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Chapter 1296: Chapter 536: Old Enemy [Subscribe Requested]
In Tianyuan Immortal City, Zhou Chun found it quite inconvenient to communicate with the family.
He was completely unaware of the situation on the family’s side.
However, the lack of news was actually the best news.
Because Zhou Mingde would certainly not send family cultivators far to the Great Zhou Kingdom to deliver messages unless it was something crucial.
After all, besides Golden Core Stage cultivators, even Purple Mansion Phase cultivators could encounter mishaps while traveling to the Great Zhou Kingdom. 𝓃𝓸𝓋𝓅𝓊𝒷.𝓬𝓸𝓂
As for Zhou Chun going back to the family to understand the situation, it wasn’t impossible, but there was no need.
Again, he’s not the Zhou family’s caretaker, even if the Zhou family indeed encountered some issues, unless it’s something that he must intervene personally to resolve, he didn’t need to get involved.
A Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator only has a lifespan of over two hundred years, while Zhou Chun still has over seven hundred years to live.
Even if he intervenes to save some of the Zhou Family’s Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators, most likely these people would still perish due to their inability to open the Purple Mansion.
So unless there are unforgivable events, such as cultivators from other forces bullying Zhou Family cultivators with strength, these clan members, no matter what dangers they encounter outside, Zhou Chun and the other family elders have no need to intervene.
Meanwhile, Zhou Chun did not neglect his own cultivation while gathering materials to refine the Ancient Dust Pill.
After years of diligent practice, and having the experience of merging with the Thunder Flood Dragon Baibai as a reference, Zhou Chun’s progress in the Beast Spirit Fusion Technique has steadily increased, and he has now successfully combined with the Golden Armor Turtle Bearer Stone temporarily one time.
This provided him with another powerful means of protection.
Once he merges with the Golden Armor Turtle Bearer Stone, even attacks from Golden Elixir Early Phase cultivators won’t affect him in the slightest, and Golden Core Middle Stage cultivators must use a Middle-Grade Magical Treasure to break his defense.
As long as he stands on the ground, Golden Core Middle Stage cultivators wouldn’t be able to trouble him at all.
Since he could merge with the Golden Armor Turtle Bearer Stone, the Golden Winged Tiger would naturally not be far off.
In the end, the spirit pet most difficult to merge with Zhou Chun might be the Wood Charm Mu Sang.
This is not only because his affinity with Wood Charm Mu Sang is not as deep as with the other three spirit pets, but also because its mana attributes inherently conflict with his, increasing the fusion difficulty significantly, and the effectiveness of their combined strength is not guaranteed to improve.
Moreover, the secret techniques he initially practiced, United Heart Golden Lock and Golden Firmament Flash, he has cultivated to the third layer, corresponding to the Golden Core Stage level.
The next time he competes against fellow cultivators, these two secret techniques will also have some practical uses.
Unfortunately, the cultivation of the Metal Escape Technique still lacks direction; although not entirely without progress, the advancement speed is painfully slow.
Zhou Chun has now devoted part of his energy to practicing the Geng Metal Splitting Sky Thunder Divine Skill he brought out from the Moon Wheel Sect.
This divine skill is a variant related to the Five Elements Divine Thunder, specifically to "Geng Metal Divine Thunder," and is comparatively easier to cultivate than divine skills like Metal Escape Technique.
Zhou Chun has practiced for over a year and can now unleash this type of divine thunder.
However, his current mastery is superficial; not only is the divine thunder’s release speed extremely slow, but its transformation is minimal, and its power fails to meet the desired standards.
To truly master this divine skill for application in combat, it would likely require twenty to thirty years of dedicated practice.
Fortunately, he has already formed his Golden Core and does not need to be distracted by techniques related to Pill, Artifact, and Formation, allowing him plenty of time to practice these divine skills.
In his sixth year at Tianyuan Immortal City, Zhou Chun once again gathered enough materials for a batch of Ancient Dust Pills and requested Luo Qingni to refine seven Spirit Pills.
All seven Spirit Pills were administered to the Thunder Flood Dragon Baibai.
It varies from the advancement to Fourth Order for Third Order Upper-Grade demon beasts and the Golden Core formation for Purple Mansion Late Stage cultivators.
Cultivators progressing can trigger celestial phenomena, absorbing and refining a large amount of nature’s spiritual energy into their mana.
However, demon beasts lack this advantage.
Thus, when they reach Third Order Upper-Grade, they need to begin accumulating power until they can no longer.
For a Four-clawed Thunder Flood Dragon like Baibai, since there is no barrier to advancing to the Fourth Order, it merely needs to continuously accumulate power.
Once the accumulation is sufficient, it can naturally break through to the Fourth Order.
In contrast, those demon beasts with less noble bloodlines, upon maxing out their power accumulation, become bounded by their bloodline shackles and cannot genuinely breakthrough, requiring some extraordinary fortune to take that step and defy the natural order.
Within Zhou Chun’s current spirit pets, possibly only the Golden Winged Tiger might face some difficulties when advancing to Fourth Order.
After all, its bloodline merely underwent mutation, unlike the Thunder Flood Dragon Baibai and Golden Armor Turtle Bearer Stone, which awakened some potent beast bloodline within.
Now, it remains to be seen whether Baibai the Thunder Flood Dragon or Wood Charm Mu Sang will first reach the Fourth Order.
On that day, Zhou Chun received an invite and went to a small exchange meeting at the cave residence of a Golden Core Stage cultivator in the Immortal City.
In Tianyuan Immortal City, there are many resident Golden Core Stage cultivators like Luo Qingni, and among them, some enjoy making friends with fellow Daoists and then hold an exchange meeting every decade or so for cultivators of the same stage to exchange what they lack for what they need.
This not only facilitates their own collection of related spiritual objects but also builds favors with other cultivators, achieving dual benefits.
For Golden Core Stage cultivators like Zhou Chun, who are guests at Tianyuan Immortal City primarily to gather certain spiritual objects, such exchange meetings are naturally not to be missed.
