A thousand years later.
In the Heavenly River Diagram Source Space, Fang Chen's body trembled slightly. He slowly opened his eyes, a faint smile on his lips.
One million years. I finally have a lead on the fifth Origin!
Fang Chen could not help thinking it. He had cultivated in the Heavenly River Diagram Source Space for a full million years.
During that time, his Lifespan had drained so rapidly that he had left once to buy Longevity Pills.
Fortunately, he had plenty of treasures on hand. Trading just a few could earn him enough Contribution Points to buy all the Longevity Pills he needed.
A million years of cultivation in the Heavenly River Diagram Source Space had greatly improved Fang Chen's strength, but he still had not reached the threshold of an Immortal King.
It seems that until I fuse the fifth Origin, I'll have a hard time reaching the Immortal King Realm. The gulf between a Half-Step Immortal King and an Immortal King is simply too vast!
Fang Chen pondered this in silence.
The fifth Origin he was currently fusing was the Wood Attribute Origin.
The four he had fused before were the Metal Element, Fire Element, Earth Element, and Water Element. The fifth was the Wood Element.
These five made up the Five Elements Origin. They gave rise to and restrained one another, making them the easiest to fuse.
Fang Chen knew the Five Elements Origin were relatively easy to bring together. Fusing a Sixth Origin, however, would be at least ten thousand times harder than fusing the fifth.
Although a million years in the Heavenly River Diagram's Origin Space had not brought him into the Immortal King Realm, he had closed the distance between himself and the spikes from thirty feet to nine.
The closer Fang