Chapter 750 - 434: Zou Yi and Zou Er

The two Blood Spirit Incarnations, simply named Zou Yi and Zou Er by Zou Feng, departed for their respective battlefields.

Zou Yi boarded the Flying Celestial Ship led by Wang Tianhu, joining a massive contingent heading toward the Outer Realm, which ran rampant with venomous creatures. Zou Er, on the other hand, left the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect alone, moving stealthily in the wild to hunt Tribulation Cultivators who had infiltrated the Eastern Earth Immortal Realm, harvesting them to refine External Pills. Meanwhile, Zou Feng’s main body naturally laid low within the Immortal Sect, peacefully consolidating his strength.

During the following period, apart from using the Dragon and Tiger Kan and Li Skill every day to help his five Dao Companions advance their Realms, Zou Feng solely focused on two Cultivation Skills.

The first was the Five Poison Holy Lotus Skill, which had already reached the Realm of Transcendence. Since he now had the five elements complementing the Five Poison Creatures, along with the five Poisonous Demon Maidens providing the freshest venom daily, the Cultivation progress of the Five Poison Holy Lotus Skill could actually continue to climb steadily.

The second Cultivation Skill Zou Feng focused on was naturally the Great Universal Hand. According to the Undying Master, the monster patterns he previously saw on the Celestial Dao Cauldron could absolutely be used for Visualization. If he practiced Visualization with this image over a long period, the Great Universal Hand might truly break through to the Realm of Transcendence in one fell swoop. With the empowerment of two Cultivation Skills at the Realm of Transcendence, reaching the Golden Core Realm Late Stage—or even taking it a step further and looking toward Nascent Soul Formation in the near future—was not impossible.

Having made all the necessary preparations, Zou Feng stayed in the Water Curtain Palace. He cleared his mind of all distractions and focused solely on his Cultivation in a state of semi-seclusion.

Cultivation knew no time; in the blink of an eye, three years flew by.

For any Cultivator, three years hardly felt like much time at all. Nothing worthy of special attention occurred within the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect during this period. The only exception was the Northern Expedition army, which still hadn’t completely defeated the Tribulation Cultivation Sects and the Dubhe Divine Domain.

This was not due to a lack of effort from the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect. In reality, the Immortal Sect constantly dispatched new reinforcements to the Northern Domain at regular intervals. To achieve this, the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect even gave up numerous opportunities to conquer the Outer Realm. However, the Tribulation Cultivation Sects and the Dubhe Divine Domain seemed to have brought out all their hidden foundations, equally determined to fight the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect to the bitter end, resulting in a highly deadlocked battle.

Over the past three years, there had been no substantial progress. But Zou Feng knew very well that this seemingly stalemated situation couldn’t be maintained for much longer. After all, the Undying Master had revealed to him long ago that in a few years, the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect would take real action. Now that more than three years had passed, the time for a major upheaval was drawing closer and closer.

In the Outer Realm’s Poisonous Miasma Forest Sea.

Deep within the sunless dense forest, a towering giant tree with a dark red trunk and purplish-black branches and leaves radiated an aura of immense joy. It was clearly about to undergo some sort of metamorphosis, on the verge of becoming a higher-level existence. However, the base of this giant tree was not planted in fertile soil, but rather upon countless monster corpses and a massive amount of bizarrely shaped, brightly colored plants.

At this moment, about ten miles away from the giant tree, a group of Cultivators with expressions that were both excited and tense stood upon various tree trunks, observing the giant tree’s growth.

The leading Cultivator wore a dark cyan robe. His head of white hair fluttered in the wind, radiating the aura of a grandmaster. Upon closer inspection, one would realize that this Cultivator was only at the Dao Foundation Realm Late Stage. Yet, this didn’t stop the burly Golden Core Realm Cultivator standing behind him from treating him with the utmost respect.

"Junior Brother Zou, are you sure we won’t overplay our hand and mess this up?"

The burly Golden Core Cultivator was none other than Wang Tianhu, the True Disciple whom Zou Feng had once saved, and one of the leaders of this expedition to conquer this part of the Outer Realm. The white-haired male Cultivator he addressed as Junior Brother Zou was naturally Zou Feng’s Blood Spirit Incarnation, Zou Yi.

Although Wang Tianhu knew the man before him was merely Zou Feng’s Outer Body Incarnation, three years of fighting side by side in the Poisonous Miasma Forest Sea had made him subconsciously treat him as Zou Feng himself. This wasn’t out of gratitude for Zou Feng saving his life, but rather out of pure admiration!

In an Outer Realm teeming with venomous creatures like the Poisonous Miasma Forest Sea, the combat power Zou Yi could unleash rivaled, if not surpassed, that of a Golden Core Cultivator. It was no exaggeration to say that if Zou Yi hadn’t been in the expedition team, at least a good portion of the Cultivators present wouldn’t have survived until now.

As for Zou Yi’s head of white hair... there were simply too many unknown toxins in the Poisonous Miasma Forest Sea. Embracing a scholarly spirit of tasting a hundred poisons, Zou Yi literally consumed so many toxic substances that his hair turned entirely white overnight. However, this wasn’t a bad thing. His hair turned white, but he also grew stronger, becoming increasingly in his element within the Poisonous Miasma Forest Sea.

Case in point, he now even dared to set his sights on this Chang Poison Demon Tree.

This Chang Poison Demon Tree was the only one discovered so far and sat at the very apex of the food chain in the entire Poisonous Miasma Forest Sea. One couldn’t say it was absolutely the strongest, but based on the current exploration progress of the forest, this thing definitely ranked in the top three. Centered around this tree, not a single living creature existed within a hundred-mile radius; they had all been devoured clean long ago.

To satisfy its endless appetite, the Demon Tree would produce a massive number of special seeds and scatter them into the wind. If any other animals came into contact with these seeds, they would become the Demon Tree’s puppets. Not only would they mindlessly march forward to sacrifice themselves, but they would also help lure other living creatures over. Because of this very characteristic, Zou Feng had named it the Chang Poison Demon Tree.

At this very moment, Zou Yi and the other disciples of the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect had actually taken on the role of its ghostly minions, proactively bringing a massive amount of food to the tree. Receiving such a tremendous gift out of nowhere, the Chang Poison Demon Tree naturally ate with great delight, clearly showing signs of an impending evolution.