Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Outside the Fire Basin Oasis.

Zhou Chun turned around and took one last look at the oasis before leaving without looking back.

That set of [Nine Annihilation Ice Needles] is now in his hands.

This is, after all, a magic weapon that he commissioned to be crafted. Even if True Immortal Yan Cang is reluctant to part with it, he has no reason to take it, unless he wants to ruin his reputation and create a future enemy for the Heavenly Fire Sect when his lifespan is running out!

However, the fact that Master Yancang did not directly give this set of magic weapons to Bai Zhiqing, but instead had her pass it on to Zhou Chun, also reveals some of his thoughts.

Therefore, in order to retrieve the [Nine Annihilation Ice Needles] ahead of time, Zhou Chun paid the price of a favor, promising to credit the Heavenly Fire Sect if he successfully formed his Core and Nascent Soul in the future.

It's hard to say whether Zhou Chun suffered a loss in this deal.

Given the rarity and preciousness of the [Nine Annihilation Ice Needles], it is absolutely worthwhile for a Nascent Soul cultivator to owe a favor.

However, considering that Zhou Chun had already prepaid Bai Zhiqing's payment, he did indeed suffer a bit of a loss.

But he doesn't want to dwell on it too much now.

Consider this compensation for taking advantage of Master Yancang before!

For Zhou Chun, the most urgent matter is still the transformation of the elixir and the formation of the nascent soul.

After leaving the Blazing Sands, he traveled eastward, leaving the cultivation world in the far west.

Half a year later, Zhou Chun appeared in Heng State in the northeast of the Great Zhou Kingdom.

Heng Kingdom is also a border country of the human race, adjacent to a foreign region called "Tianman Plain".

"Tianman Plain" is a vast territory inhabited by three different races: the Heavenly Soul Race, the Earthly Barbarian Race, and the Five Elements Spirit Race.

Each of these three alien races is far weaker than the Multiwinged Race on its own, but when the three races unite, they are much stronger than the Multiwinged Race.

The three races firmly occupy the vast territory of "Tianman Plain", forcing the human cultivators of Heng Kingdom to guard their gates and not dare to offend them in any way.

The opportunity to form a Nascent Soul, mentioned by the True Man of the Heavenly Mirror, is located in the Heavenly Barbarian Plain.

According to the information revealed by Master Tianjing, among the three alien races in Tianman Plain, apart from the Earth Barbarians who are known for their strong physical bodies and are relatively numerous, the other alien races are not many in number.

Therefore, the resources in the vast Tianman Plain are relatively abundant, which has attracted many human cultivators who risk their lives to venture deep into the area in search of treasures in hopes of gaining an opportunity for advancement.

Back then, True Person Tianjing traveled to Tianman Plain with another late-stage Golden Core cultivator, hoping to find an opportunity to form a Nascent Soul.

However, all three alien races on Tianman Plain are full of hostility towards human cultivators. If any race discovers a human cultivator, they will not hesitate to kill them.

Therefore, the number of human cultivators who can venture deep into the Tianman Plain and return alive with their harvest has always been extremely small.

Logically speaking, Zhou Chun has already prepared a wealth of things for the Nascent Soul stage, so there's no need for him to make this trip.

Even if you absolutely have to make this trip, you can wait until he has completed his Core Formation and Nascent Soul stage before coming.

But here's the strange coincidence.

If the Nascent Soul formation opportunity mentioned by the Heavenly Mirror True Man is real, it will be of great help to Zhou Chun. It may allow him to complete the third shattering and reforging of the cauldron in one step after he transforms into a core and forms a Nascent Soul!

This forced Zhou Chun to come here in person to confirm before he could complete the Core Formation and Nascent Soul formation.

Because once he comes after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, although safety may not be a major issue, it will be very difficult to conceal his whereabouts.

The Heavenly Soul Clan, one of the three alien races, is said to possess a mysterious monitoring method capable of detecting and sensing the aura of fifth-order beings active within the Tianman Plains.

If a Nascent Soul cultivator enters the Heavenly Barbarian Plains, they will be detected and thus be surrounded and killed by the fifth-order beings of the three races!

Even if they could break through the encirclement without fear of being surrounded, achieving their goal would be impossible.

Therefore, Zhou Chun had no choice but to come to Tianman Plain now.

However, he was still quite cautious and did not blindly trust the information given by the Heavenly Mirror Master. After arriving in Heng Kingdom, he made a special effort to inquire and collect some information about the Heavenly Barbarian Plain and the three alien races.

It's just that the three alien races of Tianman Plain basically have no contact with the human race, unlike the multi-winged race mages who secretly trade and communicate with human cultivators. As a result, there is very little information that can be obtained, and much of it cannot be verified.

Furthermore, the place Zhou Chun was going to was a relatively deep area compared to most cultivators who wanted to venture into the Tianman Plains.

Generally speaking, apart from those late-stage Golden Core cultivators who want to seek the opportunity to form a Nascent Soul, few cultivators dare to venture that far.

Zhou Chun couldn't very well go and ask some late-stage Golden Core cultivator about this matter!

So when he realized that the intelligence he had gathered was of little use to him, he could only grit his teeth and plunge into the Tianman Plain alone.

The overall environment of Tianman Plain is somewhat similar to the wilderness adjacent to Longyuan Marsh, with various terrains.

The most abundant creatures here are not the three major alien races, but various kinds of demonic beasts.

In fact, besides the three major alien races, there should also be a demon race here.

It was only because the three alien races united that their high-level strength was enough to overwhelm the demon kings here, which made them the overlords of this place.

As a result, they occupied the best spiritual mountain and blessed land in Tianman Plain.

Because the three major alien races had deployed many overt and covert spies in the border areas, Zhou Chun was extremely careful when he infiltrated.

He didn't even try to have the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone carry him in using Earth Escape Technique, because the Earth Barbarians, one of the three alien races, also had the talent to communicate with the power of the earth and might be able to detect the existence of Earth Escape Technique.

The infiltration method he chose was something most people would never have imagined.

That is, he directly hid inside the Golden-Winged Tiger's "spatial pouch" and let the Golden-Winged Tiger take him into the Tianman Plain.

As a fourth-tier demon beast, even if the Golden-Winged Tiger were discovered by the three major alien races upon entering the Tianman Plain, they would most likely regard it as a wild demon beast if no human cultivators were found nearby.

In this way, unless there is an alien race preparing to hunt it, no one will care about its existence.

Even if one wanted to hunt the Golden-Winged Tiger, given its current abilities, it would be very difficult for a fourth-tier being to catch up with it.

Even if we catch up, it would be a suicide mission!

In short, the most troublesome thing did not happen. Zhou Chun successfully crossed the border area with the Golden-Winged Tiger and went deep into the Tianman Plain.

Seeing how effective this method was, Zhou Chun simply continued to use it to have the Golden-Winged Tiger carry him forward, only occasionally emerging to observe the mountains and terrain to determine their location.

However, Tianman Plain was simply too vast. Although he had a simple map given to him by True Person Tianjing, it was still not easy to find the location of the Nascent Soul opportunity that the other party had mentioned.

On this day, Zhou Chun was traveling through the Tianman Plain with the Golden-Winged Tiger when the tiger suddenly transmitted a battle intelligence to him through telepathic communication. It revealed that there were fourth-tier beings fighting nearby, and one of them was a demon beast.

After learning about this, Zhou Chun hesitated for a moment, but still decided to go out and observe.

His knowledge of the three alien races was limited to his investigation within the territory of Heng Kingdom. He only knew that the Heavenly Soul Clan was born with a powerful soul and was skilled in unpredictable soul-path supernatural abilities. Cultivators whose spiritual sense was not strong enough could easily have their souls annihilated in front of them, turning them into walking corpses.

Furthermore, this race is skilled in the art of corpse refining, and can refine cultivators whose souls have been annihilated into corpse puppets for their use.

The barbarian tribes, on the other hand, excel in physical cultivation.

This clan specializes in body refinement and is often able to engage in hand-to-hand combat with demonic beasts of the same level. The strong members of the clan possess powerful physiques capable of moving mountains and filling seas, and tearing apart dragons with their bare hands!

The Five Elements Spirit Clan is proficient in Five Elements magic. They are naturally close to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and are born Qi cultivators. The same Five Elements magic in their hands is much stronger than in the hands of many human cultivators.

If any one of these three races were to stand alone, they would not be a threat. However, when they are combined, they have almost no weaknesses and are extremely difficult to deal with.

Therefore, even though they knew that the Tianman Plain they occupied was rich in resources and diverse in products, the human cultivation world rarely came to provoke them.

Fortunately, they themselves had difficulty reproducing and did not have the strength to defeat the entire human race, so they could only live a carefree life in the Tianman Plain.

At this moment, after making his decision, Zhou Chun immediately emerged from the Golden-Winged Tiger's body and headed towards the battlefield.

He still harbored deep resentment towards the legendary Heavenly Soul Clan, so he stopped far from the battlefield and dared not rashly use his divine sense to observe them.

Only one type of demonic insect called "Hidden Winged Dragonfly" can be released to act as an informant. This insect can be controlled by "Insect Puppet Technique" to fly to the vicinity of the battlefield to spy.

This "Hidden Winged Dragonfly" demon insect resembles a dragonfly in appearance, with a pale white body and wings. It is born with the supernatural ability to hide its presence. Although its combat power is extremely poor, it is one of the best targets for the "Insect Puppet Technique".

One of the Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Zhou family obtained some eggs of this kind of demonic insect during his travels. He treasured them and brought them back to the family to raise. Now, a small population has been formed.

When Zhou Chun left the family, he made a point of taking some animals with him.

At this moment, through the perspective of the "Hidden Winged Dragonfly", he soon discovered the two sides in the battle.

The two sides engaged in battle were a purple-striped Vajra Bear, a mid-grade fourth-tier demonic beast, and a giant from the Earth Barbarian tribe, who also exuded the aura of a mid-grade fourth-tier beast.

Although these barbarians were also humanoid, their skin was covered with natural cracks, like cracked rocks, and they had two short horns on their heads that resembled rhinoceros horns.

In battle, the barbarian giant was nearly ten zhang tall, and his flesh and blood seemed to surpass even the purple-striped Vajra Bear opposite him.

He didn't use any magical weapons; he simply relied on his fists to fight the Purple-Striped Vajra Bear head-on. Even though the Purple-Striped Vajra Bear's magic and claws left many wounds on his body, he didn't care.

It is worth mentioning that the blood flowing from the barbarian giants in this place was also like yellow soup, a muddy yellow color!

After observing for a while, Zhou Chun discovered that the barbarian giants were not actually incapable of magic or supernatural powers.

As a race that purely cultivates the body, they also develop some unique physical supernatural abilities as they break through their cultivation levels.

For example, the "Breaking Body Force," which has an effect similar to hitting a cow through a mountain, can ignore the hard hide and defensive spiritual light of the Purple-Veined Vajra Bear and strike its internal organs directly.

Every time the barbarian giant used this supernatural power, the Purple-Striped Vajra Bear was beaten until it spat out blood.

It was only thanks to the fact that this demon also possessed a strong physical body and abundant blood energy that it was able to withstand the continuous attacks of the barbarian giant.

In addition, this barbarian giant also possesses a powerful defensive ability, capable of erecting a protective aura shield similar to a protective magic spell. Even the Purple-Striped Vajra Bear's strongest offensive magic would find it difficult to break through the shield in one strike.

Finally, and what Zhou Chun feared most, was that this barbarian giant seemed to possess a "teleportation" ability, allowing him to move freely within a hundred-zhang radius and randomly appear anywhere!

With these three powerful and bizarre supernatural abilities, coupled with his own strong physique and brute force, this barbarian giant had an absolute advantage in the battle, and victory was only a matter of time.

As Zhou Chun scouted the area around the battlefield, he quickly discovered that on a mountain peak dozens of miles away, there were also several members of the Earth Barbarian Clan, numbering in the dozens, including a female Earth Barbarian with a fourth-order low-grade body refinement cultivation.

"Is he taking the younger members of the tribe out hunting?"

Zhou Chun pondered this in his heart, and soon put away the insect puppet technique and left.

He came to find treasure, not to fight and kill other races. He had already witnessed the fighting methods of the barbarian tribes and was prepared. There was no need for him to stay any longer and increase the possibility of being exposed.

During their subsequent journey, Zhou Chun also witnessed a battle between the third-tier Five Elements Spirit Clan and a demon beast.

Just as the intelligence he had gathered indicated, the Five Elements Spirit Clan's mastery of the Five Elements magic had truly reached a level of unparalleled skill.

A Golden Spirit Clan member with a cultivation level of the upper third rank can easily cast a variety of upper third rank spells, and can even cast lower fourth rank spells!

Such powerful magical talent is one in ten thousand among human cultivators.

The weakness of this alien race is probably that their physical bodies are very ordinary, just like those of human cultivators, and they can only practice and cast spells of a single attribute, making it difficult for them to learn spells of other attributes.

However, like human cultivators, they also know how to make talismans, and can create talismans that seal powerful spells, thus achieving the effect of using spells of other attributes by exchanging talismans with each other.

In short, they are a formidable opponent!

Even after Zhou Chun arrived at the place mentioned by the Heavenly Mirror True Man, he had never met the most mysterious members of the Heavenly Soul Clan, nor had he witnessed their soul-path supernatural abilities.

Zhou Chun appeared outside a canyon basin filled with pale golden mist.

The canyon basin in front of him, with pale golden mist floating in the sky, was about two or three hundred miles long and fifty or sixty miles wide, with rolling mountains on both sides.

This is the place where the opportunity to form a Nascent Soul, as mentioned by the Heavenly Mirror True Man, lies.

The pale golden mist that permeated the canyon basin was called "Hundred Poison Golden Evil" by the Heavenly Mirror Master. It was formed by the fusion of the poisonous gas spewed by a strange insect called "Hundred Poison Golden Centipede" in the basin and the evil energy of this place.

This "Hundred Poisons Golden Fiend" is extremely vicious and powerful. If an ordinary Golden Core cultivator does not understand its power and enters it by setting up a protective shield-like divine power, it will easily have their shield eroded and be poisoned.

What's even more troublesome is that those "Hundred Poison Golden Centipedes" also have the ability to manipulate this "Hundred Poison Golden Fiend". If you fight against this strange insect inside, you will be severely suppressed by the opponent due to its home-field advantage!

Master Tianjing was originally at the late Golden Core stage and possessed top-grade magic treasures, but he still suffered a great loss and ultimately had to flee the place in a sorry state.

In fact, there are quite a few natural danger zones similar to this canyon basin in the Tianman Plain, and many members of the three major alien races dare not venture into such areas rashly.

Based on the environment of this place, Master Tianjing speculated that there should be a natural evil spring or evil cave at the source of evil energy deep in the basin, which would most likely give birth to "innate golden evil energy" similar to Xuanming cold energy.

If a cultivator using metal-elemental cultivation techniques can refine this innate metal-evil energy, the probability of achieving the Core Formation and Nascent Soul stage will definitely increase by 10% or 20%!

If Zhou Chun truly possessed such innate golden aura, not only would his chances of forming his nascent soul be greatly increased, but he might also receive an epic-level enhancement after successfully forming his nascent soul!

If he can forge a new Dao Cauldron with the innate golden evil energy, he will definitely lay an extremely solid foundation after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, and he may have more opportunities to break through to the Divine Transformation stage than ordinary cultivators.

Therefore, even though he knew it was not advisable to take risks before reaching the Nascent Soul stage, he still chose to come here.

After observing the basin from the outside, Zhou Chun summoned the Golden Armored Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone and rode the giant turtle down into the basin.

While carrying Zhou Chun, the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone took the initiative to use its protective divine power to help Zhou Chun isolate himself from the erosion of the "Hundred Poisons Golden Fiend". Zhou Chun himself also activated the [Qian Yuan Golden Glow] divine power to transform into a glowing shield to protect himself inside.

With such double protection, no matter how strange the "Hundred Poisons Golden Fiend" was, it couldn't possibly cause him any harm.

As for the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone itself, thanks to its unique species and the supernatural power of "Undying Body," this kind of poisonous aura has little effect on it.

Riding the tortoise, Zhou Chun continued deeper into the basin, where he saw the bones of various creatures piled up on the ground.

Some could be identified as demonic beasts, others as barbarian tribes, or even the Five Elements Spirit Tribe. Clearly, some of these alien races had risked their lives to come here.

Because of the existence of "Hundred Poisons Golden Fiend", very few plants can survive in the canyon basin. The plants that can appear are either spiritual herbs or poisonous herbs with detoxification effects.

Whenever Zhou Chun saw this plant, he would pick it first, regardless of whether he would need it or not.

About fifteen minutes after entering the canyon basin, Zhou Chun suddenly had a thought and immediately made the Golden Armored Mountain Tortoise stone fall to the ground.

After several dozen breaths, a whooshing sound reached Zhou Chun's ears.

A little while later, he saw the source of the sound in his line of sight.

What they saw were giant golden centipedes, each several meters long!

These giant golden centipedes are the "Hundred Poison Golden Centipedes," the only creatures that can survive in this place.

They weren't many, only about fifty, but Zhou Chun didn't dare underestimate them.

If the information provided by Master Tianjing is correct, these guys in this canyon basin are each as strong as a low-grade fourth-order demon beast on their own, and the poisonous aura they spew can even injure a late-stage Golden Core cultivator!

When Zhou Chun saw these poisonous centipedes, the venomous insects naturally noticed him as well.

He and his spirit pet were then subjected to a concentrated attack by these poisonous insects.

As soon as the venomous insects opened their mouths, a stream of golden, poisonous energy gushed out from their fang-filled mouths.

This poisonous aura is very similar to the "Hundred Poisons Golden Aura" that permeates the canyon basin, but it is much more concentrated.

Furthermore, as this poisonous aura was exhaled, the pale golden poisonous mist permeating the canyon basin seemed to be drawn by some invisible force, actively merging into the poisonous aura and amplifying its power.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of streams of poisonous energy merged and devoured the poisonous mist in the canyon, creating a poisonous energy domain covering a radius of a hundred feet that enveloped Zhou Chun and his servant.

Within this highly concentrated poisonous aura, the defensive shield erected by the Golden Armor Mountain Tortoise was quickly eroded and riddled with holes, making it difficult to continue providing resistance.

Zhou Chun had already activated the power of the Moon Toad Pearl, using the "Taiyin Protective Immortal Robe" to shield himself within it.

At the same time, his natal magic weapon, the [Myriad Transformations Golden Cauldron], which he had already refined into a superior-grade magic weapon, also rose into the air, spewing out a large ball of golden light to form a protective shield that enveloped him.

At the same time, he lightly patted the spirit beast pouch at his waist, and the Fiery Phoenix appeared in the sky with a clear phoenix cry.

The environment here is special, and apart from the Golden Armor Mountain-Bearing Turtle Stone and the Fiery Phoenix, Zhou Chun's other spirit pets are not suitable for fighting.

However, the reason why Master Tianjing believed that he might have a chance to obtain the innate golden evil energy was because he possessed the Fiery Phoenix!

The Fire Phoenix of the Inferno was originally the Fire Phoenix of the Inferno, which feeds on various poisonous insects and can be said to be naturally able to restrain all kinds of poisonous insects.

After evolving into the Fiery Phoenix, although it no longer enjoys eating poisonous insects as much as before, it still retains its ability to control poisonous insects and remains immune to all poisons.

Furthermore, it is a pure fire-attribute demon beast, which makes it even more effective at restraining metal-attribute demon insects like the Hundred Poison Golden Centipede!

At this moment, with the appearance of the Fiery Phoenix, the Hundred Poison Golden Centipedes clearly lost their momentum and showed a sense of fear.

However, the Fiery Phoenix had no intention of tolerating these poisonous insects. It immediately flapped its wings and charged at them, its body ablaze with flames.

Seeing this, the Hundred Poison Golden Centipedes panicked and spewed out even more poisonous energy, which turned into columns of energy and poisonous mist that swept towards the Fiery Phoenix.

However, once these poisonous energies came into contact with the flames on the Fiery Phoenix's body, they were immediately burned into pale golden smoke, and the poisonous energies did not affect the Fiery Phoenix's performance at all.

On the contrary, the demonic fire spewed out by the Fiery Phoenix burned the Hundred Poison Golden Centipedes until their bodies turned red, like red-hot irons, and they hurriedly darted away to avoid it.

One of the Hundred Poison Golden Centipedes was unable to dodge in time and was caught by the Flame Phoenix's claws. The Phoenix immediately pecked through its head with its sharp beak and swallowed it whole!