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Chapter 180 The Powerful Golden-Armored Rock Turtle: Tales of the Feng Kingdom [Please Subscribe]

Rock tortoise, oh, now it should be called golden-armored rock tortoise.

Zhou Chun gave the mutated and evolved stone race a new name: Golden Armored Rock Turtle.

After mutating and evolving into the Golden Armored Rock Turtle, Stone's strength underwent a dramatic change.

Its original most basic spell, "Stone Skin," has now merged with "Stone Armor" and "Golden Armor" to form a brand new second-tier talent spell, "Body of Metal and Stone," a special spell for strengthening physical defense.

The "Stone Wall Technique" that he had previously mastered has now been combined with the metal element spell "Iron Wall Technique" to form a new second-tier talent spell, "Steel Rock Barrier," a powerful defensive spell.

At the same time, the "Earth Prison" spell that he had previously mastered was also combined with the "Gravity" spell to form a new second-tier talent spell, "Gravity Cage," a spell with excellent imprisonment and restriction capabilities.

In addition to these three very distinctive second-tier spells, the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle has also awakened and mastered two other second-tier spells, one earth and one metal.

One is the second-tier earth elemental spell "Earth Shield," and the other is a pure earth elemental defensive spell.

One is a second-tier metal element spell, "Sky-Splitting Golden Sword," and the other is a pure metal element attack spell.

With these five distinctive second-tier spells, the Golden Armored Rock Turtle, even though it had just successfully advanced, already possessed the strength to rival the Silver Lightning Python.

In a one-on-one situation, neither can defeat the other.

The Golden Armored Rock Turtle is well-rounded in both offense and defense. With its earth magic and strong resistance to lightning magic, it is not very afraid of the Silver Lightning Python's relentless bombardment.

The Silver Lightning Python possesses powerful mobility, which the Golden Armored Rock Turtle cannot force to keep it.

However, if it comes to a fight to the death, the Silver Lightning Python will most likely lose for nothing.

Therefore, it can be said that after the Rock Turtle evolved into the Golden Armor Rock Turtle, its status as the number one spirit pet was solidified again, and it once again became the most powerful spirit pet under Zhou Chun's command.

"Wow, Stone is strong."

"You've really turned your life around this time, you're incredibly successful!"

In his own yard, Zhou Chun looked at the golden-armored rock tortoise in front of him with a face full of surprise, also shocked by the powerful strength it possessed after its mutation and evolution.

Although it has always been known that mutated monsters are exceptionally powerful, it is still rare to see one whose strength has increased so dramatically as Stone's.

At least Zhou Chun was certain that the Earth Spirit Turtle, a mid-level demon beast that normally evolved from a Rock Turtle, was definitely not as powerful as the Golden Armor Rock Turtle.

If he had the Golden Armored Rock Turtle's help when he fought the wolf-faced masked man before, he could have defeated or even killed the opponent by himself.

It's a bit of a shame that although the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle is powerful, it probably won't have the opportunity to demonstrate its strength in the short term.

Zhou Chun's act of bringing a silver lightning python to infiltrate the Dragon Transformation Sect was already quite conspicuous.

If he were to bring along a golden-armored rock tortoise, no one would believe he was truly a rogue cultivator before!

Therefore, after comforting and explaining to the Golden-Armored Rock Turtle, Zhou Chun left the Zhou family again, leaving it on Pagoda Peak to cultivate on its own.

Not long after returning to Qinglian Temple, Zhou Chun consumed the Purple Jade Soul Lotus given to him by Daoist Mingxia.

This so-called Purple Jade Soul Lotus is actually just a lotus seed.

Qinglian Temple has several Purple Jade Soul Lotus spiritual plants that bloom and bear fruit once every five hundred years.

Just as Master Mingxia said, even the inner disciples of Qinglian Temple rarely have the opportunity to consume these lotus seeds.

This item is usually bestowed only upon exceptionally outstanding inner disciples.

So Zhou Chun really got a great deal this time.

After refining the Purple Jade Soul Lotus seed, he felt his divine sense increase by more than 10%, and the quality of his divine sense was also tempered and improved.

This effect of tempering the soul and consciousness is something that the Soul Heart Fruit does not possess.

When Zhou Chun went to visit Qing Weizi again, the spells that had been used to deceive him were no longer able to truly deceive his consciousness.

He could easily appear to be blinded, but in reality, he would maintain his principles and not reveal the real secrets.

According to Qingweizi, unless they disregard the damage to his soul and use domineering secret techniques such as soul-searching on him, or they encounter a Golden Core cultivator who is proficient in interrogation techniques, it would be impossible to succeed.

Otherwise, he could easily withstand the test of conscience from an ordinary Golden Core cultivator.

Considering that the Dragon Transformation Sect still has the "Dragon Transformation Secret Manual" as a trump card to restrain its members, it is likely that the Golden Core elders of the Dragon Transformation Sect will not care too much about whether the cultivators who come to join them have any ulterior motives, and will not investigate too thoroughly.

Having passed the test at Qinglian Temple, Zhou Chun quietly traveled to Feng Kingdom with the prepared items.

Feng Kingdom, the homeland of Zhou Chun in this life and the Zhou family for generations.

This country is still in chaos!

The reason why the Zhou family's Three Absolutes Sect was forced to leave Feng Kingdom was because the upper echelons of Feng Kingdom underwent a major reshuffle.

However, the Three Absolutes Sect had chosen the wrong side beforehand and was now facing the risk of being purged.

Now, more than 20 years later, although the reshuffling of the upper echelons has been over for some time, the middle and lower echelons are still fiercely competing openly and covertly for the vacated territory and resources.

This conflict also caused many independent cultivators in Feng Kingdom to suffer, making life extremely difficult for the people.

Therefore, many independent cultivators from Feng Kingdom could not stand this oppressive environment and went to other countries to make a living.

This includes some individual cultivators in the foundation-building stage.

Before Zhou Chun arrived in Feng Kingdom, the substitute arranged for him by Qinglian Temple had been helping him operate in a certain place in Feng Kingdom for one or two years as a newly promoted Foundation Establishment cultivator, and had written all his experiences in a book and handed it to him for reading.

Now that he has arrived at his destination, he first made contact with the substitute, and then personally began to travel and move around the territory of Feng Kingdom as a rogue cultivator.

According to the plan, he would personally spend at least a few months in Fengguo as an adaptation period.

During this period, Qinglian Temple will not interfere with him in any way; he can act according to his own ideas.

Since he could act according to his own ideas, Zhou Chun did not restrain himself and soon traveled to the vicinity of the original location of the Three Absolutes Sect.

He first went to the outside of the original Three Wonders Gate to observe the mountain from a distance.

Perhaps it was out of deep affection and reluctance to destroy their homeland, or perhaps it was out of fear that such acts of destruction would anger the victors.

When the Three Absolutes Sect abandoned its mountain gate, it did not cause much damage to the mountain gate except for taking away the spiritual resources that could be taken with it.

Therefore, the view Zhou Chun sees from afar is not much different from the view he remembers.

Clearly, the new occupiers took over the area smoothly, and there were no major fights over the Ling Mountain.

According to investigations, the force currently occupying this sacred mountain is the She family, a family of cultivators, which is an vassal of the Corpse Demon Sect, the largest force after the recent reshuffling of power in the Feng Kingdom.

Many cultivators feel utterly disgusted by the Corpse Demon Cult.

Because the fundamental technique of the Corpse Demon Cult is the art of refining and controlling corpses.

The materials used for corpse refining are the corpses of cultivators who have died.

Every cultivator of the Corpse Demon Cult met a terrible end!

Even if they die within the sect due to the exhaustion of their lifespan, they will still feed their essence and vital energy to the powerful corpse refiners within the sect before their death, thus enhancing the strength of the corpse refiners.

It is through this kind of cruel internal exploitation that the Corpse Demon Sect has now cultivated several fifth-order corpse refiners comparable to Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

If they can be this cruel internally, one can only imagine how brutal the Corpse Demon Cult is to outsiders.

They would not only secretly hunt down other cultivators to obtain high-quality corpse-refining materials, but also offer high prices to buy fresh and intact cultivator corpses, inciting other cultivators to kill each other.

This reshuffling of power in the upper echelons of Feng Kingdom was originally caused by the brutal acts of the Corpse Demon Sect, which ignited the emotions of the two major sects and countless small and medium-sized forces and even independent cultivators in Feng Kingdom. This angered them, who had long harbored resentment, and they launched an attack on the Corpse Demon Sect, preparing to unite and destroy this evil force.

But no one expected that after many years of secret cultivation, the Corpse Demon Cult would have as many as five fifth-order refined corpses!

Five fifth-tier refined corpses, plus two Nascent Soul stage old monsters from the Corpse Demon Sect, make a total of seven fifth-tier combatants.

The two major factions that made the move only had a combined fifth-tier combat power of five people.

What's even more frightening is that they are not only at a disadvantage in terms of fifth-tier combat power, but also in terms of fourth-tier combat power. The allied forces, who originally thought they had a great advantage, do not have much of an advantage either.

The Corpse Demon Cult has secretly accumulated dozens of fourth-tier refined corpses.

They even assembled a zombie army composed entirely of second-tier refined corpses, numbering over three thousand!

Thus, the allied forces, who had initially believed they were destined to win, ultimately suffered a crushing defeat.

Not only did the two leading sects suffer heavy losses, with each of them having a Nascent Soul stage cultivator killed by the Corpse Demon Sect, but the other participating sects and families also suffered heavy losses.

The final result was that the two leading factions were forced to submit to the Corpse Demon Cult, ceding countless interests in exchange for peace.

Mid-sized forces like the Three Absolutes Sect were mostly sold to the Corpse Demon Sect!

Fortunately, the Three Absolutes Sect mostly made empty promises at the time, and the number of cultivators they actually sent to participate in the battle was not particularly large.

Moreover, the location of the mountain gate is very far from the mountain gate of the Corpse Demon Sect, and there are many forces that participated in the battle at that time acting as shields in front of it.

Therefore, when the Corpse Demon Cult began a large-scale purge of those forces, the Three Absolutes Sect was able to pack up and run away in time.

The Corpse Demon Cult is currently the largest power in Feng Kingdom, and it holds an absolute dominant position.

Those small and medium-sized forces that had previously attached themselves to the Corpse Demon Cult naturally saw their status rise accordingly, and their power increased significantly.

For example, the She family, which occupies the spiritual mountain of the Three Absolutes Sect, doesn't even have a single Golden Core cultivator now, only a fourth-order refined corpse equivalent to a Golden Core cultivator.

Such a piece of goods, however, occupied the Three Absolutes Sect's mountain gate, which previously required multiple Golden Core stage cultivators to possess.

This gives us a glimpse into the situation.

After gazing at the Three Absolutes Sect's mountain gate for a moment to pay his respects, Zhou Chun quickly turned and left.

The place he went to this time was Zhoucheng, the place where the Zhou family and ordinary people used to live.

Although the Zhou family moved a number of ordinary people to Jingguo several times, the vast majority of ordinary people still lived in their old home in Fengguo.

Upon arriving in Zhoucheng, Zhou Chun discovered that many of the Zhou family's ordinary members had fled, and the city was no longer as prosperous as it once was.

It turns out that after the She family occupied the mountain gate of the Three Absolutes Sect, they also attacked the secular clansmen left behind by the original three surname families in order to make room for their own secular clansmen to live.

Those Zhou family members who fled were those who could no longer tolerate the She family's bullying and oppression of men and women, and had no choice but to abandon their homeland and flee to other places.

As Zhou Chun walked through Zhou City, his powerful divine sense allowed him to easily overhear many Zhou family mortals secretly cursing the She family.

For example, in order to establish a corpse-raising site, the She family forcibly occupied the large cemetery where the Zhou family's mortal ancestors' remains were buried for generations. They also dug up graves and moved coffins on many hilltops, piling up coffins buried in the past twenty years at the corpse-raising site.

For example, in order to expand their clan, the She family forcibly took many women from the Zhou family as concubines, and even some married women were not spared!

Other heinous acts include forcibly seizing the houses of wealthy members of the Zhou family and forcibly occupying the Zhou family ancestral hall, among many others.

Hearing these words, Zhou Chun felt very uncomfortable.

Because many of those voices also contained insults directed at the Zhou family cultivators who fled Feng Kingdom, accusing them of abandoning their ancestral heritage and failing to fulfill their duty to protect their clansmen.

These are all true, and that's why they are even more hurtful.

Despite feeling terrible, Zhou Chun couldn't say or do anything about it.

With the Zhou family's current strength, they can't even handle the She family, let alone the behemoth that the Corpse Demon Sect stands behind the She family.

The Zhou family no longer cares about these secular clansmen. Although their lives are hard and humiliating, at least they can survive.

On the contrary, if the Zhou family really comes to help them, then when cultivators fight, it will only be the mortals who suffer in the end.

Therefore, after taking a stroll around Zhou City, Zhou Chun was ready to leave.

Just as he was about to leave the west city, a wedding procession suddenly poured in from outside the city with a lot of banging and knocking, heading straight for a small alley not far from the city gate.

Strangely, although it was a wedding procession, the groom was nowhere to be seen; there was only a large red sedan chair.

Moreover, there were many armored and armed soldiers in the group, and Zhou Chun even vaguely noticed two cultivators mixed in with the group.

"What a terrible thing! To use a living person to marry and be buried alive with the dead—the She family is truly utterly depraved! The daughter of the Ji family is truly unfortunate!"

"Shh, Seventh Uncle, please keep your voice down, don't let them hear..."

"So what if I heard? I'm just an old man, I'll die if I have to. But if I could exchange my life for Yu Die's, I'd die a hundred times over! What a wonderful girl!"

Just as Zhou Chun's attention was drawn to this strange wedding procession, his extended divine sense suddenly heard words that sent his blood pressure soaring.

His face darkened instantly, and he turned his gaze to the two ordinary people from the Zhou family, one old and one young, in the corner of the alley.

At this moment, many ordinary members of the Zhou family emerged from various places and stood on both sides of the alley, their eyes filled with anger and resentment as they watched the wedding procession slowly approach.

Some of the young men clenched their fists tightly and bit their lips hard.

Beside them, some middle-aged men or women held their arms tightly, shaking their heads with sorrowful eyes, signaling them not to act rashly.

"Don't be impulsive. Haven't we learned our lesson enough from the many times before?"

"The She family dares to come in and snatch people so brazenly; they must have brought cultivators with them!"

"Furthermore, Yu Die's family wants to use her to exchange for the lives of her two younger siblings. Please don't act impulsively!"

Today's update is a little late! But there will definitely be two chapters!

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