Chapter 1002: Qin De: My Son Truly Possesses Great Fortune

"Heavens, it's actually a top-grade spirit artifact?"

Within Zhendong Wang Fu, whether it was Qin De, Qin Yu, or some of the Qin family's cultivators, such as a certain "Mr. Feng," every face showed an expression of utter shock.

By all rights, that lump of Shi Zhong Yan Chi Iron, though of excellent quality, could at most be refined into a high-grade spirit artifact—that was its limit. To refine it into a top-grade spirit artifact, relying solely on this Shi Zhong Yan Chi Iron would not be enough; one would also need to rely on other rare treasures of heaven and earth to have any chance of succeeding.

And now, this immortal had casually refined it, and actually succeeded in producing many top-grade spirit artifacts!

Top-grade spirit artifacts.

Every single top-grade spirit artifact, placed in the Cultivation World, would be an unimaginable supreme treasure. Putting out one top-grade spirit artifact could set the entire Cultivation World ablaze with earth-shattering, heaven-rending slaughter.

Not to mention top-grade spirit artifacts—even the emergence of a mid-grade spirit artifact could trigger a tremendous storm.

"Just how did this immortal manage to refine them? Is refining magic treasure really this easy? At the very least, wouldn't one need a pill furnace!"

The cultivator in the field named "Mr. Feng," in utter shock, recalled the scene that had just unfolded. He felt as though this immortal had simply grabbed casually, and the materials kept transforming. Under this immortal's control, they changed into various spirit artifact armors and spirit artifact flying swords.

Refining spirit artifacts held no difficulty whatsoever.

If it were him doing the refining, it would take at least three days and three nights to produce a single spirit artifact—and that would only be a mid-grade spirit artifact.

This immortal's method of refining artifacts was truly too brilliant.

Fang Yu smiled, paying no heed to these people's shock.

In the path of artifact refining, he could indeed be called an existence at the Laozu Sect level. Back then, in order to refine the low-grade Dao artifact Eight Divisions Pagoda into a mid-grade Dao artifact, he had spent an entire year refining a single magic treasure—and that was with him activating the violent artifact refining of three thousand hands.

Refining treasures like Dao artifacts typically takes years on end, but refining a top-grade spirit artifact of this world—equivalent to a spirit artifact of the Eternal Life Realm—was for him a matter of a wave of the hand.

Waving his hand a few more times would be embarrassing if word got out.

After all, he was a legend of the Longevity Third Stage Cave Heaven realm; if he couldn't refine a spirit artifact with a wave of his hand, that would truly be too embarrassing.

"Many thanks, immortal! Immortal's great kindness and virtue—I truly don't know how I could ever repay it!"

Qin De gazed at the top-grade spirit artifact treasures before him, and together with everyone else, he bowed respectfully, expressing his gratitude to Fang Yu.

Possessing top-grade spirit artifact treasures was, for him, simply the greatest opportunity of his life. With top-grade spirit artifacts protecting his body, surviving his own Four-Nine Minor heavenly tribulation seemed to pose no problem at all.

"May I borrow your Qin family's treasure vault?"

Fang Yu spoke.

"Treasure vault? Good, good, good, good."

Qin De, upon hearing that this immortal Fang Yu actually wished to use his treasure vault, immediately showed a look of delight on his face.

Normally, if it were anyone else asking to borrow his treasure vault, he would surely fly into a thunderous rage and even develop killing intent. But if it were this immortal borrowing his treasure vault for use, that would be an honor.

He knew his own treasure vault very well. Although it contained some treasures, there certainly wouldn't be any treasures surpassing top-grade spirit artifacts. Yet now, this immortal had casually refined so many top-grade spirit artifacts with a single move—even giving away every single treasure in his vault to this immortal would be no great matter.

Being able to do something for this immortal was his honor; of course he had to agree.

Fang Yu gave an "mm," and with a grab of his hand, pulled out a square-shaped jade block from the Qin family's treasure vault. Gentle light flowed around this jade block, making it look like a treasure.

"《Tong Tian Tu》? Is the treasure the immortal seeks the 《Tong Tian Tu》?"

Qin De's gaze swept over at once, knowing the treasures within his own family's vault.

《Tong Tian Tu》.

"The legend of the Tong Tian Tu has circulated for ages in my Qianlong Continent. This Tong Tian Tu is divided into three maps in total. Legend has it that if one obtains all of them, one can uncover a heaven-shaking great secret hidden within. A thousand years ago, my Qin family's progenitor Qin Shi Huang had already obtained the three Tong Tian Tu. Unfortunately, even he could not penetrate the mysteries within, and so could only give up. Later, when my Great Qin was destroyed by the Xiang family, the first Tong Tian Tu was lost. What remains here now are the second Tong Tian Tu and the third Tong Tian Tu."

Qin De spoke, recounting some stories of bygone years.

The Qin family were the descendants of that era's Qin Shi Huang.

And the world of today is the Xiang family's world.

The Qin family's Laozu Sect was killed by Xiang Yu, who had achieved cultivation success at the time. From then on, the Qin family's Jiangshan was seized by the Xiang family. However, several of the Qin family's immolars struck back at the final moment and slew Xiang Yu. Thus, the Xiang family, who had just seized the Qin family's Jiangshan, had no way to completely annihilate the remaining Qin family descendants.

By the time Xiang Yu's descendants had consolidated their position, the Qin family already held a formidable army and occupied the east. The Xiang family could not wipe out the Qin family in one stroke, so the Qin family was allowed to remain. From then on, the Qin family was enfeoffed as Zhendong Wang.

But everyone knew that this Zhendong Wang of the Xiang Dynasty could very well rebel at any moment, because the hatred between the Qin family and the Xiang family could not be resolved.

However, Qin De was curious—his Laozu Sect had obtained the complete Tong Tian Tu back then and still couldn't comprehend its mysteries. Could this immortal, missing one map, comprehend its mysteries?

"This Tong Tian Tu is missing one map, but that doesn't matter—I'll just find it and bring it back."

Fang Yu's divine sense enveloped an area of hundreds of millions of miles, and he immediately discovered that the first Tong Tian Tu was in the hands of a Xiang family cultivator not far from the Qin family—a cultivator who had obtained the first Tong Tian Tu by a fortunate coincidence.

At this moment, Fang Yu made a great grab with his hand, and a square-shaped jade arrived in his hand, inscribed with the words "Tong Tian Tu One." Just like that, the first Tong Tian Tu had arrived.

Beneath the inscription "Tong Tian Tu One," there were a series of small diagrams, thirty-six in total. Each diagram depicted a person's movement, and every movement revealed certain martial Dao mysteries.

In the void, Tong Tian Tu Two and Tong Tian Tu Three also revealed such mysteries, each map likewise containing thirty-six such small diagrams.

"All three Tong Tian Tu are right before our eyes?"

"Could it be that learning the movements in the diagrams allows one to grasp the mysteries within? These movements don't seem that difficult."

"It is indeed rather strange. I feel that learning these movements isn't all that hard—how come no one has seen through the mysteries within all these years?"

The Qin family cultivators—whether Qin De, Qin Yu, or that Mr. Feng—quickly memorized the various movements described in the hundred and eight diagrams. Qin Yu even began practicing them on the spot right there in the field. He had been tempering his body for many days, and his body's flexibility was absolutely beyond question. As he performed the movements one by one, he discovered something utterly shocking: streams of heaven and earth spiritual energy entered his body through his limbs and bones, and then directly seeped into his muscles, tendons, and bones.

The heaven and earth spiritual energy flowed directly into his body without dispersing, completely flooding into his muscles, tendons, and bones, allowing his muscles, tendons, and bones to continuously absorb and transform.

"What's going on? The heaven and earth spiritual energy isn't entering Yu'er's dantian, but going directly into his body. Wouldn't this make Yu'er's body increasingly powerful? It seems it might truly break through the limits of external martial power in Qianlong Continent!"

Qin De's eyes shone with brilliance. His cultivation base had already reached Innate Great Perfection, just one step away from surviving the Four-Nine Minor heavenly tribulation, so he could naturally sense exactly what was happening with his Yu'er. The abundant heaven and earth Xu Yuan Qi was not entering Yu'er's dantian, but was directly tempering Yu'er's physical body.

This seemed to be a tremendous blessing.

Everyone watched Qin Yu cultivate in the field. They discovered that when Qin Yu cultivated according to the hundred and eight diagrams, the more standard his movements, the faster his absorption of heaven and earth spiritual energy. By the end of the cultivation, this Tong Tian Tu had an inside-out strengthening effect on the cultivator's muscles, tendons, and bones throughout the entire body.

"This is indeed a rather fine cultivation method. For cultivators below the Divine Ability Secret Realm, it can greatly increase their internal and external strength, enhancing their physical body power."

Fang Yu also observed Qin Yu's changes, pondering.

If he had obtained these three Tong Tian Tu when he was below the Divine Ability Secret Realm, then by cultivating according to these hundred and eight diagrams, he could allow heaven and earth spiritual energy to temper his body, and breaking through the various realms of physical body in the Eternal Life Realm might have been extremely simple.

5th Stage of Physical Body—Divine Strength; 6th Stage of Physical Body—Qi Breath; 7th Stage of Physical Body—Internal Vigor; 8th Stage of Physical Body—Divine Courage; 9th Stage of Physical Body—Spirit Communion; 10th Stage of Physical Body—Divine Transformation.

Using the Tong Tian Tu to cultivate these many realms of physical body could be of great benefit.

However, if this diagram were placed in the Eternal Life Realm, placed in the Yuhua Sect, the effect would be somewhat diminished. After all, as long as a cultivator had enough Pure Yang Pills to cultivate with, even a pig would probably become a Pure Yang pig and cultivate all the way to the Divine Ability Secret Realm.

The three Tong Tian Tu still hold value for reference now.

Everyone watched Qin Yu continuously cultivate. The vast amounts of heaven and earth spiritual energy gathered into thirty-six streams as thick as an arm, seeping and merging into Qin Yu's entire body. In the end, thirty-six silver pillars of Qi encircled him, a sight of tremendous presence.

In the words of the Shrouding Heaven Realm, Qin Yu's whole body was enveloped by thirty-six beams of divine light, as if he were a deity walking the mortal world.

Thirty-six silver beams — only seventy-two fewer than the Holy Lord of Yao Guang back in the day.

"So this is the value of the Through-Heaven Diagram?"

Qin De was shaken again and again. He tried cultivating the Through-Heaven Diagram himself, but felt that after his fleshly body absorbed the heaven and earth spiritual energy, a kind of disharmony arose, as if his dantian and his fleshly body had developed a contradiction. He hurriedly stopped cultivating.

A cultivator's practice is to absorb heaven and earth spiritual energy into their dantian — this is the most orthodox method of cultivation. But absorbing heaven and earth spiritual energy into one's physical body, for those who cultivate, is equivalent to wasting heaven and earth spiritual energy, and also causes the fleshly body to become uncoordinated.

Perhaps only those whose dantian is ruined and unable to absorb spiritual energy can better use this Through-Heaven Diagram to cultivate!

"My son truly possesses great fortune!"

Qin De rejoiced in his heart.

His third son Yu'er was born with a dantian unable to absorb heaven and earth Xu Yuan Qi, so he could only practice external arts. He might originally have been unable to reach an extremely high realm, but now it seemed he would instead turn misfortune into blessing — most suited to cultivating the Through-Heaven Diagram, raising his fleshly body to an unimaginable level.

……

The entire Jingcheng was cultivating.

Because of a casual move by Fang Yu, the heaven and earth Xu Yuan Qi in this city had gathered into a spiritual rain — a rare opportunity for everyone living within these walls.

The ordinary commoners were cultivating, the Qin clan soldiers were cultivating, Qin De was cultivating, and Qin Yu was also cultivating.

Of course, Fang Yu was also cultivating.

His cultivation focused on the word "comprehend." Once he comprehended, he could step into the next realm; if he failed to comprehend, he would linger in the Realm of Realms of the Grotto-Heaven realm for a long time.

This is also the reason why, after one's cultivation base reaches the Longevity Secret Realm, many ancient giants of the Jutoudou Society go into closed-door cultivation deep within grotto-heaven blessed lands. Many ancient giants, like Fang Yu, roamed everywhere during their Divine Ability Secret Realm, obtaining fortuitous encounters and raising their strength. But once their realm grew higher, they no longer pursued roaming, staying cooped up at home in contemplation.

Ancient giants such as Jiang Rourou and Lin Feiyan — every time they met, they were deep within the Feather Transformation Heavenly Palace. Even the Three Saints of Feather Transformation stayed home cultivating, never going out.

Those three saints were like three great suns every day, dwelling within the sun itself, displaying boundless domineeringness and profundity.

They too were comprehending.