As Yang Feng breathed, the spiritual energy swirled around him. The walls of the cave glistened due to the excessive amount of condensation. Cultivating was not boring for Yang Feng; he found a simple type of joy within the peaceful meditation.

However, this may be due to his cultivation method. There were some techniques that would cause extreme pain to the user in exchange for great power and a faster road in cultivating. Yang Feng felt those people were fools. Why rush the journey when you could take it all in stride?

The condensed spiritual energy seeped into the walls of the cave, giving it a more exquisite feel. The bath contained within the hole also inadverently absorbed the energy from the air, quietly simmering.

Having already broken through to the third level of Body Tempering, the fourth level was already in view. If any other cultivators saw this scene, they could only shake their heads and sigh. Breaking through the realms so quickly was almost unprecedented, only a true genius could accomplish it. This was also accompanied by the fact that Yang Feng had prior experience as well.

A snake in the back of the cave, ignored by Yang Feng, arrived having slithered through an unknown crack. It felt the pressure emanating from Yang Feng and decided not to approach. However, it felt an enormous attraction to the mysterious energy condensing into liquid and dripping to the floor.

It glided over to some before it evaporated and sapped at it with its forked tongue. Its eyes brightening, it wriggled all around the cave trying to drink the liquid quietly. Then, it slithered over to an unseen corner of the cave and fell asleep quickly. A mysterious light began to gather at the center of the snake's head, fading away after a few seconds.

Meanwhile, at the center of the cave, Yang Feng again broke through to the next level of the Body Tempering realm. At this stage, his body had already begun to receive a qualitative transformation. His bones and muscles were gradually becoming in tune with the spiritual energy within the air.

It would not be long until he could utilize qi for basic techniques instead of having to rely on his knowledge and understanding of the Daos. After all, using the Daos was taxing on his currently weak body.

Outside the cave, there were several lizardmen cautiously looking around the area. It seemed that they had noticed the disappearance of their comrade and were now scouring the area for any potential threats.

The mouth of the cave had been camouflaged, and they walked right by, unaware of the fact that the enemy that they were searching for was right under their noses. One of the lizardmen, their apparent captain, shouted in his native tongue, causing the rest of the team to continue their search in another area.

Yang Feng was not worried that the lizardmen would be able to find him. If they did, then his tens of thousands of years of researching and practicing formations would have been in vain. Even on the off chance that they were able to, he would not mind showing these beasts why the flowers are so red.

Sensing yet another breakthrough coming, Yang Feng smiled wryly. The spiritual energy in this area was really too pure, as if having been undisturbed for hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of years. All the Holy Lands in his past life would have waged a bloody war at all costs to secure this place.

Of course, Yang Feng would not have interfered with their battle. Unless his sect was in dire trouble, he would not move a finger to help them. As the proclaimed emperor of all the Immortal Gods under the Heavens, he would not act rashly for some mere benefits.

However, that did not mean he or his sect was easy to bully. Yang Feng had shown his dominance throughout the ages and wiped out many sects with great histories, as well as so-called geniuses that were born once every million years who thought he was a soft persimmon.

Even without him, that kid Jian Song was enough to handle the rest of the trivial matters.

Yang Feng remembered painstakingly breaking through each level of the Body Tempering realm with a mediocre cultivation method while scrounging for materials and pills. Those were truly the days that shaped him into the man he is.

Back at the corner of the cave, the snake suddenly started squirming. Its skin beginning to peel, the thin snake began to rapidly molt, tail flicking around wildly.

Soon, it was as if a new creature had emerged. With shining scales and a hint of mysticism contained within its pupils, it crawled out of its old shell. Having grown in size, it could not compare to the snake that it previously was.

Still not daring to disturb Yang Feng, it again slithered to the puddles of spiritual energy on the ground and began greedily drinking. Yang Feng, not bothering the snake, observed it silently.

It appeared that the creature had successfully absorbed the spiritual energy and had not imploded from the excess amount of vitality. That was surprising.

However, Yang Feng discovered another pressing matter. It seemed that the snake had never encountered spiritual energy before. Yang Feng could sense that its body was reacting wildly with the matter.

Observing the corpse of the lizardman, it seemed that the same went for it. Its body had never encountered or absorbed spiritual energy. That was nigh impossible. Living creatures, especially creatures with sentience like the lizardman, would inadvertently absorb tiny amounts of spiritual energy from the air.

That is, unless the subconscious absorption of the spiritual energy from the air was not contained within its genetic memory. But how would that be possible? Spiritual energy had been around since the creation of the Heavens, Earth, and Man.

But this was a completely different world, so it could be possible that the creatures here had never discovered the presence of another energy in the air. After all, Yang Feng had known about spiritual energy all his life, so it was a bit surprising to him that it did not exist as an energy in this world.

This would explain why the spiritual energy was so fresh from the moment he arrived. It was not because the area he was in was special, the spiritual energy within the entire planet had simply never been touched before.

But, if they did not use spiritual energy, then they had to utilize another kind of force. Yang Feng tried to explore the surrounding air around him to prod for another type of power, but failed.

That was to be expected. Just as if the creatures in this world had never encountered spiritual energy, it would be a dream for him to find another type of energy so fast.

But right now, what he had was time. He could slowly break apart and examine the nature of the world around him as he cultivated. Yang Feng had been cultivating for so long that multitasking alongside cultivating was as simple as a walk in the park.

Crack!

He was now at the fifth level of Body Tempering.