At this point, Tian Yongheng took out something from the system space.
It was the Nine Spirits Bracelet, something he had obtained as a reward from the system quite a long time ago.
It was originally only a Rank-3 defensive Dharma Artifact, but using a Dharma Fusion Stone, he had upgraded it to a Rank-4 Dharma Artifact, suitable for the current Yan Jingfei.
He still had another Dharma Fusion Stone with him, so it wasn’t much of an issue to use one.
Giving the Nine Spirits Bracelet to Yan Jingfei, he explained its properties to her.
After giving her the bracelet, they didn’t talk for much longer and he quickly dismissed Yan Jingfei.
Now, sitting alone in the cave abode, he speculated the future events and how he would deal with them with a calm mind.
I’ll go to the Turquoise Lake Sword Manor after cultivating for a while.
Deciding this, he was about to enter his meditative state again before he suddenly remembered something.
I completely forgot about the Thousand Petals Hall. Did they escape their predicament?
He thought before taking out a Communication Jade and contacting Mo Yuxin.
Meanwhile, at the Qingyun Sword Sect.
In a cave abode located atop a small mountain peak around a thousand feet tall, Mo Yuxin had just finished stabilizing her cultivation base after breaking through to the Fourth Stage of Golden Core Realm.
The cave abode was filled with dense Spirit Qi which looked like fog covering the entire place, making it an extremely suitable place for cultivation.
At this moment, sensing the buzzing noises being made by her Communication Jade, she half opened her eyes and probed her Storage Ring.
Her eyes suddenly fluttered open as she saw that it was Tian Yongheng who contacted her and she hastily answered the Communication Jade.
"Lady Mo, what happened with the case of demonic cultivators and the Thousand Petals Hall?" Without beating around the bush, Tian Yongheng asked bluntly.
Hearing his question, Mo Yuxin was slightly disappointed before she answered, "Oh..don’t worry, fellow daoist Tian. Although my people still haven’t found any traces of the Thousand Petals Hall’s Liu Yufang, they have captured a demonic cultivator who attacked the Thousand Petals Hall that day. I’m sure we’ll soon know the true purpose of those demonic cultivators and Liu Yufang’s location."
"I see. I apologize for troubling you, but I wanted to know about this. Then, I won’t disturb you any further." Saying this, Tian Yongheng cut off his Spiritual Energy.
Mo Yuxin, who was about to say something, couldn’t help but put on a somewhat saddened expression on her face as she stood up to go outside and take in some fresh air.
...
8 years later.
Tian Yongheng stabilized his cultivation base as he looked at his status panel floating before him.
[Name: Tian Yongheng]
[Race: Mortal]
[Lifespan: 194/6,382]
[Cultivation: Second Stage of Golden Core Realm.]
[Constitution: Five-Elemental Divine Spiritual Physique.]
[Bloodline: Jade Pure Bloodline (Descendant of the Celestial Venerable of Primordial Beginning).]
[Innate Talent(s): Sword Heart, Primordial Meridians and Primordial Bones.]
Realizing that it took a whole 8 years for him to breakthrough a single minor realm, Tian Yongheng couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.
He still remembered that when he started his cultivation journey all those years ago, it took him 8 years to cultivate all the way from the Third Stage of Qi Condensation Realm to the peak of Qi Condensation Realm. Now, only a minor realm took this much time.
Even with the Spirit Qi and Providence of the Eternal Peak, it was getting harder for him to cultivate, his cultivation speed slowing down with each breakthrough.
But it was quite acceptable since the increase in lifespan, strength, and comprehension of the Dao was far greater than previous realms too. It was what Immortal Cultivation was all about.
Remembering that it usually took others hundreds of years to breakthrough even a single minor realm of the Golden Core Realm, he still felt somewhat better.
The path to Void Refinement Realm was cleared, and he set another milestone for himself.
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Breaking through to the Void Refinement Realm before reaching the age of 400!
Judging by his current cultivation speed, he could possibly breakthrough to the Void Refinement Realm within the next hundred years, before reaching the age of 300. But who knows if the later stages of Golden Core Realm were far more difficult than the current stages?
So just to be on the safer end, he set 400 years of age as the limit for breaking through to the Void Refinement Realm.
At this moment, a system prompt sounded in his mind, a blue screen appearing in front of him.
[Congratulations to the host for breaking through to the Second Stage of Golden Core Realm.]
[Obtained the Enigmatic Godly Stele.]
[Enigmatic Godly Stele: A stele portal that can be connected to any place under spacetime with a Dao Mark. No matter where it is, as long as there is a Dao Mark left behind by the host there, the stele will connect to that place and act as a portal between the place where the stele is located in and the place of Dao Mark. There can be as many Dao Marks as the host wants.
The size of the stele can be adjusted according to the host’s preferences.]
Reading the description of the Enigmatic Godly Stele, Tian Yongheng couldn’t help but be extremely surprised.
Isn’t it still too early for me to get this kind of treasure? And what is even a Dao Mark?
He had countless questions in his mind, but knowing that the system won’t answer them, he just chose to remain quiet and think about what to do with this overpowered treasure he had gotten.
It was really too great of a treasure for the current him to have, and he couldn’t help but think that if word of it got out, it may attract unprecedented trouble.
It had the power to traverse across all of spacetime!
It would definitely be coveted by many experts. Tian Yongheng dared to doubt that even Immortal Gods had access to such a treasure.
As for the Dao Mark, it was probably something he would get a hold of as he continues cultivating.
For now, he decided to not take out the Enigmatic Godly Stele out of the system space.
He wondered, if the stele portal can be used to travel to any place of spacetime where the Dao Mark is, can it also travel back to the place where it’s located at from the place of Dao Mark?
He would have to research it probably after knowing about this whole Dao Mark thing.
With this thought in mind, he continued to stabilize his cultivation base.
...
At the same time, in a place far away, seemingly located in another layer of spacetime, an endless grassland stretched out to tens of thousands of miles surrounded by mountains, forests, and rivers on all directions.
Mist surrounded the entire place as the artificial sun began to set, howling of different kinds of creatures occasionally echoing throughout the entire grassland.
Inside of a small crack located at the foot of a mountain rested Lu Qingfeng, his eyes slightly closed as he leaned against the wall of the crack.
He was currently in a secret realm which he had come to with a few other Acquired Realm cultivators more than 7 years ago. After entering the secret realm, they all went to search for their own opportunities and agreed to meet at a certain spot a year before the closing of the secret realm.
Their were all kinds of dangers and opportunities within this secret realm, and it was only reasonable that one must be cautious of everyone here. Thus, it was best to go solo.
The highest cultivation level allowed in this secret realm was the Ninth Stage of Acquired Realm, which was why Lu Qingfeng could dare to be so nonchalant.
His cultivation had reached the Third Stage of Acquired Realm in the past years, and he could fight against even opponents at the later stages of Acquired Realm.
Even right now, he had just killed a Demon Beast at the Fifth Stage of Acquired Realm because of a special material he found, but his Spiritual Energy was nearly fifty percent depleted from not just this fight, but also past conflicts, and he chose to recover for a few weeks before moving again.
He was not worried of being attacked as the crack at the foot of this mountain where he was resting at was not only quite small, only 10 or so meters in depth, but it was also surrounded by tall trees which made it hard for low level cultivators and Demon Beasts to find.
As for high level cultivators, he wasn’t afraid of them at all. As far as he knew, there were less than 20 people in the later stages of Acquired Realm who had entered.
He was already considered among the strongest here.
The Spirit Qi here was extremely dense, nearly ten times as much as in the outside world. Although not as much as the Eternal Peak, it was still way more suitable for him to cultivate here rather than the outside world.
He didn’t ran after treasures, but only picked up the ones that presented themselves to him. The rest of the time, he devoted it all to cultivation.
He was following his master’s philosophy!