I Can Accumulate Proficiency, Starting from Alchemy

Chapter 859: Chapter 367: Immortal Castle Years, The Boundary of Life and Death_3

With divine power, Han Yi encased a small cluster of Immortal Fire, separating it from the larger pile of fire. In a certain position of the Zhong Fu Divine Aperture, part of the 999 strands of Yin-Yang energy descended and began to encircle the detached Immortal Fire.

At some moment.

The Yin-Yang energy slowly approached the Immortal Fire. As it neared a certain distance, the surface of the Immortal Fire began to react as if it was being extinguished.

This was the Yin-Yang energy melting and refining the laws of the Immortal Fire.

Han Yi directed the Yin-Yang energy to retreat slightly, then edge closer again.

Seven days later.

...

Bang!

Within the Divine Aperture, the fingertip-sized cluster of Immortal Fire exploded. The Yin-Yang energy did not dissipate but maintained its peak state of 999 strands.

Within the quiet room, Han Yi opened his eyes, their depths flickering with contemplation.

The first attempt at refinement was an utter failure.

However, Han Yi had identified the issues within the process.

He closed his eyes again and continued to carve out the Immortal Fire within the Zhong Fu Divine Aperture, trying to refine the Innate Divine Fire.

In the following days.

To Han Yi’s delight, for five consecutive years, the Spirit Camp had no missions. This gave him more uninterrupted time to experiment with the Life and Death Realm.

It was only in the sixth year that a regular mission finally emerged. This time it was the 37th regular mission.

This time, all of the one hundred Spirit Camps under the Thousand Fierce Immortal Army were mobilized for the mission, involving roughly a hundred thousand cultivators.

This time, Han Yi did not act alone. Instead, he formed a team with three cultivators at the Spirit Transformation stage to complete the task together.

The task of the 37th regular mission was to intercept and clear Demonic Beast Eggs.

The Demonic Beast Eggs were laid by the evil beast race, which ranks last among the Nine Major Affiliate Races of the Wisdom race.

These eggs were extremely numerous, passing through the Void to enter the Immortal Realm, causing chaos afterwards.

Therefore, it was necessary to intercept and clear the Demonic Beast Eggs on the Void Defense Line every few years.

This mission was not necessarily safe. The majority of Demonic Beast Eggs only hatch after arriving at the Immortal Realm, but a small number of eggs absorb chaotic spiritual energy and hatch in the Void.

The eggs that can hatch in the Void account for approximately one-tenth of all eggs.

This one-tenth poses the danger in the 37th regular mission.

However.

Most of the evil beasts that hatch from the eggs have only reached the Golden Core or Nascent Soul stages. Few could possibly advance to the Spirit Transformation stage after devouring other evil beasts. In general, the scattered evil beasts in the Void are not strong.

So, although their numbers weren’t large, the difficulty wasn’t high, and the mission was only ranked 37th.

The danger for Han Yi in this regular mission came not just from the evil beasts but also from another source.

The other source of danger came from a half-immortal known as Dai Zhe.

Over these five years, Han Yi didn’t always seclude himself. He took turns to interact with the cultivators of the Moon Shadow Spirit Camp every year.

During this time, he managed to investigate the middle-aged half-immortal cultivator from the Ten-Thousand Battle Hall who had expressed murderous intentions towards him.

The man’s name was Dai Zhe.

Dai Zhe, like Han Yi, was a cultivator of the Thousand Fierce Immortal Army. His Spirit Camp was called Jade Red Spirit Camp.

Knowing his enemy’s background, Han Yi decided privately that no matter what instigated Dai Zhe’s murderous intentions towards him were, he would not give this half-immortal an opportunity to strike.

One year later.

After the completion of this regular mission, Han Yi returned to the Immortal Castle.

During the process, he had only used less than one-third of his strength, which left the three Spirit Transformation cultivators in his team shocked.

Among these three Spirit Transformation cultivators, the strongest was only at the middle-stage of Spirit Transformation, while just one-third of Han Yi’s strength was enough to match the latter phase of Spirit Transformation, naturally shocking them.

After returning to the Moon Shadow checkpoint of the Immortal Castle, Han Yi emerged from the side hall. Under the subtly reverential gazes of the three Spirit Transformation cultivators, he hopped onto the Escape Light and returned to his palace.

This time, he did not immediately immerse himself in the formation. Instead, he first packed up everything under the Innate Yin-Yang Light and meticulously inspected everything in the palace. After confirming there were no abnormalities, he then began to set up the formation again and took out the Returning Ruins Sword Array to place around him.

Only then did he relax.

He had decided that no matter what, he could not give the half-immortal a chance to strike within these thirty years. He was so cautious he even took precautions inside his own palace.

It was because he could not afford to gamble.

In the quiet room, he expelled all distractions and continued to refine the Innate Spirit Items within the Divine Aperture.

Three years later.

At one moment.

Even though his eyes were closed, there was a fierce divine fire burning on his body. A terrifyingly intense mood suddenly erupted.

One second before this mood exploded, it carried a destructive aura, and the next, it suddenly transformed into a blossoming vitality.

The Realm of Life and Death.