Refill

Fang Yan slowly turned his head, wanting to say something, only to find that the ancestor had already closed his eyes. The aura around him returned to nothingness, as though those words had merely been Fang Yan's illusion.

Fang Yan took a deep breath, then another.

Then he turned around and strode out of the Flame Ruins Palace.

The real reason Fang Yan chose the Wind Origin Crystal was that he did not need the Wind God Wings at all.

Although the Spring Autumn Cicada Clone was only at the World Lord Ninth Order, as a special lifeform with a thousandfold genetic level, its flying speed had always far surpassed that of humans at the same level.

Coupled with the bug-level trump card of Time Reversal, should he truly encounter danger, the speed boost from the Wind God Wings would merely be icing on the cake.

But the Wind Origin Crystal was different. With Time Reversal, Fang Yan could refill a single Wind Origin Crystal endlessly.

Fang Yan's greatest weakness was not his combat strength, but his realm.

With the Spring Autumn Cicada Clone, his comprehension of the Time Law advanced by leaps and bounds. But the Law of Wind could only be built through solid cultivation and a mountain of resources.

To break through from the World Lord Ninth Order into an Immortal God, what he needed was complete Law comprehension, not flashy escape methods.

Fang Yan needed to break through to the Immortal level as soon as possible.

If he did not become an Immortal while possessing the Spring Autumn Cicada, a special lifeform Clone, some great being might capture him one day and have a junior seize his body.

Moreover, Fang Yan knew clearly that the tranquility of the early Primordial Universe was only temporary.

The Human Race already had two Universe Lords, Dragon Walker Lord and Origin, overseeing it. Their expansion across the territories had never ceased.

In this process, World Lord-level combat power was not worth mentioning at all. Only Immortal Gods were qualified to participate in the race's true contests.

More importantly, Fang Yan remembered a crucial piece of information.

Origin, the youngest Universe Lord of the Human Race, would later frequently lead the race's experts into battle across all sides.

That was a road to the heavens. By earning merit under Origin, Fang Yan would have enough to live freely in the Primordial Universe.

But Fang Yan also had to be qualified to stand before Origin.

World Lord Ninth Order was not enough!

Outside the hall, Fang Lie was squatting by the entrance, gnawing on a fruit. Seeing his son emerge, he casually asked,

"How'd it go?"

Fang Yan looked perfectly calm and even smiled.

"The ancestor was quite nice. He even gave me a reward."

"See? I told you the ancestor had a good temper." Fang Lie rose to his feet.

"What did he give you?"

"A Wind Origin Crystal."

"Tsk, you really chose that thing?"

Fang Lie scratched his head and did not ask any further.

"Fine. Come on, let's go back."

Father and son walked back along the path they had taken, one after the other.

Fang Yan walked behind him, the smile on his face gradually fading.

The ancestor had seen through him.

That feeling left Fang Yan both afraid and reassured.

He was afraid because the ancestor's perception far exceeded his imagination.

He was reassured because his own ancestor seemed incredibly powerful.

Upon returning to Sky Pillar Peak, Fang Yan impatiently took out the Wind Origin Crystal.

Refining the Wind Origin Crystal went more smoothly than expected.

Fang Yan sat cross-legged atop Sky Pillar Peak. The azure crystal in his palm had already transformed into a cloud of flowing light, gradually merging into the center of his brow.

With every wisp that merged in, the Wind Law Imprint on his forehead brightened. The feather-shaped imprint seemed to come alive, gently fluttering as it absorbed strands of Wind Origin.

A moment later, Fang Yan opened his eyes, and a flash of cyan light passed through their depths.

The Wind Origin Crystal had been completely refined.

Fang Yan could clearly feel his comprehension of the Law of Wind rapidly improving.

Yet the real show had only just begun.

Fang Yan extended his right hand and opened his palm.

A wisp of azure mist seeped out between his fingers and slowly gathered, reforming into a fist-sized crystal in the blink of an eye.

Azure throughout, it contained a strand of aura so light it seemed almost unreal.

The Wind Origin Crystal had returned!

The Spring Autumn Cicada Clone's innate secret technique, Time Reversal, could not only return objects to their former states, but could also choose not to make the caster revert along with them.

After Fang Yan refined the Wind Origin Crystal, the crystal had vanished in the physical sense.

But Time Reversal was unreasonable. It directly erased the segment of the timeline where "the Wind Origin Crystal was refined," returning the crystal to its state before refinement.

Meanwhile, Fang Yan himself did not change in the slightest, nor did his comprehension of the Law of Wind.

This was not replication. This was a blatant spacetime bug.

Fang Yan looked at the re-formed Wind Origin Crystal in his palm and grinned.

"If the ancestor knew I could do this, he'd probably bring the Fang Family's entire treasury right before me."

Three days later, the Wind Origin Crystal's boost to Fang Yan's comprehension finally came to an end.

He took a deep breath, clenched the Wind Origin Crystal, and began refining it again.

The second round of comprehension was much faster than the first, taking only two days.

His comprehension of the Law of Wind rose from fifty-five percent to sixty percent.

Fang Yan opened his right hand.

Time Reversal.

The Wind Origin Crystal appeared once more.

The third round of comprehension took a day and a half. His comprehension rose from sixty percent to sixty-three percent.

The fourth took one day. Sixty-five percent.

The fifth took half a day. Sixty-six percent.

By the tenth time, one Wind Origin Crystal provided only one hour of comprehension time.

From sixty-nine percent to sixty-nine point five percent, it rose by only half a percent.

By the twentieth time, after Fang Yan refined the Wind Origin Crystal in his hand, the speed of his comprehension of the Law of Wind was only half a percent faster than before.

It was not that the Wind Origin Crystal had stopped working, but that his body had developed a "tolerance" to this level of Wind Origin.

Just as taking too much medicine created drug resistance, Law comprehension worked the same way.

The Wind Origin Crystal was merely an ordinary treasure containing a strand of Wind Origin. To World Lord-level cultivators, the first few crystals had effects that could be called heaven-defying, but after consuming too many, the effects would plummet off a cliff.

Fang Yan stared at the azure crystal in his palm and fell silent for a moment.

"It doesn't matter."

He put away the Wind Origin Crystal. In any case, Time Reversal could restore it endlessly. To him, this thing was inexhaustible.

The key was that he needed to find higher-grade resources.

But that was a matter for the future.

Fang Yan set himself a small goal.

Within one year, he would use the Wind Origin Crystal in tandem with the Spring Autumn Cicada to raise his comprehension of the Law of Wind to seventy percent first!

The goal did not sound like much, but in truth, it became harder the further he progressed.

However, reality was far crueler than Fang Yan had imagined.

Ten years, twenty years, thirty years...

A hundred years passed!

Fang Yan sat cross-legged atop Sky Pillar Peak, sensing the Law of Wind circulating within his body.

Seventy percent!

He had finally reached seventy percent!

He opened his eyes. The cyan light in their depths was several shades deeper than before, and the Law Imprint on his forehead had become more solid.

Yet there was little joy on Fang Yan's face.

"Too slow."

He muttered, then lay back on the grass and gazed at the two moons above him.

A hundred years, from fifty percent to seventy percent.

At this pace, even an optimistic estimate said it would take over a thousand years to fully comprehend the Law of Wind.

And that did not even account for his sturdy Origin Core!

Though his Origin Core was still not comparable to Luo Feng's during his World Lord days, he should at least have to create a pinnacle secret technique, right?

"I need to find a way to get something of a higher grade."

Fang Yan spat out the Windtail Grass in his mouth and sat up.

Fang Yan decided to take a walk around Yinghuo Star first. He leaped down from Sky Pillar Peak.

The wind howled past his ears as the crimson earth rapidly expanded before his eyes.

Farther away, he could faintly see the outline of the Fang Family Main City, a city so grand it seemed unreal, glowing with a dark crimson light beneath Yinghuo Star's eternal twilight.

Fang Yan took a deep breath and stepped forward.