Xin Huo Academy, behind the mountain, secret training area.
Dean Fang sat cross-legged, suspended half a meter above the ground, his eyes closed. A profound aura ebbed and flowed around him like breathing. The entire spacious training room was filled with an immense divine might.
After a while,
Hum—
He opened his eyes, and the vast divine might poured back into his body like water. Under the illumination of this aura, his pupils shimmered with divine radiance. Increasingly brilliant, surging golden blood flowed within him, and his ordinary bones gained a hint of noble gold, shining brightly.
From a touch of the extraordinary to gradual deification, this was the cultivation process of a myth or demigod.
"The third strand of divinity, condensed!"
In the real timeline, less than two years had passed since he ascended to Myth, yet he had cultivated as if for hundreds of years like an elder myth, possessing the qualifications to sprint towards demigodhood.
Even the geniuses of the Kandra Empire tens of thousands of years ago had not cultivated this quickly.
After all, Fang, this fellow, had both paid with money and spent two and a half years in the instance time-space.
The cultivation process was not easy.
"A myth with three divine strands. As long as I condense another 30 strands of divine essence, I can attempt the demigod awakening."
Of course, he would not do that.
On the path of mystery, from the first to the sixth awakening, one was merely knocking on the door. The myth realm signified truly stepping through the gate of mystery. This stage was a crucial "foundation building" phase.
It determined how far one could go in the future.
"I am still far from condensing six strands of divinity. In this current stage, the ones who can truly shoulder the banner of combat power are still Liu Feng and Wei Bao."
When they were "summoned," they possessed "5 divine strands + 100 strands of divine essence." However, the more divinity one possessed, the more difficult it became to condense another strand on a stable foundation.
Disciple Liu Feng had tried for several months before succeeding.
Disciple Wei Bao was slightly slower, but only by a few days. He was now also preparing for his demigod awakening.
"As soon as they advance, my Xin Huo will immediately have two more demigod-level combatants. And among demigods, they will undoubtedly be in the very strong tier... even if they have only just broken through."
This was not only due to their solid foundations and mastery of various legendary and epic skills, but also because... they were already demigod powerhouses, already familiar with the power of the Eighth Realm.
Fang You opened his panel to review the important information accumulated during his seclusion.
A look of surprise appeared on his face.
"They've actually found a 'sword' type treasure already, and..."
"Fragment of a Broken Sword (Pseudo · Light Red)"
"Description: A fragment left behind after the shattering of a divine sword, containing the shattered rules of 'sharpness,' 'severing,' and 'clarity,' possessing mystical effects."
The grade of this fragment subtly reached the Scarlet Red tier.
It was more precious than anticipated.
Rather, using it in the awakening ritual seemed somewhat like overkill... Perhaps it could slightly increase the success rate of the awakening and bring about stronger advancement effects?
Fang You was also a little surprised to find a key item so quickly.
There were several similar quests issued by the Quest Hall.
Mia was not the only student who had accepted a quest. There were more than a dozen others. However, based on big data analysis, Xiao Huan determined that Mia's submitted clues had the highest reliability, and thus entrusted this quest to the most dependable An Jianyou.
Miss An was indeed reliable.
As soon as she brought Mia out of the Valley of Annihilation, she immediately enlisted Anna to continue exploring this dangerous place.
Fang You could almost see the prompts for acquiring various treasures continuously popping up above their heads.
He glanced again at the quest report submitted by An Jianyou.
He fell into thought.
"The Cloud Map Kingdom dispatched a myth to protect Princess Miya, the sixteenth princess?"
Myths held considerable prestige, and Miya was far from the most outstanding among the many princes and princesses.
She typically would not be qualified to receive the protection of a myth.
Of course, the Cloud Map Kingdom, as one of the seven strongest nations in the Cloud Brilliance Great Domain, was powerful and had a considerable number of myths. It was not strange for a myth elder who doted on Miya to be there.
However, Priest Luo Xiu and student Miya were not close.
This ruled out the previous possibility.
"Protection is a facade. The true purpose of this myth is likely to observe and probe the details of Xin Huo's powerhouses."
"An Jianyou, by showcasing a portion of her strength at the opportune moment, without revealing her true trump cards, demonstrated the formidable martial prowess of Xin Huo Academy."
After all, An Jianyou was merely a "Professor."
Above Professors were Vice Deans and Deans.
Especially him, the "mysterious" Dean.
He had only returned to Blue Star once during this period to recharge the Hand of the World Master. The rest of the time he had been guarding within the academy's secret realm. Yet, let alone giving public lectures, Dean Fang had never even shown his face.
Under the constant scrutiny of the outside world, he needed to maintain sufficient mystery about himself.
"The probing from the Cloud Map Kingdom is relatively gentle. Other factions may not be so."
He was not overly worried.
With the power of the world, the power of belief, and the power of faith, Instructor Fang could exert strength comparable to the Ninth Realm. However, he founded Xin Huo Academy to cultivate talent and improve humanity's overall strength, not to fight with human powerhouses.
This required a strong individual with sufficient power to stand at the forefront and deter all parties.
Liu Feng was the most suitable.
After he advanced to demigod.
"However, even if the key materials are found, Liu Feng still needs to accumulate 30 strands of divine essence. And even with spending money and world power, maintaining the most efficient cultivation speed, it will take him 9 to 10 months to accumulate enough."
"This is too long!"
But even if he scoured the data of the Kandra Empire in his mind, he could not find a way to further shorten the time.
After all, no one thought ten months was too long.
Only he, Instructor Fang, was racing against time.
He pondered.
He pondered, but it was not enough.
"Then let's draw cards." When in doubt, entrust everything to the cards of fate.
He hadn't drawn cards for a while.
However, Instructor Fang glanced at his panel. Even though the "Dusk Embers" instance had yielded 500 Fate Points, his current Fate Point count was only a little over seven million.
Daily consumption was too high!
He also needed to keep enough Fate Points for guiding and awakening Liu Feng and others. In summary, the Fate Points he could use for drawing cards were at most three to four million.
Fang You washed his hands.
Let's draw!
The draw card CG flashed before his eyes.
He did not click the skip button, but patiently waited.
Ten draws, twenty draws, thirty draws...
As the cumulative number of draws increased, the special items he could draw, such as "Legendary Strange Artifacts" and "Legendary Data," became fewer and fewer.
Nowadays, more than 95% of the legendary items that appeared were "Golden Cultivation Cards," "Golden Seed of Skills," and "Common Legendary Materials."
Not bad, though.
Legendary Strange Artifacts had a chance to be obtained in reality, while Cultivation Cards and Seeds of Skills could only be obtained through drawing.
Legendary materials were purely redundant.
These were too common. If he could draw "rare legendary materials" with shattered rules, that would be good. Before drawing, Fang You had hoped to draw treasure fragments with rules like "earth," "dragon," "toughness," or "stability," but he hadn't seen anything. All the gold-tier items were off-target!
His eyelids twitched, then stopped. He sat like an old monk in meditation, staring at the panel, neither pleased nor sad.
He was not sad about drawing a pile of gold-tier filler items.
He was not pleased about drawing a World Origin Stone.
He was not sad about drawing only one Scarlet Red item in two hundred consecutive draws.
He was not pleased about drawing a few special legendary items.
He just looked at them a few more times.
"Deep Sea Dragon Turtle Statue (Gold)"
"Category: Architecture"
"Description: A special statue, imprinted with a being that is neither an inanimate object nor a true life form. It can be placed in a region as a defensive structure. When enemies appear, the Deep Sea Dragon Turtle Statue will repel and kill all enemies. This statue possesses a certain degree of intelligence and has the combat power of a peak myth."
Peak Myth!
Its combat power was slightly stronger than a high-spec Shining Blade Puppet.
The downside was that it was considered architecture, making it inconvenient to move. However, the activated statue had a considerable range of activity.
Simultaneously drawn were...
"Ancient Rock Dragon Statue (Gold)"
"Extreme Cold Wolf King Statue (Gold)"
"Thunder God Statue (Gold)"
But after all, they were merely gold-tier, not worthy of Dean Fang's excessive pleasure.
Having drawn cards for many years, he was accustomed to Legendary Gold and Divine-Demonic Red. Nothing could surprise him anymore, absolutely nothing.
A stream of light cut across the sky, gradually transforming into different colors.
Blue, gold, blue... scarlet, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple...
Fang You: "???"
He saw a multicolored golden light!
No, this wasn't golden light at all. It was colorful! Seven-colored!
Under the backdrop of the supreme color, the other nine treasures appeared dim and lusterless.
Finally, the treasure shrouded in colorful light gradually revealed its true form.
It was a small, exquisite pagoda. At first glance, it was simply beautiful, but as Fang You focused his gaze, profoundly mysterious symbols emerged on the pagoda.
Every single symbol contained an incredibly profound and supreme principle.
He attempted to understand it, but it was like an ant plunging into a vast, suffocating ocean.
Fang You suddenly awoke, beads of sweat trickling down his face. He dared not look closer, merely opening his panel to check the information of this treasure.
It was actually displayed.
"Pavilion of Time (Crimson)"
"Category: Supreme Treasure"
"Description: A supreme treasure of unknown origin, possessing the immeasurable power to reverse time."
"Ability One: Realm of Years and Time"
"Inside the Pavilion of Time lies a special secret realm where the flow of time differs from the outside world. One day outside equals one year within the Realm of Years and Time. However, the Realm of Years and Time has special rule restrictions, allowing only two people to enter simultaneously at most. Once entered, the portal will only reopen after one year of time flow within the secret realm. Furthermore, within a year in the real world, the same soul individual can enter the Realm of Years and Time at most 9 times."
"Note: The activation of the Realm of Years and Time consumes the Pavilion of Time's own reserve of special 'energy,' or there may be supplementary methods."
"Ability Two: Dust Seal"
"Ability Three: Dust Seal"