The longer one stays in the Sword Sect, the older one's seniority becomes, and the more Immortal Spirit Qi one receives.
When one person attains the Dao, even the chickens and dogs ascend to heaven, just like this.
Wang Mu also entered seclusion, at the Heavenly Sword Peak for closed cultivation.
Looking for people can wait, just focus on cultivation earnestly, as there's plenty of time.
Of course, for the days of cultivation, sixty years is actually quite short.
Six months later, Wang Mu successfully broke through to Divinity Transformation.
With the addition of merit, during the breakthrough, there wasn't even a Heavenly Tribulation, coupled with the cultivation speed of the Infinite Demon Body, absorbing massive amounts of spiritual energy for his own use.
"It feels like it won't take sixty years..."
"Next is the Transcendance Tribulation Stage..."
After Divinity Transformation, Wang Mu left the Sword Sect and arrived at the Immortal Mansion through the Demon Suppression God Seal, once again seeing the Ice Blue Ancient Tree.
"You've finally arrived. I sense an unimaginable life force; your Longevity Technique has already reached the Eighth Layer?"
"Fast, so fast... last time you clearly hadn't even reached the Sixth Layer..."
Last time...
This time, he also obtained Immortal Spirit Qi, making the Primordial Wood Longevity Skill breakthrough as easy as drinking water. With the support of merit and without a bottleneck.
Combined with action points, Wang Mu can't tell in the current cultivation world how many can match this speed of cultivation?
Previously, when cultivating with action points, there were various bottlenecks and restrictions; without reaching a realm, there would be requirements on oneself.
Now, there are no bottlenecks at all.
"I plan to cultivate here for decades..." Wang Mu said, "and then..."
He looked into the Ice Blue Ancient Tree.
Then use the Nine-Turn Golden Pill to resurrect An Qixiu.
"Aren't you going out?" the Ice Blue Ancient Tree instinctively asked.
Wang Mu shook his head:
"No."
There's nothing outside worth going out for.
If he wants to contact the outside, Wang Mu plans to craft several Divine Light Mirrors.
He has the schematics for making the Divine Light Mirror, and with Five-Colored Divine Gold he can create materials, combined with his artifact refining skills, it's not difficult.
"Alright, if you have any needs, feel free to tell me."
"The formations in the Immortal Mansion can still last for a while, enough for your cultivation."
The Ice Blue Ancient Tree is also happy to have someone here for cultivation companionship.
The days of cultivation are not dull.
Wang Mu used only a few years, cultivating while crafting several Divine Light Mirrors.
It's a pity that these Divine Light Mirrors don't have the coverage function like those in the Upper Realm, similar to facilities for an Upper Realm signal tower.
They can only be used individually for local contact, meaning they can only connect within the Lower Realm, and only leave a few traces of divine sense, which means contact with only a few people.
But this is enough, so he went out to distribute them, leaving one with the Sword Sect, fixing one directly with Little Jiao Huo at the Glazed Lake, one at the Dragon Palace, one with the Dan King Sect, leaving one with Gu Yuqing at the Fengyue Sect, and lastly, cautiously breaking a seal to leave one with Dongfang Ying in the Eight Desolate Netherworld.
Then he returned to the Immortal Mansion to continue cultivating.
In the fifth year of cultivation in the Immortal Mansion, Wang Mu began to study formations, as he discovered the Immortal Mansion was quite mysterious.
"The Immortal Mansion was left by the owner..."
"But how it came about, I do not know..."
The Ice Blue Ancient Tree does not know.
But through cultivation in the Immortal Mansion, Wang Mu discovered that many of the techniques used in crafting the Immortal Mansion are not present in the current cultivation techniques of the Nine Provinces.
Specifically, there are no traces of crafting.
In other words, this Immortal Mansion is a Magic Treasure itself.
Moreover, it is an Innate Treasure.
"This Immortal Mansion, could it have been born at the time of the world's creation..."
"A self-contained small world... then refined by an immortal, An Qixiu, with many formations arranged within it, becoming her space of experience..."
"But later, perhaps due to time constraints, the formations became incomplete, failing to maintain properly... losing many abilities..."
If such a treasure were to disappear, it would be unfortunate.
If he could repair this Innate Treasure, adding the powers of an Innate Treasure, it could rival those immortal treasures in the Upper Realm.
To repair, of course, requires first fixing the formations above.
"An Qixiu set up seven types of formations in the Immortal Mansion..."
"The basic Qiankun Qi Gathering Spirit Array, Retrospective Flowing Edge Array, Circulation Yin Yang Array... isn't this the Fengyue Sect's formation? Water Marsh Array... it's recorded in the Sea Control Technique... Heavenly Flame Splitting Light Array... this is the Dan King Sect's formation... recorded in the Seven Emotions Fire Control True Scripture... Yimu Evergreen Array... from the Primordial Wood Longevity Skill... the Five Elements Formation gathering, Yin Yang, Primordial Chaos... do I have all the necessary powers?"
The more he delved into formations, the more Wang Mu understood the Immortal Mansion.
The formations inside are the basic conditions for maintaining the operation of the Immortal Mansion.
As an Innate Treasure, before the world's mutation, it belonged to a world of meager spiritual energy; even such a treasure limited by the world's rules would struggle to persist, and over time, easily lose its spiritual essence.
"According to An Qixiu's experiences... thousands of years ago, there should have been an era of cultivation in the Nine Provinces, even giving birth to beings like An Qixiu, a realm where many strong individuals existed..."
"Later, perhaps due to numerous disasters, the passage between the Upper and Lower Realms closed, spiritual energy vanished, and cultivation broke off... slowly turning into the era of games... and these treasures probably belong to that time... the reason for the loss of spiritual essence now, largely due to the inefficacy of the formations maintaining the treasure's operation... no wonder the Ice Blue Ancient Tree said it wouldn't last long..."
"But..."
Wang Mu sat alone on an ice platform, contemplating, "Why does it feel odd... these formations are extremely powerful, serving as the foundation for maintaining the treasure's internal world operation, which is fine..."
"Ordinary cultivators, trying to repair them is almost impossible."
Formation techniques are extremely profound; even the Nine Provinces' formation techniques have only seen advancement in the past century due to a few master formation experts.
Previously, there were none.
Since cultivation in the Nine Provinces is only a millennium old, cultivators focused on alchemy and artifact refining.
These two aspects most directly enhance one's cultivation and strength.
Formations are hard to master, requiring observation of celestial and terrestrial phenomena; not many cultivators specialize in them, thus development is not fast.
Only from ancient mystic realms can one obtain some grand formation blueprints and gradually deduce and refine them.
And these formations within the Immortal Mansion are not only related to his cultivation techniques but also to Heroine Yan and others...
Considering An Qixiu had contact with them, Wang Mu can understand.
"But... why do I possess all the core powers required to repair these formations..."
"Could this be your arrangement?"
Wang Mu doesn't know.
In the tenth year of cultivation in the Immortal Mansion, Wang Mu used action points to directly boost his formation path to 100.
This seems to be the limit.
Or rather, the limit achievable with action points.
Because after reaching 100, further cultivation with action points is impossible.
After maxing out the formation path, Wang Mu took only a few months to completely repair all the formations within the Immortal Mansion.
And the Array Eye is none other than Wang Mu himself, serving as the core driver of all formation powers.
Indeed, because the operation of these formations requires the power derived from his cultivation of various techniques.
During this decade, Wang Mu also casually practiced a bit of Thunder Skill, taken from the Nine Heavens Refining God Record of Supreme Mysterious Dao Sect, and successfully turned the Little Thunder Spirit into a Little Thunder Infant in the tenth Spiritual Acupoint, merging with the main Primordial Spirit, subsequently forming a power flowing with the Five Elements, embodied in Yin and Yang Qi, with Primordial Chaos as the foundation, Heavenly Demon as the essence, forming a New Primordial Spirit with Thunder Pool.
Wang Mu doesn't know what this Primordial Spirit signifies.
He just feels incredibly powerful...
Powerful to the point of... omnipotence.
Divinity Transformation Realm signifies the out-of-body experience of the Primordial Spirit, a symbol of wandering in the virtual void.
This realm means the Primordial Spirit can leave the physical body, becoming akin to a divine presence in this world, mastering the powers of heaven and earth, communicating with the heavens, and slowly comprehending the rules, swiftly reaching the Transcendance Tribulation Stage.
Immortal Mansion.
"Ten years... then, only need to activate the internal power..."
"To activate the true Immortal Mansion."
Wang Mu gazed at the white, icy, ancient mountain-like interior of the Immortal Mansion.
Here, year-round, the scenery remains unchanged from when he first started.
But the many formations inside have been completely repaired by Wang Mu.
The materials used for repairs, without the Mechanism Creation Technique, if Wang Mu were to gather them himself, it's unknown how many years it would take.
"I wonder what the Immortal Mansion's original appearance is like after being repaired and activated..."