Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Qinglian Mountains.

When Zhou Chun met Master Tianjing again after many years, he no longer felt the nervousness he had in the past, perhaps because his cultivation had broken through to the late Jindan stage.

Although he also knew that even if he could unleash greater power from his magic treasures due to his increased magical powers, he would still not be a match for a Nascent Soul cultivator.

But the mentality is indeed completely different from before.

If one were to look into the reasons in detail, it was probably because he had now truly achieved the Nascent Soul stage, and was full of confidence that he would be able to reach this level in the future!

Of course, confidence is not arrogance.

Even if Zhou Chun no longer had the awe he once had for Master Tianjing, he would not show any disrespect in front of him, nor would he show any lack of etiquette.

After looking at the other person for a moment, he immediately bowed his head and said, "Junior greets Senior Tianjing."

"You're welcome, my friend Zhou. Please take a seat."

Taoist Tianjing waved his hand and asked Zhou Chun to take a seat at the bottom.

"Thank you for the seat, senior."

Zhou Chun thanked him and sat down halfway, waiting for the other party to speak next.

But after looking at him for a while, Tianjing Zhenren said, "I see that your mana is impetuous and your aura is vigorous. You must have taken the Barrier Breaking Spirit Pill to break through to the late Jindan stage."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun quickly complimented him, "Senior, you have a keen eye and can see the truth at a glance."

As he spoke, he nodded and said, "That's right, I took a barrier-breaking elixir that I exchanged for years ago, and that's how I forcibly broke through the realm barrier!"

Hearing what he said, Tianjing Zhenren looked at him deeply and said, "The spiritual pill that can help break through the barrier of the late Jindan stage is not much less valuable than some inferior spiritual objects for forming infants. My friend can even exchange for such a spiritual pill. It seems that your wealth is a little beyond my expectations!"

Zhou Chun's heart trembled, and he immediately explained, "Senior, you are too kind. I was able to exchange for this elixir thanks to your guidance. If I hadn't made a fortune from the remnants of the Qinglian Temple, I wouldn't be able to take out the treasure to exchange for this elixir!"

"So that's how it is. Then Mr. Zhou is really willing to give it up!"

Master Tianjing nodded slightly, as if he believed what he said.

Then he suddenly changed the subject and said, "Since you, Mr. Zhou, have already broken through to the late Jindan stage, what do you think about the next step of transforming the elixir into a baby?"

He had asked Zhou Chun this question before.

But at that time Zhou Chun could still get away with it by saying that his cultivation was not good enough.

It is not good to use the same excuse now.

Therefore, after Zhou Chun pondered for a while, he answered half true and half false: "Senior, you also know the details of my Zhou family. There has never been a late Jindan cultivator in the family. I really don't know much about the fact of Danhua Infant Formation, so if I want to talk about my specific thoughts, I really don't know where to start!"

"So my current idea is to travel more while I'm still young, look for opportunities, and learn more about the matter of Danhua and Infant Formation. I'll take it one step at a time."

His answer paved the way for him to go out and find a place to practice the secret method of "Purple Flower Demon-Subduing Spiritual Light" later.

After all, if he were to leave and not show up for decades, it would definitely cause a lot of speculation.

Now that the truth has been cleared up here with Master Tianjing, anyone from the Yuelun Sect and the Yanyang Sect who is interested will know about it.

After hearing his answer, Tianjing Zhenren quickly said, "Traveling outside to look for opportunities to form a baby is indeed what most late Jindan cultivators do. However, opportunities to form a baby are so rare that most people will hardly encounter one in their entire lives!"

"What you said makes sense, but the road is right before my eyes. I have finally come to this point, so I can't give up so easily!"

Zhou Chun nodded and sighed helplessly.

Upon seeing this, Master Tianjing could not help but shake his head and said, “No one can help you with the spiritual objects for forming a baby, but I can give you a share of the experience of forming a baby!”

"Ah! Is what you said serious?"

Zhou Chun looked up at Master Tianjing with surprise, his eyes full of surprise.

This performance seemed to make Tian Jing Zhenren very satisfied. He couldn't help but sighed and said, "Of course, there is no need for me to lie to you. After all, I hope more than anyone else that you can succeed in transforming the elixir and forming a fetus!"

Hearing his words that seemed to have a hidden meaning, Zhou Chun also quickly spoke out and said, "Don't worry, senior. If I can really transform the elixir into a fetus, I will never regret what I promised you!"

After saying this, he stood up and bowed to him, saying: "Senior, I am grateful for your selfless teaching. Please accept my greetings!"

"My friend, there is no need to be so polite. Since you and I have common interests, I will naturally help you wherever I can!"

Taoist Tianjing waved his hand, and a jade slip recording the experience of forming a baby was immediately thrown to Zhou Chun.

Then he continued, "Although I cannot help you, my friend Zhou, with the spiritual objects for forming a pill, but before I formed an infant, I also ran around for the opportunity to form an infant, and I found a treasure land that may contain the opportunity to form an infant. With your strength and means, my friend Zhou, perhaps you can go and take a look!"

Zhou Chun was also extremely surprised when he heard this. He didn't expect that he would do such a thing.

He hesitated and said, "Well... please forgive my rudeness, but since you think that place may contain a chance to form a baby, why didn't you take advantage of it?"

The opportunity to form a baby is not an ordinary opportunity. Even a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage will try his best to fight for it when faced with such an opportunity.

After all, most Nascent Soul cultivators have disciples. Even those lone cultivators who don't have any disciples can exchange treasures with the Nascent Soul cultivators in other sects after obtaining the Nascent Soul Spirit Object.

Therefore, if you say that Master Tianjing did not take advantage of the opportunity because he had no use for it after forming his infant, no one would believe it!

Fortunately, Master Tianjing was not angry because of Zhou Chun's doubts. He just nodded and explained, "It's normal for you to worry, but the place I mentioned is very special. It's not in the territory of our human race. Before I transformed my elixir and formed my infant, I didn't have the ability to obtain the opportunity to form an infant there. Although I have gained strength after forming my infant, I dare not take the risk of going deep into the territory of those alien races!"

After saying that, he described in detail the opportunity of forming a baby that he had mentioned.

It turns out that according to Master Tianjing, the opportunity to form a baby that he mentioned is located in a foreign land where demons and alien races live together.

That foreign land is very far away from Jingguo, and the place where the opportunity to form a baby is located is also located deep in the foreign land.

More importantly, based on some discoveries, Master Tianjing only guessed that the place might contain opportunities for forming infants suitable for gold-attributed practitioners like him and Zhou Chun, but he could not be completely sure.

In this situation, after he had already formed a baby, he naturally did not want to take risks in such places just for the sake of uncertainty.

But for Zhou Chun, who now needs to seek an opportunity to form a baby, he is willing to take a risk even in the most dangerous places for that glimmer of chance.

That was why he was willing to give this so-called opportunity to conceive a baby to Zhou Chun for free.

After understanding the matter clearly, Zhou Chun also let it go. No matter whether he could use it or not, he just said thank you and that was it.

He soon realized what was going on and said, "So that's how it is. I was wrong about you. I have no way to repay you for your kindness. Please accept my greetings!"

After saying this, he bowed and saluted to show his gratitude.

Taoist Tianjing also accepted his gift calmly, then looked at him meaningfully and said, "There is one more thing I want to remind Fellow Daoist Zhou. No matter whether you find an opportunity to form a baby outside in the future, if you really want to form a baby through Dan transformation, it is best not to do it in the Qinglian Mountains, otherwise the consequences will be unpredictable!"

Zhou Chun was shocked when he heard this, and immediately responded in a low voice: "I understand, thank you for your advice."

In fact, he knew this without being reminded by Master Tianjing.

Since it is not as easy to conceal the formation of the elixir and infant as the formation of the elixir, and no one knows how many people in the Zhou family have been bribed, once he forms the elixir and infant in the Qinglian Mountains, the information will surely be known to the other two major forces in Jingguo soon.

It is hard to say what these two major forces will think at that time.

After all, Zhou Chun is different from Tianjing Zhenren at that time.

At that time, Jingguo was a three-way confrontation, and Tianjing Zhenren was just a casual cultivator, and he also set up a mysterious formation to cover it up.

By the time Qinglian Temple, which was most concerned about his formation of a fetus, discovered this fact, it was already difficult to take effective measures.

And once Zhou Chun was discovered in advance that he was trying to transform the elixir into a fetus, it would be hard to say whether the Yuelun Sect and the Yanyang Sect, whose strength had been greatly damaged, would have some thoughts about him.

You have to know that besides himself, he also has several fourth-level monster pets with great potential and strength!

No one knows how serious the consequences will be if we allow him to grow freely and form a baby!
Now, the best way for Zhou Chun may be to create a time difference.

Taking advantage of the fact that the outside world was unaware of his breakthrough to the late Golden Core stage, and that he had already gathered all the spiritual objects needed to form a Nascent Soul, he quietly succeeded in forming a Nascent Soul outside, and then returned in full force as a Nascent Soul cultivator.

By that time, the matter would have been done. Even if the Yuelun Sect and the Yanyang Sect had more ideas, they would not risk offending a newly promoted Nascent Soul cultivator unless Zhou Chun openly challenged the status of the two sects.

After obtaining the detailed information and a map about the so-called opportunity to form a baby from Tianjing Zhenren, Zhou Chun quickly said goodbye and left.

Not long after, a piece of news suddenly spread within the Zhou family that the Zhou family head’s spiritual pet, the Flame Prison Fire Phoenix, had broken through to the fourth-order top-grade monster.

Although this news has not been confirmed by Zhou Chun himself, because there was indeed an abnormal fluctuation in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth near Zhou Chun's cave that day, it is still believed and accepted by many people.

This was the news that Zhou Chun deliberately released in order to cover up his own breakthrough to the late Jindan stage.

Compared to his spirit pet breaking through to the fourth-rank high-quality demon beast, his breakthrough to the late golden elixir stage was obviously more likely to attract some attention.

So he is choosing the lesser of two evils.

Of course, in order to prevent the truth from being discovered, he still had to make the Hell Fire Phoenix break through to become a fourth-order top-grade monster as soon as possible.

Fortunately, this is not a difficult task. The Hellfire Phoenix itself is indeed very close to breaking through to become a fourth-rank top-grade demon beast.

Zhou Chun just needed to find a suitable place for it to swallow the [Fire Element Immortal Ganoderma] and start to break through. And he already had a plan for this.

While there was a lot of discussion within the Zhou family, Zhou Chun was also in his cave feeling the changes brought about by his late Jindan cultivation.

For immortal cultivators, no matter how powerful a magic weapon is, it is still an external object. The most important thing is always one's own cultivation.

Zhou Chun, who is in the late Jindan stage, has experienced another surge in magic power and spiritual awareness compared to his self before the breakthrough.

This surge is far greater than any previous one, and the gap is much greater than the gap from the middle to late Purple Mansion period!
This is also a special situation after one’s cultivation reaches the Golden Core Stage.

When it comes to the Nascent Soul stage, the gap between the late Nascent Soul stage and the middle Nascent Soul stage will be even greater!

Zhou Chun now has a total amount of mana equivalent to three of his previous selves, and the range of his spiritual awareness has also leapt to over 120 miles!

If he were to activate the [Tiangang Thunder Sword] and transform into a lightning sword dragon, it should be able to last for half a quarter of an hour.

At the same time, the power of the spiritual treasure [Moon Toad Orb] should be able to be exerted to one third.

And naturally, the various secret techniques and magical powers he practiced were unable to increase significantly due to the sudden increase in his cultivation and magic power.

For example, with the help of the "Heavenly Star Purple Hair" spiritual tea, he had already understood some of the key points of the magical power of "Golden Escape Technique". Now, he has naturally broken through the range of 100 miles and can escape to a distance of 150 or 60 miles at a time!

In addition, with the breakthrough in his cultivation, his natal magic weapon [Wanhua Golden Cauldron] also showed signs of being promoted to a top-grade magic weapon. After a few years of nurturing, it will naturally be promoted to a top-grade magic weapon!

All in all, the breakthrough in cultivation level has greatly enhanced Zhou Chun’s personal strength!

After that, Zhou Chun did not stay in the family for long. He just practiced in seclusion for a year and then decided to leave.

After talking to Zhou Mingde and Zhou Yuanlian who had just come out of seclusion, he quietly left the Qinglian Mountains.

After leaving home this time, Zhou Chun went straight to Liang Country, intending to deal with the matter of the Chongxuan Demon King before he transformed the elixir and formed a baby.

Liang State, Mixian Ridge.

After Zhou Chun entered this place for the third time, his mentality was completely different.

This time he came to help the Chongxuan Demon King, so he was not worried about his own safety at all. After entering, he took the initiative to release the golden-armored mountain turtle stone to attract the attention of the Chongxuan Demon King.

Then, just like the previous two times, he and his spirit pet were quickly brought to the underground palace by the Chongxuan Demon King with his great magical powers.

"Are all the current human cultivators' cultivation as fast as yours? It's only been a few years, and you've already broken through to the late Jindan stage!"

Inside the underground palace, the rock giant transformed by the Demon King Chongxuan expressed his inner surprise in a muffled voice after Zhou Chun finished his salute.

A hundred years is just a nap for it.

But he didn't expect that after waking up from such a sleep, Zhou Chun had achieved another breakthrough.

Although it also knew that the cultivation speed of human cultivators was much faster than that of the demons of the same level, this speed was still a little too fast.

Facing the surprise of the Chongxuan Demon King, Zhou Chun answered very modestly: "Maybe I am lucky and happened to have some opportunities to improve my cultivation."

"Then you have a really good chance. I see that the cultivation of this little turtle has improved a lot. It must have eaten a lot of demon pills!"

Demon King Chongxuan glanced at him and spoke in a calm tone.

In fact, I was quite surprised inside.

When Zhou Chun said that if Stone, the golden-armored mountain turtle, followed him, it would definitely not be any worse than practicing in the Immortal Ridge, it thought Zhou Chun was just bragging.

But now, judging from the speed at which Stone, the golden-armored mountain-carrying turtle, is improving in his cultivation, it seems that Zhou Chun really was not exaggerating.

Even if it was the Demon King Chongxuan who was responsible for cultivating the Golden-armored Mountain Turtle Stone, it would not be easy to make it have the current progress in a hundred years.

However, the Demon King Chongxuan also has to save face, and of course he will not admit in person that he is not as good as Zhou Chun.

So he quickly continued, "Okay, stop talking nonsense. Are you here to fulfill your promise to me? How do you plan to complete the task I have assigned you?"

"Senior, please understand. I am indeed here to fulfill my promise."

Zhou Chun nodded and admitted it frankly.

He then told us how he was going to complete this task.

According to Zhou Chun's plan, he would definitely not go to Longyuan to complete this matter, nor would it be convenient for him to let his pet do this.

So he planned to pass the token of Demon King Chongxuan to the Golden Horned Dragon King through a fifth-level demon king in Yunzhou.

In order to ensure that the fifth-level demon king would believe his words and be willing to hand over the item, the Chongxuan demon king would need to work hard on the token.

After hearing his plan, Chongxuan Demon King could not help but nod and said, "Well, your idea is not bad. Let me think about how to make the token you mentioned!"

Seeing this, Zhou Chun immediately said, "Senior, you can take your time to think about it. I have two small things that I hope you can agree to!"

"What little thing? Tell me about it first."

The Demon King Chongxuan glanced at him but did not refuse directly.

This made Zhou Chun happy, and he said quickly: "Senior, please understand. I am practicing a secret method but I am still lacking an earth attribute spiritual object. I would like to ask you to give me some [Earth Essence]. In addition, I have a spiritual pet that needs a place to break through to the fourth-level upper-grade monster beast. I would like to use your precious land to break through. Please allow me!"

Upon hearing this, the Chongxuan Demon King was slightly surprised and said, "Oh, you still have such a powerful pet? Let it out first and let me take a look."

"Yes, junior, I obey."

Zhou Chun responded and immediately released the Hellfire Phoenix.

"It turned out to be a Fire Phoenix monster!"

Demon King Chongxuan glanced at the Flame Hell Fire Phoenix. The aura of the demon king on his body made the Flame Hell Fire Phoenix's feathers tense up and its head retracted into its wings.

Then he nodded slightly and said, "This is indeed a trivial matter. I agree."

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and a yellowish-brown stone the size of a human head appeared in his hand. He threw it to Zhou Chun.

"I don't have time to help you condense [Earth Essence], but this [Earth Essence Stone] also contains pure Earth power, which should be able to meet your needs."

It not only met Zhou Chun's needs, it simply made him overjoyed!

That is to say, Zhou Chun is not a cultivator of earth-attributed cultivation techniques, otherwise if such a large piece of [Earth Essence Stone] was refined into his life-saving magic weapon, its power would surely increase by 10% or 20% out of thin air!

The value of this item to a cultivator practicing earth-attributed cultivation techniques is no less than the value of [Gen Gold] to a sword cultivator.

Even when Zhou Chun got this item, he felt reluctant to use it to practice "Small Five Elements Breaking the Prohibition of Mysterious Light", feeling that it was too wasteful.

Of course, this thought only flashed through his mind and was dispelled by him.

Now he doesn't need such a spiritual object. It would be a waste if he wasted some of it. What matters most is that he quickly cultivates the third level of "The Small Five Elements Breaking the Profound Light".

After he took the stone, he couldn't hide his joy and immediately bowed to express his gratitude: "Thank you for the gift, senior. I am very grateful."

"Okay, I still need to think about how to make a token, you guys can practice in this underground palace!"

Demon King Chongxuan waved his hand and his figure instantly disappeared in the hall.

Zhou Chun was not surprised by this, and immediately gave the [Fire Element Immortal Ganoderma] to Yanyu Fire Phoenix and let it refine it aside.

Then he released several other spirit pets, which also occupied a corner of the hall to practice.

Fortunately, this hall is spacious enough and the spiritual energy here is even richer than that of Qinglian Peak, otherwise the master and his servants would not be able to squeeze in.

After arranging several spiritual pets in this way, Zhou Chun sat down on the ground, took out five spiritual objects, [Gen Jin Yuan Jing], [Bi Mu Ling Xin], [Huo Yuan Jing Yu], [Ren Shui Xuan Zhu], and [Wu Tu Jing Shi], and placed them in front of him. He slowly practiced the third level of "Small Five Elements Breaking the Prohibition of Mysterious Light" and began to absorb and refine the power of the five five elements spiritual objects.

More than a month later, the Chongxuan Demon King appeared again and handed a dark brown stone ball to Zhou Chun.

This stone ball was about the size of a human head. When the Chongxuan Demon King handed it to Zhou Chun, he said with great arrogance: "Young man, you give this to the demon king. When he probes his spiritual consciousness into it, it will naturally trigger the means that I sealed in it, and then he will know what to do!"

Hearing its confident words, Zhou Chun was curious about what tricks it had hidden, but he immediately put the item away carefully and replied respectfully: "Junior understands, I will definitely handle this matter well."

"Then I will wait for your good news."

The Chongxuan Demon King glanced at him and quickly disappeared again.

Zhou Chun continued to practice the secret technique while waiting for the Hell Fire Phoenix to break through.

After practicing in the underground palace below the Mixian Ridge for almost three years, Zhou Chun finally succeeded in practicing the third level of "Small Five Elements Breaking the Prohibition of Mysterious Light" and completely refined the five five-element spiritual objects.

Another half a year passed, and the Hellfire Phoenix, which had been silent all the time, suddenly began to absorb large amounts of spiritual energy from the outside world, and colorful glazed flames burned all over its body.

(End of this chapter)