After figuring this out, Fang Hong was secretly delighted, as it saved him the time of searching for medicinal ingredients.

Originally, Fang Hong was worried that even with the pill formula, he wouldn’t be able to perform alchemy if he couldn’t find the medicinal ingredients.

Now, with these ready-made Immortal Medicine seeds, as long as he planted them in the years pearl for cultivation, it wouldn’t take long for them to grow into usable Immortal Medicines, and then he would be able to successfully refine Immortal Pills.

After inventorying the pill formulas and Immortal Medicines, Fang Hong turned his attention to the Immortal Artifacts he had acquired this time.

In this Ancient Tomb battle, he had killed over two hundred treasure-snatching Cultivators, and adding the Immortal Artifacts left by the tomb owner, he had obtained a total of one hundred and ninety-five Immortal Artifacts.

However, the grades of these Immortal Artifacts varied greatly.

The lowest grade was only Rank One, while the highest grade were the three Rank Seven Immortal Artifacts that the tomb owner used during his lifetime.

Fang Hong took out those three Rank Seven Immortal Artifacts separately and observed them carefully.

These three Immortal Artifacts were an Immortal Sword, a long spear, and a white pearl.

Among these three Immortal Artifacts, the one Fang Hong was most interested in was the white pearl.

The function of this pearl was very similar to his Soul Nurturing Pearl, both having the effects of guarding the soul and enhancing Divine Sense.

He could try to fuse this white pearl with the Soul Nurturing Pearl to refine a brand new, higher-grade Soul Nurturing Pearl.

Looking at this pearl, Fang Hong couldn’t help but recall the fate of the tomb owner.

Even a Rank Seven soul Suppressing Immortal Artifact couldn’t help the tomb owner overcome that Heavenly Fire Tribulation. It seems the path to advancing to Immortal King is indeed extremely perilous.

The tragic end of the tomb owner undoubtedly served as a warning to Fang Hong.

When advancing to Immortal King in the future, he must never act too hastily and must prepare thoroughly in advance.

Otherwise, if he responds improperly, he might very well be burned alive by the Heavenly Fire, just like the tomb owner.

Besides the three Rank Seven Immortal Artifacts left by the tomb owner, most of the remaining hundred-plus Immortal Artifacts were Rank Three or Four.

Although the grades of these Immortal Artifacts were not high, and their individual power was limited, they had the advantage of being numerous.

These low-grade Immortal Artifacts could be used to feed his own Immortal Artifacts and raise their grade.

As for the secret method for crafting puppets in the storage ring, Fang Hong only briefly flipped through a few pages before putting it back.

The secret method detailed the steps and techniques the tomb owner usually used to create puppets, and the content was very thorough, but Fang Hong didn’t have much interest in crafting puppets.

Instead of spending time and effort researching puppets, it would be better to spend the time on Cultivation and find ways to improve his own strength.

His own strength was the most reliable guarantee.

Fang Hong put away all the supplies, then fed the tomb owner’s corpse to the demon gourd.

The tomb owner was a Grand Unity Golden Immortal; the Immortal Pills refined from such a corpse would surely have extraordinary effects.

Subsequently, Fang Hong also fed all the corpses of the True Immortal and Golden Immortal Cultivators he had killed earlier to the demon gourd.

The demon gourd remained powerful, and after a while, it sprayed out Immortal Pills, with Immortal Qi scattering and Immortal light radiating in all directions.

Fang Hong joyfully put away the Immortal Pills, then went to a Medicine Valley and planted all the Immortal Medicine seeds left by the tomb owner.

Afterward, he returned to his Immortal Cave’s secret chamber to begin refining those three Immortal Medicines and condensing Law meridians.

For the time being, Fang Hong would go nowhere and only needed to quietly cultivate within his Immortal Cave.

Time flew by, and in a blink, another four years passed.

At this moment, deep within the Eastern Wasteland Mountain Range, in a remote mountain forest.

Fang Hong held the soul severing sword, and not far opposite him stood an exceptionally massive giant ape.

This giant ape, just standing, was seven or eight zhang tall, like a small mountain.

This giant ape was no ordinary Demon Beast; it was called the Golden Stone Ape.

Its entire body was covered in golden fur, appearing like gold and stone, and it was famously a defensive-type Demon Beast.

Moreover, the Golden Stone Ape in front of Fang Hong had already reached the peak Golden Immortal realm.

In terms of its defensive capabilities alone, it was not at all inferior to some Demon Beasts at the ordinary Grand Unity Golden Immortal level, and in some situations, it was even superior.

Roar.

The Golden Stone Ape suddenly let out an enraged roar, and the intense sound waves, like a violent hurricane, instantly swept out.

The surrounding trees were uprooted by the sound waves, and crushed stones and fallen leaves were swept into the air. The entire mountain forest trembled with this roar.

However, facing such powerful sound waves, Fang Hong still stood steadily in place, without even a tremor in his figure.

A faint layer of water Qi emanated around him, acting like an invisible barrier that firmly isolated the incoming sound waves, preventing them from affecting him in the slightest.

The Golden Stone Ape was furious at Fang Hong’s sudden intrusion into its territory.

It slowly raised its enormous palm, which carried a gust of wind, seemingly intending to swat Fang Hong away with a single blow, making this intruder completely disappear from its sight.

Just as the Golden Stone Ape’s giant palm was about to descend, Fang Hong made his move.

He quickly raised the soul severing sword in his hand, gave a gentle flick of his wrist, and lightly slashed towards the Golden Stone Ape’s body.

A sharp sword shadow, as fast as lightning, instantly streaked across the Golden Stone Ape’s hard body.

After the sword shadow passed, a strange black light suddenly spread from the Golden Stone Ape’s body.

The Golden Stone Ape’s descending palm instantly froze in mid-air, unable to move down another inch.

Immediately after, a deafening boom echoed, like a thunderclap.

The Golden Stone Ape’s massive body fell straight backward, crashing heavily onto the ground, raising a cloud of dust.

When observed again, it had no signs of life, completely transformed into a cold corpse.

Fang Hong slowly retracted the soul severing sword, his demeanor still calm and composed, as if he had just killed not a peak Golden Immortal Demon Beast, but merely an insignificant little insect.

This was Fang Hong’s current strength.

After four years of diligent Cultivation, his strength was already vastly different from before.

During these four years, Fang Hong spent a large amount of time refining numerous Azure Gloom Pills, Dragon Tiger Pills, and Giant Aperture Pills.

He consumed these medicinal pills one by one, and his Cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds.

Later, when the effect of Immortal Pills on Cultivation improvement gradually weakened and was no longer as obvious as before, Fang Hong changed his Cultivation method.

He began to hunt Golden Immortal-Rank Demon Beasts in the mountain range and used the demon gourd to refine Immortal Pills.

Over the years, the number of Golden Immortal Demon Beasts that died by his hand increased, roughly estimated to be over a thousand.

It was with the aid of a large number of Immortal Pills that Fang Hong’s current Cultivation had successfully reached the peak Golden Immortal realm, just one step away from Grand Unity Golden Immortal.