Refining the Exquisite Demon‑Suppressing Pagoda

After thinking it over, Ian Song decided to lay low for now. The whole reason he barged into the Heavenly Court was to force the Jade Emperor into a compromise, but judging by the current situation, that's simply impossible.

Besides, with Erlang Shen sitting in Heaven, even if he went all out, he still wouldn't be a match for Erlang Shen.

So, for now, he'd just lay low and focus on fully refining the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.

He'd obtained the controlling formula for the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda, but it only let him operate it. Even though his control was already much stronger than Leon Lee's, he still couldn't unleash the pagoda's true power.

After giving Leon Lee a few instructions, Ian entered the Divine Temple directly.

First, he checked in on his wives who were cultivating hard in the Divine Temple and found they'd all made great progress. Then he went to the training room and set the time flow to a thousand-to-one!

With a thought, the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda appeared in his palm. He started channeling his immortal yuan force into it, trying to temper the pagoda.

But after just one hour, Ian stopped channeling immortal yuan force into the pagoda—because no matter how much energy he poured in, it didn't temper the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda at all.

"Old Spirit, you've seen a lot—come take a look at this pagoda. Why isn't my immortal yuan force working on it?"

Ian summoned the Temple Spirit directly.

In the next moment, the Temple Spirit condensed into the form of an old man and appeared in the training room. After glancing at the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda, he finally spoke: "There is an imprint inside this pagoda left by its refiner. Unless this imprint is erased, no one can truly refine it!"

"So that's how it is!" Ian Song exclaimed in realization. "Do you have a way to remove that imprint?"

Old Spirit hesitated slightly before saying, "If I step in, erasing that imprint is actually quite easy. But simply wiping it away feels like such a waste. Instead, I can set a restriction to slowly grind down that imprint. The imprint itself is formed from a fragment of Primordial Spirit—if you can absorb it, you’ll not only gain full control over the pagoda, but your Primordial Spirit cultivation will also receive a huge boost!"

Ian was stunned for a moment, then his face lit up with joy. He thought to himself, what a stroke of luck! So he said, "Then I'll have to trouble Old Spirit to do it!"

The Temple Spirit smiled, sent a controlling formula into the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda, and said, "Try it now!"

"Alright!"

Ian nodded and once again channeled immortal yuan force into the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda. As the energy poured in, the entire pagoda began to be refined by him. At the same time, a stream of cool, pure energy used his immortal yuan force as a medium, flowing back into his body and merging with his Primordial Spirit.

This stream of cool energy was extremely pure, and Ian could clearly sense his Primordial Spirit growing noticeably stronger as it absorbed the energy.

The stronger the Primordial Spirit, the more stable the foundation!

In the cultivation world, Ian's ability to reach such heights and power in just a few years was largely due to the strength of his Primordial Spirit.

Unfortunately, even after taking more Frost-Soul Pills, he couldn't further strengthen his Primordial Spirit.

Later, he also discussed with Meow-Meow about exchanging Fame Points for Primordial Spirit power.

But the answer made his teeth ache: each point of Primordial Spirit power required 100 million Fame Points.

He did have quite a lot of Fame Points, but he couldn't bear to spend them so recklessly.

A year passed in a flash.

Ian maintained his posture, holding the pagoda in one hand and an immortal stone in the other.

After a year, he had refined about one percent of the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda, and at the same time, his Primordial Spirit had grown by about a third thanks to the energy flow.

With a thought.

Ian temporarily stopped refining the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.

With his current Primordial Spirit strength, he could easily reach mid Fusion.

The reason he wanted to advance his cultivation was partly because his combat power was insufficient, and partly because higher cultivation would greatly speed up the refinement of the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.

In the next moment, over a thousand immortal stones flew out of his Storage Ring, shattered, and transformed into surging immortal essence.

"Absorb!"

Like a giant whale swallowing water, Ian frantically absorbed the tangible immortal essence into his body.

Half an hour later.

He absorbed all the immortal essence from a thousand immortal stones, but his immortal yuan force was still a bit short, so he took out fifty more immortal stones.

"Boom!"

After absorbing the immortal essence from fifty more stones, Ian’s cultivation surged to its peak and broke through to a new realm.

"Whew!"

In the next moment, Ian exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, and a gratified smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Mid Fusion, achieved!"

Feeling the vast immortal yuan force in his body, Ian was very satisfied.

Although it was only a small realm difference, the strength of his immortal yuan force had tripled, and its quantity had increased at least tenfold.

He was confident that if he activated Nine Stellar Transformations again, he could easily crush an ordinary Human-Immortal.

After spending a month stabilizing his cultivation, Ian continued to take out the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda for further refinement.

"Hmm, it’s definitely much faster!"

With his cultivation improved, refining the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda became much easier. In just three months, he refined another percent.

That’s a threefold increase.

And as he refined, more Primordial Spirit energy flowed into his body.

Time passed quickly—in the Divine Temple, more than thirty years went by without notice.

By the twenty-ninth year, he’d absorbed all the energy from the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda’s original master’s imprint, making his Primordial Spirit more than ten times stronger than before.

He couldn’t help but marvel at the true master’s strength—a single Primordial Spirit fragment could make his own Primordial Spirit ten times stronger.

He guessed the other party’s cultivation was at least Earth Immortal level.

Looks like it’s necessary to discuss with Leon Lee to find out the other party’s true strength.

Focusing his mind, Ian put all his attention on the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda. The pagoda didn’t disappoint him; after truly refining it, its power exceeded his expectations.

With a thought, he appeared in the starry void inside the Divine Temple. Then, all subordinates in the temple at Fusion realm or above were moved collectively into the starry space.

"Greetings, Master!"

Everyone bowed.

"I’m going to test a treasure’s power—make sure to defend with all your strength!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ian tossed out the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.

A wave of invisible suppressive force spread out instantly, enveloping the group of experts.

The test results came quickly. Despite their best efforts, no one could withstand the pagoda’s suppressive power; Fusion realm experts lasted less than half a second, Tribulation realm experts barely lasted a second.

If it were a Human-Immortal, how long could they last?

Unfortunately, there was no Human-Immortal available for testing.

In the next moment, Ian retracted the Exquisite Demon-Suppressing Pagoda into his body and left the Divine Temple.

When he appeared in Leon Lee’s bedroom, Leon was there and immediately knelt to greet him.

"Who is your master?" Ian asked directly.

"Lantern Buddha!" Leon answered truthfully.

"Where is he now?"

"I don’t know, Master!"

At the very moment Leon mentioned Lantern Buddha, in some unknown space, a Buddha-like old man suddenly opened his eyes, sensed his name being mentioned from the Heavenly Court, and calmly closed his eyes again.

"How strong is he?" Ian continued to ask.

Leon replied nervously, "I really don’t know, Master!"

"Forget it. Tell me about recent affairs in the Heavenly Court." Ian asked again. He had been secluded in the Divine Temple for over thirty years, while more than ten days had passed outside.