Aside from that, the greatest danger he faced was his agreement with the Mysterious Empress.
Of course, of those agreements, he currently knew only the first.
And that first agreement was a challenge of staggering difficulty.
If he failed to reach the Saint King Realm within a year, he believed the Mysterious Empress would send him into Samsara without the slightest hesitation.
Or she would simply take possession of his body!
Qin Wuyou wanted to face neither outcome.
So all he could do now was fulfill his first agreement with the Mysterious Empress and do everything in his power to reach the Saint King Realm within a year!
"First, restore my cultivation!"
Inside his room, Qin Wuyou began comprehending the Heaven-Seizing Creation Art.
The Heaven-Seizing Creation Art comprised Blood Creation, Qi Creation, Spirit Creation, Matter Creation, and Fortune Creation.
All five methods of creation were founded on plunder.
Thus, to cultivate the Heaven-Seizing Creation Art, he first had to cultivate its method of plunder.
Only after plundering could he transform himself.
And this method of plunder was much simpler and more brutal.
It involved condensing a Heaven and Earth Furnace from his own essence, qi, and spirit. This furnace normally resided within his Divine Sea, but once activated and released, it could take physical form and grow dozens, hundreds, or even countless times larger.
With the Heaven and Earth Furnace, he could plunder everything. Whether blood essence, treasures, divine weapons, medicinal pills, or various forms of fortune power, all could be plundered, devoured, and refined by the furnace.
Finally, after being refined through the furnace's nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine layers of formations, they would be converted into his own blood essence, vital energy, soul power, and fortune.
As Qin Wuyou circulated the Heaven-Seizing Creation Art, gathered his essence, qi, and spirit, and visualized the Heaven and Earth Furnace, a mass of intertwined black, white, and golden energy immediately formed within his Divine Sea.
These represented Qin Wuyou's essence, qi, and spirit: black blood essence, white vital energy, and golden soul power. The three forces gathered and began condensing into the Heaven and Earth Furnace according to the circulation of the Heaven-Seizing Creation Art.
This first step of the Heaven-Seizing Creation Art was not difficult to cultivate; it depended on his own essence, qi, and spirit.
As long as he had enough essence, qi, and spirit, he could easily condense the Heaven and Earth Furnace.
However, the eventual size of the furnace was closely tied to the strength of his essence, qi, and spirit.
Qin Wuyou's physical body was nourished by the Supreme Bone, his vital energy was supplied by his ultimate realm dantian, and his soul power had just been strengthened by the Mysterious Empress, making condensing the Heaven and Earth Furnace much easier.
In just an hour, a miniature Heaven and Earth Furnace appeared within his Divine Sea.
As Qin Wuyou activated it, the miniature Heaven and Earth Furnace appeared above his palm.
The Heaven and Earth Furnace had three legs, with black, white, and golden energy swirling around it, and radiated a mysterious power capable of devouring everything.
The newly condensed Heaven and Earth Furnace was only the size of a fist and looked exquisitely crafted.
But as Qin Wuyou powered it with his essence, qi, and spirit, the Heaven and Earth Furnace immediately grew a hundredfold.
Watching the Heaven and Earth Furnace hover before him, standing half as tall as a person, Qin Wuyou was wild with excitement.
His Divine Sense entered the Heaven and Earth Furnace, and he immediately detected intertwining heaven and earth divine runes forming within it.
Inside the furnace, powerful formations that seemed to have existed since time immemorial sealed a mass of chaotic energy at its very center.
"Let's test the Heaven and Earth Furnace's Qi Creation first!"
Light flashed in Qin Wuyou's eyes.
His cultivation had now regressed to the Essence Condensation Realm.
If he wanted to retain his position as the Xuantian Holy Land's Holy Son, he had to return to at least the Purple Mansion Realm within a month.
Thus, he urgently needed to improve his vital energy cultivation.
Over the past few months, his cultivation had continually regressed because, without his dantian, his body could no longer store vital energy.
Now, however, with his even more powerful ultimate realm dantian, his body could store vital energy again.
Even without relying on the Heaven-Seizing Creation Art, he could recover to the Myriad Phenomena Realm.
But right now, he was even more curious about just how miraculous the Heaven-Seizing Creation Art truly was.
With a turn of his palm, a hundred-year spirit fruit appeared in his hand.
Qin Wuyou had absorbed this kind of hundred-year spirit fruit before, back in the Essence Condensation Realm. It was extremely beneficial for improving vital energy cultivation.
"Heaven-Seizing Creation, Heaven and Earth Furnace, refine!"
As Qin Wuyou's voice fell, the hundred-year spirit fruit was swallowed by the Heaven and Earth Furnace.
As the Heaven and Earth Furnace operated, streams of powerful vital energy flowed out of it in mere moments.
At the sight of this mass of pure worldly vital energy, Qin Wuyou's excited eyes lit up.
"Incredible! The same hundred-year spirit fruit is at least ten times more effective after being converted by the Heaven-Seizing Creation Art!"
Qin Wuyou's eyes shone.
The Heaven-Seizing Creation Art was simply miraculous!
"Nine-Turn Divine Dragon Art, absorb!"
Qin Wuyou circulated his family's emperor-grade cultivation art. His body seemed to transform into a divine dragon, which opened its mouth and swallowed the mass of pure worldly vital energy into his body like a dragon drawing in water.
As the Nine-Turn Divine Dragon Art circulated, his vital energy flowed into his ultimate realm dantian, instantly raising his cultivation by one minor stage.
"The Essence Condensation Realm Second Heaven?"
Feeling his cultivation rise, Qin Wuyou was overjoyed.
The hundred-year spirit fruit contained tremendous spiritual energy. When he had refined one in the Essence Condensation Realm before, it had raised his cultivation by three whole minor stages.
Now, the vital energy converted from this hundred-year spirit fruit was more than ten times what it had been back then, yet it had only raised him by one minor stage.
However, the vital energy he now possessed at the Essence Condensation Realm Second Heaven was already no weaker than what he had possessed at the Essence Condensation Realm Fourth Heaven back then!
Naturally, all this was due to his ultimate realm dantian.
The ultimate realm dantian had expanded the space within his dantian, but it had also increased the difficulty of his cultivation.
At the same cultivation level, his former eighth-grade dantian had required more than eight times the vital energy of a first-grade dantian.
Now, however, he needed more than a hundred times as much as others!
Thus, he was already overjoyed that this hundred-year spirit fruit could raise him by one minor stage in the Essence Condensation Realm.
"Good, good, good! With the Heaven-Seizing Creation Art and my ultimate realm dantian, even if I can't recover to the Purple Mansion Realm, I'll still be strong enough to crush Lin Fan and Lin Qingxue!"
Qin Wuyou laughed aloud.
He had a feeling that once his strength recovered to the Essence Condensation Realm Peak Stage, he could even cross two major realms to crush Purple Mansion Realm cultivators.
Those like Lin Fan and Lin Qingxue, who had only just entered the Purple Mansion Realm, would still be crawling insects before him.
"Rise! Let my cultivation rise like mad!"
"I want to see just how far this Heaven-Seizing Creation Art can help me recover!"
Inside the cultivation chamber, Qin Wuyou began cultivating like a madman.
He took all kinds of cultivation resources from his Storage Ring: hundred-year spirit fruits, thousand-year vermilion fruits, supreme-grade medicinal pills, high-grade spirit stones, demonic beast demon cores, and more, spreading them across the floor.
Any one of these items would have the Xuantian Holy Land's disciples cracking their heads open fighting over it.
Even the Xuantian Holy Land's higher-ups would drool with envy at the sight of these treasures.
Yet Qin Wuyou was using this vast array of precious treasures merely as cultivation supplies for the Essence Condensation Realm.
If anyone saw him, they would surely curse him for squandering heaven's treasures.
But to Qin Wuyou, however precious these items were, leaving them unconverted into cultivation was itself a waste.
Everything else had to stand aside before increasing his strength.
One coveted treasure of heaven and earth after another was thrown into the Heavenly Dao Furnace. Qin Wuyou circulated the Heaven-Seizing Creation Art and the Nine-Turn Divine Dragon Art, seamlessly absorbing vital energy and restoring his cultivation.
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