Qi Cultivation Starting from the Repair Panel

Daoist Venerable Zheng Chu's influence within the Chaos Sea is immensely vast now, and given the uncertainty of his background, recklessly making contact with him carries great risks.

After issuing a caution, Chu Zheng transmitted the incantation to unlock the protection formation to Song Lingxue and then repeatedly warned:

"After opening the treasure vault, intercept the Golden Body and prevent it from drifting out of the Chaos Sea."

Currently, the scope of Daoist Venerable Zheng Chu's influence within the Chaos Sea is still somewhat limited, but should it enter the Great Universe, especially the Myriad Realms, what he could do and the areas he could affect would expand even further.

What Chu Zheng can do at the moment is quite limited, and it's uncertain whether he can affect the pace of Daoist Venerable Zheng Chu's development.

The treasury inside that meteor contains a considerable number of cultivation resources.

The Dongyuan Realm practices the totem cultivation skill, primarily relying on the flesh and blood of Savage Beasts for sustenance. Therefore, apart from the 'Reversing Yin-Yang Formation' and its Nine Yin Nine Yang Eighteen Pole Array Flags, a large portion of those resources consist of high-level Savage Beast blood and flesh, which are quite suitable for Martial Cultivators.

The Chaos Sea is accessible from all sides, and the fact that Song Lingxue happened to encounter that meteor — her luck seems a bit too good to be true.

As for Song Lingxue's reason for going to the Chaos Sea, besides the significant difference in the flow of time, Chu Zheng couldn't think of any other possibility; this is a place where one can relatively accelerate their growth.

Now that the Martial Hall's rise is unstoppable, this half of Heaven's Fortune within the Chaos Sea will surely attract the contention of various great powers. It is only logical for the Martial Hall to arrange for people to head there in advance.

However, with Ancestral Dao's Forbidden Patterns in place, creatures of the Tenth Order are unable to enter or exit; the Heaven and Earth within the Chaos Sea are vast enough that it lacks not beings who have stepped into the Tenth Order, and there even exist beings like Wu Tong who have reached the Realm of Ancient Myths.

The ultimate ownership of this half of Heaven's Fortune is still uncertain, and given the current rate of Daoist Venerable Zheng Chu's increase in strength, Chu Zheng suspects that the time when He steps into the Tenth Order domain won't be too far off.

Suppressing the thoughts in his heart, Chu Zheng took out a baby fist-sized Golden Core and stored it into his Dantian, slowly nurturing it.

[Golden Scale Nine Revolutions Pill (Eighth Order): Made from the heart's blood of a Sacred Qilin, complemented with nine stalks of Immortal Herbs, and having endured the Elixir Tribulation four times, it can significantly boost the cultivation of True Immortals below the Five Tribulations and grant 30% of the Qilin bloodline.]

This Immortal Pill was gained from the Cangyun Secret Realm. After a period of time, it has been fully restored.

Chu Zheng is not eager to refine this Immortal Pill right away because its medicinal power is extremely potent, enough to push his cultivation to the Four Tribulations Perfection, and even into the midst of the Fifth Tribulations.

In his current situation, having just crossed the Golden Tribulation and with an unfulfilled foundation in his body, forcing the Water Tribulation might lead to an unpredictable ending; the surging Tribulation Qi might be too much for his avatar to withstand.

This is the edge of the cosmos, a place where one might encounter Evil Demons at any moment – there is no need to complicate matters unnecessarily.

Breaking through realms doesn't need to hasten for the moment. Furthermore, he needs time to extract the Qilin bloodline from this Elixir; he does not need to rely on beast blood for further enhancements, as it would introduce unwanted complexity into his Yuan Qi.

Biting off more than one can chew, with the example set by the path of Incense Fire Divine Spirituality before him, he is now gradually learning to choose wisely.

Although he has a restorative platform supporting him, allowing for more trial and error, it doesn't mean he can keep heading down the wrong path.

The roads untraveled are always shrouded in the unknown and often imagined to be full of splendor, but they may just as well contain hidden thorns.

Having understood seven or eight out of the few paths that stand at the pinnacle of the myriad ways of the universe, within the Great Universe, Chu Zheng has learned a substantial amount of both the secrets that can be known and those that cannot. By walking the path beneath his feet, that will suffice.

As the Ancestral Dao fades and the nearing of the Dao contention accelerates, his task is to somehow gain some advantage in this upcoming transition.

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In the universe, where the sun and moon no longer rise and set, and day and night no longer change, the passage of time naturally becomes unclear.

Chu Zheng sat cross-legged in the starry sky; in the blink of an eye, more than two years had passed, and within the Chaos Sea, it had been over two hundred years.

The Spirit Tree Avatar had undergone dozens of major and minor tribulations over those two hundred years, causing much of the Tribulation Qi surrounding Chu Zheng to dissipate.

In these several incarnations of tribulations, this was undoubtedly the greatest harvest for Chu Zheng, accumulating enough precious experience that he could perfectly replicate it next time, provided he finds a suitable vessel.

Tribulations possess strong controllability. As long as one has a sufficient foundation for self-preservation, the risk of actively seeking tribulations is undoubtedly the lowest, and incarnating for tribulations further reduces this risk.

This is also why many cultivators in the Myriad Realms have a general impression of Qi Cultivators as meddlers who love to stir trouble and cause storms.

However, environments like the Spirit Moon Great Realm are ultimately too rare, with nature's spiritual energy supplied regularly, affecting the entire realm and ensuring upheavals, which creates ample space for facing tribulations.

During these two-plus years, Evil Demons have frequently intruded, and Chu Zheng has encountered several unexpected situations, thankfully all without real danger.

Because of the previous interactions with the three from the Martial Hall, Chu Zheng had some doubts, but perhaps due to Shang Cangyun's influence, no one from the Martial Hall has shown up since then.

While killing these creatures from the Vast Universe, Chu Zheng could vaguely sense the Luck Stealing Skill autonomously activating, but strangely, he could not at all feel the increase in Heavenly Fate; multiple checks still turned up no traces.

Hum——

A fluctuation of Divine Sense transmitted from the depths of his mind, startling Chu Zheng from his meditative state as he slowly opened his eyes, sensing the message from Song Lingxue.

The content of the message was not much different from before, mostly inquiring about his recent situation.

With the enormous difference in the flow of time, Song Lingxue's messages were almost coming every half a month, which he had gradually grown accustomed to.

Although his cultivation was often interrupted, even if there was no change, Chu Zheng would still try to write longer responses.

In the Great Universe's half-month, four to five years would have passed in the Chaos Sea; he knew Song Lingxue was trying her best to reduce the frequency of her messages.

Just as he finished writing his response, a gate of light suddenly opened in the distant starry sky behind him, shimmering with starlight, and a troop of no fewer than a thousand people emerged, accompanied by a Celestial Lord who had stepped into the Nine Tribulations True Immortal Realm.

Chu Zheng's eyes emanated golden light. With a glance, he understood the situation: all of these were cultivators from the Myriad Realms.

These creatures had terrifyingly strong cultivation levels, not a single one below the Eighth Order, and there were even several dozens at Perfect Eighth Order, equivalent to the formidable existence of a Perfect Ninth Tribulation True Immortal.

The appearance of these people here, along with a Celestial Lord, had a clear purpose; evidently, they came as reinforcements and were probably passing by on their way to a deeper battlefield.

After a few breaths, Chu Zheng's gaze suddenly paused in the crowd; a group of more than ten people, regardless of gender, all wore Taoist robes and hair in Taoist knots, all of them Qi Cultivators.

The person at the end, a man about thirty years old, dressed in a dark blue Taoist robe with a jade crown on his head and a stern countenance, exuded an air of sternness.

Chu Zheng silently sent out a sound transmission:

"Fellow Daoist Nie, it has been a long time."