Leaving the Island

Jade Radiance Flame and Nether Corpse Cold Flame flew into the dark clouds.

Gradually, both of them became tinged with lightning.

Song Wen activated his fire control technique, and two Spirit Flames slowly approached from within the dark clouds.

Then, they suddenly collided.

Lightning flashed in the clouds, but no energy was released.

In Song Wen's hands, he repeatedly made fire control Method Formula seals, and the two Spirit Flames gradually began to compress and merge.

The Spirit Flames repelled each other, yet were firmly controlled within them by the Jade Pivot Divine Thunder.

"Boom!"

A deep, rumbling sound rang out.

A dazzling flame rose from the dark clouds.

A moment later!

The flames subsided, and the dark clouds dispersed.

A bright green firebird, about the size of a palm, appeared.

Song Wen raised his hand and beckoned.

The firebird landed in Song Wen's hands.

He could not feel any heat or cold from the firebird, but he could feel the violent energy emanating from it.

The emerald firebird also seemed to have incorporated the lightning power of the Jade Pivot Divine Thunder, with silver lightning constantly flowing within its body.

With a thought, Song Wen's firebird instantly erupted with a righteous aura, a characteristic bestowed by the Jade Radiance Flame, majestic and blazing.

In an instant, the firebird's aura turned chillingly cold, a characteristic of the Nether Corpse Cold Flame —cold and malevolent.

Song Wen opened his mouth and stored the firebird in his Dantian.

Firebirds circled and flew around the Golden Core.

The Golden Core elixir gleamed, and the firebird moved nimbly, like a fiery phoenix chasing the sun.

Song Wen took out a long sword from his storage ring.

The longsword is named Black Frost, and it was obtained Yu Qing Daoist Qingyan. It is a low-grade magic Law Treasure.

Song Wen spent a month refining the Black Frost Blade, then swallowed it into his Dantian and slowly nurtured it.

He then took out a Funeral Banner, Funeral Banner had obtained from Wu Ren and was also a low-grade magic Law Treasure.

Moreover, it contains a vast amount of ghostly energy, which can be used to nurture ghostly creatures.

Song Wen had possessed this treasure for decades, but unfortunately, he had never been able to refine it, and the ghostly energy within it had never been used.

It took another month for Song Wen to refine the Funeral Banner.

Immediately, Song Wen took out more than a dozen Ghost Dao Spirit Artifacts.

These included: the Eight-Banner Yin Soul Banner he had crafted himself, the top-grade Spirit Artifact Xuan Se Xiao Squad Commander obtained from the Su Clan, Jie Hui's top-grade Spirit Artifact rosary, and numerous other Spirit Artifacts plundered from unknown ghost cultivators.

Song Wen summoned a verdant firebird.

Suddenly, the firebird blazed brightly, and a roaring green flame rose into the air.

The Eight-Banner Yin Soul Banner was only a low-grade Spirit Artifact, Song Wen wanted to reforge it.

The Yin Soul Banner originates from the Xuan Mysterious Yin Sect the Demonic Path. It can be continuously strengthened and can even be refined into Life-Bound Treasure.

Song Wen has no immediate plans to refine the Yin Soul Banner into Life-Bound Treasure, nor does he possess the spiritual Life-Bound Treasure to do so. However, he is capable of refining a Yin Soul Banner that is at the level of a Law Treasure.

Under the scorching heat of the green flames, the numerous Spirit Artifacts gradually merged into one.

Then, it was combined with the Funeral Banner to create the Yin Soul Banner, a low-grade Law Treasure with three flags.

This Three-Banner Yin Soul Banner can accommodate three powerful ghosts without worrying about them devouring each other while inside the same banner.

Song Wen summoned the Ghost King.

The Ghost King was originally an Early Third Rank ghost, but it was injured by Su Gan, resulting in damage to its soul and rupture of its ghost core, greatly diminishing its strength.

After thirty years of nurturing by the Su Clan, only the soul body was reforged, but the ghost core could not be repaired.

There is a crack on its ghost core, which causes the ghost energy to disappear, leaving it with only pseudo-third-tier strength.

Song Wen planned to use the firebird's sinister power and the abundant ghostly energy within the Yin Soul Banner to help it repair its Ghost Core and return to the third-tier Ghost King realm.

Under Song Wen's control, the firebird surged into the Ghost King's body, and a sinister, chilling green flame enveloped the Ghost King's entire body.

A large amount of ghostly energy surged from the Three Banners of Yin Souls, flowing into the Ghost King's body. Under the refinement of the green flames, it merged into the Ghost King's dantian.

The process of the Ghost King repairing the Ghost Core was quite lengthy, and Song Wen naturally couldn't afford to be idle.

He took out a Blood Coffin, Blood Coffin which was the pseudo-third-tier corpse king.

He intends to reforge the Corpse King, transforming it into a true Tier 3 Silver Corpse.

A large amount of spiritual materials from the Corpse Path fell into the Blood Coffin.

A dense Corpse-Baleful Qi continuously emanated from the Silver Corpse's mouth and nose.

Several months later, the Silver Corpse advanced to the third tier.

A year later, the Ghost King's Ghost Core was repaired, restoring his strength to the Early Third Rank.

During this period, Song Wen began cultivating the <Baleful Path Ghost Scripture>, Corpse Dao Secret Art obtained from Wu Ren. This technique allows him to condense the Corpse-Baleful Qi within his body into various forms, which can be used for both offense and defense.

Before he formed his Golden Core, the Corpse-Baleful Qi within him was limited and insufficient to cultivate this Cultivation Method.

Song Wen stood at the highest point of the island. After several years of restoration, the island was no longer the dilapidated place it once was.

After a period of rest and recuperation, the Cloudflying Beasts gradually grew stronger.

"I've been on this island for forty-six years; it's time to leave."

Gazing at the distant horizon, Song Wen murmured softly.

His decades of arduous cultivation on the island, though peaceful, consumed a great deal of spiritual materials, leaving him with very few of them.

The biggest consumer of resources is Spirit Stones. Whether it's Golden Core Pill, refining Law Treasure, or crafting Silver Corpse or repairing a ghost core, a large amount of Spirit Stones are required.

Currently, he only has over 300,000 low-grade Spirit Stones, over 2,000 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, and five Superior Spirit Stones, totaling approximately 600,000 Spirit Stones.

He still has a considerable amount of Corpse Path spiritual materials, enough for him to cultivate for a long time. However, now that he has advanced to the Golden Core stage, he needs to supplement his cultivation with some third-tier Corpse Path spiritual materials to increase his cultivation speed.

The Beast Brocade Pills and Meatballs required by the Sacred Beetle Gu have all been used up.

Even the Silver-Shining Stones, which the Sacred Beetle Gu didn't particularly like, were all eaten by them.

They have recently been feeding on low-grade Spirit Stones, and occasionally follow the Cloudflying Beast to catch some sea beasts to fill their bellies.

All six Sacred Beetle Gu advanced to the peak of the second tier approximately ten years ago.

The Blood Gu Art manual that Song Wen obtained did not mention the method for advancing the Sacred Beetle Gu to the third tier.

It's even unknown whether anyone in the Cultivation World of the Heavenly Origin Realm has ever cultivated a third-tier Sacred Beetle Gu.

Song Wen could only learn from the Beast Taming Sect's method of cultivating spirit insects in order to find a way to advance the Sacred Beetle Gu. But this required finding the spiritual materials needed for the Sacred Beetle Gu to advance.

Song Wen broke the spirit beast contract with the Flying Cloud Beast King, restoring freedom to the entire Cloudflying Beast clan.

After releasing the Sacred Beetle Gu, he took to the air and left the island where he had been in seclusion for over forty years.

Perhaps because he had devoured too many soul fragments in the past, but because he had not undergone the tribulation of the heart, his Divine Sense strength was stuck at the Foundation Establishment Peak Stage, and he had been unable to advance for many years.

After overcoming his mental tribulation, his Divine Sense surged, directly skipping the Golden Core Early Stage realm and advancing to the Middle Golden Core Stage.

This allows Song Wen's Divine Sense to cover an area of sixteen miles in radius.

As cultivation progresses to the Golden Core stage, the amplification effect of the Sacred Beetle Gu on Divine Sense weakens, only expanding the range of Divine Sense to twice its original size.

However, even so, with the assistance of the Sacred Beetle Gu, his Divine Sense could still cover a radius of thirty-two miles, which was on par with that of Peak Golden Core Stage cultivator.

Having encountered that giant sea fish before, Song Wen was still shaken.

So he flew hundreds of miles above the sea in an attempt to avoid the threat from the deep sea.

High in the sky, fluffy white clouds occasionally obscured the view.

To be on the safe side, he released six Sacred Beetle Gu to explore the path through the clouds.

Two days later.

As Song Wen was flying high in the sky, dozens of miles away, a giant bird with a wingspan of more than two miles suddenly burst out from the clouds and plummeted towards the sea below.

This is a Late Third Rank Demon Beast.