The Mortal's Path to Immortality

"Sister Xiyue, please protect me." Cao Rui fell to the ground like a meteor, his feet landed firmly, stirring up a cloud of dust.

He panted slightly, and the body that was previously scorched by thunder was now recovering rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Every inch of skin and every muscle seemed to be rejuvenated, and the charred skin fell off, revealing tender new flesh.

After successfully advancing to the Refining Void Stage, Cao Rui clearly noticed that the surrounding heaven and earth energy had undergone a wonderful change.

They were no longer as chaotic and blurred as before, but became particularly clear, just like the road that was originally shrouded in fog was suddenly illuminated by the sun, and everything became clear.

No wonder the Refining Void cultivator can beat countless Transformation God cultivators. This feeling is so wonderful that Cao Rui is intoxicated by it.

The rich and pure heaven and earth energy seemed to be summoned by something, and it kept pouring in from all directions, rushing to drill into the Nascent Soul in his body.

With the continuous infusion of heaven and earth energy, Cao Rui's Nascent Soul continued to grow and become more dazzling and agile.

At the same time, his mana was also recovering at an extremely terrifying speed, like a surging tide, one wave higher than the other.

Not only that, his damaged body also quickly recovered under the nourishment of this powerful force.

In the blink of an eye, the skin that had just been burnt beyond recognition by lightning had completely returned to normal, smooth and delicate, like the skin of a newborn baby.

"Young Master, you are polite." Chu Xiyue, who was standing aside, said with a smile, her eyes full of admiration.

"With your performance today, you will definitely occupy a precious place in the upcoming Heaven Realm Battle Cultivation Festival."

Chu Xiyue couldn't help but recall that many years ago, she had also participated in the Heaven Realm Battle Cultivation Festival, which was the dream of countless Frost Heaven Realm cultivators.

At that time, she was still a little immature. Although she tried her best, she still failed to become one of the thirty warriors in that session.

Now, she had the honor to accompany Cao Rui to participate in this event. If Cao Rui could successfully win the quota, it would be a small compensation for the regret she left behind that year.

Thinking of this, Chu Xiyue couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

"Thank you for your good words, Sister Xiyue." Cao Rui smiled.

Chu Xiyue said, "You have just been promoted, go back and consolidate your cultivation first."

"There is still a long time before this Heaven Realm Battle Cultivation Event, young master, you still have plenty of time to continue preparing for the battle."

Cao Rui nodded slightly, and then returned to the training courtyard with Chu Xiyue.

The city guards need to apply to enter the promotion site here, so although the thunder tribulation is loud, no one is on the scene.

The departure of Cao Rui and Chu Xiyue did not attract the attention of others.

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Back to the training courtyard.

Cao Rui's body gradually slowed down the absorption of the vitality of heaven and earth.

He sat quietly on the futon in the training room, his eyes gently closed, like an old monk in meditation.

In the next moment, a dazzling light suddenly shot out from the top of his head, and a small figure flew out like lightning - that was Yuanying Cao Rui!

Cao Rui at this time was no longer the naive child he was at the beginning. After practicing and advancing, he has now grown into a handsome young man.

His facial features were clearly visible, and he was very similar to the physical body at the moment.

Cao Rui closed his eyes and quietly felt the rich vitality of the world around him.

As his mind moved slightly, the power of Yuanying began to flow slowly. Because it was freed from the constraints of the physical body, this power flowed very smoothly, just like a rushing river found an outlet for venting.

Casting spells directly with Yuanying will increase the power of supernatural powers.

However, without the protection of the physical body, Yuanying becomes extremely fragile.

You know, if the physical body unfortunately perishes, as long as the Yuanying can be saved, there is still a chance to come back; but once the Yuanying is destroyed, what awaits the cultivator is the true destruction of the body and soul, and there is no way back.

Therefore, unless in an extremely special and extremely critical situation, no cultivator would easily expose their Nascent Soul to the enemy.

After Cao Rui controlled the Nascent Soul to move around for a short time, he decisively took it back into his body.

After successfully advancing to the Refining Void Stage, both his own mana and consciousness entered a new realm.

However, the more important thing is that this quantitative change eventually led to a qualitative leap.

The cultivators in the Refining Void Stage already have powerful abilities, which can greatly guide the vast and boundless Yuan Qi of the surrounding heaven and earth and transform it into their own use. Because of this, the power of the magical powers and spells they display will also be amazingly improved.

"Master has given me a lot of training materials this time. Next, I will seize the time to continue to improve my own cultivation."

"I will start to practice the magical power of the Refining Void Stage."

"I have already cultivated the Lingyuan Temple Divine Art to the second level. With the promotion to the Refining Void Stage, my spiritual consciousness should be pretty good in the Refining Void Stage."

"I can start to practice the Refining Void Stage magical power [Divine Descent] of the Lingyuan Temple Divine Art."

"For the physical body, [Xuanwu Transformation] can impact the fifth level. After the impact is successful, you can practice the new physical magical power [Xuanwu True Shadow]..."

Just after the promotion, Cao Rui felt that he had many more training tasks.

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Time passed quickly like a white horse passing by.

In the blink of an eye, ten years have passed quietly.

Time always passes faster in the spirit world.

On this day, Cao Rui, who had been immersed in cultivation since he was promoted to the Refining Void Stage, slowly opened his eyes that had been closed for a long time.

For Cao Rui himself, today is an extraordinary day, because today is his 100th birthday.

It has been more than 30 years since he was promoted to the Spiritual World in his early 60s, but it really passed in a flash.

As the cultivation level increases, time will become faster and faster.

After ten years of cultivation, Cao Rui deeply realized that as his cultivation level entered the Refining Void Stage, the effectiveness of ordinary spiritual materials and treasures for him was greatly reduced, and it was difficult to play a significant role.

Now, only those extremely rare cultivation materials that have reached the level of spiritual treasures can quickly help him make further progress on the road of cultivation.

The cultivation materials given by Zuo Qiu and the materials such as the Heart of the Mountain Giant collected by Cao Rui himself have been consumed, and his experience bead in the early stage of Refining Void has only increased to 18% of the progress.

However, it is worth mentioning that during this period of hard training, Cao Rui made a great breakthrough in physical training.

In particular, he successfully cultivated the [Xuanwu Transformation] to the fifth level.

He raised his physical training to the same level as the training of the law.

In addition, he successfully mastered two powerful magical powers of the Refining Void Stage.

[God's Descent] and [Xuanwu True Shadow].