Qi Cultivation Starting from the Repair Panel

Aura winds howled, the brutal airflow sweeping across all directions, instantly triggering Chu Zheng's nerves.

Chu Zheng glanced up, a claw almost ten meters in size hurled directly at his Spiritual Eye. Sharp as a blade, reflecting cold light, it was capable of slicing metal and smashing jade.

In an instant, Chu Zheng drew out his Dragon Bone Spear, its tip flashing with cold light. He raised his hand and thrust upward, aiming at the heart of the claw.

Buzz—

A gust of wind arose, the giant claw withdrew, and a dark shadow soared into the air, retreating abruptly.

Only then did Chu Zheng clearly see the entirety of the Savage Beast: a ferocious bird enveloped in gray feathers. According to the information given by his Spiritual Eye, it was a Third Order Savage Beast, not far off in strength from him.

"Screech—"

A high-pitched cry echoed between heaven and earth. Despite missing its strike, the ferocious bird did not leave, but continued to hover around Chu Zheng. Continue your adventure at empire

This level of Savage Beast already possessed considerable intelligence. The reason it had targeted Chu Zheng as its prey was probably that it had noticed Chu Zheng's lack of a Strong Bow, which posed no threat to it.

Lacking mana and with only a strong physical body, even a Fifth Order expert like Lie could not fly freely, needing the assistance of birds or Divine Birds totems to soar.

Chu Zheng put away the bone spear and took out a Strong Bow from his Storage Bag.

His Storage Bag already filled with rune soldiers and magic artifacts he had created, was there for added precautions.

Seeing the Strong Bow suddenly appearing in Chu Zheng's hands, the airborne ferocious bird exhibited obvious panic, turned its direction, and flapped its wings trying to flee.

Chu Zheng took a deep breath and suppressed the mana surging inside him, relying on his body strength to draw the bowstring, aiming and shooting several arrows in quick succession.

The sharp sound of space shattering rose, resulting in a series of sonic booms. Before the sound reached, the arrows had already penetrated the body of the ferocious bird, causing a tremendous force to burst open, tearing massive gashes.

Blood rained from the sky as the ferocious bird fell, crashing heavily into the wilderness, raising a cloud of dust.

At Chu Zheng's level, his archery skill could no longer be described merely by accuracy. As long as the strength was sufficient and the arrow fast enough, it was a certain hit with no possibility of missing.

This ferocious bird, with a wingspan of over twenty meters, would be untouchable for regular Totem Cultivators without a Strong Bow in hand.

Chu Zheng stepped forward and split open the chest of the ferocious bird, extracting its still warm, faintly beating heart, absorbing a wisp of blood from it into the totem behind him.

The totem, bathed in beast blood, emitted a warmth, memorizing the scent of the ferocious bird.

He then took out a Melting Bead, sucked dry the blood qi of the ferocious bird, and then turned to leave.

This time at the Great Beast Hunting Festival, although Chu Zheng had come for the Divine Ability Bone of the Heavenly Spirit Race, if he could collect some rewards along the way, that was naturally better.

Chu Zheng looked around, and seeing no sign of anyone, summoned a Flying Sword and, controlling it, soared into the depths of the wilderness.

Having secluded himself for several years, he had accumulated quite a bit of Tribulation Qi by his side. Experiencing more combat was also a way to wear it down, reducing the potential trouble it could bring to the Wangshan Tribe.

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In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed.

Chu Zheng traveled deep into the hunting grounds, regardless of personal loss, hunted hundreds of Savage Beasts, and soon entered a desolate area.

Apart from the bones of Savage Beasts, there were also many bones of the Human Race, likely left from past Great Beast Hunting Festivals, many of which were covered by Savage Beast bones, incomplete and jumbled together, clearly having become food.

Along the way, Chu Zheng discovered many fragments of rune soldiers, all of which he collected, among them several high-quality Sixth Order rune soldiers, reaping a great harvest.

However, the Savage Beasts active nearby were visibly stronger, mostly fluctuating between Third and Fourth Order, with most being Fourth Order.

Fourth Order Savage Beasts were not something Chu Zheng could handle at the moment. Further ahead, his current strength was somewhat stretched thin.

Besides the bones, Chu Zheng also saw many Totem Cultivators from various tribes, mostly elites with Cultivation around Fourth Order. Their battlefield had already advanced to this point, engaging in extremely bloody combat with the Savage Beasts, with casualties on both sides.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

After some consideration, Chu Zheng changed direction, deciding to circle around and then head back to the camp.

His current military exploits were already enough to exchange for quite a few resources. Those rune soldiers could completely be exchanged for two pieces of Divine Ability Bone; his initial goal had been achieved.

Chu Zheng turned around and went in a wide arc, slowly moving toward the camp.

After traveling for several days, Chu Zheng stopped in a valley, surrounded by scattered bones of humans and Savage Beasts. Chu Zheng casually inspected a few and discovered some rather startling information.

Around were skeletons, whether of humans or savage beasts, none were below Eighth Order.

The essence Qi within these skeletons had been completely extracted, leaving behind nothing of value. Even when Chu Zheng used the "Qi Gathering and Heaven Repairing" divine skill to try and extract something, he was unable to obtain anything useful from these skeletons.

Perhaps it was precisely for this reason that these skeletons had been preserved until now.

Chu Zheng made a large round and carefully counted; there were a total of seventeen skeletons, which meant that nearly twenty True Immortal-level experts had died near this unremarkable valley.

The information implied by this was startling.

With some vigilance, Chu Zheng headed deeper into the valley.

The entire valley had clearly been scavenged. It was empty, with nothing but scattered rocks and no useful information.

Seeing this, Chu Zheng did not rush to leave, but began a meticulous search of the valley. So many powerful beings had died here, all their essence Qi drawn out.

The various anomalies were enough to indicate that there was an unknown secret within this valley.

Chu Zheng dug through the rocks inch by inch, going three feet into the ground, searching for traces left long ago. After spending several days, he finally found some clues.

A half-wall built of blue bricks came into his view.

[Damaged Temple (First Order/Incomplete): Originally enshrined a powerful deity, rarely received incense offerings, and had long been abandoned (repairable).]

A temple?

Seeing the information provided by the Spiritual Eye, Chu Zheng's expression suddenly sharpened. The Dongyuan Realm actually had traces of Incense Spirituality Taoist Orthodoxy?!

He did not hesitate, immediately activating the repair panel, restoring the entire temple.

In an instant, a temple spanning thirty feet made of blue brick and tiles appeared before Chu Zheng.

He pushed open the door and stepped into the temple. The altar was empty, and fragments of the divine statue were yet to be found.

Chu Zheng did not hurry to look for fragments of the divine statue. He looked around the temple's structure, his eyes gradually turning from questioning to startled.

The construction of this temple was identical to that of the damaged temple where he had discovered the Ancestral Dao Golden Body in the Cangyun Secret Realm.

The deity worshipped here, could it be that Ancestral Dao?!

Chu Zheng sucked in a cool breath and began to search around the temple inch by inch. When his eyes fell on a handful of red soil, a surge of information suddenly entered his mind.

[Ancestral Dao Golden Body (Second Order/Incomplete): Ancestral Dao Divine Statue, lacked incense offerings and had not undergone Spiritual Awakening, destroyed in a great battle, repairable.]

As the repair panel activated, a divine statue appeared before Chu Zheng.

Looking at the divine statue which resembled his appearance, Chu Zheng sucked in a cool breath, feeling a tingling in his scalp.

It was indeed the Ancestral Dao Golden Body?!

Qi Cultivators had been here before, but for some reason, they had not spread their teachings to the human race of this realm.

Staring at the Ancestral Dao Golden Body, Chu Zheng frowned in deep thought for a while, then took a sprig of Pure Incense from beside the altar, lit it, and offered three respectful bows in the Taoist manner, offering up the incense.

As a Taoist School cultivator, to see the Ancestral Dao and offer up a sprig of Pure Incense was only proper, especially since the Eternal Calamity Treasure Record he practiced was also an inheritance from this deity.

Right after finishing the incense offering, ripples appeared in the void, and a jade box fell from the void, landing on the altar.

"What is this..."

Chu Zheng, puzzled, reached out and took the jade box into his hands, directly opening it.

A dazzling golden light burst out, and seeing the contents of the box, Chu Zheng involuntarily held his breath, his eyes filled with disbelief, and he exclaimed, "A Golden Core?"

A flawless Nine Orifices Golden Core rested quietly inside the jade box, emitting brilliant golden light, with the spirit apertures inside flickering with the phantom images of nine great divine skills.

The absence of any aura on the Golden Core proved that its owner had died.

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