"At the moment, the Nine Palaces Totem Wheel is one of my most powerful offensive techniques.
It wasn't wasted giving them so many resources to devour over the past six months," Ye Yunfei said to himself.
Over those six months, aside from consuming vast amounts of various resources, each of the Nine Divine Beasts had also refined ten Divine Crystals apiece, a total of ninety!
The two spatial rings given by the old man and the Fat Monk both contained Divine Crystals, adding up to nearly two hundred crystals, of which he had spent almost half.
Of course, Ye Yunfei had also obtained a batch of Divine Crystals earlier from Guyin Valley, so he still had quite a few left in hand.
In the 3,000 Worlds, Divine Crystals were currently known as the highest-grade crystals.
In his past life, during his millennium-long cultivation journey, Ye Yunfei had only obtained a handful of Divine Crystals. He never imagined he would acquire so many in this life.
This showed that Ye Yunfei's rebirth had changed many things.
"Alright, next, I'll raise my spiritual force realm," Ye Yunfei said, taking out twenty Divine Crystals.
This time, Ye Yunfei planned to refine Divine Crystals to charge through his realm!
He directly popped a Divine Crystal into his mouth.
Rumble...
Vast energy instantly erupted within his body, surging torrentially into every corner.
Ye Yunfei circulated the Nine-Yang Scripture and began charging towards his spiritual force realm.
For Ye Yunfei, breakthroughs in the spiritual force realm were actually the simplest part of cultivation.
There were almost no obstacles!
And now, refining Divine Crystals to break through only made it even more divinely assisted.
Only three days later, Ye Yunfei began his breakthrough.
He exited the Phantom Tower and found a relatively remote mountainous area on the ground to undergo his Lightning Tribulation.
Rumble...
A majestic deluge of thunderbolts fell from the high sky like cascading waterfalls, exuding a terrifying aura of destruction.
For ordinary beings, a Lightning Tribulation of this level was actually very dangerous; they had to deal with it cautiously, or risk death with the slightest lapse.
But for Ye Yunfei, it meant nothing.
Standing motionless amidst the sky-filling waterfalls of lightning, Ye Yunfei allowed the rolling thunderbolts to strike his body, using their energy to cultivate his Lightning Tyrant Physique.
Thunderbolt also came out, standing beside Ye Yunfei and continuously devouring the thunder falling from above.
Half an hour later, the Lightning Tribulation finally ended. Ye Yunfei had successfully broken through.
Early World Fusion Realm!
Three more days passed, and Ye Yunfei welcomed a Lightning Tribulation once more. After weathering it, he broke through to the Mid World Fusion Realm.
"With purely my spiritual force energy now, I can easily battle Heavenly Boundary Realm experts.
With my current combat power, the only ones who give me headaches are Half-Emperors.
Heavenly Boundary Realm experts are nothing to me now; I won't fear them no matter how many come."
After his breakthrough, Ye Yunfei stood in mid-air and clenched his fists, speaking to himself.
This meant Ye Yunfei's combat power had reached another tier.
Not long ago, if Ye Yunfei encountered multiple Heavenly Boundary Realm experts simultaneously, he would have found it somewhat troublesome. But now, no amount of Heavenly Boundary Realm experts could pose any significant effect.
"This cultivation session will end here for now.
Next, find a Five Elements topography to reforge and refine my Five Elements Spiritual Swords!"
Ye Yunfei thought inwardly.
And so, Ye Yunfei personally took control of the Green Flying Boat, traversing the land below. He eventually found a Five Elements topography.
This was a vast mountainous region covered in primitive dense forests. Various demonic beasts and monsters roamed, and many martial artists entered this mountainous area for training.
In one section of these mountains, five peaks connected, each representing a different element of the Five Elements. Beneath the ground, elemental energies of the Five Elements circulated back and forth between the peaks, forming a whole, which precisely constituted a complete Five Elements topography.
"This place is called Tianhuang Yaolin. Many demonic and monstrous beasts roam here, and many martial artists enter to seek them out for combat and training.
However, only martial artists with relatively low strength generally train here, roughly around the Mid World Fusion Realm or lower."
Xuanlong Daozhang recognized the origin of this vast mountain range and told Ye Yunfei.
To Xuanlong Daozhang, beings of Mid World Fusion Realm strength were considered very weak, as he now possessed Late Heavenly Boundary Realm strength.
"Mm."
Ye Yunfei descended into the Five Elements topography, found a flat area between the five peaks, and took out an artifact forging cauldron, placing it on the ground.
"Let me set up some isolation formations first, to avoid unexpected interference."
Ye Yunfei thought for a moment, then laid down several formations, surrounding this flat area.
Then, Ye Yunfei flicked his finger, sending three different types of Exotic Fires into the artifact forging cauldron one after another: Earth Flame Fire, Three Crow Nether Fire, and Samadhi True Flame.
"It's a pity I've only obtained three Exotic Fires so far and haven't had the chance to get more. If I possessed five Exotic Fires, I could begin cultivating the Profound Fire Art,"
Ye Yunfei looked at the three Exotic Fires blazing fiercely inside the cauldron and mused inwardly.
Exotic Fires were categorized into Heaven Fires and Earth Fires, all born of nature and nourished by the heavens and earth. They were crystallizations of fire-attribute essences from across the world, possessing wondrous and domineering effects.
The Profound Fire Art was a high-level technique Ye Yunfei had collected in his previous life. One could begin cultivating it once five Exotic Fires were gathered.
According to the main principles of the Profound Fire Art, if one could collect all types of Exotic Fires in existence, they could cultivate its highest realm. Its power was extremely terrifying, possessing world-destroying might capable of easily annihilating a world!
However, regardless of whether they were Heaven Fires or Earth Fires, both were rare treasures. Acquiring a few already counted as incredible luck. Trying to collect every single type of Exotic Fire in existence was far too difficult!
Next, Ye Yunfei began refining swords.
He stamped his foot, channeling the Five Elements energies beneath the ground.
Boom...
Streams of energy of different Five Elements attributes gathered below the artifact forging cauldron, then erupted from the ground and poured into the cauldron.
Rumble...
Within the cauldron, the three Exotic Fires and the Five Elements energies converged, violently combusting and releasing astonishing energy.
Ye Yunfei took out five Half-Emperor-level longswords and tossed them all into the artifact forging cauldron. Then, he brought out a large batch of precious artifact forging materials, including a great quantity of magic treasures of various levels—most being swords—along with some other natural treasures, and tossed them all into the cauldron.
Finally, Ye Yunfei flicked his sleeve, covering the cauldron. He sat cross-legged before it, releasing his Soul Power to sense and control the heat within.
Time flowed slowly, and without realizing it, two days passed.
"Palace Lord, I have divined the route Ye Yunfei has taken over these days and his most likely current location. You can now go deal with him."
In a floating palace high above the Feixian Continent, an old man suddenly spoke.
"Good! Give me the spatial coordinates. I'll go immediately."
The Heavenly God Palace Master immediately stood up and said.
At the same time, within the headquarters of the Sword Emperor Pavilion.
"I have divined the approximate location of that brat Ye Yunfei. We can now send people to capture him!"
An old diviner spoke.
Two Half-Emperor experts led a team of men away from the Sword Emperor Pavilion headquarters, speeding off in a direction.
At the same time, within Tianhuang Yaolin.
Ye Yunfei sat cross-legged before the artifact forging cauldron, focused on refining swords.
"Huh? Look over there, someone's sitting before a big iron cauldron, who knows what he's doing? Could he be refining pills? To have someone refining pills in these desolate mountains, isn't he afraid of the demonic beasts and monsters here disturbing him?"
Suddenly, a group of young people approached from afar, each possessing an extraordinary bearing.
"Hey, sense it, the fiery energy seeping from that large cauldron seems quite extraordinary. It even somewhat resembles the energy emitted by the legendary Exotic Fires! Could that cauldron contain Heaven and Earth Exotic Fires?! If so, we've struck it rich! If we can obtain Heaven and Earth Exotic Fires and offer them to the higher-ups of our sect, we will definitely become objects of key cultivation by the leadership, vastly increasing our status!"
One tall youth wearing a golden upper garment stared greedily at the artifact forging cauldron before Ye Yunfei.
"Let's go over and have a look," someone suggested.
"Isn't that inappropriate? He's refining pills. Disturbing him might cause conflict,"
A graceful young woman with a scholarly temperament hesitated and said.
"Humph! So what if we disturb him? Remember, Junior Sister Song, us disciples of the Gold Crow Sect traverse the Feixian Continent; apart from members of the other superpowers, everyone should respect us to some extent. No one dares to offend disciples of our Gold Crow Sect so casually, rest assured."
A tall, thin youth spoke with a face full of smugness.