Heavenly Dragon Source

"True Phoenix Undying Art!!"

Zhou Tong roared, and instantly crimson light flowed from his entire body. The blood that had been splattered out quickly flowed back into Zhou Tong's body.

He returned to normal once again.

At the same time, he grabbed at the air with his right hand, and a dragon horn immediately appeared in his palm.

"It's done!" Zhou Tong smiled.

Although I didn't manage to kill a True Dragon as I had hoped, cutting off a dragon horn was enough!

Zhou Tong looked up at the sky, and the True Dragon with one horn missing seemed to turn its head and glance at him before flicking its tail and returning to the sea of thunder.

"The Third Transformation of the Dragon Transformation Realm!"

He felt as if his spine had been resurrected like a True Dragon, possessing boundless power, capable of shattering the Void the Great with the slightest movement.

"Snap!"

But at that moment, the dragon horn in Zhou Tong's hand shattered with a crash.

"Oh no! This dragon horn isn't a real entity, but rather a manifestation of Heavenly Tribulation. Its essence is still dragon energy, lightning, and some other unknown things!" Zhou Tong reacted extremely quickly, almost instantly inhaling the lightning and dragon energy that had transformed from the shattered dragon horn, swallowing it into his stomach and slowly refining it.

"This... such powerful force and laws!" Zhou Tong's pupils shrank, revealing a look of disbelief.

After the dragon horn shattered, the laws contained within it were far too powerful. He felt as if a True Dragon was dancing wildly within his body. The terrifying power and the strong laws were almost too much for Zhou Tong to withstand.

"What terrifying dragon horns! The laws contained within just one dragon horn probably surpass even my top-grade Dragon Marrow. This thing should be called the ' Heavenly Dragon Source ' rather than the 'Heavenly Dragon Laws'. The Fortune within the Heavenly Tribulation is truly terrifying!" Zhou Tong was deeply shocked.

"No, we must find a place to refine it quickly. If we stay here any longer, we'll lose all our Fortune!" Zhou Tong glanced at the group of the Ji Family cultivators on the outside, who were flying frantically toward him.

Zhou Tong took out a Mysterious Jade Platform, activated it instantly, and quickly traversed the Void the Great.

"Hmph, traversing the Void the Great in front of my Ji Family, you're courting death!" One of the half-step great powers' faces darkened. He quickly used the secret techniques in the Void Scripture to calculate Zhou Tong's location in the Void the Great, and immediately used the Great Void Technique to traverse and chase after him.

However, just as he traversed the Void the Great and reappeared—

"Clang!"

Almost the instant he appeared, a sword light pierced through his chest, as if someone had been waiting there for a long time.

"I knew someone would come after us!" Zhou Tong sneered, and the Hegemonic Bell instantly appeared from his body.

"A bell forged from Divine Mark Purple Gold!?"

Upon seeing Zhou Tong's Hegemonic Bell, the half-step Great Power of the Ji Family was overjoyed. "Haha, you really are a treasure-giving boy, actually giving away such a treasure... uh!!"

However, before he could finish speaking, a Vajra Ring, accompanied by sword energy, instantly grew larger inside his body, and the sharp sword light almost tore his flesh and soul apart.

"You think that the sword strike I used to ambush you earlier was just a single strike? I had already tampered with it."

"The Vajra Ring I planted within you using the sword energy will take some time to activate; the Divine Mark Purple Gold was merely to ignite your greed and make you lose your senses." Zhou Tong's calm voice rang out, followed by—

"Thump!"

With a ringing of a bell, the wave of sound swept across the area, instantly Obliteration the half-step Great Power cultivator from the Ji Family who had caught up into dust. It was as if he were not a formidable enemy, but merely dust, which was easily crushed.

The restrictions of the Eight Restrictions are merely limitations on individual combat strength. If one makes good use of the right timing, location, and the people's hearts, it is very easy to kill opponents who are eighteen realms above oneself.

This is why many prodigies, once their Dao Heart collapses, can be easily killed by opponents who would otherwise be locked in fierce battle. The path of cultivation for cultivators is inherently imbued with a strong element of idealism.

"It's time to go!"

Zhou Tong put away the Hegemonic Bell and the Vajra Ring, took out the second Mysterious Jade Platform, and once again traversed the Void the Great, disappearing from the spot in the blink of an eye.

Just after Zhou Tong left, the Void the Great tore open one after another, and one after another, half-step great powerhouses from the Ji Family emerged.

Where is Ji Fengyun?

A half-step Great Power's expression changed drastically, and he exclaimed in surprise.

"Look here!" Suddenly someone pointed to the dust on the ground, their face showing fear.

"Ji Fengyun is dead? A half-step Great Power was killed by a Dragon Transformation Realm cultivator who just survived his Heavenly Tribulation? They were more than ten realms apart!" The half-step Great Power's eyelids twitched. "It must be a trap! That person set a trap here long ago. He planned this all along!!"

He looked at the Void the Great not far away, which still emitted faint spatial fluctuations, his heart filled with conflicting emotions.

Should we continue pursuing this, or give up?

If we continue chasing, what if they have another trap? Won't we be trapped and killed as well?

But if I don't pursue it, and the family's Supreme Elder holds me accountable, then I'll be upset too.

"Wait for news from the Supreme Elder!" Soon enough, this half-step Great Power gave the order without hesitation.

Meanwhile, on the other side...

"Just as I predicted, after killing one person, they dared not continue the pursuit!" Zhou Tong chuckled.

Their thoughts were entirely within Zhou Tong's calculations.

How could a cultivator who had just survived the Dragon Transformation Realm Heavenly Tribulation possibly kill a half-step Great Power who was more than a dozen realms above him? The only explanation is that there was a trap here, a deadly trap, which is why the half-step Great Power was killed in an instant.

If there's a first trap, is there a second one?

The remaining half-step Great Powers of the Ji Family would definitely think the same way.

Thinking this way, he missed the best opportunity to hunt him down.

"Time to go back to Crane Courtyard!" Zhou Tong chuckled and then quickly headed towards Crane Courtyard.

Not long after, Zhou Tong returned to Crane Courtyard.

With his mastery of Nine Secrets: Zu techniques, he left and returned without alerting anyone, and no one knew that he had left halfway.

After returning to his residence, Zhou Tong immediately went into seclusion to refine the broken horn of the Heavenly Dragon.

The lightning contained within the severed horn of the Heavenly Dragon was nothing to worry about; Zhou Tong refined and absorbed it completely with the Thunder Emperor Method in an instant. However, the Great Dao Laws of the Heavenly Dragon and other things contained within the severed horn were extremely terrifying.

Zhou Tong spent the entire night refining it, but he hadn't even managed to refine one percent of it.

"Damn it, I wonder what level those eighty-one celestial dragons imprinted in that Heavenly Tribulation were, that they contained such terrifying origins!" Zhou Tong was extremely shocked. He realized that his sudden severing of one of the celestial dragon's horns was purely by chance.

Even just a single horn from one of the celestial dragons contains such terrifying power.

One can only imagine how terrifying those few drops of Tianlong's Essence Blood must have been.

At this moment, Zhou Tong truly realized that the Heavenly Dragon in the Great Dragon Tribulation was indeed impossible to kill.

Even if he had entered the divine forbidden zone for a moment and triggered the Nine Secrets: Jie", and it was at the end of the Heavenly Tribulation when the heavenly dragon was at its weakest, he could only take advantage of its unpreparedness to cut off one of its dragon horns.

If it were during a tribulation, it would be impossible to destroy the Heavenly Dragon; even if it were the Wu Shi the Great of the same level, it would be impossible to kill the Heavenly Dragon!

"If I go all out, it will probably take three months to refine these Heavenly Dragon Source. By then, I will definitely be able to enter the sixth or seventh stage of the Dragon Transformation Realm, and there is even a good chance that I can break through to the Perfect Dragon Transformation Realm!" Zhou Tong sighed in his heart. "But it's a pity that I can't push my realm to its limit like this, otherwise my combat power will be unstable!"

In fact, true geniuses often value combat strength among their peers rather than cultivation level.

Many prodigies, if they truly unleash their full potential in cultivation, can quickly reach extremely high realms.

However, they did not do so, because doing so could lead to instability in their combat strength, causing their original Eight Restrictions to drop to seven, six, five, and so on...

Once their combat strength declines, they may never have any hope of being forbidden by the gods in this lifetime.

In fact, many beings who can advance to the Quasi-Emperor level are almost all subject to the Eight Restrictions, especially those who have cultivated to the sixth level of Quasi-Emperor or above, all of whom have comprehended the profound mysteries of the Divine Forbidden Restrictions; those who have not comprehended the Divine Forbidden Restrictions are almost unable to cultivate to that level.

This also shows how crucial combat power is.

"Anyway, this trace of origin won't escape from my body, so I'll just refine it slowly! Combat strength is the key, realm is secondary!" Zhou Tong quickly made a decision: ensuring combat strength and taking it one step at a time is the right path of cultivation.