When Ou Shaotian returned to the small courtyard, Long Xiaokai and his three female companions were not back yet. They were probably still at the Watermoon Palace's encampment.
After about half an hour, Long Xiaokai brought the three women back leisurely.
"Ou Shaotian, you're back!"
The three of them were overjoyed when they saw Ou Shaotian.
"Yeah, I just came back too. I'm planning to go into seclusion in a while. It might take about a week. I'm just letting you guys know."
Ou Shaotian said aloud.
"Okay, go ahead. We're going to have a good rest. We won't be going out for a while."
Long Xiaokai nodded.
Then Ou Shaotian returned to his room. After activating the array, he entered the World of Gates and appeared in the room of the villa.
In the backyard of the villa, Lil Baby was practicing. She was holding a wooden sword and was thrusting it repeatedly, repeating the action of thrusting the sword.
Ou Shaotian looked down from the window and saw Lil Baby's serious look.
"Not bad, you're serious!"
Ou Shaotian smiled and flew down from the window.
"Pigeon!"
Seeing Ou Shaotian appear, the little girl immediately put away her wooden sword and pounced on him. She hugged Ou Shaotian's neck and hung on him.
"You're doing pretty well with the sword. When did you start practicing?"
Ou Shaotian carried the little girl and sat down on a chair at the side.
"It's been almost ten days. Sister Duo taught me. I want to become stronger to protect Pigeon and Daddy and Mommy."
The little girl said innocently.
"Okay, all the best. I'm going to go into seclusion here. Can you go outside and practice first?"
Ou Shaotian patted her little head and smiled.
"Okay, okay. Pigeon, you go into seclusion first. After you come out, you have to play with me!"
"Good girl!"
Ou Shaotian kissed the little girl's face and put her down.
"Ba ji!"
Little Baby also kissed Ou Shaotian on the cheek before running out happily.
Then, Ou Shaotian activated the array formation in the backyard and went into seclusion.
Walking to the Tree of Fortune, he took out the interspatial equipment that contained more than seven hundred ten-thousand-year-old herbs and several thousand thousand-year-old herbs and wore it on his left hand.
He began to cultivate.
With a thought, a ten-thousand-year-old precious medicine appeared in his hand from his spatial equipment. A rich medicinal fragrance wafted out.
Devour god art activated!
To be precise, it was the Devouring Power.
Although he had already grasped the Devouring God Art, he could not form the God Art Seed before reaching the God Art Realm. He had only grasped a weak devouring power.
It was similar to the little vine before its breakthrough. It could devour, but it couldn't be considered a supernatural power.
It could only devour things that did not resist.
The ten-thousand-year-old elixir in his hand quickly turned into pure energy and was absorbed by the Devouring Power. It began to temper his physical body.
"It hurts …"
Soon, a wave of pain came from both inside and outside. Every part of his body was being tempered, and the pain came from all over his body.
From the deepest bone marrow to the outermost skin.
His entire body was a single entity, and it was being refined by the pure medicinal power. Little by little, it became stronger.
Even if others had enough ten-thousand-year-old herbs, it would take a lot of time and effort to refine and absorb them. However, it was different for him.
With the Devouring Power, he could easily absorb them as long as he devoured them.
One after another!
Ou Shaotian's strength began to improve by leaps and bounds. As the ten-thousand-year-old herbs were absorbed, his physical body was constantly being tempered.
Under the Extreme Path Physical Conditioning Art, the medicinal power spread throughout his body and was absorbed by every cell.
…
Time passed quietly. In the blink of an eye, three days had passed. It was faster than Ou Shaotian expected, but he still had more than seven hundred ten-thousand-year-old herbs.
With the Devouring Power, his utilization of the medicinal power had almost reached 100%, and the utilization rate was even higher.
After consuming more than five hundred ten-thousand-year-old herbs, Ou Shaotian completed the tempering of the Origin as One and reached the Great Circle of the Ninth Stage.
"It's finally done!"
Ou Shaotian also heaved a sigh of relief and began to check on the changes in his physical body.
He finally had the strongest physical body with the strongest foundation.
Character: Ou Shaotian
Realm: Ninth Stage, Level 9
Innate Spirit: Purple Gold Black Turtle
God Source Power: Massive
Contractual Spiritual Pet: Red Koi, Little Vine
Weapon: Dragon Cry Bow, Giant Turtle Array Token
Main Cultivation Technique: Extreme Path Physical Conditioning Art (Nine Times Origin Tempering)
Divine Ability Battle Skills: Immemorial Heavenly Wood Body (Nine Transformations), Universal Revival, Devouring Divine Ability, Nine Slashes of Tyrant Heaven, Shooting Star Arrow Art
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"I can already condense the Divine Ability Seed, but it's still not enough. Although my physical body has reached the peak, I still don't have a Spirit!"
After his physical body's foundation had reached the peak, Ou Shaotian finally turned his attention to his Spirit, the Purple Gold Black Turtle.
Spirit souls could also evolve.
However, Ou Shaotian's Spirit had a very high starting point. It was a perfect-grade divine turtle with a trace of the Black Tortoise's bloodline.
Therefore, it was very difficult for him to evolve his Spirit Soul in the past.
The starting point was too high.
If he wanted to evolve it again, he would need something extraordinary. It wasn't something he could easily obtain in the past.
However, he had the ability to do it now.
Therefore, his next plan was to increase the grade of his Spirit as much as possible before condensing the Divine Ability Seed.
That way, the condensed Divine Ability Seed would be even stronger.
"Pigeon, are you done with your seclusion?"
Seeing that the defensive barrier was closed, Lil 'Baby rushed in from outside.
"Yes, it's over!"
Ou Shaotian held her little hand and said happily.
"Then let's go find Sister Duo. She came a few times when you were in seclusion. I think she misses you too!"
Lil 'Baby said happily.
"Okay!"
After that, Ou Shaotian held her hand and walked out of the courtyard.
Under Lil 'Baby's lead, they found Yun Duo, who was practicing her swordsmanship. From afar, she looked like a fairy dancing with a sword. Not only was it beautiful, but it was also very powerful.
"Sister, I brought Brother to see you!"
Lil 'Baby shouted when they were still far away.
Yun Duo turned her head and looked over. Then, she happily kept her sword and flew over, landing in front of Ou Shaotian.
"Shao Tien!"
Yun Duo called out sweetly.
"How's your cultivation recently? Is there anything you don't understand?"
Ou Shaotian asked.
"No, I just miss you a little. If only I was a little stronger and could follow by your side!"
Yun Duo said unhappily.
This was also her goal, but Ou Shaotian was improving too quickly. He was getting further and further away from her. She felt that this goal was getting more and more impossible.
She could feel that Ou Shaotian had become much stronger.
"That's easy. Here, there are thousands of thousand-year-old spiritual herbs and more than two hundred ten-thousand-year-old elixirs. It's enough for you to advance to rank 9. You can give the rest to Mom and Dad."
Ou Shaotian handed a storage equipment to Yun Duo. It was filled with the remaining elixirs. There were still a lot of them!
It was enough for Yun Duo and his parents to advance to rank 9.