Supreme Immortal Aperture.
The Gu refinement had reached its most crucial moment.
A massive cicada chrysalis floated silently in midair, only about five feet above the ground.
The chrysalis's surface was not smooth, but rough and coarse, with the texture of metal.
Fang Yuan took a deep breath and activated the killer move he had prepared.
In an instant, sinister winds rose all around the chrysalis. Dark clouds churned and gathered in the heavens, swiftly forming a vast mass that dimmed the surrounding light.
Wuu wuu wuu...
Amid wave after wave of chilling ghostly wails, the ground decayed into an ashen gray. Pitch-black ghost hands emerged from beneath the earth, thick and savage, reaching for the cicada chrysalis.
The ghost hands seized the chrysalis, yet they themselves were merely illusory. The hands rippled, as though they had pulled something out of the chrysalis, then clenched into fists and withdrew underground.
Hundreds upon thousands of pitch-black ghost hands continuously extended and retracted from the ground, seizing the chrysalis time and again and drawing out the impurities within.
The chrysalis was only a semi-finished product and extremely unstable. But as the ghost hands probed and grasped, it shrank smaller and smaller. Its coarse surface gradually became smooth, while its metallic luster grew increasingly distinct and radiant.
Fang Yuan had watched with unwavering concentration all along. Seeing this scene, he was secretly quite satisfied.
This method was his own creation, and its Core Immortal Gu was the Rank 8 Soul Beast Token.
The previous times I refined Spring Autumn Cicada, flaws always appeared here—the immortal materials had not been processed thoroughly enough. With this method, it will definitely be done cleanly, though there are some aftereffects.
At some point, the sinister winds ceased. The pitch-black ghost hands became fewer and fewer until not