Chapter 810 - 804 The Molting Cicada Divination Money
In front of the continuous Heavenly Gold Mountain Range is a vast plain.
However, recently this plain has been very restless, with frequent battles taking place among powerful beings. Even a casually cast spell or divine skill can bring various calamities to this land, resulting in numerous pits and craters of all sizes.
Some powerful beings among the metal creatures even directly cast spells to extract metals from the ground, creating patches of steel thorn jungles. Meanwhile, powerful cultivators use supreme divine powers to split mountains and hurl them at enemy camps!
Countless plant spirits also attempt to take root in this land. Their tough roots bore numerous holes underground, though they discovered several excellent veins of refined gold and red copper!
Three hundred miles away from the Heavenly Gold Mountain Range, a dense concentration of cultivators and plant spirits is stationed!
Millions of plant spirits are not a small number, and, whether plant gods or plant spirits, they all broke the shackles of their bodies through cultivation, growing to significant heights. Except for a few rare exceptions, most plant spirits possess much larger forms than ordinary plants.
Especially the tree demons, each with large and sturdy trunks and lush branches and leaves, rooted here, looking like a vast, limitless plant forest!
Cultivators are not as free as plant spirits.
While plant spirits can easily find a place to root, cultivators are different. Although they can sustain themselves from the elements, most, except a few dedicated to arduous cultivation, prefer to have a place of residence.
Even if it’s just a temporary tent, at least it provides them with a relatively private space.
However, any cultivator with some wealth will buy or refine one or two space magical treasures to use as a temporary dwelling.
Before the various sects set out on expeditions, they prepared many treasures, including palaces and mansions, and with those large flying escape treasures, accommodating their sect disciples during campaigns was no issue.
At this moment, Qin Feng is sitting cross-legged in a palace.
This is not a treasure of an elder from the Beast Taming Sect but his own possession.
Moreover, this palace is shrouded in spiritual energy and heavily prohibited, clearly not an ordinary item but a true immortal treasure!
Had the Beiming Immortal Mansion not been integrated into the Demon Refining Pot, Qin Feng would not have hesitated to take it out and show off.
Even so, all cultivators and immortals passing by his palace cast sidelong glances.
No wonder, as the large toad crouching in front of the palace stands out, along with a three-headed hellhound loyally standing at one side of the palace gate in a devoted dog manner, making it hard not to attract attention!
Moreover, besides these two spiritual beasts, there is a Life Tree behind the palace, towering three thousand feet into the sky, its branches piercing through the clouds!
The Life Tree sways its branches and leaves, shielding the palace below from the wind and rain!
Of course, this is just for show. After all, it is an immortal palace and not so delicate!
Nonetheless, this display is astonishingly effective.
Whether it’s the fierce demon immortal spiritual beasts or the towering, vibrant, and eye-catching Life Tree, they attract countless lives around them!
To have three demon immortals guarding the gate, and one of them being a Heavenly Immortal, it can be imagined that the person cultivating inside is extraordinarily powerful.
In fact, Qin Feng himself did not wish to attract such attention.
It’s just that his reputation is there, and immortals frequently visit him. As the poster figure of the Beast Taming Sect, he needs to show his best side to other sect forces.
So after a few supreme elders had a conversation with him, Qin Feng knowingly released a few of his demon immortals, letting them serve as a façade for his extraordinary status!
At this moment, he sits cross-legged in the hall, engaged in closed-door cultivation.
After returning to the cultivator camp, Qin Feng truthfully reported his experiences to Elder Liuling. Besides some essential social interactions, he stayed in his palace to cultivate, even ignoring the meeting of immortals and gods on how to defeat the Heavenly Gold Mountain Range.
To him, this is not a problem. With the formidable power of the Immortal God Alliance, they could simply crush the opposition. The number of experts above the Immortal God Realm is enough to overwhelm the powerful beings of this realm.
However, this is a cross-realm war, far more complex than a small group of powerful beings determining victory. Without the participation of massive armies, even if they defeat the divine beings, they would only gain an ungovernable, chaotic land.
Only by leading an army in unison, not only defeating the divine beings but also the opposing armies, can they gradually conquer this realm.
Though the Immortal God Alliance has numerous troops, they face the living beings of an entire realm. Even if the metal creatures have low reproductive ability, the Heavenly Gold Mountain Range has gathered most of the metal creatures of this realm, far outnumbering the expeditionary forces.
Although among this vast number, many are of ordinary battle power, being metal creatures means that if they fight desperately, they can still potentially inflict significant damage on the Immortal God Alliance’s expeditionary forces.
Therefore, all immortals and plant gods like the dandelion are discussing safe methods to take the Heavenly Gold Mountain Range with the lowest possible cost and win this cross-realm war!
Qin Feng is not participating in these matters, instead focusing on cultivation.
More precisely, he is refining the energy within the Metal Heart!
The benefits of the Metal Heart are beyond words. Previously, just the energies leaking out provided Qin Feng with immense benefits.
Now, he calmed his mind and slowly refined within the cultivators’ camp, no longer worried about being disturbed by external forces or attacked by metal divine beings, so he gained immense benefits from this cultivation.
For several consecutive days, he continuously absorbed and refined.
The only pity is that under this vast energy impact, his body’s endurance quickly reached perfection, making it impossible to cultivate uninterruptedly, otherwise, even with his physical robustness, it would be unbearably overwhelming!
Now, even a burp from him would spew out a dense gold element energy, and golden qi emanates with each breath. His eyes were especially glimmering with golden light, occasionally flashing a few feet long golden gleam!
This is the consequence of absorbing too much gold element origin power.
Of course, if he could, he hoped to endure such consequences a few more times in the future!
Qin Feng slowly formed seals with both hands, ceased the cultivation technique operation, and opened his eyes, pondering for a moment.
These days, with the assistance of the metal heart, his progress was quite good, but merely good compared to the speed of progress when he first absorbed and refined the energy and law within the metal heart.
The reason for this is twofold: first, back then his realm was insufficient, leaving a vast space for improvement.
Moreover, as soon as he emerged, he faced the oppression from the Toad King. During the time spent fighting the Toad King, under intense pressure, he not only absorbed and refined all the energy he had taken in but also fully integrated the laws that he had yet to thoroughly comprehend.
He initially planned to leverage the Toad King’s pressure to upgrade to Profound Immortal, but unfortunately, although he reached the bottleneck of Profound Immortal at that time, the sudden boost in strength felt somewhat hollow, and it wasn’t the right time to truly advance, which resulted in being beaten by the furious Toad King.
These days, without being disturbed, Qin Feng was able to absorb the energy within the metal heart at will. Though more comfortable, without external pressure, he merely raised the gold element law to Heavenly Immortal Perfection and lost the breakthrough opportunity from before!
He originally intended to advance to Profound Immortal in one go since the gold element law within the metal heart is extremely robust. If he could fully refine it, not to mention Profound Immortal, even Half-Step Immortal wouldn’t be difficult.
Regrettably, the law and gold element origin qi are integrated, and if he wants to refine the law, he must continue absorbing the gold element origin.
However, feeling the burgeoning gold element spiritual energy within, he could only shake his head helplessly.
He is not a metal creature and cannot integrate the metal heart within himself to replace his own heart. Thus, since he cannot absorb it for now, he will have to find another opportunity in the future to continue refining!
Although he previously mocked the Toad King and others, saying that if they chose to replace their own heart with the metal heart, they would be at a disadvantage, reducing their future upgrade potential greatly.
But if he were a metal divine being, he would also choose to replace it directly.
Because by doing so, the power of the metal heart can merge with the self rapidly, transforming into one’s energy resource. It grants formidable strength and also directly benefits from the immortal aura within the metal heart, saving countless refining efforts.
Regarding proving Dao immortality and breaking the shackles to upgrade to a higher realm, it doesn’t rely on a few treasures but on one’s understanding and insight into the Dao, a moment of enlightenment, and accumulated experience over time. It has never been about relying on any treasure for a direct upgrade.
Though such a possibility exists, across the Cosmic Great Thousand, there are hardly any fortunate ones like this; more often, it requires painstaking effort for numerous years, only then possibly obtaining one upgrade opportunity by luck.
After these days of rigorous cultivation, even though Qin Feng was honing his own power while comprehending the gold element law, the refining speed continued to slow, leaving him to sigh at the majestic power within the metal heart.
Realizing that he truly could not continue absorbing and refining, Qin Feng quickly decided to share a part of the gold element origin power with his spiritual beasts who possess gold element divine powers.
Especially the Spring and Autumn Cicada!
Back then, this creature fused with the Golden Cicada Bloodline and acquired several gold element divine powers.
The one Qin Feng favors most is Golden Cicada Shedding, which is also one of the famous divine powers he began cultivating long ago.
With the assistance of these gold element origin and laws, it will undoubtedly greatly strengthen its divine powers, especially the Golden Wing Slash and Golden Cicada Shedding, possibly achieving qualitative enhancement.
Receiving these gold element origin and law powers caused the Spring and Autumn Cicada to exhibit strong law fluctuations once again; if it weren’t for Qin Feng suppressing it with the Demon Refining Pot’s power, the Spring and Autumn Cicada would have directly advanced to Demon Immortal!
Apart from the Spring and Autumn Cicada, the biggest beneficiary was the Divine Turtle.
Although this old turtle is somewhat cunning and is primarily adept in its prediction divine power, aside from that, it has astonishing divine power and powerful water manipulation divine power, yet it is not without gold element divine powers.
In fact, when it fused with the Money Turtle, it acquired not only the fortune-telling method of the Money Turtle using money but also a few other gold element divine powers.
Moreover, the money it uses for divination is the spiritual money condensed from its own power.
Only spiritual money condensed from its own power can achieve greater effectiveness, so the denser the golden qi within it, and the stronger the gold element law, the better the condensed spiritual money, which makes its divinations closer to reality!
Thus, the Divine Turtle received a significant amount of gold element origin and laws from Qin Feng, benefiting greatly.
Also, the Divine Turtle is gigantic, far larger than the Spring and Autumn Cicada, allowing it to absorb more energy.
This filled the Divine Turtle with immense satisfaction!
Initially, it thought that the benefits gained after advancing to Demon Immortal wouldn’t match the past, yet unexpectedly, its master fed it all the gold element origin power and gold element laws, bringing immense joy!