Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Kunwu Mountain.

After returning to his family, Zhou Chun began to diligently practice the relevant secret techniques.

Both the "Golden Body Qi Absorption Method" and the "Divine Thought Body Preservation Method" still have room for improvement. Even if he wants to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, he will definitely wait until these secret techniques have reached their limit before making any attempts.

For this reason, he mobilized the entire Zhou family, including those forces that were on good terms with the Zhou family, so that Chun Jun Zhenren knew that he wanted to collect some rare evil energy and spiritual energy to cultivate supernatural powers.

Although Zhou Chun did not offer any specific rewards, the forces and individuals who knew about this news were trying their best to satisfy his needs.

Everyone knows that even a tiny bit of food slipped out from between the fingers of such a powerful expert could feed cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage.

By leveraging the influence of the entire Zhou family and himself, Zhou Chun refined more than twenty kinds of special evil and spiritual energies using the "Golden Body Qi-Eating Method" in just five years.

At this point, it becomes extremely difficult to find any type of malevolent or spiritual energy that he hasn't refined.

Therefore, while continuing to acquire the missing evil and spiritual energy, Zhou Chun also had his disciple Zhou Zhiying visit various powerful forces to collect special spiritual items needed for several cultivation techniques.

The exchange terms he offered were also very good, including various rare items such as the [Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk], top-grade magic treasures, and top-level spiritual objects. Even the ten-thousand-year-old [Earth Origin Golden Fungus] and [Yellow Dragon Grass] were not out of the question!

However, what he seeks are the most top-tier spiritual treasures in the cultivation world, and whether he can obtain them depends on luck.

This time, having his apprentice Zhou Zhiying act in his place among various powerful forces was Zhou Chun paving the way for his apprentice.

After all, when he attempts to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, regardless of whether he succeeds or not, he will no longer have any dealings with those Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

As his successor, Zhou Zhiying will definitely have a lot of interactions with Nascent Soul stage cultivators from other major forces. It is necessary for him to use his influence to become familiar with the public in advance.

Seven years later, Zhou Zhiying, on behalf of Zhou Chun, visited more than 90% of the major forces of the human race and met with more than 200 Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

When she returned, she brought Zhou Chun some good news.

After this visit and conversation, Zhou Zhiying successfully found him a spiritual object to assist in cultivating a special secret technique called "Qianluo Overlord Body".

This "Qianluo Overlord Body" is a secret body-refining technique. Once mastered and used, it can grant immunity to most negative status effects and greatly enhance resistance to the Five Elements spells. It is somewhat similar to the "Heavenly Gold Body" divine power that Zhou Chun had previously cultivated.

However, the [Heavenly Golden Body] is a magical power cultivated through magic, and it cannot be used at all during the "Celestial Tribulation".

It is important to understand that the reason why the "Celestial Tribulation" is so severe is that when a large amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth washes over the physical body and nascent soul, all the various five-elemental supernatural abilities cultivated by the person undergoing the tribulation, including wind, thunder, ice, and other elemental supernatural abilities, become ineffective.

Therefore, one can only build up various passive supernatural abilities in advance to enhance one's resistance.

The "Qianluo Overlord Body" was originally a secret body-refining method passed down from ancient times. Its cultivation conditions are harsh, requiring not only extremely high physical strength from the cultivator, but also the use of special spiritual objects to assist in its cultivation.

The two most precious spiritual items are the Nine-Colored Lotus and the Spirit-Transforming Jade.

Of these two spiritual objects, the Nine-Colored Lotus is an even rarer and more precious spiritual root of heaven and earth than the Heavenly Infant Fruit. Only one complete Nine-Colored Lotus can be conceived every nine thousand years.

A complete Nine-Colored Lotus can be used to refine the legendary Nine-Flower Immortal Pill. A Nascent Soul cultivator who takes one pill can directly advance their cultivation level by one small realm!

However, in order to refine the Nine-Flower Immortal Pill, in addition to the Nine-Colored Lotus, the Nine Heavens Pure Water is also required. However, the latter can no longer be refined after the appearance of the turbid evil energy!

Furthermore, the [Nine-Flower Immortal Pill] requires an extremely high level of skill from the alchemist. If Venerable Yuanyang were still alive, he might have been able to successfully refine it, but other alchemists would basically have no chance of doing so!

Another type of spiritual object, the "Spirit Transformation Jade," is a rare spiritual object passed down from ancient times. Only some top-tier forces with long-standing traditions, or some secret caves and realms, have the potential to collect it.

Both of these spiritual items are extremely rare, with the former being even rarer than a spiritual treasure!

Therefore, the forces that possess both kinds of spiritual objects offered extremely high prices.

One of the factions that possessed the Nine-Colored Lotus demanded that Zhou Chun exchange the ten-thousand-year-old Earth Origin Golden Fungus and five drops of Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Spirit Milk.

There are two forces that possess the [Spirit Transformation Jade]. One wants Zhou Chun to owe them a favor and three drops of [Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk], while the other wants three Fire Phoenix True Feathers and three drops of [Ten Thousand Year Spirit Milk].

In order to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, Zhou Chun considered it for a while and then agreed to these conditions.

Of course, he eliminated the faction that wanted three Fire Phoenix Feathers without hesitation.

After agreeing to the terms, Zhou Chun personally took the spiritual items to the two factions to exchange them.

Once he had the items in hand, he began to cultivate the [Qianluo Overlord Body] body-refining secret technique.

Zhou Chun's cultivation of the "Golden Cauldron Profound Technique" is inherently superior to many other techniques in terms of physical tempering. He also cultivated the "Nine Transformations of the Holy Spirit - True Dragon Chapter," which further strengthens the physical body, and mastered this secret technique to the highest level.

Even without transforming into a dragon, he now dares to challenge a weaker fifth-tier low-grade demon king like the Heavenly Wind Thunder Eagle, based solely on physical strength.

Such a powerful physical body naturally meets the prerequisites for cultivating the [Qianluo Overlord Body].

Therefore, with the assistance of suitable spiritual objects, his cultivation of this secret technique went quite smoothly.

In just ten years, he successfully mastered the [Qianluo Overlord Body].

After mastering this secret technique, he also tested its power.

He discovered that even without using other supernatural powers, the combination of the [Qianluo Overlord Body] secret technique and his own physical defense was enough to withstand some of Yishan Jun's attack supernatural powers.

The spell resistance boost from the [Qianluo Overlord Body] is indeed very significant and extremely useful.

Even if Zhou Chunhua succeeds in becoming a god in the future, this secret technique will still be useful to him, so all the sacrifices he made before were not in vain.

After mastering the [Qianluo Overlord Body], Zhou Chun's preparations for breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage were basically complete.

Perhaps the [Golden Body Qi Absorption Technique] can absorb and refine some more unrefined malevolent and spiritual energy, but the quantity will definitely be very small, and the improvement will not be significant.

As for the [Divine Thought Preservation Method], Zhou Chun had already cultivated it to the point of preserving the spirit and observing the body, achieving a unity of spirit and energy. There was no higher level after that.

In conclusion, he is now ready to attempt to reach the Nascent Soul stage.

However, Zhou Chun still has one unresolved matter on his mind and dares not easily attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

This matter weighed heavily on his mind: the fact that his son, Zhou Xinyuan, had achieved the transformation of his elixir and formed his nascent soul.

If he could see his son Zhou Xinyuan successfully complete the Nascent Soul stage, he would have no more worries and could go all out.

Conversely, if he fails, it may be a significant blow to his son Zhou Xinyuan, making it even more difficult for him to successfully transform his core and form his nascent soul!

Therefore, Zhou Chun is still willing to wait for her son, Zhou Xinyuan.

As for Zhou Xinyuan himself, since he let go of his inner turmoil and stopped focusing on swordsmanship, his progress in all aspects has been extremely rapid.

He himself had considerable talent in cultivating magic and supernatural powers, but he hadn't done his proper work in the past and was unwilling to focus his main energy on this aspect.

Now that they have finally realized their mistake, they are focusing their main efforts on this area, and with the Zhou family providing ample resources, their progress is naturally rapid.

Furthermore, his three spirit pets have also made great progress.

That black dragon has already advanced to the fourth tier of demonic beasts, its bloodline has transformed into four claws and three toes, giving it the appearance of a demon king.

The Golden Armored Dragon Turtle had already broken through to the fourth rank, and its strength was no less than that of some other dragons of the same rank, with even stronger defense.

Even the Thunder Crane, nourished by the [Emperor's Dew] after the Heavenly Wind Thunder Eagle successfully transcended its tribulation, successfully broke through to the fourth rank.

With three fourth-tier demonic beasts as his pets and a late-stage Golden Core cultivation level, Zhou Xinyuan's strength should not be underestimated.

Under these circumstances, Zhou Chun decided to first help the Golden Armored Dragon Turtle, which had the highest cultivation level, break through to the fourth-tier mid-grade demon beast.

If the Golden Armored Dragon Turtle were to advance to the middle rank of the fourth level, its defensive power would surely make even some late-stage Golden Core sword cultivators feel troubled!

In addition, considering that the Tribulation of the Forty-Ninefold is difficult to overcome, Zhou Chun also used a backup plan that he had laid in the past, allowing the Thunderworm Beast to begin attempting to overcome the Heavenly Tribulation.

In fact, the Thunderworm Beast has a considerable advantage in overcoming the Heavenly Tribulation.

It possesses remarkable ability to absorb and neutralize lightning, and the treasure crafted from its single horn can effectively mitigate the effects of tribulation lightning.

To help it succeed, Zhou Chun even had it refine a top-grade third-tier magic weapon in one go!

However, things are unpredictable. Zhou Chun did not expect that the Thunderworm Beast, which he thought had a good chance of surviving the Heavenly Tribulation, would fail to survive the tribulation!

Perhaps it's a case of the legendary healer not being able to heal himself; after the Thunderworm Beast's single horn was forged into a magical artifact, it did indeed have the effect of neutralizing tribulation lightning.

However, when it underwent tribulation, the lightning transformation effect was not fully manifested.

Although it still possesses the divine power of "Indestructible Body", the destructive power of tribulation lightning naturally counters this divine power, greatly reducing its effectiveness.

In this situation, in terms of physical strength alone, the Thunderworm Beast's physical body is not even as strong as the Heavenly Wind Thunder Eagle's.

Therefore, although it refined three top-grade magic treasures, it actually couldn't withstand the first round of nine tribulation lightning bolts and perished directly under the tribulation lightning, without even having the chance to use the magic treasures!

This result truly surprised and left Zhou Chun speechless.

It wasn't until long after the heavenly tribulation thunderclouds had dissipated that he went forward to examine the corpse of the Thunderworm Beast.

Under the destructive power of the tribulation lightning, the corpse of the [Thunderworm Beast] was completely destroyed and had no value for use.

However, the three top-grade magic treasures bestowed upon it by Zhou Chun, thanks to their powerful materials, were not destroyed by the tribulation lightning, but only suffered some minor damage.

"Huh, I didn't expect this item to still be there!"

Suddenly, Zhou Chun seemed to have discovered something. He exclaimed in surprise and took something out of the corpse of the Thunderworm Beast.

That was actually the single horn on the head of the Thunderworm Beast!

Although this object appears somewhat broken and has developed many cracks, it still sparkles with lightning inside, suggesting that it has undergone some transformation under the tempering of tribulation lightning.

After examining the item for a while, Zhou Chun thoughtfully put it away, and his mood improved considerably.

He supported the Thunderworm Beast in its tribulation of heavenly lightning so that it would be easier to extract its single horn to refine treasures for further tribulation after the beast successfully passed the tribulation.

Although the Thunderworm Beast has perished, its single horn remains, and it appears to have undergone a positive transformation, which can be considered as having barely achieved its intended purpose.

The failure of the Thunderworm Beast to transcend its tribulation fully proves one thing: a demon beast's success in transcending the Heavenly Tribulation is not guaranteed even with the help of a top-grade magic weapon.

If one's foundation is truly weak, and one cannot even withstand the first round of tribulation lightning with one's physical body, then even if one possesses a spiritual treasure, one will have no chance to advance to the level of a demon king!

However, the failure of the Thunderworm Beast did bring a sigh of relief to the outside forces that knew about it.

The Zhou family already has six fifth-tier demon kings. If another fifth-tier demon king were to emerge, it would be far too astonishing.

The defeat of the Thunderworm Beast seems to suggest that the previous appearances of the Zhou family's fifth-tier demon kings were merely due to a series of coincidences, and their inherent strength was simply sufficient.

In reality, the Heavenly Tribulation is still a near-death ordeal for fourth-tier demonic beasts!

It was in the third year after the Thunderworm Beast failed its tribulation that True Man Liehuo came to the Yu Kingdom to visit Zhou Chun.

After years of teaching, he finally managed to get his junior brother, who had just entered the Nascent Soul stage, to take over his duties and stabilize the fire vein below Tianhuo Peak, thus freeing himself and regaining his freedom.

Now that he has gained his freedom, the first thing he did was visit the Zhou family, which shows his gratitude and respect for Zhou Chun.

"Fellow Daoist Liehuo has arrived at the right time. I happen to have a treasure that I cannot determine its function, and I need Fellow Daoist Liehuo's help to appraise it."

Inside the cave, after receiving True Person Liehuo, Zhou Chun casually asked him for a small favor during their conversation.

As he spoke, he raised his hand and took out the single horn of the Thunderworm Beast, explaining its origin to True Man Fiery Fire.

Upon hearing his words, Master Liehuo also showed surprise and immediately took the beast horn to examine it carefully.

After examining the beast horn for nearly two quarters of an hour, True Immortal Liehuo exclaimed with amazement, "Truly a creation of heavenly thunder! The lightning power within this horn is incredibly violent, yet it achieves a wondrous balance under the restraint of the horn's own divine power. This prevents the violent lightning power from being released and instead continuously tempers the horn!"

After saying that, he turned to Zhou Chun and said, "If Fellow Daoist Zhou wants to use this to refine a magic weapon, you may have to wait until the violent lightning power inside is exhausted. At that time, this beast horn, tempered by the lightning power, will definitely have a stronger resistance to tribulation lightning!"

"I see. I understand. Thank you for your help with the appraisal, Fellow Daoist Liehuo."

Zhou Chun nodded thoughtfully and thanked Master Liehuo in return.

Upon hearing this, True Immortal Liehuo quickly waved his hand modestly and said, "It was nothing at all, I dare not accept such praise from Fellow Daoist Zhou!"

Afterwards, True Immortal Liehuo did not linger at the Zhou family's residence. He presented some special spiritual items brought from the cultivation world in the far west and then took his leave.

Three more years passed, and Zhou Xinyuan, feeling that everything was ready, bid farewell to Zhou Chun and went to the Great Zhou Kingdom again to find those sword cultivators who had defeated him in the past to spar with.

Six months after Zhou Xinyuan left, Xie Yunjin of Jinyue Sect was attacked by a powerful member of the Five Elements Spirit Clan while he was away from the sect. He barely managed to escape with only a Nascent Soul stage!

When the news reached Zhou Chun, he was also furious and immediately went to Jin Yuezong to find out the details.

However, Zhou Chun did not expect that this matter was actually a trap set for him!

Just as he arrived outside the gate of the Jin Yue Sect, as many as nine fifth-level alien experts suddenly appeared and launched an attack on him.

Among these nine fifth-tier alien experts, four are high-grade fifth-tier experts, and the rest are mid-grade fifth-tier experts!

Unfortunately, he arrived in a hurry and didn't bring any of his demon king spirit pets with him! (End of Chapter)