Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

However, the most important thing now is to repair the body.

He looked down at the wounds on his body.

An ordinary mortal would surely die from such an injury, but he was a Core Formation cultivator, whose vitality far exceeded that of ordinary people, so he could not die.

However, if a normal Core Formation cultivator suffers this level of injury, it is inevitable that their vital energy will be severely depleted, and the damage to their foundation will be almost irreversible.

Fortunately, he is a clone of the Azure Lotus, formed from the Azure Lotus itself, so limb regeneration is no problem for him.

It only consumes a portion of the Azure Lotus clone's essence.

The depletion of the source energy will affect the foundation of the Azure Lotus clone and its subsequent cultivation speed.

However, consuming some of his own essence to repair himself is his best option right now.

In the future, upon returning to its original form, it can recover with the help of its powerful foundation.

Lin Zhao did not hesitate.

Take a deep breath, close your eyes, and a blue light will surge from your body.

It enveloped his entire body, forming a blue cocoon of light about ten feet in size.

The surface of the cocoon is covered with fine blue lotus patterns, and the light flickers, as if it is breathing.

There was no sound in the cave, only the shimmering blue cocoon of light.

On the seventh night, the cocoon of light cracked open.

The cyan fragments peeled off Lin Zhao's body, scattered in the air, and dissipated into tiny specks of light.

He stood up and looked down at his body.

My left arm has regrowed, and the skin is new and whiter than the surrounding skin.

His left eye regained its sight, but a trace of bluish light remained in the pupil as it slowly faded.

All the wounds on his body had healed completely, leaving no scars.

He moved his newly grown left hand; his fingers were nimble, and his spiritual energy flowed smoothly without any obstruction.

Lin Zhao's cultivation level was still there, but his aura had weakened considerably. The depletion of his source energy had made his spiritual power circulation much slower than before.

He plans to take a break for a while.

There is also the Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace, which is mostly damaged, but it is not beyond repair.

This magical artifact was painstakingly crafted from materials from demonic beasts. All he needed to do was hunt down enough third-tier demonic beasts and refine them again using their remains.

Not only can it be restored, but as long as there are enough monster materials, it can recover and even be upgraded again.

But before that, there is one more thing.

Although he was seriously injured on this trip, it wasn't without its gains.

The level-three top-grade spirit-gathering pool in the storage bag was relatively intact, and the bottom of the pool was still there.

By fusing it with the Nine Luminaries Thunder Pool, the Nine Luminaries Thunder Pool can advance to the third-tier top-grade level, increasing its capacity to hold spiritual power by more than ten times.

With such a magical artifact to replenish spiritual energy, one's endurance will be greatly enhanced, whether hunting demons or undergoing trials.

But he did not act immediately.

This place is not far enough from the area where the Skywreck sank.

After leaving this place, Lin Zhao flew close to the sea surface for a full half month, changing direction several times, bypassing three sea areas inhabited by alien races, and passing through an abandoned coral reef archipelago.

The seawater changed from dark blue to deep green, and then from deep green to a grayish-brown iron blue.

He once again fled tens of thousands of miles away, and even he himself did not know where he was temporarily.

This place is now completely far from the All-Laws Alliance's defensive line and very close to the Black Sea.

He found a deserted island to settle down on.

The island is not large, only a few miles in circumference, with a low hill in the center, covered with low shrubs.

Half a year has passed just like that.

Lin Zhao sat cross-legged in a cave in the low hill in the center of the island.

After more than half a year of recuperation, he has recovered to about 70-80%, and his spiritual energy flow is no longer sluggish.

The Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace was barely pieced back together—the palace body was intact, but the outer walls were covered with cracks, and only a few of the blood pupils could still be opened. Its defensive power was barely enough to meet the threshold of the third-tier low-grade level.

The biggest gain is the Nine Luminaries Thunder Pool, which has now been upgraded to a top-tier Tier 3.

The Ink Jade Pool was a size larger than before, with denser purple runes around its edges. The pool was churning with lightning liquid, but since it had only recently advanced, it only contained one-tenth of its original volume of spiritual liquid.

It will take one or two years to fill it all, either by slowly absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, or by using spirit stones to transform it.

Lin Zhao counted the spirit stones he had; they weren't enough.

There are plenty of blood crystals, but their properties don't match the Nine Luminaries Thunder Pool. They're fine for temporary use, but it's too troublesome to purify them afterward.

He drew the Thunder Pool back into his dantian, stood up, and walked out of the cave.

The sea breeze from outside the cave hit us in the face, and the eerie aura from the direction of the Black Sea in the distance grew even stronger.

It's time to hunt monsters.

Let's set a small goal first—to upgrade the Blood Essence Bone Fiend Hall to Tier 3, the highest quality.

He left the island and began hunting monsters.

In the following years, Lin Zhao unleashed a massacre on the monsters in this sea area.

The Azure Lotus Sword is primarily used for offense; wherever its light shines, demonic beasts are cleaved in two.

The Divine Soul Sword Tower locked onto and annihilated the divine souls of countless demonic beasts.

The Three Fiends Sword Technique counters the various talents of demonic beasts.

Blood evil corrodes and regenerates, earth evil suppresses and restores, and heavenly evil extinguishes life.

The various talents, defensive capabilities, and recovery abilities of demonic beasts make ordinary third-tier demonic beasts utterly vulnerable in the face of the Three Fiends Sword Qi.

Sometimes the blood energy is too strong, and there are too many monster corpses, so the smell of blood attracts monsters from even further away.

The number of monsters gathered increased, eventually forming a massive beast tide, with millions of monsters sweeping down.

Lin Zhao then unleashed the Great Five Elements Sword Formation.

Five-colored sword energy covered a seventy-mile stretch of sea.

The sword formation spun, and the demonic beasts were slaughtered in droves.

Countless corpses piled up on the sea surface, turning the seawater blood red.

He single-handedly cut through and interrupted the beast tide, and the remaining monsters scattered and fled, not even having the courage to turn back.

The Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace hung above his head.

The blood and malevolent energy that overflowed after the monster died were absorbed into the palace, and the red light on the cracks grew brighter and brighter.

Lin Zhao threw the corpses of the third-tier demon beasts he had hunted into the palace one by one. Countless blood-red bone chains extended from the bone walls of the palace, entangled the corpses, and dragged them into the depths of the palace to devour them.

The cracks in the palace healed one after another, and the extinguished bloodshot eyes reopened one after another.

More than a year.

Lin Zhao hunted down over a hundred third-tier demonic beasts.

The Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace has been fully restored.

The cracks on the bone wall completely disappeared, and all the hundreds of bloodshot eyes regained their sight, their light even brighter than before, restoring it to its former status as a high-grade third-tier magic weapon.

It once again became Lin Zhao's strongest defensive magic weapon.

Lin Zhao briefly tested the defensive capabilities. The Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace withstood the attacks of a late-stage Core Formation demon beast for several hours without sustaining any damage.

Lin Zhao looked at the blood-red palace floating above his head and recalled the scene where it had blocked the attack from the gray-robed Nascent Soul cultivator for him.

If it weren't for the Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace, and he had taken the hit head-on, he probably would have been instantly destroyed.

The gap between the Nascent Soul stage and the Core Formation stage remains enormous.

Lin Zhao didn't even know the name of the gray-robed man.

However, the years of cultivating immortality are long, and there will always be opportunities.

During this period, the Nine Luminaries Thunder Pool also filled with spiritual liquid.

A fully charged Nine Luminaries Thunder Pool can sustain Lin Zhao in continuous battles for several months.

With this upgraded magic weapon and the assistance of the Nine Luminaries Thunder Pool, his efficiency in hunting monsters increased once again.

He almost wiped out all the monsters in the vicinity.