Chapter 364

If such progress were heard by some great beings, they would find it unbelievable.

"Congratulations, Sister Qingxue, on entering the Golden Core Realm; from now on, you stand as a legendary Golden Core minor titan, taking a crucial step further on the path to eternal cultivation."

Fang Yu's face broke into a smile as he congratulated Fang Qingxue.

"Brother Yu, if not for you, I could never have cultivated so many divine arts. Now that my lifespan has reached five thousand years, I can lend you a hand."

Fang Qingxue's gaze turned to Fang Yu, a faint smile appearing on her face; she reached out with a sweep of her hand, and countless mysterious energies swirled through the void— at this moment, the sound of lifespan burning seemed to echo through the air, and countless wind disasters, calamities, and apocalyptic firestorms materialized.

Fang Qingxue was once again burning her Little Destiny Art, directly sacrificing her lifespan to condense for Fang Yu the elemental energies of Black Sun Wind Disaster and Great Sun Fire Disaster.

"This… Sister…"

Fang Yu's expression shifted, seemingly stunned that Fang Qingxue would burn her own lifespan for him.

"Five thousand years of life—burning a few hundred isn't anything. Brother Yu, we're family, no need for formalities. To be honest, thanks to you, I obtained the Five Cloud Immortal Elixir, which extended my lifespan by eight hundred years, granting me new divine arts, and after my Golden Core transformation, I gained another thousand years of life."

As Fang Qingxue spoke, she sent all two clusters of elemental energy toward him; even as she spoke, her lifespan burned again—this time, from the boundless dimensions, a dense mass of killing energy coalesced, the essence of countless acts of slaughter, usable for cultivating the Great Slaughter Art.

"Brother Yu, I've helped you obtain the elemental energies for Black Sun Wind Disaster, Great Sun Fire Disaster, and the Great Slaughter Art. You may refine them and bring these three supreme divine arts to perfect completion; as for other great divine arts, I won't expend my lifespan to assist you further."

Fang Qingxue said.

"Thank you, Sister!"

Fang Yu, seeing the three terrifyingly dense clusters of elemental energy, showed expressions of deep emotion and shock.

These three clusters consumed at least three hundred years of Fang Qingxue's lifespan; exchanging three hundred years of life for these energies saved Fang Yu hundreds of years of arduous cultivation—how could he not be moved?

His sister Qingxue clearly regarded him as family, which was why she burned her lifespan and used the Little Destiny Art to gather sufficient elemental energy for him.

Without Sister Qingxue's act, even if he had obtained the cultivation method for the Great Slaughter Art from Meng Shaobai, it would have taken at least a hundred years to condense the slaughter runes and bring this great Dao to perfect completion.

The same applied to Black Sun Wind Disaster and Great Sun Fire Disaster—he would have needed several hundred years to collect the wind disaster energy and the apocalyptic fire calamity energy.

"Cultivate now. I'll guard you."

Fang Qingxue looked at Fang Yu.

"Mm."

Fang Yu immediately sat cross-legged and began his cultivation.

Yet he did not immediately cultivate these three divine arts; instead, he first took out a gourd, filled with an immense amount of prayer energy—the very prayer energy he had exchanged for one hundred million contributions with Elder Tian Xing last time.

Prayer energy is a wonderful thing, especially when opening the mind.

The Yuhua Sect's ten-year accumulation of prayer energy is enough for Fang Yu to open his third mind.

In the past, his mind was sufficient, so he had only opened his second mind; but recently, he gained many rare opportunities, and now he was ready to open his third mind.

This process was not difficult; vast amounts of prayer energy entered Fang Yu's mind, flowing according to the profound method of the Great Source Art, and his third mind was successfully opened.

At that very moment, Fang Yu felt his magic power could still rise.

At that same moment, Fang Yu began refining the clusters of elemental energy according to Daoist mysteries, transforming them into his innate divine arts.

First, Black Sun Wind Disaster—the wind disaster technique of the Mentaiyi Sect's Three Calamities contained profound calamity mysteries; when the wind disaster blew, it could scatter an opponent's mind into chaos, rendering them utterly incapable of mobilizing magic power. It resembled the Great Cutting Art—its opening move could leave an opponent defenseless, unable to even summon their own innate divine art before dying.

Fang Yu channeled his wisdom and urged his magic power, gradually refining all the wind disaster energy until a black sun storm formed within his mind.

Just like the black sun storm Zhao Zhao Xuanyi had cultivated.

Black Sun Wind Disaster—achieved!

Next came Great Sun Fire Disaster.

This fire of Great Sun Fire Disaster differed somewhat from the fire of Bai Di's Golden Emperor Fire Qi; though called Great Sun Fire Disaster, it was still a fire calamity, sharing similarities with the branch of Great Five Elements Art known as Bai Di's Golden Emperor Fire Qi, yet also possessing many differences.

The essence of calamity was extraordinarily dense.

After Fang Yu refined this fire cluster, he felt Bai Di's Golden Emperor Fire Qi had grown significantly stronger, and he now possessed a sense of control over calamities.

The word "calamity" was profoundly mysterious.

Once, a great being said: "Divine arts cannot rival calamities," meaning that when calamity strikes, no matter how powerful your divine arts, you will be reduced to ashes.

This belief exists in the Eternal Life Realm, but its manifestations are more evident in worlds like the Divine Ascension Realm—where great beings, though possessing boundless divine arts and magic power, were nonetheless struck down by their destined counter, dying utterly: figures like Zhao Gongming, whose Twenty-Four Divine Pearl Sea Beads were immensely powerful, yet still fell to calamity and were listed on the Divine Ascension Scroll.

Now, after successfully cultivating Black Sun Wind Disaster and Great Sun Fire Disaster, Fang Yu felt a faint yet growing sense of grasping and controlling calamity—anyone who opposed him could be instantly obliterated by wind and fire calamities.

"No wonder Mentaiyi Sect disciples are so arrogant—controlling even a trace of calamity truly feels wonderful."

Fang Yu savored this mystery of calamity, steadying his spirit.

The greater the divine art, the greater the demonic distraction—it must be overcome by one's own will to master the art.

"Black Sun Wind Disaster and Great Sun Fire Disaster are now complete; next comes the final calamity—Apocalyptic Heavenly Disaster—but I don't have it."

Fang Yu had instantly mastered two of the Three Calamities and knew the Mentaiyi Sect's Three Calamities included one final one: Apocalyptic Heavenly Disaster—a supreme divine art even harder to cultivate than the first two.

Think about it: Black Sun Wind Disaster is wind calamity, Great Sun Fire Disaster is fire calamity, while Apocalyptic Heavenly Disaster is heavenly calamity—how many disasters does heavenly calamity encompass? Far more than wind and fire combined.

Apocalyptic Heavenly Disaster is so difficult to cultivate that even the Fire Cloud Immortal had not succeeded.

But Fang Yu believed Exalted Linglong's Paradise must possess the cultivation method for this supreme divine art—he must find a way to obtain it.

"Boundless Slaughter, Great Slaughter Art!"

Fang Yu steadied his spirit and began drawing in slaughter energy, condensing this great Dao—this had originally been Meng Shaobai's rare opportunity, but now, with both Fang Yu and Fang Qingxue fully devoted to cultivation, they both succeeded.

At this moment, within Fang Yu's mind, a dark, terrifying slaughter array faintly emerged—each thread of slaughter energy could shake the spirit of a Heavenly Man Realm expert, flooding their mind with killing intent and paralyzing their ability to mobilize divine arts.

The slaughter divine thunder was pitch-black and terrifying, emitting a faint, ghostly glow.

"I've nearly completed my cultivation."

Having instantly mastered two supreme divine arts and one of the Three Thousand Great Dao, Fang Yu's face broke into a smile.

Among his cultivated arts, the Green Emperor Wood Emperor Art, Bai Di's Golden Emperor Fire Qi, Bai Di's Golden Emperor Sword Slash, Black Emperor Water Emperor Fist, Huang Di's Earth Emperor Dao—five supreme divine arts were now perfected.

The Great Cutting Art and Great Slaughter Art were also perfected—two more great Dao.

Added to these were Black Sun Wind Disaster, Great Sun Fire Disaster, Hao Zhen Heavenly Fire, Instant Kill Great Method, Thunder Gathering Spirit Refining Qi, Thunder Refining Demon-Slaying Blade, Wan Lei Worshiping Sage Art, Thousand Shadow Thunder Kill, Thunder Elemental Law—nine supreme divine arts altogether now perfected.

Arts like the Willow God Technique from the Perfect World, the Primordial Truth Decipherment, the Six Realms Reincarnation Heaven Art, the Cao Character Sword Art—all were supreme divine arts or beyond—but their cultivation methods differed from those of the Eternal Life Realm; they seemed not to require "perfect completion," since there were no Six Realms Heaven Art energies or Primordial Truth Decipherment energies—these were applications of Dao and Law, not elemental energies.

The Six Realms Heaven Art could simultaneously activate six divine techniques, sounding somewhat like a combination of great Dao.

And the Dou Zi Mi, one of the Nine Secrets of the Shrouding Heaven Realm, is also a secret art, distinct from divine abilities, since in the Eternal Life Realm there is no Xu Yuan Qi of the Dou Zi Mi.

"I must also find the right opportunity to travel to all the other worlds…"