4264 A Bottle of Liquid

Previously, in the rare natural secret realm, Duan Ling Tian only received one fragment of a prime divine artifact as a reward for passing the final level, which was incredibly difficult for ordinary advanced Emperors of Gods to pass. However, this time, he was rewarded with six fragments of prime divine artifacts.

Even if the single-person secret realm took a lot of battle merits to open, Duan Ling Tian still found it hard to believe that the rewards were so generous. The value of the rewards he received, excluding the bottle of unknown content, was more than half of a prime divine artifact.

"What happened?" Duan Ling Tian muttered, puzzled, "Did the supreme powerhouse, who took my opponent away feel guilty because he was at fault, gave me extra rewards?"

As soon as this thought appeared in Duan Ling Tian's mind, a voice, which sounded old, rang in his ears.

"These six fragments of prime divine artifacts are from me and another two people. One of them is the person who took your opponent away earlier. Your opponent is his descendant. He couldn't just watch his talented descendant, who's the hope of his clan, perish. Since he broke the rules, he left behind two fragments of prime divine artifacts as compensation to you. In fact, this is advantageous to you. As for the other four fragments of prime divine artifact, the two sword-shaped fragments are given by a swordsman like you, and the remaining two are from me. I won't introduce myself. In the future, after you become a supreme powerhouse, you'll naturally find out about us…"

The entire place fell silent after that.

With this, Duan Ling Tian finally found out why he received six fragments of prime divine artifacts. Under normal circumstances, the six fragments of prime divine artifacts were definitely not rewards from the secret realm.

"For me to be able to hear his voice here, that old man must be a supreme powerhouse as well. The swordsman he mentioned must be a supreme powerhouse as well…"

With this thought in mind, Duan Ling Tian took a deep breath before he cupped his hands together and said sincerely, "Thank you, senior. Please thank the swordsman on my behalf as well, senior."

Duan Ling Tian did not thank the supreme powerhouse who took Ning Yi Xuan away. In his opinion, the two fragments of prime divine artifacts he received were compensation in exchange for Ning Yi Xuan's life.

Subsequently, Duan Ling Tian brought the Seven Orifices Exquisite Sword out before he said, "Huang'er, let's fuse these six fragments. Take your time absorbing them. I'll try to obtain another two fragments for you as soon as possible so that we can transform the sword into a prime divine artifact."

Duan Ling Tian did not hesitate to use the fragments of prime divine artifacts immediately. After all, their use was to improve a prominent divine artifact.

"Thank you, master!" Huang'er, who was dressed in a seven-colored robe, said with a hint of excitement in her voice after she appeared.

At this moment, Duan Ling Tian could keenly sense the restlessness of the other artifact soul of his doppelganger's prominent divine artifact. He said tonelessly, "After obtaining another two fragments for the Seven Orifices Exquisite Sword, the other fragments I obtain will be given to you. After all, my doppelganger has to have a prime divine artifact as well."

Previously, Duan Ling Tian would not even entertain the idea of possessing a second prime divine artifact. However, now that he had obtained six fragments of prime divine artifacts at once, he was hopeful about obtaining more. He was already very close to obtaining a prime divine artifact; it should not be too much of a stretch to obtain a second one.

With Duan Ling Tian and Huang'er's joint effort, the six fragments of prime divine artifacts fused with the Seven Orifices Exquisite Sword. After the Seven Orifices Exquisite Sword completely absorbed them, it would become even more powerful.

"Huang'er, how long will it take to completely absorb the fragments?" Duan Ling Tian asked.

"If I focus on absorbing it, which means I won't be able to help you during battles, the speed will be faster. Otherwise, the speed will be slower. It'll take at least ten years for me to completely absorb one fragment," Huang'er replied.

Duan Ling Tian was briefly stunned by Huang'er's reply. No wonder she had yet to completely absorb the first fragment of a prime divine artifact he obtained. As it turned out, it took such a long time just to completely absorb one fragment of a prime divine artifact.

In fact, only Duan Ling Tian would think the time was too long. If it took ten years to fully absorb a fragment of a prime divine artifact, it would take 90 years to completely absorb nine fragments of prime divine artifacts. For cultivators, 90 years would pass in just a blink of an eye. However, for Duan Ling Tian, 90 years were about one-tenth of his life so far.

After Huang'er vanished and Duan Ling Tian put away the Seven Orifices Exquisite Sword, Duan Ling Tian shifted his attention to the fist-sized round turquoise corked bottle that he had obtained along with the six fragments of prime divine artifacts.

"This is the reward from the secret realm… Is it a divine pill?"

Duan Ling Tian speculated that the bottle contained a divine pill even though the bottle was different from the divine pill bottles that he had seen.

"Let's see what's inside."

Duan Ling Tian opened the bottle curiously. He slowly and gently pulled the cork out, and when the bottle was slightly open, a faint sweet fragrance wafted out of the bottle into his nose.

The next moment, Duan Ling Tian felt as though his Divine Energy had been refreshed. With his keen eyes, he could see through the gap that the bottle did not hold a divine pill. Instead, it was filled with some sort of liquid. Although he did not know what it was, he knew it was not the Divine Energy of a supreme powerhouse.

"This… It should be safe for consumption, right?"

After confirming that there should be no problem with the liquid, Duan Ling Tian took a sip of the liquid.

Following that, Duan Ling Tian could feel the wonderful efficacy of the liquid. His Divine Energy began to surge and burn almost immediately. After he absorbed the efficacy of the liquid, he could feel the slight change in his Divine Energy.

"So it improves my Divine Energy? It seems like Supreme Gods are able to improve their Divine Energy as well. Based on what I know, even supreme-grade divine pills, which are said to be able to improve Divine Energy, can only slightly improve one's Divine Energy. Even if they were refined into Limit Divine Pills, their efficacy would only improve a little. Refining supreme-grade divine pills also requires many rare medicinal ingredients. Even prime supreme-rank forces won't have an easy time gathering the medicinal ingredients within 10,000 years…"

Even if one successfully refined a supreme-grade divine pill to improve one's Divine Energy, the improvement would be insignificant. After entering the realm of a Supreme God, one had to mostly rely on oneself to improve one's Divine Energy instead of relying on external help.

However, Duan Ling Tian discovered that just a small sip of the liquid had already subtly improved his Divine Energy. If he drank all of it, it was likely that the improvement would be rather significant. Although it was impossible for him to completely stabilize his cultivation base in the realm of a rudimentary Supreme God with it, it should be quite close to complete stabilization.

'Since it's useful to me, it's definitely useful to other rudimentary Supreme Gods as well. If those rudimentary Supreme Gods who are close to becoming intermediate Supreme Gods drink this, they'll be even closer to a breakthrough…'

Just as this thought appeared in Duan Ling Tian's mind, he saw a spatial tear near him.

The spatial tear soon turned into a vortex, and a strong pulling force surged toward him.

Without any hesitation, Duan Ling Tian quickly plugged the bottle with the cork in his hand before putting it away in his spatial ring. Then, he quickly entered the vortex.

Unlike the natural secret realm, Duan Ling Tian did not have to pass any tests when he was brought out of the single-person secret realm.

After Duan Ling Tian was sent out, he found himself in the sky above a barren mountain. He did not waste time and quickly drank the entire bottle of liquid in one gulp. From his experience earlier, he knew the efficacy of the liquid was gentle. As such, he did not hesitate to finish it in one gulp.

"I gained a lot this time. Everything is useful to me. This bottle of liquid alone is a treasure to Supreme Gods. Divine pills can't compare to this bottle of liquid at all. A prime supreme-rank force would need hundreds of thousands of years just to collect the ingredients and refine a divine pill that improves a Supreme God's' Divine Energy. However, my cultivation progress is still rather slow compared to the time when my cultivation base was in a lower realm. Perhaps, the liquid will help me stabilize my cultivation base to the halfway point…"

Duan Ling Tian had long known that cultivation would be much more difficult after becoming a Supreme God. Nonetheless, he still hoped that he could completely stabilize his cultivation base in the single-person secret realm. Alas, his cultivation base was only half stabilized now.

After a moment, Duan Ling Tian's eyes glinted as he muttered to himself, "Next, I'll wait for the chaotic region to appear. It'll stay open for ten years. People from many Realms of Gods will be there so I should be able to accumulate battle merits quickly. Moreover, there are more fortuitous encounters in that place. It's said that a supreme powerhouse will be there… Supreme powerhouse…"

Duan Ling Tian could not help but recall the supreme powerhouse, who manifested as an illusory huge face, he had seen in the single-person secret realm. At that time, the other party had only looked at him, but he felt as though the other party's power could easily overwhelm him.

"In any case, that incident shows that supreme powerhouses have emotions and desires just like us ordinary people…"

Duan Ling Tian did not expect that a supreme powerhouse would take action for Ning Yi Xuan's sake.

"Ning Yi Xuan's branch must have come from the Divine Tree of Life in that supreme powerhouse's Little World…"