The world will change

With the [ Five Elements Great Grotto-Heaven ] as his Foundation, I'm afraid even if the essence of heaven extracted by Hongxi during his Soul Transformation was mediocre, his achievements would still be incomparable to those of today.

Was it that he didn't want to?

It was simply that he couldn't do it.

If it were Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects and the Laws of heaven and earth, one could still barely strive for a thing or two by relying on one's own efforts.

But when reaching the Nascent Soul and Soul Transformation stages, wanting to acquire powerful and rare grotto-heaven worlds and essences of heaven relies on more than just personal diligence.

Without Family background and resources, and with insufficient Opportunity, how could one compete with other Cultivators?

For ordinary Cultivators, being able to find a region of resources and successfully promote was already a blessing.

How could it be their turn to be picky?

Like First Canon, resolutely giving up the Opportunity for Dao Integration in the face of the temptation of the heaven and earth spirit.

It was certainly because he himself was a heaven-defying Prodigy who looked down upon that weak heaven and earth spirit.

But could it not also be because his high position in the Myriad Immortals Alliance gave him access to resources and information far beyond what ordinary Cultivators could compare to?

The strong could meticulously select and repeatedly consider their future Dao path, causing the strong to grow ever stronger.

While the weak could only seize hard-won promotion opportunities and barely make a Breakthrough, thus the weak remained forever weak.

Therefore, from the Nascent Soul Realm and above, the gap in strength between individuals became increasingly prominent.

Even in battles within the same Realm, the possibility of a one-hit kill was not nonexistent.

Now that Li Fan had made a Breakthrough with the Five Elements Great Grotto-Heaven, he could already be considered the ceiling of the Nascent Soul Realm.

But regarding how to find a matching essence of heaven for it, he still had no clue at all.

What is the essence of heaven?

Long Jiuyuan achieved Soul Transformation with [Tianling Is About to Give Birth to a Thousand Waters].

Hongxi broke through relying on [Taihua Is About to Give Birth to a Thousand Mountains].

From the information revealed in the heaven and earth announcements after the deaths of these two, perhaps a few clues could be glimpsed.

Human marrow makes blood, while the essence of heaven makes Laws.

When the Law appears in the Xuanhuang World, the specific manifestation is "heaven and earth undergo changes".

In Tianling Prefecture, several thousand years from now, a thousand rivers will be born.

In Taihua Prefecture, several thousand years from now, a thousand mountains will rise.

This is the Xuanhuang World, where in a certain prefecture, the predetermined and imminent changes for a future period of time will occur.

Extracting the essence of heaven means extracting and stripping away the Laws driving these "changes of heaven and earth".

Imposing the grand and mighty power of heaven and earth upon oneself.

Thereby achieving a tremendous surge in cultivation and combat power.

At the same time, the preliminary Fusion of the Laws of heaven and earth within one's own body also laid the initial Foundation for the "sacrificing of the heaven and earth spirit" when the Cultivator later underwent Dao Integration.

"Changes of heaven and earth are easily measured in tens of thousands of years. With a Cultivator's sensory abilities, they originally could not be easily perceived. However, the Heavenly Venerable's New Law is able to perceive their extremely subtle changes, first tearing open a gap, and then endlessly and rapidly extracting and absorbing the source power that heaven and earth originally planned to slowly release over thousands of years."

"Although this move is tantamount to greatly consuming the world's potential, for a Cultivator, it can achieve a significant leap in strength."

Li Fan's thoughts churned, synthesizing past knowledge as he continuously pondered.

"The Five Elements Grotto-Heaven forms its own cycle and is fused into an integral whole; this is something to be encountered by chance rather than sought. If I undergo Soul Transformation and extract the essence of heaven, the most appropriate consideration should be related to it."

"However, when the Five Elements are manifested in the world, they will scatter. I'm afraid a single essence of heaven will only correspond to a certain attribute."

"And wanting to achieve multiple Laws during the Soul Transformation stage like in the Golden Core stage is not that easy."

Li Fan's eyes narrowed slightly.

In addition to making Laws, the essence of heaven also has a mechanism similar to "immunity" and "resistance".

Once one already possesses a certain essence of heaven, wanting to extract others will be detected, thereby suffering a certain degree of repulsion.

"The more one masters, the greater the repulsive force becomes. With each addition, the difficulty rises almost exponentially. Therefore, for the vast majority of Cultivators in the world, extracting one kind of essence of heaven is already the limit."

"Even for a Prodigy like Long Jiuyuan who could fight the heaven and earth spirit alone and promote to Dao Integration, it is the same. This is enough to show the difficulty within."

"I'm afraid I can only hold two types of essence of heaven at the same time at most…" Without being blindly confident in himself, Li Fan thought this.

"If I want a perfect promotion, unless…"

A sharp glint flashed through Li Fan's eyes: "Simultaneously extract five essences of heaven of different attributes, and use the principle of mutual generation and restraint to make them achieve self-balance."

This was undoubtedly a whimsical method.

Leaving aside where one would encounter the Opportunity to simultaneously extract five essences of heaven, even if encountered, the probability of success would be minuscule.

Any rational Cultivator would not choose to do so.

However, for Li Fan, it might not be impossible to give it a try!

The hua dao stone crystal in his mind continuously emitted a faint blue light, constantly integrating and processing the information he had seen in the past, slowly deducing a possible method to realize his expectations.

…

More than ten days later, Li Fan sensed Liu San's aura waking up, and his figure flickered, appearing before him.

Having apparently spent a considerable amount of time in the Realm of Fallen Immortals, Liu San, who had just returned to the real world, was still somewhat unaccustomed to it.

A trace of bewilderment flashed through his eyes.

However, this trace of bewilderment quickly receded the moment he saw Li Fan.

"Young Lord!" Liu San stood up and said with his usual expression.

"How is it? Did you happen to encounter any Cultivators from the Medicine King Sect back then?" Li Fan asked with a cordial expression.

Liu San shook his head.

"Come to think of it, it's strange. The scenario I experienced entering the Realm of Fallen Immortals this time was actually not the ancient Cultivation World the Young Lord mentioned, but a spacetime I have never heard of before."

"Immortal spells were completely severed there, and practitioners no longer existed in the world. People could only master extraordinary power by resonating with various Magical Artifacts left behind from ancient times. They were called something like Divine Weapon Envoys…"

"And what I possessed this time was still a little brat of only seven or eight years old."

Liu San recalled as he recounted what he had seen and heard to Li Fan.

"In the end, it can be said that after going through countless hardships and experiencing numerous bloody slaughters, I finally successfully completed resonance with that legendary strongest divine weapon."

"Immortal-Slaying Sword…"

As he spoke, Liu San took out a long sword shining with colorful light and seemingly containing endless Evil Qi.

Li Fan's gaze condensed, but after looking closer, he smiled mockingly.

Liu San said: "The title sounds quite grand. But in reality, it's just a natal Flying Sword refined by a Nascent Soul Stage Sword Cultivator."

"It was merely tainted by a wisp of residual soul from that fallen Cultivator, allowing it to stand out among a bunch of 'so-called' divine weapons."

Liu San's gaze swept across the Flying Sword in front of him, and he evaluated it with some disdain: "The refinement technique is crude, and the material is extremely ordinary. Truly trash."

After saying that, he exerted a slight bit of force.

This so-called strongest divine weapon, the "Immortal-Slaying Sword", vanished into ashes within a split second.

There is still one more chapter around 1 o'clock.