Things to Cultivate Gradually Increase

"Your time is almost up," Zhou Hao suddenly reminded her.

Murong nodded, raising an eyebrow slightly as she asked, "When I was taking care of you just now, did it seem like something a girlfriend would do?"

"Taking care of me? Oh... oh..." Zhou Hao remembered Murong carefully wiping his sweat when he first woke up, and it was that action that made his heart race.

He nodded. "Yes, very much so."

Murong nodded to herself. As expected, what Song Tianling taught her was correct. She would follow this pattern from now on!

She made a decision in her heart.

Zhou Hao naturally didn't know what she was thinking. He was actually a bit puzzled why Murong would act like that and was hesitating whether to ask.

"It's about time, we'll meet again in three days," Murong suddenly said.

This time, she didn't just leave those words, but also another sentence: "Next time I come, I'll tell you about the first time I killed someone. You'll understand that killing is nothing, because if you don't kill, you die."

The words she left behind lingered in the secret chamber for a long time, and also echoed in Zhou Hao's ears.

Zhou Hao could feel a hint of wistfulness and a touch of sadness in Murong's tone.

"Did she have a difficult past?" Zhou Hao muttered to himself.

However, he soon had no time to worry about that, because Murong hadn't taken him down with her, and he was trapped in the secret chamber above.

Zhou Hao stood there speechlessly and sighed, "Big sister, can you take me down before you go? I can't phase through walls."

He sat on the ground helplessly, only able to wait for the floor of the secret chamber to open automatically. But he didn't know how long he would have to wait, and Du Tianhong hadn't told him how long the secret chamber would remain open.

"Wait a minute~" Zhou Hao, who was sighing, suddenly froze. He thought of a way, which was...

"Hey, Yuanbao, Jinyin, can you hear me? Come up and get your dad down." Zhou Hao shouted, pressing himself against the ground.

"Did you hear Dad's voice?" Zhou Yuanbao asked.

Mu Jinyin nodded and pointed at the ceiling. "It sounds like he's asking us to get him."

"Where's Mom?" Zhou Yuanbao asked.

"Stupid," Mu Jinyin patted its head. "She went back, of course!"

"Oh~" Zhou Yuanbao nodded.

If Zhou Hao knew they were chatting and not coming to get him, he might have deducted all their Divine Crystals.

After a while, Zhou Yuanbao and the other finally went up and brought Zhou Hao down.

Zhou Hao looked at them and asked, "What were you doing? It took you so long to come get me."

Zhou Yuanbao secretly stuck out its tongue and patted the dragon head. "We didn't hear you just now."

Zhou Hao didn't intend to argue with them; he just said it casually.

He rubbed his arms and scanned his surroundings. "It's so cold."

The coldness Murong had unleashed earlier hadn't dissipated yet, and the frigid air had already begun to spread, causing the overall temperature of the secret chamber to drop significantly.

He glanced at Zhou Yuanbao and Mu Jinyin and asked strangely, "Aren't you cold?"

Zhou Yuanbao and Mu Jinyin exchanged a look and shook their heads in unison. "Not cold!"

"Uh..." Zhou Hao forgot. These two were much stronger than him, so it was natural they wouldn't be cold, but he was genuinely feeling the chill.

He rubbed his body and shouted at Mu Jinyin, "Jinyin, spit out a ball of fire to melt this ice."

Mu Jinyin flapped its wings and said, "I can't do that. My fire can't melt the ice here."

"Damn it, this woman really knows how to leave loose ends," Zhou Hao couldn't help but complain.

First, she left him in the secret chamber above, and now she didn't even deal with this deadly ice.

"Dad, although I can't melt the ice, I can keep you warm." Mu Jinyin immediately spat out a ball of fire around Zhou Hao, which then spread into a circle, enclosing him.

Zhou Hao immediately felt much warmer and gave Mu Jinyin an appreciative look.

"I'll reward you with a Divine Crystal next time."

"Yay~" Mu Jinyin flapped its wings even more excitedly.

Zhou Hao smiled at its happy appearance and thought to himself, "I'll definitely give it a Divine Crystal, but whether I reward it or not, it'll be three. That was Murong's requirement, so I can't help it."

He tested the flame and found that it didn't harm him. Mu Jinyin must have controlled it specifically.

He waved his hands and looked at the magnificent clothes he was wearing, curling his lips. "Useless. They look impressive, but they don't even have a warming function."

If the person who wove these clothes knew his complaint, he wondered if he would be beaten to death.

However, this problem was indeed not thought through completely. It was probably because the weaver lived in the Ice and Snow Divine Realm and was no longer afraid of the cold, so they didn't consider the warming function.

Regardless, Zhou Hao's temperature problem was temporarily solved. He looked at the magic formation on the ceiling, thought for a moment, and finally decided to follow Murong's advice and get started with the introductory level of the Calming Incantation before leaving.

Based on his current feeling, getting started with the Calming Incantation should only take two or three days, and he didn't mind staying here for another two or three days.

Zhou Hao sat cross-legged and began to cultivate the Calming Incantation. It turned out that when he had many things to cultivate, he was quite busy.

He had to practice the Myriad Transformations Divine Ability, the Spirit-Womb Art, and the Metamorphosis Incantation. His schedule was packed.

However, he had already reached a rudimentary level with the Myriad Transformations Divine Ability, so he didn't plan to delve deeper for now and would set it aside for a while.

The Spirit-Womb Art had no cultivation requirements. The energy cultivated would directly affect the sperm, so one only needed to spend a little time cultivating it each day. With enough time, the quality of the sperm would steadily improve.

Theoretically, it was generally not recommended to conceive immediately after starting to cultivate the Spirit-Womb Art, as the sperm quality had not yet reached its peak.

However, Murong only wanted a child, not a Divine Infant, so she could get pregnant anytime. For her, the sooner the better.

The Metamorphosis Incantation was a bit trickier. Like the Spirit-Womb Art, this cultivation technique had no distinct levels. Techniques like the Undying Divine Art and the Myriad Transformations Divine Ability had different stages, but the Metamorphosis Incantation did not.

Cultivating the Metamorphosis Incantation primarily involved refining the internal energy, with the refinement of the inner core being the most crucial. Through continuous refinement, the energy would gain stronger metamorphic capabilities.

This was a process of constant refinement and also the most difficult part of the cultivation, as it demanded not only patience but also meticulous attention. After all, refinement couldn't be done haphazardly; it had to follow the specific methods outlined in the Metamorphosis Incantation.

Currently, the Metamorphosis Incantation was what Zhou Hao had invested the most thought and time into.

Unfortunately, there was no practical application for it yet, as he couldn't yet help a Divine Beast like Zhou Yuanbao undergo metamorphosis.

He would have to wait until they were outside to find a Spirit Beast to test it on.