Healing and Breakthrough

Back in his secret chamber, Zhou Tong's face flushed red, and he coughed up blood again.

However, as the Nirvana Divine Fire burned, his injuries gradually healed.

"The Void Great Emperor's final move was indeed powerful. Even though I forcibly broke through it with the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, I still suffered a huge injury... I'm afraid I won't be able to recover for a while!"

Zhou Tong looked inward and saw that his body was covered with terrifying Void the Great Dao Pattern, the laws that had been embedded in his body during this battle. These Dao Pattern were constantly intertwining with his body, seemingly trying to refine him into the Void the Great.

"If I'm not mistaken, that last move is very likely one of the killing moves that the Void Great Emperor used to deal with the Reincarnation Supreme in the original work."

Zhou Tong kept recalling Ji Zi's final move, the one in which she merged herself with the weapon.

Now that he had calmed down, Zhou Tong reviewed the process again and roughly understood the move. This move was definitely the Void Great Emperor's trump card.

"In the upcoming auction, this location might be found again, so we'll have to use more potent medicine!" Zhou Tong was silent for a moment, then took out a fruit, a fruit that looked like the Sun Emperor.

That was one of the Sacred Fruit that Ye Fan brought out from the Primordial Forbidden Land, and it was also the Sacred Fruit that Zhou Tong had the most of at the moment.

After consuming the Sun Sacred Fruit, Zhou Tong felt warm all over. At the same time, he activated the Immortal Phoenix Treasure Art to maximize the medicinal effects.

Instantly, the Void the Great Dao Pattern embedded in his body began to slowly melt away under the medicinal effects of the Sun Sacred Fruit and the burning of the Immortal Phoenix Nirvana Flame.

It was clear that the wound was slowly healing, and the injury was improving. At the same time, his body began to change, and his bones and flesh began to glow.

After he swallowed the second Sun Sacred Fruit, his bones cracked, his muscles split open, and he shed a layer of old skin to grow a brand new body.

After a full Tianyi of healing, he finally completely removed the Void the Great Dao Pattern from his body.

"Only nine Sacred Fruit remain..."

"If I didn't have the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, even if I could win this battle, I would have to use up all those Sacred Fruit to heal myself!" Zhou Tong knew that his current understanding of Dao and Dharma was still somewhat lacking, and he was following the paths of others. He needed some time to properly study various Dao and Dharma.

He wants to forge his own path and even make initial progress in mastering his Five Great Secret Realms.

This can also be seen as preparation for the upcoming Dao Severing.

After recovering from his injuries and leaving the pass, Zhou Tong quickly arrived at a no-man's-land.

"Boom!!"

A massive Heavenly Tribulation descended once more, with thunder as vast and surging as the sea.

The sea of lightning that had lasted for half a day finally dissipated, Zhou Tong sat quietly in the Void the Great, his whole being ethereal and otherworldly.

This was actually a small trick Zhou Tong used to counter the Void Mirror.

Before his battle with Ji Zi, Zhou Tong had already broken through to the seventh level of the second Second Layer of Immortal Platform while comprehending the Dao of Heaven Slaying Dao, but he had been suppressing the Thunder Tribulation.

He was determined that if the Ji Family dared to use the Void Mirror against him, he would directly trigger Thunder Tribulation.

During the Heavenly Tribulation, the Void Mirror certainly wouldn't dare to unleash its power recklessly. Otherwise, if it were to trigger a world-shaking imperial tribulation, the Dark Supreme of the Forbidden Zone would likely be born prematurely, and the Dark Turmoil would arrive ahead of schedule.

This is one of Zhou Tong's trump cards in his fight against the Void Mirror —a trump card of mutual destruction!

Of course, this is only used when there is no other choice. He also prepared some other backup methods to deal with the Void Mirror.

Facing Great Emperor family like the Ji Family, Zhou Tong wouldn't dare to act directly without having prepared three or four plans!

After overcoming the tribulation, Zhou Tong quietly meditated and cultivated, thoroughly stabilizing his realm at the seventh Second Layer of Immortal Platform.

"It's time to go back and prepare for the upcoming auction." When the time was almost up, Zhou Tong opened the Domain Gate again and returned to the vicinity of Undying Mountain.

"Little Tyrant, you've finally emerged from seclusion?"

Has the injury healed?

Looking at Zhou Tong, Pang Bo and Ye Fan's eyes lit up, and they came forward to greet him.

"Don't worry, there won't be any problems! Next up is the official auction, and I'm sure the collections from those holy sites won't disappoint us!" Zhou Tong smiled.

The Ji Family alone was enough to broaden Zhou Tong's horizons.

Leaving aside the spoils of the Void Great Emperor, the amount of Immortal Metal collected by the Ji Family over the years is already considerable. They could forge several weapons like swords, which require relatively few materials.

"Zhou Tong, do those holy lands really have that much Immortal Metal?" Ye Fan asked hesitantly.

Zhou Tong said, "Immortal Metal is indeed very rare, but Big Dipper does produce some. According to my estimate, Big Dipper's Immortal Metal production should be around ten catties per year, but it is distributed across various mining areas, so the harvest is never large..."

Ten catties of Immortal Material seems like a lot, but Immortal Metal is extremely heavy. A piece of Immortal Material the size of a fist can weigh tens of thousands of catties. Ten catties of Immortal Material is only about half the size of a fingernail. Moreover, if it is spread out, a mining area might only produce a grain of sand-sized amount of Immortal Metal each year, or even none at all.

"I've heard that even the Ancient Great Emperor had to search for a long time to find the materials to forge Imperial Weapon. Do these holy lands really have that much Immortal Metal?" Ye Fan continued to ask.

"You know that's just a legend, and you can only believe half of what legends are! Immortal Metal is indeed rare, but for the Ancient Great Emperor, it wasn't anything too precious!" Zhou Tong shook his head.

While Hengyu the Great was forging his Imperial Weapon, he also had the mind to throw down a piece of Phoenix Blood Red Gold to test Undying Heavenly Emperor was in the Primordial Ancient Mine. He even forged a second Imperial Weapon and gave it to the Ancient Hua Dynasty. After Amitabha Great Emperor forged his own Imperial Weapon, he had a surplus of Divine Mark Purple Gold, which he directly rewarded to his disciples.

The other Great Emperor were similar. In addition to his own core Array Diagram, Lingbao Heavenly Venerate also forged four immortal swords that were comparable to four Imperial Weapon.

The Ancient Emperor of Blood Phoenix Mountain, in addition to his original Ancient Emperor Weapon, also forged a second Ancient Emperor Weapon and gave it to his descendants to protect his clan.

There's no need to elaborate on the Undying Heavenly Emperor. He crafted so many supreme treasures and distributed them to his subordinates. These treasures could even unleash Emperor-level power, so it's conceivable that the materials used in them were extraordinary, and immortal Immortal Material were definitely added during the crafting process.

The Emperor Venerable was similar to the Undying Heavenly Emperor, having crafted countless treasures and distributed them.

As for Wu Shi the Great, did he really search the world for materials to forge Imperial Weapon?

The answer is naturally no!

Because Wu Shi the Great wanted was not ordinary Immortal Metal. He wanted to find a peerless place like the Chaos Immortal Land and use the essence nurtured by such a place to forge the strongest Imperial Weapon!

To draw an analogy, it would be a treasure like Ye Fan's Origin of Myriad Mother Qi.

Even the Wu Shi the Great wouldn't be interested in ordinary Immortal Metal, unless there was a terrifying quantity like hundreds of millions of catties!

But is such a terrifying number possible in this universe? It's more like it would be possible in the Immortal Domain.

"I heard that the Ruthless Great Emperor refined his own body into Imperial Weapon because he couldn't find Immortal Material," Pang Bo said in a low voice.

Zhou Tong glanced at the Xiao Nannan not far away, then rolled his eyes at Pang Bo, speechless.

Would the Ruthless Great Emperor lack Immortal Material?

Her Immortal Material were absolutely the most abundant; few Ancient Great Emperor could surpass her.

She crafted the Yaoguang Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, and she also forged an Emperor Sword. She found so much Myriad Mother Qi, and even the thick Immortal Metal Chains in the Primordial Forbidden Land are enough to forge several heavy weapons.

How could the Ruthless Great Emperor, who could attain enlightenment with a mortal body, possibly lack opportunities?

It's just that the world doesn't know it. If we were to tell you about all the opportunities that the Ruthless Great Emperor gained along the way, it would probably scare people to death. Few Ancient Great Emperor could compare to him!

If one is born with a deficiency, one must seize an opportunity to make up for it; otherwise, one will be killed in the early stages of cultivation.

"You shouldn't worry about any Immortal Material!" Zhou Tong said calmly. "It's not difficult for the Ancient Great Emperor to find Immortal Material. The time they spent collecting Immortal Material to forge Imperial Weapon was definitely no more than a hundred years. It's just that the Ancient Great Emperor wouldn't be as shameless as us, threatening the whole world to extort Immortal Material."

"If the Ancient Great Emperor had done things like we do, they could have gathered enough Immortal Material in a month at most!"

"Moreover, Big Dipper is a very special place. The Emperor Battle that have taken place here surpass all others. Even without the production of Immortal Metal, the number of Imperial Weapon fragments here is the highest in the entire universe. You can rest assured!"