Although she had made up her mind to return to the Celestial Pole, it was still a matter that needed long-term planning.
The situation in Yunzhong was chaotic, so it wasn't a good time to go out.
Moreover, it was too dangerous to cross the South Sea with her cultivation level.
Considering these two points, Mo Tiange could only be patient and do it slowly.
One hundred and twenty years should be enough.
The following days were very boring.
Nie Wushang didn't leave her cave at all, and Mo Tiange also lived in seclusion. Every day, she cultivated, studied Mo Yaoqing's cultivation experience, read ancient books, and went out to buy some necessities and inquire about news from time to time.
High-level cultivators in Yunzhong gathered in the Returning Ruins Sea, and every day, some gossip spread in Guifang City.
Not long after, there was a rumor in Guifang City that those cultivators had found traces of the Heavenly Devil Tower. The first cultivator to get the Heavenly Devil Tower had died in the Returning Ruins Sea, and the tower fell into the hands of an individual cultivator.
Later, there was another rumor that the individual cultivator escaped for several days and was discovered by a Devil Monarch, who killed him on the spot and took the Heavenly Devil Tower.
Unfortunately, several great cultivators in Eastern Tang also discovered it at the same time, and they fell into a fight.
In this fight, South Zhou's Buddhist cultivators and Confucian cultivators were also involved. Hundreds and thousands of Core Formation cultivators fought in the Returning Ruins Sea, and many Nascent Soul cultivators also shed all pretenses of cordiality.
This rumor lasted for several years. Every time Mo Tiange went out, she heard the news of a certain cultivator from a certain sect dying.
Mo Tiange and Nie Wushang discussed this in private. After this incident, the forces in Yunzhong would probably be reshuffled.
So many cultivators died, and all of them were above the Core Formation realm. For many small cultivation groups, this would be a disaster.
As expected, after that, the rumors in Guifang City were all about how many cultivators had fallen.
This storm lasted for more than twenty years before it calmed down.
In the first few years, cultivators from all sides fought for the Heavenly Devil Tower, and there was a reign of terror every day. During this period, many small cultivation groups were destroyed because of this.
Later, the competition was limited to the Nascent Soul cultivators of the big cultivation groups. At the same time, as cultivators returned to their sects, the battlefield was no longer limited to the Returning Ruins Sea.
But soon, there were many different opinions about who got the Heavenly Devil Tower, and no one could figure it out.
Oftentimes, there would be sects that had feuded with each other, claiming that the other party had the Heavenly Devil Tower in their hands. Because of this, Yunzhong was in a state of chaos.
In the last ten years, the storm gradually subsided. All the sects and forces suffered heavy losses and closed their doors to recuperate. Yunzhong finally calmed down.
As for who the Heavenly Demon Tower ended up in, no one knew.
Apart from the people who obtained the Heavenly Demon Tower, no one else benefited from this turmoil. Instead, they lost many outstanding Core Formation cultivators and even Nascent Soul cultivators.
Some people even suspected that this was a conspiracy to make the major forces in Yunzhong kill each other and consume their strength.
However, there was no doubt that the Heavenly Demon Tower had appeared. Many cultivators had seen this sacred object before, but it was a pity that before they could figure out how to use it, it had been taken away by others.
When Mo Tiange heard this, she thought to herself: How could these Nascent Soul cultivators not think this might be a conspiracy?
However, as long as the Heavenly Demon Tower was real, even if they had doubts, they would still jump down willingly.
Advancing to the Deification realm, for these Nascent Soul cultivators who had almost cultivated to the extreme and had no hope of advancing, they would not hesitate to risk their lives for it.
Living in Guifang City, what Mo Tiange heard the most was about Guifang Demon Monarch and his subordinates.
More than ten years ago, Guifang Demon Monarch had already returned to Guifang City with his disciples.
In this battle, although Guifang City's foundation was not shaken, it suffered a lot of losses.
For example, among Guifang Demon Monarch's disciples, the two most likely to advance to the Nascent Soul realm died in the turmoil.
For this, Guifang City's devil cultivators were very worried.
Although Guifang Demon Monarch was powerful and was one of the three great Demon Monarchs, his lifespan was really running out. Some people calculated that he had 500 years at most.
In these 500 years, if Guifang City did not have a powerful successor with profound cultivation, it would become the target of other forces.
This was definitely not a good thing for Guifang City.
However, some people optimistically said that Guifang Demon Monarch's young disciple with excellent aptitude had already advanced to the middle stage of the Core Formation realm. In 500 years, he might be able to smoothly advance to the Nascent Soul realm. At that time, Guifang City could still maintain its status as one of the three great Devil Territories.
Besides, although Guifang City suffered losses, the other two Devil Territories also lost a lot of disciples. No one was better off than the other, so what did it matter?
There were quite a lot of people who agreed with this theory. After all, low-level cultivators like them couldn't live for 500 years. After they died, who would care about the flood?
The Guifang Demon Monarch's young disciple these cultivators mentioned should be Yang Chengji.
In other words, Yang Chengji not only escaped unscathed in these more than 20 years of turmoil, but he also advanced to the middle stage of the Core Formation realm.
Moreover, even the heavens were on his side, causing his rival Senior Brother to fall in the turmoil.
In this way, his current days could be regarded as the end of his bitterness and the beginning of his happiness.
Without his senior martial brother and sister suppressing him, he became Guifang Demon Monarch's disciple most likely to advance to the Nascent Soul realm. Guifang City would definitely support him with all its strength. From now on, no one would suppress him, and he would also become the real young lord of Guifang City.
In the past more than 20 years, Nie Wushang's refining of the Primordial Devil Aura was quite smooth, but the speed was a bit slow. Until now, she still only refined one-third of it. In this case, she still needed 50 years to refine this Primordial Devil Aura for her own use.
However, Nie Wushang said the subdued Primordial Devil Aura had greatly improved her cultivation level. She estimated that in a few years, she could advance to the late stage of the Core Formation realm.
If she could successfully subdue all the Primordial Devil Aura in 50 years, she could advance to the Nascent Soul realm.
Nie Wushang was now a devil cultivator, so mental cultivation was no longer important to her. It didn't matter if she directly entered Closed Door Meditation here until she advanced to the Nascent Soul realm.
As for Mo Tiange, her cultivation in the past more than 20 years was also very smooth.
She didn't take too many medicinal pills, but with her qualifications, Mo Yaoqing's cultivation experience, and the rich spiritual aura in the Virtual Sky World, her cultivation speed was terrifyingly fast. Now, she had reached the peak of the middle stage of the Core Formation realm and could enter Closed Door Meditation to advance to the late stage.
Although she felt she passed this time's cultivation, Mo Tiange still decided to advance to the late stage first.
Everything had its priorities. Her biggest problem now wasn't that her cultivation speed was too fast, but that her cultivation level wasn't high enough.
Therefore, even if she had concerns about her unstable foundation, she still decided to advance to the Nascent Soul realm first.
As for the problem of her mental state, it wouldn't be too late to consider it when she advanced to the Nascent Soul realm.
After making this decision, Mo Tiange spent some time to buy the things she needed for her Closed Door Meditation. After informing Nie Wushang, she entered the Virtual Sky World to enter Closed Door Meditation.
Sitting in the small room inside the Virtual Sky World, Mo Tiange didn't cultivate right away.
In the past more than 20 years, she didn't just spend her time cultivating. In addition, she also read all the books inside the Virtual Sky World.
She had already used her tool-refining technique to grind away the rust on the Fusheng Sword in her hand. Although it hadn't recovered its former elegance, it was still faintly shining.
She took out the Fusheng Sword from her Qiankun Bag. The body of the sword was like a vast expanse of autumn water, cold and chilly. The shape of the hilt was simple and unadorned. Upon closer inspection, two ancient characters were engraved on the hilt — Fusheng.
Although it was no longer mottled with rust, the whole sword was surrounded by a layer of faintly discernible devil aura.
This devil aura looked very faint, but Mo Tiange couldn't get rid of it when she tried.
She guessed that this sword had been left in the Devil Domain for several tens of thousands of years. Over time, the originally weak devil aura accumulated into a terrifying power, gradually corroding the masterless Fusheng Sword.
After several tens of thousands of years of accumulation, no matter how powerful the Fusheng Sword was originally, it still couldn't resist the corrosion of time.
She once asked Nie Wushang how to deal with this kind of situation, but Nie Wushang said she didn't have an answer.
Although she grew up with Master Song Feng, the Primordial Devil Great Technique wasn't the same as the cultivation technique of devil cultivators.
Besides, this kind of situation was too special, so she had no way of knowing.
Mo Tiange turned to search for relevant information in the books left by the previous master of the Virtual Sky World.
In the end, Feifei told her that in the Middle Ages, there was a secret treasure called Spirit-Quenching Water. This thing was the nemesis of devil aura and was said to be able to eliminate everything related to devil aura.
Feifei was idle and bored in the Virtual Sky World. Aside from cultivating and playing with Xiaohuo, the rest of its time was to read books.
It was originally a divine beast, so its intelligence wasn't inferior to that of humans. Its memory was even better; it almost never forgot anything.
Mo Tiange found that book. Sure enough, there was a record of Spirit-Quenching Water, but this water only appeared occasionally in the Middle Ages Immortal Realm. It was extremely rare and precious.
The Middle Ages Immortal Realm that was called the Middle Ages Immortal Realm had long disappeared from the world and was nowhere to be found.
Mo Tiange was greatly disappointed and could only give up for the time being. She occasionally took out the Fusheng Sword to study whether there was any other way to eliminate the devil aura.
In fact, according to Blackmoon Devil Monarch, the current Fusheng Sword already had a certain amount of power, so it wouldn't be a problem for her to use it as a magic weapon.
However, if the devil aura on the sword could be eliminated, the sword could regain its former sharpness.
Since this sword was the sword of Fu Yaozi, the number one cultivator in Yunzhong's history, if it regained its former power, how powerful would it be?
Even though Mo Tiange wasn't too greedy for magic weapons, she still felt agitated when she thought about this.
She put away the Fusheng Sword then arranged the items she bought this time one by one.
Although she didn't really need spiritual plants, cultivating in seclusion for more than twenty years still cost her a lot of spirit stones.
There were most spiritual plants in the Virtual Sky World, but there were always some ingredients that couldn't be found here, so she had to buy them.
Formation tools, talismans, and so on … Although they didn't cost much each time, they added up to a considerable amount. This was Guifang City, so Dao cultivators' things weren't cheap.
In the past more than twenty years, Mo Tiange watched as her pockets flattened.
In the past, she received a lot of offerings from the cultivation group, and Bixuan Court once again paid her several tens of thousands of spirit stones. In addition to the many Qiankun Bags she picked up on Demonic Mountain and the belongings of cultivators she killed, she didn't take spirit stones seriously for a while.
But even if she had too many spirit stones, they couldn't make up for so many years of not making any money. Moreover, the cost of reaching the Core Formation realm wasn't small.
After realizing this, Mo Tiange began to plan carefully. As long as she controlled herself and avoided spending as much as possible, the spirit stones she had should be enough for her until she formed her Nascent Soul.
Once she became a Nascent Soul cultivator, she naturally wouldn't need to worry about spirit stones anymore.
In the end, she shook her head and threw these trivial matters to the back of her mind. She then tidied up the miscellaneous items, sat cross-legged on the praying mat, started to meditate, and began to breathe.
During this Closed Door Meditation, she definitely had to enter the late stage of the Core Formation realm.