Practice begins with immortality

"This black box is..."

Before Wang Bai could react, he saw the black box suddenly emit a black light, and a piece of debris flew out and shot towards Wang Bai's chest.

At that moment, like the sharp tip of a knife effortlessly piercing soft tofu, the fragment, shimmering with mysterious light, shot straight towards Wang Bo at astonishing speed. In the blink of an eye, it sank into Wang Bo's body, piercing him with ease!

Immediately afterwards, Wang Bai's body suddenly burst out with a blue light as deep as the sea. At the same time, countless tiny cracks as fine as spider webs appeared on his body surface. These cracks seemed to be telling of some unknown dangers and secrets.

At this moment, a streak of golden light descended from the ball of light in Wang Bo's mind. Although tiny, it was like a flash of lightning that pierced the dark night sky, instantly eliminating the negative effects of the fragments. However, the matter did not end there.

Under the influence of this golden light, the black box in Wang Bo's palm, originally as black as ink and emitting a deep blue light, began to undergo a miraculous transformation: it gradually twisted and deformed, its originally square shape gradually transforming into a swirling pale golden vortex. Despite this, within this vortex, wisps of dark blue particles could still be seen moving freely, like twinkling stars in the night sky.

"When this power is not yet stable, it has the terrifying power to annihilate everything in the world and turn everything into nothingness." Wang Bai exclaimed after recovering.

"But once it settles, it gives people a strange feeling of being able to firmly embrace everything, a constant and ever-lasting source. It's like the positive and negative sides of a thing, both opposing and able to transform into each other!"

"but--"

Before he finished speaking, he saw that the golden vortex was surrounded by countless myriad magic arrays, which were stacked layer upon layer, wrapping up the golden vortex.

"To be on the safe side, I'd better put this thing in my inner world! To prevent any trouble in the future."

Before he finished speaking, this thing came into Wang Bai's inner world. At this moment, it was empty and there was nothing in it.

Whether it was the Yaoyang Star Cluster transformed by the power of the Qilin, or other existences swallowed by Wang Bai, such as the power stars of the ice man and the vine giant, in addition to some fairy stones, they all disappeared.

"It seems that the previous calamity will turn everything in my body into nothing, just like when I was in the lower realm, except for the system and the killing sword placed in the mind world, everything is gone. But fortunately, I had foresight!"

Then, Wang Bai's mind moved, and two objects flew out from the dark sea of ​​stars. One of them was the power that Wang Bai had plundered, which was also his cultivation resource, and the other was some miscellaneous items.

Then, "Sure enough, as my realm improves, the efficiency of the Soul Devouring Furnace in devouring and refining is also improving!"

In just a moment, Wang Bai refined the power of the ice man and the power of the vine giant that he had refined previously.

"After refining these powers, my strength has increased by about 20% compared to before."

“But these are just a drop in the bucket when it comes to building up to the next breakthrough.”

Of the twelve stages of enlightenment, the second stage requires thousands or even tens of thousands of times more accumulation than the first. This is why the number of people experiencing the second calamity is far less than the number experiencing the first calamity in the four ancient nations, and why there are only four pillars of power in the third calamity.

Unlike a normal True Immortal, Wang Bai needed even more. Fortunately, with the power of the four-level beast kings, Wang Bai was not short of resources.

"If the power of this Yaoyang Cluster was like magma to me before, now it is just like boiling water to me."

"In ten years at most, I will be able to refine it all. Then it will be time for me to break through again!"

"In addition, the system's analysis speed of the One Lotus Rebirth Method has also greatly increased. Only twelve years remain to complete the analysis!"

As he spoke, Wang Bai packed up his things, restrained and adjusted his breath, and then used his mind to teleport back to Xuanyu Valley.

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As soon as he returned to Xuanyu Valley, Wang Bai discovered something was wrong.

"Strange, where are the people? Where did they go?"

Wang Bai scanned the area near his residence with his spiritual sense and found no one there.

"Strange, with so many people, it's impossible for all of them to be on a mission."

"Wait, everyone's gathered here. Is something important happening?"

Just as Wang Bai was confused, he used teleportation and upright invisibility to arrive at the gathering square.

All the soldiers in the square closed their eyes and their perception was blocked.

On the stage, "Your Highness, among the sergeants of the 5th Regiment, except for some powerful Class A sergeants who did not come due to personal reasons, almost all the others are here."

A man in black robe reported to Leng Yuan.

Then, "Your Highness, why do you block your perception while summoning the soldiers of my regiment?"

The general asked in confusion.

"This mission is important, so you must proceed with caution. But don't worry, I will naturally remove the shield after we reach our destination." Leng Yuan said lightly.

"Okay, let's hurry up without further ado!"

"Yes!"

Before he finished speaking, a dragon-headed warship suddenly flew out of the sky. After the warship appeared, Leng Yuan waved his sleeves, and Wang Bo was the only one left on the field.

"The means of space teleportation seems to have gone inside the battleship. Anyway, what does this person want to do?"

Thinking of this, Wang Bai's mind moved, and he instantly arrived inside the warship.

"This seems to be the power room."

Wang Bo saw a huge furnace in front of him, with star-like fluctuations in it.

Near the furnace, a man was resting with his eyes closed. Wang Bai recognized this man; it was Huo Yan, whom he had met once during the previous campaign against the snow beasts.

"There is one True Immortal of the Second Tribulation, and thirty True Immortals of the First Tribulation. In the Immortal Realm, excluding the soldiers of Xuanyu Valley, there are eight hundred people."

With just a slight sense, Wang Bai realized the personnel composition on the warship.

"It seems that they are led by that Second Tribulation True Immortal. Let's see what he wants to do!"

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Inside the battleship, in a rather luxurious palace, Leng Yuan was sitting on the throne, thinking about something.

"According to the intelligence I've gathered over the years and what my informants in the Ice Pole Palace have said, when the ancestor was in the Ice Pole Palace, he had only just broken through the second tribulation less than ten thousand years ago. But shortly after the founding of the ancient country, the ancestor broke through to the third tribulation. Combined with the abnormalities in the snowfield back then, perhaps..."

Thinking of this, Leng Yuan felt more and more that he had begun to touch the truth.

"This opportunity belongs to me!"

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At the same time, thousands of miles away from the warship, there was also a pair of eyes watching all this.

"My dear brother, according to the hexagram, your children and grandchildren helped me find you. It's worth all the time I spent!"

"When I find you, I will extract your soul and refine your spirit to vent my hatred for the past two million years!"

A white-haired old man gnashed his teeth and said, "If Leng Yuan were here, he would definitely recognize this old man as Shuang Lao, the one guarding the Sutra Library!"