In the war between humans and demons, it's not unreasonable for me to absorb demonic energy, is

The luminous bead suddenly burst open, as if turning into a liquid. It wrapped around the storage ring a few times before shooting into the mouth of the dumbfounded Fan Tong.

Fan Tong was indeed startled, because for some reason, he felt a lingering feeling towards the liquid formed by the bead, which made him react a beat slower!

"Ugh!" Before he could make a move, the liquid melted as soon as it entered his mouth and disappeared into his veins.

Fan Tong, who thought nothing was wrong, suddenly felt his dantian churn as a massive surge of spiritual energy, seemingly from nowhere, rushed into it.

Stimulated by such immense spiritual power, the vortex of spiritual energy began to spin rapidly, continuously converting external spiritual energy into its own.

At the same time, Fan Tong felt as if he were being steamed in an iron pot, his body burning up as if some mysterious force was tempering him.

This situation leads to a rapid increase in both physical strength and spiritual cultivation, although the pain involved is truly unbearable.

At this moment, he had no choice but to forcefully circulate the nameless technique, constantly absorbing the vitality of heaven and earth to replenish his body's losses.

Fortunately, the palace was relatively safe, so Fan Tong immersed himself in refining spiritual energy and tempering his physical body, enjoying the painful yet pleasurable process.

After an unknown amount of time, Fan Tong felt the spiritual energy vortex in his dantian suddenly erupt and tremble violently.

Startled, he quickly diverted some of his attention to observe the situation within his dantian!

The vortex of spiritual energy had reached a diameter of ninety-nine meters, and its rotation speed was exceptionally fast. For some reason, the bottom of the vortex had converged into a cone shape.

Driven by the vortex, the tip of the cone seemed to be drilling a hole in his dantian!

As the tip of the cone rotated, a soft sound seemed to come from inside the Qi Sea, and a barely perceptible crack appeared. A sudden, intense pain caused Fan Tong to almost faint!

Fan Tong bit his tongue and forced himself to stay alert. Now was not the time to be dizzy. If his Qi Sea was shattered, he would become a cripple!

"No! I haven't found my parents yet, I haven't saved the people of Tianlei Ancient City, and I haven't caught up with Mengyao. I absolutely cannot become a cripple!"

As Fan Tong watched the gaps in his Qi Sea widen the more he activated the nameless technique, he decided to stop.

But at that moment, he was shocked to find that he had lost control of his body and the nameless martial arts technique was operating on its own.

*Snap!* A crisp sound!

The crack in the Qi Sea finally shattered, and the abundant spiritual power flowed away with the crack, while the rotation speed of the spiritual energy vortex cone seemed to slow down.

"Thank goodness! Thank goodness! Although it's damaged, it's still usable!" Fan Tong was about to breathe a sigh of relief when suddenly the previously calm Yama Ancient Sword erupted, emitting a sharp sword light, and directly pierced the crack in his Qi Sea!

"No!!" Fan Tong let out a terrified roar, followed by a pain a thousand times greater than before, and he instantly lost consciousness.

Although Fan Tong lost consciousness, the changes in his body did not stop.

Under the attack of the Yama Ancient Sword, Fan Tong's Qi Sea was completely shattered, but the spiritual energy vortex did not continue to tear Fan Tong's body apart. Instead, it began to compress from both ends toward the middle.

As it compressed, the 99-meter-diameter vortex of spiritual energy emitted crackling sounds and soon transformed into a piece of land made of spiritual energy, located at the location of Fan Tong's Qi Sea.

This spiritual land is about ten meters thick and a hundred meters in diameter, like a wall lying there. The spiritual energy within it constantly rises, expanding into a space a hundred meters high, and then falls back onto the spiritual land, forming a complete cycle.

Seeing that Fan Tong's Qi Sea and spiritual energy vortex had stopped changing, the Yama Ancient Sword casually floated at the top of this hundred-meter space and slowly settled down.

If an ancient cultivator were to see this, he would surely be horrified. Who could have imagined that someone who had just broken through would have such a powerful dantian!

Time flowed slowly again, and Fan Tong, still dizzy, gently moved a finger.

"No! I don't want to become a useless person! I want to..."

Fan Tong, who was lying on the ground, regained consciousness but was still stuck in the scene before he lost consciousness. He muttered something to himself and pressed his hands on the ground, intending to sit up.

And then, snap!

Fan Tong smashed a huge hole in the roof of the palace, which had stood for who knows how many years. Before he could finish speaking, Fan Tong swallowed the rest of his words.

Meanwhile, the Yama Ancient Sword, which was suspended at the top of the dantian, trembled, perhaps stimulated by Fan Tong's disheveled appearance.

"What's going on?" Fan Tong was completely baffled. He came down from the roof, ignoring the collapse of the palace, and sat down cross-legged on the ground to check the condition of his body.

"This...this...I actually broke through to the first level of the Yellow Spirit Realm? What on earth is going on?"

A moment later, he slowly opened his eyes.

"Phew! As long as I can cultivate, I don't care if you blame me or not!" Fan Tong didn't care at all about the reaction of the Yama Ancient Sword.

Because he believed that the old woman would not hurt him!

"I only wanted to test your magic, but I didn't expect it to cause such a big problem!" Fan Tong sighed inwardly after glancing at the Qiankun Ring in his hand, and then began to refine it.

Little did Fan Tong know that the glowing bead was the essence of the statue's original form's lifelong cultivation, which had taken hold of the statue's hand after the original owner's sacrifice.

If he hadn't bowed to the statue, he would never have discovered the Qiankun Ring that was the prototype of the statue.

Without this Qiankun Ring, the round bead wouldn't have willingly transformed into an aid to improve Fan Tong's cultivation, allowing Fan Tong to gain a great advantage.

Therefore, humility leads to progress, and every bite and sip has its own destiny!

"I've finally refined this Qiankun Ring. I wonder what's inside!" Fan Tong examined the Qiankun Ring with focused concentration.

It's a pity, perhaps because the previous owner fought too fiercely, that nothing was left behind!

"Forget it, one should be content. At least I won't have to worry about carrying my belongings anymore."

"A day has passed, I should hurry and check on the situation in the secret realm." With a smug look on his face, Fan Tong put on the ring and got up to walk down the mountain.

This time, Fan Tong dealt with the Dark Night Wolves who came from all directions to their deaths much more easily. He then easily crossed the mountain range and arrived at its foot.

"These demonic wolves are really annoying. They're relentless in their attacks on humans, and the problem is they're providing far too little spiritual energy right now."

Fan Tong was muttering to himself. Perhaps because of the improvement in his cultivation, the demonic energy in the demon wolf's body, after being absorbed by the Yama Ancient Sword, had become pitifully little spiritual power.

"It's strange, it's much brighter outside once we're out of this mountain!" After putting on his clean linen clothes, Fan Tong stepped out of the mountain range and was immediately struck by how bright it was!

"Could that be the highest point of this secret realm?" He looked at the towering mountain peaks that seemed to reach into the clouds in the distance and couldn't help but sigh.

"Let's go first! Let's see if we can find anything!" After a moment's hesitation, Fan Tong could only walk forward.

"Hey kid in front, stop right there!"

An arrogant voice made Fan Tong stop in his tracks!