Soul Gold Bead, Mysterious Yellow Qi

The mountain peak where Li Daoming resided was devoid of idlers, yet there were several vacant cave dwellings. Fang Yang simply tidied one up and moved straight in.

"Ten-pull!"

"Pull again!"

"Keep pulling!"

For the first time in his life, Fang Yang was fighting such a wealthy battle; in the blink of an eye, he had squandered three thousand Fate points.

Looking back at his time on Earth, he had toiled for several years just to scrape together over a hundred Fate points, and even then, he had to rely on the first-time pity system just to pull a green card.

Now, by apprenticing under a half-step Great Power, three thousand Fate points had arrived directly—it could truly be called ascending to the heavens in a single step.

Inside the card pool, strange phenomena manifested, transforming into all sorts of miraculous things before collapsing and reforming.

Fang Yang very much wanted to strike the pose of an indifferent big spender, but he still couldn't resist his curiosity, staring intently at the card pool in hopes of discerning some pattern.

The verdict is in!

Three ten-pulls.

A total of sixteen white, nine green, three blue, and two purple!

"Passable."

Fang Yang wasn't too disappointed, and began to examine these cards.

He skipped over the sixteen white cards.

He even saw things like the original underwear of a certain famous 3D-section female character and the head hair of Lazy Sheep.

White cards did not involve the extraordinary; their value was practically zero.

Of the nine green cards, seven were of very low quality, including martial arts masterpieces from low-martial worlds that were of no use whatsoever.

Only two cards were somewhat interesting:

[Ice Scorpion Left Arm Bone (Green)]

[Description: A spirit bone produced after the death of a sixty-thousand-year-old Ice Scorpion from the Douluo World, solidified with the Ice Scorpion Clan's skill, Ice Burst Technique.]

[Three Tomoe Sharingan (Green)]

[Description: The eyes of a Jōnin from the Uchiha Clan in the Naruto World, plug-and-play.]

Fang Yang felt a bit troubled.

These cards were actually quite good. If he were in a non-magical world, or even a low-magic world, he certainly wouldn't look down on green cards; he might even treat them as treasures.

But Shrouding the Heavens was a Great World.

Even without mentioning the Perfect World of the prequel or the subsequent Sacred Ruins Era, this world—broken to the point where even a Supreme could only live for ten thousand years—was not something low-mystic worlds like Douluo or Naruto could compare to.

Rather than having these green cards, he would have preferred more [Mortal Body Origin (Green)] to experiment and see if he could stack hundreds of cards to create a mortal body comparable to a Divine Body.

Fang Yang put these two cards away.

After all, they were cards he had spent Fate points to pull.

He would study them again when he had free time later.

[Heavenly Dew (Blue)]

[Description: Nectar that descended from the heavens in the World of Dragon Talisman; can be used for healing, cultivation, repairing artifacts, and other effects—nearly omnipotent.]

[Immortal Spirit Qi (Blue)]

[Description: The Qi of longevity born in the God Realm of the Douluo World; can sustain the immortality of gods, though its efficacy diminishes as the life essence of the living being increases.]

[Mysterious Yellow Flame (Blue)]

[Description: The twenty-third ranked flame on the Heavenly Flame Ranking of the Battle Through the Heavens World; a terrestrial fire formed from the earth's veins over ten thousand years, resembling both rock and fire, having both form and substance.]

Fang Yang was quite satisfied with these three blue cards; at least they weren't as useless as the green ones.

Among the three, Heavenly Dew had the highest value and the strongest versatility.

After manifestation, it was a sphere of water containing about a thousand drops, shimmering with the azure blue of the sky.

Fang Yang took one drop and placed it on the tip of his tongue.

A wave of coldness instantly swept through his entire body, and the energy deposited within his meridians and acupoints was even more vast than an equivalent volume of Pure Source.

And this was only its most basic effect.

Under his meticulous divine sense, he realized Heavenly Dew was not merely a condensation of energy; it also contained the laws of heaven and earth, capable of refining one's marrow and bones and increasing one's comprehension.

It was just that this effect was extremely weak.

Even if he were to consume this entire mass of Heavenly Dew, it wouldn't be of much use to the current Fang Yang.

As for the Immortal Spirit Qi and the Mysterious Yellow Flame, the former belonged to a weakened version of the Immortal Elixir, and whether or not to refine the latter required some deliberation.

Fang Yang set them aside for the moment and checked the two most important purple cards.

[Soul Gold Bead (Purple)]

[Description: Produced in the Grand Primordial World, a soul crystal refined from twenty million soul essences; can enhance soul foundation upon refinement.]

[Mysterious Yellow Qi (Purple)]

[Description: A creation born at the dawn of the universe, appearing in mysterious yellow colors, totaling forty-nine wisps; can be used to refine divine weapons.]

"Not a loss!"

Fang Yang finally let out a sigh of relief.

Three thousand Fate points in total, and finally, some good loot appeared.

The Soul Gold Bead, a treasure whose sole purpose is to enhance one's soul foundation, can also be used to mend injuries when the Primordial Spirit is damaged.

Fang Yang did not know to what extent this Soul Gold Bead could strengthen his Primordial Spirit.

However, judging by the fact that the Replica of the Supreme Emperor Sword and the Soul Gold Bead both belonged to the purple card tier, he estimated it could allow him to leap forward and possess a soul quality comparable to a cultivator of the Immortal Platform Realm.

Why are cultivators of the Immortal Platform Realm faster at comprehending cultivation techniques and have a deeper understanding of the laws of heaven and earth compared to those in the Dao Palace Realm?

If not because of the Primordial Spirit, could it be because of the physical body?

Fang Yang manifested the [Soul Gold Bead (Purple)]. A swirl of purple mist emerged, revealing a gleaming, perfectly round golden bead.

This was a spiritual treasure refined using the souls of twenty million lives.

Power knows no good or evil.

Moreover, since this Soul Gold Bead was not refined by Fang Yang himself, he felt absolutely no psychological burden.

Fang Yang tentatively extended his divine sense to make contact with the Soul Gold Bead. Instantly, a vast and pure spiritual force flowed back along his divine sense into his sea of consciousness.

Comforting!

Extremely comfortable!

Experiencing this pleasure for the first time, Fang Yang felt that his previous life had been utterly devoid of interest.

Cultivation is, in essence, the process of gradually becoming stronger.

The transition from weak to strong is a pleasure that far surpasses the joys of intimacy or the desires of gluttony.

The greater the genius, the more they can experience this intense pleasure, thereby striving for self-improvement and advancing triumphantly all the way.

The more useless one is, the more they feel that cultivation is meaningless, thereby choosing to lie flat and rot.

In just one hour.

The Soul Gold Bead had transformed Fang Yang's sea of consciousness from a puddle into a small pond; the improvement in the quality and strength of his divine sense was more than dozens of times greater.

Even so, the Soul Gold Bead had barely been consumed; it was difficult to observe any reduction in its size with the naked eye.

"Not even one-thousandth!"

Only by using his divine sense could Fang Yang detect the infinitesimal shrinkage of the Soul Gold Bead.

"Surpass the Yaoguang Holy Son in ten years?"

"Why would I need ten years?"

Fang Yang recalled the goal set for him by his senior uncle, Li Daoqing.

The Yaoguang Holy Son practices the Indestructible Heavenly Art, devouring numerous King Bodies and demonic fetuses, becoming more powerful the further he progresses.

In the Four Extremities Secret Realm, he might not be able to pull too far ahead of Ji Haoyue or the Golden-Winged Little Peng King, and it might even be difficult to distinguish who is superior.

"How much Fate would becoming the Yaoguang Holy Son bring?"

"If I were to become the Holy Lord of Yaoguang..."

Fang Yang quickly stopped this thought of betraying his master and ancestors.

The Holy Lord of Yaoguang is his senior uncle, not the Yaoguang Holy Son, who is merely a fellow disciple in name but an outsider with whom he has no real connection.

Besides, he isn't even the Holy Son yet; thinking about how much Fate the position of Holy Lord would bring is, to say the least, overestimating his own capabilities.

"From today on, I will refine the Soul Gold Bead with all my might."

Sharpening the axe will not delay the work of cutting wood.

Once his Primordial Spirit is strong, practicing the Yaoguang Scripture will yield twice the result with half the effort.