"Rumble!"
In the instant that the Turtle-Snake took form, it seemed to have come to life. It began to crawl through the air, crawling directly into the sea of elemental ki below.
For a moment, it was as though an enormous island had appeared within the sea of elemental ki, slowly moving about.
"The Turtle-Snake is formed. Soul descend!"
Instantly, Zhou Tong's soul descended into the enormous Turtle-Snake.
In this instant, Zhou Tong felt an unprecedented sense of comfort. The Turtle-Snake Body had an innately powerful nurturing effect on the soul. Zhou Tong could even sense that his soul was rapidly strengthening and improving at an unprecedented rate.
The Primal stage was an enormous opportunity for a cultivator's soul to improve. Whether it was the terrifying divine body formed by Fiendgod Body Refiners or the Primal Turtle-Snake Ki Refiners, both had enormous nurturing effects on a cultivator's soul.
As for Zhou Tong, he had both the Fiendgod Body and the Primal Turtle-Snake Ki Refiners. These two powerful effects caused his soul's strength to approach that of a Pure Yang True Immortal.
But of course, this sort of rapid nurturing effect would only appear when one had just reached the Primal stage. After half a year, this sort of nurturing effect would slowly decline.
"Rumble!"
The Turtle-Snake coiled, and Yin and Yang intersected. Right at this moment, golden flames suddenly appeared on the Turtle-Snake's shell. These flames were incomparably hot, but they didn't harm the Primal in the slightest.
This was the 'Primal Fire' which every Primal Daoist possessed.
However, compared to other Primal Daoists, Zhou Tong's Primal Fire was clearly much more powerful, due to his phoenix form and his technique. In fact, even Void-level Earth Immortals might not necessarily be able to compare to him.
"Whoosh!"
At this moment, as his soul merged into the Turtle-Snake, the enormous Turtle-Snake, carrying the Primal Fire, swam about freely within the sea of elemental ki within his Zifu region. Its eyes were incomparably intelligent, as though it had a true life of its own.
"Rumble!"
In the air above his Zifu region, the sun, the moon, and the stars began to shine brilliantly, and one ray of light after another converged towards the Turtle-Snake. As the light converged, the Turtle-Snake's body grew larger and more solid.
This entire process continued for a long time before finally coming to a halt.
This also indicated that Zhou Tong had reached the early Nascent Divinity realm in terms of Qi Refinement.
"Indeed, the Essence Liquid I have is only enough for me to break through to the Essence Soul realm." Zhou Tong opened his eyes and heaved a sigh of relief.
"I estimate that I'll need half a million catties of liquefied elemental essence to cultivate to the great circle of the Primordial Divinity realm! However, once I reach the peak Nascent Divinity stage as a Ki Refiner, I should be able to temporarily stop and focus on the Fiendgod Body Refiner path. "Zhou Tong muttered to himself for a moment before making up his mind.
The Ki Refiners of the Three Realms were very weak. Once one became a Celestial Immortal with this sort of Ki Refiner technique, one's future would be over.
Before becoming a Celestial Immortal, Fiendgod Body Refiners had always been more powerful than Ki Refiners. But in truth, after becoming a Celestial Immortal, the advantages of Ki Refiners would truly come into play. Those Celestial Immortals who had obtained the first-class Golden pill were even more terrifying than Empyrean Gods of the same level.
Upon becoming a Celestial Immortal, a Ki Refiner would have a total of three paths to choose from. Different paths would result in different future Golden pill gains.
First-tier Celestial Immortals would use the energy of a vast, boundless region of the world to form the Golden pill. These Celestial Immortals were equivalent to the most powerful Empyrean Gods, and they had many different techniques in battle. Some first-tier Celestial Immortals were even more terrifying than Empyrean Gods.
Second-tier Celestial Immortals would use all sorts of chaos treasures to help form the Golden pill. These Celestial Immortals would just barely reach the threshold of Empyrean Gods, and they could be considered quite powerful.
Third-tier Celestial Immortals would use their own energy to form the Golden pill. These Celestial Immortals were nothing more than food for Empyrean Gods; even if they came in a group, they would still be slaughtered. Celestial Immortals would only have the power of an Empyrean God upon reaching the Pure Yang True Immortal level.
The Ki Refiners of the Three Realms might not be weaker than those of other worlds in the mortal world, but at the most critical level, at the Celestial Immortal level, where one's future would be determined, they were clearly the weakest.
The Celestial Immortals of the Three Realms were the weakest of all, the third-tier Celestial Immortals!
Thus, Zhou Tong was no longer planning to continue training. He wanted to make his next breakthrough as a Fiendgod Body Refiner. In the future, after leaving the Three Realms and finding the first-tier Golden pill, he would switch to training in Ki Refinement.
"Next, I'll train while searching for the peacock. There are still nine months left. If I still can't find it in nine months, then I can only blame my bad luck. "Zhou Tong said softly, then left the temporary estate he had created.
In the following period of time, Zhou Tong continued to wander about the Mountains and Seas. He trained while searching for traces of the peacock, the target of his mission.
Gradually, he began to focus his attention on cultivation. Zhou Tong's rate of cultivation was clearly much faster than it had been in the past. In just half a year, he had reached the fourteenth stage of the [Diagram of the Chi Ming Nine Heavens]. This meant that he could be considered to have reached the middle Primal stage.
"It's been nine months, but I still can't find any traces of the peacock. It seems my first mission is going to end in failure." Zhou Tong was rather speechless. His first mission as a Raindragon Guard was probably going to end just like this.
Raindragon Guard missions had a very high chance of failure.
This was because, in many cases, they didn't have any specific information. All of the information had to be gathered by the Raindragon Guards themselves. Once the target of a mission decided to hide, it would truly be difficult to find him.
Rumble …!
Right at this moment, Zhou Tong's eyes suddenly focused. He turned his head to stare at a distant swamp.
The elemental energy of heaven and earth was surging violently there, and the vast ripples of energy seemed to have caused a tempest to erupt. More than half of the Mountains and Seas were affected, causing the elemental energy of heaven and earth to ripple violently.
"Such powerful ripples … it seems some living creature is about to break through to the Return to Void stage. In addition, it is most likely a very poor living creature. "Zhou Tong chuckled as he stared at the ripples of elemental energy.
Truly wealthy cultivators would directly use liquefied elemental essence to break through to the Return to Void stage and Earth Immortal stage. Thus, their breakthrough wouldn't cause such a huge commotion. Poor cultivators, however, didn't have such good conditions. All they could do was absorb the elemental energy of heaven and earth from a large area to break through.
Their breakthrough could even affect the elemental energy of heaven and earth, causing the nearby area to ripple violently.
"Huh? It's a Great Demon? A sinful Greater Demon? "Zhou Tong opened the Heaven's Eye on his forehead. He immediately saw a patch of blood red on the other side.
"Sinful Blood Light. Tsk tsk, it's a sinful cultivator!" Zhou Tong was astonished. It wasn't as if he hadn't seen Sinful Blood Light in the Mountains and Seas, but he had never seen one with such a dense blood light.
Sinful cultivators would have impure Qi of Sin on their bodies. Once the impure Qi accumulated, it could form Sinful Blood Light. Any cultivator with Sinful Blood Light on their bodies was a sinful person.
"Hmm?! No, it's that peacock that's breaking through. What a coincidence! " Zhou Tong was suddenly taken aback. He could clearly see the elemental energy of the Five Elements from where the peacock was breaking through. It soared into the heavens and transformed into five feathers of different colors.
"I understand now. It devoured the people of the Thousand Star City in order to use their blood as a catalyst to temper its own bloodline. No wonder in just nine months, it was able to transform its original four feathers into five feathers of the Five Elements." Zhou Tong now understood.
In fact, it was possible that the peacock hadn't come to the Mountains and Seas to seek refuge.
This peacock lacked a Water Element Feather, and the Mountains and Seas were the most abundant place in Stillwater Commandery. It might be easier for it to make a breakthrough in a place like this.
"It was fate that brought us together. You can only count yourself unlucky this time. The commotion caused by your breakthrough was simply too great!"
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