Stellar Adamant

At a certain moment, Red Cloud suddenly woke with a start.

Without realizing it, Red Cloud's cultivation had broken through to Golden Immortal Perfection, laying the foundation for his future breakthrough into Taiyi.

Next, Red Cloud began testing and refining the Alchemy Dao theories he had compiled, eventually producing Seven-Turn Golden Pills.

The Alchemy Dao had nine turns; each turn was a world apart.

The first three turns of Golden Pills were effective on Human Immortals, the fourth-turn Golden Pill was effective on Earth Immortals, and so on. Eighth-Turn Golden Pills were effective on Taiyi Golden Immortals, while the ninth turn was effective on Great Luo Golden Immortals.

A single Seven-Turn Golden Pill refined by Red Cloud could allow an ordinary mortal to attain the Golden Immortal realm.

Plants could be used as medicine, and animals could serve as medicine as well.

After accumulating some experience with spiritual herbs, Red Cloud began investigating the possibility of using spirit beasts in alchemy.

Just as Red Cloud was preparing to capture some spirit beasts, he suddenly saw a streak of light falling from the horizon.

"Are there meteors in the Primordial World too?"

Curious, Red Cloud flew over.

To his astonishment, a massive meteorite had crashed into a mountain range, shattering everything within a thousand miles.

Red Cloud arrived before the enormous meteorite.

Looking at the meteorite before him, Red Cloud casually waved his hand, summoning a high-pressure laser that cut into it like a steel saw.

Amid sizzling sparks, the hard, scorching meteorite was sliced apart, and a glimmer of starlight rose from within.

Seeing this, how could Red Cloud not know that there was something valuable inside? He quickly extracted it.

It was a piece of Stellar Adamant the size of a washbasin, its surface gleaming with threads of brilliant starlight.

Stellar Adamant was a material found only in the Starry Sky and was exceedingly rare upon the lands of the Primordial World.

The Starry Sky lay above the Nine Heavens, where the astral winds were fierce and stellar power was violent. It was not a place one could easily visit.

Especially during this era, the stars moved chaotically and the laws were exceptionally violent. Even cultivators at the level of Great Luo Golden Immortals could not remain in the Starry Sky for long.

Red Cloud beckoned toward the Stellar Adamant, and it immediately flew up, gradually shrinking.

By the time it landed in Red Cloud's hand, the washbasin-sized piece of Stellar Adamant had become only palm-sized.

Red Cloud used his Primordial Spirit to sense the condition of the Stellar Adamant and discovered that it contained dense fire power.

This piece of Stellar Adamant had likely fallen from Fire Star. If forged into a magic treasure, it might be able to draw upon a strand of Fire Star's power to attack enemies.

One had to know that Fire Star was one of the three hundred and sixty-five Ancestral Stars, its status comparable to that of a Hunyuan Golden Immortal.

The Primordial World knew no years; in the blink of an eye, seas had turned to fields.

Northwest of Buzhou Mountain, Red Cloud sat cross-legged atop an auspicious cloud, transforming into a red streak of light that flashed across the sky.

Red Cloud did not remain idle while traveling. As he flew toward Buzhou Mountain, he captured spirit beasts for alchemy, continually enriching and organizing his Alchemy Dao theories.

Compared with using spiritual herbs for alchemy, using spirit beasts was far more complicated. The consciousness of the spirit beasts could easily remain within the pills, and refining too many such pills could easily affect one's state of mind.

One day, as Red Cloud flew over a mountain range, a powerful tiger's roar suddenly rang in his ears.

"Roar—!!"

Red Cloud was startled awake by the tiger's roar.

He then halted in midair and looked down at the mountain range, where a gigantic tiger stood atop one of the peaks.

Through his Heavenly Dao perception, Red Cloud learned that this giant tiger was called a Storm Tiger, a race that controlled the power of wind.

Storm Tigers belonged to the Qilin Clan's side. They were the tiger race within the Qilin Clan's faction, and their clan was filled with powerful experts.

The Storm Tiger was no ordinary creature of flesh and blood. Its entire body was like amber, and every leap cracked the ground as it spat streams of wind blades at Red Cloud.

As the saying went, clouds followed dragons, and winds followed tigers.

The wind blades spat out by the Storm Tiger filled the sky, sealing off Red Cloud's paths of evasion and forcing him to withstand them head-on.

The corners of Red Cloud's lips curled upward slightly. Then, with one hand, he pressed down, and a giant handprint shattered all the wind blades.

"Roar!!"

The Storm Tiger glared fiercely at Red Cloud.

In an instant, the Storm Tiger swiped fiercely at Red Cloud. As its claw descended through the air, a dark yellow light flashed.

With a crack, fissures appeared in the void, as though space itself had been shattered.

A powerful impact swept toward Red Cloud.

Red Cloud flicked his sleeve, summoning layer after layer of light barriers. The barriers glowed dark yellow and emanated an indestructible aura. This was the Earthly Fiend Divine Power, Life Light.

Yet to Red Cloud's surprise, the supposedly indestructible Life Light barrier shattered beneath the Storm Tiger's attack like an egg striking a rock.

This left Red Cloud astonished. Had that been a divine power specifically meant to break armor or defenses?

Red Cloud had encountered quite a few Golden Immortal-level experts, but few could break through his defenses. Yet a Late-Stage Golden Immortal Storm Tiger had done so. It was simply unbelievable.

Thus, Red Cloud developed a trace of curiosity toward the giant tiger. This Storm Tiger's ability was not simple.

Next, Red Cloud became serious. His Golden Immortal Perfection cultivation erupted instantly, and he quickly subdued the Storm Tiger before examining its condition.

Upon discovering that Red Cloud intended to search its soul, the Storm Tiger would rather die than submit and directly detonated its own mana.

The Storm Tiger's mana ran wild within its body, causing its body to swell like an inflated balloon.

Seeing this, a cold glint flashed through Red Cloud's eyes as he jabbed a silver needle into the Storm Tiger's body.

The next instant, something miraculous happened.

Amid the Storm Tiger's unwilling roar, its swollen body deflated like a punctured balloon, and all the mana within it rapidly drained away.

With no strength left to resist, the Storm Tiger's mind was forcibly invaded by Red Cloud, who conducted a soul search.

Within the Storm Tiger's soul, Red Cloud found a divine power called Void Shatter, capable of shattering the void.

Void Shatter had an armor-piercing effect and specifically countered defensive divine powers. That was why it had broken through Red Cloud's defense.

After seizing all of the Storm Tiger's inheritances and knowledge, Red Cloud tossed it directly into the pill furnace.

After forty-nine days of refinement, the Storm Tiger became an emerald-green Wind-Quelling Pill.

The Wind-Quelling Pill was a low-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure that possessed the power to calm and halt wind. Even the Samadhi Divine Wind that could make ghosts and gods despair could be immobilized by the Wind-Quelling Pill.

Looking at the Wind-Quelling Pill in his hand, Red Cloud shook his head and casually put away this low-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure.

The Wind-Quelling Pill was merely an unexpected gain, the icing on the cake. What Red Cloud sought was the supreme Great Dao, so compared with the Wind-Quelling Pill, he still preferred the Void Shatter divine power.

Not only was this divine power formidable, but it also touched upon a trace of Space Law. Red Cloud liked it very much.

After killing the Storm Tiger, Red Cloud did not immediately leave. The Storm Tiger's sudden attack on him seemed strange and somewhat unreasonable.

Perhaps something existed within this mountain, something the Storm Tiger did not want him to discover, which was why it had tried to drive him away.

Red Cloud used his Primordial Spirit to sense the mountain range, but he found nothing unusual. It was as majestic and beautiful as any other spiritual mountain.

After thinking it over, Red Cloud still descended to the ground. With a different vantage point, perhaps he might discover something else.

After landing on the peak where the Storm Tiger had previously stood, Red Cloud suddenly noticed something unusual around the mountain.

The terrain of this mountain range seemed to shift before his eyes, giving rise to endless transformations.

"Is this... an Innate Formation?!"

Seeing this, Red Cloud's eyes immediately lit up. As expected, different perspectives revealed different things.

In the Primordial World, anything worthy of an Innate Formation was at least a low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure or an Innate Spiritual Root.

No matter which it was, Red Cloud was delighted. When it came to spiritual treasures and spiritual roots, he had only one thought: the more, the better.