Arrival at Buzhou Mountain, Tempering the Flesh!

Buzhou Mountain was formed from Pangu's spine and brimmed with Pangu's immense pressure. Thus, in the region around Buzhou Mountain, ordinary ferocious beasts did not dare approach lightly.

This made the area surrounding Buzhou Mountain a sanctuary that ferocious beasts dared not set foot in.

And within this sanctuary lived one of the Primordial Three Races—the Kirin Clan.

Although it was still the era of the Ferocious Beast Tribulation, the Kirin Clan's strength was already not to be underestimated. After all, they were able to occupy Buzhou Mountain and recuperate, thrive, and endure amid ferocious beasts surrounding them on all sides. Their foundations were naturally extraordinary.

After the Ferocious Beast Tribulation ended, the Kirin Clan would be able to contend with the Dragon and Phoenix Clans for supremacy over the Primordial World, which was enough to show that the clan contained countless powerful experts.

Naturally, Xie Fang had not come to Buzhou Mountain to clash with the Kirin Clan. Though he was quite strong, fighting the Kirin Clan at a time like this was clearly not a good choice.

After all, his Cultivation Base had advanced too quickly. The higher it rose, the more obvious his shortcomings became.

That shortcoming was his physical body!

His Cultivation Base had reached the late stage of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, but the strength of his physical body was far behind. Now that he had arrived at Buzhou Mountain, he could use its pressure to temper his body. The results would surely come twice as fast with half the effort!

With that thought in mind, Xie Fang avoided the Kirin Clan's territory and began climbing Buzhou Mountain step by step.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

The pressure of Buzhou Mountain was immensely powerful at present. With every step Xie Fang took upward, he felt the pressure gradually intensify, ceaselessly crushing his physical body and tempering his Primordial Spirit.

This climb lasted a full five thousand years!

With his late-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Cultivation Base, he endured the vast pressure and climbed upward, one step at a time!

Even Zhen Yuanzi, watching from within the space, could not help clicking his tongue at such perseverance.

One had to know that Buzhou Mountain's pressure was immensely great. Back when Zhen Yuanzi had still been free, he had secretly tried to climb Buzhou Mountain himself. Yet he had only reached the foot of the mountain before being forcibly crushed back by the pressure.

With every step upward, the pressure would grow another measure stronger!

Yet now, he had watched Xie Fang climb for five thousand years without ever stopping!

How could he not feel admiration?

In truth, Xie Fang was already nearing his limit at this point!

For five thousand years, he had climbed upward beneath endless pressure. Countless times, he had wanted to give up, yet in the next instant, he would grit his teeth, harden his heart, and force himself onward!

Of course, beneath this immense pressure over the past several thousand years, both his physical body and his Primordial Spirit had become utterly incomparable to what they once were. Nearly every day brought earth-shaking changes!

Then, on this day, Xie Fang's steps suddenly stopped.

"Senior, you..."

Sensing something wrong, Zhen Yuanzi could not help speaking from within the space.

The next moment, he saw wound after wound split open across Xie Fang's body!

Blood streamed out in rivulets!

Xie Fang did not answer Zhen Yuanzi. Instead, he fell silent for a moment.

He knew that he had reached his limit!

Pressure could temper the physical body, but there was always a limit!

"Even the late stage of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal cannot reach the summit. Could it be that only by reaching Quasi-Saint can one have a chance?"

Xie Fang looked unwillingly toward the mountaintop, then silently closed his eyes.

Then, he actually sat down cross-legged where he stood. Enduring that immense pressure by force, he began circulating the Heaven and Earth Primordial Merit Technique!

He would use this pressure that had driven him to his limit to forcibly temper his physical body and raise its strength!

After all, an opportunity to reach one's limit like this was exceedingly rare!

That sitting lasted thirty thousand years!

Throughout those thirty thousand years, Xie Fang did not move in the slightest, as though he had become a statue. Only the Spiritual Qi endlessly circulating around him, along with the wounds on his body constantly splitting open, healing, then splitting open again, showed that this was a living being cultivating here!

Thirty thousand years later!

The wounds on Xie Fang's body had gradually diminished. After healing on their own, they no longer bled.

Those thirty thousand years had not been wasted. He had already raised the strength of his physical body to the absolute limit of Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal!

If not for his insufficient Experience Points and the fact that his Innate Treasure was not quite suitable, Xie Fang might very well have severed his corpse here and achieved Quasi-Saint!

"So this is the ultimate physical body, the ultimate power!"

Xie Fang opened his eyes. Feeling the surging, boundless strength coursing through his body, he nodded in satisfaction.

"Now that I have tempered my physical body to its limit, I wonder whether I can reach Buzhou Mountain's summit..."

The moment this thought surfaced, it became impossible to suppress!

Xie Fang did not delay. He immediately stepped forward and continued climbing toward the summit of Buzhou Mountain!

The state of his body being covered in cracks and bleeding wounds did not occur again—not until ten thousand years had passed!

Ten thousand years later, the sight of cracks all over his body spilling blood appeared once more!

At last, his feet could no longer move forward.

Yet the mountaintop was still quite a distance away!

"After toiling away for tens of thousands of years, although I failed to reach the summit, tempering my body to this extent is not a loss."

Xie Fang cast a regretful glance at Buzhou Mountain's peak, then shook his head, intending to leave.

Since it could not be done, there was no point staying here. He might as well descend Buzhou Mountain, trade blows with the fiendish beasts again, find a suitable Innate Treasure as soon as possible, and attain Quasi-Sainthood!

When that time came, he would surely set foot upon Buzhou Mountain's summit!

Zhen Yuanzi had yet to successfully undergo Form Manifestation as a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. That meant the other great figures' Cultivation Bases could not be very high either. Thus, the treasures atop Buzhou Mountain were already within Xie Fang's grasp; it was merely a matter of time!

Yet just as Xie Fang turned around and prepared to descend the mountain, a ripple suddenly spread out!

Along with that ripple came an indescribable, mysterious force, as though it were calling to him!

"What is this?"

Xie Fang's brows drew together slightly. His divine sense instantly stretched out, and everything within hundreds of millions of li became clear to him in an instant!

Meanwhile, that indescribable mysterious force grew ever stronger!

"Another innate formation!"

At last, Xie Fang's divine sense detected the source of the force and the ripples.

By the ways of the Primordial World, wherever there was an innate formation, there was a high chance that treasure lay within!

Moreover, from Xie Fang's perception, this formation was far more powerful than Zhen Yuanzi's former formation. It even surpassed the Three Immortal Islands' Ten Directions Sky Covering Great Array by more than a level!

"The Ten Directions Sky Covering Great Array protects the Three Immortal Islands, and Penglai Immortal Island alone possesses several Innate Supreme Treasures. Yet this formation is more than a level stronger than the Ten Directions Sky Covering Great Array..."

With a swift shift of his feet, Xie Fang crossed hundreds of millions of li in mere moments. Gazing at the rippling formation before him, he could not suppress the excitement in his heart. "I'm going to strike it rich again!"

"This senior truly is favored by heaven. Not only has he persisted on Buzhou Mountain for so long, tempering his body, but now he has even discovered such a powerful formation..."

A sour note of jealousy drifted out from the space. Yet no matter how envious Zhen Yuanzi was, with his current strength, even if Xie Fang released him from the space, he would not dare come out.

After all, even Xie Fang's immensely powerful body could not withstand that pressure. For Zhen Yuanzi, there was even less need to mention it!