Time flowed on, and in the blink of an eye, five years had passed since Zhou Tong arrived at Yinglong Divine Mountain.
Zhou Tong sat cross-legged atop a large bluestone outside his cave residence, candlelight flickering faintly in his eyes.
After five years of cultivation, his Candle Dragon's Eye had reached an exceedingly profound realm. Even without using divine sense, everything within several hundred thousand kilometers was laid bare before his eyes. Even the hairs on an ant's body in the darkness could be reflected clearly in his gaze.
Over the past five years, Zhou Tong had often gone out to carry out Yinglong Guard missions. His assignments had basically all been issued directly by Emperor Xia, involving the elimination of particularly troublesome Celestial Immortals or Demon Gods at the peak of the Void-Return realm in various regions. He had even left the Great Xia Grand World once to travel to a Small World.
However, these missions were essentially ordinary Yinglong Guard assignments, suited to the strength he currently displayed. They posed no danger to him at all, and he could complete them with ease.
Meanwhile, acting in accordance with his master's wishes, Emperor Xia intended to spend a hundred years testing Zhou Tong's patience and Dao Heart. Thus, over these five years, he had treated Zhou Tong entirely as an ordinary Yinglong Guard.
During these five years, Zhou Tong had also exchanged all the vast merits he had accumulated for all manner of divine abilities, secret arts, and cultivation techniques. Some were even other Divine Demon Body Refining methods, such as the Thunder God Body, Wind Demon God Body, and Azure Wood Demonic Physique.
All of it was meant to lay the foundation for creating a Divine Demon Body Refining Technique uniquely his own in the future.
"The sixteenth