Starting from the two realms, cultivating immortality by taming beasts

Chapter 658 The Beginning of Refining

In the forest world, in Upper Limburg.

"Buzz!"

As the gate between the two realms emitted a buzzing sound, Zhao Ting, the Nascent Soul True Monarch who was on guard nearby, couldn't help but narrow his eyes, unable to hide his envy.

The war to conquer the Great Forest Realm is nearing its end. The cultivators who can now teleport through the interdimensional gate are no ordinary people; they are mainly here to reap the rewards of this realm.

"The True Venerable of Taiyin, Gu Qinghan!"

"True Venerable Li Dongbin of Zhengyang!"

Upon seeing the two figures before the gate between the two realms, Zhao Ting quickly suppressed his thoughts, stepped forward to pay his respects, and dared not be the slightest bit negligent.

Unexpectedly, the two only glanced at him indifferently before disappearing without a trace, most likely heading to the refining ground prepared by the higher-ups of the Immortal Alliance.

Unfortunately, I didn't manage to build any connections with them through this opportunity.

Zhao Ting pursed his lips, feeling somewhat disappointed, but also knowing that such an important figure was not someone he could associate with.

Just then, the gate between the two worlds trembled again, revealing a figure—Chen Beiwu, who had crossed the boundary.

"Such a rich wood-elemental energy!"

Chen Beiwu's eyes flickered slightly, realizing that this world seemed about to collapse, showing signs of things reaching their extreme and then reversing.

"Hey!" (The concentration of spiritual energy here is even more terrifying than in the Southern Wilderness!)

As a plant spirit, Schiller immediately sensed something was wrong.

Both being fourth-order spiritual veins, if the spiritual energy concentration of the Southern Wilderness Region is five, then the spiritual energy concentration of this place is ten.

This gap cannot be simply summarized as doubling; rather, they are almost on completely different levels, and can even be described as extremely close to the level of a fifth-order spiritual vein.

"Roar." (Normal.)

The golden egg slightly raised its head, indicating that the more broken the world was, the more chaotic and concentrated the spiritual energy became.

The reason is simple: the very essence of this world has been damaged to the point that it can no longer maintain the balance of the world, and it has begun to save itself.

If a being were to be born in this environment of abundant spiritual energy and become a giant in the cultivation world, and then gradually sort out the origin of heaven and earth, perhaps it could maintain the balance of this world.

Conversely, as time passes and the spiritual energy permeating heaven and earth declines and completely exhausts, this world is very likely to fall from the middle thousand world to the small thousand world, or even collapse directly.

"Huh?" (You even know that?)

Schiller was greatly surprised.

These words would have been reasonable no matter who said them, but they just happened to come from the Golden Egg.

It seems that Jin Dan isn't just being lazy when he reads books; he's genuinely studying.

Seeing Schiller's surprised look, Golden Egg chuckled.

Although it is usually quite reckless, it has learned the importance of intelligence by following Beiwu around.

"Roar!" (Don't worry, with my help, you'll definitely succeed in refining the source this time!)

Golden Egg patted Schiller with its paw, looking confident.

Ignoring the two children's conversation, Chen Beiwu turned his head to look at the respectfully bowing cultivator in front of him, revealing a gentle smile.

"Fellow Daoist Zhao, how are the preparations for the refining ground going?"

"Everything is ready. Lord Chen, you may choose freely." Zhao Ting quickly presented the jade slip with both hands.

Although he was not qualified to cultivate the "Supreme Primordial Stealing Heaven and Ascending to Immortality Scripture", he had heard about it through the sect's arrangements and knew the importance of the refining ground.

Chen Beiwu lightly touched the jade slip with his divine sense and discovered that the sect had arranged three locations.

First, there is the ancestral temple of ancient trees; second, there is the vast and fertile land; and third, there is the rift valley of ten thousand forests.

The Ancient Wood Ancestral Court is located deep within the oldest forest in the Great Forest Realm. It contains incomparably pure innate Yi Wood Qi, making it a sacred cultivation ground that wood-type cultivators and their fellow beasts dream of.

Therefore, the one who could occupy this place and become its master was naturally extraordinary. He was a fifth-order Yuan Medicine Black Umbrella Mushroom with more than 50,000 years of cultivation and a realm as high as the late stage of Demon Venerable. It was almost impossible for him to cultivate into a spirit.

It is no exaggeration to say that such a being is one of the few overlords of the demon race even in the entire Great Forest Realm, and his battle record is so impressive that he has defeated two Nascent Soul cultivators from the Jade Purity Immortal Sect in succession.

It wasn't until the sect's Xuanwei True Venerable personally intervened that this arrogant demon lord was successfully captured and taken away.

Deep within the ancient ancestral temple lie remnants of the Black Umbrella Mushroom, a product of a battle between a sect's Nascent Soul cultivators. Located in the core area of the Great Forest Realm, it is a suitable place for Schiller to refine.

Chen Beiwu's eyes flickered, and instead of making a hasty decision, he looked at the other two places.

Located at the confluence of the dragon veins of the Great Forest Realm, the Wanrangze Land is shrouded in darkness, yet it contains extremely pure innate swampy energy, making it suitable for practitioners of water-based cultivation techniques.

Water nourishes wood. Schiller possesses all five elements, primarily wood. Refining it in the Wanrang Marshland allows it to leverage the power of the dragon vein to devour the origin of the Great Forest Realm, perhaps giving it the opportunity to further transform the inner landscape of the Taiyi True Form.

The last one, the Mansen Rift Valley, is a natural rift valley located in a remote area of the Omori region.

This rift valley may seem ordinary, but it actually contains profound mysteries, containing boundless and magnificent Daoist principles of creation, and is the entrance to, or rather the foundation of, the Fiery Cloud Blessed Land.

Without the Wansen Rift Valley as its foundation, the Fire Cloud Blessed Land could not exist.

Therefore, some sects speculate that cultivators refining the origin of the Great Forest Realm in the Wansen Rift Valley might have the opportunity to further touch the core of this world.

"Which place do you think would be more suitable?" Chen Beiwu asked, looking at Xue Le.

"Hey."

Schiller chose the Ancient Wood Ancestral Temple as his first choice.

Although the Ancient Tree Ancestral Court has been thoroughly searched by Immortal Alliance cultivators, it is still confident that it can find some overlooked rare and precious materials.

Chen Beiwu's eyes narrowed slightly as he used one hand to perform divination, while simultaneously sensing the changes in the position of the Purple-Gold Canopy within the chaotic world.

When he wanted to go to the ancient ancestral temple, the Purple Gold Canopy remained motionless, and the divination showed great fortune.

Chen Beiwu then slightly changed his mind and chose the Wanrangze Di (a geomantic site) to perform the deduction. He found that the Zijin Huagai (a geomantic feature) position remained unchanged, and the hexagram changed from "great fortune" to "great misfortune".

As for the Wansen Rift Valley, Chen Beiwu's Purple-Gold Canopy trembled slightly with just a thought.

This tremor was not a warning of danger, but rather a feeling that was difficult to describe in words, as if the Nine Breaths of Chaos were giving a reminder.

"I think Wansen Rift Valley is more suitable," Chen Beiwu said telepathically.

Upon hearing this, Schiller changed his mind without hesitation and agreed with Chen Beiwu's decision.

"???"

When Zhao Ting saw Chen Beiwu choose Wansen Rift Valley, he was slightly taken aback, but quickly regained his composure.

Before Chunyang Cave Heaven intervened, Wansen Rift Valley was undoubtedly a good choice.

However, after the arrival of the True Venerable Zhengyang, Wansen Rift Valley can be said to be the worst refining place in the Great Forest Realm.

Wansen Rift Valley and Huoyun Blessed Land are two sides of the same coin. Chen Beiwu's choice of this place for refining means that he wants to compete head-on with Zhengyang Zhenzun.

Zhao Ting did not doubt Chen Beiwu's talent and ability, but he did not believe that a Nascent Soul True Monarch could suppress the Pure Yang Cave Heaven's Divine Transformation Realm with the help of the Demon Venerable's Beast.

"To dare to compete with a Nascent Soul cultivator in a Pure Yang Cave Heaven—with such ambition, it's no wonder the sect's higher-ups have such high hopes for Chen Beiwu."

Zhao Ting's mind raced, and he said respectfully, "True Lord Chen can consider it further; there's no need to make a decision immediately."

"No need to think about it anymore, let's go with the Wansen Rift Valley."

Upon hearing Chen Beiwu's words, Zhao Ting immediately fell silent and led the way.

Wansen Rift Valley.

The autumn wind swept up fallen leaves, and two sheer cliffs, as if sculpted by an axe, came into Chen Beiwu's view.

On two steep cliffs, three elegant buildings stand in the distance.

Um?"

Inside the cave, Li Dongbin frowned slightly as he looked out through the cave's protective barrier.

The younger generation of the Immortal Alliance is truly arrogant.

It's understandable that Gu Qinghan, the True Venerable of Taiyin, would covet the Fire Cloud Blessed Land, since he is a True Venerable of the same realm.

Chen Beiwu, a mere Nascent Soul True Monarch, dares to meddle in Wansen Rift Valley. Isn't he afraid of coming up empty-handed?

Inside another cave, Gu Qinghan's lips curled into a slightly amused smile.

"Interesting. A larger crowd might make things more lively and perhaps force out the beings within the Fire Cloud Blessed Land."

Gu Qinghan murmured a sentence, then closed his eyes to conserve his energy.

"True Lord Chen, your cave dwelling is here."

Zhao Ting walked to the elegant building and took out a jade slip.

Chen Beiwu took the jade slip and looked towards the distant cave.

Neither Gu Qinghan nor Li Dongbin concealed their auras, so Chen Beiwu easily confirmed the identities of the owners of the two cave dwellings.

"It seems my intuition was right." Chen Beiwu became increasingly convinced that his choice was correct.

"Refining the origin of heaven and earth with immortal techniques requires waiting for the right opportunity. When the opportunity arrives, heaven and earth will tremble, and True Lord Chen will know," Zhao Ting reminded him.

Chen Beiwu nodded and walked directly into the cave.

The cave dwelling was simple, containing only a table, a chair, and a futon.

Chen Beiwu casually sat on the futon, his mind connected with the golden egg and the snowman, and then he visualized the Great Mystery Guarding One.

One day, two days, three days —

As time passed, Chen Beiwu suddenly opened his eyes and probed the sky with his divine sense.

Both Golden Egg and Schiller trembled as they sensed a vast, unfathomable aura permeating the heavens and earth, and their eyes immediately filled with unease.

The reason is simple: in the face of this energy, they can clearly feel the fear transmitted through their blood vessels.

Even when they faced a cultivation giant like Zhen Yuanzi in the Heavenly Evolution Realm, they had never felt such a despairing aura.

"Is it a half-step Void Refinement cultivator, or a Void Refinement Dao Venerable making a move?"

Chen Beiwu, whose mind was connected to Jin Dan and Xue Le, twitched his eyelids and stared intently at the sky.

Rumble!

Perhaps for a moment, or perhaps for eternity, a towering giant finger suddenly came into Chen Beiwu's view, emanating an indescribable ancient aura.

"Snap, snap!"

Before this giant finger, the celestial space shattered violently at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Immediately following, a second earth-shattering roar resounded, and a silver-white, sky-covering palm slightly flipped, as if it were peeling away the origin of heaven and earth, or as if it were sorting out the spiritual veins of heaven and earth. Infinite and endless Daoist charm of creation swept across all directions in an instant.

"The origin of heaven and earth has appeared; you may begin refining it."

As the indifferent voice rang out, Chen Beiwu formed hand seals and entered a meditative state with Xue Le, no longer guessing the identity of the person who had made the move.

No matter how high one's cultivation level is, it ultimately belongs to someone else; nothing is as important as the opportunity that has appeared at this moment.

Faced with this opportunity, even the usually silent Nine Breaths Chaos showed a slight disturbance, which Chen Beiwu temporarily suppressed.

boom!

Schiller hovered behind Chen Beiwu, manifesting a portion of the Taiyi Sword Vine, and activated the "Supreme Primordial Stealing Heaven and Ascending to Immortality Scripture" to attempt to connect with the origin of this world, and then began to sort out the meridians of heaven and earth.

"Hey!" (That's so hard!)

Schiller shook his head, feeling somewhat dizzy.

The "acting on behalf of Heaven and using the disabled to nourish the disabled" described in the "Supreme Primordial Stealing Heaven and Ascending to Immortality Scripture" seems simple, but in practice, Schiller felt that he only understood it in his mind and half of it in his consciousness, but he was completely clueless about the primordial magic power in his body.

The reason was simple: it took Schiller three days and three nights just to draw in, devour, and refine a trace of the origin of heaven and earth.

If that were all, it would be fine. In the eyes of the Fifth Realm Demon Lord, the years of cultivation are often measured in tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years. Three days and three nights are nothing at all.

Unfortunately, the time available for the Fifth Realm Demon Lord to use the "Supreme Primordial Stealing Heaven and Ascending to Immortality Scripture" to refine the origin of heaven and earth was limited.

With Xue Le's current cultivation level, he can at most maintain the full operation of the "Supreme Primordial Stealing Heaven and Ascending to Immortality Scripture" for one month.

At this rate of refining, it would be impossible to refine even a wisp of the Great Forest Realm's origin within a month, let alone a whole Great Forest Realm's origin.

"Roar!" (I'm here to help you!)

The golden egg's expression hardened, and it activated the Three Offices Furnace's profound power to help Xue Le refine the origin of heaven and earth, but it couldn't help much in terms of guiding it.

Rumble!

At this time, Chen Beiwu also discovered that the strange phenomena generated by the two nearby caves were becoming more and more spectacular.

Above the nearest cave, a vast expanse of pure yang energy condensed and took shape, outlining a gigantic tiger whose size blotted out the sky.

Its entire body is hairless, its shape is like red gold, its eyes are pure white, and its body is constantly surrounded by a blazing white light. It is none other than the most representative creation beast of Chunyang Cave Heaven, the Xuan Tan Yang Jun.

This Xuan Tan Yang Jun simply roared to the sky, and with a slight opening of his mouth, a vast and powerful source of heaven and earth cascaded down like a waterfall.

In comparison, the primordial energy of heaven and earth that Schiller draws upon is like a babbling brook, seemingly inexhaustible, but in reality, it can barely sustain itself, and is becoming increasingly thin and illusory.

The strange phenomenon in Gu Qinghan's cave was even more exaggerated, with endless moonlight surging and covering most of the sky.

The moonlight spread, connecting with the primordial energy of heaven and earth, and then, with the power of Yin, condensed into a mysterious jade rabbit phantom.

The jade rabbit had silver-white eyes with Daoist charm hidden deep within its pupils. Its fur was as white as frost and snow, yet a crescent moon halo gathered behind it. Its body radiated ten kinds of light, forcefully suppressing the illusory image of Xuantan Yangjun and seizing more of the origin of heaven and earth.

The illusory figure of Xuantan Yangjun paused slightly, glanced at the mysterious jade rabbit with a hint of apprehension, then opened its mouth wide, as if trying to snatch back the origin of heaven and earth.

When two powerful forces clash, one will inevitably be injured.

As Xuan Tan Yang Jun and the mysterious Jade Rabbit battled, Chen Bei Wu discovered that the source of heaven and earth drawn by Xue Le was becoming increasingly unstable, and even the babbling brook formed by the convergence of the source was on the verge of collapse.

"Hey!" (We can't hold on any longer!)

Schiller was somewhat flustered.

Under the influence of Gu Qinghan and Li Dongbin's shared beast, the essence of heaven and earth that it could draw upon became increasingly scarce.

Don't worry, I'll help you.

Chen Beiwu remained calm, no longer suppressing the restless Nine Breaths Chaos within his body. Instead, he released it slightly, simultaneously unleashing the Myriad Spirits Tribulation Transformation and merging with the Golden Egg, then unleashing the Primordial True Beast Profound Power to empower Xue Le.

To avoid any trouble caused by the Nine Breaths Chaos, he spent three days observing and roughly determining how much of the origin of heaven and earth a Fifth Realm Demon Venerable could devour and refine.

In other words, Chen Beiwu opened the door and blessed the Xue Le Shan Na, causing a phantom image of a Taiyi Sword Vine to appear in the sky above the cave.

The moment this phantom appeared, it overpowered the Jade Rabbit, snatched food from its jaws, and enveloped most of the primordial energy of the heavens and earth, its power unparalleled for a time.