Around April of the previous year, before Fang Qianyuan had advanced to the Sixth Transformation of the Earth Rank, he had already cultivated his Past Body to minor attainment, allowing him to briefly anchor it in the void and wield the power of time.
But this step was still a considerable distance from major attainment.
Once cultivated to major attainment, the Past Body could reflect the past and connect his various bodies, forming an extraordinarily profound art of manifestation.
This art transformed him from a being existing solely in the present into an existence spanning the long river of time, thereby granting him immortality and indestructibility.
Yet after Fang Qianyuan advanced to the sixth and seventh turns, he gradually discovered that increases in his cultivation had less and less effect on it. He seemed to lack some crucial opportunity and remained unable to progress any further.
Only now, with his Divine Sense surging, had that opportunity begun to reveal itself before him.
The paintings before him opened one strange, dreamlike world after another. These worlds did not truly exist in reality, yet as Fang Qianyuan immersed his mind in them, they acquired certain similar properties.
While Fang Qianyuan gazed at the scene before him, millions of li away in the Flowing Cloud Grotto, Ink Fairy Lin Qiao was painting in a picturesque valley, depicting the beautiful peach blossoms covering the hills and fields before her.
Although it was the depths of winter, the valley within the grotto-heaven remained as warm as spring all year round, sustained by a formation array and the circulation of spiritual essence.
Peach blossoms bloomed in profusion. As a breeze swept through, fallen petals fluttered everywhere, creating an enchanting scene too beautiful to take in.
Before long, the painting took shape, and the scene before