There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

Jupiter.

Wang Ping used it to try to deduce the core of the "Gathering Wood Technique" array. A puppet was refining the "Time" characteristic that Wang Ping had enlightened. This process was not very difficult. The runes inside the characteristic did not reject the puppet's consciousness. On the contrary, they were very happy.

This process continued for half a year, during which the puppet refined the 'time' property. The next step was to fuse it with one's own primordial spirit.

The puppet was enveloped in a hazy green light, and the refined 'Time' attribute floated on its chest, appearing as a translucent emerald green, with countless fine runes flowing inside like swimming fish.

As the puppet's primordial spirit was drawn by its power, the 'Time' attribute began to slowly sink, seeping into the puppet's primordial spirit's chest like water droplets seeping into a sponge.

The wood elemental energy within the puppet's primordial spirit suddenly became active, and each meridian lit up with a pale green light path. These light paths, centered on the dantian, gradually formed a three-dimensional network of runes.

At the same time, the puppet's spiritual body was drawn by the primordial spirit, and its internal spiritual veins suddenly became marked with fine wood spirit runes. These runes slowly spread towards the acupoints of the spiritual veins and attempted to construct the 'time' property in the core of the Qi Sea.

Ten days later.

Suddenly, the puppet's eyes burst forth with a brilliant blue light, reflecting countless fragments of flowing time in its pupils. Its consciousness was deeply merging with the characteristics of 'time,' like two streams converging into a new water system.

Another half month passed, and a cluster of emerald green light was gathering in the primordial spirit and spiritual body's sea of ​​qi of the puppet. But it was just a cluster of light. It was frantically absorbing the wood spirit qi of this world. If the wood spirit qi of this world were not so rich, the spiritual veins of the puppet's body would have been drained.

At this moment, Wang Ping, who was connected to the puppet's consciousness, had the light screen panel pop up again:

[The Fourth Realm Secret Technique of Gathering Wood (Advancement Chapter): This technique fuses the physical body and primordial spirit with a wood spirit characteristic. It then uses this characteristic to absorb stable wood spirit energy from the starry sky and, based on this characteristic, gathers a wood spirit core within the dantian.]

【1，架设一个木灵之气浓郁度达到（95/100）的聚灵法阵，目前浓郁度（100/100）。】

[2. The characteristics of the Wood Spirit cannot be mastered by cultivators at the Third Realm. Once fused with it, one needs to stabilize one's consciousness, otherwise one will be torn apart by the powerful force of its characteristics. The strength of the primordial spirit needs to reach the critical point for advancement to the Third Realm.]

[3. This ability will continuously absorb Wood Spirit energy. You need to maintain a clear mind throughout this process. If you relax even slightly, you may fall into a deep sleep, which will disrupt your memories and consciousness.]

[4. If successful condensation cannot be achieved within one hundred years, please abandon the attempt immediately.]

[5. When a Wood Spirit Core condenses within your body, its properties will slow down the absorption of Wood Spirit energy, allowing it to completely merge with your physical body and primordial spirit.]

[Note 1: If the concentration of wood elemental energy is insufficient, it may contaminate the properties, leading to the contamination of the primordial spirit and consciousness.]

[Note 2: Before formal cultivation, you can absorb spiritual energy to increase the strength of your primordial spirit. The required strength is 95/100; current progress is 500491/100.]

[Note 3: Maintain your humanity and understand who you are; otherwise, you will be replaced by other consciousnesses.]

[Note 4: Do not attempt to exceed the time limit, as your spirit and physical body cannot withstand an infusion lasting more than one hundred years.]

[Note 5: You will know what success feels like.]

After Wang Ping's primordial spirit scanned the contents of the light screen panel, a smile unconsciously appeared on his face. Finally, there was a result, no longer that vague and uncertain wait.

However, this method is destined not to be widely implemented, but it gives unorthodox cultivators hope. If there are large-scale battles in the future, Wang Ping can also make the three realms of unorthodox cultivators work harder by bestowing special characteristics upon them.

As his thoughts wandered, he took out a jade slip and recorded the newly derived secret technique. While Yu Lian was reading the contents of the secret technique, he constructed a river of time in the Wood Spirit World and condensed a 'Time' attribute once again.

"Is it really possible?"

Yu Lian asked with concern, after all, this was a secret method meant for Yang Rong to cultivate.

Wang Ping replied, "I have already had the puppets try it. With the spirit-gathering array I built, we should have results in fifty years at most. Then we'll see."

Yu Lian nodded and said, "This time is not long. Rong'er can continue practicing Qi cultivation and stabilize her consciousness at the same time."

After she finished speaking, she put away the jade slip and used the teleportation ability imprinted on her body to return to Jupiter.

Wang Ping then sealed away the new 'time' characteristic, and then he conjured up the characteristics of life, corrosion, reproduction, and healing and sealed them away as well.

These characteristics are different from those of the Star God Core. The Star God Core allows one to begin cultivation from the Qi Refining stage, while these characteristics, if not refined to perfection at the third realm, will cause the energy storms they generate to tear the consciousness and physical body to shreds.

Subsequently, Wang Ping entered a meditative state to refine the chaotic storm and attempted to cultivate the source of demonic energy through the puppets in the Star Barrier Ecological Zone.

Yu Lian returned two days later. Upon her return, she instructed Wang Ping to open the Divine Palace. She wanted to personally plan a more intense faith war with the Vajra Temple, and at the same time guide the Star God Alliance's Four Realms Star Gods who were in seclusion awaiting their demise, so that they would meet the basic requirements for being appointed as God Generals.

Yulian is only enthusiastic about everything for a short time, but she is particularly concerned about the affairs of her believers.

For the next thirty years, the conflict between the Taiyan Sect and the Vajra Temple was like two intertwined pythons, with their respective divine messengers constantly battling it out in each other's ecological zones.

Soon, the struggle spread to Zhongzhou Star, and one war between proxies after another was staged. By the tenth year of the struggle, the Vajra Temple was showing signs of fatigue. After all, the Taiyan Sect's layout on Zhongzhou Star was far beyond what the Vajra Temple could compare with.

At this point, the Earth Cave Gate stepped in. The Taiyan Sect remained calm in the face of the siege by the two factions. In the twentieth year, the struggle spread to the ecological zone of the meteorite belt on the outskirts of Zhongzhou. This was the core area for the Xuanmen and Tianmen sects to spread their beliefs. After more than a thousand years of development, the population of all the ecological zones combined was a staggering 10 billion.

The conflict between the three factions in the ecological zone was not a proxy war, nor a battle of magic between cultivators. It was simply a struggle for believers among their respective missionaries. However, it was extremely cruel, with some extreme believers often causing bloodshed and even assassinations of each other.

Moreover, some things, once started, are like a flood bursting its banks, inevitably affecting other Xuanmen and Tianmen sects, as well as a large number of neutral side sects. Linshui Mansion, Yuqing Sect, and Taiyin Sect maintained neutrality, restraining their disciples from getting involved in the three sects' struggle, while Zhenyang Sect reacted unusually fiercely. They did not join any side, but instead launched a direct counterattack against any side that dared to infringe on their interests, which quickly turned the originally relatively balanced struggle into chaos.

The neutral factions were not so lucky; they were forced to take sides in this struggle.

The chaos in the rear indirectly affected the war against the rebels on the front lines, causing the two flanks of the encirclement to collapse completely, leaving them to watch helplessly as the demonic world spread outwards into the starry sky.

However, the current situation is not something that can be solved by anyone taking a step back. Even the Earthly True Monarch, who is in charge of the front line, can only occasionally take action to slow down the expansion of the demonic world. He is helpless about the struggle in the inner ring star field and has no choice but to follow the Heavenly Craftsman's lead.

The so-called "taking a step back opens up a vast expanse" principle simply doesn't apply to them.

For the past thirty years, Wang Ping has not paid attention to this struggle. He has spent most of his time defining the Chaotic Storm with the 'Heaven-Stealing Talisman'. Now, his progress in cultivating the 'Heaven-Stealing Talisman' has reached (67/100).

The progress of cultivating the 'Heaven-Stealing Talisman' is not fixed at any particular time. Sometimes it will suddenly increase by a little, while other times it may take decades or even hundreds of years to increase the progress by even a little.

That day, Wang Ping was meditating as usual when he suddenly opened his eyes as if sensing something. Yu Lian, who was focused on the divine kingdom, immediately turned to look at him and asked, "What's wrong?"

A slight smile appeared on Wang Ping's indifferent face as he said, "Qianqian is about to officially go into seclusion to advance her cultivation."

When he responded, his consciousness had already appeared on the clone at the top of Mount Jiuxuan. Yu Lian also appeared at the top of Mount Jiuxuan. Hu Qianqian's disciple, Hu Lin, happened to land next to the spirit tree outside the dojo at this moment.

Just as Hu Lin was about to pay his respects, Wang Ping's clone stood up and waved his left hand, summoning a wisp of wood spirit energy to stop Hu Lin from bowing. At the same time, he transformed into a stream of light and flew towards the direction of Hu Qianqian's dojo.

But in the blink of an eye, he saw an asteroid painted in various colors and landed smoothly on a dock in the asteroid's ecological zone, his gaze falling on a wooden house built against the mountain nearby.

That was Hu Qianqian's usual cultivation ground, also dyed with colorful paints. At this moment, the house was surrounded by a purple barrier array, with a tiger demon and a bull demon guarding both sides of the barrier. They were Wang Ben and Niu Qi, who had been with Hu Qianqian the earliest.

Outside, some little foxes curiously looked at the houses. Some of these little foxes had already entered the realm, and some even had the cultivation of the second stage of the pseudo-core realm, while others had just transformed into human form.

When Wang Ping's clone appeared, two fox demons with cultivation immediately came up to pay their respects, and a fluffy little creature ran in front of the clone, wagging its tail and offering Wang Ping a fresh fruit. They didn't seem afraid of Wang Ping, because Wang Ping used to come here to fish often and behaved exceptionally kindly.

"Don't be rude!" Hu Lin's voice rang out, and then he landed in front of the group of fox demons, clasped his hands in a fist and said, "Master, please forgive me..."

"It doesn't matter."

Wang Ping's clone smiled and waved his hand, glancing at the little fox that had dodged away. He was clearly terrified of Hu Lin. At this moment, Wang Ben and Niu Qi also came over to pay their respects, but Wang Ping's clone shook his head to stop them.

Yu Lian landed directly above the barrier, her primordial spirit cautiously probing into the wooden house.

Wang Ping's gaze then fell upon the spirit-gathering array set up in this area.

Centered on Hu Qianqian's dojo, the Spirit Gathering Array has a crystal-clear blue stone floating at its core, continuously absorbing the moonlight from the starry sky. This moonlight condenses into a substantial silver-white mist within the array, flowing slowly between the array patterns like mercury.

Moonlight is another manifestation of Yin energy, which is both opposite to and similar to the energy of the True Yang Sect. It is the basic energy of the White Fox's cultivation bloodline power.

Looking at the formation, there is a cold jade pillar in each of the eight directions. The pillars are carved with intricate spirit-gathering runes. At this moment, the surface of these jade pillars is covered with frost flowers and exudes a bone-chilling cold.

Wang Ping's primordial spirit followed these energies into the interior of the wooden house, merging with Yu Lian's primordial spirit, and carefully probing Hu Qianqian's condition.

At this moment, Hu Qianqian was lying on the cloud bed in the center of the hall in her true form. Her snow-white fur emitted a faint purple halo. Her primordial spirit unconsciously wandered around the cloud bed, absorbing the energy particles gathered by the spirit-gathering array and then transferring them to her physical body lying on the cloud bed.

When Wang Ping's primordial spirit appeared, Hu Qianqian initially resisted instinctively, but when she sensed that it was Wang Ping's aura, her consciousness became noticeably more stable.

Then, Hu Qianqian opened her mouth and spat out a demon core that emitted a purple halo. The demon core floated above her body, forming a unique energy field between her primordial spirit and physical body.

As the energy field formed, a chilling cold suddenly descended, and at the same time, all the refined energy in this world converged towards the demon core.

The next moment, the purple halo on the surface of the demon core suddenly surged, turning into a vortex that frantically devoured the moonlight gathered by the spirit-gathering array, while the silvery-white light mist was pulled into threads and surged into the core like rivers flowing into the sea.

As the demon core devoured the energy more fiercely, the moonlight energy of the entire spirit-gathering array was drawn into a silver torrent, while the surface of the demon core shimmered with purple light, gradually condensing into a crystalline structure that resembled a celestial river, with faint energy vortexes resembling an inverted galaxy visible inside.

Suddenly, the eight cold jade pillars of the spirit-gathering array outside simultaneously lit up with a dazzling silver light. The runes on the pillars writhed like living creatures, releasing all the essence of moonlight stored for thousands of years. This essence condensed into a crescent moon above the demon core, and the cold moonlight poured down like a waterfall, immersing the entire core in pure yin energy.

Outside the temple grounds, the flowers, grasses, and trees dyed with pigments suddenly grew wildly. Vines climbed up the eaves and bloomed with silvery-white flowers the size of bowls. Crystalline fruits appeared in the bushes. Even the cracks in the bluestone slabs on the ground sprouted clusters of spiritual herbs that emitted moonlight.

Immediately afterwards, a phantom galaxy spread rapidly outwards from the demon core, quickly covering most of the training ground.

At this moment, Wang Ping and Yu Lian's primordial spirits left the wooden house and felt the energy emitted by the spirit-gathering array. Wang Ping looked up at the outer edge of the barrier of the asteroid's ecological zone, and then he stretched out his left hand and gently touched it. Instantly, a beam of wood spirit light pierced through the barrier and formed an array on the outer edge of the asteroid, transforming the wood spirit energy of the starry sky into pure spiritual energy.

"Qianqian had the highest cultivation level back then, but she eventually reached the perfection of the third realm. However, her cultivation level was also the most profound. Moreover, she did not rely on any external help to achieve her cultivation level. She achieved it step by step. Now, her advancement to the fourth realm is a natural progression."

Wang Ping made a simple assessment, which he said in his conversation with Yu Lian in the spiritual sea.

As Yu Lian descended upon her clone, several little white foxes immediately came over to greet her. While playing with them, she replied, "That's right, her advancement is a testament to her accumulated experience." (End of Chapter)