Chapter 173: Five Peaks Suppress the Grotto-Heaven, Smelting the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart

Fang Longye's mind was immersed in the various spaces opened up within his Grotto-Heaven by his Xun Wood Spiritual Root.

Feeling the Grotto-Heaven, which had reached a higher level of stability, a realization arose in his heart.

As long as the Xun Wood Spiritual Root continued to grow and completely smelted the fragments of the Building Wood and the World Tree, it would certainly be able to exert the power of the original divine trees themselves.

Supporting the heavens and standing upon the earth, strengthening a world, and even drawing infinite Qi from the void to feed back into himself.

Of course, based solely on the current growth of the Grotto-Heaven, his physical body was becoming increasingly formidable under the Grotto-Heaven's feedback.

By the strength of his physical body alone, he could steadily sweep through the majority of Golden Immortals.

It was just that, clearly, it was not enough! Fang Longye did not even need to examine the changes in his own Tribulation to know this clearly.

This was simply because a cultivator's true combat power is composed of many aspects. The physical body only accounts for a portion!

Essence, Qi, and Spirit, insights into the Dao, divine abilities and Dharma, martial arts and combat techniques, Spirit Treasure enhancements,... and so on and so forth; it is only when too many aspects converge that one's overall strength is constituted.

Do not look at the growth of his physical body, which was indeed not small, but for his overall comprehensive strength, it had not progressed by much.

However, this was indeed a direction.

Fang Longye's eyes shone brightly.

Next, he took out the set of Five Peaks World-Suppressing Peaks he had previously purchased at auction.

After some ritual refining, without hesitation, he directly incorporated these five small, strange mountain treasures into his own Grotto-Heaven.

However, he did not intend to follow the standard procedure of placing these mountain treasures one by one to suppress the Grotto-Heaven.

He intended to completely fuse this set of strange treasures into the Grotto-Heaven, making them inseparable.

As the master of the Grotto-Heaven, his every action influenced the changes within it.

As his thought arose, power erupted within the Grotto-Heaven inside his body, emitting a heaven-shaking roar like a dragon's chant.

Then, Yin and Yang intertwined, and the Five Elements were derived; a colorful halo rose within the entire Grotto-Heaven, ascending slowly.

In the end, it condensed into a grinding stone of indescribable, immense size within the void of the Grotto-Heaven.

Crack, crack, crack—

The grinding stone turned, and a grand, mighty force descended, crushing toward the five strange mountain peaks floating in mid-air.

There was no surprise; as the grinding stone shook, these five strange peaks used to suppress the Grotto-Heaven were immediately ground into powder.

They formed five light clusters of white, cyan, black, red, and yellow, corresponding to the Five Elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

The Five Peaks World-Suppressing Peaks are fully known as the Five Elements Five Peaks World-Suppressing Peaks.

They were originally a set of strange treasures crafted by imitating the divine forms of the Five Peaks using the path of the Five Elements.

They naturally contained the essence and quintessence of the Five Elements.

"My Grotto-Heaven has the Five Elements rotating, starting with water. Let us fuse them in the order of water, wood, fire, earth, and metal!"

Having figured out the operation, Fang Longye's mind stirred, and these five-colored light clusters were cast into the interior of the Grotto-Heaven in the order of water, wood, fire, earth, and metal.

A wisp of his primordial spirit transformed into a human figure, standing atop the grinding stone, looking down from a high vantage point to observe the entire Grotto-Heaven.

He saw that the entire Grotto-Heaven, in places visible to the naked eye and places invisible, was undergoing earth-shaking changes as the essence of the Five Peaks World-Suppressing Peaks was poured in.

As the Five Elements quintessence flowed throughout the Grotto-Heaven.

In many of the folded, newly opened spaces, five-colored faint lights emerged, giving rise to various strange phenomena.

Some were dotted with golden yellow, some had precious trees in their courtyards, some had silent flowers blooming, and some had lotus flowers appearing, all different.

After that, bursts of rumbling sounds echoed.

The land surrounded by a vast ocean changed its terrain according to the five points of a pentagram, giving birth to five divine mountains.

Red, yellow, white, black, and cyan—the five divine mountains were of different colors, each occupying one of the Five Elements.

They appeared incomparably pure.

They radiated an aura that suppressed all directions.

Finally, the place where the Xun Wood was rooted also rose, with five-colored brilliance flowing, forming a divine mountain possessing all Five Elements, which together with the Xun Wood suppressed the heaven and earth within the Grotto-Heaven. He nodded slightly.

Afterwards, Fang Longye successively refined and cast into the Grotto-Heaven other treasures for nourishing and refining the Grotto-Heaven that he had previously purchased at Wanbao Tower.

Under this series of operations, the entire Grotto-Heaven became increasingly stable and continued to grow.

In the end, perhaps stimulated, the top of the towering Xun Wood even vaguely formed a phantom Heavenly Palace paradise.

Unfortunately, it ultimately lacked the strength.

It was just a faint shadow in the void, which then spontaneously collapsed and dissipated into specks of light.

However, the power fed back to Fang Longye by these changes in his internal Grotto-Heaven was finally not to be underestimated.

And all this power fed back to himself was poured by him, all at once, into his physical body.

A mysterious power permeated, emerging from the Grotto-Heaven and seeping into his true body, not letting go of a single inch or a single fraction.

Flesh, bones, acupuncture points, skin, and so on and so forth; every inch and every fraction of Fang Longye's true body was not left out, fine and dense, layer upon layer.

As time passed, his true body began an unprecedented improvement.

It concerned the improvement of Fang Longye's physical body in all levels and aspects.

This was an essential improvement, including strength, speed, defense, vitality, recovery, and so on and so forth, improving at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It was not a slow improvement, but an improvement like taking giant strides forward.

Feeling the changes in his physical strength, joy arose in Fang Longye's eyes.

"It has finally achieved significant progress; it was not in vain that I spent effort nourishing and refining the Grotto-Heaven."

However, thinking of the Tribulation looming over his head, Fang Longye quickly calmed his mind.

"Next, it is to wash the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart clean as soon as possible and smelt it into my body."

To do a good job, one must first sharpen one's tools.

To have major improvements in the short time ahead, the test of his own comprehension is indispensable.

Just like this, Fang Longye fully urged the Creation Purifying World Bead, striving to be able to perform the washing of the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart as soon as possible.

……

Just like that, more than a year passed.

On this day.

Fang Longye, who had been sitting cross-legged beside the Pill Pool, finally opened his eyes, filled with joy.

"Zha!" Fang Longye pointed at his celebration cloud, and a crimson heart suffused with seven-colored light shone brilliantly from atop the celebration cloud.

It was crystal clear and untainted by a speck of dust.

As it beat, it gushed forth boundless divine radiance.

It gave birth to colorful clouds filling the sky, stretching for a thousand miles, with scales and armor appearing menacing and indescribable.

Then, the colorful clouds roared like dragons, swooping down from above, twisting and turning in the air, holding bronze bells and jade chimes in their mouths, emitting a vast sound as countless seal characters fluttered down, as if they were real objects.

Each seal character was as large as a millstone, recounting the ultimate truths of the Human Clan.

They scattered profusely, landing in the void, blooming into flowers.

The Dao Rhyme floated and swirled, drifting onto the desk, stacking into mist and clouds, then staining the surrounding bamboo colors and ink, with a few sparse strokes, serene and natural.

Without hesitation, Fang Longye pointed at the celebration cloud, and the Seven-Orifice Exquisite Heart, already refined and cleansed, pulsed within the celebration cloud and circled a few times.

It sank directly into the Yin and Yang furnace within his body, and the Yin and Yang Dao fire ignited instantly.

Above the smelting, a black and white millstone appeared, resembling a Taiji diagram, rotating slowly.

It ground down the rising wisps of essence, energy, and spirit.

It began to smelt them into his body.

(End of chapter)