Encountering Xingyun Baobao was an accident.
Xingyun Baobao possessing the "Sun Moon Five Stars Bracelet" on his body was even more of an accident. The starlight within the Sun Moon Five Stars Bracelet was refined Pure Yang astral power. Altering one's innate bones, sculpting the physical form, and exchanging blood and marrow were its special efficacies.
Although Fang Han was unwilling to swindle this bracelet, using this bracelet to practice cultivation was still permissible. Right now, the astral power within his body was surging and settling into his bones, unexpectedly faintly merging with the Yama Golden Body, pushing his physical strength up another level. This was an excellent opportunity for a breakthrough; if missed, it would be difficult to find again in the future.
"This Xingyun Baobao is quite my lucky star. Perhaps my breakthrough into the Divine Ability Realm really rests upon him."
Within the demoness's castle, it was very quiet, with no one to disturb him.
After Crane Fairy consumed the pill, it went to sleep. Xingyun Baobao laid on a soft blood wolf skin cushion, sleeping soundly. His whole body was round and plump, just like a newborn fleshy rat. This child had no scheming mind at all, innocent and guileless, at ease in whatever circumstances he met, which made Fang Han extremely envious.
However, as people grew up and gained wisdom, troubles also increased accordingly; it was impossible to return to the innocent age and state of mind of a child.
As for Princess Hongyi, she also found a room by herself and went to cultivate.
In any case, they had pills and True Water Talismans, so they did not worry about eating or drinking. They even had Clean Clothes Talismans to cleanse their bodies and keep them away from filth. Once they went into closed-door cultivation, they could close themselves off for one or two months to concentrate on cultivating. This was also an advantage of the Yuhua Sect; without pills and talismans, in the mortal world, one would still have to cook, wash clothes, eat, drink, and relieve themselves, which was very vexing and wasted time.
The Sun Moon Five Stars Bracelet was now in Fang Han's hands.
"Pure Yang is boundless… The essence of heaven and earth wanders in the unseen, a hundred ghosts open for business, expelling the dark and gloomy, forever preserving health and peace…"
Streaks of starlight emanated from the bracelet and flowed into the Yellow Springs Diagram. "Yan" swallowed the Pure Yang astral power in large mouthfuls to replenish its original qi.
Although it could not directly swallow the bracelet, absorbing the Pure Yang original qi to cultivate and consolidate its realm allowed Yan to still benefit immensely. After all, the Pure Yang astral power within this bracelet was inexhaustible, vast as the sea. At the very least, it was a treasure refined over a cycle of sixty years by more than ten Great Elders of the Astral Sect. How immense was the condensed astral power?
Ordinary astral power contained far too many impurities and could not be refined purely. Forcibly absorbing it would easily cause one's body to explode and die, being harmful rather than beneficial to a person. However, the astral power in this Sun Moon Five Stars Bracelet had undergone thousands of temperings and hundredfold refinements, and then through the transformation of the Nine Yang Divine Water, it was finally refined until all negative dregs were gone, leaving only the singular Pure Yang.
This bracelet, lent by Xingyun Baobao to Fang Han for cultivation, had its mental restrictions lifted. Fang Han was actually able to slightly utilize the original qi within it, but he could not use it for self-defense or confronting enemies.
Pfft!
The flood dragon Yan absorbed the Pure Yang astral power in large mouthfuls. Its entire body took on a faint color of starlight, and it directly spewed the excess astral power onto the ten slumbering Asuras.
Absorbing the astral power, the ten Asuras became even more lustrous all over. This Pure Yang astral power could develop their wisdom, stimulate their potential, and even allow them to possess enough energy without consuming pills for many days.
Fang Han did not care how Yan cultivated either. In short, the stronger Yan's power became, the more hope he had of defeating Hua Tiandu.
Hua Tiandu currently stood towering like a massive mountain. Without toppling this massive mountain, he could forget about having any achievements. This was his greatest enemy at present, and simultaneously the most terrifying enemy.
Even though this enemy regarded him as a tiny ant and did not take him to heart.
But he did not know that this tiny ant was gradually growing stronger, showing a trend of metamorphosing into an elephant.
"Having cultivated the Yama Golden Body, I have already reached the limits of the Physical Body Realm. This time, I will use the stars to temper my body and catalyze my physical form, bringing me up to another height!"
The pill furnace in front of him was precisely the furnace the Great Asura demoness used for refining pills. Experts of the Divine Ability Realm naturally knew how to refine pills. Fang Han now borrowed this pill furnace to quench his body.
Wearing the "Sun Moon Five Stars Bracelet," Fang Han took off his clothes and jumped into the pill furnace, which was entirely filled with Yellow Springs Water. With a swoosh, beneath the pill furnace, a raging inferno burned endlessly. It was actually not earth fire, nor the true fire of the sun, but the true fire detonated from three Dharma crystal jades.
This was Dharmic power fire!
Using Dharma crystal jades as fuel for a pill furnace, directly burning Dharmic power—this kind of extravagant behavior would invite severe scolding even from True Disciples of the Yuhua Sect for reckless waste of heavenly treasures.
But this time, Fang Han had obtained hundreds of crystal stones, making a windfall. For the sake of his own cultivation, he could no longer afford to care. As long as he could step into the Divine Ability Realm, he would not hesitate even if he burned all of these crystal stones.
Hiss hiss!
The moment he entered the pill furnace, wrapped all over in the Water of Forgetting Love, Fang Han was scalded so much that his whole body shuddered. The fire burning from the crystal stones was far fiercer than heavenly fire or earth fire, stimulating his mind to be entirely enveloped by intense emotions of agony.
Endless limits of pain swamped his spiritual will.
If a woman giving birth was the greatest pain in the world, then Fang Han's current pain was ten times, or even a hundred times greater than a woman giving birth.
This was the might of the Dharma fire from the burning crystal stones.
"Ah!" Ah ah ah ah!
Even Fang Han could not hold back, letting out low roars like a wounded beast.
The pale golden skin of the "Yama Golden Body" was continuously being scalded. Subsequently, the Sun Moon Five Stars Bracelet he wore endlessly emitted astral power to repair his skin. Gradually, the power within his body and the astral power completely quenched together, and the endless limits of pain in his mind were forcefully suppressed by him, transforming once more into clear winds and floating clouds.
At this moment, the "Sun Moon Five Stars Bracelet" was like a supreme spirit pill, the same kind of spirit pill as the Nine Orifices Golden Pill and the Yin-Yang Ten Thousand Life Pill. It unceasingly replenished powerful Pure Yang original qi for Fang Han, helping him maintain his life and repair his body, while simultaneously condensing his body to be even more compact and solid.
"Using Dharma fire to burn, increasing the pain, forcing a metamorphosis to step into the Divine Ability Realm… He is truly ruthless enough." Yan stopped absorbing the astral power and observed Fang Han's every movement. It knew just how intense the agony of tempering the body with Dharma fire was; it was simply not something a human could endure.
"But he must be this ruthless to be worthy of inheriting the Demon Emperor's orthodox lineage. This time I will not help him, I will just observe quietly. He already has an independent will. If I interfere again, I'm afraid it will backfire. If he didn't have the Sun Moon Five Stars Bracelet, he would need one to three years of accumulation, but with this Pure Yang magical treasure, perhaps there is a chance…"
"Yama Son of Heaven! The Moral Order of the Underworld! The Pass of the Ghost Gate! Life and Death are Impermanent! Peacefully enduring, unmoving like the great earth; meditating deeply and densely like a secret treasury. The so-called Earth Treasury, the Asura Senluo, the doors of Black and White… Divine Ability! Divine Ability! Divine Ability!"
At this moment, Fang Han devoted his whole heart and mind, borrowing the power of the Sun Moon Five Stars Bracelet to temper his body and condense his spirit. Those cultivation methods of the Yama Golden Body flowed out passage by passage, as if they were the longest, most profound and esoteric incantation secrets from primordial antiquity.
Every incantation was the pronunciation method of the Heavenly Dragon Eight Tones and the Noble Aura Long Song—sometimes domineering, sometimes concentrated, imbued with all his spirit.
In the end, all his incantations summarized into two words: Divine Ability!
He roared "Divine Ability" three times! Shaking the castle until it trembled.