Chapter 208: Chapter 207 Five Elements Fruit Tree (Seeking Subscriptions) _1
Ever since he planted the Demonic Beast Tree, Fang Xi’s range of movement had been restricted; he could only loiter around the Evergreen Pavilion area.
Fortunately, he adapted well to this kind of life, spending his days meditating, pondering the Four Arts of Cultivation, or even playing games with the two maidservants in a relaxed and joyful manner.
As for Ruan Xingling’s progress, Fang Xi hadn’t been paying much attention. Due to the insufficient power of the "Nine Nether Profound Wood Array," he hadn’t recklessly transmitted the Core Formation secret technique, waiting for the right opportunity instead.
In the blink of an eye, seven or eight years passed...
...
Fragment World.
"Mirror Mirror... I’ve already refined the third-grade ’Vertical Ground Golden Light Talisman’, this time I’ll definitely give the three Witch Kings of the Tribe of Five Elements a run for their money..."
Danya, dressed in a beast skin robe revealing her long legs, spoke to the bronze mirror shard in her hand.
Fang Xi’s Divine Consciousness had been paying attention to this place all along, and he was surprised by her words.
Although Danya was comparable to a Core Formation elder, the speed at which she grasped Chen Ping’s talisman teachings and refined the ’Vertical Ground Golden Light Talisman’ truly demonstrated her exceptional talent and remarkable flair in the art of talisman crafting.
"Mirror Mirror... Why must you contain the Metal Spirit Patterned Treasure Pattern?"
Danya voiced her troubles to the bronze mirror shard: "The Tribe of Five Elements is too powerful..."
Now that she had become a third-grade Talisman Master, through the aid of the third-grade talismans she refined, she already had the upper hand over any Witch King in a solo fight.
Not to mention, she was also cultivating the "Five Extremities Primordial Demon Skill."
But the Tribe of Five Elements was different!
In the City of Five Elements, there are three mighty Witch Kings! The force is incredibly powerful!
Danya kept complaining: "Before long... the Hundred-Year Heavenly Demon Catastrophe is about to start, but I still haven’t condensed the Demon Core... It’s just that the part about Core Formation in the cultivation technique supposedly uses Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects to aid in Core Formation... I’ve searched high and low, only finding ’Mysterious Water Crystal’ and ’Heavenly Fire Liuli’, still lacking a bit of certainty..."
Fang Xi listened and rolled his eyes inwardly.
’Mysterious Water Crystal’ is the crystallization of Mysterious Water Essence, far surpassing the effects of Mysterious Water Essence. Combined with Heavenly Fire Liuli, which is recognized in the Cultivation World as an excellent aid for Core Formation, and employing the ’Water and Fire Refining Golden Pill’ technique, it is enough to increase the chance of Core Formation by twenty to thirty percent... This Danya, she doesn’t know how blessed she is... No, that’s not right, this secret realm is truly rich in resources...’
During this time, Fang Xi also followed Danya through many places in the secret realm, aware that not only is the spiritual energy here abundant, there are many natural wonders, places where the essence of heaven and earth converges, often giving birth to many rare treasures and exotic objects.
However, most of these places favored by heaven and earth’s essence are actually sacred grounds of the Shaman Race!
No wonder the Sky Demons that descend every hundred years target them.
’It seems... the Shamans are not only livestock raised but also serve to guard spiritual objects?’
Fang Xi pondered to himself.
"I’ve heard... in the sacred land of the Tribe of Five Elements, there is a Five-Colors Fruit Tree, which is the Tribe’s holy tree... The fruits it bears can aid the Big Shaman in refining Spirit Marks into Treasure Patterns and breakthrough to the Witch King realm... If I could obtain a holy fruit, perhaps my condensing of the Demon Core would be almost certain..."
Danya prattled on.
The more Fang Xi listened, the more puzzled he became, ’A Five-Colors Fruit Tree? The fruits have the effect of aiding Foundation Establishment in breaking through to Core Formation? Could it be... the legendary fourth-grade Heaven and Earth Spiritual Root—the Five Elements Fruit Tree?! The fruits of this tree, also known as ’Gold Core Pills,’ can aid cultivators with Five Elements Spiritual Roots in Core Formation, increasing their chances by thirty to forty percent!’
’Damn... why can’t I traverse this world?’
He felt incredibly envious in his heart but was helpless.
Moreover, even if Fang Xi managed to travel here, facing the sacred land of the Tribe of Five Elements guarded by three Witch Kings would still be an impossible challenge.
"The Tribe of Five Elements’ Great Witch King is a fool, stubbornly clinging to ancient rules and not letting go. When the Sky Demon descends in the future, it’ll surely attack their sacred lands!"
Danya continued to grumble with dissatisfaction.
Each time the Sky Demons descend, the sacred lands of the Shamans in the city-states are the hardest hit areas!
But many of the Witch Kings of the large tribes strictly adhere to ancient rules and refuse to unite, even rejecting her suggestions for the exchange of cultivation techniques and talismans—they are just a bunch of old bigots!
Fang Xi listened with a sense of alarm.
’Something’s not right... The Witch Kings can’t be that foolish... Perhaps it’s a bloody lesson left by their ancestors... Once united too powerfully, it makes them even more susceptible to danger?’
’Danya... Could it be she died too early in the past life? Lacking in this aspect of the heritage?’
’This... Oh no... Did I perhaps over-feed Danya a bit?’
...
"This Danya, not knowing the blessings within her grasp..."
Within the Evergreen Pavilion, Fang Xi opened his eyes with a wry smile.
He had seen the Black Clay Tribe’s sacred land, brought there by Danya, where copious third-grade Spiritual Trees grew.
Most of them were Vermilion Fruit Trees!
And the Vermilion Fruit Tree at the core of the sacred land, with at least a few thousand years to its name, had grown into a precious fourth-grade Spirit Plant!
Vermillion Fruits are rare treasures of heaven and earth, eating them raw can even increase magic power, and they come without any toxicity.
Danya, using the hundred-year-old Vermilion Fruits around as snacks, naturally progressed rapidly in her cultivation.
In a short period, she leaped through stages like Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and reached the full magic power realm of Foundation Establishment!
It’s just that the ’Thousand-Year Red Fruit’ at the center, which she most craved, remained out of reach.
According to tribal rumor, near the Thousand-Year Vermilion Fruit Tree, there is a powerful force guarding it. Only when the Sky Demon causes chaos, will there be warriors who can break through that barrier and pluck the fruits.
In Fang Xi’s opinion, a strong prohibition was cast, one that could only be unlocked every century!
After all, it would be good enough for a pack of dogs to eat some leftovers, how could they even dream of consuming the best?
"That major force that set the prohibition, to have the Prohibition Law open once every hundred years, is it perhaps to train their disciples? To compete with the Shaman Race for opportunities? If they fail and the Shaman Race seizes the opportunity, they only have themselves to blame?"
"It’s more like the style of a major Demon Path sect..."
"The centennial Sky Demon Tribulation is approaching, I hope Danya doesn’t encounter any trouble... Huh? If Danya is killed, and as a spoil of war I am picked up by a Demon Path disciple, wouldn’t that mean... I could follow the Demon Path disciple out of the Secret Realm?"
Fang Xi suddenly felt somewhat conflicted.
In the end, he was still just a tarnished mirror...
"How could I truly bridge the two worlds, instead of just communicating?"
Fang Xi admitted, he was envious.
Even if he couldn’t obtain the Five Elements Tree fruit known as ’Gold Core Pill,’ the "Mysterious Water Crystal" and "Heavenly Fire Liuli" were also not bad at all!
Having cultivated his Wood Attribute cultivation technique to perfection at the Foundation Establishment stage, he already had a certain probability of reaching Core Formation. If he also cultivated the Wood Physique, he should have a four to five out of ten chance!
Adding on the two spiritual objects associated with ’Water and Fire Refining Golden Pill,’ that chance would reach seven or eight out of ten!
Even the Nascent Soul sect’s Golden Core seed candidates might not have such luxury for Core Formation.
"Alas... it’s visible, but out of reach..."
"No matter, I still have plenty of time, I’ll take it slow... The last experiment, at the very least, proved that Core Formation magic power is somewhat effective on the Fragment World."
"Maybe... the magic power of a Nascent Soul cultivator? Forget it... that’s a bit dangerous... but also not too high..."
"According to the first communication with the ’Treasures of All Heavens,’ aside from me, no one can refine this object... If forced to refine it, at least an immortal from the legends would be able to, right?"
...
As Fang Xi thought, he held a small black wood seal in his hand and walked out of the closed-door cultivation room.
In his hands, of course, was a fledgling magical treasure carved from the ancestor of the Demon Tree’s spirit materials — the prototype of the ’Green Wood Seal.’
Over the years, having specialized and practiced in the art of Seal and Talisman forging, his own Talisman forging skill had reached the beginner level, and he had carved a prototype from the original spirit material.
Just this alone was still only the initial part.
Next, it required daily polishing and refining with magic power... to bond it with the cultivator’s Divine Consciousness, and then he could use the ’Treasure Planting Jue’ to plant the magical treasure’s prototype into the internal part of a corresponding Spiritual Root, allowing it to carve and perfect itself alongside the growth of the Spiritual Tree...
Among the many forging methods, Fang Xi chose the most stable one — ’Sun Moon Refining Skills.’
This talisman forging method was quite unorthodox, essentially trading a long period of time for a stable success rate.
Simply put, it meant maintaining a daily routine of handling it for a while...
At this moment, this small black wood seal was already polished by Fang Xi into a somewhat proper shape; at least it looked like a seal, but the carving on the handle was still a blur, unclear what had been carved there.
Moreover, on the surface of the Four-square seal, there was a layer of smooth patina, nearly shining with a gloss, clearly from years of handling.
"Young master has come out of seclusion?"
As Fang Xi left the closed-door cultivation room, Yan Hongxue, who was cleaning inside the Evergreen Pavilion, looked up and saw a young man in a blue robe with a handsome face, exuding a vitality of sprouting life in all things, casually playing with a small seal in his hand as he walked over, causing people’s hearts to skip a beat upon seeing him.
"Hmm, has anything happened outside while this young master was in seclusion?"
Fang Xi sat down and asked casually.
"Elder Zhong reported that our fish farm serendipitously produced a Little Green Dragon, likely transformed by the long-term influence of a Lord’s breath..."
Yan Hongxue answered in a soft voice.
The Azure horn Fish Dragon originally evolved into a Little Green Dragon, and Zhong Qi, having received the Yan Family’s incomplete fish farming heritage, could only stable raise medium-quality Green Jade Carp, and was still striving to cultivate Little Green Dragons.
This recent one should be an accident, yet it provided a clue.
Perhaps the approach of cultivating Little Green Dragons through Azure horn Fish Dragons is completely different from the previous secret method of the Zhong Family, but they lead to the same goal, and Fang Xi was only interested in the outcome.
"Little Green Dragon, huh? Not bad... Order it to be done; we’ll have Little Green Dragon Soup tonight!"
Fang Xi touched Yan Hongxue’s cheek and said with a smile.
This woman and Xiahou Ying were still in the prime of their youth, forever young.
That, of course, was due to him taking the time to produce a batch of ’Wrinkle-Resisting Pill’ and giving one to each of the two women.
’Little Green Dragon Soup’ was something Fang Xi had long heard of, but he had yet to taste until now.
"Also..."
Yan Hongxue’s eyes twinkled: "Ying sister mentioned that it won’t be long before it’s your hundredth birthday, young master, I wonder if you would like us to make preparations?"
Being his personal attendants, Xiahou Ying and those who came to visit Fang Xi, such as Wei Yixi and Hai Dagui, were all friends, so knowing Fang Xi’s birthday wasn’t difficult.
"My hundredth birthday, huh..."
Fang Xi looked into the bronze mirror, his hair pitch black, his face without a wrinkle: "It seems unknowingly... when I look back, I’ve lived a century..."