While searching for secret techniques from An Liangcai that could deal with Xuanling Fairy, Wei Tu, who had spent several years in secluded cultivation within the Yellow Sand Sect, also set out in the seventh year, pressed by time, for the Southern Splendor Sect's fourth "secret-realm medicine garden."
That was right! Had time not been so urgent, with fewer than ten years remaining until the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm opened, Wei Tu would never have rashly gone to the fourth secret-realm medicine garden.
It was not that he did not covet the Buddhist treasures left behind by the Southern Splendor Sect within these four secret-realm medicine gardens, nor the other portion of An Liangcai's "remaining" demon body.
Rather, after killing the Purple-Faced Daoist, his mana had yet to fully recover!
That battle had drained him more severely than ever before. His blood essence and mana were both in an unprecedented state of depletion.
Yet the spirit lands of the lower realm—to him—were hardly different from a Spiritless Land. Hoping to use the faint spiritual energy scattered throughout the Human Realm to replenish his spirit sea, vast as an ocean, within a mere few years was simply a wild fantasy.
Had that not been the case, he would not have been so wary of Jianglingzi, as though facing a formidable enemy.
Moreover, An Liangcai was, after all, a Great Demon Venerable. Before Wei Tu's own strength had completely recovered, thoroughly repairing this demon's demon body... inevitably carried some risk.
Waiting until the seventh year to act was already the absolute limit to which Wei Tu could reduce the danger of this matter. After all, before the Exalted King Palace Secret Realm opened, he still needed to spend some time using the Blood-Ghost Evil Art to refine anew this fourth, still-uncontrolled