Chapter 5: Thirty Thousand Years Pass in a Hurry

After a hundred and twenty years, Luo Fan turned back with some regret to look at the cave where he had stayed for a hundred and twenty years. His feet generated clouds, lifting his body straight up into the sky. Soon, he reached ten thousand miles high, suddenly accelerated, and transformed into a grayish-white light, quickly flying toward the location of Mount Buzhou.

The cave that Luo Fan looked back at regretfully was the place he had sensed from ten thousand miles high a hundred and twenty years ago, where the primordial energy was several times more concentrated than the underground cave he had first encountered.

Although the primordial energy in this cave was several times more concentrated than in the previous underground cave, his ability to absorb primordial energy after practicing the nameless technique had increased a hundredfold compared to when he was in the underground cave! Therefore, it only took him a hundred and twenty years to completely absorb all the primordial energy in the cave.

"Is the technique I came up with too overpowered?" Luo Fan thought helplessly as he flew quickly through the air.

He had this thought because after absorbing all the primordial energy in the entire underground cave, the mysterious energy in his body had only doubled in size—from the thickness of a chopstick to the thickness of a little finger. Compared to the large bowl-sized meridians in his body (a large bowl commonly used in households to serve soup), this little finger-thick energy only occupied about one percent of the volume...

According to the requirements of the technique he had come up with, his first step in cultivation required him to completely fill his meridians with energy before a subtle change could occur, marking the completion of this step. Even though he himself did not know what the subtle change or the opportunity for it would be, this was a necessary process for his strength to improve.

"Still ninety-nine percent to go, which means I need to find hundreds of such primordial energy sources to gather enough energy?" Luo Fan suddenly felt that his path ahead was long and arduous.

Of course, this might just be his insatiable greed...

In fact, over the past hundred and twenty years, Luo Fan had made significant progress.

On the surface, his body had grown to its maximum size, maintaining a form nine meters long and six meters high, which no longer changed. Internally, however, his body's strength had doubled compared to a hundred and twenty years ago.

At the same time, the sea of consciousness he had opened in his mud pill palace had expanded to a spherical region with a diameter of two hundred meters.

His divine soul, which had already solidified, had grown to the same size as his body.

If his divine soul were to be released and placed next to his physical body, ignoring the color, no one would be able to distinguish between the divine soul and the body...

These various situations were enough to prove that Luo Fan's cultivation was on the right track... as long as there was more and more primordial energy, his strength would steadily improve.

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"What is that opportunity? Is this technique really something I came up with myself?" Luo Fan lay in the grayish primordial energy, his eyes filled with intense frustration.

After that, thirty thousand years had passed.

Over these thirty thousand years, Luo Fan's journey was not very long, only about a billion miles—most of his time was spent absorbing one primordial energy source after another.

In thirty thousand years, he had absorbed about two hundred primordial energy sources. For each source, he spent at least a hundred years absorbing it until it was completely drained before moving on. In total, the time he spent traveling was only ten thousand years.

The closer he got to Mount Buzhou, the denser the primordial energy sources became, and the more primordial energy each source contained.

After absorbing the primordial energy from over two hundred sources, the mysterious energy in Luo Fan's body had already filled all his meridians.

When he activated the nameless technique, the large bowl-sized meridians in his body were completely filled with the mysterious energy, leaving no gaps.

The sea of consciousness he had opened in his mud pill palace had expanded to a spherical region with a diameter of four hundred and ninety miles over these thirty thousand years.

The divine soul in the sea of consciousness had grown to its limit, although it looked similar to before, it was now much more condensed. Its structure had become hundreds of times stronger, and its strength was even comparable to his body, which had been refined by boundless primordial energy.

These changes were generally positive.

However, he found that at some point, no matter how hard he tried, he could no longer absorb even a tiny bit of primordial energy, not even innate energy could enter his body through his acupoints. His sea of consciousness also showed no signs of further expansion, and his divine soul could not grow any larger!

In other words, Luo Fan's cultivation had reached a bottleneck!

"What is that opportunity? Only by finding that opportunity can a change occur, and only by that change can I continue to progress. What is it? What am I missing?" Luo Fan's brows furrowed deeply, and his frustration grew even more intense.

As an immortal deity, time was endless, and thirty thousand years was not a significant amount of time.

But, don't forget where Luo Fan came from.

In the 21st century on Earth, the pace of life was so fast that time had to be measured in seconds. Luo Fan, who grew up in such a society, could not treat thirty thousand years like a single day as a deity born in the primordial era.

After such a long thirty thousand years, he had traversed about a billion miles of land, exhausted over two hundred primordial energy sources, and finally reached his current level of cultivation, only to be stuck at this critical point. How could he not be frustrated?

At this moment, Luo Fan was less than ten million miles away from Mount Buzhou.

The originally blurry Mount Buzhou in his eyes had become incredibly clear. Looking ahead, Mount Buzhou had grown a hundredfold compared to before. Even from a distance of ten million miles, it already appeared quite substantial. Its height aside, its size was like a wall.

Similarly, the vast and indomitable aura emanating from Mount Buzhou had become even more intense.

However, as the saying goes, "When you enter a room full of orchids, you eventually stop noticing their fragrance." After being enveloped by this aura for too long, Luo Fan had gradually taken it for granted and often ignored it.

The more he thought, the more frustrated he became. Suddenly, Luo Fan let out a thunderous roar, the sound like a bolt of lightning, shaking the surrounding primordial energy violently.

With a slight effort, the mountain he was on, which spanned a hundred miles and was ten thousand feet high, crumbled with a loud boom. The entire mountain, as if made of tofu, turned into a cloud of dust, scattering in all directions under the impact of the surging primordial energy, raising a cloud of dust that covered an area of over two hundred miles.

This scene, accompanied by Luo Fan's thunderous roar, created a breathtaking spectacle.

Then, four auspicious clouds appeared under Luo Fan's four scaly feet, lifting his body and transforming him into a grayish-white light that shot straight into the sky, reaching ten thousand miles high in an instant.

"Roar!..."

Although he had vented his frustration by shattering the ten-thousand-foot mountain, his inner frustration had not diminished much. In the sky, his mood remained unsettled, and he let out a continuous roar.

As he roared, his eyes caught sight of the wall-like Mount Buzhou ahead, which stretched to the sky. In an instant, a flash of insight struck him.

He froze, and his roar stopped abruptly: "Mount Buzhou! The breakthrough opportunity must be Mount Buzhou! My technique was formed by observing Mount Buzhou and sensing its aura, so the breakthrough opportunity must also be Mount Buzhou! I'm so stupid! Why didn't I think of this before?!"