Kunwu Peak.
After slaying Venerable Yuanyang, Zhou Chun returned directly to Kunwu Peak.
He did not reveal the matter to outsiders. The Blazing Sun Sect merely said that they had failed to find Venerable Yuanyang himself and had only recovered the Samadhi True Fire Gourd.
Whether others believed it or not was none of his concern.
In any case, no one could possibly come looking for trouble over this!
After returning to Kunwu Peak, Zhou Chun's foremost task was to subdue the Samadhi True Fire Gourd, this Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure.
At this point, something he himself had never expected happened.
He had thought subduing the artifact spirit would be extremely difficult, but in practice, it proved astonishingly easy.
With Zhou Chun, a Human Race Spirit Transformation cultivator, communicating with it, the Samadhi True Fire Gourd quickly established a master-servant connection with him.
Then, through his communication with the artifact spirit, Zhou Chun gained a detailed understanding of Venerable Yuanyang's circumstances.
According to the artifact spirit, when Venerable Yuanyang's lifespan had nearly run out, he had been unwilling to die and enter meditation, so he had conceived the idea of attempting a forbidden secret technique.
That giant egg was actually a Fire Phoenix egg Venerable Yuanyang had obtained in his early years, and it was also the crucial vessel for his forbidden secret technique.
According to what Venerable Yuanyang himself had told the artifact spirit, the forbidden secret technique he had performed was called the "Demon God Reincarnation Technique." It was indeed a life-prolonging secret technique developed by the Human Race in ancient times.
Once successfully performed, this technique allowed one to live another lifetime and possess the vast lifespan of a Demon Saint!
However, not only was its success rate extremely low, even success would result in becoming neither human