Five Years
The Star Cloud Tower is a treasure tower forged from fragments of Star Scripture. It is crystal clear, radiating a soft silver-white glow, and possesses a pure and holy power.
Located in the heart of the Ruins City, it enjoys a great reputation. Powerful cultivators love to come here for a chat. Legend has it that this restaurant was left behind by a Quasi-Emperor.
The Quasi-Emperor left behind Star Cloud Tower once competed with Wu Shi the Great, but after his defeat, he retired in disgrace and opened a restaurant there to make a living.
The Star Cloud Tower is home to numerous cultivators of diverse races. The Star Ruins, located within the Golden Ancient Road, is not a road belonging to any particular race, hence the diverse ethnicities of the cultivators here.
The so-called Golden Ancient Road is an extremely dangerous sacred ground, long since abandoned by cultivators. Once part of an ancient road, it is now overgrown with thorns and nearly deserted. This kind of ancient road is actually a series of secret realms, mostly abandoned in the primordial era, hence it is also called the Primeval Golden Secret Realm.
As for the more ancient secret realms, they can be called the Mythical Golden Ancient Road, or the Mythical Secret Realm.
The cultivators who came to the Star Cloud Tower were of various races. They sat in groups of three or five, each engaged in their own conversations. Most of the people who came here were there to join in the fun, to hear their fellow cultivators share the latest news and secrets.
"Alas, another major incident has occurred on the Misty Continent! The Peacock Clan's peerless prodigy— the Five-Colored Peacock— has also perished there. His death was gruesome, as if he had been punched to pieces after a fierce battle!"
"Really? He was also blown to pieces with a single punch after a fierce battle? What's going on with the Misty Continent and the dozen or so nearby continents in recent years? How come so many prodigies have fallen one after another?"
"Isn't that right? Although Star Ruins has always been dangerous, it has never been as dangerous as it has been in the last five years. It's terrifying. None of the geniuses who have entered those dozen or so continents have survived, and their deaths are almost identical: they were all blown to pieces after a fierce battle."
"Not to mention the Five-Colored Peacock of the Peacock Clan who recently perished here, and the Great Demon God Gu Huang of the Human Clan, just in the past few years there have been Earth Corpse, Silver Lion Supreme, Golden Giant of the Giant Clan Bronze Ant Saint King Sky Swallowing Python Saint King, Supreme of the Devouring Python Lineage, Ten Thousand-Legged Demon Spider, Long-Armed Ape Supreme, and the peerless Holy Spirit accompanying the Phoenix Blood Red Gold Pagoda..."
"In the past five years, at least a hundred Young Supreme have perished there, with one or two falling almost every month. Even now, in this great struggle, even the most outstanding talents cannot withstand such attrition."
The crowd discussed amongst themselves, unanimously speculating that among those dozen or so continents, there was an unparalleled powerhouse honing his Dao and Dharma using the prodigies of various races as whetstones, and that countless people had perished there.
"Alas, what use is it to know that there is a powerful figure who uses countless geniuses as whetstones? Which genius who embarks on this path of enlightenment is not confident or even arrogant? Perhaps they know that there is such a powerful figure, so they are even more eager to go to that area."
Some people are pessimistic. It is obvious that this cultivator who uses so many geniuses as whetstones is powerful enough, even almost invincible; but they cannot stop other geniuses from going there to their deaths, because this is an inevitable step on the path to enlightenment.
No aspiring cultivator with the ambition to attain enlightenment can avoid such an "invincible" powerhouse with endless legends, because their Dao Heart will not allow it.
"Now, apart from those Young Supreme who are going to their deaths, almost no one dares to go to those dozen or so continents anymore. Sigh, I wonder how long that powerful figure will stay here. In recent years, the number of cultivators coming to the Ruins City has decreased significantly!"
"I wonder who that powerful person is? What race is he?"
People were talking about it.
Some people also mentioned Zhou Tong, who once revealed the Azure Emperor Weapon and swept through the younger generation of geniuses on the God Clan Ancient Road; some even vaguely pointed out that the fierce person who hunted geniuses in those dozen or so continents was that almost invincible Overlord.
Meanwhile, in a desolate mountain on the Misty Continent.
Zhou Tong sat quietly cross-legged, surrounded by the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, transforming a three-zhang radius around him into a Immortal Realm Pure Land. The Nine-tailed Flood Dragon, unwilling to roam freely in the Ruins City, quietly stayed beside him, absorbing the aura of the Great Dao.
A jade-like divine tree can be vaguely seen growing quietly in this Pure Land, its branches swaying gently in the Qingfeng, releasing wisps of the Great Dao's energy.
Not far from him stood a stone tablet inscribed with the characters "Tian Yuan," which seemed to faintly reveal the Great Dao being preached by a supreme being; meanwhile, a Divine Spring flowed, and the branches of the Enlightenment Tea Tree, laden with tea leaves of various shapes, emitted an aroma that inspired enlightenment...
This cultivation environment is truly unprecedented. The Bodhi Tree enhances wisdom, the Enlightenment Tea allows one to enter a state of enlightenment, and there is also the hazy sound of the Wu Shi the Great Preaching the Dao. Furthermore, within his Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings, there is the aura of several other Immortal Divine Medicine, as well as the Great Dao descending from several Holy Spirit, and the aura of the Source of Dao.
In this heaven-defying Enlightenment Environment, built upon countless divine objects, even a pig could comprehend scriptures beyond the comprehension of countless people.
Zhou Tong, however, had been meditating in this Enlightenment Environment for five years.
Whenever he grasped a profound truth, he would use the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones technique to send his Three Pure Ones Incarnation out to find some outstanding cultivators to verify it.
Of course, these Three Pure Ones Three Pure Ones were not just searching for whetstones. In fact, most of the time, they were in the dozen or so continents near the Misty Continent, using Source Technique and the methods of the Burial Scholars from the Immortal Ancient Era to further optimize the Demon Emperor's arrangements.
In this state of enlightenment, Zhou Tong closed his eyes, as still as a rock, exuding a special aura. Strands of the Great Dao's potential flowed from his body, and the sounds of the Great Dao resonated within him, with scriptures playing on their own. There was an auspicious sign of enlightenment, with various Dao lights dancing around him.
Zhou Tong's Wheel Sea and Dao Palace began to light up, and wisps of immortal light burst forth from the secret realms of the Wheel Sea and Dao Palace Realm, spreading towards his limbs.
At the same time, the Primal Qi he gained from cultivating the Immortal Ancient Method began to rise and spread to his limbs, as if it were nurturing a vast ocean of power.
"My limbs connect to the Tongtian and the earth, supporting the Four Extremes of heaven and earth, unleashing my strongest combat power. This is the Four Extremities Scripture Profound Meaning." Zhou Tong opened his eyes, and a terrifying pattern appeared in his pupils, accompanied by the sound of the Great Dao.
The sight was astonishing; what he saw was like the World Creation of the world, with a hazy glow resembling primordial Chaos Qi, surging and boundless.
His Heaven-and-Earth Wheel Sea and Dao Palace also manifested in that instant, as if forming a vast and magnificent world. The opposing forces of Yin and Yang, life and death, and many other forces reversed the limitless and transformed into the Heaven-and-Earth Wheel Sea; then the limitless evolved into Taiji, Taiji transformed into the Five Elements, and the Dao Palace was formed.
Now, the profound meaning of the scriptures of the Four Extremities Realm has just been revealed, and it is as if the World Creation, causing his Wheel Sea and Dao Palace to begin to expand to the extreme and further develop.
Ancient characters appeared one after another on Zhou Tong's limbs. Each time a character appeared, it caused his Wheel Sea and Dao Palace to tremble slightly and expand outward.
His limbs trembled slightly, and various chaotic lights danced in the air. He became like a god or demon, his black hair swirling wildly, as if he were suppressing the Four Extremes of heaven and earth, possessing unparalleled power.
The expansion of the Wheel Sea and Dao Palace was proceeding in an orderly manner, and all sorts of unimaginable phenomena were completely suppressed by Zhou Tong's limbs in a fierce and domineering way.
This is the meaning of the Four Extremities Realm created by Zhou Tong.
He doesn't need any extraordinary phenomena or any other profound mysteries; all he needs is boundless, fierce, and limitless power—enough to World Creation and earth, suppress all spirits, and connect Tongtian and earth.