The Origin Core was semi-transparent, and within it, a miniature world could vaguely be seen.
That was his Origin Core, the seat of his life itself.
Once the Origin Core shattered, he would die and vanish.
Fang Yan carefully took out the Origin Core and suspended it in the center of the Footless Bird's cultivation chamber.
Immediately afterward, a phantom separated from his body.
It was a gigantic cicada.
Its entire body was bronze-colored, and its wings were covered in mysterious law patterns.
Spring Autumn Cicada Clone.
Fang Yan's true body opened his eyes and looked at his Clone.
The Spring Autumn Cicada Clone lightly fluttered its wings, releasing an enigmatic ripple of the Time Law.
It drew the Origin Core into the Spring Autumn Cicada's body.
Fang Yan nodded in satisfaction and turned toward the hatch.
"Little Fox Fairy, let's go."
The hatch opened, and he shot out, speeding toward Wind Abyss Star.
The Footless Bird behind him grew smaller and smaller, eventually turning into a speck of light that vanished from sight.
The moment Fang Yan plunged into Wind Abyss Star's atmosphere, the entire world changed.
First came the sound.
Endless howls of wind surged in from every direction, layering upon each other without end.
Then came the wind pressure.
Wind Abyss Star's atmosphere was far denser than that of an ordinary planet. Fang Yan felt as though he had plunged headfirst into the deep sea, with pressure from all directions madly crushing his body.
Anyone below the World Lord realm would have no chance of survival.
With a thought from Fang Yan, the G-grade Alloy Inner Armor instantly covered his entire body.
Silvery-white metal plates wrapped tightly around him without a single gap, leaving only his eyes exposed.
The Wind-Following Wings spread behind him, their azure feathers snapping loudly in the raging winds.
Fang Yan looked up.
The space within Wind Abyss Star was even more magnificent than he had imagined.
There was no land here, no ocean—only boundless currents of air.
Those currents formed vortices of all sizes. Some were only the size of a fist and rotated slowly; others were large enough to swallow an entire planet, indigo lightning churning along their edges.
Every gust contained an extremely pure power of the Wind Origin.
Fang Yan closed his eyes and sensed the aura around him, the corners of his lips rising slightly.
"This really is... paradise."
He could clearly feel that his comprehension of the Law of Wind, which had been stuck at ninety-nine percent, was beginning to loosen at a visible pace.
The Wind Origin here was countless trillions of times richer than in the outside world.
Fang Yan concealed his aura and slowly flew along the edge of an airflow vortex.
The Wind-Following Wings displayed astonishing adaptability within this sea of storms.
With every flap of the azure wings, they could draw upon the surrounding Wind Origin for his use, forming a natural protective layer.
The harsh environment in which no one below the World Lord realm could survive instead became Fang Yan's home-field advantage.
He flew for about three days.
During those three days, Fang Yan witnessed countless wonders of Wind Abyss Star.
He personally saw a storm tide sweep from one pole of the planet to the other, swallowing hundreds of small cyclones along the way before ultimately becoming a superstorm over a million kilometers in diameter.
He also saw a drop of liquefied Wind Origin Essence condense within a naturally formed wind vortex.
That drop of essence flickered with azure light and radiated a heart-palpitating aura.
Fang Yan collected it without hesitation.
This was good stuff. A single drop was worth ten thousand years of painstaking comprehension of the Law of Wind in the outside world.
The instant he put away the essence, an abrupt change occurred.
A shrill screech came from above.
The sound was ear-piercing, like fingernails scraping across glass, only magnified countless times over.
Fang Yan abruptly looked up.
A colossal creature was diving down from above.
It was a gigantic beast over a thousand meters long.
Its body was streamlined and covered entirely in indigo scales, with azure radiance flowing across their surfaces.
It had no wings, yet it could move freely through this sea of storms.
It opened its massive jaws, rows upon rows of sharp teeth glinting coldly amid the storm.
Peak World Lord!
The Wind-Following Wings flapped fiercely, and Fang Yan's body traced an arc through the storm, calmly evading the beast's pounce.
Fang Yan smiled faintly.
“When it comes to speed, I am invincible below King-level!”
The Divining Wind Beast missed, nimbly turning in the storm before pouncing at Fang Yan again.
This time, Fang Yan did not dodge.
He raised his right hand and lightly drew a line through the air with his fingertips.
Time Shuttle!
A golden shuttle appeared above the Divining Wind Beast's head.
Two seconds.
One second.
The Divining Wind Beast's scales began to grow brittle, its muscles atrophied, and its bones became porous.
The Time Law spread through the giant beast's body at an astonishing speed.
Then came the sound of a storm.
The colossal creature's head shattered, and its body slowly fell through the storm.
A fist-sized Wind Origin Essence appeared before Fang Yan. He placed it in his World Ring, then clapped his hands.
"First one."
Fang Yan did not stop, continuing deeper into Wind Abyss Star.
In the days that followed, Fang Yan moved through Wind Abyss Star like a fish in water.
This sea of storms was a death zone to others, but to him, it was a holy land for cultivation.
Relying on the Wind-Following Wings, he traveled through gaps in the storms, hunting Divining Wind Beasts to obtain Origin Essence.
World Lord-level Divining Wind Beasts had almost no ability to fight back before him.
As for Immortals... if he could not beat them, he ran!
(Hadn't you heard that heaven never bars all paths? ٩(๑^o^๑)۶)
Time quietly passed within the storms.
One year, two years...
Ten years later, Fang Yan's comprehension of the Law of Wind finally advanced from ninety-nine percent to...
Ninety-nine point nine percent.
Only the final sliver remained.
Just as he was about to touch that final barrier, a roar that shook the entire planet rang out from the depths of Wind Abyss Star.
The sound carried King-level pressure as it swept toward him.
Fang Yan's expression changed.
Fang Yan reacted so quickly that even he found it unbelievable.
The Wind-Following Wings flapped fiercely, and the azure feathers exploded with a burst of air amid the storm. His body shot back in the direction he had come from like an arrow released from a bowstring.
That King-level roar continued to echo through the depths of Wind Abyss Star, carrying endless pressure. Wherever it passed, the storm tides that had been raging wildly seemed to be snuffed out by an invisible hand, instantly falling still.
As Fang Yan flew, he frantically cursed in his heart.
Good grief, he'd only killed a few World Lord-level Divining Wind Beasts. Was it really necessary to alarm a King-level ancestor?
He glanced back, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
Within the indigo Chaos deep inside Wind Abyss Star, a colossal creature was extending its head from the storm.
That King-level Divining Wind Beast was at least three thousand meters long by Fang Yan's estimate.
Its scales were no longer ordinary indigo, but a deep, dark blue.
Its gaze pierced through the endless storms and precisely locked onto Fang Yan.
"Roar—"
Another roar rang out.
This time, Fang Yan clearly sensed the power of laws contained within the sound wave.
Fang Yan's heart tightened, and the power of his world surged wildly within him.
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