Immortality starts from the liver proficiency

Chapter 632 Thirteen Immortal Golden Attributes

After all, Ye Xuan had told them about the coordinates of this boundary, so it was hard to be sure whether the Golden Core True Monarch of the Taihua Spirit Void Realm would discover it.

Especially Qingyuan Zhenjun.

Now that they have formed a grudge, given Qingyuan Zhenjun's past deeds, he must be a vengeful person. In order to prevent the other party from finding this place, Xu Yunfan naturally wouldn't take things slowly.

Cultivators are always racing against time, as opportunities are fleeting. If they don't seize them firmly, their entire path to immortality might collapse.

For the next period of time, Xu Yunfan dared not slack off in the slightest, transforming into a hunter of gods in the dark night, his figure blending into the shadows of the Attila Realm, constantly patrolling various places.

At first, Xu Yunfan naturally didn't broaden his target; he mostly focused on weak deities like Delis who hid in remote towns.

The major pantheons of Attila are already deeply entrenched, and making any rash moves could easily backfire; now is not the time.

His targets were the gods who existed outside the three major pantheons and possessed various unique divine attributes and powers.

These deities were weak, and because they were unwilling to be bound by the three major pantheons and loved freedom, they mostly spread their faith in the gaps and blank areas not covered by the three major pantheons.

Information was selected from the intelligence that Delis had been trained and thoroughly indoctrinated dozens of times and had revealed everything.

Xu Yunfan naturally set his sights on those marginal gods who were also at the bottom of the divine hierarchy, with weak authority, few believers, and far from the center of powerful pantheons.

Attila, a wild and desolate western region, is characterized by rugged terrain and relatively isolated borders, mostly surrounded by mountains.

It's more accurate to call it a village or castle than a kingdom. These places were basically territories developed by landless nobles over hundreds or even thousands of years.

A god who guards a few thin fields in a barren mountain valley, supposedly bringing forth abundant harvests, has an image that is nothing more than a few stones casually piled up by the mountain people.

Xu Yunfan appeared before the simple altar like a ghost. Before the astonished mountain god could fully gather his divine power, a subtle Divine Firmament Finger Strike pierced through the hastily erected divine barrier and precisely penetrated the core of his divine essence.

Soul search, stripping away the golden essence, refining the divine spark, and sending it into the Star Spirit Banner...

The process was so practiced that it was as if it had been rehearsed a thousand times.

A brand new, attribute-free immortal golden essence was extracted. Under Xu Yunfan's refinement, its foreign imprint was removed, transforming it into pure attribute-free golden essence, which was eventually integrated into his own Dao foundation.

The divine essence then transformed into a wisp of resources for the Star Spirit Banner.

A water goddess dwells in an unnamed lake, her domain limited to a few miles of lake surface, and her followers are occasional passing fishermen.

Fishermen can catch fish as long as they pray sincerely and offer tribute.

Xu Yunfan directly used the Star Spirit Banner to expand his domain, forcibly severing her connection with the meager power of faith.

The weak water god, having lost its source of power, was powerless to resist under the suppression of the Star Spirit Banner's eerie light. Its divine essence was stripped away, and its metallic nature was extracted.

Her struggles were like pebbles thrown into a lake, creating only insignificant ripples before disappearing without a trace.

A newly born spirit of an ancient oak tree, clinging to its roots, has just condensed its divine spark and has not yet fully formed its formal divine nature.

Xu Yunfan didn't even use any powerful spells; he simply used the Star Spirit Banner's ability to gather the fragile spiritual essence along with the faint golden embryonic form into the banner.

The essence within the banner quickly transformed into the lowest level of star spirit, while the trace of gold was completely refined and absorbed under Xu Yunfan's guidance.

...In the days that followed, Xu Yunfan did not stop at all.

Using the information he gleaned from Delis's memories, combined with his powerful divine sense scanning, he specifically targeted weak, isolated deities who could barely protect themselves.

The primary principle is to avoid attracting the attention of powerful deities or pantheons.

In every hunt, the goal is to end the battle before the opponent issues a valid warning.

The eerie light of the Star Spirit Banner became the final resting place for these weak deities, their struggles and cries firmly imprisoned within the small world inside the banner.

"It's hard to imagine that even something like this is called a god. Your gods in Attila are really worthless."

Xu Yunfan held a tree branch in his hand and shook his head slightly.

This was taken from a tree spirit in a forest. Its true form was a towering tree, whose life essence condensed into a branch.

Its true strength is enough to make even a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining struggle.

Moreover, the attack methods were simplistic and shockingly crude.

Most people who become gods are lucky enough to be granted divine status by Attila's divine will.

Even their lifespan is only a thousand years; if they don't improve, they will face death.

Delis blushed as she explained, "The Wild West Wilderness is a place with little life, and basically no powerful gods would want to be near it, so it has naturally become a paradise for these gods."

Xu Yunfan was naturally happy with this. As long as he had a divine spark, he could naturally obtain immortal golden nature, which was easy and enjoyable for him.

Xu Yunfan threw all the good-looking ones, those with decent strength, and those with some potential and talent into the Star Spirit Banner. After being educated by the Star Spirit Banner, they became banner spirits.

With over a dozen consecutive strikes, Xu Yunfan was like a harvester sweeping across a wheat field, reaping crop after crop.

To date, the fourteen strands of pure, immortal golden essence have been successfully extracted and refined.

Of course, not every peeling is perfect.

When refining a faint divine being that controlled the stealth of shadows, the opponent detonated a portion of its divine essence at the last moment, causing a violent tremor in its core metal structure. The excessively violent energy dissipated uncontrollably during the stripping process.

On another occasion, while hunting down a sleeper guarding an ancient cemetery, the core of that deity's divine essence was entangled with a trace of deathly resentment that was difficult to remove, because most of the worshippers were cultists, and even the pure immortal gold was tainted with some ominousness.

After weighing the options, Xu Yunfan decided to abandon the extraction of the gold element from the resentment in order to avoid contaminating his own Dao foundation. Instead, he directly refined and dispersed the divine essence along with the wisp of gold element, using it as pure willpower to replenish the Star Spirit Banner.

Even so, after accounting for the losses from these two incidents, Xu Yunfan's Dao Foundation Core still has thirteen incredibly condensed purple-gold threads that exude an aura of eternal immortality, steadily suspended within it.

Thirteen immortal golden qualities that belong to him alone.

This quantity far exceeds the minimum standard of nine strands required for the completion of the foundation building.

He could clearly feel that, supported by these golden frameworks, his nascent cave-heaven was becoming more stable, its boundaries clearer, and the inner lightning stars were operating more smoothly, with a harmonious rhythm.

Although his magical power did not increase dramatically, its purity and circulation speed, as well as his understanding and comprehending of the principles of birth and death contained in the Divine Firmament True Scripture, have all been elevated to a completely new level.

(End of this chapter)