Cultivation Begins From The Desert-Chapter 792 - 775: The Position of the Thunder Feather True Spirit

The place where Zhou Guangcheng was in closed cultivation was the former site of the Donglai Daoist Palace, the area with the densest spiritual qi and the safest location on the Immortal Island.

Although last time, when the Great Demon Mu Qingyun crossed the tribulation, the Daoist Palace was affected by the tribulation thunder and many buildings were destroyed, Zhouyang had already leveled and rebuilt it after the event.

This time, worried about his son's safety, Zhouyang completely disregarded the taboo of not being disturbed during closed cultivation, forcefully breaking the Daoist Palace's restriction and protection, and rushed inside.

"Cheng'Er!"

Upon entering the Daoist Palace, Zhouyang's face dramatically changed upon seeing the scene before him.

Zhou Guangcheng lay prone on the cold jade bed, his breath weak, with blood all over the corners of his mouth.

"Cheng'Er, you must hold on. Father will definitely not let you die!"

A rare trace of panic appeared on Zhouyang's face.

He hurriedly walked to the bed, waved his hand, and took out various healing spiritual objects from his storage ring, ready to administer them to his son.

But when he was about to do so, he suddenly regained his composure, quickly put everything away, and then swiftly flew out of the Daoist Palace to bring in his Dao Companion, Xiao Ying.

"The injuries on Cheng'Er's primordial spirit, we will slowly find a way to help him heal. Ying'Er, you will heal the internal injuries caused by the reversal of his magical power, while I will help stabilize his cultivation!"

Zhouyang quickly laid out his plan to his Dao Companion and then directly went to the bedside, placing his hands on his son's Dantian, transferring a wisp of his own nascent soul's essence into his son's body to nourish the already cracked golden core.

This was equivalent to Zhouyang consuming his own cultivation to help Zhou Guangcheng stabilize his cultivation.

In the cultivation realm, such a great sacrifice is rare except for one's nearest and dearest.

Seeing Zhouyang already taking action, Xiao Ying also suppressed the grief on her face and performed spells to heal their son's internal injuries with her graceful hands.

Their combined efforts, sparing no cost, eventually helped stabilize Zhou Guangcheng's condition.

"Cheng'Er's meridians are severely damaged, and Ying'Er, you need to refine the corresponding elixirs to aid his recovery. As for his primordial spirit injuries, we can use the Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Nourishing Wood to assist his recovery. However, his primordial spirit is severely injured and has already self-induced slumber; this matter will have to wait until he wakes up."

"For now, Ying'Er, you stay here and take care of Cheng'Er; I will go outside and handle external matters!"

Zhouyang finished his work and instructed his Dao Companion, then hurriedly left the Daoist Palace.

When he got outside, he found that the same Lei Yu True Spirit, who was in closed cultivation, stabilizing his True Spirit Dharma Body, had already arrived at Donglai Peak.

Seeing Zhouyang coming out with a poor complexion, Lei Yu True Spirit's expression changed slightly and he quickly asked with concern, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, is your son alright? This matter was originally caused by Lei, so if there's anything Lei can assist with, Fellow Daoist, please speak freely!"

While Zhouyang was inside the Daoist Palace rescuing his son Zhou Guangcheng, he had already learned from Qin Yue'Er about Zhou Guangcheng's nascent soul formation during closed cultivation, thus understanding the great harm that loud shout earlier could have on someone undergoing the nascent soul formation.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Lei Yu, for your concern. My son's life is essentially saved, but his primordial spirit is severely damaged and is currently in self-induced slumber. It is uncertain when he will awaken."

Zhouyang spoke heavily about his son's condition, his eyes flashing with cold light as he looked outside the island and said, "But if that True Spirit keeps guarding outside the island and comes to roar like that from time to time, not to mention that my son's nascent soul formation cannot proceed, even our daily cultivation cannot continue!"

Hearing his words, Lei Yu True Spirit's body crackled with silver-purple lightning as he coldly said, "I understand what Fellow Daoist Zhou means. Leave this matter to Lei; I will surely provide a satisfactory explanation to Fellow Daoist Zhou!"

Saying this, he asked Zhouyang to send him outside the Immortal Island's grand array.

Outside the Immortal Island, a four-armed giant ape, standing over a hundred zhang tall, was riding the waves. Behind him were other demon kings like a blue water ape and a golden flood dragon showing their true forms.

The shout earlier was precisely from this four-armed giant ape.

And this four-armed giant ape was also one of the East Sea Demon Race's greatest pillars, the Tier Seven True Spirit, the Sea-covering Spirit Ape Gu Cangming, also known as the "Sea-covering Spirit Saint."

This demon often meditated in a spiritual eye at the bottom of the East Sea. The news of Lei Yu True Spirit achieving the True Spirit of Thunder Roc, passed to him by his descendants, piqued his interest, prompting him to come personally to Donglai Immortal Island to visit in his true form.

The roar earlier was intended only to make his voice heard through the island protection immortal array by Lei Yu True Spirit.

After all, such primordial spirit attacks wouldn't impact the Tier Seven True Spirit Lei Yu True Spirit, it was merely loud.

But he never considered what would happen to the human cultivators on the Immortal Island upon hearing this roar.

Just like how humans don't worry whether a loud shout would harm small animals.

And he certainly never expected that his roar would eliminate any possibility of normal communication with Lei Yu True Spirit.

His roar had drawn a fearsome enemy upon himself.

At this moment, seeing the silver roc, crackling with silver-purple lightning, appear outside the Immortal Island, the four-armed giant ape opened his big mouth and smiled, "Haha, indeed the aura of a pure Thunder Roc True Spirit, Gu here pays his respects. May I ask how to address Fellow Daoist?"

"Lei dares not climb high with you; you roar without a word and injure others, truly grand and vicious!"

The silver roc spoke in a cold, murderous tone filled with hostility.

The four-armed giant ape clearly didn't expect his friendly smile to be met with coldness, his smile froze, looking at the silver roc incredulously, "Fellow Daoist, what do you mean by this? Gu only intended to greet Fellow Daoist earlier, how did this turn into harming others?"

"Just a greeting? If that's your special way of greeting, then Lei shall also greet those juniors behind you!"

The silver roc finished speaking, and streaks of lightning as serpentine as dragons shot from its body, directly shooting towards the demon kings behind the four-armed giant ape.

"How dare you!!"

An angry roar boomed from the four-armed giant ape's mouth, not expecting Lei Yu True Spirit to attack in front of him, daring to strike against his descendants.

At that moment, he hurriedly reached out to grab the silver-purple lightning, trying to block Lei Yu True Spirit's attack.

But he clearly underestimated the power of the silver-purple lightning.

Upon gripping the first silver-purple lightning, his furry hand was instantly torn apart, its fur igniting with silver-purple thunder fire.

Then, conditioned reflexively, he retracted his remaining hands, avoiding the rest of the silver-purple lightning.

While he quickly realized the threat, and blue light surged on his injured hand to extinguish the thunder fire and heal the wounds, he lost the opportunity to save others.

As a result, several demon kings, including the Golden Scale Demon King, were instantly blasted apart, only managing to escape with a demon soul.

Two weaker demon kings perished completely under Lei Yu True Spirit's attack.

The majesty of a True Spirit was thus clearly demonstrated!

"How dare you! How dare you! You..."

The four-armed giant ape, with a ghastly expression, raised a hand to point at the silver roc, shouting furiously with eyes full of ferocity.

Gu Cangming, the Sea-covering Spirit Ape, has achieved the position of True Spirit for five or six thousand years. Apart from the oldest Red Abyss Spirit Saint among the demon race showing him no respect, no other human or demon dares to act so presumptuously before him!

"What? You finally feel uncomfortable now? What you did earlier is no less than what I have done!"

The Silver Roc looked coldly at the Four-armed Giant Ape with indifference, his eyes full of mockery.

Hearing these words, the Four-armed Giant Ape's ferocity stalled, and he looked at the Silver Roc with incredulity, not expecting this to be the reason for their enmity.

However, the next moment, his eyes were filled with brutal killing intent, and he bellowed with murderous rage, "Very well, for the sake of these insignificant human cultivators, you dare to take action against a fellow demon. It seems you have decided to betray the demon race and side with the human race!"

"Since this is the case, I cannot let you live! Die!"

Just as his voice fell, the Four-armed Giant Ape swung all four arms simultaneously, and a dazzling blue spiritual light burst forth from his fists, surging towards the Silver Thunderbird like a tidal wave.

Wherever the blue spiritual light passed, the sky and sea were dyed aquamarine.

Seeing this, a disdainful look flashed in the Silver Roc's eyes.

Suddenly, lightning flashed around him, and his body abruptly escaped the Four-armed Giant Ape's lock, disappearing from his senses.

The next moment, the Silver Roc's figure appeared a thousand miles away.

A thousand miles in an instant, such is the speed of the Tier Seven Thunder Roc True Spirit.

Although the Thunder Feather True Spirit has not yet cultivated his True Spirit Dharma Body to its pinnacle, in the current Spirit Realm, in terms of speed alone, there is no one who can match him.

Therefore, without divine techniques or artifacts to limit his speed, even those human true immortals or demon true spirits with cultivation higher by a minor realm are not truly a threat to him.

The Four-armed Giant Ape understood this point as well, so his previous move was not an attacking divine technique but an enemy-trapping technique.

If the Silver Roc had not chosen to dodge immediately and tried to take the attack head-on, he would have been dragged into the sea, making it difficult to escape.

However, the Thunder Feather True Spirit had no intention of facing him head-on, only wanting to use his speed advantage to engage in guerrilla warfare.

Only a fool would engage in guerrilla warfare against a Thunder Roc True Spirit, renowned for its speed.

After a few exchanges, realizing the opponent would not confront him head-on, the Four-armed Giant Ape submerged into the deep sea with his progeny, ceasing this futile effort.

The Sea-covering Spirit Ape is a water-dwelling true spirit capable of battling True Dragons in the ocean.

The Thunder Feather True Spirit, of course, would not abandon his advantage and enter the sea to fight, so this Tier Seven True Spirit battle quickly ended in an anticlimactic manner.

"That Sea-covering Spirit Ape achieved enlightenment thousands of years before I did, so what I can do today is limited!"

"However, Fellow Daoist Zhou, rest assured, I have given that guy a stern warning; henceforth, neither he nor the East Sea Flood Dragon Tribe will dare harass your immortal island again, resolving your prior concerns."

Within the immortal island, the Silver Roc, returning from the battle, landed on Donglai Peak, explaining the outcome of the battle to Zhouyang in a deep voice.

Upon hearing this, Zhouyang immediately expressed gratitude with a bow, "Fellow Daoist Lei Yu, for you to engage in a battle with a Tier Seven True Spirit for my son's sake, my family is deeply thankful. Your actions are noted by Zhou, only regretting my cultivation is too low to avenge my son personally!"

"Cultivation being too low" - these words from a Late-Stage Nascent Soul Cultivator held a bitterness only he understood.

The further one goes on the cultivation road, the greater the strength disparity between each great realm.

For a Golden Core Stage Cultivator to fight against a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator is immensely difficult.

For a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator to battle a Tribulation Crossing True Immortal is nearly impossible.

This is evident from the Thunder Feather True Spirit's earlier effortless slaying of multiple Demon Kings.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, do not belittle yourself. To have achieved your current cultivation in just over a thousand years is rare among the entire human race!"

"I believe, with your talent and divine techniques, the Nascent Soul Stage is certainly not the end for you!"

The Silver Roc confidently said to Zhouyang, optimistic about Zhouyang's potential for immortal ascension.

Spoken from a Tier Seven True Spirit, such words naturally carry considerable weight.

While Zhouyang himself may not take it to heart, Qing Luo and Silver Bell, the two Flood Dragons, and Bi'Er, the demon servant on Donglai Peak, were shocked and stared at Zhouyang in a daze after hearing the Thunder Feather True Spirit's words.

In fact, since the Thunder Feather Demon King's successful tribulation, the high-tier demons on the island have been restless.

They never imagined before following Zhouyang that one day they would witness the birth of a Tier Seven True Spirit, or live closely with one.

As the human Nascent Soul Stage cultivators' spirits were lifted upon seeing Du Chongyang, a Tribulation Crossing True Immortal, during the Anti-Demon War of the Beiting Continent's cultivation realm. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Witnessing the birth of a Tier Seven True Spirit excited Zhouyang's demon servants greatly.

True Immortals and True Spirits are the ultimate goals for most human cultivators and high-tier demons.

Their existence serves as the best motivation for others to persist in their cultivation.

So, although the demon servants had not discussed it, they all secretly planned to pledge allegiance to the Thunder Feather True Spirit.

They believed with his cultivation status, he could easily liberate them from Zhouyang's grasp if he was willing to intervene.

However, due to the Thunder Feather True Spirit's recent seclusion, they had no chance to act.

This time, seeing the Thunder Feather True Spirit's might in battling the Sea-covering Spirit Ape, revered by the East Sea Demon Race as a deity, without falling behind, stirred their spirits, making them eager to express their loyalty to gain acceptance.

Yet, before they could express their loyalty, the Thunder Feather True Spirit openly declared Zhouyang's potential for immortality before them.

Even if they had occasionally entertained such thoughts witnessing Zhouyang's rapid cultivation progress, none took it seriously.

But now...

Regardless of how the demon servants' hearts shook after hearing the Thunder Feather True Spirit's evaluation of Zhouyang.

Zhouyang, worried about his son Zhou Guangcheng's safety, had no mind for formalities with the Thunder Feather True Spirit.

He immediately said, "The matter of immortal ascension is still far off for me and need not be a current concern. However, my son's injuries require my personal care, and I must excuse myself now, Fellow Daoist Lei Yu, feel free to stay as you please."

With that, he hastily returned to the Donglai Daoist Palace to tend to his son Zhou Guangcheng.

The Thunder Feather True Spirit saw him off, then flapped his wings and flew back to his seclusion spot, never once casting a glance at Zhouyang's demon servants throughout.