The Path to Immortality

"So, I am the legendary half-step golden elixir? Or the peak of half-step golden elixir? Half-step golden elixir great perfection?"

Looking inward to check the improvement of his physique, Fang Ping's heart did not ripple because he did not break through the golden elixir immediately. Instead, he calmly made a joke to himself, and consolidated the fifth level of the Five Elements Body Forging Method, preparing to cultivate the [Five Elements Immortal Body] magical power next.

After all, the golden elixir is there, and his body forging cultivation has reached the corresponding level. As long as he wants to break through on the battlefield, he can trigger the heavenly tribulation again at any time. Whether or not he has taken that step is not so important.

In the worst case, he can even use the heavenly tribulation as a trump card. If necessary, he can use the power of the heavenly tribulation to temporarily force back and injure other golden elixir cultivators.

But to outsiders, the situation is not so.

The abnormality of the impact on the formation of the elixir that appeared once stopped suddenly without any warning after lasting for half a day.

There were signs of calamity clouds gathering over the Xianzhou Market, but they suddenly dissipated.

This is... the failure of forming a golden elixir!

"It didn't work!"

"What a pity."

"Such an amazing omen, but it failed so swiftly? It feels a bit strange!"

"It didn't even last a small heavenly calamity? Oh, I got excited for nothing."

"Shut up! After all, he is a perfect cultivator who is striving for a golden elixir. You dare to say such nonsense, are you crazy?"

"Daoyou is right, Xianzhou Market is still too safe. How can such a talkative person survive to the late stage of Qi training?"

"Stay away from me, don't splash me."

Countless startled cultivators waited for a long time, and seeing that there was no movement, they could only discuss and regretfully disperse.

At least for the next period of time, the cultivators in Xianzhou Market will probably not lack topics and gossip.

………

A few days later

Fang Ping, who had initially consolidated the fifth level of body forging, could not wait to start practicing the magical power of [Five Elements Immortal Body].

This magical power that comes with the Five Elements Body Forging Method can be understood and cultivated by oneself as long as the fifth level is cultivated and the Golden Core Realm is entered.

At this moment, although Fang Ping is not a true Golden Core cultivator, his physical body has met the conditions. The real difficulty is nothing more than to make the five elements of spiritual energy flowing in the body initially mixed and unified, and to be able to construct a true cycle of life and death.

At that time, even if the physical body is attacked fatally, under the cycle of the five elements, it can continuously restore vitality and repair injuries. At the same time, the enemy's magic power that invades the body can be quickly wiped out by the principle of the five elements' mutual restraint, thereby minimizing continuous damage.

"It is difficult to achieve the unity of the five elements and the mutual generation of the five elements. The key is whether you can comprehend the principle of the birth and death of the five elements. For me in the past, it might take a lot of effort. But with the help of the second-level Bodhi fruit, it is enough to achieve twice the result with half the effort..."

Fang Ping recalled the formula and essence of the Five Elements Body Forging Method while maintaining the method running slowly and capturing the inspiration at the same time.

However, if he was not careful, he would speed up the operation of the Five Elements Body Forging Method, and the blood in his body would show signs of boiling again.

The crisis of the heavenly tribulation in the dark immediately surged into his mind.

Fang Ping was frightened and quickly took the initiative to suppress the operation speed of the Five Elements Body Forging Method back to normal, so that the heavenly tribulation that had just shown a sign dissipated again.

"Alas, before achieving the golden elixir with the way of cultivation, it seems that I can't continue to improve my cultivation in body forging. I can only wait until the elixir is formed, and then try to practice the body forging method that has just entered the fifth level to the fifth level of perfection."

By then, the Five Elements Body Forging Method will be truly accomplished.

As for the road ahead, the Five Elements Wanderer who created the Five Elements Body Forging Method back then only went this far. If Fang Ping wants to continue to practice body cultivation, he can only find other body forging methods, or deduce and complete the sixth level on the basis of the existing Five Elements Body Forging Method.

Of course, this matter is still a bit far for Fang Ping at the moment, at least before the late Jindan stage, there is no need to consider it.

He put away his extra thoughts and focused on the cultivation of the [Five Elements Immortal Body] magical power.

As the blood and the method flowed, the five elements of spiritual light quietly lit up from his body again, appearing in turn.

In the first half of the day, the five colors of spiritual light were clearly distinguished, and there were obvious intervals between the changes and flows.

But as time went on, inadvertently, the five colors of spiritual light corresponding to the five elements actually showed signs of blending with each other. The frequency of the flow and change was getting faster and faster, and the intervals in between were becoming shorter and more blurred.

This process lasted for nearly two days.

Although Fang Ping's body-building cultivation did not continue to change, his understanding of the Five Elements Body-building Method was obviously deepened.

The strange phenomena that were triggered inadvertently and the small amount of five-element spiritual energy that escaped made the entire secret room of cultivation affected by the real thing.

The last moment, the surrounding area was still full of the murderous white light of Gengjin Qi; the next moment, clouds and rain may gather and fall, forming a small pond on the ground; then, spiritual flowers and spiritual herbs emerged from the pond out of thin air; however, before the spiritual flowers bloomed and bore fruit, flowing fire fell from the sky and turned into a small mountain of fire together with the suddenly raised ground.

Just as the various strange phenomena and changes became more and more chaotic, Fang Ping, who was sitting at the center of all the strange phenomena, was blessed.

The five-color spiritual light that was already almost fused, briefly merged into one at that moment, and truly merged into one, turning into an indescribable, gray and chaotic color!

The whole quiet room was slightly shaken, as if invisible ripples spread rapidly around until they were stopped by the formation of the cave!

"The Five Elements Immortal Body is initially formed!"

As Fang Ping's mind moved, he activated this magical power, and the gray spiritual light that emerged from his body suddenly became like a slowly flowing flocculent mist, blessing his whole body.

Compared with the original Five Elements Body Forging Method that simply strengthened the defense of the body, the spiritual light emitted by this magical power seemed unremarkable, but in fact it had unparalleled protection. Even if it was broken up, as long as Fang Ping's blood and qi were not exhausted, it could be restored to its original state in just a few breaths.

Just like the Five Elements Wanderer in the past, who could briefly compete with the Yuanying cultivator with the perfect cultivation of the Golden Core, Fang Ping now has also initially touched this realm.

Unless the strength is really different and he can be killed with great magic power, otherwise Fang Ping can compete with ordinary Golden Core early cultivators.

"Being able to turn the impossible into the possible, this is the magical power!"

This is also the biggest difference between magical powers and Taoism.

"I thought that [Da Ri Dharmakaya] would be the first magical power I would cultivate before forming the elixir. Unexpectedly, as the progress of physical cultivation surpassed, it was [Five Elements Immortal Body] that was cultivated first."

Familiar with the strength that has soared in recent days after arriving in the Western Wilderness after more than 20 years of accumulation, Fang Ping showed a confident smile on his face.

In the past, he acted in a low-key and cautious manner, and even if he had strength, he would hide it a little. But this was not his original intention, but he was worried that the tree that stood out in the forest would be destroyed by the wind. But from today on, with the initial strength to compete with the golden elixir, he will gradually become less low-key and more casual and act according to his heart.