After returning to Thousand Absolute Ridge, Ning Wangshu did not immediately enter seclusion to cultivate. Instead, he spent some time with Lin Qingzhu and the others, taking the opportunity to teach them all of the Nine-Word True Words Secret Technique before finally entering seclusion.
He had successfully broken through to the second-heaven Immortal King realm in Qiyao Moyi Heaven, but had yet to find time to stabilize his cultivation.
After entering seclusion, Ning Wangshu spent over ten years fully stabilizing his cultivation. Then he immediately took out the golden page formed by the Plain-Colored Cloud Realm Banner, along with hundreds of Third-grade Immortal Artifacts.
He began refining the Immortal Dao essence within those artifacts to cultivate...
He still had over nine thousand five hundred Third-grade Immortal Artifacts and nearly seven hundred Second-grade Immortal Artifacts.
Apart from perhaps keeping a small portion of the Second-grade Immortal Artifacts, he intended to refine all the rest before the Western Emperor's true body awakened and reclaimed the Plain-Colored Cloud Realm Banner.
Otherwise, once the Western Emperor's true body awakened and took back the Plain-Colored Cloud Realm Banner, he would no longer be able to directly refine the Immortal Dao essence of these artifacts for cultivation.
As for his First-grade Immortal Artifacts... Ning Wangshu had no intention of using them to cultivate. That would be far too wasteful.
After all, even Taiyi Golden Immortals generally did not possess First-grade Immortal Artifacts.
By comparison, First-grade Immortal Artifacts were exceedingly rare.
Several thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.
Ning Wangshu finally raised his cultivation to the peak of the second-heaven Immortal King realm. Over those several thousand years, he had used up almost all of his nine thousand five hundred-odd Third-grade Immortal Artifacts.
Only a few hundred remained.
After successfully reaching the peak of