143: Space Spirit Crystal

Seeing your silence, Mo Xiao spoke again.

He told you that besides this grand formation, he had prepared many backup plans, and his Breakthrough was practically guaranteed.

And once successful, he would also use this grand formation to help more outsiders from beyond the heavens achieve Breakthrough.

You forced a smile and nodded.

Just like that, time passed bit by bit.

Mo Xiao was still diligently refining the bronze Immortal Artifacts, while you continuously tempered the Law of Space within your body, hoping to quickly reach Perfection.

However, the speed of tempering Law power was related to the strength of Immortal power.

Although Xuan Zhen only took a thousand years to temper his Law power to Perfection after the Fusion of the two realms.

He was, after all, an Immortal Venerable Cultivator.

But you were currently only at the Peak of an Immortal King, and it might take tens of thousands of years to temper your Law power to Perfection.

You paused tempering your Law power and instead focused all your efforts on converting Immortal power, hoping to quickly reach the Immortal Emperor realm.

The three-hundredth year.

You successfully cultivated the Sword Refining Art and learned several Immortal Arts obtained from Immortal Exalted Ming Jian's mind.

Moreover, during this time, relying on the memories in your mind, you acquired most of the easily obtainable Immortal Swords from both realms.

However, your current cultivation was still at the Peak of an Immortal King, so you did not choose to refine them immediately.

The one-thousand-two-hundredth year.

You successfully completed the conversion of all your Immortal power and broke through to the Immortal Emperor realm in one fell swoop.

And after a thousand years of waiting, you felt yourself becoming even stronger.

Various talents brought you immense blessings; even though you had just broken through to the Immortal Emperor realm, you felt you could contend with a Peak Immortal Emperor or even an Immortal Lord Cultivator.

Mo Xiao was also very happy about your Breakthrough.

And upon learning that you were looking for Immortal Swords everywhere, he immediately gifted you all the surplus bronze Immortal Swords from the grand formation.

You activated the Sword Refining Art to refine all these Immortal Swords, and soon after, successfully broke through to the second layer of the Immortal Emperor realm.

"Advancing in the Immortal Emperor realm is even harder..."

You sighed softly.

The Immortal Swords you refined were of decent quality; they could increase your cultivation by four or five layers when you were an Immortal King, but now they could only increase it by about one and a half layers.

By the time you reach the Immortal Lord realm, wouldn't refining all the Immortal Swords in both realms only increase your cultivation by one or two layers?

You began to recall the contents from Immortal Exalted Ming Jian's mind.

You found that his advancement speed was similar to yours.

However, in his era, a single Law power was not powerful, so most Cultivators at that time used Immortal Artifacts in battle.

And Artifact Refiners of that period were naturally a very prosperous profession.

Immortal Exalted Ming Jian easily found hundreds of Artifact Refiners to continuously forge swords for him.

In contrast, now, after the Fusion of the Myriad Realms, Law power has become extremely powerful.

High-level Cultivators mostly fight with Law power rather than Immortal Artifacts.

This led to the saturation of Immortal Artifacts.

Fewer and fewer Cultivators practiced the Dao of Artifact Refining.

As of today, the number of Artifact Refiners who can still forge Immortal Artifacts that meet the requirements of the Sword Refining Art is probably less than ten.

"Oh well, it's better than nothing. Let's go capture a few Artifact Refiners first."

With a thought, you immediately activated Celestial Travel and appeared in the Xuanhuang Great World.

After much inquiry, you quickly found a race called the Fire Human Race.

This race inherently possessed earth fire and were born Artifact Refiners.

However, upon learning your intentions, they expressed their inability to help.

Because after Immortal Artifacts became less circulated, the entire Fire Human Race had started an Alchemy business. Currently, there were very few Fire Human Race Cultivators capable of refining Immortal Artifacts, let alone those who could meet various specific requirements.

Hearing this, you did not give up immediately. Instead, you casually grabbed a few Fire Human Race Cultivators and performed soul-searching to verify the truth of their words.

But who would have thought?

You found a message about Space Spirit Crystals in the mind of a high-ranking Fire Human Race member.

Decades ago, the Fire Human Race and the Qiling Tribe discovered a mine deeply buried underground. This mine did not seem special at first, but as they dug deeper, they discovered that it contained a small amount of Space Spirit Crystals.

These were the top-tier Ores.

Even a speck of dust falling from a Space Spirit Crystal could easily create a Small World.

Not to mention that they had successively discovered several complete Space Spirit Crystals over the years; even creating a true world would not be a problem.

Furthermore, Space Spirit Crystals inherently contained a small amount of the Law of Space. If you could obtain them, the time it would take to temper the Law of Space to Perfection would be greatly reduced.

Thinking of this, you did not hesitate and immediately followed the memories of this Fire Human Race member to search for that mine.

You activated the Law of Space, continuously flickering through the Void Realm, and soon arrived there.

However, the mine was currently guarded by numerous Cultivators, with the entire mine surrounded in dense layers, making it airtight.

Even with your Law of Space, you couldn't guarantee not being discovered upon entering.

You began to use your Divine Sense to probe the strength of these two races' Cultivators.

"Two Immortal Lords, five Immortal Emperors..."

A hint of surprise flashed in your eyes.

Because you had learned from your previous soul-searching of the Fire Human Race Cultivators that the entire Fire Human Race only possessed one Immortal Lord Cultivator who was nearing his great limit.

You hadn't expected them to value the Space Spirit Crystals so much that they even invited this Old Ancestor, who already had one foot in the grave.

You remained calm and began to slowly enter the mine shaft using the Law of Space, while also fixating on that Fire Human Race Old Ancestor.

But who would have thought that just as you were about to ambush and kill him, this person discovered you first?

His shriveled eye sockets instantly erupted with a sharp gleam, and flames continuously surged in his hand, striking directly at you!

"Who is it?!"

Hearing this, your heart jolted. Although you didn't know how he discovered you, you immediately stopped concealing yourself and unleashed your full power.

The Eternal Life Sword tore through the Void Realm, instantly appearing before the Fire Human Old Ancestor, while you, fully activating the Law of Space, appeared at the Fire Human Old Ancestor's side to attack.

The Fire Human Old Ancestor tried to resist, but your continuous attacks came one after another, causing him to suffer heavy injuries repeatedly.

"Pfft... Despicable junior, if not for this old man's great limit approaching, how could you have succeeded!"

"So be it. Even if this old man dies today, I will drag you down with me."

The Fire Human Old Ancestor roared repeatedly, and a surging, powerful flame rose from his decaying body!