My path to immortality began with my posting to guard Dawancun.

Chapter 485: First Appearance
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, three months have passed.

The cultivation world in the Southern Region has not been peaceful during these three months.

During this period, a continuous stream of powerful talents from outside the region poured into the local area, causing quite a few disturbances.

These prodigies usually did not travel alone, but were often accompanied by a group of followers.

The followers varied in strength and temperament, yet they all took pride in following the prodigy, looking down on everyone and regarding others as worthless.

He was arrogant and domineering in his actions.

Against this backdrop, conflicts and contradictions naturally erupt frequently.

Even if there are occasionally solitary geniuses,

The resulting battles and conflicts were also numerous.
It can only be said that there are fewer compared to other places, not that there are none.

This is not surprising.

The reason why those geniuses from other regions entered the Tiannan Region was mostly because they were instructed by powerful forces to come to the Tiannan Region to find information about the Xiangshan Sect ruins, so as to reclaim the inheritance that was lost three hundred years ago due to the Xiangshan Sect's betrayal.

As outsiders,

Those prodigies were completely unfamiliar with this place.

The fastest way,

In other words, they sought help from local forces.

If you have connections and connections, then it's very simple.

Simply contact the local power leader through connections and ask them to provide manpower and resources for the investigation.

If there are no connections,

That would naturally cause a lot of trouble.

First, they sent a visiting card, exchanged pleasantries with the local power leader, and then explained their origins and requested his help.

This is how you ask for help when you don't have the connections.

just,

Local minor cultivation factions might lend a hand to these powerful forces from beyond the realm, thus forging some goodwill.

However, they might not want to get involved and simply refuse.

Even if they agree,
It's unlikely that they can mobilize all their resources to help wholeheartedly.

And there will be no shortage of back-and-forth pulling and tugging during this process.

As a prodigy from a top-tier power in the outer realms, he naturally possessed an air of arrogance.
They are usually treated like royalty.

How could they possibly choose such a humble and subservient approach, one that doesn't even guarantee success?
thus,
Most of the geniuses in the cultivation world of the Southern Region have no connections.
The chosen method was to directly attack some sizable local forces in the cultivation world of the Southern Tianyu Region.

Then, with overwhelming strength,

They forced local cultivation forces to temporarily serve them, collecting information about the Xiangshan Sect ruins from the market.

Some people even went so far as to capture local cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage and force them to work, all to save themselves trouble.

As a result, conflicts and battles naturally broke out one after another.

This caused quite a commotion in the cultivation world of Tiannan Region.

At the same time,

Since most forces had already dispatched their elite troops and main fighting forces to fight in the Southern Yue region, the Tiannan Domain was temporarily unable to effectively deal with the arrogant behavior of these visitors from other regions.

External turmoil continues.

But it has little to do with Shen Changchuan.

After seeing their master off and Lu Haoxuan leaving...

He then entered a new round of seclusion.

The matter of refining the Void-Escape Gu,
He ultimately decided to postpone it for a while.

This is because Shen Changchuan felt he was not fully prepared.

The time is not yet right.
The main problem is that I don't have that feeling of being able to succeed!

Let's refine it as much as possible first.

After all, there is only one Flying Sky Rift Ant King. If he fails, he can only use ordinary Flying Sky Rift Ants to refine the Void Escape Gu.

and,

Having received the Purple Cloud Nurturing Elixir from my master,
It's perfect for cultivating and improving my cultivation level.
His cultivation level has improved.
One's spiritual awareness can also be improved significantly.

This can also increase the success rate of refining the Void-Escape Gu to some extent.

then,

In the first two months,

Shen Changchuan mostly focused his time and energy on refining pills and improving his cultivation.

And the result,
It's also very good.

In a short period of time,
Thanks to the effects of that bottle of Purple Cloud Spirit-Nourishing Pill, Shen Changchuan successfully raised his cultivation level to the late stage of the seventh level of the Nascent Soul realm.

Within just two months, his cultivation level broke through again.

Shen Changchuan was naturally delighted.

But at the same time,
A sense of worry also arose in his heart.

Because he discovered something,

The improvement of cultivation level
The difficulty seems to increase as you go further!
Shen Changchuan could sense it.
The spiritual power contained in that bottle of Purple Cloud Spirit-Nourishing Pills was almost enough to quickly elevate a cultivator at the early stage of the fifth level of the Nascent Soul realm to the late stage of the sixth level!
But when used on oneself...
It only raised his cultivation level from the mid-stage of the seventh level to the late-stage of the seventh level!

The gap between them

It's way too big!
"The higher the cultivation level, the more difficult it becomes to improve."

"This is not only because the higher the realm, the more difficult the cultivation becomes, but also because the higher the realm, the more magical power needs to be refined and improved!"

"Moreover, bottlenecks will appear during the cultivation process. For example, I have just advanced to the late stage of the seventh level of the Nascent Soul Realm, and I have no clue about how to overcome the bottleneck of the eighth level of the Nascent Soul Realm. I will need to spend time to work through it little by little."

"If that's the case, perhaps I was a bit too optimistic to have advanced to the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage in nine years."

This was what Shen Changchuan was thinking at the time.

However, despite my worries

However, Shen Changchuan did not stop preparing to refine the Void-Escape Gu.

Because he knew very well,

This century-old grand competition of the immortal sects,
It's not just a competition between peerless geniuses in a small place like the Southern Region.
What it faces,
It refers to the entire Southern Domain and its thirty-six smaller domains.
And other major domains at the same level as the Southern Domain!
The participants this time,
Including the peerless geniuses cultivated by giants in the outer domains, who are no less than those of the Jade Purity Immortal Sect!
Among those qualified to compete for the winner of the Immortal Sect Grand Competition nine years later, each one can be described as a peerless genius, a rare find in thousands of years!

With Shen Changchuan's current strength,
There is still a considerable gap between us and beings at that level!
even,
Even if he could advance to the ninth level of the Nascent Soul stage, without other powerful methods,
Ultimately, they couldn't escape the fate of being mere background figures who only made the runners-up!

So no matter what
The Void-Escape Gu must be refined.

Also because of this,

After digesting the Purple Cloud Spirit-Nourishing Pill, Shen Changchuan began to focus his energy on refining the Void-Escape Gu.

Another month passed.

As Shen Changchuan practiced and refined his skills time and again, and continuously accumulated experience in cultivating Gu techniques,

To gain a deeper understanding of the methods for refining the Void-Escape Gu in the Minghuan Gu Scripture,

By comparing this with the Void-Escape Gu that Shen Changchuan obtained after killing Youying Pan Yunfei, which had lost its spirituality, we can gain a deeper understanding.

finally,
In Shen Changchuan's heart,
I'm already 80-90% confident that I'll successfully refine the Void-Escape Gu!

The time has come!

(End of this chapter)