Several spirit boats set out from the Wind Lightning Pavilion's mountain gates, cutting through the air toward the southwest.
Chu Zhou stood on the deck of the lead spirit boat, watching the mountains and rivers race past below as thoughts churned through his mind.
Peak Dou Zun was also known as the stage of nine revolutions to sainthood.
Ordinary cultivators knew only that Dou Sheng came above Dou Zun. Few knew that nine "revolutions," each like an insurmountable chasm, lay between the two realms.
Each revolution required compressing the Dou Qi within one's body to its utmost limit, then cultivating again until it was replenished, repeating the process nine times.
Every cycle of compression and replenishment brought a complete transformation.
The amount of Dou Qi required for each revolution equaled the total needed to cultivate from One-Star to Nine-Star Dou Zun.
Completing all nine revolutions meant stepping halfway into the Dou Sheng realm.
In ruins left behind by an expert of that caliber, even obtaining a mere fragment of their inheritance would bring immense benefits to a Dou Zun expert.
More importantly, according to the Thunder Venerable, the senior who had left these ruins had cultivated both lightning and ice attributes.
An ice attribute inheritance could benefit many of the people around him.
That was precisely why Chu Zhou had accepted the Thunder Venerable's invitation with barely any hesitation.
The spirit boats flew for three full days, finally reaching their destination at dusk on the third day.
Before long, an immense, spectacular mountain range came into view.
It stretched for tens of thousands of miles, spanning heaven and earth like an invisible barrier that split the land in two.
The southern slopes were covered in snow year-round, with ice stretching for thousands of miles. Even the Dou Qi in the