Five Elements Divine Light

Time flowed on, and another year passed.

This past year, Fang Yang had lived a very leisurely, carefree life.

Sometimes he went to his master, Li Daoming, to ask for guidance and answers to his questions.

Sometimes he drank tea and discussed the Dao with Senior Sister Weiwei.

The rest of the time, he devoted himself to cultivation, comprehending the contents of the Yaoguang Scripture.

The Soul Gold Bead had been completely refined nine months ago, bringing his spiritual consciousness to the level of an Immortal Platform cultivator.

Among the first three secret-realm chapters of the Yaoguang Scripture, he had mastered two of them, leaving aside only the Four Extremities Secret Realm scroll, which he had not studied in depth. His cultivation in the other two had far surpassed the standard for advancing to the Four Extremities Realm.

The only thing holding him back was that his body couldn't absorb vital essence fast enough.

The three hundred catties of Pure Source gifted by the master of Spirit Ruins Grotto-Heaven before he left had only just been used up, bringing Fang Yang to the Dao Palace Third Heaven.

"Master, I need some Source!"

Fang Yang made his way to the main hall atop the peak. After leaving a recording in the formation, he prepared to go back and continue cultivating.

His absorption in cultivation had made him forget to ask Li Daoming for some Pure Source in advance, just in case.

He could still make do without any Pure Source, but at most it would slow his cultivation by two or three tenths.

"Disciple, come in."

Just then, a voice sounded from inside the abode.

Fang Yang stopped, turned around, and walked into the hall.

"Greetings, Master."

Inside the hall, Li Daoming wore a dark robe, a faint halo of light encircling him. He ignored Fang Yang's greeting, his expression complicated as he said,

"In just one short year, you've crossed two minor realms and reached the Dao Palace Third Heaven... If I hadn't personally tested your bones, I might have suspected you had some kind of special constitution."

"The first time I saw you, I thought you were much like me. I never imagined my old eyes would fail me. With your comprehension, you might even have a chance of becoming a Peak Mighty Figure."

"Here's a block of Pure Source. It's more than enough to take you through the Four Extremities Secret Realm... And this Enlightenment Tea Leaf... You'd best wait until you've reached the Four Extremities Secret Realm before using it... Go."

Fang Yang bowed deeply, then left the hall carrying treasures worth hundreds of thousands of catties of Pure Source.

Every year, dozens of Enlightenment Tea Leaves flew out from Undying Mountain in the Eastern Wasteland, but that didn't mean such treasures of enlightenment were worth little.

As for a block of Pure Source, it weighed three thousand catties—enough to support a Dragon Transformation Realm cultivator.

If Fang Yang hadn't comprehended the Yaoguang Scripture so deeply, and used the Dao Scripture's cultivation method for the Wheel Sea Secret Realm to unlock the potential gates of his Mortal Body,

his constitution would not have gained a few more traces of the extraordinary compared with an ordinary Mortal Body. Those three hundred catties of Pure Source alone would have been enough to take him to the Dao Palace Fifth Heaven.

Fang Yang looked back.

The main doors were already shut.

He turned and strode away.

The Four Extremities!

Only by entering the Four Extremities Secret Realm could he gain the strength to contend with the Eastern Wasteland's top prodigies and begin to show his brilliance.

Cultivators of the Wheel Sea and Dao Palace realms were no more than grass crushed beneath the feet of fate across the vast Eastern Wasteland.

What true prodigy from a major power would run around making trouble and tempering himself before even reaching the Four Extremities Secret Realm?

"Soon."

Fang Yang had a deep understanding of the Yaoguang Scripture and had long since calculated when he could advance to the Four Extremities Secret Realm.

With ample Pure Source to sustain him, he needed only a little over three hundred days to break free of his cocoon, transform into a butterfly, and gain the strength to travel and fight beyond the sect.

By then, using the Fate Points he gained from killing enemies would also become a major source of card draws.

Back in his abode,

Fang Yang looked inward into his Bitter Sea.

The lifeless blackness from when it had first been opened had long since vanished, replaced by milky-white divine power that flowed in a steady stream from his Life Spring.

A Divine Bridge stretched across the Bitter Sea and reached into the Dao Palace Secret Realm. Three deities sat cross-legged in the Dao Palace, chanting the contents of the Yaoguang Scripture.

The Dao Palace Secret Realm consisted of the five elements and the five viscera.

Of the five Dao Palaces, the heart, spleen, and lungs had already manifested deities. Only the liver and kidneys remained, their divine treasures awaiting refinement.

"The Dao Palace scroll of the Yaoguang Scripture contains a method for cultivating the Five Elements Divine Light. But among the many sages of Yao Guang Sacred Land, only a dozen or so have cultivated the Five Elements Divine Light in the past ten thousand years."

"Moreover, this Five Elements Divine Light is of the acquired variety. It's difficult to reverse it into Innate Five Elements Divine Light, and its might is inferior to Primordial Sacred Light."

"It's difficult to master and weak in effect. If not for peerless prodigies cultivating this method with great wisdom, with a chance of reversing it into an innate form afterward, it would probably have been cut from the Yaoguang Scripture long ago."

Fang Yang was very interested in it.

What he cared about wasn't how powerful the Five Elements Divine Light he cultivated would be, but how the process of cultivating it would develop his Dao Palace Secret Realm.

If a Mortal Body wanted to climb step by step to the peak, it needed a solid foundation in every secret realm. It didn't have to surpass special constitutions, but it couldn't fall too far behind them, either.

In the Wheel Sea Secret Realm, he had used the Dao Scripture as a reference and laid a foundation comparable to that of ordinary special constitutions. When he broke through, five-colored auspicious clouds had even appeared.

In the Dao Palace Secret Realm, he had no Emperor Scripture to refer to, but he had the talent of a genius from the Dragon Talisman World, as well as the resources of Divine Spring steeped with Bodhi Leaves.

If Fang Yang couldn't cultivate the Five Elements Divine Light, who in Yao Guang Sacred Land could?

Time flowed like water.

One day, Weiwei broke through to the Dao Palace Fourth Heaven and emerged from her abode. With clear, limpid eyes, she stole a guilty glance at Fang Yang's abode, then quickly looked away.

"Fortunately, I broke through to the Dao Palace Secret Realm first and became Master's disciple, then Master took Fang Yang in. Otherwise, I'd probably have to call him Senior Brother now."

The Immortal Spirit Eye was no ordinary eye. At its full potential, it could glimpse the Path to Immortality. A few ordinary restrictions were nothing to it.

Weiwei usually knew where to draw the line and almost never peered into other people's abodes. But today, she was simply too curious about Fang Yang's cultivation progress, so she'd sneaked a peek.

With that fleeting glance, Weiwei saw that all five of the divine treasures within Fang Yang had been opened. Five deities surrounded him, clad in divine armor condensed from the essence of the five elements, looking mighty and imposing.

Faint divine light also shimmered over the deities.

Yao Guang Sacred Land had countless disciples, and there were no rules governing who could take whom as a master. It was easy for a situation to arise where a cultivator who had lived for a thousand years had to call a newly accepted disciple Senior Brother or Martial Uncle.

So unless disciples shared the same master, Yao Guang disciples respected strength above all. Those in lower realms had to address those in higher realms as Senior Brother or Senior Sister.

"I was obviously here first. Why did Fang Yang end up overtaking me, advancing even faster than I did?"

Weiwei thought it made no sense at all.

She knew Fang Yang had exceptional comprehension.

But exceptional comprehension couldn't do everything.

Reaching the peak of the Dao Palace Secret Realm in just two years was already shocking enough.

That alone wouldn't have left Weiwei shaken. After all, she had long known how monstrous his comprehension was.

But Fang Yang had even divided his attention to cultivate the Five Elements Divine Light in the Dao Palace Secret Realm, and he was almost done!

Wasn't this cheating?

Only then did Weiwei realize that the difference between ordinary prodigies and true prodigies was far greater than even a pair of Immortal Spirit Eyes could make up for.

Among the Ancient Great Emperors, there had been no shortage of people who attained the Dao with a Mortal Body.

Special constitutions had stronger inborn gifts, but Mortal Bodies were far more numerous. There would always be a few prodigies who far surpassed what the world believed possible.

Just as in the Primordial Era, the various Emperor Clans and King Clans had been as different from the Human Race as clouds were from mud. Yet thanks to its enormous population, the Human Race had continued to produce two emperors, despite its frail innate constitution.