Xiuhua opened her mouth wide and made an "ah ah" sound from her throat.

It is said that beautiful women have a breath as fragrant as orchids, and Fang Zong believed it. This was because Xiu Hua was not only beautiful, but also very powerful. All the impurities in her body had long been removed, and her body was as pure as jade. Even at the bottom of the deep water, her cherry lips still exhaled a faint fragrance.

"Can I take this as you seducing me?" Fang Zong chuckled.

"No"

Xiuhua quickly explained.

She could give up her virginity for her life, but now that she didn't need to worry about her life, it was better to remain pure and innocent. What was even more terrifying was that she couldn't refuse Fang Zong's demands, so it was best—no, absolutely best—to avoid arousing any of Fang Zong's masculine impulses.

"Master is indeed amazing. This servant was wrong. Master is exceptionally talented. You can break through to the Imperial Path in an instant, and then break through once a year, reaching the Dao Spirit level in five years."

Xiuhua frantically flattered him, trying to steer Fang Zong's thoughts toward cultivation.

In her opinion, breaking through to the Imperial Path level once a year was an absolute compliment, so much so that she blushed when she did it.

Does it break through once a year?

Upon hearing this flattery, Fang Zong's lips twitched violently, and he coldly ordered, "Make your move."

Okay!

Xiuhua wished she could make Fang Zong leave to cultivate immediately, so she used her dust to spray out more purple river water.

Fang Zong only felt the surrounding river water calm down, no longer boiling, but the temperature was getting lower and lower. This was below absolute zero, something that would be absolutely impossible in nature, but everything was different in the world, so he didn't delve into it.

He just stared at the riverbed, which seemed to have been frozen and cracked, and at this moment the riverbed was like a desert, being eroded by the water flow, slowly dropping more than ten meters in depth.

Suddenly, it was as if the world had exploded.

Below, a cyan-red bead appeared, and above the bead, a drop of pitch-black liquid was suspended.

The liquid, drawn upwards by the purple and water, rose a short distance, and the crimson-blue bead suddenly burst forth with dazzling light, as if a crimson-blue sun had appeared in its place.

"Five-Star Fire Attribute Dao Seed"

Fang Zong was overjoyed. With a flash, he appeared next to the fire-attribute Dao Seed and the Styx Jellyfish.

He reached out his hand and found a thin layer of ice visibly forming on his palm. "No!" Xiu Hua cried out instinctively. "The Styx Jellyfish is an extremely yin and evil water-attribute treasure. I'll lure it up here. If you keep grabbing it like this, you'll freeze to death!"

Indeed, Fang Zong felt the cells in his hands constantly dying.

The Styx jellyfish, carrying a terrifying chill and a strange energy that corrodes flesh, was killing the millions of cells in his hand.

"Wouldn't you be free if I died?" Fang Zong asked with a smile.

"Oh, I forgot." Xiuhua regretted it so much that her heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys ached.

Fang Zong laughed when he saw Xiu Hua's silly appearance. The Red Lotus Karmic Fire in his body suddenly erupted, instantly piercing through the Styx Jellyfish's obstruction. While grabbing the five-star Dao Seed, he also burned the Styx Jellyfish.

"Hiss!" Xiu Hua gasped.

She was completely bewildered and didn't know what to say. You see, the Styx Jellyfish could be used as her source of cultivation, and could even replenish the heart of a dignified high-level expert like her. Its energy was so rich and of such high quality that it was an extremely rare treasure that was only seen once in a hundred years.

But Fang Zong grabbed a handful of this treasure and refined it instantly.

Fang Zong tossed the Styx Jellyfish to Xiu Hua, focusing all his attention on the five-star Dao Seed. He casually said, "Once you've finished refining it, you can use it directly. Don't worry about being harmed by the Styx Jellyfish's counterattack. Oh, and remember to protect me. Don't let anyone disturb me."

"Mmm, uh-huh"

Xiuhua nodded blankly, then asked again, "Really for me?"

Previously, she thought Fang Zong would have difficulty breaking through to the lower level of the Imperial Path and would still need her, so she was confident in obtaining the Styx Jellyfish. But now that Fang Zong is already at the lower level of the Imperial Path, even considering his combat power at the peak of the Killing Array, she wasn't confident in defeating him. Why should she give him the Styx Jellyfish then?

"If it were someone from my sect, they would have ordered me to die. You—no, Master, why?"

"ah"

Xiuhua suddenly covered her mouth, finally realizing that she was urging Fang Zong to kill her!

"Eat it, then protect me. Why are you talking so much nonsense?"

Fang Zong rolled his eyes and casually retorted, "I promised to let you live, why are you asking so many questions?"

"Yes, Master. Thank you, Master."

The shy flower nodded vigorously, her proud demeanor completely gone.

Fang Zong observed the five-star Dao Seed, but not for long. In his view, the five-star Dao Seed could upgrade Earth, but if he increased his strength, he could find more treasures for Earth. Without hesitation, he slashed at it.

The Heavenly Blade Moon Slash emitted an excited buzz, rapidly absorbing the power within the Dao Seed. It only needed the traces of the Dao within the Dao Seed. At the same time, Fang Zong seemed to have been enlightened, as if he had heard a voice so ancient and distant that it seemed to exist in the past.

"There is something undifferentiated and complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Silent and still, it stands alone and unchanging, ever-present and inexhaustible. It can be regarded as the mother of all things. I do not know its name, so I call it 'the Way'."

"Greatness is called flowing away; flowing away is called going far; going far is called returning. Therefore, the Way is great, Heaven is great, Earth is great, and Man is also great."

He sat cross-legged, a ray of golden light shining between his brows. All his past cultivation experiences condensed into a wisp of insight within the golden light, allowing him to relive them all.

In a daze, Fang Zong felt that he had surpassed the mental state that one should have when pursuing the Dao. He progressed directly from the lower level of the Dao to the middle, upper, first-grade, and peak levels. Before advancing to the level of Dao Spirit Grand Venerable, he no longer needed any further enlightenment.

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