Purple Gold Pagoda

Purple Gold Pagoda

"Nine Heavenly Caves... I can feel the fluctuations in my Wheel Sea growing more intense. As long as I can open the Tenth Heavenly Cave, I'll definitely be able to open my Wheel Sea!" Zhou Tong took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and sensed his own strength.

"The realm of Nine Heavenly Caves may be equivalent to the peak of the Dao Palace in the Sky Shrouding Method!" Thinking of this, Zhou Tong hesitated somewhat.

He remembered that in the original story, Ye Fan had obtained Phoenix Blood Red Gold when he was at the second level of the Dao Palace. At first, he had not even been able to lift that chunk of Phoenix Blood Red Gold weighing over ten thousand jin. Though that might have been partly because it had caught him off guard, Ye Fan's strength at the time was not necessarily greater than Zhou Tong's Blood Movement Realm limit of one hundred and twenty thousand jin with a casual swing of one arm.

And opening nine Heavenly Caves meant taking another step forward. It was absolutely comparable to the peak of the Dao Palace Realm; even some experts of the Four Extremities Realm might not be his match.

"However, now that I have the Thunder Emperor Method protecting me, I should barely be able to withstand the Killing Intent in the mountains!" Zhou Tong silently told himself, then endured the Killing Intent and continued onward.

Pfft!!

Before he had gone far, an incomparably immense aura suddenly pressed down upon him.

Zhou Tong could not hold it back at all and spat out a mouthful of blood.

He took a deep breath and glanced from the corner of his eye. Between the rocks of a mountain lay a shattered corpse. A terrifying killing aura and that unmatched pressure were emanating from it.

Yet with only that single glance, Zhou Tong immediately felt the blood and qi throughout his body boil. His blood rumbled as though it were about to burst forth, as if his body were about to explode.

"Nine Heavenly Caves, suppress!!" Zhou Tong instinctively brought forth all nine Heavenly Caves he had opened.

With the suppression of the Nine Heavenly Caves, his body's reaction immediately lessened considerably. In particular, the phantom of the Thunder Emperor within one of the Heavenly Caves seemed to suppress the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, helping Zhou Tong block most of the Killing Intent.

But even so, cracks still spread across Zhou Tong's body, as though he were a delicate porcelain vessel.

He swiftly pulled out a Spirit Herb from his robes, plucked off a leaf, and stuffed it into his mouth.

With the medicinal effect of the Spirit Herb replenishing him, his body immediately stabilized.

Though his body continued to crack, the restorative force had reached a balance with the destructive force. He could barely keep moving forward.

"Is this the corpse of that Quasi-Emperor? From a li away, it still has such terrifying power! And this is a corpse from who knew how many tens of thousands of years ago, with more than half of its killing aura already dispersed." Zhou Tong was deeply shaken.

If he had not gathered so many Treasure Herbs, if he had not opened nine Heavenly Caves, if he did not possess the Thunder Emperor Method, he would likely have perished the instant he drew near.

"However, since this Quasi-Emperor's corpse is here, that supreme treasure must be not far ahead!" Zhou Tong was faintly excited. He knew he was about to reach the Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda.

Continuing forward, Zhou Tong's eyes suddenly lit up before long.

On the path ahead stood a half-meter-tall purple pagoda. Its entire body was crystalline like a purple diamond, radiating dreamlike brilliance. It lay quietly there, like an azure sky that had fallen through eternity—ancient and majestic, flowing with an indescribable aura.

"The Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda, an artifact embryo refined by a Quasi-Emperor, the most perfect supreme material. This is the greatest fortune of this journey to Kunlun Mountain!" Zhou Tong was excited. He finally had material for his Dao Proving Artifact!

Divine Mark Purple Gold was one of the famous immortal metals of this world. The Imperial Weapons of Amitabha Great Emperor and the Ten Thousand Dragons Emperor had both been forged from this material.

What made this immortal metal most famous were the patterns covering it, as though they had been carefully engraved by gods. These were the so-called divine marks, and Divine Mark Purple Gold got its name from them.

"Closer! Closer! Closer still!"

Zhou Tong swallowed another leaf from a Treasure Herb, and the cracks on his body rapidly healed. He advanced step by step, intending to approach the pagoda and claim it for himself.

Pfft!

The instant he reached a certain distance, an incomparably terrifying Killing Intent suddenly surged toward him. Several bloodstains clung to the far side of the Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda, bright red and glaring, their killing aura filling the wilderness.

"I can't get any closer. Unless I purify those bloodstains, there's absolutely no way I can continue forward!" Zhou Tong understood that reaching this point was already his current limit.

This pagoda was stained with a trace of Quasi-Emperor blood. Perhaps only a king who had severed the Dao could approach it.

"Purify the Quasi-Emperor's Killing Intent. I must purify this Killing Intent!"

Zhou Tong narrowed his eyes and waved his right hand. Lightning immediately danced through the air, blazing brilliantly as a purple sea of thunder emerged and bombarded the Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda with fierce, tyrannical force.

With a boom, lightning struck the Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda. The pagoda was completely unharmed, and the Quasi-Emperor's killing aura likewise seemed entirely unaffected.

"Logically speaking, lightning, being supremely forceful and yang, should be the greatest counter to bloodstains like these. Is it because my realm is too low?" Zhou Tong frowned, then a ruthless glint appeared in his eyes. "But what does it matter if my realm is too low? I must obtain this pagoda. Even the killing aura of a Quasi-Emperor cannot stop me!!"

With that thought, he continued releasing lightning, repeatedly bombarding the Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda.

Massive arcs of electricity continuously coiled through the sky above Dragon Mountain, crackling sharply. The Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda bathed in thunder, yet remained entirely unscathed.

However, though it was unharmed, Zhou Tong could sense with every strike that the bloodstains on the Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda seemed to be shaken, gradually peeling away from the pagoda.

"I understand now!" Seeing this, Zhou Tong instantly grasped how to deal with the bloodstains.

He dug up a small clump of dirt from the ground and kneaded it into two balls. Then he suddenly erupted. Zhou Tong and the nine Heavenly Caves around him all began to burn. The aura around him broke through to another limit.

Boom!!

Zhou Tong fiercely hurled one ball of dirt at the Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda. With Zhou Tong's current physical body, even without using divine power or precious arts, he possessed hundreds of thousands of jin of force. When that ball of dirt struck the Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda, it actually made the entire pagoda tremble.

"Perfect!"

As the pagoda shook, the several drops of Quasi-Emperor blood were immediately shaken free from the Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda.

At that moment, Zhou Tong threw the second ball of dirt.

He did not use much force with this one. It merely struck a drop of Quasi-Emperor blood. The powerful Quasi-Emperor Killing Intent instantly shredded the clump of dirt, but a powerful impact still struck the Quasi-Emperor blood.

The blood containing Killing Intent was immediately sent flying, leaving the safe area and entering the "Forbidden Zone" that no one could touch.

Rumble!!

In an instant, the winds and clouds changed, and heaven and earth lost their color. The Great Emperor Array Patterns activated, terrifying power weaving through the void and instantly crushing the Quasi-Emperor blood to pieces.

Once the Quasi-Emperor blood disappeared, that terrifying killing aura also dissipated considerably in an instant.

"It worked!" A smile appeared on Zhou Tong's face.

Fortunately, this was a Divine Scar Purple Gold Pagoda, crystalline like a purple diamond, so the blood could not seep into it. And fortunately, it was Quasi-Emperor blood, containing the Divine Laws of the Great Dao, which had not solidified with the passage of time.

It was precisely because of these two reasons that Zhou Tong's method could succeed.

After the Quasi-Emperor blood vanished, Zhou Tong was finally able to continue forward. He slowly walked before the pagoda and examined it carefully. The more he looked, the more he liked it.

The pagoda was a full half-meter tall, entirely refined from Divine Mark Purple Gold without the slightest impurity. It was a perfect artifact embryo. The pagoda body was solid, every inch crystal-clear and gleaming with purple light, dazzling like a purple diamond.

In this Immortal Ascension Land, Immortal Qi was the least lacking. This pagoda had been nourished for tens of thousands of years, emanating an ancient aura of eternity, like a stretch of azure sky that had fallen here, with all kinds of immortal light swirling around it.