Immortality and Cultivation: Starting with Improving Spiritual Root Aptitude

Upon seeing this, Wu Fan no longer cared about the destruction of the treasure. He immediately activated the true essence in his dantian, and his figure suddenly accelerated, continuing to flee into the distance.

However, the cone-shaped magical artifact with flowing purple light behind him caught up with Wu Fan, who was fleeing, at an extremely fast speed. Like a leech, it clung to his back and appeared in his back in an instant, about to pierce him.

While flying at full speed, Wu Fan suddenly flipped over, narrowly avoiding the fatal blow, and continued his desperate escape.

The cone-shaped magical artifact missed its target, and the purple light suddenly surged. It then made a strange turn in mid-air, and with a buzzing sound, it chased after the purple tail again.

"We cannot engage him in close combat; we must lure him into the formation before we have a chance to kill him."

Wu Fan pondered to himself, but his flight speed increased even further.

Zheng Yue watched the departing opponent, his brows furrowed, and shouted:

"Junior Brother Wu, where are you going?"

After he finished speaking, his whole body shone with golden light, and he immediately caught up with a speed that was no less than Wu Fan's, and even two minutes faster.

He doesn't have much spiritual energy left in his dantian, so we need to finish this quickly!

The two began a chase through the endless mountains and forests.

Zheng Yue, standing behind him, was unwilling to give up. He would occasionally raise his hand and cast spells, attempting to disrupt Wu Fan's escape technique.

All that could be heard were the continuous booming sounds of spells echoing through the mountains and forests. The spiritual energy fluctuations from the constantly exploding spells swept through the surrounding trees, but none of them could truly hit Wu Fan. He narrowly avoided them all with his exquisite movement techniques.

This annoyed Zheng Yue, who had been hanging behind him, so he made a spell, and the cone-shaped magic weapon with purple light reappeared, still aiming to stab Wu Fan in the back.

Wu Fan dared not be negligent and immediately summoned the Spirit-Suppressing Umbrella. His fingers spun rapidly, and the umbrella body spun rapidly as well. Layers of azure light shot out from the umbrella surface, instantly condensing into an azure light shield that blocked the attack of the cone-shaped magic weapon.

He secretly rejoiced, for the other party had finally fallen into the trap he had set.

Wu Fan simply raised his hand, and a circular array plate appeared in his palm.

As he turned his palm, the five-colored array flags immediately emitted spiritual light and began to generate the Five Elements Trapping and Killing Array at an extremely fast speed.

Immediately afterwards, he waved his other hand in the air, and a circular exit, taller than a person, appeared at the edge of the formation.

Wu Fan's blood surged beneath his feet, and he suddenly exerted his strength, unleashing a burst of speed that propelled him out of the array's range in an instant.

Zheng Yue looked at himself trapped in the formation and his face was extremely ugly. He did not expect that this kid knew how to form formations and that he was quite skilled. He had not discovered this before!

At that moment, a golden bowl-shaped magical artifact floated to his side, its golden light suddenly bursting forth and condensing into a golden shield around him.

Then, the cone-shaped magical artifact and the golden spirit sword, which shimmered with purple light, began to rotate around him, acting as a watchful eye.

At this moment, Wu Fan stood in mid-air, manipulating the array plate with both hands, constantly rotating it to adjust the Five Elements Trapping and Killing Array.

A moment later, the Five Elements Trapping and Killing Array changed from five colors to a single color, earthy yellow. Then, five rings of sand and stone tornadoes appeared around the array and began to rotate around Zheng Yue.

Upon seeing this, Zheng Yue immediately increased the spiritual power injected into the golden bowl beside him, making the golden shield around him even thicker.

In an instant, five sand and gravel tornadoes began to slowly converge on the center, attempting to strangle it.

The surrounding sand and stones began to continuously offset Zheng Yue's golden shield, but they could not break through the golden shield created by his golden bowl.

Seeing this, Wu Fan immediately rotated the array plate again. The spiritual light on the Five Elements Trapping Array suddenly flowed, the earthy yellow color faded, and a rich green color appeared instead.

In an instant, the ground began to shake violently, and countless thorny vines burst forth from the soil, growing as thick as giant trees in the mountains and forests in a flash, frantically binding Zheng Yue.

At this moment, Zheng Yue immediately manipulated the golden sword to transform into several giant sword lights, slashing at the thorny vines that were gathering from all directions. Although he could cut off the vines that were surrounding him for a while, countless more vines continued to grow and surround him again in the next instant.

Upon seeing this, he immediately understood.

Wu Fan clearly intended to exhaust his spiritual power before slowly and deliberately killing him when his spiritual power was completely depleted and he had no power to resist.

How could I possibly do as the other party wishes?

Zheng Yue immediately stopped wasting his spiritual energy trying to withstand the giant vines sweeping in from all around, and instead relied on the light shield generated by the golden bowl to defend himself.

He then flipped his hand and took out a gilded talisman from his storage bag. He began to make hand seals and chant incantations.

Wu Fan was greatly alarmed upon seeing this!

The other party actually pulled out a talisman!

Wu Fan was greatly alarmed upon seeing this!

The other party actually pulled out a talisman!

He immediately turned the array plate in front of him again, and the array changed from a single green color to five colors in an instant.

In an instant, golden blades, wooden spikes, water arrows, fireballs, and stone cones all materialized from the formation.

Operating the Five Elements Trapping and Killing Formation at full power consumed a considerable amount of spiritual energy and placed a great burden on the divine sense.

Wu Fan had no choice but to grit his teeth and swallow a pill to hold on, because once the opponent activated the talisman treasure, he would have to immediately activate the Blood Fiend Slash to fight against it, and then escape.

Zheng Yue was greatly alarmed when he saw the formation suddenly transform into a five-element attack formation.

Despite pouring all his spiritual energy into the golden bowl, he was still unable to withstand such a powerful attack. The golden shield was about to be broken, so he withdrew the large amount of true essence he had poured into the talisman and began to defend against the five elements attack evolved from the formation.

Seeing that the formation was confronting the golden shield formed by Zheng Yue's golden bowl, Wu Fan feared that delay would lead to unforeseen changes, so he no longer considered a conservative approach.

With a flick of his wrist, he pointed his sword.

A silver bell appeared and flew directly toward the Five Elements Trapping and Killing Formation. Just as it was about to hit the formation, the Five Elements Trapping and Killing Formation opened a small circular opening to let it fly in, and then quickly closed.

Upon entering the formation, the Silver Bell immediately emitted a silver light, enveloping Zheng Yue and causing the flow of spiritual energy around him to slow down.

Zheng Yue was immediately startled, his expression changed drastically, and he wanted to use the purple flowing light cone-shaped magic weapon to break the silver light binding of the Silver Bell.

However, no matter how fast and timely his reaction was, he still revealed a momentary flaw.

In that instant, Wu Fan amplified the power of the Five Elements Trapping and Killing Formation's Five Elements attack, breaking through Zheng Yue's golden shield defense and directly strangling and killing his body.

Zheng Yue realized that the situation was hopeless and that he had no time to do anything to resist. So he suddenly shot a beam of purple light from his eyes and aimed it straight at Wu Fan.

"Hiss~ thud~ snap..."

The sounds of numerous attacks from the Five Elements struck Zheng Yue's body. In an instant, his body was crushed into countless fragments, then churned into blood by countless sand and stones, and completely disappeared from this world.

However, the purple beam of divine power he unleashed before his "death" ignored the Five Elements Trapping and Killing Formation and shot directly out of the formation towards Wu Fan's location.

Wu Fan had seen this supernatural power before when he and his team killed the King of the Yellow Apes on Mount Kizaru, only the color was different.

He instantly realized that this "Nascent Soul" cultivator was about to possess him, so he immediately prepared to condense a "Shocking God Thorn" and shoot it at the purple light, while simultaneously activating the Five Elements Beads in his Yellow Court.

The speed of this purple light was terrifying. Before Wu Fan's "Shocking God Thorn" could be fully formed, it was directly invaded by the purple light into his sea of ​​consciousness.

The purple light that entered Wu Fan's sea of ​​consciousness was overjoyed and was about to use its innate divine power to forcibly seize his body.

But in an instant, a huge suction force suddenly pulled it in.

Enraged, it struggled desperately, even unleashing its innate divine power, the Soul Devouring Power, in a frenzied counterattack, but it was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, utterly powerless to resist.

In the blink of an eye, it was pulled into the Five Elements Bead by that suction force and disappeared completely.

Wu Fan felt the "purple light" enter his sea of ​​consciousness, and the entire process, from the moment his divine soul power was directly absorbed into the Five Elements Pearl, took less than a breath.

From the very beginning of their encounter, he was constantly on guard against his opponent using the technique of possession.

The memory of the Yin Corpse Sect being possessed was still vivid in his mind. Now that the other party was forced into a desperate situation and was making a desperate attempt to possess another body, it was not unexpected.

Just then, as Wu Fan was about to collect the items left behind by the deceased "Zheng Yue", he suddenly staggered and fell straight down from mid-air.

He immediately turned around, his spiritual energy surging within his dantian, and just as he was about to fall to the ground, he flashed back into the air.

Even falling from this height, Wu Fan's body, having undergone body tempering and foundation building, would not suffer any major injuries.

But there must be a reason why a cultivator at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage would suddenly experience this situation.

At this moment, a fragment of memory that did not belong to him appeared in Wu Fan's mind, which made him feel a chill and a sense of absurdity.

He immediately closed his eyes and focused all his energy on the "Refining Spirit Technique," beginning to adjust his divine sense and the suddenly appearing memory fragments in his mind.

"By devouring his soul, one can advance to the Golden Core stage... Ancient War... Soul-Devouring Clan... Holy Clan... Possession... Sealing..."

A moment later, Wu Fan slowly opened his eyes, a look of understanding on his face.

These memories were actually supernatural abilities derived from the Five Elements Pearl after it was upgraded, allowing him to control a small portion of its power.

It means that after absorbing the other party's soul, it can separate the memories into fragments and merge them into its own sea of ​​consciousness.

This effect is like performing a soul-searching technique, but it is far more powerful and mysterious than ordinary soul-searching.

After all, the Soul Searching Technique can only be used on those whose souls are far weaker than one's own, while the Five Elements Beads can extract memories from the other party's souls no matter how powerful they are, once absorbed.

However, this technique is truly against the natural order. Those whose souls are searched will suffer severe consequences, such as loss of mind and dementia, or at least damage to their soul and difficulty in restoring their spiritual foundation.

Therefore, in the world of cultivation, even when facing a mortal enemy, very few people resort to such insidious methods.

Of course, this is the explanation given by righteous cultivators; the demonic path continues to operate as before.

After all, if you want to know some of the other party's secrets, soul searching is naturally the safest and most efficient method.

However, these fragments of memory were too scattered. After searching carefully, Wu Fan only learned some vague information, and the older the memory, the more sparse and fragmented it was.

Now, Wu Fan is certain of only two things.

The first two are Zheng Yue and Feng Yuan, who were indeed possessed by the same being, namely this "person".

Secondly, this "person" is not a Nascent Soul cultivator, nor even a human cultivator, but a spirit from a race called the Soul Devouring Clan.

But apart from that, he knew nothing more about this tribe.

As far as he knew, the only living beings existing in the cultivation world were humans, demons, and a few spirit races born from the convergence of heaven and earth's spiritual energy.

Are there other alien races in this world that have yet to be discovered?!

What surprised him even more was that from the fragmented memories of the other party, he could vaguely glimpse an ancient war that had broken out and some kind of terrifying being that had been completely sealed away. However, the specific details of the event were too vague due to the scarcity of information in the memory.

With this in mind, Wu Fan stopped dwelling on it.

Ancient secrets and whether other alien races still exist in the cultivation world are ultimately too distant for him at this moment, and have nothing to do with him now.

The most urgent task is to return to the sect as soon as possible and, with the help of the Five Elements Pearl, which has now transformed into an Earth-grade spiritual root, steadily improve my cultivation and advance to the late Foundation Establishment stage.

Wu Fan raised his hand and collected all the spiritual artifacts left behind by the deceased Zheng Yue. He also retrieved the five array flags of the Five Elements Trapping Killing Array. Then he summoned the spirit beast Zhao Fu, mounted it, and disappeared into the distance as a blur.