Chapter 584: Chapter 582: A Good One and A Bad One (Lords Congratulate by Drinking Wine at Dusk by the East Fence!)_1
Demon Tree Ridge.
Fang Xi’s hands formed seals, continuously inputting into the Transformation Cauldron in front of him.
The dense pill energy rose like clouds and, after a series of dazzling changes, finally condensed into a green cloud.
With a lift of his hand, a magic power-constructed palm gently plucked a medicinal pill from atop the green cloud.
Inside this pill was a blurry baby-shaped pill pattern—it was indeed the ’Infant Transformation Pill’!
"Not bad, not bad. It seems my alchemy skill has improved yet again after further studies in The Nine States."
Caressing the still-warm ’Infant Transformation Pill,’ Fang Xi couldn’t help but nod in satisfaction.
After he had raided the Sacred Fire Sect, he naturally did not hesitate to completely plunder its warehouse, uncovering, among other things, two ’Infant Transformation Pills’ and many rare spirit medicines, including one ’Nine Smoke Foetus Mushroom’!
This ’Nine Smoke Foetus Mushroom’ was the primary material for making ’Infant Transformation Pills,’ extremely rare, with only the Sacred Fire Sect’s fifth level Spiritual Medicine Garden having some. A plant could mature every few hundred years, a foundation of the Transcendent God Sects!
But now, naturally, they all belonged to Fang Xi.
He sent a part of the ’Nine Smoke Foetus Mushrooms,’ along with the ’Infant Transformation Pill’ recipe, to The Nine States, keeping some for himself of course, to enhance his own alchemy skill.
Even though he was now recognized as Fang Immortal Taoist Master, able to mobilize the entire Nine States’ human and material resources, Fang Xi believed in the superiority of what he personally attained.
Even if his pill creation success rate was completely inferior to that of The Nine States, as long as his alchemy skill improved, it would be a success!
"The ’Infant Transformation Pill’ is a fourth-grade supreme pill. Now that I can stabilize the success rate... my alchemy skill must be comparable to those grandmasters, right? Though... it still has some flaws."
While he aimed to improve his own alchemy skill, Fang Xi did not dislike handy tools, such as the ’Transformation Cauldron’ and the assistance from Tai Yi...
"The skill I possess today, it all relies on persistent daily effort..."
Fang Xi sighed with emotion.
At this moment, his Divine Consciousness spread out, sensing that in a cave house within Demon Tree Ridge, a Heterodox Nascent Soul was assaulting the bottleneck to become a Transcendent God with his own rendition of ’Triphasic Destroying Origin Skill,’ transforming into a Demon Clan form and with the help of the ’Ancient Demon Refining Form’ secret skill!
"The Heterodox Nascent Soul is quite powerful. Its cultivation is almost catching up to mine now."
Fang Xi’s eyes were cold and clear, "For caution’s sake, after achieving Transcendent God, there’s no need to continue cultivation. Wait until I break through the mid-phase... It’s time to assign him to explore new worlds!"
The Heterodox Nascent Soul was performing well recently.
After soul-searching that Zi Yin’s Nascent Soul, he had rooted out several hidden veins of the Sacred Fire Sect.
Forces like the Evil Dragon Temple and Yin Yuan Palace had all been exterminated one by one by the Heterodox Nascent Soul, leaving behind mountains of corpses and seas of blood, creating a formidable reputation in the Western Desert Cultivation World.
The cultivators all knew that the Transcendent God cultivator from Demon Tree Ridge rarely emerged from seclusion, but the second Nascent Soul he refined was extremely bloodthirsty and malicious, and must not be provoked...
However, Fang Xi knew that the Sacred Fire Sect had deep foundations, and this blow would not uproot it completely.
There must still be some disciples hidden, even unknown to Zi Yin!
Such actions by the formidable cultivator were also deliberate, to avoid being completely eradicated.
Fang Xi was indifferent to such mortal wisdom.
After all, he would let those people know that any scheming or patience is laughable when measured against the timescale of ten thousand years!
Whoosh!
Between heaven and earth, auroras flicker, converging into a lake. The Heterodox Nascent Soul smoothly draws in Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy to condense the celestial phenomena for transcending to godhood!
Subsequently, it breaks through the Transcendent God bottleneck and enters the Heart Demon Tribulation.
Fang Xi focuses intently, ready to suppress the Heterodox Nascent Soul at any moment.
The resources he prepared for the Heterodox Nascent Soul’s breakthrough were indeed mediocre, and it was very likely to fail the Heart Demon Tribulation.
If a cultivator fails to pass the Heart Demon Tribulation, they would either silently perish physically within the Heart Demon, or fall into madness, rampaging and slaughtering nearby cultivators!
However, Fang Xi’s expression soon became rather peculiar as he looked around at the Five Elements Primordial Energy converging for the tribulation, "Heart Demon passed? Could this Heterodox Nascent Soul have a sturdier Dao Heart than mine? Or did the earlier secret skill take effect?"
Prior to ensuring the successful advancement of the Heterodox Nascent Soul, he purposely erased most of its memories, retaining only those related to cultivation and the experience of charging at the bottleneck to becoming a Transcendent God.
This left it with the heart of an innocent child!
With no memories, what heart demons could there be?
Whoosh!
A beam of demon light flies out from Demon Tree Ridge, revealing a black-robed, stern-faced Heterodox Nascent Soul.
Looking at the condensing Five Element Primordial Energy of the tribulation, he suddenly lets out a sinister laugh, transforming into a ten-zhang-tall Divine Demon!
Refining the Divine Demon body!
This is a realm generally touched only by Demon Cultivators at the Returning to Emptiness level.
However, the Demon Cultivators from the Lower Realm who ascended to godhood were geniuses, most of whom managed to achieve it.
The form refined by the Heterodox Nascent Soul is from the ’Self-Transforming Heavenly Sovereign’s True Demon Art of Controlling All Spirits,’ named—The Transformative God Demon Body!
This demon body is peculiar by nature, excelling in endless transformations, simulating all sorts of Divine Demon forms!
After all, it’s ’Self-Transforming’!
Compared to the Mighty Magma God Demon, this God Demon was essentially insignificant, but still remarkably peculiar, shrouded in a mysterious fog, with various forms constantly changing within...
Suddenly, the clear cry of a peacock rings out.
The Transformative God Demon Body splits the Five Elements, then transforming into a terrifying dark-bodied demon bird with five-colored feathers!
The Five Hells Peacock Demon Body!
This demon body is inherently adept at manipulating the Five Elements, ranking as a top-tier Divine Demon form!
Boom! Boom!
One after another, the giant trees fell, swept away by the tail feathers of the Five Hells Peacock and transformed into pure Wood Spiritual Power, which it swallowed with one gulp of its beak.
Follwing that came the tribulations of Metal, Earth, Fire, and Water elemental primordial energies, all of which were completely devoured by that very Five Hells Peacock.
The light of the Five Elements flashed, and transformed into the cold image of a young man in a black robe, the Heterodox Nascent Soul with full Divine Consciousness and Magic Power that seemed even more formidable than before.
"My Heterodox Nascent Soul... has become powerful."
Fang Xi watched this scene, somewhat wide-eyed in amazement.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Above the sky, countless thunders converged into cyan-golden thunderbolts!
Crack!
A streak of Thunder Light fiercely smashed down, carrying with it the chilling Heavenly Might!
Rawr!
The Heterodox Nascent Soul’s expression unmoved, he opened his mouth and spat out ’Six Paths of Demon Flames’, flames that reached a high of fifth-tier, and completely incinerated that bolt of Heavenly Thunder...
Following that, the second, third... sixth bolts!
"Crack!"
After passing six consecutive thunder strikes, the Heterodox Nascent Soul transformed, revealing a Divine Demon body three zhang tall, with purple-black skin covered with numerous Thunder Patterns.
This was the ’Annihilation Thunder Body’, a God Demon body adept at harnessing thunder spiritual power and one that only the offspring of an ancient demon after transcending to godhood could possibly refine, perfectly suited to confront the tribulations of Heavenly Thunder.
Whoa!
Still feeling insecure, the Heterodox Nascent Soul, amidst the sound of a sword’s cry, held the enlarged ’Divine Infant Sword’ in his hands.
The Six Paths of Demon Flames blazed in tricolor, encircling the ’Annihilation Thunder Body’, making meticulous preparations for the ordeal.
Crack!
The seventh bolt of Heavenly Thunder struck, still dual-colored in gold and cyan!
"Slash!"
The Heterodox Nascent Soul roared, the Divine Demon wielding the sword with both hands, the blade ablaze with Six Paths of Demon Flames as it struck towards the sky...
"It’s just an ordinary Transcending God tribulation of Heavenly Thunder..."
Fang Xi muttered to himself.
He faced the terrifying Purple-Golden Thunder Tribulation when he transcended.
"Could it be that such tribulations only target my true self? Is it because of the Eternal Green Body? Treasures of All Heavens? Or the Monster Tree?"
Fang Xi felt that the tribulation he went through was completely different from that of others.
If the Heterodox Nascent Soul had faced the Purple-Golden Thunder Tribulation, it might already have been struck dead!
’This is a hidden danger, if my future advancement also faces such an ordeal, that would be troublesome...’
’Just to be safe, I should prepare methods like the ’Thousands Demon Armor’ that are tailor-made to confront the Heaven Tribulation, the more the better...’
Fang Xi secretly made up his mind.
Just at this moment, the Heterodox Nascent Soul roared and with one swing of his sword, annihilated the last bolt of Heavenly Thunder.
Although his aura was a bit unstable and both the fifth-tier Six Paths of Demon Flames and the Divine Infant Sword seemed to have sustained some damage to their Primordial Energy, he had nonetheless transcended the Transcending God Heaven Tribulation to become a Transcendent God Demon Lord!
Seeing this scene, a smile also emerged on Fang Xi’s face.
"A hundred years ago, I was about five hundred and fifty, breaking through to Transcendent God..."
"Recently, at six hundred and fifty, the Heterodox Nascent Soul has broken through to Transcendence... Congratulations are in order, congratulations indeed."
...
Just as Fang Xi was pleased with the successful transcendence of the Heterodox Nascent Soul, he received two pieces of news from Jade Island, one good and one bad.
The good news was that his nominal disciple, Liu Xu, recently succeeded in condensing her Nascent Soul—achieving the dream Fang Xi once had of using the ’Green Wood Longevity Skills’ to condense a Nascent Soul.
This girl, after all, possessed a Heaven Grade Spiritual Root and also had an Earth Grade Water Spiritual Root, and cultivated a Secret Skill that ’generates wood from water’, her aptitude even surpassing that of ordinary Heaven Grade Spiritual Roots.
Coupled with catching Fang Xi at a good time when he had taken over the Sacred Fire Sect, and having no shortage of ’Infant Transformation Pills’, this girl also earned some merit, such as guarding the ancient teleportation array in the Western Desert, and with Zhong Hongyu putting in good words for her, Fang Xi permitted her to redeem her contributions in advance for an ’Infant Transformation Pill’, thus accomplishing her chance to Condense her Nascent Soul.
As for the bad news, it was naturally about Zhong Hongyu failing to condense her Nascent Soul—while she managed to save her life with a secret art, her cultivation suffered great damage.
When Fang Xi heard this news, he felt somewhat melancholic.
"Calculating the time, when I was a hundred years old, Zhong Hongyu had just been born... Now at six hundred and fifty, she too is five hundred and fifty years old."
The lifespan of a Core Formation cultivator is around five hundred years.
Zhong Hongyu managed to live till now mainly because she consumed the ’Longevity Turtle Pill’ and has always had the habit of consuming various types of youth-preserving Spirit Medicines.
Even so, her countenance hasn’t changed, yet the aura of dusk around her grows ever stronger.
In front of Fang Xi, who became younger and younger as he lived on, it was inevitable she would feel shame.
This time, when Fang Xi relocated to ’Demon Tree Ridge’, he had also invited Zhong Hongyu, but she did not wish to come, saying she had gotten used to living on Jade Island, and did not want to come to the Western Desert.
Fang Xi did not insist at the time...
"Hong Yu’s lifespan... probably only has one more sixty-year cycle left..."
The Longevity Turtle Pill could extend the lifespan of a Nascent Soul cultivator by a hundred years; naturally, the effect would be better for a Core Formation cultivator.
However, the version Fang Xi had in his hands was diluted by The Nine States and its efficacy was slightly less potent.
With these increases and decreases, extending the lifespan of a Core Formation cultivator by a hundred years or so was pretty much the limit.