Time passed unnoticed in cultivation.
Ning Wangshu had forgotten the passage of time. He simply kept refining the Immortal Dao origins of one immortal artifact after another, aided by the mysterious golden pages he had found in the ruined palace in Kunlun Xu on Earth, and by the Western Emperor Scripture he had obtained from them.
His cultivation continued to improve, slowly but steadily.
However, compared with the Immortal Force he had absorbed when refining the Xuantian Divine Fire Furnace, his pace was much slower when refining the Immortal Dao origins of immortal artifacts, even with his Xiantian Dao Body.
After refining all the Immortal Force within the Xuantian Divine Fire Furnace, Ning Wangshu was still a long way from breaking through to the Late-stage Mysterious Immortal Realm, but he had already made nearly half the progress.
Even so, he spent several decades refining the Immortal Dao origins of twelve immortal artifacts in succession before finally making another breakthrough and entering the Late-stage Mysterious Immortal Realm!
And that was with his Xiantian Dao Body. Without it, the time required would likely have been at least ten times longer!
If he had relied solely on absorbing and refining immortal qi to cultivate, it would probably have taken him a hundred times as long!
After successfully breaking through to the Late-stage Mysterious Immortal Realm, Ning Wangshu did not emerge from seclusion. Instead, he spent several years consolidating his cultivation before continuing to train.
During the years Ning Wangshu spent in seclusion, Yaoli left Thousand Absolute Ridge once and returned to Yaotai Xianmeng.
She had a simple reason for returning to Yaotai Xianmeng: to gather the Mahayana Earth Immortals there and tell them that she had become an immortal in the Cangyuan Realm.
She also asked whether they still wanted to