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 had returned to nothingness, as if those words had merely been an 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 had chosen the Wind Origin Crystal was that he simply did not need the Wind God Wings.

Although the Spring Autumn Cicada Clone possessed only World Lord Ninth Order cultivation, as a special lifeform with a genetic multiplier of 1,000, its flying speed already far surpassed humans of the same rank.

And with Time Reversal as a bug-level trump card, if he truly encountered 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, a single Wind Origin Crystal could be refilled endlessly.

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

With the Spring Autumn Cicada Clone, his comprehension of the Time Law advanced by leaps and bounds every day. But the Law of Wind could only be accumulated through genuine cultivation and resources.

To break through from World Lord Ninth Order to Immortal God, what he needed was complete law comprehension, not flashy means of escape.

Fang Yan needed to break through to immortality as soon as possible.

If he did not become an Immortal God while possessing the special lifeform avatar of the Spring Autumn Cicada, some great being might capture him someday and use him as a vessel for a junior's possession.

Moreover, Fang Yan knew clearly that the peace at the beginning of the Primordial Universe was only temporary.

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

During this process, World Lord-level combat strength was not worth mentioning at all. Only Immortal Gods were qualified to participate in the Human Race's true struggle for power.

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 path to the heavens. By riding Origin's coattails and earning merit, Fang Yan would have enough to enjoy the Primordial Universe freely.

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

World Lord Ninth Order was not enough!

Outside the hall, Fang Lie was squatting by the entrance, gnawing on a fruit. When he saw 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 picked that thing?"

Fang Lie scratched his head and did not ask further.

"Fine. Let's go home."

Father and son walked back along the path they had come from, one ahead of the other.

Fang Yan walked behind, the smile on his face fading bit by bit.

The ancestor had seen through him.

That feeling both frightened and reassured Fang Yan.

What frightened him was that the ancestor's perception far exceeded his imagination.

What reassured him was that his family's ancestor seemed very powerful.

After returning to Sky Pillar Peak, Fang Yan eagerly 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 turned into a mass of flowing luminous mist, which slowly seeped into his forehead.

With every wisp that entered, 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, a flash of azure light crossing their depths.

The Wind Origin Crystal had been completely refined.

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

Yet the real show had only just begun.

Fang Yan extended his right hand and opened his palm.

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

It was azure throughout, with an unbelievably light and ethereal aura sealed within.

The Wind Origin Crystal had returned!

The Spring Autumn Cicada Clone's innate secret technique, Time Reversal, could not only return an object to its previous state, but could also choose not to make the caster regress along with it.

After Fang Yan refined the Wind Origin Crystal, the crystal had physically ceased to exist.

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

Meanwhile, Fang Yan himself remained completely unchanged, as did his comprehension of the Law of Wind.

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

Fang Yan looked at the reformed Wind Origin Crystal in his palm and grinned.

"If the ancestor knew I could do this, he'd probably move the entire Fang Family treasury in front of me."

Three days later, the Wind Origin Crystal's boost to Fang Yan's comprehension had completely ended.

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

The second comprehension session 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 comprehension session 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 an hour of comprehension.

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

On the twentieth time, after Fang Yan refined the Wind Origin Crystal in his hand, the speed at which he comprehended the Law of Wind was only half a percent faster than before.

It was not that the Wind Origin Crystal had lost its effect. Rather, his body had already developed a "tolerance" to Wind Origin of this level.

Just as taking too much medicine could produce drug resistance, the same principle applied to law comprehension.

The Wind Origin Crystal was merely an ordinary treasure containing a strand of Wind Origin. For a World Lord-level cultivator, the effects of the first few crystals were practically heaven-defying, but after too many, the effect would plummet off a cliff.

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

"It's fine."

He put away the Wind Origin Crystal. In any case, Time Reversal could restore it endlessly, so to him, it was an inexhaustible resource.

The key was that he needed to find higher-level 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 and Spring Autumn Cicada together to raise his comprehension of the Law of Wind to seventy percent!

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, feeling the Law of Wind circulate within his body.

Seventy percent!

He had finally reached seventy percent!

He opened his eyes. The azure light in their depths was several shades richer than before, and the law imprint on his forehead had become more solid as well.

But there was not much joy on Fang Yan's face.

"Too slow."

He muttered, then lay flat on the grass and stared at the two moons overhead.

A hundred years, from fifty percent to seventy percent.

Even with an optimistic estimate, at this rate it would take over a thousand years to fully comprehend the Law of Wind.

And that was not even counting his tough Origin Core!

Although his Origin Core was still not comparable to Luo Feng's during his World Lord days, he should at least be able to create a peak secret technique, right?

"I need to find a way to get something higher-level."

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, and the crimson earth rapidly expanded before his eyes.

Farther away, he could vaguely see the outline of Fang Family Main City, an impossibly majestic city glowing dark red beneath Yinghuo Star's eternal twilight.

Fang Yan took a deep breath and started walking.