The disciples of the Glazed Sword Sect threw themselves into cultivation. Ye Kong, Chen Xiaofei, Yan Ziyi, the Black Flame Saint, and Saint Honghe had all become cultivation fanatics. Fang Chen had spurred them on, and they knew that if they did not work harder, he would leave them farther and farther behind. None of them wanted to become a burden to the sect.
While everyone cultivated inside the Floating Immortal Great Array, the Heaven Refining Furnace continued to devour energy from the outside world.
The Heavenly Tribulation continued, its power growing ever stronger. Yet no matter how powerful the Heavenly Punishment Divine Lightning became, the Spiritual Qi Vortex swallowed it the instant it entered.
An hour later, the Heavenly Tribulation finally dispersed. The Spiritual Qi Vortex had grown to ten times its former diameter.
The Heaven Refining Furnace had also surged from over ten thousand zhang tall to fifteen thousand zhang. The pressure it radiated was many times stronger than before.
Once the Tribulation Clouds dispersed, the Heaven Refining Furnace gradually slowed its rotation, and the Spiritual Qi Vortex began to shrink.
Three hours later, the Spiritual Qi Vortex finally vanished. The Heaven Refining Furnace hovered in midair and emitted a brilliant Purple Lightning glow. A Purple Lightning seedling pushed through its roof and grew rapidly.
It was a Pine Tree seedling. In fewer than ten breaths, it became a towering tree a hundred zhang tall, and it kept growing wildly.
After the time it took an incense stick to burn, a thousand-zhang Pine Tree stood atop the Heaven Refining Furnace. Its shape closely resembled the Cloud Pines of the Cloud Pine Mountain Range.
Countless mysterious Runes flickered across its trunk. A peculiar pressure radiated from the Pine Tree, slightly warping the space around it.
"What a huge tree!"