Thousand Year Grand Meeting, Journey to the Northern Court

Huohua Mountain cave abode.

Inside the secret chamber, Zhou Yang sat cross-legged with both knees folded, his hands forming seals. From time to time, he opened his mouth and exhaled a mouthful of pure mana onto the purple exotic flower floating before him, refining it with a secret technique.

Thirty years had passed since his return from the Savage Jungle.

During those thirty years, aside from the first few years when he had been recovering from his injuries, he had spent half an hour doing this every day after finishing his cultivation for more than twenty years afterward.

Back in the underground sea of magma, Zhu Zizhen had suggested that he refine this purple exotic flower into an external incarnation. Yet Zhou Yang had not taken that advice, for he had a better arrangement in mind.

When Donglai True Person had transmitted his teachings across realms back then, they had included an incomparably profound secret artifact-refining technique. Zhou Yang was now using that technique to refine this purple exotic flower.

After more than twenty years of unceasing refinement, this treasure was nearly complete.

Zhou Yang was filled with anticipation.

To refine this treasure, he had rarely left his cultivation chamber over the past twenty-odd years. Moreover, nearly all the cultivation he had painstakingly accumulated during that time had been poured into this treasure.

Each mouthful of mana he expelled while refining it contained a thread of his natal origin energy. A single mouthful was equivalent to one full day of arduous cultivation.

Had he not frequently refined that fiery red crystal obtained from within the Poison Fire Alligator Shark during his cultivation in recent years, his cultivation would not merely have failed to advance—he would have regressed by several decades.

But all of it was worth it!

So long as