Chapter 53: Five Hundred Years of Changing Seas and Mulberry Fields, Finally Emerging from the Cave Heaven Small World [4k] (Please

Time is like water, flowing on without cease.

The sun rises and the moon sets, flowers wither and bloom; one watches the cycle of grass and trees, the shifting and changing of the years.

In the blink of an eye, five hundred years of time have passed in an instant.

During these five hundred years, in leisure, one admired the flowers and played with the moon; in diligence, one practiced without slack.

The essence of the sun and moon cleansed the demon body, and the spiritual treasures of heaven and earth aided cultivation.

In terms of cultivation, Fang Longye practiced both Dharma and body, advancing side by side; he refined that True Immortal Level Dragon Pearl, his Yuan Immortal realm neared perfection, and the True Immortal realm was not far off.

Now, he is Diamond Indestructible, with copper skin and iron bones, impervious to blades and spears, and difficult to harm with Dharma Treasures. Blood Rebirth is a matter of course, his Dharma power is vast, and his supernatural powers are immense.

His insights into the Dao have also become increasingly refined during this process, already reaching the level of True Immortal perfection.

Regarding Dharma Treasures, he collected various spiritual materials within the Small World and used the previously obtained Small Heavenly Dipper Cloud Restriction Method to batch-refine many sets of Dharma Treasures.

He gave a set to Qingshe and Caidie, and with the rest, he used the method of exchanging quantity for quality to trade for two Spirit Treasures in the Equivalent Balance.

One was a Spirit Treasure-level Defense Magic Robe with nine Post-Heaven Divine Prohibitions, and the other was a Spirit Treasure for healing the primordial spirit, the Spirit-Nourishing Pearl, also with nine Post-Heaven Divine Prohibitions.

Afterward, he made no more trades.

Such trading of quantity for quality was rather a case of the loss outweighing the gain.

With such a large amount of these spiritual materials, even without any divine materials or spiritual objects, one could have piled them up to create four or five low-grade Spirit Treasures.

If it were not for the fact that this Cave Heaven Small World was shattered and formed in the ancient era, brimming with spiritual energy, and that ordinary spiritual material mines were not necessarily everywhere but not rare either, it absolutely could not have accommodated such extravagance from Fang Longye.

Like the environment of the current Earth Immortal Realm, wanting to gather so many spiritual materials is by no means an easy task for a Yuan Immortal.

If it were not for the fact that Fang Longye's current artifact-refining skills could only refine top-grade Dharma Treasures, and that he was about to leave the Small World and needed a defensive Spirit Treasure for protection, he would not have played the fool.

Inside the Cave Abode palace.

A garden.

Fang Longye was half-leaning in a small pavilion, drinking wine and making merry.

It stood with wings spread, and below it was a pool of clear waves, the water so clear the bottom could be seen; it was surrounded by lush bamboo, with green clouds drifting slowly.

To the south, there was a rockery seven or eight zhang high, crystal white and exquisite, pointed at the top and square at the bottom, with hollows carved in the middle.

The reflection of the rockery fell just beneath the eaves, slanting into the pavilion, covering the ground in a frosty hue.

Caidie stood barefoot on the pool water, brandishing a golden snake-shaped precious sword; dressed in green, her sleeves fluttering like an immortal, she danced with the sword to amuse her lord.

Qingshe sat not far away, accompanying her by plucking a zither with her fair hands.

For a time, the green waves rippled, clouds and water drifted, with beautiful scenery, lovely women, heavenly music, and immortal dances—it was magnificent.

As the song ended, the sword dance slowly ceased.

"Good! Jinghuan, your sword dance has improved again!" Fang Longye put down his wine cup and applauded repeatedly.

"It is all thanks to the guidance of Sister Qingli~" Caidie put away the Golden Snake Sword, swayed her slender waist to come to Fang Longye's side, leaned against him, and covered her mouth with a smile.

Qingshe put away the zither and also came to Fang Longye's side; she had just sat down when she was pulled into his embrace by the waist.

"Is that so? Qingli~"

Qingshe smiled continuously: "It is only because the Great King loves to watch~"

"Is that so? Then I must thank you for your intentions, Qingli~"

"Hateful~"

Heavy clear light rose, blooming like a lotus flower, and seven-colored smoke and clouds permeated, obscuring the entire pool of green waves.

For a time, they gave themselves over to indulgence and revelry.

As the smoke and mist permeated, Fang Longye stepped out from within.

He straightened his clothes and looked back at the two people sleeping in the smoke and mist.

He laughed aloud: "I am no longer who I was. Even if it is the True Immortal realm, they are still no match for me."

In five hundred years, human affairs have changed, and each has had its own development.

For example, the Grand Ancestor of the Yuan Kingdom, Ding Yun, had long since passed away and entered reincarnation; the Emperor Taitong, Ding Long, also passed away from old age more than three hundred years ago at the age of one hundred and five.

For example, the three-hundred-year prophecy of the Yuanlong lineage had also been fulfilled. It did not require Fang Longye to secretly micromanage; it really was just a coincidence.

A nine-year-old little Daoist boy was wiping the ancestor's relic when the restriction happened to be undone, and he obtained the cultivation technique within that stone seal; the Yuanlong Dao thus became increasingly prosperous.

For example, Caidie broke through the barrier, achieved the Loose Immortal realm, and finally entered his bedchamber; she was named Jinghuan by Fang Longye.

For example, Qingshe also finally ascended to True Immortal; now, relying on the True Explanation of the Five Elements, that is, the Strange Book of Hesha, the Five Qi in the Chest had already been born. However, it was clearly not enough in terms of heat, and she was at the stage of "Gathering the Five Elements."

Tying his belt, Fang Longye left the palace and strolled through the mountains.

How could the changes of five hundred years be explained in a few words?

In terms of Dharma Treasures alone, in order to refine his skills, he did not know how many he had refined before he possessed the technique to refine top-grade Dharma Treasures today.

He touched a silver bracelet on his hand, which felt cold to the touch.

The bracelet was entirely silver-white, revealing a faint icy blue halo.

It was the Heavenly Scorpion Rope, refined by integrating all the essence of the previous scorpion demon's corpse into that scorpion tail of his, with thirty-six Heavenly Dipper Restrictions.

When capturing people or objects, once it touched the body, seventy-two sharp hooks and barbs would immediately grow, taking root in the flesh, and it carried cold poison.

It was enough to capture a True Immortal without a Spirit Treasure.

Not every True Immortal could have a Spirit Treasure by their side. True Immortals with Spirit Treasures were already the best of this realm.

Therefore, in Fang Longye's view, having such artifact-refining skills made the spiritual materials and energy he spent worthwhile.

As for the corpse of the Golden Snake, he refined it according to its attributes into one Golden Snake Sword and three Golden Snake Awls, all of which carried deadly poison; even a True Immortal realm expert would suffer heavy injuries if they were touched by them after their defenses were broken.

The former was also a top-grade Dharma Treasure with thirty-six Heavenly Dipper Restrictions. The latter was slightly inferior, with only twenty-seven Heavenly Dipper Restrictions.

However, for Caidie, who was in the Loose Immortal realm, it was enough. That's right, both of these Dharma Treasures were given to her.

Fang Longye is indeed not a good man, but he is merely stingy with his emotions.

In other respects, he is still quite generous.

He summoned the Panlong Spear; it felt slightly heavy in his hand.

With the Qingyang Cauldron, his weapon-refining skills have improved to the rank of top-grade Dharma Treasure.

How could he forget the weapon he had painstakingly refined? Even his inner armor had been refined to perfection by him; how could he be without the gear for combat? The current Panlong Spear has had a large amount of spirit materials added to it; its material is sturdy, and its sharpness is fully revealed.

It is truly a fine weapon.

"Pity, there is still some deviation~"

Previously, his realm was low and his knowledge shallow.

He did not understand the best refining methods for weapon-type Dharma Treasures.

As the saying goes, jade is not polished, it cannot become a vessel; this is also true for such weapon-type Dharma Treasures. Without hammering and refining, how can it become a divine weapon?

When Laojun forged the Golden-Hooped Rod and the Nine-Toothed Rake, they had to undergo a thousand kinds of tempering!

The best refining step for weapon-type Dharma Treasures is to continuously collect divine materials and spirit objects, hammer them in, until it achieves a divine weapon that can rival a Spirit Treasure without adding any Restrictions.

Only then is it time to add Restrictions and begin refining it toward a Spirit Treasure.

This insight naturally came from the scattered memory fragments within that True Immortal Level Dragon Pearl; he only came to know of it in the process of continuously refining the True Immortal Level Dragon Pearl.

As for the big shot Hongyun, that big shot speaks of Dao and Dharma. These common sense points, and even techniques, are seen by the big shot as mere trifles, not worth mentioning.

Fortunately, if the steps are wrong, it is nothing; just turn back and make up for it.

It is just that he does not understand the specialized hammering method. Although hammering a divine weapon is similar to how mortals forge weapons.

But it does not mean the experience is exactly the same. Just as refining Dharma Treasures requires attention to the combination of materials, hammering divine weapons is the same.

Besides this, just as there are requirements for the timing, technique, and arrangement of Restrictions when refining Dharma Treasures, the weight, angle, and frequency of the hammer blows, and the timing, frequency, and duration of quenching when hammering divine weapons, etc., are all a field of study.

He searched for a long time in the Equivalent Balance, but he did not find a method that met his needs.

Mainly, in the eyes of Fang Longye, who has now figured out the patterns of the Equivalent Balance's transactions, the transactions at both ends are entirely a convergence conforming to a certain situation.

Not to mention that cultivation methods can only be exchanged for cultivation methods, and divine abilities can only be exchanged for divine abilities; this is the similarity of classification.

There is also the convergence of characteristics.

He could even guess that if he obtained the cultivation method for the Five-Colored Divine Light and brought it over for an equivalent exchange, the options that appeared would inevitably be divine abilities within the Five Elements, such as the Great Five Elements Art.

Just like when he previously used Sun True Fire for exchange transactions, the options he got were all of the divine fire category; using Xuanming True Water for exchange transactions, what he got were all of the divine water category.

Take for example the spear techniques of Zhao Zilong from the fantasy Three Kingdoms he obtained by exchanging the spear technique methods he had previously comprehended; these are all characteristic convergences under one classification.

With the hammering method for forging weapons by mortals in this Small World, let alone that he can only trade once and cannot use the things traded over to trade again like a bug, even if he could use the bug, it is estimated that it would be of no use.

Fortunately, he is about to leave the Small World; when that time comes, this problem will naturally be solved.

At this time, it was near midnight, and all was silent.

He looked up at the sky.

The Milky Way appeared, the jade universe was dustless. The sky was full of brilliant stars, and the water waves had faded. All sounds were Ning, and the birds in the thousand mountains had vanished.

The stars filling the sky within this Cave Heaven Small World are merely projections of the star realm of the entire Honghuang Great World.

How brilliant should the real galaxy be? It is time to go out! Although he has not yet ascended to True Immortal, it is only a fraction of a difference.

His combat power is enough to rival three or four True Immortals like Qingshe.

Even if he is just a swallow, how can he always trap himself in a prison?

……

Half a month later.

A hanging pavilion in the mountains.

Shadows fell under the eaves, mottled with traces.

The pine wind blew into it, the curtains rolled up sparsely, and the fragrance was natural.

Fang Longye sat opposite the Divine Golden Body.

This Divine Golden Body was eighty percent similar to his appearance, and his body was full of the aura of Incense Vow Power.

His strength was also at the Yuan Immortal realm.

Clearly, the Divine Immortal Path that Fang Longye also cultivated had reached the Yuan Immortal realm.

"This Small World shall be left to you, fellow Daoist, to look after."

"It should be so."

Fang Longye did not say much and stood up immediately.

He returned to the palace in the mountains.

Qingshe and Caidie were already waiting there.

Looking at the empty palace after dismissing the group of minor demons, he immediately waved his hand, and the palace, which covered a thousand acres, immediately shrank and turned into the size of a fist. It was taken into the Mitian Dharma Conch by him.

It was the only top-grade perfect Dharma Treasure among the eighteen Dharma Treasures of the 'Small Heavenly Dipper Cloud Restriction Method'—Miyuan Palace.

A palace-type Dharma Treasure.

It comes with a defensive Restriction, as large as a thousand acres and as small as a fist.

It can be considered the best choice for home and travel.

"Let's go!"

With a thought, a portal appeared before him, with cyan halos flowing.

He took the two women and stepped into it immediately.

Beiju Luzhou.

A small verdant mountain.

Lush and green.

Above a mountain stream in the forest, a cyan light portal suddenly appeared.

One man and two women stepped out together, without stirring up the slightest ripple.

It was precisely Fang Longye and his party.

The morning sun had just risen, and rainbow clouds filled the sky.

Perhaps it had just rained during the night.

There was a fresh, post-rain scent in the air.

On the branches of the trees not far away, leaves were laden with raindrops, full and heavy, appearing as if they might fall at any moment.

Three or five small birds perched on the trees, their emerald feathers still damp, emitting pleasant chirps.

Some were even leisurely preening their feathers, posing and preening themselves.

Qingshe frowned and said, "The location is different from when I entered the Small World." Even after staying inside for a thousand years, she still remembered that she had entered the Small World by chance at a marsh.

Fang Longye closed his eyes to sense something; he opened his eyes and replied with a smile, "The portal to enter the Small World is not fixed, and besides, we did not walk through that interface between the world barrier and the Primordial World."

Ever since he finished merging with that Gourd Seed, he had discovered that he had a certain connection with the Grotto-Heaven Small World and could influence the operation and rules of the Small World.

The portal just now was the manifestation of him directly opening the barrier of the Small World.

Thinking about it, this was likely because the Gourd Seed had become the world-suppressing Spirit Treasure during the process of this Small World's formation.

Fang Longye rode the clouds and wind, flying toward the summit of this verdant small mountain.

He stood on the branch of an ancient tree, sensing the entire world.

"Different, it is indeed different."

With a slight perception, he felt the power of heaven and earth was incomparably vast.

In the Small World, the sense of suppression he still felt even after merging with the Gourd Seed had completely vanished.

Actually, it was not hard to guess.

The previous suppression the Small World exerted on a cultivator's strength was because the Small World could not withstand too high a level of cultivation. To protect itself, it naturally formed a restriction on cultivators.

Fang Longye estimated that if a Golden Immortal Realm cultivator entered, they would not be suppressed by that Small World, because a Golden Immortal could likely destroy that Small World directly.

In short, sensing the vastness and depth of the world, not only was there no feeling of oppression, but a sense of great freedom from having cast off shackles welled up in his heart.

There was just one point of confusion.

This small mountain was not some immortal mountain or treasure land, but quite ordinary, yet the spiritual Qi in the surroundings was actually several times denser than in the Small World.

Seeming to see his question, Qingshe spoke up, "Great King, I had doubts before; spiritual Qi in ordinary Secret Realms and Grotto-Heavens is always much denser than in the Earth Immortal Realm. But that Small World was clearly not like that."

She paused, then continued, "But after witnessing the full power of that Gourd Seed, I understood. All the profound fortune of that Grotto-Heaven Small World had gathered onto the Gourd Seed you merged with."

"Only in this way could this Small World, formed from fragments of the ancient world, lack dense spiritual Qi."

Fang Longye nodded, "It seems there is indeed a reason for this."

Qingshe's beautiful eyes turned, and she said to Fang Longye with a beaming smile, "Great King, to celebrate you just coming out of the Small World, I have a treasure to present to you."

Fang Longye said noncommittally, "Oh? What treasure is it?"

Her entire person was already his. If she had any treasure, would he not know? The only thing she had that could be called a treasure was the Jade Ruyi she had seized from Jinshe, a low-grade perfect Spirit Treasure with eighteen Post-Heaven Divine Prohibition layers.

Qingshe smiled, "Do not disbelieve me, this treasure can enhance a cultivator's comprehension and assist one in attaining the Dao!"

Second chapter today, four thousand words~

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