Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 702 The Strongest Guardian Beast of the Mountain [Please Subscribe]

Boom!

With a thunderous roar, the Heavenly Tribulation of the Golden-Armored Mountain Tortoise Stone officially began.

Judging from the power of the falling tribulation lightning, its Heavenly Tribulation Lightning was much more intense than that of Silver Dragon Lord and Phoenix Lord.

Even a Nascent Soul cultivator like Luo Qingni, with only one top-grade magic weapon, might not be able to survive this challenge!

However, at this point, the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone, in terms of defense alone, was indeed no worse than a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

Its entire body shone with an earthy yellow spiritual light, as if it had become one with the earth below. Bolts of tribulation lightning struck its body, just like they struck real mountains and rivers. Although they left marks on the mountains and rivers, they could not destroy the entire mountain and river.

This is the signature supernatural power of the Mountain-Bearing Turtle clan: [Transformation into a Mountain]!

Relying on this powerful racial innate ability, the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone survived the first round of nine tribulation lightning bolts without using any other supernatural abilities.

This scene shocked the onlookers.

If the tribulation lightning were relatively weak, that would be one thing.

The key point is that the power of those tribulation lightning bolts is such that even a Nascent Soul stage cultivator would have to go all out to deal with them!

"Is this the power of the Mountain-Bearing Turtle? It's already this strong before even passing the Heavenly Tribulation; just how strong will its defense be after it does!"

Xu Fu, an elder of the Zhou family who was watching the grand scene of the tribulation, couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice.

After the first round of tribulation lightning, the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone also seized the time to consume pills and spiritual fruits to recover its magical power and injuries.

Outsiders only saw that it had passed the tribulation very easily, but they did not know that the power of the tribulation lightning had actually caused considerable damage to its body inside its shell.

This is also because it actively draws upon the power of tribulation lightning to temper its bloodline and physical body.

In short, it will not dare to be complacent just because it passed the previous round of tribulation lightning easily.

Without giving it much time to rest, the second round of tribulation lightning soon followed.

This round of tribulation lightning was even more powerful. Each bolt of lightning that struck the giant tortoise's back would blast open a huge gap in the rocky shell, and one could even vaguely see the tender red flesh deep inside through the gap!

After enduring three bolts of tribulation lightning, the giant tortoise dared not withstand them with its physical body any longer. Before each bolt of tribulation lightning struck, it would first condense an earth-yellow light shield to absorb and dissipate some of the tribulation lightning's power, and then use its physical body to withstand the remaining tribulation lightning.

Through this method of tribulation that combines elimination and transformation, the giant tortoise stubbornly withstood the second round of nine tribulation lightning strikes.

By this point, it had traveled even further than Silver Dragon Lord and Phoenix Lord.

Before the third round of tribulation lightning struck, it continued to consume pills and spiritual items to recover its injuries and mana.

After the third round of tribulation lightning struck, the giant tortoise tried to repeat its old trick.

However, it seems to have underestimated the power of this round of tribulation lightning.

The first bolt of lightning easily shattered the defensive light shield, blasting a gaping hole several meters in diameter into it!

Severely injured, the giant tortoise couldn't help but let out a painful roar.

Then, before the second lightning bolt struck, he quickly activated the renowned [Primordial Magnetic Divine Light] divine power, laying down a layer of hazy gray divine light to resist the lightning.

But even this renowned divine power was no match for the tribulation lightning, and was quickly blasted apart again, dealing it another painful blow.

This time, the giant tortoise finally realized the danger. When the third bolt of lightning struck, it hurriedly spat out a beam of yellow light to meet the lightning. Within the yellow light, a large, earth-yellow magic weapon could be faintly seen.

Even top-grade magic treasures seem unable to withstand this round of tribulation lightning.

It was easily blasted into pieces by the tribulation lightning, which then left a considerable wound on the giant tortoise.

Seeing this, the giant tortoise had no choice but to change its strategy once again. When the fourth lightning bolt struck, it directly activated the earthen-yellow stone mountain to meet the lightning.

This stone mountain, having been tempered over hundreds of years, possesses power surpassing many top-grade magic treasures. Crucially, it is perfectly compatible with the mountain, allowing it to unleash its full potential.

In this way, most of the tribulation lightning was dispersed, with only a portion remaining to fall on his body.

However, there was more than one tribulation lightning bolt. As the fifth tribulation lightning bolt struck down, the stone mountain instantly collapsed and almost lost its shape!

It should be noted that although this treasure is not a natal magic weapon, it is still something that the Mountain-Bearing Turtle clan has painstakingly refined.

If it is completely destroyed, not only will it take a lot of time to re-refine it in the future, but it will also be affected by other damages at the time.

Therefore, upon discovering that the stone mountain was in danger of being completely destroyed, the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone could only immediately move the object away and instead activated the [Mysterious Spirit Earth Flag] magic weapon, condensing a thick and dense layer of Earth divine light to protect itself inside.

The sixth bolt of tribulation lightning struck the earth-yellow light, shattering most of the thick, dense light.

Immediately afterwards, the seventh bolt of lightning struck, completely shattering the light that had gathered again and leaving another gaping hole in the giant tortoise's body.

Seeing this, the Golden Armor Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone had no choice but to change its magic weapon again, activating the [Heavenly Gang Thunder-Slaying Sword] to meet the eighth tribulation lightning.

After shattering the eighth bolt of tribulation lightning, it made another bold decision.

That is, he suddenly withdrew the [Heavenly Gang Thunder-Slaying Sword] and all the magical treasures that still had some power left, and directly activated his [Petrified Body] divine power, truly transforming himself into a giant stone tortoise to withstand the ninth and final tribulation lightning!

This final tribulation lightning bolt had transformed into a lightning dragon, its power no less than that of a spiritual treasure's strike, reaching the full strength of a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

It crashed down on the giant stone tortoise, and the aftershock of the explosion alone caused the surrounding ground to collapse several feet!

When the intense lightning dissipated, a stone tortoise with cracked skin stood silently in the collapsed crater, as if it were dead.

But judging from Zhou Chun's relieved and smiling face, the real result was clearly not like that.

Sure enough, as the thunderclouds in the sky quickly dissipated, the stone tortoise's body began to tremble slightly as it emerged from its petrified state.

Once he had completely emerged from his petrified state, silvery nectar began to fall from the sky.

The amount of "Imperial Dew" that descended this time was at least 30% more than that of the Silver Dragon Lord and Phoenix Lord at the time.

As the silver nectar was poured down, all the spirit beasts in the spirit beast pouches at the waists of the Zhou family cultivators watching the battle seemed to sense something and were all eager to come out.

Even the demonic beasts that had been frightened into hiding in their lairs by the tribulation lightning seemed to have forgotten their fear and were involuntarily moving closer to the place where the "Emperor's Dew" had fallen.

However, with powerful figures like Zhou Chun, Yinlongjun, and Fengyuanjun protecting them, it was impossible for any outsider to seize the opportunity to obtain the Golden Armor Mountain Tortoise Stone.

Zhou Chun himself only collected less than 10% of the total "Emperor's Essence" as usual, to cultivate the four six-winged ice silkworms.

As for the younger generation of the family, it wouldn't be good for him to give them to anyone now, so it would be better not to give them to anyone at all and let them cultivate their spirit pets based on their own abilities and opportunities.

After the Golden-Armored Mountain-Carrying Turtle Stone absorbed the "Emperor's Essence" and returned to Azure Lotus Peak to recuperate and consolidate its cultivation, Zhou Chun also brought the other spirit pets back to his cave.

Although Zhou Chun and his spirit pets had left, news of this grand event was only just beginning to spread.

Including the two previously confirmed fifth-tier demon kings, Silver Dragon Lord and Phoenix Lord, the Zhou family now has three fifth-tier demon kings after the Golden Armor Mountain-Bearing Turtle Stone's advancement to demon king.

Such a rare situation is probably unparalleled in the entire human cultivation world.

Not to mention that the main character of this grand event is the Mountain-Bearing Turtle, which has been extinct in the cultivation world for many years!

As the news spread far and wide, many high-level cultivators who received this information were filled with a question.

How exactly did Zhou Chun manage to do all this?

The difficulty of cultivating a fifth-order demon king is no less than that of a Nascent Soul cultivator, and in some ways, it is even more difficult.

This doesn't mean that you can succeed by raising a demon beast to the fourth-tier superior grade and then preparing a magic weapon for it to undergo tribulation.

Even if the Zhou family's fourth-tier demon beast, the Fire God Jackal, and Zhou Daoyi's Azure Dragon were forcibly fed to the upper-grade fourth tier or even the perfect fourth tier, and were provided with top-grade magic treasures or even spiritual treasures, there would be absolutely no chance for them to survive the Heavenly Tribulation.

The fact that the demon beast broke through to the fifth rank and triggered the Heavenly Tribulation was only the beginning.

Those demonic beasts with inferior bloodlines need to use more tribulation lightning to temper their physical bodies and bloodlines in order to bring their physical bodies and bloodlines up to the standard of a demon king.

If you rely entirely on treasures to resist the tribulation lightning, even if you eventually survive the Heavenly Tribulation, your cultivation level will still remain at the fourth level, and you may never have the chance to trigger a second Heavenly Tribulation in the future!

This is even evident in the Golden-Winged Tiger.

If Golden-Winged Tiger wants to advance to Demon King in the future, it must at least reach the level of Silver Dragon Lord back then in order to have a chance of success.

Therefore, the weaker the bloodline of a demon beast, the more difficult it is for it to become a demon king.

But these difficulties seem to be nonexistent for Zhou Chun's spirit pet.

His three demon king spirit pets were all already "demonic kings" before becoming demon kings.

Anyone who survives the Heavenly Tribulation will surely become a Demon King!

This is both incredibly enviable and perplexing. How did he manage to cultivate these spirit pets into "demons worthy of being demon kings"?

Aside from Feng Yuanjun, the origins of Yinlongjun and Jinjiabeishan Turtle Shitou are not exactly a secret.

One is a mid-level demonic beast, the Silver Lightning Python, and the other is a low-level demonic beast, the Rock Earth Turtle.

In the eyes of high-level cultivators, neither of these two types of demonic beasts are particularly rare or precious. They are not exactly common, but finding the same type of demonic beast is not difficult.

However, even if one were to search through all the ancient texts, there might be examples of the Silver Lightning Python successfully transforming into a Flood Dragon, but the only example of a fifth-order Thunder Flood Dragon and a fifth-order Mountain-Bearing Turtle evolving from these two kinds of demonic beasts was achieved by Zhou Chun.

This makes one wonder if Zhou Chun possesses some special treasure that allows even low- to mid-level demonic beasts to defy fate!

However, Zhou Chun's power is now firmly established, and even if some people have doubts about it, they can only remain at the stage of doubt.

There's absolutely no way to force him to confess everything using any coercive means.

Therefore, these speculations, doubts, and discussions are destined to remain at this stage.

Not long after, the golden-armored mountain-carrying tortoise, Stone, which had transformed into human form, also made its public debut at the Zhou family home.

He was also given an honorific title by Zhou Chun, known as Lord Fushan.

His transformed appearance is that of a burly man with a tortoise shell on his back, his muscles bulging, which is very intimidating.

But this is by no means a mere showpiece; it's truly impressive.

After becoming the Demon King, Lord Fushan's supernatural abilities truly deserve the title of "extensive supernatural powers".

The bloodline supernatural abilities of the Mountain-Bearing Turtle clan were fully developed at this time.

His various supernatural abilities, especially the [Primordial Magnetic Divine Light], were enhanced by his bloodline talent, making them so powerful that many early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators would completely lose their composure when facing him!

Their racial innate ability, [Transformation into a Mountain], once unleashed, can ignore any attack at the lower level of the fifth rank, making it powerful enough to make ordinary early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators feel despair!

The enhanced and advanced [Undying Body] divine ability ensures that even if it encounters attacks that could harm it, it will not be easily seriously injured.

Even more powerful is his earth-遁神通 (earth-遁神通 - a magical ability to escape from the earth).

The fifth-grade low-rank mountain-carrying tortoise has completely mastered the earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magical ability) to an unparalleled level. With a thought, it can burrow thousands of feet underground and travel hundreds of miles in an instant!

This means that as long as he doesn't leave the earth, doesn't enter dangerous places where earth-遁 (earth-遁) techniques are difficult to use, and isn't restricted by formations or restrictions, even a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator or a fifth-order high-grade demon king with much stronger cultivation and strength wouldn't be able to endanger his life!

He even awakened the "Golden Escape Technique" on his own, and his mastery of this escape technique was no less than that of Zhou Chun, who had been immersed in this art for hundreds of years!

Furthermore, after advancing to the fifth rank, Lord Fushan also awakened three innate divine abilities: [Primal Magnetic Domain], [Roar of Collapse], and [Mountain Moving and Mountain Carrying].

Among them, the [Primordial Magnetic Domain] is a domain-based supernatural power formed based on the [Primordial Magnetic Divine Light] supernatural power. It is both offensive and defensive, and has endless uses.

【Roar of Annihilation】is an extremely powerful offensive divine ability, a silent and invisible force of annihilation capable of collapsing mountains and destroying peaks, and is both eerie and ruthless.

【Moving Mountains and Carrying Peaks】is also an offensive and defensive supernatural power that can move mountains and fill seas, directly shifting mountains to suppress enemies.

Because Lord Fushan needs to stand on the ground to unleash his true power, Zhou Chun couldn't test his full strength.

However, based on his limited testing and the information he gleaned from his conversations, in terms of defensive power alone, Lord Fushan should be stronger than many mid-Nascent Soul cultivators. In terms of escape ability, he is comparable to a late-Nascent Soul cultivator, and in terms of attack, he is comparable to an early-Nascent Soul cultivator with a spiritual treasure.

His only weakness is that he can only unleash his full potential when he is grounded.

Once he is in the air or in the water, some of his powerful supernatural abilities will be difficult to use.

This made him the best guardian of the mountain gate.

If we disregard his own safety when he goes out in the future, as long as he guards the Zhou family's mountain gate, even if a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator knocks on the door, he may not be able to break it open!

(End of this chapter)