After bidding farewell to Qi Yaoxian and leaving the Spirit Immortal Path, Wei Tu immediately went to the Sacred Buddha Temple to meet Fu Linglong.
This was his first meeting with her in over forty years since he had funded her cultivation.
With the 1,700 spirit crystals he had provided, along with several fourth-tier spirit pills, Fu Linglong's cultivation speed had increased markedly. In just a few decades, she had broken through from the Nascent Soul Middle Stage to the Nascent Soul Late Stage. Though she was not yet within arm's reach of the quasi-Spirit Transformation realm, she was already not far from it.
If her cultivation proceeded smoothly, then with the enlightenment granted by Fu Linglong's Buddha Heart spiritual body, she would need at most another forty years to break through to the quasi-Spirit Transformation realm and repay him with the "Buddha Bone" she had promised from the very beginning.
Forty years...
It was within Wei Tu's acceptable range.
If he could use the Great Snow Mountain, the Spirit Immortal Path, and the other sects to eradicate Hidden Ghost Elder and Blissful Divine Marquis this time, this deadline could be pushed back further. After all, the reason he was so eager to attain fifth-tier body refinement was to resolve the threats posed by Hidden Ghost Elder and Blissful Divine Marquis.
Five years passed in but an instant.
Yet Wei Tu did not waste this bit of cultivation time.
While studying the Spirit Zombie Secret Canon, he began refining the corpse-refinement avatar explosive secret art he had envisioned—"using the second Nascent Soul as the soul, summoning the Nethergod, and using a refined corpse as the body..."
—Ghost Granny's use of the explosive secret art, Nethergod Invocation, to greatly increase her strength had made him quite envious.
During his years