Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

Lin Zhao returned to his cave and rested peacefully for several days.

After his condition was restored, he requested to teleport again.

The ninth floor of the Cloud Tower!

Since we've already used a fourth-tier magic weapon, let's fight to the bitter end.

As it turned out, he was overthinking it.

The opponents on the ninth floor have at least the peak of the Core Formation stage, but their combat power is on a completely different level from that of ordinary peak Core Formation cultivators.

Some have even reached the threshold of the Nascent Soul stage, making them ridiculously strong.

Even with a fourth-tier magic weapon in his hand, he's still no match for it.

For example, Lin Zhao was lucky enough to run into someone he knew, even though they had never met before.

Fang Yue's master was the Venerable Kongming.

At the peak of Core Formation, he cultivates both swordsmanship and spatial manipulation, and his sect's thousand Core Formation warriors consistently rank among the top ten.

As soon as the battle began, Lin Zhao did not hesitate at all and immediately unleashed the Five Prisons Suppressing Heavenly Dragon.

With the blessing of the Heavenly Heart Dharma Wheel, the Five Hells spread for hundreds of miles, and the Ten Great Characteristics rotate.

He used all his most secretive methods.

The projection of the Void Immortal drew his sword directly.

A silver-white sword light, condensed to its extreme, seemingly capable of cleaving through space!

"laugh--!"

A chilling tearing sound rang out. The sword-like light sliced ​​through the Five Hells.

Wherever it passed, the terrifying five hells were cut open like a piece of cloth.

With just one sword strike, Master Kongming actually cleaved open the entire Five Prisons!

Lin Zhao's pupils contracted sharply. The Five Prisons Suppressing World Heavenly Dragon suddenly lashed its tail beneath his feet, and its body shifted sideways at the last moment.

The sword light grazed the dragon's horn, cutting off a large section of it, and five-colored spiritual light gushed out from the broken end.

If this sword had been used outside, it would have killed him almost instantly.

Lin Zhao's expression changed. He used the Starry Sky Rift Sword, unleashing a barrage of starlight—but it was useless.

Each ray of starlight swept past Master Kongming, the closest one only tearing a corner of his robe.

Every move Kongming Zhenren made was perfectly timed to be within the blind spots of the starlight attacks; his predictive and spatial control abilities were simply unmatched.

Lin Zhao instantly understood; even if his cultivation level improved in the future,

The ability to use the Sky-Splitting Slash—which draws upon the power of stars and space to tear through space and create a slash—would likely be far less effective against True Immortal Kongming.

They were already powerful individuals who had progressed far in the path of space.

The sect's 70,000-year foundation is too profound; even a fourth-tier magic weapon cannot shake an existence of this level.

She couldn't win. Lin Zhao withdrew decisively.

He changed to another one.

They changed it again.

The projections on the ninth floor are bizarre and varied, each one a mark left by the most outstanding people of a certain era over the past 70,000 years.

Sword cultivators, spell cultivators, array cultivators, body cultivators, soul cultivators—there are all kinds.

Lin Zhao tried them one by one, and failed one by one.

The Five Prisons Suppressing Heavenly Dragon technique has been broken, and the Starry Sky Rifting Sword technique has been dodged and also taken head-on.

He memorized each and every one of these defeats.

Then a new tactic was developed.

No empty promises.

Go straight to the Luotian Palace.

This time, he also brought the Luo Tian Palace with him.

The Luo Tian Palace is too high-ranking, and he can't use any of its supernatural powers—Luo Tian Domain, Golden Divine Thunder, Luo Tian Divine General, and Void Escape are all useless without the support of the Spirit Gathering Pool.

However, it is, after all, a fourth-tier superior palace magic weapon, and it still has the most basic defensive capabilities.

Lin Zhao's head is above the Luotian Palace.

White light descended from the hall, transforming into a spiritual energy barrier that enveloped him.

Faint runes flowed across the surface of the barrier, like countless layers of fine runes stacked together.

He stood in the center of the barrier, wielding the silver-white Starry Sky Rift Sword, enduring the attacks from the opposite side.

The attack from a peak Core Formation cultivator struck the barrier, creating ripples that were then dispersed across the entire barrier and silently dissipated.

He unleashed a burst of starlight.

The other person was blasted away by the aftershock of the explosion.

The tactics are simple.

With the Luo Tian Palace protecting you, unleash the Starry Sky Rift Sword for damage.

If you run out of mana and fail to defeat your opponent, quit and come back after three days to recover.

A month later, he was finally matched with a relatively weak physical cultivator—fierce in attack but slow in speed, which was exactly what this tactic countered.

Lin Zhao, under the protection of the Luo Tian Palace, unleashed seven bursts of starlight.

The first shot forced the opponent to stop.

The second shot broke through the defense directly.

The third to sixth shots bombarded the enemy relentlessly, causing them to retreat in disarray.

The seventh shot, a direct hit!

The terrifying explosion of starlight sword energy engulfed the body.

That incredibly tough body cultivator projection was blasted apart and scattered.

There's no skill involved, it's all about equipment; that's the power of pay-to-win.

This is a victory for a fourth-tier magic weapon, purely based on its tiered numerical value.

Lin Zhao successfully passed the ninth floor.

All three levels were cleared, yielding a total of 170 Cloud Sea Jade Talismans and 8 million contribution points.

Lin Zhao took a deep breath. It wasn't easy. He had used all his strength and cheated his way through to barely pass.

Lin Zhao returned to his cave dwelling and planned to begin refining four new magic weapons.

He sorted out the required materials and calculated that there were more than ten kinds of core main materials alone, and more than fifty kinds of auxiliary materials.

These materials are extremely difficult to collect outside the market. Third-tier spiritual materials are already scarce resources, and they are basically controlled by major Core Formation forces.

To gather enough supplies, you either need to exchange them for equivalent materials. During the transaction, you're bound to be taken advantage of, and there are countless troublesome things to deal with, such as interpersonal entanglements, conflicts of interest, and dealing with various connections.

Moreover, they would encounter spying on them along the way, and might even be ambushed and killed halfway.

With Lin Zhao's current strength, self-preservation is naturally not a problem, but if he relies on outsiders to slowly collect the complete set of materials, it will take more than ten years if things go smoothly, and decades if he is unlucky.

He simply can't afford to waste that much time.

After much thought, the sect's Qiankun Hall is still the most suitable.

The supplies inside the hall are clearly priced, making the exchange process convenient and secure.

The core materials for these four magical treasures are all extremely rare and hard to find.

The Ruins Furnace requires Ruins Stone, Annihilation Iron, and Void Ash. These materials are only produced when a secret realm or a small world collapses and is destroyed. Even high-grade spirit stones cannot necessarily be bought outside.

The main material of the Five Emperors Seal is the Five Elements Extreme Jade, which can only be conceived in special regions where the laws of the Five Elements are in turmoil.

The Azure Lotus Sword is even more special. This magical artifact originated from an ancient spiritual plant of the sect. Now, if we want to advance it to the third tier, we can only use materials derived from the same ancient spiritual plant.

As for the Divine Soul Sword Tower, it mainly deals in materials related to divine souls, requiring rare materials such as Soul Nourishing Jade and Soul Suppressing Golden Crystal.

Ordinary cultivators have never even heard of such treasures, and major powers will carefully preserve them, rarely letting them out.

Lin Zhao set off for the Qiankun Palace, where she spent most of the day selecting and verifying information.

On his return journey, his storage bag was already full of supplies, with more than ten main materials and more than fifty auxiliary materials all gathered.

Some of the auxiliary materials were spoils he had accumulated over the years, while most of the materials were obtained by exchanging sect contribution points and Cloud Sea Jade Tokens.