Chapter 741: Chapter 684: The Tribulation of Returning to Emptiness (Congratulating the Clever and Brave Spirit Three Lords)"_1
Earth Immortal Realm.
A vast wilderness.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The sky for thousands of miles was extremely gloomy, with lightning snakes dancing wildly, transforming into golden thunderbolts.
Countless Transcendent God Wild Beasts scattered and fled, as beasts with keen spirit sense, they feared the Heavenly Might even more!
Whizz!
The golden tribulation lightning fell, turning into a spherical flash of lightning.
Fang Xi brought his hands together, and his Spirit Realm opened, with a layer of dark green radiance shooting into the sky, actually weakening the golden tribulation lightning layer by layer.
Behind him, a phantom of the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm emerged.
Within it, there were not only tall Demonic Monster Trees but also gilded and silver Taoist Soldiers, a coiled Horned Wood Dragon, as well as Dongfus, Spiritual Fields, and even a Tier Five Taisui...
More crucially, above this piece of Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm, there was also a city!
Mechanism City of the Nine States!
The Mechanism City roared, unleashing rays of Sun God Slaying Light, Mixed Hole Annihilating Divine Light, Twelve Yuan Chen Cosmic Extreme Divine Light... Endless ferocious beams erupted, submerging the golden lightning sphere.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The dark clouds covering the sky dispersed, revealing a rainbow.
Immediately, trickles of sweet rain fell, mingled with the essence of the lightning tribulation, providing supreme divine effects for the one undergoing the tribulation.
Seeing this, Fang Xi immediately opened the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm, not letting a single drop of rain escape.
The branches of the Ancestral Demon Tree spread out, capturing all of the sweet rain in a net.
Its trunk seemed to become even more upright.
"The Way of the Earth Immortal, the cultivator has completely integrated with the Spiritual Root... In other words, the Ancestral Demon Tree is now a part of me as well,"
Fang Xi muttered to himself.
This Secret Skill sounded somewhat incredulous and required the use of ’Longevity Skills’ to refine the Spiritual Root for many years before it could barely be used as a foundation to perform it.
Since he had reached the Returning to Emptiness stage and the Ancestral Demon Tree had rich reserves,
after cultivating the Earth Immortal Law, it forcibly elevated this Spiritual Root to the sixth tier!
"This is the uniqueness of the Way of the Earth Immortal, but it can only happen once... From now on, its cultivation level must grow simultaneously with mine..."
"However, precisely because of this, after the Ancestral Demon Tree and I survive the tribulation, we will only need to transcend it once."
Fang Xi waved his sleeve.
All the phenomena around him disappeared.
But a streak of demonic light meandered its way towards him, arriving in front of him, incarnate as a Heterodox being!
The Heterodox Incarnation was expressionless, hands forming seals.
A sphere of silver-white radiance then flew towards Fang Xi.
Fang Xi casually grasped, the void shattered, revealing the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm behind it.
In an instant, Daqing, Land Mountain Turtle, and the Female and Male Wood Mink that had just been subdued, as well as other animals and plants brought by the Heterodox Incarnation, were all transferred to the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm and properly settled.
’Poor Daqing, having just ascended, now has to descend to the Lower Realm again...’
’However, as the master of the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm, who controls the Mother Qi of All Woods, I can replenish the lifespan of any creature, preventing them from feeling any changes in their lifespan...’
The Mother Qi of All Woods is the fundamental qi of the Wooden Element, naturally extraordinary.
And the ingenuity in its use lies within the heart, it can both turn enemies into Wooden Puppets and transform into life-extending Spiritual Pills!
After sorting this out, Fang Xi looked back at the Heterodox Incarnation.
The Heterodox Incarnation sat cross-legged with a stern face, letting a pitch-black Nascent Soul emerge.
"Late stage of Transcendent God..."
Fang Xi sensed the opponent’s cultivation, feeling completely reassured.
Given such a significant difference in realms, he was not the slightest bit afraid of the other party revolting.
However, as much as he said that, a routine Assimilation Skill was still indispensable.
After assimilating at this moment, he understood everything about the Heterodox Incarnation’s experiences.
"To open up new lands in the Thunder Marsh Wilderness and to encounter a Primordial Chaos Beast... Luckily, the Sky Brahman Army sent a Integration stage cultivator for support, who finally managed to eliminate it..."
"The Heterodox Incarnation was assigned to many tasks, performing moderately, ranking at the very bottom among those in the late stage of Transcendent God..."
"This time, it was only during a rare moment of leisure after completing a task..."
"Of course, he is rather vengeful, having already discreetly found out the exact location of Prime Taoist Gu’s battlefield, and some information about the leader of the Heaven Crowd Camp..."
Fang Xi immediately smiled, letting the Heterodox Incarnation return, while he himself disappeared in a flash of silver light.
He now had many Immortal Jades in his hands and had already set up another teleportation point in the Three Realms Mountain.
—The spot where Fang Immortal Taoist Master was previously teleported, he would not go back to check even if he were beaten to death.
Based on past life experience, criminals often like to wander near the scene of the crime...
Fang Xi did not dare to bet on whether Wu Xingzi would sit and wait like a hunter for his prey.
So, he simply gave up that spatial node and set up another one.
The Thunder Marsh Wilderness was quite a distance from the Three Realms Mountain, but teleportation was instant.
’The Thunder Marsh Wilderness, situated in a no-man’s-land between the three races, was originally occupied by ’Thunder Beasts,’ and that would have been fine... Now that the Thunder Beasts have left, the human race must cultivate the land no matter what; otherwise, if the Demons crossed that area, it would be a defensive flaw...’
Fang Xi thought to himself, as he emerged from a subterranean cave, and after briefly recognizing his bearings, he used the Wood Escape Skill.
Swish!
A flash of green light, and his figure vanished, only to reappear on a distant plant.
He was preparing to go to the most dangerous battlefield near the Three Realms Mountain.
Prime Taoist Gu and the leader of the Heaven Crowd Camp were in that place.
Of course, Fang Xi wouldn’t be so foolish as to head directly to the battlefield.
He planned to wait in the town on the border where, according to the avatars of the heterodox, both Prime Taoist Gu and that commander of the Returning to Emptiness occasionally returned to rest and recover...
’Let’s leave Prime Taoist Gu aside, if a fight is to happen, it should be with someone who has a backing... Without killing one to warn a hundred, my thoughts won’t be understood...’
...
North Desolate City.
This city is purely a cultivator’s city, without a single mortal present.
Above its walls, various kinds of spiritual radiance almost overflowed, like a war fortress.
And in fact, that’s exactly what it was.
North of it lay the boundary of the human race territory, leading into the true battlefield of the Three Realms Mountain.
Within North Desolate City, arrays for detecting demonic beasts were activated day and night, capable of monitoring everything within a hundred million miles above the Transcendent God level.
Giant arrays separated the human race territory completely from the battlefield.
Fang Xi stood in the wilderness, gazing into the distance at the fortress-like grand city and the Great Wall-like curtain of light, without entering the city.
Although he was a human cultivator, his Returning to Emptiness cultivation was too high, which could attract unwanted attention.
The last thing he wanted was to be forcibly conscripted upon entering the city, which would be far from amusing.
While Fang Xi was flying to escape, he suddenly flicked his sleeve.
Green seeds fell onto the wilderness and in no time at all, took root and sprouted into wildflowers.
These flowers had five pure white petals, but the stamens were pitch black.
Meanwhile, Fang Xi seemed to be able to see through these unassuming spirit flowers, which showed no signs of magical power, into various vistas...
’The monitoring secret skill recorded in the Kuyong Skills is quite useful.’
After setting defences in several key directions, Fang Xi used the Earth Escape Skills and disappeared into the ground, vanishing from sight...
...
As a Spirit Plant Farmer, he always had patience, knowing that harvest required waiting.
Several months passed with no sign of Prime Taoist Gu or the commander.
Then one year, two years...
Fang Xi’s true body always remained hidden within the Earth Immortal Spiritual Realm, and with the shield of the Treasures of All Heavens against all divination, he remained undisturbed.
Until this day.
Fang Xi, who was seated beneath the Ancestral Demon Tree, suddenly opened his eyes, "It’s actually him..."
In the vision returned by the spirit of the grass and trees, Fang Xi saw a young man in white armor.
He had handsome features, and his armor looked as though it was crafted from ice.
It was Ice Xuanzi!
This man was a Transcendent God cultivator from the lower Ice Profound Palace, and after raising the old ancestor of the Bai family, he ascended alongside a fifth-staged Profound Turtle!
’That’s right... As a human cultivator, after ascending, it is inevitable to serve for a thousand years... I wonder how that fifth-staged Profound Turtle ended up?’
He had met Ice Xuanzi only once, and at that time, he was still in the Nascent Soul Stage, and after stealing a few drops of Spirit Turtle blood, he was chased by his spiritual pet.
"If there’s a grudge, it’s returned; if there’s vengeance, it’s taken... This person hasn’t broken through Returning to Emptiness yet..."
Fang Xi muttered, and his figure suddenly moved, vanishing from sight...
...
Once Ice Xuanzi left North Desolate City, he flew north.
His aura was profound, and he, too, had reached the perfect stage of Transcendent God.
As an ascending immortal, his talents and opportunities were extraordinary. After being tempered in battle, and exchanging merits for precious medicinal pills to break through realms, his cultivation soared at a striking pace.
Ice Xuanzi turned into a streak of white light, speeding out tens of thousands of miles when suddenly he felt a terrifying chill.
He couldn’t help but be struck by a feeling of extreme dread, and ice formed in his hands, materializing into an ice sword.
Above his head, a Devil-locking Tower of the level of Spirit Communicating Treasures appeared, shedding grey, murky light that enveloped his entire body.
"It’s impressive for an ascended immortal to act on a whim, isn’t it?"
A young voice rang out.
A streak of green Escape Light flashed in front of him, and Fang Xi’s figure emerged: "Ice Xuanzi... we meet again."
Upon seeing Fang Xi, Ice Xuanzi was initially puzzled, but the familiar aura of his magic power immediately made him recall, "It’s you... that thief?! No... you’ve broken through to Returning to Emptiness?! That’s impossible!"
Ice Xuanzi, originally furious, felt as if doused with cold water, chilled to the bone.
No matter how he thought about it, he couldn’t imagine that the Nascent Soul cultivator from the past had also ascended to the Earth Immortal Realm, even surpassing him by breaking through the realm of Returning to Emptiness first!
"It’s good that you know, you’ll die with understanding!"
Fang Xi waved his right hand gently.
The Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy fluctuated, transforming into a colossal White Jade Palm with each crease clearly defined, striking down from the sky!
"Ah!"
Ice Xuanzi let out a cry, his ice sword etched with ancient Seal Script, causing a thousand miles around to freeze over as snowflakes fell from the sky.
Whoosh!
He slashed his sword at the giant palm in midair, and the Spirit Communicating Treasure ice sword roared, with countless chills converging into an Ice Crystal Phoenix.
Crack!
As the gigantic palm came down, the Ice Crystal Phoenix was instantly shattered into countless icy shards.
But this brief moment he fought for let Ice Xuanzi bite his tongue, spraying out a mouthful of Essence Blood onto the Devil-locking Tower.
The grey light of the Devil-locking Tower brightly surged, suddenly wrapping around Ice Xuanzi and using the Void Divine Power, vanishing without a trace...
But in the next instant, in front of Fang Xi, the Void twisted, revealing Ice Xuanzi’s figure.
Looking at Fang Xi so close, his pupils suddenly shrank in shock!