Starting Cultivation During a Trip

As Zhang Fan’s realm steadily improved, his vision naturally broadened as well.

Those like Hai Pig King Tao, Wuma Wuqilu, Rooster Day of the Metal Mao, who had once trampled over him, were no longer worth Zhang Fan’s attention.

It was only the Sect Leader Realm’s Monkey, Chenlong Zhang Nanfeng, and the extremely mysterious Rat who caused Zhang Fan some degree of apprehension.

However, now it seems, it’s all the same thing.

The Thirteen Zodiacs, though their individual strengths may vary, have hidden methods; their Primordial Spirits combine as one, able to contend evenly with his Divine Demon Holy Embryo.

”Zhang Fan!”

The Year Beast’s Primordial Spirit emerged from the ”Chaotic Black Abyss,” and as it neared, Zhang Fan finally saw clearly that this Primordial Spirit was almost unrestricted, surpassing the size of Zhang Fan’s Primordial Spirit by more than five times. Its faintly glowing eyes were like lanterns, illuminating the darkness.

In addition, the Primordial Spirit seemed somewhat diffuse, clearly not yet in its fully realized form.

After all, that mysterious [Annals] had only fused the Primordial Spirits of seven of the Zodiacs and barely reached the basic condition to drive it, not fully manifesting the Year Beast’s Primordial Spirit.

But even so, that incomplete form of the Year Beast’s Primordial Spirit was quite terrifying.

Rumble...

It was like a giant boat, spanning the darkness, its form enormous yet moving with incredible speed, forcibly crashing towards Zhang Fan’s Primordial Spirit, with rippled undulations spreading everywhere, increasingly tempestuous.

Mere countless ripples were enough to annihilate any Primordial Spirit.

Buzz...

”You dare do this where I stand!?”

Zhang Fan’s Primordial Spirit uttered a light shout, suddenly surging forward.

The two Primordial Spirits, one large and one small, collided fiercely, sparks erupting, thunder roaring, the Year Beast howling and bellowing, the Chaotic Black Abyss upheaving as if heaven and earth were overturning, violently shaking.

Destructive waves burst forth from the Chaotic Black Abyss, layer upon layer, sweeping through the surroundings.

”Ah ah ah...”

A series of miserable cries echoed in the deep mountains, as the Wang Family’s experts hidden around were slightly touched by the destructive waves, their Primordial Spirits collapsing instantly, vanishing without a trace, leaving only an empty shell.

”Everyone, fall back!”

Wang Qingshan shouted furiously, his expression extremely grim. Facing such a phenomenon, even he had to shy away, not daring to casually spy.

”The caliber of this Primordial Spirit clash is beyond our interference.”

”Primordial Spirits...can they truly be cultivated to this level? How is it refined?”

”This kind of power...it’s not yet the end of cultivation.”

Gazes filled with trembling awe felt the terrifying atmosphere pervading the deep mountains, yet no one dared to recklessly peek further.

Rumble...

The Chaotic Black Abyss churned like the River Sea, the enormous body roaring, the Talisman at the Year Beast’s Primordial Spirit’s brow glowing brightly, its scales rising, red light blazing like blades, actually tearing the blackness apart.

”Seeking death!”

Zhang Fan shouted explosively, his Primordial Spirit suddenly enlarging, a giant hand coming like from the long night, reaching for the Year Beast’s Primordial Spirit.

Rumble...

At this moment, the erstwhile extinct aura in the Chaotic Black Abyss reemerged, like dying embers rekindled, like wild grass thriving—full of vitality, life sprouting explosively everywhere.

”Rosen!”

”Zhang Fan, you can’t hold me!”

Rosen’s Primordial Spirit soared to the sky, lifelessness seeming vanquished, vitality eternally persisting.

At this moment, Rosen’s Primordial Spirit was like a tide of life, retracing back to the Mortal World, pressing down on Zhang Fan.

With the Year Beast’s Primordial Spirit’s aid, he finally seized this once-in-a-thousand-lifetimes opportunity, life and death switching directions, reversing the situation.

Rumble...

Rosen!

Year Beast!

The two great Primordial Spirits echoed one another from afar, forming a pincers assault towards Zhang Fan, as the Chaotic Black Abyss broke like a riverbank breach, suddenly forming into a trend of collapse.

”No matter how strong that person is, in the end, he is just one person.”

The thoughts of everyone came to a halt at this moment, as if they had already seen the conclusion.

Everything was already fated.

”It’s the brothers who must go to battle together.”

Suddenly, a heavy voice resounded through the mountains.

Living Dead Tomb, where a mysterious light shattered at the entrance, a figure stepped out, his long hair cascading, resembling withered wood, his heart like dead ash, as though an already desiccated corpse.

Yet, the moment he walked out, all eyes were drawn to him.

The dark clouds in the sky suddenly dispersed, the bright moonlight glowed upon him, the grass and trees beneath his feet grew and bloomed.

In heaven and earth, faint whispers echoed, like thunder in the sky, like a gentle breeze in the mountains, like the flowing rivers... vast and everlasting.

”Life is a delight, death is without regret. Flowers fall, flowers bloom, flowing water is continuous...”

With every step that figure took, his body seemed to breathe, becoming richer, and simultaneously, his Primordial Spirit also gradually revived, terrifying waves spreading outward, as if a heartbeat, like the flourishing of all things.

”Form fades, spirit shifts, returning to truth and nature.”

In the distance, Wang Qingyi’s face changed drastically, he cried out in disbelief.

”Jia Sheng Gui Si!”

Rosen’s Primordial Spirit trembled, sensing the familiar aura of the same lineage, a technique differently inherited, yet another path.

Rumbling...

Finally, that figure took a step and entered the Chaotic Black Abyss, his body crystalline, his gaze profound, fully restored to his peak, his overwhelming presence now standing alongside Zhang Fan.

”So you’ve finally come out,” Zhang Fan recognized the newcomer, gazing at that overwhelmingly familiar face, ultimately chuckled and cursed.

”Thirteen Zodiacs, led by man, do you plan to rebel?”

The person did not pause, instead turned around, pressuring the Year Beast Primordial Spirit.

”You...”

The Year Beast Primordial Spirit let out a startled roar, and looked at the newcomer, revealing deep dread.

Rumbling...

The person did not speak, stepped forward, the Chaotic Black Abyss shook violently, the terrifying aura spread out, entwining the Year Beast Primordial Spirit like chains.

Simultaneously, he reached out, as if entering no man’s land, directly piercing through the Year Beast Primordial Spirit’s forehead.

The next moment, the Annals fell into his palm, forcibly extracted.

Buzz...

Immediately, the Year Beast Primordial Spirit shattered, seven Zodiac Primordial Spirits separated again, scattering far away.

”Human Xiao...”

Rooster, Wu Ma, Hai Pig... a series of horrified gazes watched the figure, ultimately calling out the name not to be profaned.

Human Xiao!

Human Xiao Li Yishan!!

”Is that... Human Xiao? He came out of the Living Dead Tomb!?”

Faced with the reversed situation, in the distance, everyone widened their eyes, looking at this sudden turn of events.

The Living Dead Tomb is the holy sanctuary for generations of Jia Sheng Gui Si cultivators, this man entered the great tomb at an unknown time, yet at this crucial moment, emerged.

The technique he cultivated originated from the same source as Rosen, yet was a wholly different path.

At this moment, Rosen’s aura extinguished once more, a cultivator, knowing the tribulation of life and death.

From the moment Li Yishan emerged, he knew the outcome, Human Xiao and Zhang Fan together, he had no chance of winning, yet once he entered extinction, in the vast world, within life and death, no one could find him.

Whew...

Mountain winds howled, moonlight swayed, as Li Yishan stood before Zhang Fan, cold gaze sweeping across the mountains, where the seven Zodiacs hid.

”You think summoning the Annals allows you to rebel?” Li Yishan looked at the Wuwei Sect treasure in his hand, his gaze cold, finally revealing his murderous intent.

”Human Xiao, did you break through the Profound Passage tribulation!?” An astonished voice came from a direction.

Checkmate, it was ultimately checkmate.

”Strife within the nest never breeds power!” Li Yishan murmured softly, his gaze suddenly shifted towards the direction of Jin Mao Day.

”Rooster, you’ve lived long enough, old but not dead is a thief.” Li Yishan lightly shouted.

Rumbling...

Jin Mao Day’s face changed drastically, not yet having time to react, his body swiftly petrified, like dried withered wood, a gust of wind blew, directly shattering into dust.

Rumbling...

The next moment, Rooster’s Primordial Spirit shot into the sky, like a comet, intending to flee, he never expected, Human Xiao breaking through, taking him first, knowing he was the oldest among the thirteen Zodiacs.

Li Yishan breathed gently, the surrounding mountains and rivers seeming to decay, Rooster’s Primordial Spirit let out a miserable cry, like a reverse flow of the Yangtze River, directly swallowed into his mouth, the eerie sound of chewing echoed in the cool night.