Born with immortal seed

Chapter 442 The Cannibalistic Southern Region
Having experience cultivating the Heavenly Might Star Bone, Bai Zichen already had a good grasp of the cultivation methods for the seven immortal bones of the Nine Heavens Bone Forging Technique.

This body-refining technique has extremely high entry requirements, not only in terms of cultivation level, but also in all sorts of other strange and unusual requirements.

The process of refining immortal bones is actually quite fast; the transformation can be completed in just a few months.

The skull is an extremely important part of the Sun Yuan Copper Bone Tempering Site. As he followed the cultivation method of the Nine Heavens Bone Forging Technique, he melted the spiritual materials one by one and refined them into his body.

You can clearly feel the temperature in the area between your eyebrows rising rapidly.

The fact that Bai Zichen's physical body could feel the scorching heat shows just how high the temperature was. The pure Yang True Fire within his body was capable of melting stone and gold, and among all true fires, it was known for being the purest high-temperature flame.

"Duh!"

The golden bronze sun was placed in his palm, and the plump white nascent soul entered his body. Its little face was tense, and it was always holding its Supreme Pure and Subtle Sword Box, never letting go for a moment.

A burst of pure Yang fire erupted, the flames almost pure white, burning the surrounding area and creating illusory images, even giving the air a burnt smell.

Legend has it that this is a meteorite that fell from the sun, mixed with gold and copper, and melted millions of times deep within the sun.

With a gentle wipe, sunlight will burst forth.

Regardless of the type of celestial flame, any attempt to melt the sun's gold and copper will only make it purer and harder.

That statement is not wrong. Back in the Great Wilderness Marsh, Bai Zichen used his alchemical fire to smelt the dark red ore when he had nothing else to do, and he could only get two layers of the surface skin off the ore.

At the center of the ore, the sun-gold copper texture still remained, showing no signs of softening.

However, there is one prerequisite: it applies to those below the Nascent Soul stage.

The True Lord's methods have already partially altered the form of the Sun Gold and Bronze.

As for complete fusion, that's still beyond my capabilities. Perhaps it would require hundreds of years of continuous burning and forging with pure Yang fire, or perhaps a further advancement in fire control.

For example, the Pure Yang True Fire was upgraded to the Pure Yang Heavenly Fire.

After being scorched by the pure Yang true fire for thirty-three days, the piece of sun gold copper finally softened and became a semi-solid form.

Zhen Yuan squeezed his palm hard, leaving a clear five-finger mark on it.

"Virtue resides in fire, Emperor Yan holds the balance... The sun's primordial copper refines itself!"

The golden-bronze sun transformed into a stream of light, directly striking the skull between the eyebrows, like pouring boiling oil into a hot pan, setting the entire person ablaze.

This was a situation that had never occurred before when refining the Heavenly Might Star Bone. It was like falling into purgatory, being burned by eighteen kinds of flames, and being surrounded by a sea of ​​fire.

Tears streamed uncontrollably from his eyes, and his veins stood out.

Within his sea of ​​consciousness, the furnace was suddenly overturned, and several flints fell out, burning through the ground beneath his feet.

Bai Zichen flicked his finger and conjured a water mirror. In the mirror, his eyes were bloodshot and his brow was a clear crimson color, reflected from within.

Even the reflection of people on the water's surface caused the water mirror's temperature to rise, and in the blink of an eye, the water surface boiled and bubbled up one bubble after another.

Fortunately, this strange phenomenon did not last long. Just as he was considering whether to use extreme measures to stop the cultivation of the Sun Origin Copper Bone, all the heat was drawn back by the skull between his eyebrows.

This is a dark red skull that gleams with a coppery sheen, dotted with sunspots. Even though it is now as calm as a normal skeleton, it is still clear how terrifying the heat it contains is, with an explosive temperature that could melt an ancient, towering glacier.

"With such divine bones, it's no wonder he can walk freely through the sea of ​​fire, unafraid of heavenly flames..."

Bai Zichen felt the changes brought about by the completion of the Sun Yuan Copper Bone. Fire-type spells below the Nascent Soul level were like scratching an itch in front of him.

Even a fourth-tier fire spell, with its many true flames, can only cause a maximum of one or two tenths of damage to the caster.

If it encounters a purely fiery attack method, it can even walk through it without being bothered. The Sun Bone might even react and absorb several clusters of fire into its skull.

"It's been more than two months since we left the Northern Region. The speed of the Seeking Truth Ship is as slow as an ox for someone like me who is used to flying on a sword."

Bai Zichen glanced outside. Under the urging of a Nascent Soul True Monarch, the speed of a mid-grade flying magic weapon was actually not slow.

With full force, one can follow the wind's whisper and travel alongside the whistling wind.

However, compared to a fourth-tier flying sword, this speed is somewhat underwhelming.

"If you have the opportunity, you can also pay attention to flying magic weapons... Don't pursue the ultimate speed. Even flying magic weapons can't compare to the Ziwei Dazzling Thunder Sword. As long as they can meet the needs of long-distance travel, that's fine."

Flying magical artifacts like the Seeking Truth Boat are like miniature pavilions, offering a level of comfort that flying on a sword cannot match.

Just like this time, the journey alone took a year and a half, and he also managed to cultivate several supernatural abilities along the way, which can only be done with a high-level flying magic weapon.

A huge map was unfurled, depicting all five regions of the world, with even several important locations marked on the outer sea.

Furthermore, touching any area with your finger will quickly zoom in, presenting the selected area in more detail.

After clicking three times in a row, the map of the Northern Region, Liang Kingdom, and Mi Prefecture showed completely different content than before. The locations of Heishan County and Hejian County could be seen, and even the spiritual veins of several branch mansions of Qingfeng Sect were marked.

After leaving, they headed down to the Dian Kingdom, where the Five Elements Sect was located in the Southern Region. Dozens of sects' lights began to shine, and the Five Elements Sect was one of them.

"We will pass through the Dali region. If we don't stop for a moment, it will take about two months to cross it at the speed of the Qiuzhen Ship. Then we will enter the territory of the Southern Chu Kingdom... Heading south, it will still be millions of miles to reach the Dian Kingdom. The time it will take is hard to say, depending on whether the journey is smooth."

Bai Zichen was having a great time working on the giant map, feeling that the 50,000 spirit stones were well spent.

This is a map of the cultivation continent sold in Zengguang Immortal City by a merchant guild from the Central Region. It has been widely praised since its release.

However, its high price limits its audience to those at the Core Formation stage and above.

Or perhaps those sects spent a lot of money to buy them back and placed them in the sect's main hall for the use of many people.

He was eager to cultivate the Great Yuan Copper Bone technique because he was about to enter an unfamiliar environment, and any additional means of protection would be beneficial.

The overall strength of the Southern Region is slightly better than that of the Northern Region.

The Blood Sea Sect, which he was familiar with, was one of the top three sects in the Southern Region.

Even with the Blood God Child wielding the Abyssal Prison Demon Sword, the Blood Sea Sect couldn't maintain its position as the number one sect in the Southern Region, demonstrating the formidable strength of all parties involved.

"Not long ago, the Hundred-Eyed Centipede that was ravaging the Southern Region had not yet been subdued... The Southern Region is notorious for its chaos. In comparison, the Northern Region can be considered a place of order and simple customs."

The Blood Sea Sect is an obvious demonic sect that plunders every useful bloodline. Newly promoted Nascent Soul cultivators routinely slaughter tens of thousands of living beings, and many of its disciples use living people to practice blood magic.

One must peel off a person's skin and tattoo hundreds of talismans on it before one can successfully cultivate it.

Despite all these actions, this sect is not considered one of the worst-reputed sects in the Southern Region; it is regarded as having basic integrity.

By observing only a part of the whole picture, one can imagine the lowest point in the Southern Region and the cannibalistic ecosystem in which the cultivators living there exist.

They raise mortals, harvest them regularly, and collect their blood and food.

At the bottom, independent cultivators and cultivation families are endlessly exploited by the sects above them, and what they pay tribute to is not only cultivation resources.

Having a gifted member in a family is not necessarily a good thing.

They might be chosen as a candidate body for a Nascent Soul monster, and after reaching adulthood, their soul would be scattered, leaving only a complete physical body placed in a thousand-year-old Yin wood coffin.

When it is useful, it will be used to possess another body, and the nascent soul will enter the most suitable body.

The next level up would use various secret techniques to forcibly strip away their spiritual roots, aptitude, and other talents, and transplant them into other cultivators.

Having talent doesn't guarantee success; it might even lead to an even quicker demise.

Those demonic sects can commit tens or hundreds of thousands of acts of killing without batting an eye, as if it were commonplace. Perhaps it's just to save a few third-tier spiritual materials and refine a low-grade demonic magic weapon as quickly as possible.

Even these are considered relatively good, because their actions are traceable and their purpose is understandable.

Several other sects also stand out in the environment of the Southern Region.

They simply enjoy the thrill of killing, watching the weak writhe in pain and despair at their hands.

They might pass by a village, casually cast a couple of spells, watch the tragedy unfold from the air, laugh heartily, and then leave.

Such sect cultivators are the most terrifying; random killings could fall on anyone's head.

"The Southern Region has several Great True Monarchs, and it is certain that no Nascent Soul cultivators have been born in the last ten thousand years... Otherwise, sects would have already claimed the title of super sect, and there would be no possibility of humility and deference."

Bai Zichen was just delivering demon-repelling pills to the Five Elements Sect; he wasn't there to seek revenge or kill anyone. If he was lucky, he wouldn't even encounter a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

Not to mention provoking a Great True Lord; the chances of that are too low.

As for that hundred-eyed centipede, we'll have to find out which route it takes.

The Hundred-Eyed Centipede is one of the five most wondrous insects in the cultivation world. It has a hundred pairs of compound eyes on its body, and each pair of compound eyes can shoot out different divine light.

The more divine light it masters, the stronger this Hundred-Eyed Centipede becomes.

The appearance of each Hundred-Eyed Centipede would cause great chaos, because in a place like the Southern Region, unless the situation becomes irreparable, no Nascent Soul True Monarch would risk dealing with this fourth-order strange insect.

"Given the situation in the Southern Region, we probably won't be able to continue on the Seeking Truth Ship after entering the country, and we'll have to change our mode of travel."

Thinking about the descriptions of the customs and culture of the Southern Regions, Bai Zichen felt a great headache.

No wonder, the Southern Region and the Eastern Region were developed almost at the same time, and now the two sides have such a big gap in strength.

The lower-level cultivators are like rice ears in a field, being harvested cleanly one crop after another, without even waiting for them to sprout new shoots.

If things continue like this, we might be overtaken by the Northern Region in a few hundred years.

"In such an environment, the Five Elements Sect's style is all the more remarkable, truly emerging from the mud unsullied... Perhaps the founding patriarch had too great an influence, after all, he was once a great figure who was expected to become a god, coupled with the proper inheritance and teaching, the sect's style has not declined for thousands of years."

In the Southern Region, it is easy to imagine the difficulty for a sect to maintain its original aspirations and stand out from the crowd.

Being ostracized and deliberately targeted by other sects is commonplace.

The reason it has been able to be passed down to this day is mainly due to the Five Elements Annihilation Array left by the founding patriarch, which is a high-grade fourth-order array.

This formation is second to none in the entire Southern Region.

As a fourth-order grand formation, the Five Elements Annihilation Grand Formation can unleash twelve restrictions, all of which are killing and offensive methods, each more powerful than the last.

Only cultivators who have mastered the Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light can preside over this formation and unleash its full power.

The Five Elements Sect has survived numerous crises thanks to this great formation, preserving the sect's legacy.

However, to allow a fourth-order formation to unleash its full power, besides having a fourth-order formation master in charge, another method is to have a Core Formation cultivator who has mastered the Great Five Elements Annihilation Divine Light sacrifice their divine power and use their body to activate the formation.

Having completed the cultivation of the Sun Yuan Copper Bone, Bai Zichen focused his main energy on studying swordsmanship for the rest of his journey.

"The nascent soul phenomenon of ten thousand swords bowing down saved me at least a hundred years of time to comprehend sword techniques. Otherwise, I wouldn't have seen the dawn of sword light differentiation so quickly."

However, this was merely an observation. When Tang Fei survived his tribulation, he too was met with the submission of ten thousand swords.

It was still hundreds of years later that he seized the inspiration amidst the great terror of life and death, which led to the creation of the sword light splitting apart.

"The inheritance of the Starry Sky Sword Intent in the True Explanation of Sword Dao is ready to be accepted... If the success rate of comprehending sword intent at the Core Formation stage is too low, now that we have reached the True Monarch stage and are at the Nascent Soul stage, it will be much easier to look back."

For a Nascent Soul True Monarch to increase their cultivation level, it is not something that can be achieved overnight.

Even with his enhanced inferior spiritual root, Bai Zichen's speed in refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has increased, but compared to the long process of the Nascent Soul stage, there is still a long way to go.

"It is said that Nascent Soul True Monarchs have long lifespans, which gives them time to cultivate supernatural powers and secret techniques, innovate various spells, and reach a state of perfection... But in my opinion, the bigger reason is that they simply cannot find a way to break through to the next level. The future is so predictable that it leads Nascent Soul True Monarchs to find another way."

Bai Zichen took out a mutton-fat jade bottle, inside which was a mouthful of Heavenly Origin Dew, and drank it all in one gulp.

This kind of spirit wine, due to the lack of the main ingredients for brewing, is much less effective than the ancient recipe.

The original Tianyuan Qionghua Dew was of great benefit to even Nascent Soul True Monarchs, but the spirit wine made by Gu Chang Sanren can only be equivalent to a year's worth of meditation and cultivation.

When a Nascent Soul True Monarch drinks it, he is more interested in savoring its aftertaste and lingering effects than expecting it to actually increase his cultivation level.

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Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.

The once glorious Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, which was only one step away from becoming a Nascent Soul level sect under Fang Tiansheng's leadership and had single-handedly changed the course of the cultivation world in Liang Kingdom, is no longer what it used to be.

All the Core Formation cultivators committed suicide before the Blood God Child, sacrificing their own lives to preserve the sect's legacy.

Ultimately, the Moral Sect intervened, stopping the farce and persuading the Blood God Child, who wanted to eliminate the threat completely, to back down.

This allowed Honglian, a Core Formation True Person from the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, to survive.

However, after such a drastic change, and knowing that a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator named Blood God Child harbored hatred towards the Myriad Beasts Sect, countless people took advantage of the situation to kick them while they were down.

Given the current strength of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, it is indeed impossible for them to defend such a large territory.

Over the years, I've given up on nearly half of them.

Honglian originally planned to hand over half of the Pure Spirit Jade Marrow produced in the secret realm to Zengguang Immortal City, and brought Tianfa Peak over as her backer.

Unexpectedly, Zengguang Immortal City did not directly ask for the Pure Spirit Jade Marrow. Instead, it required the Myriad Beasts Sect to open a shop in the Immortal City, and all Core Formation spiritual items sold outside the city had to be entrusted to the Immortal City for sale.

In recent years, Honglian has been so busy training the next generation of disciples that she has even neglected her own cultivation progress.

"Ancestor, the Hehuan Sect has come to bully us again, saying that the spirit beasts we graze have stormed into their spiritual land and ruined the spirit herbs in several herb gardens!"

"Too deceiving!"

Honglian emerged from the secret chamber. The girl who once cultivated under the wing of her master had grown into a mature female cultivator, with wrinkles appearing at the corners of her eyes.

"Take me to see what the Hehuan Sect is up to!"

I apologize for the lack of updates for the past few days due to illness.

Starting tomorrow, updates will resume at two per day.

Also, I'm setting a goal: I will definitely update more than 11 words in November. Fellow Daoists, please keep me accountable.

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