Chapter 2399: Chapter 2399: Advancing Again, Fifth Rank Immortal King Realm!

Of course, to prevent other immortals from coveting the Water of Life and attempting to seize it, Fang Bai made thorough preparations.

He publicly declared to tens of thousands of immortals that the few drops of Water of Life were obtained by him through a rare opportunity and that there were only a few drops. If anyone dared to snatch them, he would destroy the Water of Life.

Once Fang Bai made this statement, some immortals who initially had designs on the Water of Life grew more apprehensive.

If Fang Bai were to destroy the Water of Life, they would gain nothing and might provoke countless immortals from Savage Beast Immortal City, which would not be worth the trouble.

Additionally, Fang Bai particularly invited two high-rank Immortal Emperor Realm experts from the City Lord Mansion of Savage Beast Immortal City, offering two drops of Water of Life as the condition for them to protect him.

The City Lord Mansion of Savage Beast Immortal City does not fall under the jurisdiction of the eight top Immortal Emperors, but is instead controlled by a Half-Step Immortal Emperor from the Southern Desolate.

The true form of that Half-Step Immortal Emperor is actually an immortal lion, known by the title "Fury Lion Immortal Emperor." His master was once an Immortal Emperor who later perished. Fury Lion Immortal Emperor used the cultivation resources and Immortal Technique Secrets left behind to cultivate up to the Half-Step Immortal Emperor Realm.

Hundreds of years ago, Fury Lion Immortal Emperor emerged victorious in a battle for the position of City Lord of Savage Beast Immortal City against other immortals, becoming the ruler of Savage Beast Immortal City.

Within Savage Beast Immortal City, Fury Lion Immortal Emperor holds absolute authority. All immortals bow before him, and with the control of nearly a thousand powerful immortals within the City Lord Mansion and thousands of immortal birds and beasts inside and outside the city, his combined might is such that even some Immortal Emperors would not easily provoke him.

When Fang Bai sought the Fury Lion Immortal Emperor and expressed his willingness to exchange two drops of Water of Life for the protection of two high-rank Immortal Emperor Realm experts from the City Lord Mansion, the Fury Lion Immortal Emperor discussed it with the high-level figures in the City Lord Mansion and agreed.

The Water of Life has no effect on a Half-Step Immortal Emperor like Fury Lion Immortal Emperor, but it is highly attractive to the high-rank Immortal Emperor Realm experts of the City Lord Mansion.

If the Water of Life provided by Fang Bai could allow the two high-rank Immortal Emperor Realm experts of the City Lord Mansion to advance to the peak of the Immortal Emperor Realm, the overall strength of the City Lord Mansion would be significantly enhanced, and its status in the Southern Desolate would rise by a tier.

Moreover, the two high-rank Immortal Emperor Realm experts protecting Fang Bai posed no significant risk, because as long as Fang Bai stayed within Savage Beast Immortal City, he would be under the protection of the entire City Lord Mansion. Any immortal intending harm to Fang Bai would first have to consider whether they have the ability to start a war with the City Lord Mansion.

Thus, on that day, two high-rank Immortal Emperor Realm experts from the City Lord Mansion appeared around Fang Bai’s stall to ensure his safety.

Ten days later, a Skinny Immortal King with limited longevity and not much time left advanced in the Alchemy Room, becoming a sixth-grade Immortal King Realm expert.

As that Skinny Immortal King walked out of the Alchemy Room, he looked up and shouted in excitement, dancing with joy, causing a sensation among the tens of thousands of immortals watching.

A single drop of Water of Life, in just ten days, allowed an Immortal King to advance. This explosive news quickly spread from the mouths of tens of thousands of immortals on the scene to all parts, causing excitement among the Immortal Kings and Immortal Emperors throughout Savage Beast Immortal City.

They confirmed the appearance characteristics of the Antarctica Immortal Emperor and then set off en masse, searching all over the Southern Desolate in hopes of finding the Antarctica Immortal Emperor before anyone else in exchange for Fang Bai’s Water of Life.

Fang Bai remained at ease in Savage Beast Immortal City, continuing to refine pills and artifacts for immortals, waiting for news about the Antarctica Immortal Emperor.

Fang Bai believed that with so many immortals searching, there was hope of finding the Antarctica Immortal Emperor as long as he remained in the Southern Desolate.

Fang Bai hoped for good news but was also prepared for the possibility of bad news.

During this time, Fan Hua awoke inside the Five Elements Space Ring. Seeing her still heartbroken, Fang Bai had Fang Yun, Xia Chenyu, and Qin Yaorao enter to comfort her.

In the blink of an eye, several months passed. Fang Bai’s cultivation level steadily improved through daily pill refining and artifact crafting.

On this day, feeling something within, Fang Bai hung up a ’Closed for Business’ sign and entered the Alchemy Room, sitting cross-legged.

He drank several mouthfuls of the Water of Life, consumed some petals of the Chaos Lotus, hurriedly swallowed several Immortal Pills, and absorbed Immortal Qi from millions of Immortal Stones, then entered a cultivation state. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Ordinary immortals cultivate by simultaneously accumulating Immortal Qi and cultivating their state of mind, with both complementing each other to continually break through to higher realms.

Fang Bai, however, possessed the state of mind of an Immortal Emperor cultivated over tens of thousands of years, so now he only needs to constantly accumulate Immortal Qi. When the Immortal Qi is accumulated to a sufficiently abundant level, he can attempt to break through to a higher realm.

However, Fang Bai cannot endlessly absorb Immortal Qi without limit, just as one cannot continuously eat without a digestion process.

The Immortal Qi Fang Bai absorbs into his body is eventually refined into strands of Chaos Immortal Qi, each entering the seven Primordial Spirit bodies within his Qi Sea.

Moreover, the treasures of the Immortal Realm within Fang Bai’s Five Elements Space Ring, such as the Water of Life and Chaos Lotus, have significant effects when first consumed, but their effects diminish with subsequent use.

Therefore, even though Fang Bai possesses a vast amount of cultivation resources and many treasures of the Immortal Realm, his cultivation level must still be steadily accumulated and breakthroughs made gradually, not achieved overnight.

However, compared to other immortals, Fang Bai’s accumulation and breakthroughs can already be considered rapid.

In this retreat, Fang Bai unknowingly spent another month in closed cultivation, and when he emerged, the two high-rank Immortal Emperor Realm experts secretly protecting him were surprised to find that he had unexpectedly broken through a minor realm to reach the fifth-grade Immortal King Cultivation Realm.

Moreover, with their extraordinary eyesight, they could see that Fang Bai’s advancement was quite different from that of ordinary immortals. While ordinary immortals see their strength multiply several times with a breakthrough in a minor realm, Fang Bai’s strength multiplies several times over the same base increase.

This means that Fang Bai, possessing a fifth-grade Immortal King Realm, could easily defeat a sixth-grade Immortal King Realm expert, and he stands a chance in a battle against a seventh-grade Immortal King Realm expert.

The two high-rank Immortal Emperor Realm experts, moved by a love of talent, tentatively expressed their desire to take Fang Bai as a disciple, only for Fang Bai to smile and politely decline.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of miles away in a hidden part of the Southern Desolate, a Half-Step Demon Emperor from the Demon Clan was engaged in a fierce battle with a group of Immortal Emperor Realm experts.

While the Half-Step Demon Emperor was formidable, he was ultimately not a true Emperor Realm expert and could not tear through the void to escape. Trapped in formation by a group of Immortal Emperor Realm experts and facing their full-force attacks, he was momentarily unable to break free.

The Half-Step Demon Emperor, garbed in a black robe, his eyes blood-red, his face grim and terrifying, released intense Evil Qi, wielding a demonic blade that emitted awe-inspiring blade streaks, launching attacks at the surrounding Immortal Emperor Realm experts.

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