There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

Chapter 1063 Time flies
Wang Ping's method was simple: he first manifested his physical body in the Wood Spirit World, then his primordial spirit sat on the throne of the God King, and placed the 'Heaven Stealing Talisman' above the star map of faith in the center of the God King's palace.

When Yu Lian and many messengers of the divine kingdom communicated with believers, they discovered that those believers who were truly devout and genuinely needed to extend their lives would communicate with Wang Ping and ask him to bestow blessings upon them.

Just as Wang Ping had guessed, the karmic burden brought about by a few days of life was almost negligible. However, Wang Ping still used his physical body and the Wood Spirit to cleanse his primordial spirit, and used the characteristics of space and time to gather the Wood Spirit Qi to repair the Wood Spirit.

During this process, Wang Ping's primordial spirit could not sense any increase in his cultivation of the 'Heaven-Stealing Talisman,' but Wang Ping was full of patience. Just before the chaotic storm was about to be refined, his cultivation progress of the 'Heaven-Stealing Talisman' finally increased a little.

Sensing something, Wang Ping immediately awoke from his meditation, stretched out his hand to calculate for a moment, and looked at Yu Lian, who was also watching him, and said, "This meditation lasted almost seventy years. It took me only about this long to advance to the fourth realm!"

Yu Lian smiled and replied, "Your current cultivation level is incomparable to that of when you first entered the fourth realm. In this starry sky, perhaps only the Dragon Lord can compare with your cultivation level."

Wang Ping smiled and said, "It's just this part of the starry sky. There are endless universes beyond this realm, and our goal has never been this part of the starry sky."

After saying this, he seemed to have no intention of continuing his cultivation. He then dismantled the divine palace, retrieved the 'Heaven-Stealing Talisman,' and merged his primordial spirit with the giant locust tree body of the Wood Spirit World. In the blink of an eye, he returned to his human form and said, "The agreement between Earth Script and Heavenly Craft is about to come. This Heavenly Craft is quite unexpected. It has caused such a commotion, yet it has not been able to break free from my restraints."

His gaze pierced through endless space and time, instantly landing on Venus and the ecological zones in Venus's orbit.

The surface of Venus is shrouded in a pale golden light, with countless fine runes flowing across it, enveloping the entire planet in divine radiance.

Thousands of ecological zones are arranged in an orderly manner along Venus's gravitational orbit. The surface of each ecological zone's barrier is engraved with intricate array patterns, echoing the light curtain of Venus in the center, forming a three-dimensional array network covering the entire star field.

Within the eco-zone, believers formed a winding stream on the streets, holding ritual implements made of green jade and chanting ancient prayers. As the chanting converged, visible streams of faith rose from above the crowd, condensing into pale golden clouds in the sky above the eco-zone.

“I can sense that Tiangong could release me from my restraints at any time, but he didn’t.” Wang Ping’s tone was relaxed, showing no concern about Tiangong’s escape, which stemmed from his confidence in his current cultivation level.

"Is he concealing Master Forgetfulness's advancement?" Yu Lian, connected to Wang Ping's primordial spirit, easily followed Wang Ping to observe the current state of Venus's orbit.

Wang Ping did not respond. He stretched out his hand to deduce, and after a short while, he withdrew his gaze and said to Yu Lian, "The battle with Tian Gong and the others is inevitable. We have done our best now, and we will wait for the necessary moment to make our move." He chuckled as he said this, and then changed the subject, saying, "Qianqian will soon be able to condense a true demon core. Let's go back and take a look."

“Great! I haven’t been back all these years. The fish and shrimp in the lake in front of her dojo must be incredibly plump by now.” Yu Lian felt an overwhelming longing in her mind.

Wang Ping's gaze swept over the last chaotic storm that stretched for no more than a thousand miles. The Wood Spirit World that had been spinning in the starry sky quickly closed in. Then, concealing his aura within the Wood Spirit Qi, he carried Yu Lian across endless space and time, appearing without warning at Hu Qianqian's dojo dock.

"Wow, is it time travel? It feels incredibly magical, like a dream and reality overlapping." Yu Lian commented on the 'time travel' property used by Wang Ping.

Wang Ping chuckled, waved to dismiss the protector's clones, and then waved to the little foxes who wanted to bow to him. In an instant, his primordial spirit silently descended into the wooden house where Hu Qianqian was in seclusion.

At this moment, Hu Qianqian was still in the state she was in when she was promoted. Her physical body was lying on the cloud bed in the center of the wooden house, while her primordial spirit wandered around her body, absorbing the gathered moonlight energy to nourish her body and gather energy into the demon core between her body and primordial spirit.

After nearly a century of refinement, Hu Qianqian's demon core is now vastly different from what it was before. The core has a crystal-clear purple jade-like texture, with a silver halo formed by moonlight flowing across its surface. The naturally formed bloodline patterns inside the core are clearly visible, intertwined and coiled.

The space around the demon core was slightly distorted, and tiny silver specks of light would occasionally appear. These specks would form intricate patterns and then disappear in an instant. At the same time, fine ice crystal patterns would occasionally appear on the surface of the core. Each time these patterns appeared, the indoor temperature would drop sharply, but would return to normal in an instant.

The demon core is currently undergoing its final transformation. The purple light on the surface of the core is growing stronger and stronger, gradually projecting a star map phantom onto the roof of the wooden house. The star map corresponds to the bloodline runes inside Hu Qianqian's core. It extends out fine rays of light, connecting with the illusory stars that appear around it.

Wang Ping's eyes flickered slightly. This star map was the manifestation of Hu Qianqian's thousand years of cultivation and the concrete embodiment of her stellar power. With each improvement of the star map, the texture of the demon core became more solid, bringing it one step closer to the true 'core completion' realm.

How much longer will it take her to get promoted?

Yu Lian asked.

Wang Ping extended his left hand and made a few calculations, saying, "It should be within the next month or two."

As he finished speaking, a slight fluctuation of emotion appeared in his voice, and he continued, "The celestial secrets that follow are extremely chaotic, and it seems that many things will happen. Some things in this world are just too coincidental."

Yulian asked with concern, "Won't this affect Qianqian's promotion?"

Wang Ping laughed and said, "Don't worry, no one can affect her promotion at this time."

After confidently finishing his statement, he waved for Wang Ben and Niu Qi, who were guarding the two sides of the dojo's barrier, to leave. He then conjured two golden-armored puppets to guard their original positions, and then took Yu Lian to the dock to fish.

Seeing this, Hu Lin immediately led the little white foxes to the nearby colorful village.

"Plop~"

Yu Lian transformed into her true form as a giant snake and burrowed into the lake in front of the dock, indulging in her gluttony, which caused the aquatic demon soldiers stationed in the lake to flee frantically to both banks.

Two months have passed in the blink of an eye…

And Hu Qianqian's transformation of her demon core finally reached its most crucial moment. Without any warning, a pillar of moonlight shot into the sky, piercing through the asteroid's artificial atmosphere, passing through the endless void outside, and illuminating a dazzling illusion of stars.

"Wow~"

Yu Lian immediately leaped out of the lake, causing a violent ripple. Wang Ping put down his fishing rod, and in a flash appeared in front of the wooden house. His primordial spirit silently probed into the wooden house.

At this moment, the purple light on the surface of Hu Qianqian's demon core suddenly receded, transforming into nine solid streams of light that roamed across the surface of the core. The bloodline patterns inside the core began to reorganize, gradually forming a complete star map.

Suddenly, the core trembled violently, and a silvery-white pillar of moonlight pierced through the roof of the wooden house and descended straight down, completely enveloping the demon core. Countless tiny star-like phantoms appeared in the pillar of light, and these phantoms flew towards the demon core like moths to a flame, leaving starlight marks on the surface of the core.

The originally chaotic energy at the core of the elixir suddenly collapsed into a beam of starlight, which then burst forth. The shockwave generated by the burst opened up a miniature starry sky inside the elixir, where countless stars seemed to be born, move, and perish, enacting a complete cycle of stars.

At this moment, Wang Ping and Yu Lian, who were outside the wooden house, looked up at the sky at the same time. They saw that a vast sea of ​​stars had appeared above the wooden house where Hu Qianqian was in seclusion. The stars in the sea of ​​stars were twinkling, and each star resonated with the demon core inside the wooden house. These stars were also constantly changing positions, forming various mysterious star patterns.

"Click——"

A crisp cracking sound echoed throughout the training ground. A thin crack suddenly appeared on the surface of the demon core, and brilliant starlight burst out from the crack. However, this was not a failure to advance, but rather the core undergoing its final transformation. The crack spread like a spider web, and finally the entire outer shell of the core peeled off, revealing a crystal-clear new inner core.

The newly formed demon core resembled a miniature star, with a galaxy-like halo flowing across its surface. The miniature starry sky inside the core had stabilized, with each star revolving along a specific trajectory, generating a peculiar rhythmic fluctuation with each rotation.

Above the dojo, the strange phenomenon of the starry sea suddenly contracted, turning into starlight and entering the wooden house. Immediately afterwards, a vast stellar power erupted from the wooden house, and the resulting inertial force formed a hurricane, causing towering waves to rise on the lake surface.

Just then, Hu Qianqian's physical body awoke from its slumber. She immediately sensed the presence of Wang Ping and Yu Lian, and unconsciously scratched at the cloud bed with her claws. Then, her primordial spirit merged with her physical body.

The next instant, Hu Qianqian opened her mouth wide and swallowed the demon core. The moment the demon core entered her stomach, the starlight on the surface of the core flowed down like water, spreading throughout her body along her meridians. Every ray of starlight that flowed by made her body glow with a crystal-clear luster, and fine starlight seeped out from her pores, forming a hazy star mist on the surface of her skin.

The moment her primordial spirit merged with the demon core, her fur moved without wind, and the tips of her snow-white fur were gradually tinged with starlight, showing a gradient from silver-white to deep purple from the root to the tip. Her tail stretched out naturally, and a rotating nebula condensed at the tip of the tail, with each nebula containing a different stellar rhythm.

The miniature starry sky inside the demon core began to resonate with Hu Qianqian's primordial spirit. With each rotation of the core, countless starlight was breathed in and out of her seven orifices. The exhaled starlight formed a miniature star field within three feet of her body, and when she inhaled, she refined these starlights again. With each cycle, her primordial spirit became more solid, and the star patterns on her fur became clearer.

This is the final step in the advancement, nourishing the physical body and primordial spirit with the evolved demon core!

Half an hour later, Hu Qianqian's eyes gradually transformed into a deep starry sky, with the ever-changing constellations reflected in her pupils. With each blink, the scene of stars being born and dying flowed in her eyes, and fine star patterns naturally extended from the corners of her eyes, as if drawing a starry sky totem.

As the stellar power released by the demon core grew stronger, a rotating star map phantom condensed behind Hu Qianqian. The main stars in the star map were exceptionally bright, and they were connected by silver light. As energy continued to pour in, the phantom gradually solidified, constantly nourishing Hu Qianqian's physical body and primordial spirit.

Hu Qianqian's cultivation will then be a matter of time. Once her physical body and primordial spirit have evolved under the nourishment of the inner core, she will have truly advanced to the fourth realm, at which point she will be able to transform into a real human.

After waiting for all the strange phenomena to subside, Wang Ping returned to the dock to continue fishing. Yu Lian Teng Yun observed for a long time above the barrier before returning to Wang Ping's side and asking, "Aren't you going to continue refining the Chaotic Storm?"

"There's only so much left, and Fellow Daoists Xuanqing and Baiyan are more than enough!"

When Wang Ping answered, he picked up the dried fish, leaned back leisurely in his recliner, and conjured a puppet to make him tea.

Yulian perched on Wang Ping's shoulder, watching the puppet brew tea. Before long, she instinctively rested her little head against Wang Ping's cheek, closed her eyes, and fell asleep.

Two years passed in the blink of an eye. In the spring of the Dao Palace Calendar 1349, the sun, which was already in a state of rage, suddenly intensified its energy rage, and its rage activated the magic array left behind by the True Lords in the meteorite belt on the outer edge of Zhongzhou Star.

Wang Ping was not too surprised by this strange phenomenon. He looked up at the starry sky, and in a moment his gaze pierced through endless space and time, observing the state of Mars and the outer reaches of the sun.

At this moment, towering waves of flame surged on the surface of the sun, each wave reaching tens of thousands of miles high. Crimson-gold energy particles rolled like angry dragons in the corona, and the violent solar wind spread outward at an astonishing speed, carrying high-energy particle streams that impacted the entire solar system.

Countless golden lines lit up in the void near Mars' orbit. These lines intertwined to form a three-dimensional network covering tens of millions of miles, guiding and diverting the energy of the incoming solar storm. Seventy-two golden altars floated at the nodes of the network, each frantically absorbing solar energy and condensing it into liquid Golden Crow Essence Fire on its surface.

A giant magic array appeared near the sun's base, drawing upon the purest solar energy from within the sun. This energy outlined complex patterns on the sun's surface, each stroke burning with terrifying heat capable of incinerating stars.

As the magic array operated, a golden crow pattern spanning nearly half of the sun's surface was formed. The temperature at the center of the pattern rose sharply, and the ejected coronal mass resembled a golden crow spreading its wings, leaving a fiery trail that pierced through the starry sky.

The protective array of the Martian base was automatically activated, with hundreds of layers of golden light curtains unfolding one after another. Ancient fire-avoiding runes flowed on each layer of the light curtain. Even so, the void surrounding the base was still distorted by the high temperature, presenting a ripple-like appearance. Occasionally, a stream of escaping solar particles would collide with the light curtain, immediately exploding into a dazzling aurora-like halo.

Wang Ping tried hard to capture the aura of the Blazing Sun True Lord, but he couldn't lock onto it no matter what he did, because at this moment, the area around the sun and Mars was filled with the aura of the Blazing Sun, but there was no stable spot.

Just then, a colorful halo streaked across the void. It was Xuan Qing, who had once again arrived near the sun from the edge of the chaotic storm, and decisively entered the core of the magic array set up around the sun.

(End of this chapter)