Cultivation Begins From The Desert-Chapter 828 - 811: The Immortal Sect Gate Is Hard to Open!

Zhouyang's closed-door training in the Dome Heaven Immortal Realm to impact the Tribulation Crossing Stage wasn't known to many. He didn't want attention focused on himself because of this.

Moreover, his attempt was merely a trial to experience the difficulty involved.

After all, unless you try personally, even the most detailed explanations are like seeing flowers through a fog, unclear and unrealistic.

But when he truly felt the difficulty of pushing open the Door of Immortality, he fell silent.

Ironically, in the past when he went into closed-door training to break through a realm, whether successful or not, results were never expected in a short time.

Yet this time, he ended his retreat within less than three years.

The Door of Immortality lies in the perception of every Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul "Half-Step True Immortal," but trying to push it open is virtually impossible!

Zhouyang had not long entered the Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul, but he believed that in aspects of magical power, physical body, and divine sense, as well as comprehension of laws, he was not inferior to those veteran Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul cultivators, and even far surpassed in physical body and divine sense aspects.

Yet when he tried to push the Door of Immortality, he found he could only make it sway slightly.

Despite in his knowledge, letting the Door of Immortality sway on one's first attempt was considered a great achievement, it didn't ease the helplessness and bitterness in his heart.

Noticing his humble response to inquiries from the Thunder Feather True Spirit and Lan Daoist about the subject of immortality.

But indeed, he felt proud thinking that although the Door of Immortality was reputed to be incredibly challenging, he might overcome it.

But now, his pride smashed against the Immortal Door, head broken and bloody, shattered completely!

This attempt alone made him realize, without external aid, even with over a thousand years more to try, he wouldn't ever genuinely push open that Immortal Door.

He is not the reputed extraordinary cultivation genius circulated in various cultivation realms today, his rapid progress in cultivation is mainly due to various adventures and elixir powers.

His true cultivation speed, his actual talent and aptitude are only comparable to a good Upper-Grade Spiritual Root cultivator, still far inferior compared to his son Zhou Guangcheng, a Spirit Body cultivator.

Without many opportunities and chances, he might not even pass the Nascent Soul Formation challenge, let alone transcend into immortality.

So now if he doesn't use external help, just depending on himself, pushing open the Door of Immortality is utterly impossible.

After realizing this, Zhouyang no longer thought of continuing closed-door training in the Dome Heaven Immortal Realm, because it's purely a waste of time.

He quietly left, notifying only close ones like Master Cyan Yang, then returned to the Boundless Desert Sea Cultivation Realm.

Upon returning, Zhouyang checked the spirit vein conditions of Lingxi Peak and Pingsha Mountain, two Tier Six Lower-Grade Spirit Mountains, finding no instability, so he buried three top-grade spirit stones respectively in each mountain, setting up the Spirit Vein Ascension Array to enhance their spirit vein grades.

With the spirit veins in ascended states, Nascent Soul Stage cultivators couldn't train on them, thus Zhouyang focused on enhancing his artifact refining skill.

In the Dragon Taming Clan battle, over a dozen Tier Six Demon Kings fell to their hands, coupled with materials collected from various places on Five Dragon Island, and previously unused resources, Zhouyang now amassed a wealth of Tier Six spiritual materials.

He aimed to improve his artifact refining skill with these materials, to impact higher artifact refining skill realms, and to forge more Tier Six magical artifacts, preserving heritage for the Zhou Family's future.

As his understanding of Fire Attribute Law deepened, with the True Fire Refining Form Technique achieving great success, his mastery over Qianyang True Flame significantly strengthened, refining control far surpassing before.

Also, his cultivation reaching the Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul, magical power, and divine sense reaching the peak of Nascent Soul Stage, eased the engraving of spirit patterns into magical artifacts.

All combined, although he hadn't crafted Tier Six magical artifacts for a substantial period, his artifact refining skill neither declined but advanced, success rate greatly enhanced compared to before.

In just five years, he successfully crafted a Tier Six Middle-Grade magical artifact, far from reaching his limit.

With abundant materials, he used the Tier Six spirit materials to continue refining magical artifacts, honing his skills.

Until utilizing relatively inferior materials completely, Zhouyang crafted nine Tier Six magical artifacts, including two Tier Six Middle-Grade artifacts.

Within these artifacts, some were custom-made for demon kings like Golden Roc and Bi'Er, honoring promises Zhouyang made earlier.

Having crafted these artifacts, the remaining materials on Zhouyang's hands were rare treasures for crafting Tier Six High-Grade magical artifacts.

Even if exchanging materials alone, he'd gather top-grade spirit stones and Tier Six spirit pills, such precious items.

Even with Zhouyang's wealth, he wasn't willing to proceed without confidence.

Pausing refining temporarily, he found Lan Daoist, aiding his Dao companion Xiao Ying in researching a secret technique for high-tier female cultivators to conceive.

Over the years, Xiao Ying ran over a thousand experiments on many female cultivators who agreed, making some breakthroughs, preparing to test on Purple Mansion Stage and Golden Core Stage cultivators, with two to three dozen volunteers willing to cooperate.

Knowing Lan Daoist was an immortal's split soul incarnation, with insights far beyond her own, thus she specially invited Lan Daoist for consultation.

At the time, Zhouyang approached to request Lan Daoist's advice on artifact refining skill, she immediately suggested, "I'm at a crucial stage in researching such a secret technique, if husband isn't busy, why not aid me in studying it together, if it genuinely succeeds, Yu Zhen and Yu Huan could offer husband grandchildren soon!"

Originally, her keen interest in this secret technique was with the hope of grandchildren.

Zhouyang discovered his Dao companion's thoughts for the first time, making it hard to refuse.

After all, the matter concerning his own lineage on a broad scale, and minorly, his Dao companion hasn't requested anything for many years, now finally opening up, how could he refuse?

Thus he agreed with a smile to help with the research together.

Combining wisdom and insights of Zhouyang and Lan Daoist, two contemporary top figures researched and experimented for seventeen years, finally creating a secret technique allowing Golden Core Stage female cultivators to conceive.

Xiao Ying named this secret technique "Primordial Embryo Technique." Although the single-use success rate is less than 10%, it can be used repeatedly.

Each failed attempt only results in the loss of some essence and blood energy of the female cultivator, which can be restored after a few years of rest. It does not affect future cultivation.

Yet, although this method has proven successful for Golden Core Stage female cultivators, whether it can succeed for Nascent Soul Stage female cultivators remains in question.

After all, even though the pregnancy rate for Golden Core Stage female cultivators is low, it is relatively high compared to Nascent Soul Stage female cultivators.

For example, Zhou Guangcheng was conceived when Zhouyang and Xiao Ying were at the Golden Core Stage.

However, this research must stop here.

Golden Core Stage female cultivator volunteers are still relatively easy to find, but Nascent Soul Stage female cultivator volunteers are virtually nonexistent.

There is always a serious gender imbalance between Nascent Soul Stage male and female cultivators in the cultivation realm. Some Nascent Soul Stage female cultivators, like Lu Xuewei and Liu Yunxiang, have no intention of finding a Dao companion.

Xiao Ying considered attempting it herself, but Zhouyang was not noble enough to sacrifice himself for such research and firmly rejected this absurd suggestion from his Dao companion.

It's ridiculous; his son and daughter are now over thirteen to fourteen hundred years old, and having another child would completely mess up the generational hierarchy.

After firmly rejecting the absurd suggestion from his Dao companion, Zhouyang returned to the upgraded Pingsha Mountain residence with Lan Daoist to focus on advancing to the Tier Six High-grade Refiner.

Zhouyang is keen to achieve Tier Six High-grade Refiner status mainly to refine the "Thousand-legged Earth Dragon" shell into defensive battle armor. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

The shell of the "Thousand-legged Earth Dragon" boasts the strongest defense Zhouyang has ever seen, even containing some power of the Earth Attribute Law with characteristics of a Tier Seven True Spirit.

Currently, Zhouyang still holds several Thunder Feathers gifted by the Thunder Feather True Spirit.

These feathers contain powerful Thunder Attribute Law forces that, with a bit of refining, can become a powerful artifact.

If the shell of the "Thousand-legged Earth Dragon" can be refined into defensive battle armor, combined with his strong body and cultivated defense divine techniques, Zhouyang feels that he could stand still and let another Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul Cultivator attack him without breaking through his defense—without using an immortal artifact.

The "Thousand-legged Earth Dragon" is large enough, and the leftover materials are abundant, making this idea highly feasible for Zhouyang.

With his heart set on refining artifacts, he almost entirely isolated himself from the outside world, with even his Dao companion Xiao Ying only able to contact him by forcibly knocking.

Yet, this focused artifact refining allowed him, with Lan Daoist's help, to successfully create the desired Tier Six High-grade defensive battle armor after twelve years of secluded cultivation.

This defensive battle armor, named "Earth and Yellow Armor," is a full-cover style armor, covering every part except the eyes, including sharp blade gloves made by mixing "Thousand-legged Earth Dragon" sharp legs with Celestial Meteorite Gold.

Since it's a Tier Six High-grade artifact, it can adapt and adjust its shape even if Zhouyang transforms into a half-dragon, half-human form.

Overall, it's a dream artifact for body cultivators like him—a perfect defensive spiritual artifact.

When Zhouyang donned this defensive battle armor, even Lan Daoist would need to use some pseudo-immortal technique level divine abilities to break his defense.

Now having advanced his artifact refining skill to Tier Six High-grade, Zhouyang plans to calmly cultivate the secret technique taught by his master, True Monarch Donglai, to aid in reaching the Tribulation Crossing Stage.

This secret technique is called the "Three Treasures Ruyi Technique." The "Three Treasures" refer to essence, qi, and spirit, while the "Three Treasures Ruyi Technique" allows a Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul Cultivator to extract their essence, qi, and spirit to condense a "Three Treasures Ruyi."

When cultivators attempt to cross the tribulation, they can scatter the condensed "Three Treasures Ruyi" using the secret technique to rejuvenate themselves, using the rebounding force to knock on the door of immortality!

It sounds beautiful, but achieving it is indeed challenging.

Firstly, condensing a "Three Treasures Ruyi" requires at least three hundred years of arduous effort.

Secondly, while condensing the "Three Treasures Ruyi," the cultivator's strength diminishes due to the loss of essence, qi, and spirit, and it is best not to engage in intense combat during this period.

These two restrictions mean that even if Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul Cultivators possess this secret technique, some may still fail to accomplish it.

Many Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul Cultivators reaching this stage have only two to three hundred years of lifespan remaining.

This is why Zhouyang previously did not cultivate this secret technique—he had the Dragon Taming Clan as his enemy; he could not cultivate peacefully without resolving this enemy.

Now determined to cultivate this secret technique, Zhouyang made all necessary arrangements and left Lan Daoist to help manage the Zhou Family while he and his Dao companion Xiao Ying secluded themselves on Donglai Immortal Island for cultivation.

Only on Donglai Immortal Island, a place of absolute safety, can he cultivate the "Three Treasures Ruyi Technique" peacefully.

With Lan Daoist stationed at the Zhou Family, Zhouyang need not fear for their safety.

If a threat arises that even Lan Daoist cannot resolve, Zhouyang can't handle it either.

Traveling to Donglai Immortal Island, Zhouyang detoured to Five Dragon Island, finding it shared between Donghua Immortal Palace and Longevity Immortal Alliance, with Donghua Immortal Palace claiming three islands.

This site serves as the bridgehead for Donghua Continent Cultivation Realm to the overseas world, using it as a hub to establish trade routes between the overseas and Donghua Continent cultivation realms, enhancing their safety and efficiency, greatly facilitating exchanges.

Zhouyang is quite satisfied with this situation, which means the remaining cultivators of the Dragon Taming Clan will continue to face pressure from these two powers.

Upon reaching Donglai Immortal Island, Zhouyang first visited the Dragon Blood Holy Tree and discovered that the five Dragon Blood Holy Jade Fruits, after two Tier Six Flood Dragons' cultivation of twenty years, began to turn purple and grew slightly larger.

This pleased him greatly, prompting lavish praise for the flood dragons and gifting them two Tier Six spiritual artifacts he refined as a reward.

Qin Yue'Er was in seclusion at Donglai Daoist Palace during their visit, unaware of his presence.

Zhouyang and his wife settled in another location without disturbing her.