Shone into Reality

The miniature Sword Immortal drew closer, not far from Wang Xuan. She closed her eyes, took another deep breath, and looked completely absorbed.

The experience was quite wonderful. The silver mist wasn't intoxicating, but she felt slightly tipsy. Her head swayed, and her body felt light, as if she were about to float off the ground.

"It's amazing, how can someone at his level produce such a Mysterious Matter?" She blinked her big eyes, somewhat puzzled.

Now, she was fully awake, all her morning grumpiness gone. The miniature version of herself was delighted, saying, "I'll just take a little bit, I'll take it, I'll take it, I'll take it again..."

She found it addictive; the silver mist contained vibrant life and also possessed incredibly amazing extraordinary properties, making it truly irresistible.

Before she knew it, she had moved so close that she was almost touching Wang Xuan's body. Silver mist rose up, and even without her having to inhale much, part of her body was covered.

"How disgusting." She quickly stepped back, and on the ground in front of her, next to Wang Xuan, there were some charred patches.

They were shrouded in silver mist and could easily be overlooked if you weren't paying attention.

"It looks like I've been struck by lightning, and a layer of skin has been peeled off!" She wrinkled her nose and waved her hand repeatedly, throwing the dark substance along with the soil onto the ground.

In the Land of Nothingness, Wang Xuan sat cross-legged in the Life Pool, his vitality growing ever stronger. To his surprise, he discovered that the earthen hill on the shore was also changing.

The new leaf and tender bud of the Nine Tribulation Heavenly Lotus had a faint red tinge around their green edges, which surprised him. Was the Heavenly Medicine really that powerful?

Every time he returned, wisps of red mist would dissipate from his body, which were absorbed by the celestial medicine.

Although it had been refined by him, essentially filtered out the most violent destructive substances, it was still astonishing that a single herb could absorb it.

"This herb is about to mutate!" He stared at it for a long time. If this trend continues, the leaves may flow with colors like the sunset.

He felt that the distance between his life soil and this place had shortened again. He was absorbing the silver substance, and wisps of silver mist were also emerging from his life soil, which were continuously absorbed by the two heavenly herbs.

"Hmm?" What he found even stranger was that he seemed to vaguely sense his own body. He couldn't see it, but he could feel it in a blur.

He wasn't surprised, because as Chen Yongjie had said before, the silver substance was flowing synchronously within his body.

He was highly focused, his third eye scanning the scene. It was as if a fragment of time flashed by and disappeared. He showed a strange expression. It was as if he saw a miniature version of the Sword Immortal.

Rather than seeing it, it was more like a flash of inspiration, a mysterious instinct of the body's self-protection, telling him that there was no danger.

There seemed to be a Little Thing beside him. He sat in the pool, deep in thought. Were both the physical body and the spirit so mysterious? After all, it felt like they were separated by another world!

"Worth exploring further," he murmured, and then he felt a little itchy. Could the Sword Immortal really be by his side? He wanted to reach out and pinch her small face full of collagen.

Qing Mu's small spaceship passed by Ancheng, streaked across the sky, and headed straight for the distant Desolate Mountain and wilderness. He had spoken with Wang Xuan by phone earlier and knew where he was going to go into seclusion.

Inside the spaceship, although Chen Yongjie was repeatedly shaken, he did manage to stay steady and did not fall from his cultivation level, so what he said seemed to be true.

Now, the aftershocks of the extraordinary are surging, and the most severely affected are the so-called "ceilings," which will be the first to be shaken down.

Of course, he also had to be careful. If he painstakingly cultivated to this point and was suddenly hammered down, it would be a bloody tragedy on the path of cultivation.

"Low hills stretch endlessly, a desolate wasteland," Chen Yongjie said.

"A mountain is not valued for its height, but for the immortals dwelling there," Qing Mu said, reminding him that the Sword Immortal was sleeping just ahead, so it was best not to mention it.

Guan Lin followed them off the spaceship.

"There it is!" Chen Yongjie, with his keen senses, immediately noticed the anomaly. There was a familiar aura in the mountains ahead, and a few wisps of silver mist were seeping out from the ground.

He strode forward, and when he got closer, he was certain that Wang Xuan was down there, along with the shrunken Female Sword Immortal!

He didn't have Spiritual Heavenly Eye, but he could still perceive some of the truth. However, he couldn't see the true condition of the Sword Immortal shrouded in white mist.

"Why are you all here?" The miniature Sword Immortal felt that her sleeping place was becoming increasingly disturbed, with people bothering her every day. Now that she had unearthed a "strange object," people had followed her, probably because they had their eyes on her.

Chen Yongjie was surprised. After arriving here, he was guided by wisps of silver mist, and he immediately felt stable, without the turbulent feeling he had before.

Knowing that the Sword Immortal was below him made him feel very uncomfortable. He was devastated when she slashed him with her immortal sword in the Inner Scenery Realm, and for a while, he felt like vomiting whenever he saw a sword.

However, after that training, his swordsmanship improved dramatically, progressing by leaps and bounds. The greater the pain he endured, the greater the reward.

"Greetings, fairy!" Old Chen bowed on the ground.

"Sigh, everyone gets a share. Hurry up and sit down to absorb this strange substance, or you'll regret it," the miniature Sword Immortal said listlessly.

Chen Yongjie didn't go down. He sat on the ground, feeling quite unsettled. It was truly unbelievable. After arriving here, he became incredibly calm and the vibrations stopped.

"Is it a coincidence, or is it really related to him? The substance he cultivated is somewhat bizarre?" Chen Yongjie pondered, making various connections.

Then, he quickly told Qing Mu and Guan Lin to sit down as well. Regardless of whether they were related or not, didn't they see that the Sword Immortal disregarded her image and ran up to Wang Xuan to inhale the silver mist?

At this moment, a faint silver glow flowed around Wang Xuan, and wisps of vibrant mist emanated from him.

Sword Immortal was also speculating. "Where did his spirit go after leaving his body? Could it be that he accidentally entered a very high Mental World and collected sacred matter, causing this phenomenon?"

After a while, she decisively jumped backward, exhaling a slightly reddish sword aura from her open, bright red mouth, and coughed a few times.

"Ptooey, ptooey, I was just praising you, what is this?" She kept exhaling, and the big breath of red light made her chubby little face turn red, and her big eyes widened.

On the ground, Old Chen reacted quickly. After noticing the Sword Immortal's abnormality, he immediately used his secret power to send Qing Mu and Guan Lin far away.

He leaped up, scorched by the faint blush emanating from him, gasped for breath, and then his whole body turned red, his eyes widened, and he opened his mouth to spew fire!

"What is that?" He was immediately startled.

Then, he saw on the ground that the silver light on Wang Xuan's body had disappeared, the mist had dissipated, and only a little red light was flowing. His body was slightly charred, as if he was about to be skinned alive.

Chen Yongjie did not run away. The next moment, he was shaken and said in a trembling voice, "This is the feeling. The burning pain is like being torn apart, but this is what I want!"

His mind wandered, drawing a blush from his body. Of course, he dared not be reckless. No matter how excited he was, he was very measured and only absorbed a little bit.

Then, his physical body turned red like a grilled prawn, and his primordial Divine Statue seemed to be slightly ignited, resembling a self-immolation scene.

"My master... has gone mad again!" Qing Mu said. He had wanted to rush toward the sun earlier, to temper his body and mind with nuclear radiation, but now he's gone mad again.

"That's right, it's the feeling I'm looking for!" Chen Yongjie sat down cross-legged, carefully drawing in wisps of red mist while simultaneously drawing in the sunlight.

At this moment, within his body, wisps of golden elixir energy and traces of active substances from Buddhist relics intermingled, were burned and refined by the red mist, and merged to create new power.

He knew that he was still not free from the old mythological system, but he had already taken a solid step on the path he envisioned.

"Qualitative change cannot happen instantly, take it slowly!" He also introduced the sunlight into his body, merging it into that mixture of substances.

"Burn it, remove the dross and keep the essence!" His spirit also rushed in, forging himself.

At this stage, he naturally has neither a golden elixir nor Sarira, but the energy of the golden elixir and the active substances of the relic are being generated every day and are accumulating rapidly.

Chen Yongjie said, "Qing Mu, go check the spaceship and see if there are any controllable nuclear weapons in the intermediate arsenal. Take them down and get me some radiation."

Guan Lin couldn't help but say, "Old Chen, what are you thinking? Cultivation can't be achieved overnight. Don't be too aggressive!"

"I know in my heart that in this era, not being courageous and diligent means being eliminated. The old, decadent path is no longer viable; we need to take risks Pioneering!"

Qing Mu with no other choice, Aoki finally disassembled the smallest weapon and handed it to Old Chen.

Chen Yongjie picked him up and ran off into the distance, but he didn't dare to be too aggressive. He just made a small gesture and then ran back.

He took out a piece of true bone, opened the Inner Scenery Realm, and sent the spiritual bodies of Qing Mu and Guan Lin inside. He busied himself, sitting cross-legged at the edge of the Inner Scenery Realm, guiding a large number of Mysterious Factor into his physical body.

Chen Yongjie's body was like an experimental field, filled with elixir energy, relic matter, solar firelight, residual radiation energy, and Mysterious Factor. In addition, his spirit had returned, drawing on the red halo to forge this mixture, making it a veritable furnace.

On this day, Chen Yongjie really went all out, tempering himself with various Energy Substance. He opened two immortal bones in a row and used the Inner Scenery Realm twice to assist his cultivation.

During this time, he almost burned himself to a crisp. Unable to endure it any longer, he summoned Mysterious Factor to baptize him, thus slowing down the process and reducing his burden.

Underground, the Sword Immortal blinked her eyes wide at the sight. Even she thought Chen Yongjie was going all out,... harming himself.

In fact, she herself was also researching and trying to transform the red light into sword light!

"I should go back now!" Wang Xuan said, feeling that this training should come to an end.

At this moment, the outside world was shrouded in gloom, and many extraordinary beings almost wanted to cry. What was bound to happen had finally happened, and there was no way to avoid it.

"I fell, and I couldn't stop the trend."

The two groups of people Heng Jun sent are now completely disoriented. They have instantly "broken the board," but this time it's the other way around; they have fallen from the Carefree Journey.

On the earth, demons roared, unable to accept this fact!

On the Wizard Planet, a Demon Dragon roared to the sky, soaring high into the air, swaying its massive body in uncontrollable rage.

In deep space, on a desolate planet, the seal on a barren mountain loosens, as if some creature is about to emerge, but then roars follow.

On the New Star, Old Zhang stood still, facing the cosmos, and placed the rusty bronze mirror directly over his face, remaining motionless for the moment.

Beneath the Greater Khingan Range, in a bamboo boat carved from the Ascension Divine Bamboo, Female Daoist practitioner in white has risen, her entire body radiating light, merging with the bamboo boat to create a dreamlike spectacle.

In a secret realm, the long, sunset-like dress of the Red-clothed Demon Immortal burst open, revealing her snow-white body. She danced with the heavenly wind, and endless lightning fell, transforming into her battle armor, repairing the missing parts of the red dress. The Lightning Battle Skirt fluttered, scattering light in all directions.

In the desolate mountains, the red light on Wang Xuan's body disappeared, and the silver radiance flowed again, finally subsiding completely after a moment.

In the Land of Nothingness, within the Life Pool, Wang Xuan rose, quite satisfied with the results of his cultivation. His spirit was resilient and powerful, unlike before.

He seemed to have been tempered a thousand times, brimming with vitality and carrying a hint of sharp brilliance. A blush passed by, the result of bathing in countless wisps of red light.

"Return!"

He got up, pulled out the God Slaying Banner stuck in the pool, and fished out the animal skin scroll from the bottom of the pool. Like him, they had absorbed enough silver substance.

Then, he walked away without looking back.

"I hope the medicinal herbs will be safe and sound when I come back next time. If they have been picked, it would be a real tragedy..."

To his surprise, the journey seemed to have indeed become shorter, and now he no longer needed to use his Spiritual Heavenly Eye to see where the mist was drifting.

In the distance, two celestial herbs could be seen in the primordial soil, already guiding him on his way home.

He rode the God Slaying Banner, like a streak of starlight piercing the dark universe, and returned in just two months, appearing beside the Nurturing Life Furnace.

This means that he not only greatly shortened the time but also saved a lot of physical strength, and brought back more silver substances.

The next moment, his mind and body became one, and he instantly felt his own power. He was stunned and saw a Little Thing puffing out its chubby cheeks and exhaling beside him, and then it went to inhale forcefully.

What's going on? He used to have all sorts of distracting thoughts in the Land of Nothingness to alleviate his pain, and now... it's coming true?

In an instant, he involuntarily and naturally reached out his right hand... to pinch her slightly chubby little face.