Primordial Era: Starting with the repair of Penglai Immortal Island

Xuan Du carefully examined Huang Long's unusual physical condition and frowned slightly.

Although he possessed profound cultivation, even Huanglong, a Great Luo Golden Immortal, could not resolve the "special power" left behind by his three masters. He had the will but not the power.

He pondered and said, "The three powers within your body, Senior Brother, contain supreme power. They are the true essence of the Great Dao condensed by our three masters. Although they bring some inconvenience, if you can slowly wear them down and refine them with your own strength, it may be an opportunity for you to comprehend the power above the Great Luo level."

"However, this will likely take quite a while."

Upon hearing this, Huang Long glanced at Xuan Du. An opportunity? He didn't know it was an opportunity?

However, most of his cultivation was restricted, he had a large lump on his head, half of his body was numb, and his swollen buttocks were sticking out. How long would he have to maintain this appearance?

Just thinking about it made his vision go black.

At this moment, Zi Ling, accompanied by seven little Qilin, lay by the pit, looking at the two of them with a hint of worry on her face.

"Sir, you've grown horns!"

"Eeya! Eeya...!" The other seven little heads, seeing the changed Yellow Dragon, also kept shouting.

......!

With Xuandu's support, Huanglong, sporting the "horns" on his head, staggered step by step onto the auspicious cloud that Xuandu had raised. Under Xuandu's guidance, he returned to Wudao Peak and the Five Elements Courtyard.

Seeing that Huanglong was unharmed, Xuandu left behind several bottles of Nine-Turn Golden Pills, which could help temper the body and aid in refining exotic magical powers, before getting up and leaving.

Beneath the tea tree in the secluded courtyard, Huanglong sat cross-legged, his posture slightly strange due to the swelling and pain in his buttocks, as he began to try to dispel the saintly power within his body.

He mobilized the remaining magical power in his body, surging towards the bulge above his head like a tidal wave.

However, the power lurking within the bulge, though seemingly weak, remained unmoved no matter how much his magic washed over it.

He tried to concentrate on dissolving the wound on his waist, but the result was the same. The force seemed to be integrated with his own muscles, bones, and flesh, yet it also seemed to exist independently, beyond his control, and extremely stubborn.

As for the mark on his buttocks, it carried a "cut it if you don't submit" connotation, leaving him completely helpless.

After several years of continuous attempts, only one-thousandth of the amount was removed, which left Huanglong in a state of extreme despair.

With his current cultivation level, it's wishful thinking to think he can quickly dispel the power left behind by these three saints.

The only way is, as Xuandu said, to use a gentle, persistent process to wear it down bit by bit.

Even so, the progress is outrageously slow. According to his estimate, it would probably take tens of thousands of years to fully restore the "normal" image!

"How long is this going to drag on?" Huanglong conjured a water mirror, looking at his comical reflection, filled with grief and indignation.

Especially when he thought about attending some kind of gathering of disciples from the three religions in the future, or having fellow disciples visit him, with this appearance on his face... the image was too beautiful for him to bear.

"No! I absolutely cannot let anyone see me like this!"

Huang Long made up his mind, "Until I'm fully recovered, I'm staying in this villa and not going anywhere else!"

In order to maintain the image he had worked so hard to cultivate among his fellow disciples, Huang Long began a long period of being a "homebody."

He claimed to have gained some insights and needed to go into seclusion for an extended period, refusing all visitors.

Fortunately, with Zi Ling around, everything in the dojo was managed in an orderly manner, allowing her to focus wholeheartedly on the arduous task of "refining the Master's Care Mark".

Time flies, the years are like a shuttle.

In the primordial era, time was immeasurable; in the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of years had passed.

For tens of thousands of years, Huanglong lived a secluded life, almost never stepping out of his temple.

Every day, his main task is to exhaust all his magical power to fight against the three saintly powers within his body.

Although this process was painful and lengthy, it also served as an ultimate test of his magical power, mind, and will.

Each time his magical power was exhausted and then restored, it made his magical power even purer and more refined; each time he comprehended the power of the sages, he gained a slight but real understanding of the three supreme paths cultivated by his three masters.

In particular, the Daoist essence contained within those three powers seemed to have been slowly "grinded" away and fused into his Dao foundation during the long-term confrontation.

Quantitative change leads to qualitative change. In this daily and yearly "wearing out" and secluded cultivation, Huanglong's cultivation level actually improved naturally.

He quietly took a big step from the early stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, completely stabilizing his realm and exploring a considerable distance into deeper realms.

As one's cultivation increases, one's primordial spirit becomes clearer and clearer, and one's perception of the laws of heaven and earth becomes more distinct!

He first reviewed all the supernatural powers and techniques he had learned.

He also found the many inheritances he had learned in his early years regarding array formation, alchemy, and weapon crafting, and optimized and improved them based on his current knowledge and calculation abilities at the Great Luo realm.

Secondly, he delved deeply into the weapon-refining tradition left behind by the Primordial Celestial Venerable.

Upon advancing to the Great Luo realm, one's essence leaps to that of an innate deity, and one's comprehension, understanding, and grasp of the rules of the Great Dao become incomparable to what they were before.

The divine inscriptions for weapon crafting that I used to find obscure and difficult now seem as clear as the lines on my palm, with many key points suddenly becoming clear.

With this improvement, coupled with the substantial wealth accumulated in his dojo over the years, Huanglong began to squander... no, to practice the art of weapon forging.

Using the finest innate spiritual materials as the main ingredient, supplemented with various rare auxiliary materials, he can reliably refine high-grade acquired spiritual treasures with considerable power.

If you use ordinary materials and put in a little effort, incorporating your own understanding of the Dao principles, you can easily refine low-grade acquired spiritual treasures.

When he used some of the most precious and rare materials in the primordial world, and spent thousands of years meticulously refining and imprinting the forbidden Dao patterns, he successfully upgraded the Five Elements Tower into his first top-grade acquired spiritual treasure!

This magical treasure was created by him using the original Five Elements Pagoda as a base, incorporating a massive amount of innate divine materials, and extracting the original aura of several innate spiritual veins with different attributes from the Daoist temple, and then refining it.

The new Five Elements Pagoda is three stories high, its body radiating five-colored light that flows endlessly. Inside, it evolves a near-realistic miniature world of the Five Elements, capable of suppressing, trapping, defending against, and evolving the killing intent of the Five Elements, possessing boundless power!

Having successfully refined the weapon, Huanglong then turned his attention to the various items placed in his own training ground.

He spent countless amounts of collected spiritual materials, placing various acquired spiritual treasures he had crafted as array eyes at key nodes of the great arrays throughout the Five Elements Grotto Heaven.