount of Immortal Origin Qi; he wondered if the demon gourd had the ability to refine them into Immortal Pills.

Just as Fang Hong was infusing Immortal Power into the demon gourd and secretly speculating, the demon gourd quickly responded.

As before, a faint halo instantly appeared on the surface of the demon gourd, and a powerful suction force surged from its mouth.

In just an instant, it sucked in all three corpses of Zhang Hai and his wife, and the Purple Flame Serpent, the entire process being incredibly smooth without any hindrance.

"Puff."

After only a few breaths, the mouth of the gourd suddenly flashed with light, and then three golden Immortal Pills shot out from it, hovering before Fang Hong.

The surface of these three Immortal Pills shimmered with Immortal light, emitting a rich Immortal Origin aura, and contained extremely pure Immortal Origin Qi.

Fang Hong looked at the three Immortal Pills hovering before him, and a look of great joy immediately appeared on his face.

The demon gourd was still the demon gourd; even Immortal bodies could be successfully refined into such high-quality Immortal Pills.

Fang Hong had always been very curious: what grade of treasure was the demon gourd exactly?

He had fished the demon gourd out of a river, and later, it recognized him as its master through a drop of blood; that mysterious person also told him to revive the Hell Gate.

Regarding the Hell Gate, Fang Hong had searched through thousands of ancient texts in the Lower Realm but failed to find any record of it.

It was possible that the Hell Gate had completely vanished in the long river of time, or perhaps the Hell Gate was not a force in the Lower Realm, and might even be in the Immortal Realm.

Fang Hong gently shook his head, collecting his thoughts.

Now was not the time to dwell on the Hell Gate; there were more important things to do at hand, and as for the truth of the Hell Gate, he could only investigate it slowly when he had the opportunity in the future.

After dealing with the three corpses, Fang Hong began to refine the souls of Zhang Hai and his wife, and the Purple Flame Serpent, preparing to refine these three souls into the demon soul banner to enhance its power.

Inside the secret room, screams rose and fell.

The souls of Immortals were far more powerful than the souls of cultivators in the Lower Realm.

Day after day, Fang Hong spent a full month, finally completely refining the three souls of Zhang Hai and his wife, and the Purple Flame Serpent, successfully integrating them into the demon soul banner.

The demon soul banner successfully upgraded from a grade One Immortal Artifact to a grade Two Immortal Artifact, its power several times stronger than before.

From the memories of Zhang Hai and his wife, Fang Hong learned that in the Immortal Realm, Immortal Artifacts had clear grade divisions, totaling from grade One to Ten.

Grade One was the lowest, and grade Ten was the strongest.

Above grade Ten Immortal Artifacts, there was also a legendary treasure called a Dao Artifact.

Dao Artifacts and Immortal Artifacts had fundamental differences; Dao Artifacts contained a certain power of the Great Dao within them, capable of invoking the rules of heaven and earth, their power far exceeding Immortal Artifacts.

However, treasures of this grade were extremely difficult to refine; it was estimated that only those Immortal Emperor-level existences had the ability to refine Dao Artifacts.

Fang Hong retrieved the upgraded demon soul banner into his body and picked up the two Storage Pouches left by Zhang Hai and his wife.

Previously, due to the soul restriction on the Storage Pouches, they could not be opened.

Now that the souls of Zhang Hai and his wife had been refined, the restrictions on the Storage Pouches were indeed much weaker.

Fang Hong gathered Immortal Power at his fingertips, attempting to break the restriction.

Since the restriction was already extremely weak, Fang Hong barely exerted any effort; in less than half an incense stick's time, he successfully opened the two Storage Pouches.

Once the Storage Pouches were opened, Fang Hong began to examine their contents.

Inside were two cultivation techniques, over ten thousand Immortal Stones, various books, talisman brushes and talisman paper, and some scattered miscellaneous items.

Although these items were all just conventional resources of the Immortal Realm, for Fang Hong, who had only recently arrived in the Immortal Realm, each one had no small use.

Among them, the two cultivation techniques were precisely what Fang Hong needed most at the moment.

The covers of the cultivation techniques were respectively inscribed with Immortal Flame Art and Azure Water Art.

Fang Hong took out the cultivation techniques, quickly flipped through a few pages, and found that both were indeed authentic Immortal cultivation techniques.

The Ten Thousand Laws Origin Demon Art he had cultivated before was created in the Lower Realm; although its power was not weak, after arriving in the Immortal Realm, it had gradually fallen behind the pace of cultivation, and he urgently needed Immortal cultivation techniques for reference and improvement.

However, these two cultivation techniques were not high-grade goods either; they only recorded the cultivation methods for the first five layers of the True Immortal Realm, at most allowing cultivation to True Immortal Fifth Layer.

Even so, Fang Hong was not disappointed.

As long as he could comprehend the cultivation methods of Immortal cultivation techniques from them, to use for reference and deduction, and to improve his Ten Thousand Laws Origin Demon Art, it was already enough.

Looking at the Immortal Stones, they contained extremely pure Immortal Origin Qi.

These Immortal Stones were similar in purpose to spirit stones and Origin Stones in the Lower Realm; they could be used for cultivation and array deployment, or for transactions and shopping, and were an indispensable conventional resource for cultivators.

As for the pile of books, the content recorded within was very varied, without a fixed category, including descriptions of various Demon Beasts, common medicinal ingredients, local cultural customs, and so on.

Fang Hong organized these books, intending to go through them thoroughly when he had time, to learn more about the Immortal Realm, so that he could better navigate it.

While organizing the Storage Pouches, Fang Hong also discovered a rough map and a small booklet titled Elementary Immortal Talisman.

He first picked up the map and looked at it; the map's material was very ordinary, and the lines on it were relatively crude.