Chapter 1373: Planning His Dao Path

The Jade Buddha could not possibly respond to Qin Sang.

Qin Sang looked at the Buddha light, which showed no fluctuations at all, and felt utterly helpless.

He recalled the three times he had entered Ziwei Palace, but he had not discovered anything unusual about the Jade Buddha.

Sword spirit... Qin Sang remembered that he still had another living thing on him that he had brought out of Ziwei Palace, the Killing Sword’s sword spirit!

The Killing Sword’s sword spirit possessed independent consciousness and might have known Ziwei Palace’s secrets.

Perhaps he could use Ziwei Palace to glimpse the Jade Buddha’s origins.

Thinking of this, Qin Sang became even more eager to search for the Killing Sword fragments and awaken the sword spirit.

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Three years later.

At Peach Blossom Valley, in Qin Sang's cave dwelling.

Qin Sang woke from meditation and slowly opened his eyes. His true essence stirred faintly, then immediately fell silent. His entire aura was deep and unfathomable, without the slightest ripple.

"Mhmm, my cultivation has already stabilized." Qin Sang lowered his head and glanced at his dantian. There was no complacency in his eyes, only seriousness.

"From here onward, there are no shortcuts. Relying on my own cultivation really is difficult. In fact, my cultivation speed is already not slow. No wonder great cultivators are so rare..."

Qin Sang knew very well that he could not rush what came next. He might as well go out and travel for a while. In any case, he was still young.

There were still more than two hundred years before he would face his first heavenly tribulation.

With his cultivation, the first heavenly tribulation was not worth worrying about. There was no need to hurry for the moment.

After thinking it over again and again, Qin Sang thought to himself that, at present, if he wanted to improve his strength as quickly as possible, bitter cultivation was not advisable. He could only turn his attention to his other supernatural abilities.

Over these years, because he had focused on cultivation and had no time to attend to the Fire Seed Golden Lotus and Heavenly Demon Body Refinement, both had fallen into stagnation.

He was still far from breaking through to the middle fourth stage of the Heavenly Demon Body Refinement.

After forming his Spiritual Infant, Qin Sang had weighed his priorities and almost shelved the Heavenly Demon Body Refinement entirely. Its progress had been exceptionally slow. Later, he could resume body refinement.

However, Qin Sang planned to first devote his main energy to cultivating the Fire Seed Golden Lotus and break through to the second layer as soon as possible.

According to the art’s description, after one broke through to the second layer, the cultivator’s spiritual consciousness would undergo a leap. The benefits were obvious.

His spiritual consciousness was already not weak. With an optimistic estimate, after his breakthrough, his spiritual consciousness could take form and reach a level comparable to that of a great cultivator!

Back then, Old Devil Mou had broken through two stages at most, yet he had been able to escape alive while under siege by the righteous and devilish paths, and had even feigned death right under the nose of the ancient devil’s split soul. This was enough to show how powerful his spiritual consciousness had been.

Qin Sang’s ambitions, of course, did not stop there.

Cultivating essence, qi, and psyche together had been beneficial to forming a Spiritual Infant. When breaking through to the next realm, or even the Divine Transformation Realm, it certainly would not be an exception.

Only by advancing step by step and laying a solid foundation could he accumulate strength and unleash it later. And he had the capital to do so!

After planning his future cultivation path, Qin Sang summoned the fire lotus seed. The fire lotus seed looked as though it had become a solid object.

He needed to continuously refine the Devilish Flames of Nine Hells and reach a qualitative transformation before he could break through.

Qin Sang took out the devilish banners and attempted to refine the devilish flames. To his pleasant surprise, he discovered that his cultivation speed had become faster than when he had been at the early stage of the Spiritual Infant Realm. The time required would be shortened by a large margin.

There was no one he could use as reference, so Qin Sang did not know how long it would take before he saw results.

He could refine the devilish flames while traveling as well. There was no need to remain in the cave dwelling.

After refining a wisp of devilish flame, Qin Sang ended his cultivation in satisfaction. Then, he tried cultivating the Heavenly Demon Body Refinement again.

The increase in realm had also helped body refinement, but he still needed to bitterly cultivate it himself. The time needed for a breakthrough would definitely be much later than the Fire Seed Golden Lotus.

After that, Qin Sang summoned his astra, the Wandering Sword and the Divine Sun Tree.

The Wandering Sword had not changed at all. It was still in the shape of a sword embryo.

Qin Sang carefully probed into it with his spiritual consciousness and sensed the faint true spirit. After carefully sensing it for a while, a bitter smile appeared on his lips.

After so many years, he still could not sense the slightest sign that the true spirit had grown stronger.

Nurturing spiritual intelligence and refining spiritual treasures was indeed a long and difficult process! Qin Sang was also unsure whether he would break through to the late stage of the Spiritual Infant Realm first, or whether the Wandering Sword would advance first.

"As long as I can successfully nurture Senior’s true spirit, no matter how long I have to wait, it will be worth it." Qin Sang gently stroked the sword embryo, then shifted his gaze to the Divine Sun Tree.

The Divine Sun Tree’s changes were extremely obvious. The moment he took out this astra, the entire cave dwelling was illuminated, and Qin Sang’s face was bathed in red light.

The Divine Sun Tree was entirely crimson, more dazzling than before. It was like a ball of fire, and looked increasingly like the legendary Fusang Tree. Around the divine tree, the air distorted in waves, emitting incomparably blazing fluctuations.

Now, Qin Sang did not dare attempt to subdue the Southern Sun Fire with the Fire Seed Golden Lotus, and there was no need for him to do so.

He would wait until the Devilish Flames of Nine Hells were refined before considering it.

What Qin Sang was concerned about was the power of flame within the nine flower buds on the Divine Sun Tree.

Unlike the main body, these powers of flame had contracted into clusters and become dark red and restrained. They were not as dazzling as before, but they were even harder to ignore.

Qin Sang reached out and carefully held up the Divine Sun Tree, examining it closely for a long while.

"Not bad!" Qin Sang nodded.

The astra had not escaped his control and was changing in the direction he had expected.

When these powers of flame condensed to the extreme and transformed into nine divine birds, the astra and the Southern Sun Fire would stabilize and could be used by him.

The Divine Sun Tree should complete its metamorphosis even faster than when Wandering Man dove . Its power was something worth anticipating!

With these treasures in hand, if he encountered powerful enemies in the future, he would not need to fear battling others. Nor would he need to rack his brains searching for other astra. He could focus on cultivating, as well as searching for the Killing Sword fragments and the reception platform.

After putting away the astra, Qin Sang summoned the three spiritual insects and Mute Girl.

With a continuous supply of Fire Smelting Pills, the Fire Jade Centipede had feasted to its heart’s content and had broken through to the middle stage of the third metamorphosis twenty years ago. The late stage was just around the corner.

Unfortunately, unless it encountered a great opportunity, it would be very difficult for the Fire Jade Centipede to advance further.

The Sky-Eyed Butterfly’s potential was certainly far beyond the Fire Jade Centipede’s, but its improvement speed was too slow.

Qin Sang had experienced the benefits of a life-bound insect gu, so of course he wanted to improve the Sky-Eyed Butterfly as quickly as possible. He had already tried every method he could think of, but the results were minimal.

During his trip to the three other realms of the North Sea, he could also search for insect-controlling secret techniques along the way.

The fat silkworm was fast asleep. Qin Sang valued it no less than the Sky-Eyed Butterfly, but this fellow was even pickier than the Sky-Eyed Butterfly. Once it finished eating the poisonous algae fruits, it could only go hungry.

The fat silkworm was Mute Girl’s life-bound insect gu, so there was one layer of separation between it and him.

As for how to help the fat silkworm advance, Qin Sang had even less of a clue. He could only take things one step at a time.

Qin Sang flicked his finger and knocked the fat silkworm awake. The fat silkworm forgot the pain the moment it saw food. It swallowed a poisonous algae fruit in one bite, flipped over onto its belly, and continued sleeping soundly.

Qin Sang shook his head, then his gaze fell on Mute Girl.

According to Bai’s guidance, Qin Sang had inscribed several more bone curses on Mute Girl’s arm. He did not know whether it was due to the effects of the bone curses, or because she had fallen asleep together with her life-bound insect gu and obtained some benefit, but Mute Girl’s condition was becoming better and better.

Her aura was complete, and her cheeks were rosy. Aside from the fact that she was sleeping, she was no different from an ordinary person.

What was even more astonishing was that Mute Girl’s primordial spirit was surrounded by seven-colored light. It was like a cocoon of light that enveloped her, adding a few traces of mystery.

Qin Sang could not understand what function the light had. Without question, this strange transformation had certainly come from the fat silkworm.

He simply did not know whether this was the fat silkworm’s unique ability, or whether it had been brought about by its voluntary acknowledgment of a master.

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