Leaving Seclusion, Mustering Champions

After successfully breaking through the Third Tribulation, Fang Shu still did not emerge from seclusion.

There were still more than several dozen days until the Spring Examination. For him, this was precisely an excellent opportunity to further consolidate his cultivation and perhaps even push it to greater heights.

After all, entering an immortal sect ahead of time did not merely require advancing to become a Third Tribulation Immortal—it required one's cultivation and magical power to be as high as possible!

Furthermore.

After his conversation with the master of Solitary Gu Hall, Fang Shu had also become deeply interested in the matter of cultivating "divine consciousness" in advance.

As it happened, he still had half a portion of soul-nourishing spiritual medicine, a great quantity of spirit stones, and quite a few precious flesh-ganoderma medicines on hand. They were exactly what he needed to continue advancing with courage and vigor.

Thus, Fang Shu immediately threw himself back into arduous cultivation.

One day, two days, ten days... thirty days!

The qi and blood around him constantly roiled within the quiet chamber.

If someone had stood outside the well and looked down, they would certainly not have been able to see its bottom. Instead, they would have felt that this quiet chamber had truly transformed into a well.

Yet what it contained was not water, but mercury—ever circling and churning, while giving off a terrifying aura.

Unfortunately, although Fang Shu had thoroughly consolidated his cultivation over those several dozen days and forcefully pushed his Third Tribulation cultivation forward by another twenty to thirty percent, the "divine consciousness" he sought remained nowhere in sight.

The spiritual radiance within his mind swirled indistinctly, appearing and vanishing, yet it simply could not burst forth into the "scene of light" recorded in the books. As for the various