Inside Biyou Palace.
A burly figure sat calmly on a meditation cushion.
At this moment, Tongtian was thinking about the coming calamity.
In the original calamity, the Interception Sect had suffered a crushing defeat.
Tens of thousands of disciples of the Interception Sect had all either died or been grievously wounded. They had either ended up on the Investiture or vanished into nothingness!
This time, Tongtian would absolutely not let such a tragedy happen again!
At this moment, Tongtian was thinking about how to properly prevent this tragedy.
He had already distributed countless magic treasures to his disciples. This was the first step of the plan he had come up with.
Next, he planned to gather the five flags and create a Mountain Protection Formation with astonishing defensive power.
He had already obtained three of them. As long as he collected the remaining two, he would be able to form a powerful Innate Five Elements Grand Formation.
Unfortunately, one of them was in Taishang's possession, so there was nothing he could do about it in the short term.
"In the end, I'm still not strong enough!"
"If I were stronger than Hongjun, who would dare scheme against my sect?"
Tongtian had thought it through. If his strength were formidable enough, would anyone still dare harbor ill intentions toward his sect?
For now, improving his own strength was the best choice!
He had already relied on the power of the Primordial Grand Unity Dao Fruit to break through to the second realm of the Great Dao Saint.
At present, simply cultivating in seclusion was no longer a good method for him.
Each realm of the Great Dao Saint required an immeasurable amount of spiritual power to be filled before one could advance.
If he relied solely on seclusion to slowly improve himself, even cultivating for several hundred years might not provide enough energy for a breakthrough.
After several hundred years, by the time he emerged from seclusion, he might not even be able to find the Interception Sect's plaque.
Tongtian did not have that much time to waste on secluded cultivation.
Looking at the Nine-Patterned Peach in his Violet Palace, Tongtian could feel the vast spiritual power surging within it.
"This Nine-Patterned Peach contains such astonishing spiritual power!"
"Isn't this exactly what I urgently need right now?"
Tongtian's primordial spirit moved slightly, and the Nine-Patterned Peach immediately appeared in his hand.
This was a Chaos Spirit Root!
As its name implied, such spirit roots existed within the chaos. Even ten Innate Spiritual Roots could not compare to a single Chaos Spirit Root!
Only within the mysterious and endless chaos could one find such a treasure.
Even if one possessed the cultivation of a Saint, if one dared to run wild in the chaos, one might not even know how one had died!
Therefore, the root Tongtian was holding now might be the only one in the entire Great Wilderness!
"Refine it!"
Three fruits grew on the Nine-Patterned Peach. Each fruit was evenly covered with nine patterns. It looked somewhat similar to a Flat Peach tree, which belonged among the Ten Great Spiritual Roots.
However, the power within each peach of the Nine-Patterned Peach was several hundred times greater than that of the Flat Peach tree!
Boom!
Holding the Nine-Patterned Peach, Tongtian silently recited a spell and directly began refining its supreme spiritual power.
Boom!
The three fruits on the Nine-Patterned Peach erupted together with vast spiritual power, providing Tongtian with energy to absorb.
The Nine-Patterned Peach was refined bit by bit, and Tongtian's cultivation also steadily grew stronger!
Time flowed on, and several months passed in the blink of an eye.
After Tongtian had refined every last trace of energy within the Nine-Patterned Peach, his cultivation instantly took another step forward, breaking through to the third realm of the Great Dao Saint!
Boom!
A deafening roar resounded from within Tongtian's body, and overwhelming Saintly might soared into the heavens!
The third realm of the Great Dao Saint!
The Nine-Patterned Peach truly deserved to be called a Chaos treasure. In merely a few months, Tongtian had directly broken through an entire minor realm!
"Hahahaha, my cultivation has returned!"
"The third realm of the Great Dao Saint!"
His heart was filled with the joy of regaining something he had lost!
The astonishing power of the Nine-Patterned Peach truly was abundant enough!
Without the Nine-Patterned Peach's assistance, if Tongtian had cultivated in seclusion on his own, he might have needed several hundred years. After refining the Nine-Patterned Peach, that time had been greatly compressed.
Once the other Saints learned of this progress, they would probably be filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred again.
Only a few months! To cultivators, that amount of time was practically nothing!
A cultivator could casually sleep for a while and spend an entire year doing so.
Yet Tongtian had spent only a few months breaking through to the third realm of the Great Dao Saint.
After breaking through, Tongtian finally drew out some time to examine the two flags he had just obtained!
One of them was the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner. Sacred green light surrounded the flag, and at its center, encircled by the radiance, a green lotus blossomed. It was breathtakingly beautiful while also containing tremendous power.
The other was the Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner. At its center was a perfectly round halo resembling a sarira, radiating waves of sacred light.
Both flags were extremely powerful defensive treasures.
Moreover, Tongtian had already obtained the Water Control Banner. With three flags in hand, he could now try arranging a simplified Innate Five Elements Grand Formation.
"Refine!"
Tongtian immediately activated his primordial spirit and began subduing the two flags.
They were merely spirit treasures, so refining them was extraordinarily easy for Tongtian.
Before long, the two spirit treasure flags he had obtained not long ago had been subdued.
"The simplified version of the Innate Five Elements Grand Formation!"
At that moment, Tongtian's hands continuously changed through various incantations. In an instant, the three flags were distributed in three directions in the void, forming a triangle.
Tongtian continuously sent spiritual power into the flags. Before long, the Innate Five Elements Grand Formation successfully manifested.
Because he did not have enough flags, this formation was only a simplified version, possessing roughly sixty percent of the complete formation's power.
Although he had successfully created it, Tongtian still could not feel happy.
Because the flags were incomplete, this formation was currently still incapable of withstanding a Saint's power.
"Sigh, as expected, only gathering all five flags will allow them to unleash their greatest power."
"The five flags form a single whole. Not one can be missing, and no other object can replace any of them."
Tongtian muttered unwillingly.
He gently waved his hand toward the formation formed by the three flags, and the flags were all returned to his Violet Palace.
Only the Innate Five Element Flags could unleash the strongest defensive power of the Innate Five Elements Grand Formation!
Tongtian's cultivation had taken another step forward, and the flags had also been dealt with.
Spiritual light flickered in Tongtian's eyes as he thought about the calamity.
After a while, Tongtian's eyes suddenly widened.
The Saints of the Great Wilderness were not limited to just the few of them.
He remembered that there was actually another Saint, but that Saint was currently trapped in the Netherworld.
That Saint was named Houtu, one of the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
After Houtu established the Netherworld, she obtained a tremendous amount of merit and consequently attained Sainthood.
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