Chapter 869: Distant Past

This land had suffered heavy damage.

There was actually one person lying crookedly in the formation. He Lingchuan looked closely, and it was actually True Person Sanshui! He was still breathing, his clothes scorched black, his left hand and below his legs turned into charcoal, no longer having the immortal style of before.

He Lingchuan walked over slowly, stood in front of True Person Sanshui, and then put away his mask.

Whether it was a flash of brilliance before death or not, True Person Sanshui's eyes were unprecedentedly clear.

He struggled twice, wanting to sit straight, but couldn't exert any strength.

The once majestic immortal, the figure who could move mountains with one hand, was now in such a miserable state.

He Lingchuan squatted down, carefully supporting him to sit against a big rock: "The battle just now was a last resort, True Person, don't blame me."

For this great figure from thousands of years ago, for one of the refiners of the Great Great Great Fanghu, he still had to give respect.

True Person Sanshui's gaze had no hatred, only some annoyance: "The Great Great Great Fanghu shouldn't have existed. Back then, I took the Qianling Pot Lid away to interrupt its evolution. In the end, it was still found by you people. Sigh, you people are truly foolish."

He Lingchuan knew that the "you people" True Person Sanshui spoke of didn't just refer to him, but the countless people who obsessively pursued the Great Great Great Fanghu.

"The evolution of the Great Great Great Fanghu was never interrupted, never." He Lingchuan said softly, "Look around you."

The Secret Realm they were in was the work of the Great Great Great Fanghu.

True Person Sanshui choked.

Facing this first-hand source of information, He Lingchuan couldn't help but ask: "What exactly is the harm of the Great Great Great Fanghu?"

The Naluotian avatar mentioned that this True Person Sanshui was actually one of the ancient immortals who refined the Great Great Great Fanghu. So his understanding of the Great Great Great Fanghu should far exceed that of others.

"The most important treasure in refining the Great Great Great Fanghu was actually a large fragment knocked off from the Heavenly Luo Star."

True Person Sanshui said this, seeing He Lingchuan's expression was normal, obviously knowing it long ago, so he continued to speak:

"Back then, led by True Person Shou'an, we originally wanted to refine another divine object to resist the influence of the Heavenly Luo Star on the human world. Who knew it would be refined more and more crookedly, and in the end, it actually refined such a thing as the Great Great Great Fanghu."

"Refining the Great Great Great Fanghu, can it be considered a failure?" How could a failed product be so profound? "Can't say. But its appearance was completely inconsistent with our original intention." True Person Sanshui shook his head. "Those who participated in the refining were all great powers skilled in refining tools. Logically speaking, we could basically know what the finished product would look like beforehand, seven or nine out of ten."

"But this time the refining was too tortuous. The Great Great Great Fanghu went into the furnace three and a half times, and the first two times the furnace exploded. Heh, those two furnaces were rare treasures." True Person Sanshui licked his lips. "I vaguely felt something was wrong, so I said it was God's will, don't refine it anymore."

"But seeing this Heavenly Demon treasure, even a fragment was so difficult to deal with, everyone was very unconvinced, thinking in their hearts, we could drive away your master, could we not deal with a small fragment of yours?"

The background of refining the Great Great Great Fanghu was after the battle of gods and immortals, the decline of spiritual energy had appeared, but the immortals who participated in the world-shaking battle held the remaining prestige of the great victory and the merit of saving the world, still proud of the world.

"So everyone decided to try again. I couldn't persuade them. This time, True Person Shou'an activated the 'Heaven and Earth Flood Furnace' under Shou'an Mountain of the Great Return Sect to refine the Heavenly Luo Star fragment." True Person Sanshui recalled, "This 'Heaven and Earth Flood Furnace' is not a man-made treasure, but a naturally formed earth-core furnace, containing the primordial Hongmeng True Qi, capable of refining everything, and even various divine weapons couldn't withstand its firepower. By the way, it also bred the big fire spirit, the Torch, that kind of spirit monster."

So that was the cradle of the Torch? He Lingchuan secretly thought, no wonder with the arrogance of the Tiangong and Beijia, they had to worship the Torch well; it turned out that this guy was not only tough in strength but also had an extraordinary background.

Simply put, it was hard to kill because it relied on the earth-core furnace.

"No one expected that this casting only took nine hours!"

He Lingchuan gave an "ah," also a bit surprised. When the Floating Life blade was recast, it took several days. The fact that a divine object of the Great Great Great Fanghu's rank was completed in only nine hours was indeed fast enough to catch people off guard.

He also had an impression of the name "True Person Shou'an." The Dun Garden Auction held by Fang Canran had auctioned off a sword tip, broken from True Person Shou'an's life-bound magic tool, and it contained Boundless Gold, so it was auctioned for a sky-high price of 870,000 taels of silver.

Of course, the name of True Person Shou'an had more gold content, because he was not only the Sect Master of the Great Return Sect but also one of the leaders of the ancient war who led the immortals to fight against the Heavenly Demons.

A broken sword tip of his could sell for 870,000 taels, so how much was the Great Great Great Fanghu he personally refined worth?

This tempting thought only flashed in He Lingchuan's mind before he pinched it out.

What's the use if it can't be sold? Thinking of P eating.

"The moment the Great Great Great Fanghu was refined, red light appeared in the sky, and thunder and lightning flashed, lasting for three days. We knew that only treasures that shook the world would have such a vision."

"When we examined it, we found that this magic tool was peculiar. Although it contained powerful energy, its interior was chaotic; although it was chaotic, its performance was very stable; and it had no spirit, and it probably wouldn't be able to form a spirit in the future—this was the unanimous opinion and regret of all of us."

"Can a magic tool without a spirit still be called a divine object?" True Person Sanshui smiled bitterly. "Without a spirit, it won't recognize anyone as its master, nor will it obey any instructions. Yet it is so unstable, and the consequences of energy leakage are unimaginable."

"But it contains complex and rich power, as if gathering the essence of two worlds. True Person Shou'an even believed that it could help us ponder the supreme Dao. We had seen countless Heavenly Demon treasures, but none had made us so fascinated, studying it for more than a hundred days." True Person Sanshui shook his head. "Two people realized it further. I can't explain this feeling to you."

He Lingchuan nodded, his mindset was very good.

Different levels, no way to force it, just like summer insects can't talk about ice.

"We urgently needed to communicate with it, so someone suggested, why not put it back in the furnace and directly inject a spirit! This time no one objected, and even I expressed deep approval." He sighed, "Thinking back later, I was truly pig-oil-blinded at the time."

He Lingchuan wondered: "Can it still be done like this?" It sounded very difficult.

"The situation of having a tool but no spirit is too common. If the magic tool is good enough, just move in a new spirit. This step is also called 'spirit injection,' just like that step farmers often do, called, called..." True Person Sanshui was exhausted after all, a bit stuck.

"Grafting?"

"Right. Inject fresh life into a strong base. This is a common technique in tool refining, don't you do it?"

He Lingchuan touched his nose: "The tool refining of later generations is already very different from your era. So, you injected a new spirit into the Great Great Great Fanghu?"

Hearing this, he vaguely guessed the subsequent development of the event.

"Everyone wanted to contribute their own spirit. Facing the Great Great Great Fanghu, who didn't have a little selfishness?" True Person Sanshui caught his breath, and He Lingchuan saw his knees had turned into foam.

It seemed he couldn't last much longer.

"Finally, my Qianling Precious Seal, or Qianling Precious Lid, got this opportunity and was thrown into the Heaven and Earth Flood Furnace to inject spirit into the Great Great Great Fanghu." True Person Sanshui said in a low voice, "The spirit of the Qianling Precious Lid was an innate spirit. It opened its wisdom when it was still a gold essence running around Xiling Mountain, the so-called gold and stone opening spirit, which is truly not easy. Later, after two or three meltings, this spirit was still connected to my heart, accompanying me for more than a thousand years and becoming more intimate, suppressing countless great demons. If it were still here, heh, what I used this time wouldn't be the Heavenly King Seal, and you might not be able to withstand it... In short, it was most appropriate to ask it to come out at that time."

When he said this, He Lingchuan remembered the Floating Life blade. Magic tools are like bosom friends; that was the relationship between him and Floating Life, and also the relationship between True Person Sanshui and the Qianling Precious Lid.

"This refining time was shorter. The Heaven and Earth Flood Furnace had only been refining for half an hour when I sensed the emergency call for help from the Qianling Precious Lid!" He and the Precious Lid were connected in heart and mind, and could feel the changes in the spirit. "The Great Great Great Fanghu actually wanted to swallow it! Not spirit injection, not fusion, but swallowing!"

"Uh..." This wasn't fresh news to He Lingchuan; he fed the Great Great Great Fanghu every few days. However, placed thousands of years ago, True Person Sanshui and others knew nothing about the Great Great Great Fanghu's character, so they were naturally greatly shocked.

"We wanted to stop the refining, but the Heaven and Earth Flood Furnace suddenly erupted." True Person Sanshui raised his voice when he said this, "I will never forget that scene of heaven and earth collapsing. Thanks to us and the Torch exerting means, the eruption was finally suppressed, otherwise the Great Return Sect's station, along with Shou'an Mountain, would have been burned to the ground."

Shou'an Mountain, which was the later Xushan. He Lingchuan listened silently, remembering the volcanic eruption he caused by making a scene in the Tiangong.

Compared to the trouble caused by the Great Great Great Fanghu back then, the trouble he caused was still small.

"Later I found out that at the same time as the Shou'an Mountain eruption, eleven other volcanoes erupted within a radius of fifty thousand miles, accompanied by earthquakes and tsunamis, and two sea countries in the south sank directly."

"... Is it that powerful?" No wonder True Person Sanshui said the Great Great Great Fanghu was refined three and a half times, because the fourth time wasn't finished.

"The Heaven and Earth Flood Furnace broke, causing the earth fire to surge." True Person Sanshui shook his head. "Without the suppression of the Heaven and Earth Flood Furnace, Shou'an Mountain would have a hard time finding peace in the future."

He Lingchuan suddenly realized upon hearing this.

Why did the main peak of Xushan have such a spectacular circular magma pool? He found it incredible when he visited Tianchu Peak; the Tiangong was actually sitting on an active volcano.

It turned out that the Heaven and Earth Flood Furnace ruptured, leading to the eruption of earth fire, which formed such a peculiar landform.

No wonder the later Great Return Sect and Tiangong had to treat the Torch well; it turned out that only it could suppress the earth fire at that time.

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