Chapter 1735: Chapter 650: 30 Years
"Purple Brilliance Subdue Demon Divine Light" once started in cultivation, cannot be interrupted for a single day; otherwise, all prior efforts will be in vain.
This limitation forces any cultivator deciding to practice this technique to inevitably remain in one place, not daring to venture out, to avoid being delayed in their cultivation by unexpected events.
Thus, when Zhou Chun began cultivating this secret technique within the Gold Dawn Mountain Range, it meant he would not leave this place for the next twenty-four years.
However, to be exact, the time he spends cultivating "Purple Brilliance Subdue Demon Divine Light" each day is just one to two hours, leaving the rest of the time for regular meditation and practicing other secret technique divine abilities.
So besides the secret technique "Purple Brilliance Subdue Demon Divine Light," Zhou Chun chose the "Metal Escape Technique" and [Geng Metal Splitting Sky Thunder] as his primary secret technique divine abilities to cultivate, tailored to the special environment of the Gold Dawn Mountain Range. He also practiced the Taichi Separation of Spirits and Heart Lotus Orthodox Method as auxiliary techniques.
As a result, his daily schedule remained full, with little time for rest.
Apart from Zhou Chun, the environment of the Gold Dawn Mountain Range is also a very good cultivation place for the Golden Armor Turtle Bearer Stone and the Golden Winged Tiger, as both Spirit Pets cherish this opportunity and dedicate themselves to meticulous cultivation.
While the other three Spirit Pets do not gain any environmental benefits here, they are also not weakened in any way.
Even the Wood Charm Mu Sang occasionally manages to find some Spirit Wood treasures within the Gold Dawn Mountain Range.
Day after day, year after year, twelve years swiftly passed!
One day, in the valley where Zhou Chun resided, the nature’s spiritual energy suddenly surged tumultuously, flowing towards a certain spot within the valley.
A brilliant emerald green spiritual light silently blossomed from the valley.
It turned out that Wood Charm Mu Sang, after years of refining cultivation, had finally completely refined all the Wood Spirit Power absorbed and stored in the Secret Realm Cave, successfully breaking through to Fourth Order High Grade!
Gifted as a spirit monster, it faced no bottlenecks along its cultivation journey, much to the envy of Zhou Chun’s other Spirit Pets and even Zhou Chun himself.
However, upon advancing to Fourth Order High Grade Demon Beast, its "good days" were numbered.
The subsequent Heavenly Thunder Tribulation would truly be its "life and death trial"!
For spirit monsters like Wood Charm, the power of the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation is inherently much stronger than that faced by ordinary demon beasts, and its strength does not compare to those with formidable bloodlines like Thunder Flood Dragon Baibai, nor does it have any secret techniques for tribulation crossing.
In the future, the only hope of overcoming the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation would rely on Zhou Chun, its master.
In fact, the vast majority of spirit monsters in the Cultivation World do not die at the hands of cultivators or other demon beasts but fall to the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation!
These extraordinarily gifted beings seem to naturally incur the wrath of heaven.
Under such circumstances, although Wood Charm Mu Sang is now the second to break through to Fourth Order High Grade, its time to become a Fifth-order Demon King might be the last!
Without great certainty, Zhou Chun would not allow it to attempt the tribulation crossing.
Perhaps inspired by Wood Charm Mu Sang’s success, Thunder Flood Dragon Baibai and Golden Armor Turtle Bearer Stone, who were close to breaking through to Fourth Order High Grade Demon Beast, dedicated themselves even more to diligent cultivation.
Each of them has cultivation techniques aligned with their bloodlines, and even though they cannot fully utilize these techniques until reaching the Fifth Order, they can at least slightly accelerate their growth.
In contrast, after successfully advancing to Fourth Order High Grade, Wood Charm Mu Sang, aware of its end to good fortune, slackened completely in cultivation.
Zhou Chun often couldn’t even see its shadow, as it would run off and play on its own.
With its mastery of the Wood Escape Technique post-breakthrough, it has become so adept that unless specifically targeted or caught in a place where escape techniques cannot be effectively used, even a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator would find it hard to capture.
Thus, Zhou Chun did not enforce strict supervision, allowing it to do as it pleased as long as it didn’t wander too far.
The sun rises and sets, time flies.
In the twentieth year of Zhou Chun’s focused cultivation in the Gold Dawn Mountain Range, Thunder Flood Dragon Baibai, with the aid of [Hundred Herbs Ginseng King Elixir], finally broke through to Fourth Order High Grade Demon Beast.
After the breakthrough to Fourth Order High Grade Demon Beast, while Thunder Flood Dragon Baibai’s own strength significantly improved, it could also finally begin nurturing the Dharma Treasure [Heavenly Gang Thunder-Cleaving Sword].
Zhou Chun immediately handed this flying sword to it for cultivation, keeping it within its body for nurturing.
If Grandmaster Yan Cang had not lied back then, after a hundred years of sword nurturing, this Dharma Treasure could ascend to a Peerless Dharma Treasure!
By then, Thunder Flood Dragon Baibai could seize the opportunity to charge into the Fifth-order Demon King Realm and use this sword to forcefully withstand the heavenly tribulation.
With Thunder Flood Dragon Baibai breaking through to Fourth Order High Grade Demon Beast, only Golden Armor Turtle Bearer Stone and Golden Winged Tiger remain at Fourth Order Middle Grade Demon Beast realm among Zhou Chun’s five Spirit Pets.
These two are at a similar cultivation level now, with Golden Armor Turtle Bearer Stone possibly having a slight edge, but not by much.
The golden light unicorn’s Demon Core is still in Zhou Chun’s possession, with the decision on who of them to use it on to be made depending on the situation.
Since the three Spirit Pets who broke through first have no immediate likelihood of crossing the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation, Zhou Chun also instructed them to study the Secret Technique ’Heaven Extinction Four Symbols Formation’ diligently while cultivating the tribulation crossing secret techniques, to see if they could master it before the tribulation.