Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Once you begin practicing "Purple Flower Demon-Subduing Spiritual Light," you cannot stop for even a single day, otherwise all your previous hard work will be wasted.

This restriction means that once a cultivator decides to practice this method, they are bound to remain secluded in one place and dare not go out, lest some unexpected event delay their cultivation.

Therefore, once Zhou Chun began cultivating this secret technique in the Golden Cloud Mountains, it meant that he would not leave this place for the next twenty-four years.

However, to be honest, he only spent one or two hours a day cultivating the "Purple Flower Demon-Subduing Spiritual Light." The rest of the time he could still engage in daily meditation and practice other secret techniques and supernatural abilities.

Therefore, in addition to the secret technique "Purple Flower Demon-Subduing Light", Zhou Chun mainly cultivated the secret techniques and supernatural powers "Golden Escape Technique" and "Geng Metal Sky-Splitting Thunder" in response to the special environment of the Golden Cloud Mountain Range, and then supplemented his cultivation with the two secret techniques "Taiyi Two-Part Divine Technique" and "Heart Lotus Orthodox Method".

As a result, his days were still packed with work, leaving him little time to rest.

Besides Zhou Chun, the environment of the Golden Cloud Mountain Range is also a very good place for the Golden Armor Mountain Turtle Stone and the Golden Winged Tiger spirit pets to cultivate. They also know how to cherish this opportunity and are silently working hard to cultivate.

The other three spirit pets don't receive any environmental bonuses here, but they won't be weakened either.

Even the Wood Spirit Mu Sang can still occasionally steal some of the spirit wood wool from the Golden Cloud Mountains.

Day after day, year after year, twelve years passed in the blink of an eye!

On this day, the spiritual energy in the valley where Zhou Chun was located suddenly stirred and surged towards a certain place in the valley.

A dazzling emerald light silently emanated from the valley.

It turns out that after years of refining and cultivating, the Wood Spirit Mu Sang finally refined all the Wood Spirit power that she had absorbed and stored in that secret cave, and successfully broke through to the fourth-order superior grade!

As a spirit with extraordinary talent, it had never encountered any bottlenecks in its cultivation journey, which made Zhou Chun's other spirit pets and its master extremely envious.

However, after advancing to a fourth-tier superior-grade demon beast, its "good days" came to an end.

The upcoming Heavenly Tribulation will truly become its "life-or-death tribulation"!

The Wood Spirit, being a type of spirit, is inherently far more powerful than ordinary demonic beasts when facing Heavenly Tribulation. However, its strength is inferior to that of powerful demonic beasts like the Thunder Flood Dragon, and it has not cultivated any secret methods for transcending tribulation.

In the future, if they want to survive the Heavenly Tribulation, they will almost certainly have to rely on their master, Zhou Chun.

In fact, the vast majority of spirits and monsters in the cultivation world do not die at the hands of cultivators or other demonic beasts, but rather from the tribulations of heavenly lightning!

Such extraordinary beings, possessing extraordinary talent, seem to be inherently unacceptable to the laws of nature.

In this situation, although Mu Mei and Mu Sang are now the second to break through to the fourth-tier superior level, they may actually be the last to become a fifth-tier demon king!

Zhou Chun would never allow it to undergo tribulation without being extremely confident.

Seemingly spurred on by the success of Mu Mei and Mu Sang, Lei Jiao Bai Bai and Jin Jia Fu Shan Gui Shi Tou, who were not far from breaking through to the fourth-tier high-grade demon beast, also became even more diligent in their cultivation in the following period.

They all have cultivation techniques that suit their own bloodline. Although they are not yet at the fifth level and cannot fully utilize the uses of these cultivation techniques, they can still slightly accelerate their growth.

In contrast, after successfully breaking through to the fourth-tier superior level, the Wood Spirit Wood Mulberry knew that its good days were over, and it completely slacked off in its cultivation.

Zhou Chun often couldn't see it; it had run off to play on its own.

After breaking through to the fourth-tier superior level, its wood escape technique can be said to be superb. Unless it is deliberately targeted or in a place where it is not easy to use its escape technique, even a Nascent Soul stage cultivator would have a hard time catching it.

So Zhou Chun didn't manage it too strictly, letting it do as it pleased, as long as it didn't run too far away.

Sunrise and sunset, time flies.

In the twentieth year that Zhou Chun devoted himself to cultivation in the Golden Cloud Mountains, Lei Jiao Bai Bai finally broke through to the fourth-order superior-grade demon beast with the help of the [Hundred Herbs Ginseng King Pill].

After breaking through to the fourth-tier superior-grade demon beast, Lei Jiao Bai Bai's own strength increased greatly, and he was finally able to refine and nurture the magic weapon [Heavenly Gang Thunder-Slaying Sword].

Zhou Chun immediately handed the flying sword over to it for refinement and nurtured it within its body.

If Grandmaster Yan Cang wasn't lying back then, this magic weapon could be upgraded to a top-grade magic weapon after only a hundred years of nurturing!

At that time, Lei Jiao Bai Bai will be able to break through to the fifth-order demon king realm in one fell swoop and use this sword to overcome the heavenly tribulation.

With Lei Jiao Bai Bai breaking through to the fourth-tier high-grade demon beast realm, only the Golden Armor Mountain-Bearing Turtle Stone and the Golden-Winged Tiger among Zhou Chun's five spirit pets remained at the fourth-tier mid-grade demon beast realm.

Both of them are at roughly the same level of cultivation now. The Golden-Armored Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone might be slightly better, but only to a limited extent.

Zhou Chun still has the demon core of that golden unicorn. Who will use it depends on the situation.

Given that the three demonic beasts that broke through first had no chance of undergoing the Heavenly Tribulation in the short term, Zhou Chun instructed them to focus on comprehending the "Heavenly Annihilation Four Symbols Formation" while cultivating the Tribulation Transcending Secret Technique, to see if they could master it before undergoing the tribulation.

If we can use four high-grade fourth-tier demonic beasts to set up this combined attack formation, even if we can't defeat a Nascent Soul cultivator, we can probably at least fight to a draw with an ordinary early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator or a fifth-tier demon king.

In that way, Zhou Chun will be more assured when he transforms his core and forms his nascent soul in the future.

Time flies, and four years have passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, when Zhou Chun once again collected the essence of the moon and the purple aura of the rising sun collected during the day and used a secret method to refine them, the essence of the sun and moon that he had collected and condensed over the past twenty-four years seemed to have undergone some kind of sublimation.

Without him needing to cultivate any further, a pale purple spiritual light burst forth from his body, forming a pale purple halo around him, making him appear like a celestial being or deity.

At this moment, the secret technique "Purple Flower Demon-Subduing Light," which he had cultivated for over 8,700 days and nights, has finally been perfected!

"Phew, after twenty-four years of wasted time, my mission is finally complete!"

Zhou Chun breathed a sigh of relief, and a genuine smile appeared on her face.

He immediately used a secret technique to gather the pale purple spiritual light, transforming it into a pale purple sun in his Purple Mansion Sea of ​​Consciousness, constantly illuminating his soul.

This "Purple Flower Demon-Subduing Aura" is not only very useful in resisting the "Inner Demon Tribulation," but it can also suppress the Purple Mansion Sea of ​​Consciousness, achieving the effect of purifying the soul.

In the future, Zhou Chun can still gather the essence of the sun and moon to nourish that spiritual light, but even if he doesn't do so, as long as he doesn't use it up, the thing will not dissipate.

A moment later, Zhou Chun returned to his temporary cave dwelling in the Golden Cloud Mountains and continued his meditation and cultivation.

Over the past twenty-four years, his magical abilities have greatly improved because the environment here is very suitable for his cultivation.

According to his own estimation, he would have at most another ten years of cultivation before he could achieve perfect Golden Core cultivation and attempt to transform his core into a Nascent Soul.

Therefore, after successfully cultivating the secret technique "Purple Flower Demon-Subduing Spiritual Light", Zhou Chun did not immediately leave the Golden Cloud Mountain Range, but continued to cultivate there to improve his cultivation.

Six more years passed, and after Zhou Chun had spent thirty years in the Jinxia Mountains, he finally decided to leave the mountains.

He is still a few years away from achieving the perfect Golden Core cultivation.

However, considering that refining the [Nascent Soul Pill] would also take some time, he did not intend to continue cultivating here.

However, before leaving the Golden Cloud Mountains, Zhou Chun rode the Golden Armored Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone to a certain place in the mountains.

He rode on a tortoise and flew hundreds of miles through the mountains before arriving near a fissure canyon.

This fissure canyon is about thirty or forty miles long and varies in depth from thirty to seventy or eighty feet. The soil and rocks exposed on both sides of the cliff face have a faint golden hue, which is a sign of being rich in metal.

In fact, this place is indeed the location of a branch of a large refined gold vein below the Jinxia Mountains, and refined gold veins usually contain a large amount of gold on the surface.

Zhou Chun scanned the rift below with his divine sense and quickly located his target.

There were a dozen or so low-growing trees, some of which resembled hawthorn trees, with grayish-gold leaves and pale golden fruits that looked like small persimmons.

Zhou Chun gently flicked out a golden light blade, which struck the trunk of one of the trees. Just as the golden light blade was about to touch the trunk, a burst of golden spiritual light burst out from within the trunk, easily dispersing the golden light blade.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun was not surprised but delighted, nodding repeatedly and saying, "It really is Golden Magnetic Spirit Wood! I didn't expect there to be such a rare spirit wood here!"

Golden Magnetic Spirit Wood is an extremely rare type of spirit wood in the cultivation world, and it can only appear through mutation.

This kind of spiritual wood naturally contains "golden magnetic power". Once attacked, it will release the "golden magnetic power" within its body and transform it into "golden magnetic spiritual light" for defense.

Moreover, this kind of spiritual wood has a symbiotic relationship. If multiple trees grow together, they will form a symbiotic relationship and transfer the "golden magnetic power" contained within them to each other.

It is said that if the quantity of this kind of spirit wood reaches a certain level, it can form a special "golden magnetic field". In that field, any metal-type spell will be decomposed into spiritual power and absorbed by it. All magical treasures containing spirit metal will be absorbed!

According to ancient records that Zhou Chun had read before, a master of formations once used thousands of golden magnetic spirit trees as the base of the formation and combined them with the "golden magnetic domain" to create a powerful forbidden formation.

Within such a grand formation, even a Nascent Soul cultivator in the early stages of refining metal-attribute techniques cannot even separate their Nascent Soul from their body, and their magical treasures and supernatural abilities cannot even unleash one-tenth of their power. Entering such a formation would be tantamount to suicide!

Outsiders did not know the true name of that forbidden formation, so they named it the "Golden Annihilation Formation".

For this reason, whenever a large area of ​​magnetic wood is discovered in the cultivation world, sword cultivator sects or major forces that specialize in metal-based cultivation techniques will immediately go and destroy it to prevent anyone from using this type of wood against them.

However, everything has two sides.

Although the Golden Magnetic Wood can restrain cultivators who use metal-based techniques, it can also gather metal energy from all directions and improve spiritual energy attributes.

If some of these spiritual trees could be planted around the cave, as long as they are not allowed to form a "metal magnetic field", then the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around the cave would be more inclined towards the metal element.

Therefore, for Zhou Chun, these dozen or so Golden Magnetic Spirit Trees came at just the right time.

If he transplants it back to the Azure Lotus Mountain Range and plants it in his cave, the cultivation environment of his cave will be significantly improved in the future.

However, there are quite a few of these golden magnetic spirit trees. Although this type of spirit tree is known for its strong vitality and ease of transplanting, transplanting more than a dozen at once is a bit too conspicuous.

Therefore, after pondering for a while, Zhou Chun decided not to transplant the plant yet, but to deal with the matter after he had formed his nascent soul and achieved the Nascent Soul stage.

In any case, ordinary cultivators dare not enter the Golden Glow Mountain Range, and the fact that these Golden Magnetic Spirit Trees have been growing here for a long time is proof of this.

Having made this decision, Zhou Chun quickly rode the tortoise and left the Jinxia Mountains.

Several months later, Zhou Chun reappeared in the Blazing Sands.

He changed his appearance and crossed the desert, arriving at the Fire Basin Oasis where the Heavenly Fire Sect was located in just a few days.

However, because he had killed members of the Holy Flame Cult, Zhou Chun dared not go directly to the Heavenly Flame Sect's mountain gate, lest his true identity be discovered and he be hunted down by the Holy Flame Cult.

He found a place to linger in the market town above the Fire Basin Oasis. He first inquired about the Heavenly Fire Sect. After learning from a Purple Mansion stage cultivator of the Heavenly Fire Sect that Bai Zhiqing was at the sect, he activated a "Thousand-Mile Communication Talisman" that Bai Zhiqing had left for him.

After sending the message, Zhou Chun only waited for half a day before seeing Bai Zhiqing again.

"Zhiqing greets Fellow Daoist Zhou. Now that you've come here, why don't you go directly to our sect's main gate to pay your respects? Is it because you don't trust Zhiqing?"

Inside Zhou Chun's temporary residence, Bai Zhiqing looked at him with a puzzled expression and asked him her question.

However, she did not see through Zhou Chun's disguise and was unaware that Zhou Chun had already reached the late stage of the Golden Core realm.

Upon hearing her complaint, Zhou Chun quickly waved his hand and explained, "Fellow Daoist Bai, please don't misunderstand. I didn't mean to distrust you. It's just that when I left your sect, I was pursued by cultivators from the Holy Fire Sect, which created a considerable grudge between us. Therefore, I didn't want to involve you!"

"Oh, is that so?"

Bai Zhiqing's expression changed slightly, as this was the first time she had learned of this matter.

"These are just old stories, Fellow Daoist Bai need not worry about them."

Zhou Chun shook her head, looking like she didn't want to say anything more.

Seeing his reaction, Bai Zhiqing could only suppress her curiosity and nodded, saying, "Zhiqing understands. Fellow Daoist Zhou must have come to see me this time for that magic weapon, right?"

"That's good, but I wonder if Senior Yan Cang has finished crafting that magic weapon?"

As Zhou Chun spoke, she looked at her with anticipation in her eyes.

"this……"

Bai Zhiqing hesitated at this moment, as if she had some unspeakable secret.

This gave Zhou Chun a jolt of fear; she sensed something was wrong.

Without further ado, he stared directly at the other party and questioned, "Fellow Daoist Bai, why are you hesitating to answer me? Is there some problem with the forging of this magic weapon? Could it have failed?"

Faced with his sharp questioning, Bai Zhiqin's expression changed several times, and she hurriedly replied, "No, Fellow Daoist Zhou, please don't misunderstand, the magic weapon was not failed to be refined!"

"Since you haven't failed, why don't you take out the item, Fellow Daoist Bai?"

Zhou Chun pressed on relentlessly, determined not to give up until he achieved his goal.

This left Bai Zhiqing speechless for a moment.

Seeing that she remained silent, Zhou Chun grew annoyed. His eyes flashed with anger, and he said in a cold voice, "Fellow Daoist Bai, what exactly do you mean? Do you intend to break your promise?"

As soon as he got angry, his immense divine power enveloped Bai Zhiqing.

Under the pressure of his divine sense, Bai Zhiqing, who was only at the early stage of the Golden Core realm, immediately felt immense pressure, and her heartbeat quickened considerably.

At this moment, she seemed to finally realize the consequences of angering Zhou Chun, and hurriedly waved her hand to explain, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, please calm down. Zhiqing would never dare to play tricks on you. It's just that after that magic weapon was forged, it was intercepted by the Supreme Elder, who made it clear that Fellow Daoist Zhou must go and retrieve it personally!"

Upon hearing her answer, Zhou Chun's expression changed, and he couldn't help but ask in a deep voice, "Is that really so? Why would Senior Yan Cang do such a thing?"

"How could Zhiqing dare to deceive Fellow Daoist Zhou? As for why the Supreme Elder did this, Zhiqing has no idea!"

Bai Zhiqing's face was filled with bitterness and helplessness as she spoke.

In fact, she already knew she was in trouble after receiving Zhou Chun's message today, but if she didn't come to see Zhou Chun, the consequences would be even more unpredictable, so she had no choice but to bite the bullet and come.

Zhou Chun then asked again, "Is Senior Yan Cang aware of my invitation to meet Fellow Daoist Bai?"

Upon hearing his words, Bai Zhiqing's expression changed again. She lowered her head, avoiding his gaze, and whispered, "Zhiqing, before I went down the mountain, I mentioned this matter to the Supreme Elder!"

"Very well! Since that's the case, Fellow Daoist Bai, please take me to see Senior Yan Cang!"

Zhou Chun opened his mouth, but in the end he only let out a long sigh and waved his hand to announce his decision.

Now that things have come to this, whatever his opinion of Bai Zhiqing may be, he can no longer change the outcome.

Now that Grandmaster Yan Cang knows he is in the Fire Basin Oasis, it will be difficult for him to leave without saying goodbye.

Before he reached the Nascent Soul stage, Zhou Chun did not want to meet any more Nascent Soul cultivators; he wanted to minimize his own risks.

But man proposes, God disposes; his haste has now brought him into an awkward situation!

"I'm sorry, this matter was not handled well by Zhiqing. In the future, if Fellow Daoist Zhou ever needs my help, Zhiqing will definitely do her best to assist you!"

Bai Zhiqing attempted to apologize and make amends, promising to make up for her mistake.

Little did she know that in Zhou Chun's eyes now, her favors were worth almost nothing, far less than the trouble they brought her.

But Zhou Chun was too lazy to discuss these things with her anymore, so he just gave her a perfunctory reply and asked her to take him to the Tianhuo Sect's mountain gate.

Not long after, Zhou Chun, who had concealed his cultivation and disguised himself as a late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator, was taken back to Heavenly Fire Peak by Bai Zhiqing, and then led to the cave of True Person Yan Cang.

"This junior pays respects to Senior Yan Cang."

Inside the cave, when Zhou Chun met Yan Cang Zhenren, his expression had already changed, and his tone was as respectful as ever.

His methods of concealing his cultivation level were naturally unable to fool Yan Cang Zhenren, a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

Upon discovering that his magical cultivation was almost at the peak of the Golden Core stage, True Person Yancang couldn't help but show a look of surprise.

He couldn't help but exclaim, "In just over a hundred years, young friend Zhou is already preparing to form his Core and Nascent Soul! This speed of progress in cultivation is truly extraordinary!"

When he first met Zhou Chun, Zhou Chun had just advanced to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, and his magical power clearly showed that he had only recently broken through.

It has only been less than two hundred years, and Zhou Chun is already close to the completion of the Golden Core stage. This speed is undeniably fast.

In Yan Cang Zhenren's view, only cultivators with top-grade spiritual roots could possibly achieve this.

However, he already knew Zhou Chun's background from Bai Zhiqing and knew that his spiritual root aptitude was not very outstanding.

Faced with his praise, Zhou Chun replied very humbly, "Senior, you flatter me. I merely had a stroke of luck, and my cultivation is utterly insignificant in the face of a master like you!"

Upon hearing his answer, Master Yancang gave him a deep look and said, "Occasional opportunities may exist for others, but the opportunities you, young friend Zhou, possess are clearly beyond the reach of ordinary people!"

He knew that Zhou Chun possessed a spiritual treasure, and he also knew how much potential those spiritual pets on Zhou Chun's body had.

Therefore, Zhou Chun could no longer remain modest and could only cleverly change the subject, saying, "From what Fellow Daoist Bai said, Senior Yan Cang seems to have used that [Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal] to refine some extraordinary magic weapon. Would you be so kind as to let me see it?"

Hearing this, even though True Immortal Yan Cang knew what he was thinking, he couldn't help but chuckle smugly, "Hehehe, this treasure refining process has indeed exceeded my expectations!"

After saying that, he raised his hand and waved it, and a jade box appeared in front of Zhou Chun.

As the box was opened, a row of nine long white needles came into Zhou Chun's view.

These nine long white needles are each 12 inches long and as thin as bamboo sticks.

But that's not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the aura emitted by each of them is comparable to that of a top-grade magic weapon!

"See that? This set of [Nine Annihilation Ice Needles] is my most prized work in recent years. Each needle alone is equivalent to a high-grade magic weapon, and together they form a top-grade magic weapon, and even a top-grade among top-grade magic weapons!"

"Because it's a complete set of magical artifacts, even if the master's magical power is weak and unable to unleash the full power of the artifacts, they can selectively activate one or more flying spears to fight the enemy, depending on their own magical power!"

"These [Nine Annihilation Ice Needles] fully utilize the characteristics of [Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystals]. They are invisible and intangible when flying, making them difficult for even a late-stage Golden Core cultivator to detect with their divine sense. Even the physical body of a fourth-tier high-grade demon beast cannot withstand their sharpness!"

"At the same time, the flying needles themselves carry a special cold poison. Once they pierce the flesh, the cold poison will attack the heart and brain, damaging the target from both the blood and the soul."

"Any late-stage Golden Core cultivator with this set of flying needles, and facing an opponent without any specific defensive measures, could kill a cultivator of the same level with the ease of cutting melons and vegetables!"

Master Yancang looked proudly at the nine long needles in the jade box and said in a smug tone.