A month passed in a flash, and Li Feiyu had cultivated four golden thunder bamboos, with the Divine Devilbane Lightning of the first golden thunder bamboo already very close to pure gold in color.
He uprooted the newly grown inch-long Heavenly Thunder Bamboo saplings, placed them in a jade paste box, and then went to Han Li's Immortal Cave.
"Senior Brother Li, you're here. Have the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo been successfully cultivated?" Han Li asked. "If time isn't enough, you can continue."
Li Feiyu smiled slightly, took out the jade paste box, and handed it to Han Li. Han Li opened it and exclaimed, "Brand new Heavenly Thunder Bamboo saplings?"
"The color is completely unlike the previous withered state; it's full of vitality."
"Senior Brother Li, you actually succeeded?!" Han Li looked shocked, as if he had seen a ghost.
"Look at what you're saying, are you wishing for my failure?"
Han Li gave an awkward smile, "I didn't mean that, I was just surprised."
"Senior Brother Li, how did you do it?" He couldn't help but ask.
"Haha, I naturally have my methods. You can take this young bamboo; whether you can Cultivate it into a mature golden thunder bamboo is up to you."
Han Li nodded. Li Feiyu gave him a strange smile, then left directly.
Han Li no longer thought about how Li Feiyu succeeded. With an excited heart, he immediately entered his Immortal Cave and began to Cultivate.
A few days later, Han Li also cultivated his first golden thunder bamboo and discovered that after reaching ten thousand years, the golden thunder bamboo would no longer grow, but instead split and grow new saplings.
"So that's how Senior Brother Li's young bamboo came to be."
Han Li looked at the inch-long young bamboo next to the golden thunder bamboo and pondered, "I have the mysterious green liquid born from the small bottle to promote growth, but what about him? What method did he use to Cultivate the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo to ten thousand years in such a short time?"
Han Li was completely baffled and finally decided not to inquire further.
He had his secrets, and Han Li also had his unspeakable matters. Not interfering with each other was the best way to maintain their relationship.
For Han Li and Li Feiyu, cultivating bamboo was simple; the difficulty lay in refining. Just consuming the Divine Devilbane Lightning on the surface of the golden thunder bamboo with pill fire would take a considerable amount of time.
Li Feiyu's ambition was even greater; he planned to Cultivate all four Heavenly Thunder Bamboo into golden thunder bamboos with pure golden Divine Devilbane Lightning , which would make the refining even more difficult.
However, before that, Li Feiyu re-cultivated a young bamboo, found some jade paste, refined it into a box, and used it to seal it, including the subsequent bamboo leaves of those golden thunder bamboos.
Han Li's Artifact Refining methods were not as good as Li Feiyu's, and he still needed to spend time learning and mastering his Artifact Refining skills. Li Feiyu, however, had no such concerns. After all the pure golden golden thunder bamboos were cultivated, he began Artifact Refining.
Not only was he refining wood-element Magic Treasures, but he also planned to refine the main swords for the other four elements.
Top-grade Materials for each element were hard to find. Rather than slowly relying on luck, it was better to refine them first. If better ones were found later, he could add suitable Materials and re-refine them.
In a blink of an eye, more than twenty years passed.
Li Feiyu had traded most of the Materials and inner cores of the five- and six-level Demon Beasts he had hunted for various Five Elements Materials, and now very few remained.
However, all these expenditures were worth it. The Magic Treasure long swords required for the Great Five Elements Sword Formation had now all been refined and had initially established a connection with the Formation diagram. The rest was to complete the Formation diagram, which was a huge project. Gu Changfeng had not thoroughly researched it back then, and many of the envisioned functions needed Li Feiyu to supplement and perfect.
The Formation diagram was profound and difficult to understand, so Li Feiyu began to devote himself to studying Formations.
Over twenty years, Li Feiyu refined soul tempering pills in his spare time. After consuming them, his Divine Sense surged, and then intermittently, Li Feiyu's third layer of the Great Development Art was finally successfully Cultivated. His Divine Sense power was comparable to the Nascent Soul Stage, and his various Divine Abilities also improved to a higher level.
His Five Elements balance technique became increasingly stable, and his control over Five Elements spiritual power was also superb. For a period thereafter, he focused on Cultivating and studying Formations.
As for Gu Mingyang, he had now grown into a young adult, handsome and elegant, bearing a six or seven-tenths resemblance to his ancestor, Gu Changfeng.
When he was twenty-four, Li Feiyu gave him a youth-preserving pill, allowing him to remain eternally youthful.
Now his strength had reached the Great Perfection of Qi Condensation, just one step away from Foundation Establishment.
Li Feiyu decided that once his foundation was a bit more solid, he would give him a few Foundation Establishment Medicinal Pills to help him achieve Foundation Establishment.
After he reached Foundation Establishment, he would send him out for experience. Without truly experiencing trials and tribulations, it would be impossible for him to grow.
"Senior Li, I want to go home and visit."
Gu Mingyang, on a whim, proposed his idea to Li Feiyu for the first time.
Li Feiyu looked at him for a while, then said, "After more than twenty years of Cultivation, reaching the Great Perfection of Qi Condensation, you have achieved a small success. Go home for a visit. The next time you return will be when you achieve Foundation Establishment, and then it will be time for you to go out for experience."
"Thank you, Senior Li!" Gu Mingyang hesitated for a moment and then asked, "Then, Senior Li, can I become your Disciple after I achieve Foundation Establishment?"
"We'll talk about it after you reach Core Formation!"
Li Feiyu's words were also a form of encouragement to him. His eyes shone with excitement, "Senior Li, I will not disappoint you. I will definitely succeed in Core Formation."
Subsequently, Gu Mingyang departed on the Clear Wind Boat. Li Feiyu had selected a few of the useless Magical Artifacts from earlier years for him. Although he was not yet Li Feiyu's Disciple, he was considered half a Disciple, and Li Feiyu would naturally look after him.
The two future Disciple candidates he currently favored both had the surname Gu, which was a rather peculiar fate.
After Gu Mingyang left, Li Feiyu continued to Cultivate. At this point, he was infinitely close to the late stage Core Formation, and recently, he even had a feeling that he was about to Breakthrough.
If he hadn't been distracted for a period to refine the Great Five Elements Sword Formation, Li Feiyu should have successfully Broken through several years earlier.
But it didn't matter. Compared to a Realm Breakthrough, successfully refining the Great Five Elements Sword Formation provided Li Feiyu with greater improvement. When activating the Great Five Elements Sword Formation, ordinary pseudo-Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators were no match for him, and it was enough to resist a Nascent Soul for a period of time.
If he Broke through to the late stage Core Formation, Li Feiyu felt that he might be able to call himself the number one Core Formation Cultivator in the Chaotic Star Sea.
Once Crimson Crow Broke through to a seventh-level Demon Beast, Li Feiyu planned to use its essence blood to Cultivate the Great Sun True Fire Divine Ability.
Originally, this could only be Cultivated at the Nascent Soul Stage, but most of the Blazing Zenith Sect's Divine Abilities were closely related to the Fire Crow. By using their essence blood, one could succeed in Cultivating earlier and faster.
Li Feiyu was very much looking forward to the power of the Great Sun True Fire. If he succeeded in Cultivating it during the Core Formation stage Stage, it would undoubtedly become another major trump card for him.
Over the past twenty years, Han Li had opened a small shop called Qing Zhu Xiao Xuan in Heavenly Star City's market, which had become quite famous.
He was now also planning to end this ordinary life and officially begin refining the Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords.
Over the past twenty years, Heavenly Star City had been peaceful, but outside, a series of major events had occurred, causing the entire Inner Star Sea to become turbulent and restless.
The most impactful of these was that seven or eight forces of varying sizes, including the Six Union Hall, suddenly experienced rebellions by their subordinates or Disciples overnight. The original Sect leaders were replaced by previously unknown individuals.
As for some smaller Sect forces, there were even cases of entire Sects being wiped out.
For a time, everyone in the entire Chaotic Star Sea felt insecure and suspicious of each other.
Then, rumors about the Tianxing Twin Sages suffering from Qi Deviation began to spread. What was absurd was that no one from the Star Palace came out to refute them.
If it weren't for the peace in Heavenly Star City, many Cultivators would have already planned to temporarily leave the place.
After all, once such a leadership change occurred in any force, it would trigger a bloody storm, followed by changes in rules.
The people in the Chaotic Star Sea were panicking, and some forces with long-held ambitions and those lying in wait were stirring. As for other smaller forces, they began to form alliances and unite for warmth.
Han Li and Li Feiyu were both the same kind of people; they didn't care about the outside world. They only cared about their own Cultivation, as long as they were careful not to get innocently involved.