I am a late bloomer in the world of cultivating immortals

Two days later.

The infant fire went out.

With Wei Tu's hand seals, the bronze-colored alchemy furnace opened with a "hum," and three elixirs, each the size of a date pit and resembling white jade, flew out from the misty steam.

The pill shone brightly, emitting a captivating fragrance. After a moment, it dimmed its brilliance and lay quietly in Wei Tu's hand.

It was none other than the "Jade Condensation Pill" that Wei Tu frequently refined and consumed during his early stages of the Void Refinement Realm.

Having refined the elixir multiple times, he had truly reached the point where he could refine it with his eyes closed. Now, it was the perfect time to use it to "amaze everyone with his skill."

"A sixth-grade low-level spiritual pill..." Fairy Miaoshu's beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, and she swallowed hard. Under the temptation of the pill's fragrance, she keenly felt the slight fluctuation of her magical power.

But you should know that she had obtained quite a few of these sixth-grade low-level spiritual pills from Mr. Jingkong.

Without a doubt, the batch of sixth-grade low-level spiritual pills that Wei Tu casually refined was at least of excellent quality; otherwise, it wouldn't have aroused the "greed" of her internal magical power for it.

"His alchemy skills are at least at the middle level of the sixth rank, and very likely at the upper level of the sixth rank!"

Fairy Miaoshu was overjoyed and said with certainty.

Previously, she had doubts about persuading Mr. Jingkong to rent the "Secret Space Realm". After all, she was just a "concubine". No matter how favored she was, she could only ask for permission when faced with something that did not belong to her, and had no ability to decide its ownership.

However, things are different now.

A sixth-grade high-level alchemist would be of considerable help to Mr. Jingkong.

Persuading them to agree is now a foregone conclusion.

However, just to be on the safe side, Fairy Miaoshu hesitated for a moment before asking about Wei Tu's specific alchemist rank.

"Just a little short, and you could have become a sixth-grade high-level alchemist." Upon hearing this, Wei Tu shook his head with regret and said this with a sigh.

The words fell.

Fairy Miaoshu's beautiful eyes brightened slightly, and she asked tentatively, "May I ask Master Fu, is the elixir of that ancient formula... a high-grade sixth-rank?"

Based on Wei Tu's recent expertise in refining sixth-grade low-level pills.

She guessed that the "ancient elixir" that Wei Tu was preparing to refine would either improve Wei Tu's alchemy skills and provide assistance, or... this elixir would have special effects and be a rare "miracle elixir" in the current cultivation world!
Upon hearing this, Wei Tu's face instantly showed a hint of wariness. His eyes narrowed and he frowned as he looked at the Fairy Miao Shu before him. "That ancient elixir formula is my secret. If you, Fairy, are unwilling to rent the 'Secret Space Realm,' you can simply say so. There's no need to test me here..."

He directly expressed his dissatisfaction.

Peeping into secrets is a major taboo in the world of cultivation.

Fairy Miaoshu understood this principle, and after hearing Wei Tu's blunt words, a hint of embarrassment appeared on her face.

Fortunately, the manager of the Hidden God Pavilion was a smart man and immediately began to smooth things over.

After his "mediation," Wei Tu's unpleasant expression subsided slightly.

However, Wei Tu has never revealed a single detail about the effects of this "ancient elixir formula," keeping it a closely guarded secret.

"Could it be the latter? The elixir refined according to this ancient formula... has special effects?"

Fairy Miaoshu's beautiful eyes sparkled as she pondered to herself.

Once she had this idea, she became even more determined to make the deal happen.

"This woman has already become greedy..." Seeing this, Wei Tu was not anxious at all, but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

The most suspicious aspect of this transaction is whether his purpose in renting this "secret space" was actually to refine the elixir from the "ancient pill formula"...

He can't prove this himself.

But under the influence of this woman's conjecture and greed, even if he is fake, he will become real.

People tend to believe what they deduce based on "evidence".

Furthermore, based on this principle—

Before he "successfully refines the elixir," his safety in the "secret space" should be somewhat guaranteed.

If you want to covet his "elixir," you'll have to wait until he actually refines this "ancient elixir."

Although this matter may seem like a trap, Wei Tu doesn't believe that, given Mr. Jing Kong's "bad reputation," he would keep his promise and obediently let him leave after he enters the "Secret Space Realm."

In the eyes of the demonic cultivators, he was an excellent candidate for a Dan slave!
……

After Satellite TV demonstrated its value.

Fairy Miaoshu was naturally very successful in persuading Mr. Jingkong, her lover.

"Background and identity remain a mystery?"

Regarding the concern expressed by Fairy Miaoshu, Master Jingkong immediately expressed disdain: "Secluded spatial realms independent of the outside world are not rare in the six kingdoms of Zezhong. If he had a Nascent Soul cultivator behind him, he wouldn't have come to the Earth Spirit Kingdom to rent my spatial realm..."

"Without a powerful being at the Integration Realm to back me up, why should I fear him alone?"

"My husband is wise."

Although she had long understood this principle, Fairy Miaoshu immediately showed admiration upon hearing this, giving Mr. Jingkong a wealth of emotional value.

"You're quite clever, managing to seduce a sixth-level alchemist for me." Mr. Jingkong laughed heartily, putting his arm around Fairy Miaoshu's slender waist, his right hand freely reaching into the woman's bosom, lingering on her beautiful body with a hint of reward.

After a short while, Fairy Miaoshu couldn't help but frown slightly, her face showing signs of unbearable pain.

However, upon seeing this, Mr. Jingkong was even more delighted. He tore off the woman's dress with a large hand and then threw it onto the bed in the room.

creak!creak!
Amidst the rattling of his teeth, Mr. Jingkong agreed to Fairy Miaoshu's request and asked her to "invite" Wei Tu to live in his "secret space."

"Once he refines that ancient elixir, I will also give you one," Master Jingkong promised.

He only wanted to seize the "finished product" in Wei Tu's hands, and had no prior "malicious intent" to harm Wei Tu.

Firstly, he was not an alchemist, so even if he obtained the ancient formula and the corresponding spiritual herbs, he would have difficulty refining it successfully.

Finding other alchemists to refine it for you is one option, but... it's better not to interfere with Wei Tu and let him refine it himself since he's more confident.

Secondly, even he couldn't be sure whether this "ancient elixir" was beneficial to him.

By acting rashly, Wei Tu's opportunity for "great progress in alchemy" was blocked, which was also an invisible loss for him.

The value of a mid-grade sixth-level alchemist and a high-grade sixth-level alchemist differs greatly!
……

Five days later.

Wei Tu was invited by Fairy Miao Shu to fly to the faction where Mr. Jing Kong was located—Lonely Spirit Mountain.

After exchanging brief pleasantries, the two...

Fairy Miaoshu smiled and took out the secret realm token. After making a few hand seals, she opened the "spatial secret realm" stored in "Lonely Spirit Mountain".

A spatial rift the size of a bowl floated in front of the two of them.

It is so deep that its bottom cannot be seen.

“This secret realm was discovered by my husband three thousand years ago, and because of this secret realm… 'Lonely Spirit Mountain' was established here.”

"Therefore, this secret realm is also called the Lonely Spirit Mountain Secret Realm by my husband..."

Fairy Miaoshu gestured a greeting, inviting Wei Tu to enter, and then introduced him.

"The Lonely Spirit Mountain Secret Realm?" Wei Tu's eyes flashed, and after nodding, he followed behind Fairy Miao Shu and disappeared into the spatial rift.

The next moment, a self-contained "small world" with a radius of a thousand feet appeared before him.

Inside, Mr. Jingkong had built a cave dwelling, complete with artificial mountains, a medicinal garden, an alchemy room, and so on.

The only drawback is that there is no "spiritual vein" here; all the spiritual energy is obtained by extracting spirit stones and spirit crystals through the array.

However, this is the norm for this type of "secret space".

This independent "spatial secret realm" not only blocks the "erosion" of the rules of heaven and earth in the spirit world, but also the transmission of spiritual energy from the spirit world—in a sense, it can be compared to small realms such as the "human realm" or the "spirit realm." However, compared to those "small realms," it is infinitely small, to the point that even the self-generating of spiritual veins is difficult to achieve.

Just as Wei Tu was examining this secret space.

At the same moment, he also keenly sensed the divine sense of "Mr. Jingkong" spying on him from the outside world.

However, he did not reveal this, but pretended not to know, and continued to follow Fairy Miaoshu's footsteps, taking over the use of each facility in this "Secret Space Cave".

"Master Fu is here diligently researching alchemical formulas. You and I... will meet again in sixty years."

Half an hour later, Fairy Miaoshu, having completed her mission, did not linger any longer. She bowed to Wei Tu, smiled sweetly, and then gracefully flew out of the "Lonely Spirit Mountain Secret Realm" through the "spatial rift".

A span of sixty years.

This refers to the specific "rental period" for Wei Tu and Mr. Jing Kong to rent this secret realm.

When the time comes.

Regardless of whether Wei Tu succeeds in refining the elixir, Fairy Miao Shu or Mr. Jing Kong in the outside world will forcibly open the "Secret Realm Gate" and reclaim ownership of the Secret Realm.

As the "space rift" closes again.

At this moment, Wei Tu, who was left alone in the secret realm, could no longer sense Mr. Jing Kong's divine sense probing.

However, he did not take anything lightly. He first carefully examined every scene and object in the secret realm with his divine sense before turning around and entering the alchemy room in the cave. He then set up a spiritual restriction and began to pretend to "refine pills".

"Just an ordinary person."

Outside the secret realm, Mr. Jingkong, having withdrawn his divine sense, glanced at his beloved concubine, Fairy Miaoshu, stroked his beard, smiled, and then calmly commented to Wei Tu.

Upon hearing this, Fairy Miaoshu nodded slightly, and her worries were immediately put to rest.

She feared that Wei Tu was deliberately concealing his cultivation level and harboring ulterior motives.

Now that Mr. Jingkong has personally confirmed it, there's no need to worry about this matter too much.

"Congratulations, my husband, on acquiring a sixth-grade high-quality pill slave."

She curtsied and congratulated Mr. Jingkong.

"A pill slave?" Upon hearing this, Master Jingkong shook his head and laughed, "Entiling a pill slave of this cultivation level is still too radical and not conducive to this cultivation level's pill refining at Lonely Spirit Mountain... After sixty years, under the pretext of damage to the secret realm, we can confine this cultivator within Lonely Spirit Mountain and make him 'repay his debt through pill refining'..."

"Until the debt is paid, he shall not be allowed to leave Lonely Spirit Mountain!"

……

Wei Tu, who was in the secluded "Lonely Spirit Mountain Secret Realm," was unaware of Mr. Jingkong's "scheme."

After setting up a pry-proof barrier in the alchemy room, he flicked his sleeve and poured out piles of low-grade and mid-grade spirit crystals from the many storage artifacts on his body.

These low-grade and mid-grade spirit crystals were numerous, towering like small mountains.

But Wei Tu still felt it wasn't enough, so he took out hundreds more kinds of spiritual materials of various grades and placed them near the small mountain of spiritual crystals.

An hour later, looking at the empty storage bag, he reluctantly stopped what he was doing.

"Finish all your efforts in one battle!"

"If this breakthrough fails, it will take at least several hundred years to accumulate this many spirit crystals again..."

With a solemn expression, Wei Tu took out the array flags and began to set up the "Spirit-Attracting Array" according to the directions.

The Spirit-Attracting Array is derived from the low-level array "Spirit-Gathering Array". Compared to the Spirit-Gathering Array, which can only "gather spiritual energy", it has an additional function that can simulate the "spiritual pressure" of a spiritual land.

"Spiritual pressure" is precisely the assistance that various levels of spiritual grounds can provide when a cultivator breaks through.

Currently, he is in the "Minor Spirit Realm" and finds it difficult to find a suitable seventh-order spiritual land for his breakthrough. He can only choose this costly and "clumsy method" to help him break through.

Of course, this reason alone would not be enough to "pour out" all the spirit crystals he had accumulated over the past few hundred years.

The most important issue is his "foundation".

The accumulated...were too magnificent.

one.

The "Scripture of Casting the Immortal Source" is no ordinary cultivation method.

Besides being a body-refining technique unique to the Dragon Clan, it is also one of the most powerful body-refining techniques within the Feathered Dragon Clan.

The "physique" forged and the "true spirit and immortal bones" condensed by this method are incomparable to those of ordinary body cultivators.

Second.

It is still related to the "Dark Laws".

This law not only affects his "immortal realm" but also has an almost comprehensive impact on his "aptitude improvement".

It's only because he's so powerful in "body tempering" that his improvement in this area seems negligible.

However, this "slight improvement" actually consumes a huge amount of his spirit crystals.

Third...

This was his preparation for his tribulation.

Last time, when he was facing two tribulations while breaking through to the Void Refinement Realm, if it weren't for the timely intervention of the Cave Master Guanghong, who used the sect's protective formation of the One Qi Sect to help him overcome the difficulties, his life or death would have been truly unpredictable.

This time, breaking through to the seventh level of body refinement is equivalent to breaking through to the "body integration" realm, which will most likely bring him the "life tribulation" as a life cultivator.

That "Hundred Armor Fate Tribulation" wasn't particularly powerful...

However, for safety reasons, it is still very necessary to set up a "tribulation-crossing formation".

……

After setting up the "Spirit Guiding Array" and the "Tribulation Crossing Array", Wei Tu no longer hesitated. He immediately sat cross-legged and quickly entered a meditative state, pushing his body refinement realm to its peak step by step in preparation for breaking through to the "Seventh-Order Body Refinement".

The breakthrough sign of the sixth-order body refinement is the transformation of the "first spiritual bone" into the "true spiritual immortal bone," giving birth to one's own innate treasure talisman.

And the seventh-tier body refinement...

This is similar to the breakthrough to the "Unity Realm" in the Immortal Path. The breakthrough is marked by mastering the laws of heaven and earth, condensing one's own "rule domain," and aligning with the Dao.

However, the specific steps of the "seventh-order body refinement" are quite different. It involves imprinting the laws of heaven and earth and fusing one's own innate treasure talisman within one's "true spirit immortal bones" to construct a "true spirit immortal domain" that is similar to, but not exactly the same as, a domain of rules.

In a sense, this "True Spirit Immortal Realm" is more like a "Man-made Law Domain"—similar to the "Corpse-Sinking Law Domain" that Wei Tu saw in the human realm, which was set up by Ling Jiangzi in the "Corpse-Sinking Evil Land".

However, unlike immortal cultivators who need a long time to carefully construct their "artificial domain," body refiners, when advancing to the "seventh-order body refinement," will have their comprehended laws of heaven and earth merge with the "innate treasure talisman" within their True Spirit Immortal Bone, directly giving birth to their own "artificial domain," namely the "True Spirit Immortal Domain."

—This allows the "Innate Treasure Talisman," which serves as the inner landscape within the "True Spirit Immortal Bone," to manifest in the world both within the "Domain of Rules" and externally!
If this unique True Spirit Immortal Realm becomes powerful enough to be imprinted within the rules of heaven and earth, it can become another natural law of heaven and earth, just like the "True Dragon Law"...

"...The dark laws unique to the ancient demons merged with the dragon talisman and the mountain-departing tortoise talisman within the True Spirit Immortal Bone..."

Wei Tu's eyes flashed with a sharp light, showing a hint of eagerness.

True dragons and celestial phoenixes, those ancient spirits, did not only exist in the "Spirit Realm." The history of the Ancient Demon Realm also contained figures of true dragons and celestial phoenixes, but because they were unknown, they, like the true dragons and celestial phoenixes of the Spirit Realm, gradually faded into history.

These true dragons and celestial phoenixes that exist in the ancient demon realm are also classified as belonging to the "ancient demons" race and are called "demon dragons" and "demon phoenixes"!
In the present day, apart from those "innate ancient demons", many of the remaining demon lords and demon ancestors in the ancient demon realm possess the bloodlines of ancient true spirits such as "demon dragons" and "demon phoenixes".

In essence.

The difference between cultivators in the Spirit Realm and ancient demons in the Ancient Demon Realm is that one absorbs spiritual energy, while the other absorbs demonic energy… (End of Chapter)