Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Mixianling.

When Zhou Chun emerged from Mixianling again, his feelings were very complicated.

The price he paid to take the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone was considerable.

But at the same time, the delightful changes on the Golden Armor Mountain Tortoise Stone also surprised and delighted him.

In a desolate wilderness somewhere in Liang Kingdom, Zhou Chun landed on a relatively flat plain and immediately patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist, releasing the Golden Armored Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone.

The golden-armored mountain-carrying tortoise stone that emerged was originally less than ten feet in size.

However, at Zhou Chun's command, it quickly stopped shrinking its size and returned to its original size.

In an instant, a giant golden tortoise, hundreds of feet long and tens of feet wide at the back, appeared on the desolate plain!

The giant tortoise lay on the plain, as if a small hill had suddenly appeared on the plain.

What's even more astonishing is that the giant tortoise is actually carrying a mountain on its back!

At this moment, driven by the giant tortoise, the earthen-yellow mountain on its back also rose steadily, and soon it grew to nearly three hundred feet high!

The mountain peak looks like a weight or a seal, exuding a strong sense of weight and solidity.

Zhou Chun could sense that this mountain contained extraordinary divine power, and its aura was completely connected with the golden-armored mountain-bearing tortoise stone below, the tortoise and the mountain seeming to be an inseparable whole.

Is this the "Mountain-Bearing" supernatural power of the Mountain-Bearing Turtle clan?

Zhou Chun looked at the earthen-yellow mountain with a slight glint in his eyes, marveling at it.

Through communication with the Golden Armored Mountain Tortoise Stone, he has learned the origin of this mountain.

It is just an ordinary mountain peak in Mixianling, with nothing particularly special about it.

However, after the Golden Armored Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone selected this mountain as its target, the Chongxuan Demon King immediately used his great supernatural powers to gather the earth's spiritual energy to transform the mountain and added many precious ores.

Those precious ores were left behind by the demon king of the Mountain-Bearing Turtle clan, intended to benefit any future generations of the Mountain-Bearing Turtle clan.

Thus, after incorporating a large amount of precious minerals and undergoing transformation by the Demon King Chongxuan, the essence of this mountain has undergone earth-shattering changes.

It is like the innate magic weapon of the golden-armored mountain tortoise stone, possessing a mysterious function.

Zhou Chun even believed that it was far more mysterious than the natal magic weapon of cultivators!

Those who fight against the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone in the future will surely have a deep understanding of what supernatural powers this thing possesses.

Of course, besides this mountain peak, after the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone broke through to the fourth level, its own supernatural abilities also greatly improved.

As the renowned Mountain-Bearing Turtle, after breaking through to the fourth rank, the Mountain-Bearing Turtle bloodline within Stone's body completely transformed and stabilized, transforming him into a true Mountain-Bearing Turtle, and even a mutated Mountain-Bearing Turtle with metal-attribute supernatural powers!

Its physical body is incredibly powerful. Although it is only at the fourth-order low-grade cultivation level, its physical body is comparable to many fourth-order high-grade demonic beasts. It can ignore the attacks of low-grade magic weapons with its physical body alone!

In other words, it's just lying there right now, and even if an ordinary early-stage Golden Core cultivator were to use a low-grade magic weapon flying sword to attack it, they wouldn't be able to budge it at all!

This kind of defense is so abnormal that it surpasses many other demon beast races, and even dragons of the same level cannot compare.

Moreover, as long as it stands on the ground, the Mountain-Bearing Turtle can continuously draw power from the earth to restore its mana and heal itself. Few demonic beasts of the same level can compete with it on the ground!

Besides its abnormally powerful physical body, the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone has also made great progress in supernatural abilities.

First of all, its earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a magical ability that allows it to escape into the ground thousands of feet deep in an instant, leaving even Nascent Soul stage cultivators helpless!)

It can be said that if given a little time to unleash its supernatural powers, even a Nascent Soul stage cultivator might not be able to catch it in person.

If the [Earth Abyss Beast] that Zhou Chun had previously killed had such mastery of earth-遁神通 (earth-遁神通 is a type of magical ability), perhaps it wouldn't have been killed by Zhou Chun with a single sword strike!

Furthermore, the [Golden Magnetic Glow] divine power that the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone originally possessed was also strengthened and upgraded after it broke through to the fourth rank, evolving into the famous [Primordial Magnetic Divine Light] divine power.

【Primordial Magnetic Divine Light】is a very famous and powerful divine ability in the cultivation world, known as being able to sweep away anything and overcome all laws!

This kind of supernatural power originally required the combined cultivation of the power of metal and earth magnetism, refining the two magnetic poles into a divine light. Once refined, this divine light possessed profound and mysterious effects, capable of both offense and defense, with endless uses.

However, since ancient times, very few cultivators in the cultivation world have been able to master this supernatural power.

Because this [Primordial Magnetic Divine Light] places extremely high demands on the cultivator's physical body, if the cultivator's physical body is not strong enough, it is easy for them to be torn apart and destroyed by the immense gravity inherent in the [Primordial Magnetic Divine Light].

Those cultivators who master this divine power either have a special physique and are naturally compatible with it, which is why they can withstand the pressure of the [Primordial Magnetic Divine Light] on their physical body and magical power.

Alternatively, one could find some rare and precious natural material capable of bearing the power of the [Primordial Magnetic Divine Light] and refine it into a special magical artifact, using the artifact as a container to hold and contain the [Primordial Magnetic Divine Light].

The Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone, relying on its powerful physical body and its high affinity for the metal and earth elements, upgraded and evolved this divine ability based on the [Golden Magnetic Glow] divine ability.

As the Golden-Armored Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone grows, this supernatural ability will definitely become its signature skill, allowing many cultivators to once again witness the power of this almost extinct supernatural ability in the cultivation world.

However, the [Primordial Magnetic Divine Light] supernatural power alone is clearly far from the limit of the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone.

After breaking through to the fourth rank, just as Zhou Chun had predicted, it awakened another renowned earth-attribute divine ability, [Petrifying Light].

Petrification is the most domineering and unpredictable of all earth-attribute magical abilities, making it difficult to defend against.

When the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone was at the third tier, it had already awakened a defensive petrification ability called "Petrified Body." At that time, Zhou Chun guessed that it might awaken an offensive petrification ability when it reached the fourth tier.

The current results prove that his initial guess was correct.

Since Stone has awakened two powerful offensive divine abilities, namely [Primal Magnetic Divine Light] and [Petrifying Light], it is natural that Stone, being more adept at defensive divine abilities, would not awaken defensive divine abilities as well.

After breaking through to the fourth tier, it immediately awakened the signature defensive divine ability of the Mountain Tortoise clan, [Transformation into a Mountain].

This supernatural power allows the mountain-carrying tortoise and the mountain peak on its back to transform into an indestructible mountain fortress, capable of withstanding damage far exceeding its own cultivation level.

The Mountain-Bearing Turtle, which once possessed a fourth-tier superior cultivation level, used this move to make even a certain Nascent Soul stage cultivator helpless. After several attempts to attack, it had no choice but to give up and leave!

This demonstrates the power of this supernatural ability!

In addition to the incredibly powerful racial defensive ability [Transformation into a Mountain], the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone also awakened another extremely rare and precious divine ability [Undying Body]!

The "Undying Body" supernatural power is an extremely powerful life-saving ability, often found in certain special types of demonic beasts.

A demon beast possessing this supernatural power can quickly recover from any injury, no matter how severe, as long as its demon core remains intact and its demon soul is not destroyed!

This is something that human cultivators greatly envy.

Even Nascent Soul stage cultivators fear that severe physical damage could hinder their recovery and jeopardize their path to advancement.

For example, once a Nascent Soul cultivator's head is severed, it usually cannot regenerate like an arm or leg.

Furthermore, severe damage to the meridians and dantian can also lead to the destruction of the physical body and severance of one's path to enlightenment.

However, if one possesses the supernatural power of the "Indestructible Body," as long as one's nascent soul is not destroyed and one's physical body is completely burned to ashes, these injuries that could potentially sever one's path to enlightenment will no longer be a problem.

This situation will only improve after reaching the Nascent Soul stage.

Once one's cultivation reaches the Nascent Soul stage, there is no limit to the number of times one can possess another body. Even if one's physical body is destroyed, one can regain a complete physical body through possession without significantly hindering one's subsequent cultivation.

However, if one can preserve their original physical body, no Nascent Soul stage Venerable would want to possess another's body.

After all, possessing another person's body always requires time to adapt and adjust, and it's not as useful as one's own original body, which has been refined and perfected over time.

Therefore, even a Nascent Soul stage Venerable would want to possess a supernatural power like the "Indestructible Body".

The Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone now possesses both the [Transformation into a Mountain] supernatural power to withstand attacks far exceeding its cultivation level and the [Undying Body] supernatural power to provide powerful healing and recovery capabilities, making its survivability truly top-notch!

Zhou Chun estimated that even if he activated the [Heavenly Gang Thunder-Slaying Sword] to transform into a lightning sword dragon, he would still have difficulty killing the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone in this state.

It's not that he couldn't break through the stone's defenses, but rather that he couldn't withstand its powerful defenses and regenerative abilities until he could be completely defeated.

After all, the Thunder Sword Dragon consumed a tremendous amount of his mana!

Only by transforming into the Moon Toad form and activating the [Moon Toad Pearl] to unleash the "Taiyin Extinction Divine Light" could one possibly freeze the demon soul of the Extinction Stone!

Of course, it's only a possibility; Zhou Chun has no way of verifying it.

In addition, like Lei Jiao Bai Bai, the Golden Armor Mountain-Bearing Turtle Stone also awakened part of its bloodline inheritance after successfully breaking through to the fourth rank and completely transforming into a Mountain-Bearing Turtle.

From its bloodline inheritance, it obtained a cultivation technique called "Netherworld Turtle Breathing Technique" and a tribulation substitution technique called "Spirit Turtle Tribulation Transformation Technique," which is a highly sought-after tribulation substitution technique in the cultivation world, capable of giving one an extra life in critical moments.

For the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone, mastering the "Spirit Turtle Tribulation Transformation Technique" will provide an extra trump card for survival when facing the Heavenly Tribulation in the future. Perhaps in the end, he will rely on this secret technique to successfully overcome the tribulation!

In conclusion, the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone, now possessing four powerful divine abilities, is undoubtedly the strongest among Zhou Chun's spirit pets in terms of immediate combat power.

Even Lei Jiao Bai Bai is slightly inferior to it.

The Mountain-Bearing Turtle clan is a type of demonic beast that is even rarer and more powerful than the Flood Dragon!

However, Lei Jiao Bai Bai also has great potential. After all, the Jiaolong clan has a complete lineage, and the lineage of sixth-order Jiaolong has almost never been interrupted.

In contrast, the Mountain-Bearing Turtle clan is now almost extinct.

Having thoroughly understood the supernatural abilities and strength that the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone had gained after breaking through to the fourth rank, Zhou Chun was not stingy at all and directly fed it the fourth-rank low-grade earth-attribute demon core that he had obtained at the Fire Luo Kingdom's exchange fair.

Although this demon core has lost some of its original essence, it is still a great tonic, at least saving the Golden Armor Mountain-Bearing Turtle a hundred years of arduous cultivation.

Originally, the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone was already close to becoming a mid-grade fourth-tier demon beast thanks to the many spiritual creatures fed to it by the Chongxuan Demon King. Even if it couldn't directly break through to the mid-grade fourth tier after refining this demon core, it should only be one step away.

When Zhou Chun feeds the mid-grade fourth-tier demon core he took from the [Abyss Beast], the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone, his first spirit pet, should be able to make a triumphant return and regain a level of cultivation ahead of his later followers, becoming his first mid-grade fourth-tier spirit pet!

This can be considered Zhou Chun's reward and repayment for his beloved pet's decision to give up "wealth and honor" and choose to follow him.

The Golden-Armored Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone was clearly very happy and satisfied with the reward.

Although the Mountain-Bearing Turtle clan is powerful, its growth rate is relatively slow.

Without a large amount of resources invested in it, it might take hundreds or even thousands of years for it to break through a small realm by relying solely on its own cultivation and growth!

Therefore, if it can be ahead of the other little brothers by a small level now, it will not be left too far behind in the future.

Don't let its usual naivety and quiet demeanor fool you; it's actually very perceptive and clear-headed.

Otherwise, when it was following Zhou Chun, it wouldn't have been the most active in cultivation.

Zhou Chun did not linger in Liang Kingdom and quickly continued his journey to Da Zhou Kingdom.

Half a month later, Zhou Chun appeared in the territory of the Great Zhou Kingdom.

However, this time he did not go to Tianyuan Immortal City first, but went to the mountain gate of Yuankui Sect first, intending to use the [Earth Abyss Beast] hide in his hand to exchange with that "Master Qianji" for a fourth-order puppet.

However, when he arrived at the gate of the Yuankui Sect and was about to present his visiting card, he learned that "Master Qianji" had already passed away.

Zhou Chun recalled the scene when he last met the "Master of a Thousand Machines". At that time, the other party did look like he didn't have much time left to live, but he didn't expect that it would be less than a hundred years.

At that moment, he could only say in a deep voice to the Yuan Kui Sect disciple who was greeting guests, "Then please inform your sect leader that I, Zhou, wish to do an important business deal with your sect and hope to have a face-to-face meeting with him."

"Yes, I will inform you immediately. Please have some tea while you wait."

The Yuan Kui Sect disciple, who was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, obediently agreed and hurriedly went to deliver the message for Zhou Chun.

Less than half an hour later, Zhou Chun appeared in the main hall of the Yuan Kui Sect and met the current sect leader.

"I am Qian Qiuzi, the current sect leader of the Yuan Kui Sect. May I ask your name, fellow Daoist? And where is your immortal abode?"

Inside the main hall, Qian Qiuzi, who looked like a middle-aged man, immediately bowed to Zhou Chun after he entered and inquired about his background.

Zhou Chun looked at Qian Qiuzi, who only had the cultivation of the early Golden Core stage, and smiled, saying, "A common name is not worth mentioning. Fellow Daoist Qian Qiuzi, you can simply call me Fellow Daoist Zhou. I'm here today only to make a deal with your sect!"

This refusal to even reveal her name or origin caused Chiakiko to frown deeply.

If it weren't for his mid-stage Golden Core cultivation, they probably would have immediately told him to leave.

Even without immediately dismissing the guest, Qian Qiuzi's expression turned considerably colder, and he simply said, "I wonder what kind of deal Fellow Daoist Zhou wishes to make with our sect?"

"Since we've come to the Yuan Kui Sect to make a deal, we must have our eyes on your sect's fourth-tier puppets!"

Zhou Chun didn't mind his change in attitude and stated his purpose directly.

This was not unexpected by Qian Qiuzi, who quickly looked at him and said, "Our sect's fourth-tier puppets are no ordinary items. Since Fellow Daoist Zhou wishes to exchange for such a treasure, what treasures have you prepared as a form of exchange?"

"Fellow Daoist Qianqiuzi, what do you think of this item?"

Zhou Chun raised his hand and patted the storage bag at his waist, releasing the enormous hide of the [Abyssal Beast].

"This is……"

Looking at the black animal hide folded into multiple layers in front of her, Chiakiko's expression changed slightly.

After examining the black animal hide for a while, he looked at Zhou Chun with a surprised and uncertain expression and said, "This seems to be the fur of a rare demonic beast called the [Abyssal Beast], which only appears in the cultivation world of the far west?"

"Fellow Daoist Qianqiuzi has excellent eyesight; you were able to discern the origin of this item so quickly from just a piece of animal hide!"

Zhou Chun looked at Qian Qiuzi in surprise, and couldn't help but admire the other's erudition.

He immediately nodded and said, "That's right, this is indeed the hide of a [Dark Abyss Behemoth], and it's even a mid-grade fourth-tier [Dark Abyss Behemoth] hide!"

Upon hearing him confirm his opinion, Qian Qiuzi couldn't help but gape and exclaim, "Legend has it that the [Abyssal Beast] only inhabits certain deserts in the cultivation world of the far west, is extremely skilled in burrowing, and basically never leaves the sandy land. Fellow Daoist Zhou, you..."

At this point, he suddenly seemed to realize something and stopped talking.

As expected, Zhou Chun seemed to know what he was going to say, and immediately waved his hand, saying, "It's not convenient for me to tell Fellow Daoist Qianqiuzi how I killed this beast. Just say that you want to exchange this for a fourth-tier puppet from your Yuan Kui Sect. Are you willing to trade?"

Upon hearing this, Qian Qiuzi immediately said, "I cannot make this decision alone. I need to discuss it with my senior brothers before I can make a decision. If Fellow Daoist Zhou is not in a hurry, you can wait at our sect for two days!"

He wasn't trying to deceive Zhou Chun. Fourth-tier puppets were strategic resources for the sect, and even as the sect leader, he couldn't easily make decisions to exchange them with others.

The reason Zhou Chun was able to directly exchange fourth-tier puppets with "Master Qianji" was because those puppets were personally crafted by "Master Qianji," making them essentially his personal property.

However, Qianqiuzi did not have the ability to create fourth-order puppets.

Zhou Chun was well aware of this, and immediately nodded and said, "Alright, then I'll wait two days."

After waiting for two days, Zhou Chun successfully exchanged for a fourth-tier low-grade wolf-shaped puppet, as expected.

Both parties were well aware that this deal was a win-win situation.

The Yuan Kui Sect is not lacking in a fourth-tier low-grade puppet, and Zhou Chun is not necessarily lacking in such a puppet either.

Since Zhou Chun specifically brought the hide of the [Abyssal Beast] to the Yuan Kui Sect to exchange for a fourth-tier puppet, it shows that he is also very clear about the use of this item.

Even if the Yuan Kui Sect wanted to bargain, they wouldn't be able to get away with it.

Once this deal is made, the sheath of the [Abyssal Beast] will be large enough to arm more than a dozen fourth-tier puppets, giving them an extra layer of powerful protection.

Any Golden Core cultivator in the Yuan Kui Sect who isn't stupid knows what to choose.

Including the giant ape puppet he had previously acquired, Zhou Chun now possessed two low-grade fourth-tier puppets.

This item may be of little use to him now, but in the hands of Zhou Mingde and Zhou Daoyi, two weakened versions of Golden Core cultivators, it is enough to make up for their shortcomings in magical power and supernatural abilities, and give them the possibility of defeating other early Golden Core cultivators.

Furthermore, as long as they are properly maintained and repaired promptly after damage, the two puppets can be passed down as part of the Zhou family's heritage.

After the deal was completed, Zhou Chun naturally did not stay at the Yuan Kui Sect for long and quickly headed to Tianyuan Immortal City.

Of course, although he claimed to be surnamed Zhou, his appearance was naturally altered, and he used the secret technique of the "Thousand Illusions Manual" to disguise himself.

Previously, when Zhou Chun was cultivating in the far west, he spent a lot of time studying and practicing this secret technique because the environment on Tianhuo Peak was not very suitable for his cultivation. The effect of the disguise was quite good, no worse than when he used the [Hundred Illusion Pearl] before.

Upon entering Tianyuan Immortal City, Zhou Chun's first act was to visit Zhou Daoyi.

If you think about it carefully, Zhou Chun and Zhou Daoyi haven't seen each other for almost twenty years. He hasn't seen them since he went to Bingyi Kingdom.

When the two met again, they felt a great sense of kinship.

After exchanging pleasantries, Zhou Chun began to recount his travels to the Ice Barbarian Kingdom and the cultivation world in the far west, sharing his experiences.

When Zhou Daoyi first heard about his various extraordinary encounters in these two places, he couldn't help but marvel at his good fortune and was extremely fascinated.

After recounting his own experiences, Zhou Chun suddenly changed the subject, saying, "Grand Uncle, your Azure Dragon shouldn't have advanced to a third-tier high-grade demon beast yet, right? This time, I obtained a third-tier high-grade wind-attribute demon core in the cultivation world of the far west. You should take it and give it a good boost so it can make a run for fourth-tier status as soon as possible!"

"Alright, since it's all from your heart, then I won't stand on ceremony with you."

Zhou Daoyi glanced at the demon core that Zhou Chun had taken out, hesitated for a moment, then laughed heartily and nodded as he accepted the demon core.

Then, looking at Zhou Chun, he said, "Speaking of the matter of striving to become a fourth-tier demon beast, I happen to have some news to share with you, Zheng Chun. What do you think? Should our Zhou family also get involved?"

"Oh, but what is the news?"

Zhou Chun's expression shifted slightly, and he looked at Zhou Daoyi with surprise.

Zhou Daoyi smiled slightly and said, "Zhengchun, you surely still remember the Yuling Sect, right? Recently, one of their enemies spread the word that one of the sect's guardian spirit beasts is preparing to undergo the Heavenly Tribulation, and they've concluded that this beast has a very high chance of successfully surviving it!"

"As you know, when a demon beast survives the Heavenly Tribulation, it receives a divine gift of 'Emperor's Elixir,' a rare treasure that greatly aids its breakthrough and evolution!"

"Moreover, a fifth-tier demonic beast that has just survived a tribulation will inevitably experience a brief period of weakness, and the Spirit Control Sect doesn't even have a Nascent Soul stage cultivator in charge. It's hard to say that this wouldn't be tempting!"

At this point, Zhou Daoyi couldn't help but gloat, saying, "The Yuling Sect is in big trouble this time. If things go wrong, the sect's lineage might be cut off!"