Frost City

The lotus heart still needed a long time to bond with his body. Before leaving for Frost City, Luo Feng spent his days cultivating in seclusion as he waited for the bond to form and for news from the three great merchant associations.

After roughly 1.3 million eras, Luo Feng obtained a Divine Heart Fruit through Evernight City. The price was steep: its power to nurture a body was no less than that of a Nine-Heart Lotus, and that single fruit cost him nearly 300 million Hunyuan Stones.

After 2.6 million eras, the Ten Thousand Dragon Mountain, the last of the three great merchant associations, found Luo Feng a Two-World Flower. It was every bit as precious, and he paid 260 million for it.

For nurturing avatars, the Divine Heart Fruit and Two-World Flower were better suited than the Nine-Heart Lotus. The lotus's primary purpose was to strengthen the soul, and one flower could nurture nine avatars. With that many, the quality of each naturally fell short of those nurtured by the fruit or the Two-World Flower, and the process took much longer.

Then, around 5.9 million eras later, the Heavenly Journey Association contacted Luo Feng with another Divine Heart Fruit. He bought it without hesitation.

By then, Luo Feng had paid an enormous price to nurture avatars for cultivating the Path of Evolving Heaven.

Both the Divine Heart Fruit and the Two-World Flower could quickly nurture avatars almost perfectly identical to his true body. That would save him some time in cultivating the Path of Evolving Heaven.

Inside a space within the Star Tower.

Three identical bodies stood beside Luo Feng's original body. They were the avatars nurtured by the Divine Heart Fruits and the Two-World Flower.

Yet these three avatars were not entirely identical to the original. Some