Chapter 953: Cultivating the Undying (Seeking Monthly Votes at Month's End)
Three Realms Mountain.
What was originally the domain divided among the human, yao, and demon races has now been entirely incorporated into the human race's territory.
However, boundless dangers still lingered across those numerous battlefields.
Furthermore, the remnants left behind by fallen experts of the human, yao, and demon races made it a place where danger and opportunity coexisted. To this day, it has even become a renowned perilous land within the human territories, attracting generations of cultivators to risk life and limb exploring it.
On this particular day.
With a flash of silver light.
Fang Xi's figure appeared directly within the Three Realms Mountain.
"This place. . . is indeed favored by destiny."
He stood with his hands behind his back, a cloud of verdant Qi of Myriad Woods condensing into a cyan auspicious cloud above his head, within which five-colored archaic script ceaselessly churned.
Alas, Fang Xi, amidst the auspicious cloud, possessed an air of being impervious to all tribulations. Regardless of how the power of laws enveloped him, he remained as unshakable as a mountain.
At this moment, in his eyes, all things in the world were decomposed into their most fundamental primal qi.
At the dawn of primordial chaos, all things were formless yet coalesced!
The Earthly Immortal World was like a primordial egg, grand and vast.
Yet, its core nexus, its central axis, lay precisely at the junction of the human, yao, and demon races!
"From here, it would be easiest to refine the world's origin!"
"From this perspective, the human, yao, and demon races were truly blessed by heaven, directly choosing this region as their ancestral land, thus enjoying profound destiny and lasting fortune. . . and ceaselessly vying for the Three Realms Mountain, seeking to become the sole and eternal overlord. . ."
As an Earthly Immortal, Fang Xi's perspective on matters was different.
After a brief measurement of the land, he located a particular spot within the Three Realms Mountain.
"As stated in the 'Earthly Immortal Undying Method', the Dragon-Seeking, Acupoint-Locating method designated this very spot. . ."
Fang Xi stood atop a hill resembling a blade's edge, muttering, "It's just that I don't know how long this secret method will take to succeed. . . I still need to be a bit more cautious."
Not long after, a golden light flashed across the sky, revealing none other than the Shinto avatar, the 'East Florescence Supreme Profound True Endless Green Great Emperor'!
Although this avatar had always secluded itself, suppressing its Daoization, it had also reached a critical juncture.
Fang Xi gazed at the avatar, his brow involuntarily furrowing.
In his perception, what stood before him was no longer a Shinto avatar, but a radiant mass as clear as water. Through this layer of radiance, one seemed capable of directly seeing the Earthly Immortal World's mountains and rivers, plains and swamps, even its myriad immortal races, the myriad forms of the human world, and the countless mortals. . .
And even the stars across the sky, the Yin and Yang, the Two Principles, Three Powers, Four Symbols, Five Elements, Six Harmonies, Seven Stars, Eight Trigrams, Nine Palaces. . .
"Heavenly Emperor. . ."
Fang Xi murmured, knowing that the Shinto avatar's Daoization had reached an extreme point.
Had he not suppressed it so painstakingly, merely a single thought might have allowed it to ascend to the position of 'Heavenly Emperor'!
"'Is it because the human race has become the overlord of the Earthly Immortal World? '"
"'The faith of billions of mortals and cultivators. . . almost doomed the Shinto avatar beyond redemption. '"
"'Fortunately, I obtained the 'Three Pure Ones Converge into One' secret art this time, allowing me to forcefully reclaim a trace of my divine soul. . . '"
He murmured, then a point of light flickered in his hand, transforming into a palace of luminous jade.
This palace was grand and vast, with rising clouds and countless rays of light surrounding it—it was precisely the 'Fang Xian Dao Palace'!
As a cave-heaven type immortal artifact, this item was exceptionally precious, even in the True Immortal World.
Now, as Fang Xi handed it to the Shinto avatar, no words were needed between them.
The Shinto avatar immediately controlled the Fang Xian Dao Palace, traveling to various locations within the Three Realms Mountain. From within the Fang Xian Dao Palace, it retrieved various formation tools, and even used its own divine authority to alter the flow of mountains and rivers, converging the heaven-earth dragon veins to forge a ninth-stage formation!
Not long after.
Cultivators traversing the Three Realms Mountain were horrified to discover that the spatial void near the Three Realms Mountain inexplicably fluctuated, beginning to grow unstable.
Arcs of faint white light emerged in the void—these were spatial rifts, which even Return to Void and Void Amalgamation cultivators would avoid if they encountered them!
Innumerable spatial rifts, dense and myriad, almost filled the Three Realms Mountain both inside and out.
The closer one approached the interior of the Three Realms Mountain, the more spatial fissures appeared, even moving swiftly and triggering terrifying spatial storms!
This phenomenon naturally immediately attracted many adventurous cultivators to explore, but Fang Xi had no intention of being courteous to them.
Humans die for wealth, birds die for food – all cultivators who ventured into the Three Realms Mountain vanished without a trace, including even several Void Amalgamation cultivators!
This terrifying loss finally alarmed the human Mahayana cultivators!
When Mo Yunzi arrived in person and conducted an investigation, he explained it as a heaven-earth anomaly, with a rare 'regional Realm Descent' occurring in the Three Realms Mountain and its surrounding area!
Perhaps one day, this place would be completely torn apart by spatial storms, or a piece of land would be severed and entirely submerged into the void, becoming a peculiar place like Trapped Sky Island.
From then on, the Three Realms Mountain became a widely renowned perilous land for the human race, and this reputation even persisted for decades, centuries, millennia. . .
Later on, even novices among cultivators knew that the Three Realms Mountain was an ominous place, where cultivators would surely die upon entering, and they shunned it ever since. . .
Deep within the Three Realms Mountain, a palace floated amidst the clouds, bathed in morning glow and evening shadows, its aura magnificent, with auspicious qi descending in countless strands, grand and vast.
Beneath the Fang Xian Dao Palace, two figures sat cross-legged.
Fang Xi formed hand seals, his 'Three Pure Ones Converge into One' secret art having reached its final stage.
Across from him, the figure of the Shinto avatar, the 'East Florescence Supreme Profound True Endless Green Great Emperor', was already almost illusory.
"Disperse!"
Fang Xi's fingers flew, finally condensing into a single seal that he struck into the Shinto avatar's body.
The Shinto avatar smiled faintly, and seven-colored radiance overflowed from its body.
Numerous rays of light merged, then purified into a single color – a translucent white light!
Gradually. . .
The white light grew increasingly transparent, causing the Shinto avatar's body to likewise turn incorporeal.
Only a single point of spiritual light flickered, and a jade-like divine Shinto edict and an earth-yellow bead fell from the air, drawn by Fang Xi's gesture into his Earthly Immortal Spiritual Realm.
"The Divine Dao Emperor's Edict. . . I'll consider using it later, depending on the situation. And this Mountain Orb."
Fang Xi looked at the Mountain Orb. This orb originally came from the remnants of a Void Amalgamation foreign race, being its core essence, naturally suitable for refining an avatar.
Now, having been used by the Shinto Emperor avatar as its anchor, refined for tens of thousands of years, and imbued day and night with the power of Mahayana Shinto, its quality was exceedingly high, reaching the peak of eighth-stage, even approaching ninth-stage!
"Theoretically, it can almost serve as a material for refining an earth-attribute immortal artifact. . ."
"If I truly can't find that earth-attribute immortal flying sword in the end, I could try using this to forge a makeshift one. . ."
Behind Fang Xi, his primordial spirit, resembling a full moon, emerged, and the Ancestor Demonic Tree unfurled.
The Divine Dao Emperor avatar originally contained only a trace of the Outer Dao Incarnation's split soul, but after so many years, it had been cultivated to completely surpass the Outer Dao Incarnation.
Furthermore, by reclaiming the last trace of the split-off divine soul, Fang Xi's primordial spirit truly became complete, continuously radiating brilliant light!
"Indeed, a complete divine soul and a singular true spirit. . . are immensely beneficial for Earthly Immortal cultivation."
Feeling the changes in his primordial spirit, a hint of joy appeared on Fang Xi's face.
Following this, he sat cross-legged, and the incantations and various cautionary notes of the 'Earthly Immortal Undying Method' he had previously comprehended flowed slowly through his mind like a clear mountain stream.
Fang Xi sat in quiet meditation for nine days, his hands suddenly beginning to form seals swiftly.
One after another, strange immortal mansion secret seals appeared, like countless butterflies, fluttering in all directions and merging into the void.
Whoosh!
Outside, the wind, rain, and thunder instantly grew violent, but the auspicious cloud formed from the Qi of Myriad Woods, like a verdant spiritual ganoderma, shielded Fang Xi's head, excluding all worldly interference.
After eighty-one such days.
Fang Xi suddenly rose, his primordial spirit emerging, and a sweep of clear, water-like magic power washed over the land, purifying it.
Behind him, the Ancestor Demonic Tree tattoo quickly wriggled, and then an Ancestor Demonic Tree seed emerged, falling onto the earth.
Strands of the Qi of Myriad Woods infused into it, and an Ancestor Demonic Tree sapling immediately burst from the soil, rapidly devouring the world's primal qi.
Fang Xi's primordial spirit was anchored in the void, perceiving all heaven-earth changes, and seemed to merge with the Ancestor Demonic Tree.
Countless roots continuously extended downwards, seemingly wanting to pierce the earth's core, to reach the true world origin, and even the most crucial 'Heaven's Heart Imprint'!
Rumble!
The heavens and earth suddenly quaked.
At this moment, countless birds, beasts, even desolate beasts, and cultivators near the Three Realms Mountain. . . all living beings suddenly turned their heads, looking towards the Three Realms Mountain with a hint of inexplicable hatred and revulsion in their eyes!
"The refinement of the world's origin has begun. . ."
Gazing at the rapidly growing Ancestor Demonic Tree sapling, Fang Xi sat cross-legged, silently circulating his cultivation.
Achieving the 'Earthly Immortal Undying Method' was not a feat accomplished overnight; it was entirely possible for it to take decades, centuries, or even thousands or tens of thousands of years!
Moreover, during the cultivation process, one was bound to face backlash from the heavens and earth!
An Earthly Immortal with slightly worse luck could even perish directly!
"According to the descriptions in the 'Earthly Immortal Undying Method', the world's reaction is slowest at this point, as the refinement of the world's origin has just begun. . . This should be considered the first stage."
As Fang Xi meditated, numerous thoughts swiftly flashed through his mind: "In this stage, the heavens and earth should favor those who oppose me, namely the foreign races and the demon and yao races! Starting today, these races might continuously produce outstanding individuals with incredibly superior spiritual roots, or even innate spiritual bodies! Not only that, but the experts of these foreign races will also be blessed by the Earthly Immortal World's destiny, making their tribulations easier to pass, and they might even discover the cave-heavens of predecessors, encountering opportunities repeatedly, even giving birth to true 'Sons of Destiny'. . ."
"This is the greatest trial for the human race!"
"Then comes the second stage: anyone who opposes me will receive the world's blessings, even human cultivators. . . In the end, I might find myself an enemy of the entire world! There's no helping it."
Fang Xi knew that after refining the world, it would be akin to holding the life and death destinies of all living beings in this realm completely within his grasp.
He could even strip a Mahayana cultivator of their cultivation with a single word, causing them to fall in realm, or directly elevate a low-level cultivator to any realm below Mahayana!
Such power, akin to that of a 'Creator', would naturally provoke furious opposition from all beings in the world!
And in the final stage, the three tribulations of heaven, earth, and human would erupt simultaneously, facing who knows how many hardships, obstacles, and inconceivable calamities. . .
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