One Hundred Thousand Jin

One Hundred Thousand Jin

Night fell, stars glittering across the sky.

The flames crackled.

Zhou Tong sat quietly beside the fire. Beside him lay a large pile of enormous fish bones—the remains of the giant fish that had attacked him earlier.

Streams of runes gave off a crystalline glow. The light gathered and poured toward his lower abdomen, forming a dazzling radiance there, like a blazing sun slowly rising.

After sitting in meditation for a long time, the ball of light finally faded. Zhou Tong sighed helplessly. "I refined that Minor Medicine King with the Thunder Emperor Method. I've already reached the hundred-thousand-jin limit of the Blood Movement Realm, yet I still can't sense the Sea of Bitterness..."

In truth, Zhou Tong had gained more than just a map of Kunlun Mountain from Ye Fan's past life. He had also obtained a scripture, the Feather Transformation Scripture, passed down from the Feather Ascension Great Emperor.

After all, Ye Fan's past life had been meant as a blood sacrifice for the Immortal Ascension Cauldron. If his special physique could not be developed, the blood sacrifice would have been useless. And generally speaking, the minor achievement stage of a special physique was the Four Extremities Realm!

Thus, this Feather Transformation Scripture contained only the sections for the Sea of Wheels Realm and the Dao Palace Realm. It had no secret arts or hidden methods whatsoever, only the purest path of cultivation.

"Could I really be a Primordial Sacred Body? Is my Sea of Bitterness as hard as divine iron, only able to be opened with the medicinal power of divine medicine?" Zhou Tong had doubted this more than once. Ever since obtaining the Feather Transformation Scripture, he had begun cultivating it directly, only to be stopped at the very first step every time.

No matter how he tried to break through, his Sea of Bitterness was like a block of iron, utterly impossible to breach. Even with his blood and qi surging through his body and endless runes flashing, he could not break its defenses.

"The Chaotic Ancient Method has actually been phased out. Current cultivation follows the method created by the Desolate Heaven Emperor. Besides, the Chaotic Ancient Method I obtained is incomplete. Continuing to cultivate it may not yield any good results." Zhou Tong looked toward the heart of Kunlun Mountain. "It seems my only hope lies there."

Within Kunlun Mountain was a White Tiger Divine Medicine, and within the Immortal Pool at its very center was some immortal liquid used to repair the Immortal Ascension Cauldron. With these things, he might be able to open his Wheel Sea ahead of time.

Of course, this was only a hope. The White Tiger Divine Medicine would not be easy to obtain. As for the immortal liquid at the very center of Kunlun Mountain, used to repair the Immortal Ascension Cauldron, that hope was even slimmer—most likely impossible to obtain.

"Forget it. I'll treat it as a trial. It doesn't matter whether I get them or not. In a few years, I can go to the Big Dipper anyway. If I follow Ye Fan, I can at least mooch a few fruits off him."

"But reaching that place will be the real test! The road ahead is filled with a large number of demon beasts at least in the Immortal Platform Realm, all cultivating there!" With that thought, Zhou Tong put aside his concerns for the future and quietly began circulating the Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique.

At once, Zhou Tong's entire body began to glow. One symbol after another emerged, intricate and profound, shining brilliantly as they constantly shifted, like endless stars moving through the heavens.

Zhou Tong continued cultivating, slowly refining these runes into his flesh and blood, melting them into rosy light and transforming them into divine radiance.

This was the ultimate profound meaning of the Blood Movement Realm in the Chaotic Ancient Method: to merge runes into every drop of blood throughout one's body, transforming it into an eternal divine furnace that emitted boundless light and nourished oneself.

At that moment, every pore on Zhou Tong's body opened. Vast amounts of vital essence gathered around him, and every drop of his blood became imbued with divinity, breathing out sacred brilliance and nurturing lightning. Within them, it seemed as though one Thunder God after another sat in meditation.

Crackle!

Explosions like thunder rang out one after another. Electric light burst from Zhou Tong's entire body, countless specks of light spreading like bolts of lightning, dense and packed together, as if innumerable Thunder Gods were roaring and shining, illuminating the blue sky.

"Keep moving!" After a night had passed, Zhou Tong did not choose to rest. Instead, he continued onward. He needed the treasures in the depths of Kunlun Mountain to help him open his Wheel Sea.

As he pressed forward, reaching the limit of the Blood Movement Realm had greatly increased Zhou Tong's speed. He followed the quickest route from his memories, crossing mountains and ravines while avoiding quite a few vicious beasts.

Naturally, there were fierce battles along the way as well.

He did not know his opponents' exact realms, nor how their realms compared to his current Blood Movement Realm, but those battles had been grueling.

Had it not been for the marvelous techniques within the Thunder Emperor Treasure Technique, Zhou Tong would likely have been in danger.

Yet he knew that the creatures able to battle him fiercely were merely the lowest of the low among the beasts in Kunlun Mountain's depths. The truly terrifying vicious beasts were still far beyond what Zhou Tong could handle.

Over the next several days, Zhou Tong fought bloody battles time and again. He encountered countless dangers and slew many vicious beasts, but he himself also suffered several grave injuries. His clothes were now in tatters, several garments soaked red with blood. In the end, he could only change into freshly skinned beast hide to cover himself.

He even encountered several vicious beasts he had no way of contending with. Fortunately, he had the map of Kunlun Mountain in his mind. Using the Dao patterns here, he finally managed to shake them off.

Zhou Tong now looked like a savage who had walked out of the Great Desolation. Clad in beast hide, bearded and unkempt, with bronze skin, rock-like muscles, and a pair of bright black eyes that struck terror into the soul, he was frightening to behold.

Most terrifying of all, even after his Blood Movement Realm had reached the hundred-thousand-jin limit, he continued advancing.

The daily battles, along with the ten-thousand-year Spirit Herbs found everywhere throughout Kunlun Mountain, caused his physique to transform again and again, growing stronger with each passing day.

The original hundred-thousand-jin strength in both his arms rapidly increased through this cultivation.

As he continued cultivating, a layer of radiance emerged across his entire body. It had formed naturally from his flesh, representing an ultimate limit—the ultimate limit of the Blood Movement Realm!!

"A single swing of one arm carries one hundred and six thousand jin of divine strength!!" As that layer of radiance appeared, Zhou Tong understood that he had truly reached the limit of the Blood Movement Realm.

One hundred thousand jin of divine strength in a single arm—this was the limit of the Blood Movement Realm, the limit of this stage.

Perhaps there could be some variation due to differences in race. For instance, something like a Sky Horn Ant could reach one hundred and twenty thousand jin. But the limit for humans was around one hundred thousand jin of divine strength. Even with the strongest physiques and conditions, one could only approach one hundred and ten thousand jin, never surpass it.

Take the Desolate Heaven Emperor, for example. His limit at this stage had been one hundred and eight thousand jin.

"Still two thousand jin short of the Desolate Heaven Emperor's strength?" Zhou Tong was somewhat unwilling to accept it. Some secret methods came to mind, methods cultivated by the Desolate Heaven Emperor's Disciple-Grandchild.

During the Chaotic Ancient Era, some people primarily cultivated the Current Era Method, and they had achieved certain results. Those results could be used to swiftly break through the limits set by predecessors!

The memories Zhou Tong had obtained came from the Desolate Heaven Emperor's Disciple-Grandchild, who was also an expert primarily cultivating the Current Era Method.

"I remember that among his cultivation memories, there were two methods for breaking the Blood Movement Realm's ultimate limit." Zhou Tong recalled, "The first is to refine Immortal Qi, but I haven't cultivated Immortal Qi, so that's out of the question."

"The second is—body-tempering secret methods. There are all kinds, such as Flame Body Tempering, Gale Body Tempering, and Frost Body Tempering. The cultivation process is extremely brutal and requires a large quantity of Spirit Herbs to support it..."

"The one suited to my current condition is—Thunder Body Tempering!!"