Bone Powder, Five Elements True Malevolence

Though some gale winds still obstructed him, they could not shake the Sword Rainbow formed from the Great White Sword Pellet in the slightest. He began accelerating, fleeing at full speed toward the Sha Pit.

Had he not used the array to draw away most of the gale winds and instead attempted a direct crossing, he would have had to endure the violent assault of the winds while suffering a terrifying drain on his spiritual power. At that point, even he could not say whether he would have been able to make it across.

By now, he could see that the Four Spirits Soaring Array was wrapped tightly in gale winds like a rice dumpling, not even a thread of array light able to shine through.

After roughly a dozen breaths, the Four Spirits Soaring Array finally could no longer bear the burden and was completely shattered. Countless gale winds poured into the gradually fading formation. Though he could not see the exact situation, even the array disk and array flags had likely been ground into powder by the winds.

With the array's massive target gone, Fang Xiao, though small, had become the gale winds' sole target. Like a vast flood that blotted out the sky and covered the earth, they surged toward him in unison.

Fang Xiao drove his Sword Rainbow to its utmost limit. The white rainbow light became intermittent, dragging out one afterimage after another.

As though racing each other, the Sword Rainbow and the gale winds reached the sky above the Sha Pit at the same time. The instant they met, the Sword Rainbow abruptly turned downward, borrowing the gale winds' momentum to plunge directly into the Sha Pit below.

The white light instantly vanished into one of the pit openings. At the mouth of that pit, he formed a barrier of sword light. The swarming gale winds frantically swept across the ground outside the Sha Pit like a swarm of bees whose hive had been poked. Yet after Fang Xiao entered the Sha Pit, they slammed against the sword-light barrier, as level as flat ground, for several rounds before completely losing their target. They slowly dispersed, and the violent gale winds gradually calmed.

Having already dispersed his Sword Rainbow, Fang Xiao watched the gale winds outside from within the Sha Pit, his heart still tightening with fear. Had he been even half a step slower, the gale winds would have entangled him. Escaping then would not have been so easy.

He let out a long breath before finally having the leisure to examine the bottom of the pit.

There were more than a dozen openings above this Sha Pit. Its interior resembled two bowls, one upright and one inverted, pressed together. The space in the middle was the widest, while it gradually narrowed toward both the upper and lower ends.

His gaze fell upon the object at the bottom of the pit that radiated five-colored light. It was a pile of white powder. Other than that, he found not the slightest trace of Five Elements True Malevolence, nor even any of the other Sha Qi he had previously suspected. His expression gradually darkened.

"Could this not be a Sha Pit? And what is this white powder?"

He walked toward the center of the pit floor but did not rashly approach the pile of white powder. After sweeping it with his Spiritual Sense and finding nothing amiss, he planned to use spiritual power to draw over a little and examine it.

Fang Xiao extended his spiritual power. Yet just as it was about to pass through the light screen formed by the five-colored radiance and touch the powder, that spiritual power directly collapsed, turning into ordinary spiritual qi and merging into the air.

This development truly startled him. He stared at the five-colored light screen in thought, then, with a suspicious look on his face, took out a Low-grade Flying Sword from his Storage Bag and controlled it as it slowly approached.

The moment the flying sword touched the radiance, it immediately slipped from his control and fell to the ground like a piece of scrap iron.

Fang Xiao then took out several more magic artifacts of different materials. Without exception, every one of them lost its effect when faced with this light.

Rather than becoming angry at this result, Fang Xiao was somewhat delighted. Every artifact he had thrown out had been refined from Five Elements materials. This light could not only break Five Elements spiritual power, but also sweep down Five Elements-type magic artifacts. It was exceedingly similar to the legendary Five-Colored Divine Light.

Naturally, this light was nowhere near as tyrannical as the Five-Colored Divine Light. Still, he believed that for that pile of white powder to produce such an effect on its own, its origins had to be extraordinary. Even if he could not obtain the Five Elements True Malevolence, this treasure would still be a fine gain.

However, if Fang Xiao wanted to take it, he had to find a way to break through this light. Fortunately, he had already found a solution.

The Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture contained profound principles of Five Elements transformation. The light screen restrained the Five Elements—but what if all five elements were present? He planned to try using Five Elements spiritual power.

Fang Xiao did not waste any more time. Spiritual power began circulating within his body, and Five Elements spiritual power emerged from his Middle Dantian, passing through his body as it headed toward that radiance.

This time, the Five Elements spiritual power passed through the light screen without the slightest obstruction. The screen completely ignored it, as though welcoming family home.

Without further thought, Fang Xiao used the Five Elements spiritual power to wrap up a clump of powder and drew it back. Through the spiritual power, he carefully observed the clump of white powder.

"This powder seems to be some kind of bone powder."

Fang Xiao unexpectedly discovered that the powder seemed to contain a small amount of bone fragments. Yet even after racking his mind through all the texts he had read, he could not identify the origins of this pile of bone powder.

When he tried injecting spiritual power into the bone powder, a faint strand of Sha Qi began seeping out from within. The Sha Qi was five-colored—it was precisely Five Elements True Malevolence.

"Hahaha, Five Elements True Malevolence! It really is Five Elements True Malevolence! My divine ability is within reach!"

Fang Xiao was exceptionally delighted. After all the hardships of his journey, he had not come here for nothing after all. Inwardly, he silently thanked Peng Kai, hoping he would have a safe journey and ascend swiftly to paradise.

He looked toward the considerable pile of bone powder. Presumably, the Five Elements True Malevolence within would be enough to help him successfully condense malevolence.

This place lay deep within the Gale Belt, where no one could possibly appear. He decided to refine the Five Elements True Malevolence right here.

Sha Qi was merely difficult to find; the refining process itself did not take much time. He should be able to succeed within half a year.

Fang Xiao decided to comprehend the method of refining Sha Qi while gathering the Five Elements True Malevolence from the bone powder. While condensing malevolence, he could also cultivate here. If possible, it would be best to reach Foundation Establishment Late Stage before entering the Taibai Ruins.

Five months later, Fang Xiao sat cross-legged on a Meditation Cushion within the Sha Pit. Misty five-colored qi swirled around him, making his figure seem to fade in and out of sight. He truly carried a faint air of an immortal cultivator.

Less than an hour later, he abruptly opened his eyes, a sharp light flashing through them. He then opened his mouth and inhaled. The five-colored qi around him rapidly gathered into his mouth until it vanished completely. There was no liquid within his five viscera; all of the Five Elements True Malevolence had merged into the Five Qi Spirit Seed.

At that moment, streams of five-colored light emerged from his body and formed a light screen over his surface, identical to the screen he had seen upon entering the Sha Pit. A moment later, the screen withdrew into his body. Fang Xiao rose to his feet, his face filled with joy as he let out a long breath.

That was right. Just now, he had finally refined the last strand of Five Elements True Malevolence and condensed it into his five viscera. From then on, the Five Elements spiritual power transformed through his Middle Dantian could be unleashed with incomparable ease, and it would all carry the effects of Five Elements True Malevolence. Not only would the power of his Five Elements spells multiply, they would also restrain Five Elements spells and Five Elements magic artifacts.

The Five Qi Cultivating Immortal Scripture had also naturally broken through to the middle stage of the second level, condensing a five-colored light screen over his body. This technique was called Five Elements True Light, and it could activate on its own to ward off enemies.

To form a divine ability, he still needed to refine a strand of Polar Primordial Magnetic Divine Gale and fuse it with the Five Elements True Malevolence, forming a Divine Ability Seed. Once he formed his core, he could achieve the great divine ability known as Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Divine Light. Not only could it overcome every method under heaven, but cultivating Five Elements-type and primordial magnetic-type spells would also yield twice the result with half the effort.

However, as a Sword Cultivator, Fang Xiao possessed the peerlessly offensive Great White Sword Pellet and instead valued its defensive effects more highly. As long as he mastered this Five Elements Primordial Magnetic Divine Light, ordinary spells and magic artifacts would not be able to approach him at all. His current lack of defensive methods would then be solved as easily as a knife cutting through butter.