"Yan, you acted too roughly, what a pity! A beautiful woman turns to white bones…"
Fang Han sighed.
However, "Yan" merely rolled his eyes at him, not listening to his nagging at all, and carefully observed this golden pill.
Three thousand six hundred years, a "divine power seed golden pill" was still bright all over, slowly floating in the air, spinning continuously. A mountain-like potential pressure bore down, causing Fang Han's body to lean back fiercely, and a crack appeared on another spirit artifact garment, feeling a sense of suffocation suppressed by the potential of this golden pill.
The astral aura within his body boiled, and it took great effort to calm it down.
He actually still had several spirit artifact level magic garments in the Yellow Spring Diagram, plundered by killing the Absolute Fate Island Master; if one broke, he would just change to another. Although a spirit artifact garment was highly precious and could be exchanged for many medicinal materials in the Wangui Sea Market, at a time like this, he did not care so much about it.
"This golden pill is truly powerful. I'm afraid the golden pills of Zhao Xuanyi and Song Weiyi were not even as powerful as this one." Fang Han felt the surges of latent strength from this golden pill and spoke in disbelief.
He had experienced the formidable power of the golden pills of the two great experts from the Taiyi Sect, which nearly smashed his body to pieces and chopped him into ten thousand pieces.
"Zhao Xuanyi and Song Weiyi are disciples of the Taiyi Sect, and the Dao techniques of the Taiyi Sect are unmatched in the world. Logically speaking, it is impossible for the Fire Cloud Fairy's golden pill to be more powerful than those of the Taiyi Sect." The demon girl retreated several steps before steadying her figure.
"Heh heh, the Fire Cloud Fairy is from the Linglong Blessed Land. Who created the Linglong Blessed Land? Linglong Immortal Venerable. She was once an expert of the Taiyi Sect, just rebelled, so aside from those top secret classics and ancient secret incantations, people from the Linglong Blessed Land know some of the Dao techniques of the Taiyi Sect. Tsk tsk, tsk tsk… I have sensed this golden pill, it contains a total of twenty-eight divine powers… Dragon Tiger Wind and Cloud Great Spell, Eternal Spring Great Spell, Praying for Blessing Great Spell, Destiny Calculation Technique, so formidable, such formidable divine powers as Black Sun Wind Disaster and Great Sun Fire Disaster are contained within, it is a pity that the Doomsday Natural Disaster is not among them. That is to be expected, the Doomsday Natural Disaster among the three disasters and nine calamities is hard to cultivate, it is a supreme divine power; once cultivated successfully and displayed, heaven and earth will grieve together, the sun and moon will weep, and natural disasters will descend… that power…"
Carefully analyzing the golden pill, "Yan" praised for a moment, and then shook his head for a moment.
Fang Han listened carefully to "Yan's" praises and actually heard quite a few principles.
"Can this divine power seed great golden pill be refined?" he asked. Since this golden pill was so powerful, if it could be refined by him, the power would be unimaginably great.
"You have not yet cultivated to the Heaven and Human Realm and cannot comprehend the profound mysteries of the great formations. Refining this divine power seed golden pill is impossible." "Yan" shook his head.
"So to speak, after I comprehend the profound mysteries of Heaven and Human and refine this golden pill, I could become a golden pill expert in one fell swoop?" There was a trace of excitement in Fang Han's tone.
"No, it would just be a pseudo golden pill. This golden pill belongs to someone else; the person's lifeblood and the spiritual imprint of their bitter cultivation are all inside here. If you refined it and made it your own golden pill, you could forget about stepping into the Longevity Secret Realm for the rest of your life. Cultivating a golden pill is a spiritual baptism, a process of life transformation; without this process, life is incomplete. Of course, if you refine it, your power will merely increase greatly. But your body will not have any changes, nor will it increase your lifespan. Only by condensing one's own essence! Energy! Spirit! Magic! Astral aura! all together into a lump, condensing a seed of divine power and life force, the body will undergo changes amid a high degree of transformation, thus increasing the lifespan once more!"
"Yan" spoke earnestly and tirelessly, as if deeply afraid that Fang Han would walk down an "evil path."
Fang Han suddenly realized: "So that is how it is! If I refined this golden pill, I could possess the power of a golden pill expert, but I would lose the possibility of eternal progress, nor would it increase my lifespan, which is equivalent to just obtaining a formidable magic treasure; this kind of thing is a stupid act of killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. But in that case, isn't it useless?"
"Of course it's useful, by contemplating this golden pill, you can obtain the refining and forging methods of twenty-eight divine powers! Moreover, after you cultivate to the Heaven and Human Realm, you and I can join forces and use the Yellow Spring Holy Water to slowly break down this golden pill, reverting it to original astral aura, and then you can absorb these astral auras to cultivate, turning them into your own divine powers! Finally, using the Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Power as the core and the other divine powers as auxiliaries, you can cultivate a natal divine power seed stronger than this golden pill; this is the best method to steal the golden pill's power!"
"Yan" truly lived up to being a several-thousand-year-old antique, pointing out a clear path.
Fang Han's eyes lit up! "That's right! This way I will have cultivated twenty-eight divine powers! It will be incredibly formidable! The more divine powers one cultivates, the stronger the golden pill condensed in the future will be!"
Undoubtedly, the more divine powers a person cultivated, the more formidable they would be.
However, a person's lifespan had a limit, and every kind of divine power required countless amounts of time to successfully cultivate. For example, the Wood Emperor Technique Fang Han cultivated, following the prescribed order, would require at least thirty to fifty years, or as long as a full sixty-year cycle, to cultivate successfully.
He was able to accomplish it so rapidly only by relying on the "Heavenly Wood Divine Needle" and the "World Tree," these two supreme treasures among the wood attribute, treasures that could only be encountered by chance and not sought for.
In the future, if he wanted to cultivate the Fire Emperor Energy and absorb the essence of flames, he would have to find similar treasures to shorten the time.
Otherwise, every kind of divine power would require bitter cultivation of thirty to fifty years, a sixty-year cycle. Before the divine powers were successfully cultivated, one would die of old age. Ordinary experts of the Divine Power Secret Realm, with a lifespan of two or three hundred years, had no hope of cultivating to the golden pill. Precisely because of this, pills that increased lifespan were the supreme treasures of heaven and earth.
Nothing was more important than lifespan.
And if Fang Han cultivated to the Heaven and Human Realm, broke down this golden pill, contemplated all twenty-eight divine powers inside, and then condensed them one by one according to the methods, having the ready-made astral aura from the golden pill, condensing them would simply be a matter of course.
Among the twenty-eight divine powers, there were also formidable supreme profound sect great spells like "Black Sun Wind Disaster" and "Great Sun Fire Disaster." In the future, they would all belong to Fang Han.
"Being forced into the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion this time, as long as I can get out… I will definitely take my revenge! Taiyi Sect, Hua Tiandu, I will not let you off…"
Watching "Yan" store this golden pill away into the Yellow Spring Diagram, Fang Han also put the "Suzaku Flag" into his bag.
This "Suzaku Flag" contained intense flame essence, which could be used when he cultivated to the Heaven and Human Realm to refine the Red Emperor Fire Emperor Energy.
Otherwise, there was no flame energy inside this great hall, and even if he wanted to cultivate it, there would be no place to do so.
The "Suzaku Flag" was much more powerful than the "Heavenly Wood Divine Needle"; using it to cultivate the Fire Emperor Energy would definitely yield twice the result with half the effort, vastly saving time.
Having obtained such a huge fortuitous encounter, Fang Han did not linger, and continued to search among some skeletal remains, but this time he did not find any treasures, nor did he find the golden pill of any golden pill level expert.
Perhaps some golden pill experts had entered a hundred years ago, or several hundred years ago, and had also been trapped to death here. But several hundred years ago outside was tens of thousands of years, or even a hundred thousand years in here; experts of the Longevity Secret Realm had died of old age, the immortal golden pills had melted away, and any treasured artifacts had turned to flying ash.
Time was the best great smelting furnace, capable of refining all matter and rotting all existence.
Between heaven and earth, no one lived forever.
After searching for half a day and turning over all the skeletal remains in the area, there were still no gains. Fang Han then quietly sat down, adjusted the magic power within his body, and absorbed the Immortal World spiritual energy from the World Tree.
He calmed his mind to cultivate.
Regardless of whether he could get out in the future or not, he would cultivate first; the stronger his cultivation, the greater the certainty of getting out. Since there was food and drink, he would just make the best of things.
Fang Han's state of mind was very good.
"Right, Yan! Refine all the over one hundred thousand Heavenly Demons in the Five Hells King Cauldron into Biluo Great Pills!" Right before starting his adjustment, Fang Han suddenly said.
"What?" Yan could not understand.
"I have Immortal World spiritual energy to absorb, but she doesn't!" Fang Han pointed at the demon girl, "What if I cultivate here for a few decades and she has nothing to eat or drink, won't she starve to death? Great Asuras can go without eating for a few months, but not eating for a few years will definitely be the end of them. Besides, she also needs to cultivate."
"So that's how it is… You considered this quite thoroughly…" Yan glanced at the demon girl and let out a weird "heh heh" laugh.
The expression on the demon girl's face shifted for a moment, and she bowed to Fang Han to express her gratitude, "Many thanks, young master…" This was her formal acknowledgment of being Fang Han's servant girl.
A burst of ghostly wailing and divine howling echoed through the great hall; the Five Hells King Cauldron was entirely activated, and the Yellow Spring Diagram turned into rolling yellow clouds and rushed into the King Cauldron. Subsequently, Biluo Great Pills violently spewed out one by one, numbering a full over one hundred thousand pills!
If someone were to see such a pill-refining scene, they would probably be so shocked that they would bite their own tongues off.
When the Yellow Spring Diagram cooperated with the Five Hells King Cauldron, it actually possessed such an effect.
The King Cauldron lost the power of the over one hundred thousand Heavenly Demons and quieted down.
Fang Han nodded, completely at ease now, closed his eyes, and circulated his magic power over and over, flowing it to his whole body, and then step by step merging the Immortal World spiritual energy, absorbing the wood spiritual energy of the World Tree, repeatedly tempering the "Wood Emperor Astral Aura" in his mind, and harmonizing Yin and Yang.
His astral aura had now reached major accomplishment, reaching the pinnacle and summit of the third layer of divine powers, the "Origin Astral Realm." The next step was to refine the astral aura to be fully imbued with spirituality, comprehend the changes of Yin and Yang, and reach the fourth layer of divine powers, the "Yin-Yang Realm."
This step required movement born out of stillness to comprehend the profound mysteries. The mere piling up of pills and accumulation of vitality no longer worked; what was needed was concentration, perceptive capability, fortuitous chances, experience… things that could only be understood but not conveyed in words.
Fang Han sat quietly like this, clear inside and out, illuminating each other, entirely oblivious to the passage of time…
Several months passed just like this…
The astral aura continuously circulated for three months, becoming increasingly agile, and exceedingly profound. But he was always unable to comprehend the change of Yin and Yang, unable to make the astral aura suddenly turn spiritual, spawn wisdom, and follow his heart's desires. Fang Han felt that the thin layer of window paper, seemingly there and yet not there, was always impossible to open.
But he was not anxious; whenever circulating his astral aura led to a feeling of anxiety and impatience, he would stop circulating, stand up, pace around the great hall, and observe this grand and majestic Taiyuan Immortal Mansion.
He did not dare to forcefully barge into some of the sealed stone gates deep within the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion, but inside the immortal mansion, he looked at many carvings, textures, pictures, and the entire architectural style during his leisure time, gradually comprehending some things in his heart.
The cave dwelling, methods, and styles of a primordial Longevity Secret Realm expert, a person who had become an immortal… these things also broadened his knowledge considerably; his mind expanded, and a feeling of reverence spontaneously arose.
Observing the passage of time, he comprehended the changes of chronology.
Observing the piles of white bones, he comprehended the impermanence of life and death.
Observing the magnificent halls, he comprehended the methods of immortals…
Another year passed… Although Fang Han still had not comprehended the fourth layer, the Yin-Yang Realm, he had combed through the Green Emperor Wood Emperor Technique from beginning to end once more.
Although a year had passed inside the hall, Fang Han knew that in the outside world, only one day had actually passed.