"With the master's current strength, possessing two extraordinary magical artifacts and having the powerful high-grade spiritual tool, Blazing Heaven Blade, even without using the Chaotic Origin Divine Light, it should be enough to dominate among cultivators of the same rank! Adding the master's divine sense and magical power, both are higher than those of the same rank by a notch. In terms of strength alone, you can already rival mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators! How is it that the master still feels his strength is not enough to defy the heavens?" Yu Lan smiled lightly with raised eyebrows. The treasures and divine abilities she mentioned were all things Zhao Di had shown her before. In fact, she had always felt that this seemingly young master's true strength was unfathomable, and wondered how many more tricks he had up his sleeve.

  "Right!" Just now, Yu Rou, who was reading the jade slip with the method of refining the "Mixed Yuan Seven Star Sword", also put down the jade slip and said with a hint of regret: "Unfortunately, our sister's current cultivation is too low, and we are also ghostly bodies, making it difficult to exert the power of human cultivators' artifacts and treasures. We cannot assist the master in battle when encountering enemies!"

  Zhao Di shook his head and said, "When it comes to a real showdown with the enemy, of course you two won't need to take action! If you can both play to your strengths and help me handle some trivial matters, that would be a huge help, far exceeding my original intentions. What do you think? Do you think Ximen Sanren's method of using array techniques to refine equipment is feasible?"

  With a slight raise of his chin, he said with satisfaction: "I don't quite understand the art of refining equipment, but I can improve the mixed yuan five-element array used in it. I can change it to use high-grade spirit stones and greatly increase the power of the array! After all, Master has plenty of high-grade spirit stones!"

  Zhao Di was overjoyed, repeatedly exclaiming: "Great! Great!" For Zhao Di, this was a huge help! If it weren't for the two girls, he would have had to spend a lot of time slowly comprehending the mysteries of the formation, and he didn't have much talent for it. He feared that without their assistance, his improvements to the formation would be limited, resulting in slightly inferior magical treasures.

  He had great expectations for the Hunyuan Seven Star Sword. If Xiao Ding could cultivate the Fire Coral, Brimstone and other five treasures to a higher spiritual power, then the refined Hunyuan Seven Star Sword would be combined with the divine ability of the Hunyuan Divine Light, allowing him to dominate among the Golden Elixir cultivators!

  Moreover, this treasure sword matches his cultivation method perfectly and is most suitable to be used as a life-bound magic treasure. With continuous tempering, its power will become stronger and stronger, enough to become his reliance for hundreds of years to come.

  After entering the Congeal Dan period, Zhao Di's lifespan suddenly increased to four or five hundred years. He was no longer like in the Foundation Building period, where his lifespan was very limited and he had to constantly restart from scratch. Therefore, during the Foundation Building period, he spent almost all of his time meditating and preparing spiritual medicines for meditation. As for increasing his own strength, it was only so that he could capture and kill more demonic beasts.

  After the Dan period, the difficulty of the bottleneck increases exponentially. It can be said that every bottleneck after the Dan period is several times more difficult than the impact of the Dan period, not to mention the impact of the Yuan fetus, which is a major bottleneck. This is not a problem that can be solved by having a large amount of elixir.

  As for the spiritual root talent of the foundation-building period, it is not the most important factor at this time. Whether or not to enable the foundation-building period cultivator to cultivate a more advanced level, the key role is often played by the word "opportunity"!

  As for opportunities, apart from luck, strength is the most important! This is what Zhao Di has come to realize. Sometimes many opportunities are right in front of you, and for a powerful cultivator, they are opportunities! For a weak cultivator, they may even be the end of their life!

  Therefore, after failing to obtain the next stage of the Hunyuan Manual, increasing his strength is currently Zhao Di's most pressing and important matter.

  Youlan and You Ruo helped Zhao Di put the remains of Ximen Sanren into a larger square jade box, then carefully buried it in the mountain cave, and also set up a jade monument, inscribed with "Ximen Sanren for all eternity", signed as "Set by someone who has fate".

  If it weren't for the Western Gate's loose cultivator bringing the Mixed Yuan Technique to this desolate island, Zhao Di probably wouldn't have been able to successfully condense his dan so smoothly. Moreover, he also left behind two magical artifacts and several pieces of raw materials that were even more valuable than those artifacts. Thinking about this, Zhao Di still kowtowed a few times in front of the tombstone to show his gratitude and respect.

  Next, this group of one man and two women, along with a ghost, quietly kept watch in front of the small tripod, some meditating, others holding jade tablets, each silent and not speaking.

  "You two, have you ever heard of the Thousand Machine Gate and Puppet Technique?" Zhao Di suddenly stopped after sitting in meditation for eighteen major cycles using several pieces of high-grade spirit stones, opening his eyes to say to the two women.

  "Youlan showed a faint smile and replied, 'This Thousand Machines Gate seems to be an unremarkable small sect. The puppet technique is also extremely impractical. It's said that the cost of refining it is enormous, its power is ordinary, and in terms of agility, it can't even compare with magical tools.'"

  "Yeah, I thought the inheritance of Qianji Gate had been cut off long ago and disappeared in Xingchen Sea!" You Ruo also echoed.

  Zhao nodded silently, it seemed that the decline of Qianji Gate had already occurred before the two women were born.

  As for that puppet technique, it may be quite useless to others, but to Zhao Di, having a foundation-building period puppet is equivalent to having another powerful helper. If he had a bunch of foundation-building puppets, he might even be able to dominate the Dan-building cultivators with impunity!

  One night later, You Ruo finally couldn't bear it and opened the lid of the tripod under Zhao Di's permission, taking out the jade stone inside.

  "Master, the spiritual energy of this boulder really has increased!" Youlan exclaimed excitedly.

  "Uh, indeed, but this increase is extremely weak, I don't know if it's because of the lack of time or if this treasure can only hold so much spiritual power." Zhao Di repeatedly examined the jade stone in You Ruo's hand, his brow furrowed as he said.

  If it's just a matter of time, then that's fine, he only needs to continue cultivating and it will be alright. But if the Heaven and Earth Pouch can only cultivate into this kind of appearance, then his Hunyuan Seven Stars Sword will have its power greatly reduced!

  "Try again and you'll know!" You Ruo put the jade back into the small cauldron.

  One day later, when You Ruo opened the small cauldron again, the spiritual energy of the He Lian Shi had increased slightly. Although it was not obvious, with Zhao Di and others' eyesight, it could still be easily distinguished.

  After a seven-day trial, the Lingtong stone has been slowly increasing its spiritual power. Its age has grown from over a thousand years at the beginning to around 1,500 years now, and it seems to have potential for further growth.

  This result made Zhao Di very happy, proving that his inference was not wrong. This way, as long as he got some golden amber, fire coral and agate leaves, he could prepare to refine the Hunyuan Seven-Star Sword! These few treasures were also precious things, especially those with sufficient years! But Zhao Di had a small cauldron in hand, even if the years were a bit worse, it didn't matter. Therefore, his chances of gathering the seven treasures of Buddhism and refining his destined magical treasure greatly increased!

  Zhao Di did not waste any more time experimenting with the limits of the ancient teleportation array, but instead made Yu Rou remember the appearance of the damaged corner of the ancient transmission array, and then hid the cave again, taking the two women away from the deserted island.

  Zhao turned into a blue light and flew away, no longer stopping to discover fifth-level demon beasts, but occasionally still sitting on some uninhabited islands with spiritual veins to recover his spiritual power.

  Less than two months later, he had flown to the sea area not far from Wuhou Island, and often met other monks who were normally searching for or killing demon beasts along the way.

  Those foundation-building monks, once they see the evasive light technique that only condensation period monks can cast appear in their line of sight, will immediately become extremely tense, and even pause their attacks on the demonic beasts. Only when they see the blue evasive light fly far away without any intention of stopping will they let out a sigh of relief and continue to search for or hunt down the demonic beasts.

  This kind of nervous life, Zhao Di had also experienced, especially during the middle period of his foundation building, when he killed a large number of demon beasts and returned to Wudang Island, he couldn't help but pray that he wouldn't encounter any Nascent Soul stage cultivators. Who would have thought that after decades, the roles were reversed, and he became an existence that others didn't want to encounter!

  Logically, these Foundation Establishment cultivators should not have been of any interest to Zhao, nor would they have warranted his attention. However, when he spotted a trio consisting entirely of late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, a cold smile spread across his face as he altered his course and charged straight for the three!

  The first update!