The true water had been gathered in full. This final step before the gate proved nowhere near as difficult as Fang Shu had imagined.
Inside the cavern chamber.
He used white jade as an altar and spiritual marrow as its steps. Around it, he had arranged banners of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, thousands of talismans, and a hundred streams of spiritual smoke. Smoke drifted and wound through the entire chamber in layered strands, making it seem like an immortal palace.
The one hundred and eight drops of true water had been placed in the positions corresponding to the Star Lords.
As for Fang Shu, he sat atop the ritual altar, at the very heart of the ceremony, like a bright moon hanging at its center.
Light shone from his body without any source, and his robes stirred though there was no wind. Completely naked, he sat in the posture of five hearts facing heaven.
As he followed the breathing method secretly imparted by Yellow Wolf Immortal, inhaling and exhaling while mobilizing the ritual around him, an unfathomable aura descended upon him. His entire body became crystalline, his skin taking on the color of jade.
Had any ordinary mortal been present, the first sight of him would have made them instinctively believe that he had come from the moon palace in the heavens.
At this moment, Fang Shu was following the tribulation-crossing steps from the Imperial Dew refining method. He took true water as the Star Lords and himself as the sun and moon, walking the path of a heavenly circuit to refine his body.
Once the ritual was formed, the speed of his physical transformation far surpassed his expectations. Even the soul within him was nourished alongside it. Such effects greatly exceeded the wonders of tribulation-crossing body refinement