Forging Immortality through the Dao Seed

While speaking.

Liu Lizhi's actions did not cease for a moment.

He could be seen with spiritual power surging within him, streams of radiant light filling his whole body.

He formed a Dharma Seal with his hand.

In an instant.

A dazzling golden light slowly rose from behind Liu Lizhi. It bobbed in mid-air in rhythm with his thoughts, as if readying itself for something.

A few moments later.

The object within the golden light began to reveal its true form.

It was a gold brick the size of a palm.

Under his command.

The surface of the gold brick began to shimmer with intricate Dao patterns.

The next moment.

Liu Lizhi pointed forward.

The Dao patterns on the gold brick glowed brightly in the air and then started turning, seemingly drawing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within miles around.

The light suddenly dimmed!

Enormous! Enormous! Enormous!

The palm-sized gold brick instantly grew to a size of several yards, turned into a ray of golden light, and swiftly arrived above the head of the Barbarian Bear, hitting it hard downwards.

Roar!

The Barbarian Bear let out a roar, its massive eyes filled with intense menace.

Facing this terrifying blow.

Not only did it not dodge, but it also raised its pillar-like arms. A soil-yellow spiritual light spread from its heart, covering its entire body in an instant.

Boom——

A deep, resonating sound echoed.

The ground shook.

The Barbarian Bear Spirit seemed to stagger a bit, with bloody red traces appearing faintly at the corners of its mouth, and the soil-yellow spiritual light on it dimmed slightly.

It looked like taking that blow was not easy for it.

However, at this moment.

The massive bear paws of the Barbarian Bear Spirit tightly gripped the gold brick.

Seeing this.

Liu Lizhi's spiritual power exploded again, causing the gold brick to violently attempt to escape from the Barbarian Bear's claws.

Yet at this moment.

"Haha, Senior Brother Liu, your spiritual embryo treasure seems a little unwieldy. Let's see how Junior Brother's Three Talents Thousand Mountain Array fares."

On another side.

Yang Bai smirked, and the spiritual power within him erupted instantly.

He flung three streaks of spiritual light from his sleeve.

They were three small banners, instantly transforming into lightning and enveloping the Barbarian Bear Spirit within the formation.

Earth spiritual energy started gathering on the small banners non-stop, making their light even more resplendent.

The air around them condensed dramatically.

Waves of terrifying pressure descended indiscriminately upon everything within the formation.

The ground began to collapse.

Pain was evident in the fierce eyes of the Barbarian Bear Spirit.

With 'crack', 'crack' sounds, its sturdy body began to stoop slowly.

Roar! Roar!

The Barbarian Bear let out one painful roar after another.

It did not yield but struggled to straighten its body. Suddenly, it opened its gigantic mouth, spewing out a ghastly, yellow-brown demonic wind.

Whoosh-whoosh——

The demon wind whistled through the formation, bringing along a nauseating stench while hurtling towards Zhang Jing and the others.

Liu Lizhi's face changed.

"This demon wind can pollute treasures and corrode bodies, Junior Brothers be careful."

"Senior Brother, watch me."

Zhang Jing took a step forward.

A chilling coldness began to spread from beneath his feet that could freeze one's soul.

Roar!

A roar, seemingly from an ancient wilderness, resounded from the ominous Sea Dragon.

Across.

Upon hearing this roar.

A rare hint of fear surfaced in the fierce eyes of the Barbarian Bear Spirit.

It tried to retreat.

It was firmly obstructed by the array, unable to escape.

Ding! Ding!

A sudden sound of metallic friction echoed all around.

A gargantuan dark Sea Dragon slowly appeared at Zhang Jing's side, its icy eyes fixed on the Barbarian Bear, heading straight towards it.

The moment the dark Sea Dragon appeared.

Cold Taiyin power began to stir, threatening to freeze everything.

The yellow nauseating demon wind was instantly frozen by the Taiyin power around the Sea Dragon, turning into little droplets of ice that dropped to the ground.

And then disappeared without a trace.

Meanwhile, the Black Sea Dragon continued to charge towards the Barbarian Bear Spirit without losing momentum.

...

A moment later.

Thump!

The massive body of the Barbarian Bear Spirit fell to the ground like a small mountain.

At the same time.

The figure of the gloomy sea dragon slowly faded away.

"Junior Brother, you're so amazing!"

Yang Bai walked to Zhang Jing's side, sighing and said.

At this moment, he finally realized how abnormal his Junior Brother's rate of growth was.

When the latter first came to the Eighth Void, his strength was much inferior to his own and Senior Brother Liu's, probably on par with the second level Spirit God's guardian.

But now.

Zhang Jing's strength has impressively caught up.

It's only been a month!

Yang Bai couldn't help but take a deep look at Zhang Jing.

In his heart, he only felt that the other's talent in cultivating the Tao Intent of the Taoyin Sea Dragon was somewhat beyond imagination.

"Is the compatibility within a foot really so exaggerated?"

Yang Bai thought to himself.

At this moment.

Zhang Jing was communicating with the Dao Pattern in his palm.

Spiritual Pith increased by 50,000!

[Spiritual Pith: 503,700]

He first nodded, then slightly shook his head.

It seemed he was somewhat dissatisfied with the speed of obtaining only 500,000 Spiritual Pith in these three days.

But at this time.

"Junior Brother, come over here quickly, it's a high-quality magical weapon spiritual embryo."

Senior Brother Liu, not far away, called out with a smile.

Upon hearing this.

Zhang Jing's face instantly returned to normal and he walked straight towards them.

After a dozen breaths.

He picked up the magical weapon spiritual embryo on the ground, and a message suddenly appeared.

High-Quality Magical Weapon Spiritual Embryo: Mountain Shaking Seal!

A trace of surprise flashed in Zhang Jing's eyes.

...

Two days later.

Zhang Jing and the others returned to their gathering spot.

Though it was called a gathering spot, it was quite rudimentary, just a few caves dug out on the cliff of a valley.

There weren't many people in the Eighth Void, a total of less than fifty people from three Dao Institutes.

If we talk about their Dragon Lake Dao Institute, it was even fewer.

There were only nineteen people including Zhang Jing!

There was no need to make it so formal.

...

Inside the cave.

[Spiritual Pith: 815,300]

Zhang Jing's eyes twinkled slightly.

A thought appeared in his heart.

The illusory Jade Talisman slowly surfaced.

[Taoyin Sea Dragon Tao Intent (143/1000)]

Five days ago.

Zhang Jing went to the Treasury of All Gods on time.

Thanks to the somewhat sufficient Spiritual Pith, he directly understood the Taoyin Sea Dragon Tao Intent to more than 10% level.

It felt like he had suddenly crossed a certain threshold.

The power of the Tao Intent had suddenly increased significantly from before, and he even managed to draw out a trace of the weak Power of Taiyin.

But, at this level.

He was still some distance away from crossing the ninth level and heading to the Ninth Void.

At least another month or more!

Looking at the current situation.

In the Eighth Void, Zhang Jing can gain between six and seven million Spiritual Pith per month, if all of it is used for understanding Tao Intent... it could only increase about seventy progress!

He couldn't help but frown.

It's too slow!

Now there's only five months left until the closing of the Treasury of All Gods!

And he will need another month just to enter the Ninth Void.

Which means--

The time left for him to pass through the Ninth Void and enter the Tenth Void is only three or four months.

No matter how he calculates it, the time won't be enough.

Could he really be relying entirely on that legacy in the Ninth Void?

Moreover, there's another possibility.

Zhang Jing didn't even dare to think.

What if it's in... the Eleventh Void?

This thought popped back into his mind again.

Maybe he should use the River of TimeGolden Sand to advance the Visualization Method to the Dharma Seeds phase in advance! The monthly acquisition of Spiritual Pith in the Eighth Void should be enough.

At that time.

It should greatly enhance the speed and efficiency of understanding the Tao Intent!

Not like now, consuming 100,000 Spiritual Pith just to enhance a little bit of Tao Intent.

Right! there's also the Five Treasures Ling River!