Cultivation: From Servant to Revered Immortal

Chapter 70: Chapter 70: Tribulation Cultivator

With the breakthrough to the Sixth-Layer Qi Refining, Zhou Xun’s strength has greatly increased.

Not only has the quality of his mana improved, the intensity of his divine sense has also increased significantly.

Now, the range of his divine sense has reached over forty zhang, which is much stronger than most Peak Qi Refining Cultivators.

After all, most Peak Qi Refining Cultivators have a divine sense range of only thirty zhang.

Moreover, with the divine sense at this level, he can control two magical artifacts simultaneously, greatly increasing his strength.

Now, when facing a true Ninth-Layer Qi Refining Cultivator, he feels no fear at all.

Returning to Qingyue Square with such a breakthrough will greatly enhance safety on the way back!

In the following two days, Zhou Xun stayed inside his temporary cave mansion, meditating to consolidate his current realm.

On the third day, it was the day he had agreed with Master Yeyun to collect his custom-made magical artifact.

Disguised as a middle-aged martial artist, keeping his mana aura at its original level, Zhou Xun went out.

A few streets away, he arrived at Master Yeyun’s Qi Cultivation Workshop.

”Wuh Mou, successful in the task!” Upon seeing Zhou Xun disguised as a middle-aged martial artist, Master Yeyun was the first to speak.

His real surname is indeed Wu.

Saying this, he took out a set of human-sized Profound Yellow Spirit Armor.

This set of spirit armor is entirely profound yellow, consisting of a helmet, body armor, skirt armor, and other components.

”Try it on, fellow Daoist!”

”The materials this time are extremely excellent, and I crafted it with great ease. This spirit armor can be considered a premium among high-grade spiritual artifacts, one of the best works I’ve produced over the years!” Master Yeyun said with a smile, looking at the spirit armor.

Zhou Xun took it over, felt its weight in his hands, the surface matte, with a fine texture.

Without further ado, Zhou Xun put it on, donned the helmet, lowered the faceplate, transforming into a Profound Yellow Armored Warrior.

His entire body was protected seamlessly.

”This set of spirit armor comes with a Vajra Shield Technique, even ordinary Late-Stage Qi Refining Cultivators would have difficulty breaking through it!” Master Yeyun continued to introduce.

”Excellent, I’m very satisfied!” Zhou Xun nodded, taking off the helmet and holding it in his hand.

”Fellow Daoist, have a look at this Armor-Piercing Cone!” Master Yeyun then took out a three-sided cone and handed it to Zhou Xun.

”This Armor-Piercing Cone is mainly made of Armadillo Sharp Claw, refined with precious Silver Essence, belongs to high-grade, and has the effect of piercing armor, with extraordinary effects against spirit armor and shield type defense spiritual artifacts!”

”Fellow Daoist, you can try it out!”

Saying this, he took out a stack of testing spirit iron.

Zhou Xun took the Armor-Piercing Cone, slowly infused mana into it, directing it straight at the stack of spirit iron.

Thanks to the addition of divine sense, even though his mana was slightly weaker, he could still drive this magical artifact.

”Boom——”

A sound echoed.

The stack of a foot-thick spirit iron was directly penetrated by more than half!

”Good artifact, truly has the effect of piercing armor!” Zhou Xun praised.

”This stack of spirit iron is specially made to test the power of spiritual artifacts. Even the top-notch artifacts can’t fully penetrate it. Fellow Daoist, this Armor-Piercing Cone pierced more than half in one strike, almost on par with some ordinary top-grade spiritual artifacts!” Master Yeyun exclaimed.

”This is also due to Master’s exceptional skills!” Zhou Xun smiled slightly, complimented, then took out seven hundred spirit stones, paid the crafting fee, and left.

After leaving, Zhou Xun found a secluded corner, quickly changed back to his original attire, then returned to his cave mansion.

Soon, a month had passed. Zhou Xun, in his original appearance, went to the Artifact Refining Workshop to retrieve the high-grade pill furnace.

With this pill furnace, Zhou Xun’s alchemy would become more adept.

Having obtained the pill furnace and the magical artifacts, Zhou Xun had no plans to stay long at Celestial Terrace Ridge.

The remaining two months for the cave mansion could be left as it is.

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The Wumeng Three Fierce are the most infamous Tribulation Cultivators active in recent years in Xui Country.

Unlike other tribulation cultivators who only ambushed lone cultivators, the Wumeng Three Fierce dared to rob the caravans of Cultivation Clans.

For instance, the Spirit Field Huang Family, famous for their farming, fell victim to the ambush of the Wumeng Three Fierce.

A caravan with two Late-Stage Qi Refining Cultivators from the Huang family had their entire year’s harvest of spirit grain plundered, and nearly ten cultivators in the caravan, including the entire Huang family, were not spared and fell to them.

Even the Gu Family in the north of Xui Country, the Fang Family in the central, all suffered from the Wumeng Three Fierce’s treachery.

Later, the Cloud Light Sect themselves took action to issue a wanted notice, but aside from capturing some small henchmen, the Wumeng Three Fierce were not caught.

Fortunately, since then, there has been no news of them making any moves.

It’s been nearly five years until now.

On this day, in a certain shop within Celestial Terrace Ridge.

”Senior Brother, we’ve been hiding for so many years, and the spirit stones in hand are almost spent, it’s time to come out again!” A rough middle-aged man with a fierce look exclaimed loudly.

”We must move with caution this time, if we provoke the attention of the Cloud Light Sect again, it won’t be good!” The middle-aged man, addressed as senior brother, recalled the dangers of the past, feeling apprehensive.

Back then, he was almost captured by the Cloud Light Sect.

”Heh, I naturally know this. There’s a guy under me who occasionally takes on Hyacinth’s tasks!”

”He reported discovering a young alchemist with Middle-Stage Qi Refining cultivation, but making an order for a high-grade pill furnace, clearly rich!” The rough man licked his lips, a vicious grin spreading across his face.

He liked to torture people to death every time he acted.

”Hmm, you can take a team to handle this!” The middle-aged man nodded.

With the leader’s permission, the rough man left excitedly.

The next day, Zhou Xun set out early. Within several hundred li of Celestial Terrace Ridge, a cyan light burst into the sky, racing toward Qingyue Square.

This time on his return, Zhou Xun wore the spirit armor beneath a cloak, taking on the appearance of a middle-aged martial artist.

Every few hours, Zhou Xun had to stop to meditate and adjust his breath, restoring mana.

In this manner, three days passed.

On this day, Zhou Xun was meditating on a deserted hilltop when suddenly a spiritual boat flew from afar, with several figures on board.

Zhou Xun’s expression changed, immediately concealing his aura.

Hoping that they were just passing by without noticing him.

However, contrary to his expectations, the spiritual boat headed straight toward Zhou Xun, clearly targeting him.

Seeing this, Zhou Xun no longer hid and took out three High-Grade Golden Saber Talismans, launching them toward the spiritual boat.

At the same time, he took out the Cyan Light Shuttle, soared into the sky, and fled swiftly to the side.

The spiritual boat was loaded with many people, and its speed should be slower than his.

The spiritual boat avoided the three sabers, but by then, Zhou Xun had already flown far away.

In terms of speed, the spiritual boat was only comparable to a Low-Grade Flying Spiritual Artifact, far inferior to Zhou Xun’s middle-grade one.

Thus, visibly, the spiritual boat grew increasingly distant.

However, Zhou Xun was only in Middle-Stage Qi Refining, with limited mana, so even with the intake of Qi Recovery Pills, he had to stop every half-day to meditate and adjust his breath.

But the spiritual boat never rested, catching up again while Zhou Xun was meditating to recover mana.

Forcing Zhou Xun to take flight again to escape.

In this way, three consecutive days passed without being able to shake them off.

”This is not a solution, I need to deal with them!” Zhou Xun thought to himself.

Then, while flying over a gorge, he stopped.

Zhou Xun decided to use this place as the site to ambush them.

On that day, when they got closest, Zhou Xun saw the number of people on the flying boat, a total of seven.

Although the distance was too far to discern their specific cultivation levels.

He was sure they wouldn’t be too high.

After all, they were driving a Low-Grade Spiritual Boat, still within the Qi Refining ranks.

Zhou Xun speculated that they should be led by one or two Late-Stage Cultivators, accompanied by several Middle-Stage or even Early-Stage Qi Refining Cultivators.

Without Late-Stage Cultivators, they couldn’t control a spiritual boat accommodating seven or eight people.

It was even less likely that all were Late-Stage Cultivators.

Because a typical Foundation Establishment Clan would only have this number of Late-Stage Qi Refining members.

Zhou Xun didn’t believe they would all appear here at the same time, targeting him.

Landing on a slope on one side of the gorge, Zhou Xun set up his Nine-Nine Celestial Essence Array, encompassing the entire gorge.

This array could cover a maximum area of over two hundred zhang, sufficient to encompass the entire gorge.

After setting it up, he cast a spell, activating the array’s concealment effect, vanishing along with Zhou Xun’s figure.

As if he had never been there.

At this moment, Zhou Xun hid beneath the array, donned the Profound Yellow Armor Helmet, and lowered the faceplate.

Simultaneously, he gripped the Golden Cicada Mother-Child Blade in his left hand, holding the Cloud Lightning Seed in his right.

His eyes coldly watching the direction of approach.

In the distant sky, a spiritual boat was advancing toward Zhou Xun!