Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 723 The Calm Before the Storm [Please Subscribe]

After Mu Mei Mu Sang was promoted to Demon King, she awakened four innate divine abilities, more than Zhou Chun's other Demon King spirit pets.

But all of this is normal, because the heavenly tribulation it experienced was too terrifying.

Those who survive such great terror will naturally have great opportunities and great gains!

These four innate supernatural abilities are all incredibly powerful.

The [Wood Spirit Substitute] needs no further explanation. This kind of substitute tribulation-avoidance technique has always been a secret technique and supernatural power that is widely sought after by high-level cultivators in the cultivation world. Even Nascent Soul stage cultivators do not all know it.

Furthermore, the Substitute Transformation Technique practiced by cultivators is not only difficult to cultivate and requires scarce materials, but also often has various side effects.

The key point is that the vast majority of substitution techniques can only be used once.

However, Mu Sang's [Wood Spirit Substitute] ability, as his innate ability, can be used multiple times as long as he creates a large number of "substitute wood spirits," and theoretically, it can be used indefinitely!

That's absolutely outrageous!

In this way, combined with his powerful Wood Release technique, unless in certain special environments or within a forbidden formation, or attacked by a sixth-order technique, almost no one within the fifth-order realm can kill him!

The supernatural abilities such as [All Things in the Forest] and [Thousand Leaf Armor] are also very practical and powerful, and are similarly geared towards self-defense and life protection.

With these three great supernatural powers by his side, although Mu Sang had only just advanced to the fifth-tier demon king, it was virtually impossible for a fifth-tier being to endanger his life.

However, his truly powerful supernatural ability is the [Life and Death Mystic Light] supernatural ability.

This supernatural power is definitely no less powerful than the [Primordial Magnetic Divine Light], and in some respects it may even have greater potential!

Just like its name suggests, it possesses the power to manipulate life and death.

It can breathe new life into the dying, pull people back from the brink of death, and achieve the effect of bringing them back to life.

It can also diminish the vitality of living beings, dim the vitality of healthy living beings, or even cause them to die from the loss of their vitality!

Human vitality is a conceptual thing that encompasses all aspects.

A person's vitality indicates that they are in excellent condition and at the peak of their life.

Conversely, if the vitality is dim and weak, it indicates that the person is in extremely poor condition and may not have much time left!

The [Life and Death Mystery Light] can erode a person's life force, which is a terrifying thing for any cultivator or demon beast.

For cultivators, once their life force is inexplicably weakened and much of it is taken away, they will suffer a great loss of vitality. Minor injuries that were previously insignificant may become major injuries, and old injuries that were almost healed may become new injuries.

Even those cultivators with limited lifespans may die prematurely due to the weakening of their vitality, causing their lifespan to deplete faster!

After listening to Mu Sang's explanation of this supernatural power, Zhou Chun took it very seriously and immediately asked him to demonstrate its power.

The Blackwood Forest is home to many demonic beasts, and with Mu Sang's current abilities, no demonic beast in the forest can escape his notice.

Therefore, not long afterward, he found a third-tier superior-grade demon beast, the Azure Rhinoceros Beast, known for its powerful vitality, as his test subject.

A flash of green light appeared in his emerald eyes, and a dark green divine light fell upon the azure rhinoceros beast.

In an instant, the once energetic blue rhinoceros beast seemed to have all its energy drained away, becoming sickly and listless, like a heavy smoker, its fur visibly dulling.

At this moment, although it was still as big as a small mountain, it gave people the feeling of a skin filled with hay, which might fall over with a gust of wind!

In reality, after its vitality has been greatly diminished, the Azure Rhinoceros Beast is now a sick cat, and even a low-grade third-tier demon beast would dare to challenge it.

Through experiments, Zhou Chun discovered that although the Azure Rhinoceros Beast had no injuries, its tough and thick fur was much less defensive than before.

Previously, without a high-grade third-tier magic weapon, it was difficult to tear through its fur defenses, but now even low-grade third-tier magic weapons can leave marks on it.

This is not because the magical artifact has become stronger, but because its vitality has been reduced too much, its skin and fur have become loose and weak.

In short, although it is still a third-tier high-grade demon beast with the magic power of a third-tier high-grade demon beast, its physical condition has regressed to that of a third-tier low-grade demon beast!

What's even more terrifying is that the life force that was cut off has truly and completely dissipated, and it won't quickly recover just because the duration of the supernatural power has passed!

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, it will take many years to fully recover the life force that has been stripped away.

However, not wanting to trouble someone twice, Zhou Chun quickly had Mu Sang test the healing ability of the [Life and Death Mystic Light] on it.

A vibrant emerald light descended upon the Azure Rhinoceros Beast, instantly transforming it from a sickly creature into a powerful and vigorous animal, as if it had consumed a potent tonic.

This dramatic contrast fully demonstrated to Zhou Chun the mystery and potential of the [Life and Death Mystic Light] supernatural power.

He knew that this supernatural power might not be able to directly kill the enemy, but its function was far more useful than many offensive supernatural powers.

To give a simple example, even a powerful offensive divine ability like the [Formless Gengjin Divine Light] that Zhou Chun used would hardly pose a sufficient threat to a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

However, the [Life and Death Mystery Light] is different.

It can still have an effect on cultivators in the late Nascent Soul stage, wiping out their life force, although the effect may be somewhat weakened.

Furthermore, the most powerful aspect of this supernatural ability is that it can almost completely ignore any protective supernatural power and is not blocked by any kind of protective supernatural power.

To avoid being affected by it, the only option is to anticipate its effects and dodge it with extremely fast speed.

However, Mu Sang would also need to consume a considerable amount of mana and his own life force to activate the [Life and Death Mystic Light], so he could not use it as an ordinary attack method.

In short, thanks to the existence of the supernatural power [Life and Death Mystic Light], Mu Sang will no longer be a burden or a mascot on the battlefield in the future.

Having thoroughly understood the changes in Mu Sang after his advancement to the fifth-tier demon king, Zhou Chun returned to his family with him, completely satisfied.

As for what kind of ripples the emergence of a new fifth-tier demon king in the Blackwood Forest would cause in the cultivation world of Heng Kingdom, that was none of Zhou Chun's concern.

Anyway, he guessed that the Wood Spirit King who had been injured and escaped would definitely not tell the human race the truth.

When Zhou Chun returned to his family, the first thing he did was to have Mu Sang use the [Life and Death Mystic Light] to treat the Silver Dragon Lord who was recuperating.

When the Silver Dragon Lord shed all seventy-two dragon scales at once, it was a great loss of vitality, and its symptoms were very similar to those of the Azure Rhinoceros Beast, whose life force had been stripped away by the [Life and Death Mystic Light].

Over the years, although he had taken many vital-replenishing foods prepared by Zhou Chun, the depleted vital energy was still not so easy to fully replenish.

After witnessing the effects of the [Life and Death Mystic Light] on the Azure Rhinoceros Beast, Zhou Chun had an idea in mind, and this was a way to verify it.

As it turned out, Zhou Chun's idea was correct.

After receiving Mu Sang's life-giving treatment, Silver Dragon's life force was indeed greatly restored. The effect was no worse than the vital energy-tonifying elixirs he had taken before, and even surpassed that of any single elixir.

After this treatment, Silver Dragon Lord, who originally needed sixty or seventy years of rest to recover, will now be able to fully recover in just twenty or thirty years.

Zhou Chun could accept this timeframe, because whether it was his own cultivation of the "Qiankun Zhuanling Jue" secret technique, or Mu Sang, Yinlongjun, and the others nurturing and restoring their magic treasures and jointly practicing the "Tianjue Sixiang Array," it would take this period of time to see results.

If we're talking about top-tier magic weapons, they truly are of exceptional quality and not easily damaged.

Although the top-grade magic treasures that Mu Sang used to overcome his tribulation were all damaged to varying degrees, they could all be slowly nurtured and restored.

Among them, the Azure Seal and the Heavenly Gang Thunder-Slaying Sword were the most severely damaged, but because of their special characteristics, they could be repaired by the Wood Mulberry and Silver Dragon Lord, who were perfectly suited to them.

As for the [Mysterious Spirit Earth Banner], Lord Fushan didn't really value this treasure, because his own supernatural powers were already sufficient.

It is worth mentioning that, although the Demon King Chongxuan had said that Zhou Chun had promised to help Mu Sang with something after he survived the Heavenly Tribulation,

However, Zhou Chun still had no intention of going there.

He still held the same idea: he would only make contact with a dangerous being like the Chongxuan Demon King if he ensured that he possessed the combat strength of a great cultivator.

In the following time, the fifth-tier Wood Spirit King demonstrated another powerful ability to Zhou Chun.

Previously, the [Sweet Dew] supernatural power could directly extend the medicinal life of a medicinal herb by more than a hundred years, but the effect was weakened for medicinal herbs that were more than a thousand years old.

The [Sweet Dew] divine power now used by the fifth-tier Wood Demon King can not only directly accelerate the growth of some medicinal herbs that have been around for decades into medicinal herbs that have been around for five hundred years, but it also has the same effect on medicinal herbs that have been around for thousands of years or more.

The Zhou family has been established in Jiufeng Ridge for six or seven hundred years. Even though many spiritual herbs were destroyed due to the beast tide, there are still plenty of spiritual herbs in the herb garden that are over five hundred years old.

This means that as long as Mu Sang uses the [Sweet Dew] divine power once, he can accelerate the growth of a five- or six-hundred-year-old medicinal herb into a thousand-year-old medicinal herb!

That's really impressive!

It's important to know that the Jade Marrow Ganoderma used to refine Foundation Establishment Pills is so precious because, in addition to needing to be cultivated on fourth-order spiritual wood, it also needs to be a thousand years old before it can be harvested and used in medicine.

Now that the Zhou family has Mu Sang's [Sweet Dew] supernatural power, they can harvest a batch of thousand-year-old [Jade Marrow Ganoderma] every five hundred years to refine Foundation Establishment Pills. Every cultivator knows how great the benefits are.

Moreover, thousand-year-old spiritual herbs are the main ingredients for refining the magical power of cultivators in the Purple Mansion stage and breaking through the barrier of realm. Most of the pills needed by Golden Core stage cultivators also require a lot of thousand-year-old spiritual herbs as auxiliary ingredients.

Now that Mu Sang can accelerate the growth of some medicinal herbs that are hundreds of years old into thousand-year-old medicinal herbs, and the Zhou family has Luo Qingni, a master alchemist, the combination of these two factors means that the Purple Mansion stage cultivators and Golden Core stage cultivators in the Zhou family will be extremely fortunate in the future!

In particular, since the Zhou family took control of the Qinglian Mountain Range, they have planted spiritual herbs, plants, and trees everywhere. Now, if you calculate carefully, it has been nearly two hundred years.

If things proceed this quickly, in another three hundred years, once those planted medicinal herbs reach five hundred years of age, they will be accelerated to maturity one by one. At that time, who knows how many thousand-year-old medicinal herbs will be harvested!

Upon discovering this, Zhou Chun was also filled with excitement and repeatedly said that it was definitely worth it!

It was worth all the effort he put in to help Mu Sang successfully overcome her tribulation.

Mu Sang has now proven himself with his own abilities. He is fully worthy of Zhou Chun's cultivation and the many high-grade magic treasures he lost during his tribulation!

Luo Qingni was also happy about this.

Although she was already a master alchemist, she had many pill formulas but hadn't actually refined them many times.

Firstly, the pills made from those formulas have rather obscure medicinal effects and are not in high demand, so it's not worth wasting some thousand-year-old spiritual herbs that could be used elsewhere on their production.

Secondly, some of the pill formulas require rare medicinal herbs, which overlap with other more important pill formulas, making it difficult for her to collect the thousand-year-old medicinal herbs needed to refine these pills.

But now that Mu Sang has this ability, she no longer needs to worry.

If a medicinal herb is a thousand years old, many people will compete for it and hold onto it.

However, if the medicine is only 500 years old, then it would be much easier to obtain it.

After all, for many cultivation families and sects, it is difficult to say whether they will still exist in the world five hundred years from now.

If Luo Qingni could try refining more pills that she had very little experience with before, it would significantly help improve her alchemy skills.

When she feels ready, she will be able to start refining the [Jiazi Longevity Pill] and the [Purple Flower Crimson Pearl Pill] for Zhou Chun.

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

For a Qi Refining cultivator, ten years is enough time to break through several levels of cultivation; it can be said to be a crucial period that determines one's life path.

But for a Nascent Soul cultivator like Zhou Chun, it was truly just a blink of an eye.

For the past ten years, he has been secluded and diligently cultivating secret techniques and supernatural powers, and now he has finally mastered the basics of the "Qiankun Zhuanling Jue" (Heaven and Earth Reversal Spirit Technique).

He used to think that the best target for transferring damage from this secret technique was the Mountain Lord.

But now I've discovered that Mu Sang is actually quite good too.

Mu Sang's [Undying Body] level is too high, almost approaching the legendary "blood rebirth" realm.

He can fully withstand the damage and recover quickly.

This can sometimes free up Fushan Jun's fighting power, allowing him to focus more on battle.

Furthermore, Zhou Chun's [Formless Geng Metal Divine Light] divine power, after refining a considerable amount of [Geng Metal], is also infinitely close to the Great Completion Realm.

The power of this divine ability is now enough to make even mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators take notice.

On the other hand, ten years later, the two Ice Moon Toads have also made great progress in their cultivation. One of them, with higher cultivation, has already swallowed the demon core of the Moon Gazing Ice Toad and is currently trying to break through to the fourth rank.

The remaining Ice Moon Toad, thanks to Mu Sang's ability to accelerate the ripening of thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, also consumed a considerable amount of Ancient Dust Pills and is now a mid-grade third-tier demon beast.

If the [Ice Moon Toad] can successfully advance to a fourth-tier demon beast, Zhou Chun's "Nine Transformations of the Holy Spirit: Moon Toad Chapter" secret technique, which has been progressing slowly, will have a lot of potential.

Of course, if we're talking about expectations, Zhou Chun is currently most looking forward to the metamorphosis of those four [Six-Winged Ice Silkworms].

About half a year ago, these four [Six-Winged Ice Silkworms] spun cocoons and entered a metamorphosis state after consuming dozens of [Heavenly Frost Cold Bees].

This is their ninth cocoon transformation since they hatched.

Nine is the ultimate number. After this transformation, they should be able to fully mature and transform into true [Six-Winged Ice Silkworms].

The mature [Six-Winged Ice Silkworm] can even kill a fourth-tier high-grade demon beast, making it an absolutely remarkable insect in the cultivation world.

Zhou Chun is looking forward to seeing how they will perform after they complete their metamorphosis.

It is worth mentioning that during these ten years, Zhou Chun once again received a letter urging him to go to Tianman Plain as soon as possible to deal with the two-headed black dragon.

Compared to the previous letter urging him to hurry, this time Master Ziyang seemed much more anxious, even stating that he had less than two hundred years of life left and hoped to bring back the sect's inherited spiritual treasure before passing away.

Zhou Chun ignored him, simply replying that she understood, and said nothing more.

The person Zhou Chun truly values ​​now is still Master Yin Yue.

According to intelligence, Yin Yue Zhenren's remaining lifespan is likely less than a hundred years.

Judging from the other party's previous behavior, they are definitely not the kind of person who is willing to accept their fate and wait for death.

Therefore, Zhou Chun now considers eliminating this hidden danger to be much more important than dealing with that two-headed black dragon!

Over the years, Zhou Chun hasn't been idle either.

When he was communicating with powerful figures such as Nangong Wuqing and Huangfu Tianming, he intentionally brought up the matter of the Moon Wheel Sect's ultimate weapon.

According to the irresponsible speculation of these two, it should be a treasure of the level of a Heavenly Treasure. However, since the descendants of the Moon Wheel Sect have not reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, it is difficult for them to gain the recognition of the artifact spirit. They can only activate this treasure through certain sacrificial methods!

Zhou Chun feared that when True Person Silver Moon's lifespan was nearing its end, he would sacrifice himself to activate that Heaven-Reaching Spiritual Treasure to deal with him.

Therefore, he had no choice but to strike first and kill Silver Moon Master before he could make a move.

With only one Nascent Soul cultivator, True Person Cangyue, remaining in the Moon Wheel Sect, the other side would absolutely not dare to leave the mountain gate again!

To achieve this goal, Zhou Chun is now only two points away.

The first point is to wait for Silver Dragon Lord to fully recover his strength, and the second point is to find a way to lure Silver Moon True Person out of the Moon Wheel Sect.

He thought about this a lot.

Just as Zhou Chun was thinking about how to strike first and eliminate the threat of Silver Moon True Person.

Just as he had predicted, Master Yinyue was already considering his affairs after his death.

"Senior brother, are you really planning to do this?"

"It's not that I don't trust you, junior brother, but if you fail in doing this, it will undoubtedly enrage Zhou Zhengchun completely. At that point, our sect will only have one option left: to seal off the mountain and protect ourselves!"

Inside the Moon Wheel Sect's mountain gate, after a deep conversation with Silver Moon True Person who had invited him, Cangyue True Person expressed his concerns with a worried expression.

Faced with his concerns, Master Yinyue shook his head slightly and said, "Junior Brother Cangyue, you still harbor wishful thinking. This makes me even more uneasy about you taking sole control of the sect in the future!"

Without even glancing at the slightly changed expression on Cangyue Zhenren's face after hearing this, he continued, "Back then, I greatly admired Qingxiao's decisive action in taking down the Heavenly Mirror. If I were in his shoes at the time, I might not have dared to make such a bold decision!"

"Although Qinglian Temple has been destroyed, Qingxiao's actions back then undoubtedly gave Qinglian Temple a chance to breathe for hundreds of years."

"But the situation changed too quickly afterward, and his own sect's younger generation was incompetent, which led to the ruin of the excellent situation he had created!"

At this point, he let out a long sigh and said, "The situation our sect faces today is so similar to that of the Qinglian Temple back then!"

Then, in a somber tone, he continued, "The Zhou family is currently at its peak, with many talented individuals emerging. Zhou Zhengchun, in particular, is blessed by heaven, as if divinely aided, and his cultivation and strength are increasing at an astonishing rate!"

"If I still have a long lifespan, I might be able to compete with him by relying on the power of the sect's treasured heirloom."

"But once I pass away, and there is no new successor in our sect, and Junior Brother Cangyue, you will have to stay at the mountain gate and cannot go out, our sect's control over the various branches outside, as well as its influence in foreign lands, will inevitably decline greatly."

"At that time, the Zhou family only needs to exert their strength to push forward, and they can naturally compress the influence of our sect to a small area around our mountain gate. They can also easily take over the influence of our sect in foreign lands!"

At this point, Master Yinyue paused slightly, a look of resentment and helplessness appearing in his eyes. Then, his gaze sharpened, and he declared resolutely, "Since the final outcome is destined to be this way, why shouldn't I follow the example of Qingxiao and fight with all my might!"

"If this succeeds, although our sect's influence will still decline significantly for a period of time, there will still be a considerable chance of revival in the future; even if this fails, it will only mean that we close our mountain stronghold a few years earlier to protect ourselves!"

Hearing his analysis and seeing his resolute expression, Master Cangyue knew that his mind was made up and could not be changed.

His lips parted slightly, but he finally let out a long sigh and said, "Alas! Since Senior Brother Yinyue is so determined, I, your junior brother, will not say anything more in opposition. I only hope that your decision is truly the right one!"

Seeing that he no longer objected, Master Yinyue nodded slightly and immediately made the decision: "Then let's decide on this matter. Junior Brother Cangyue, you should prepare well. In a few years, I will personally preside over your promotion ceremony!"

"Junior brother understands, then junior brother will take his leave now!"

Master Cangyue responded calmly, then bowed slightly to Master Yinyue before stepping away.

Watching his departing figure, Master Yinyue shook his head gently and sighed again.

Waaaaah! I've finally finished writing 6,000 words!

(End of this chapter)