Longevity: Starting with an infant's innate growth potential

Chapter 332 The Power of Body Refinement Enters the Top Eight
"Roar!"

The Thunderfire Flood Dragon Spiritual Form let out a deafening roar, rose up, and blasted towards Zhou Ling.

The Thunderfire Flood Dragon is a fourth-tier demon beast spirit form, with attack power comparable to that of a fourth-tier demon beast.

Furthermore, with the blessing of the Fire and Thunder Domain, its power is greatly increased.

The overwhelming flashes of lightning and fire caused the spectators in the surrounding stands to gasp in surprise.

In their view, Zhou Ling was completely intimidated by the Thunderfire Flood Dragon's spiritual domain.

However, those who had witnessed Zhou Ling's performance on the field showed expressions of doubt.

Although this Thunder Dragon Spiritual Domain is indeed incredibly powerful.

However, Zhou Ling possesses five spiritual flames, so he wouldn't be so easily intimidated.

They're probably brewing some kind of counterattack!
Perhaps they are hesitating whether it's better to use the spirit sword against the enemy, or the spirit flame?

"This Thunderfire Flood Dragon's spiritual form has reached the fourth rank, and it also has a powerful magic domain to assist it. Even if Zhou Ling unleashes five spiritual flames at the same time, he won't be able to hold out for long!"

"Using the Sword Domain might actually give us a better chance of winning!"

"Don't joke around. A peak Foundation Establishment cultivator defeating a Nascent Soul cultivator? Do you really believe that?"

“Zhou Ling is no ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator.”

"Exactly, have you ever seen a Foundation Establishment cultivator who can simultaneously control five high-level spiritual flames?"

In the audience, people watched the competition stage intently, engaging in heated discussions.

At this moment, everyone wished they could transform into Zhou Ling and help him defeat his opponent.

Defeating a Nascent Soul cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage—what a terrifying achievement!

In the tens of thousands of years of the Dao Alliance, this has probably never happened before.

However, just as people were speculating, Zhou Ling surprised everyone by neither choosing the Spirit Flame nor using the Five Elements Sword.

"Roar!"

With a deafening roar.

Zhou Ling's body surged with blood energy, and from within this dense blood energy, a thunder dragon with astonishing power condensed.

Its enormous body instantly grew to tens of feet tall, its entire body shimmering with purple lightning. It swung its lightning claws and slammed them towards the Thunderfire Flood Dragon's spiritual form.

"Boom!"

The entire arena instantly transformed into a raging, violent lightning domain.

The fierce lightning bolts continuously shot into the sky.

It was like two enormous thunderclouds colliding continuously.

"Is this the blood essence of a fourth-tier Thunder Flood Dragon?"

"Zhou Ling is actually a body cultivator?"

"It also incorporates a fourth-tier Thunder Flood Dragon Demon Core?"

The audience was shocked to see Zhou Ling actually condense the blood essence of the Thunder Dragon to clash head-on with the opponent's Fire Thunder Dragon spirit.

No one expected Zhou Ling to choose this method to deal with a Nascent Soul cultivator!
No one expected that Zhou Ling was a third-tier body refiner and could even fuse with the fourth-tier Thunder Dragon Blood Soul.

It should be noted that even a fourth-order body cultivator may not be able to refine a fourth-order Thunder Flood Dragon Demon Core.

How did Zhou Ling manage to do that?

Everyone's face showed disbelief.

Five high-level spiritual flames, a sword domain comparable to the power of the fourth realm, and the blood essence of a fourth-level thunder dragon!
Any one of these things, let alone at twenty, would be difficult for even a talented cultivator to achieve at forty.

But Zhou Ling embodies all of these qualities.

More importantly, these are all his side jobs.

His real profession is weapon crafting.

This is absolutely incredible!

The thunderous roar on the competition stage left people speechless with shock.

At this moment, the outcome of the battle seemed to be unimportant to Zhou Ling; such terrifying talent made him the biggest winner!

On the competition field, Zhou Ling naturally didn't care about other people's opinions.

In his mind, talents such as [Intermediate Observation], [Intermediate Analysis], [Monster Beast Intimidation], and [Five Elements Thunder Force] kept flashing.

He also kept searching for the weaknesses of the Spiritual Realm.

With a thought, the True Fire of Qianyang shot out from his hand.

The crimson spiritual flames burst forth, like a torrent of fire, covering a large area around Zhou Ling.

It completely blocked the opponent's powerful pressure from the magic domain.

"A fourth-tier thunder dragon!"

Seeing the fourth-tier Thunder Dragon completely block the Fire Thunder Dragon's spiritual form, Xiao Gui's expression darkened, and he looked at Zhou Ling as if he were a monster.

You should know that it took him several years to obtain this Thunderfire Flood Dragon, and more than ten years to refine and fuse it to reach its current state.

However, Zhou Ling also managed to refine a fourth-order Thunder Flood Dragon Demon Core.

how did you do that?
Moreover, at this moment, the Thunderfire Flood Dragon Spirit Form was fighting against the Thunder Flood Dragon Blood Soul, but it did not gain much of an advantage.

This was even more unimaginable to him.

This is a spiritual domain that incorporates the power of rules; even if the Thunder Dragon itself were to arrive, it might not be able to stop it.

But Zhou Ling actually blocked it.

Moreover, not only that, his spiritual form seemed to be under tremendous suppression.

It made him feel as if his own domain of magic had not been activated, but rather as if he had fallen into Zhou Ling's domain of magic.

"Something's not right. This is taking too much to handle. We need to finish this quickly."

Feeling the situation within the domain was completely out of his control, Xiao Gui frowned deeply.

His magical power surged and violently poured into his spiritual form.

In an instant, the spiritual form of the Thunderfire Flood Dragon suddenly surged, relentlessly bombarding the Thunder Flood Dragon.

Zhou Ling also frantically stimulated his internal essence and blood, injecting it into the Thunder Dragon's Blood Essence.

Although the consumption was huge, the absorption of lightning and fire attributes through the talent also replenished a lot of essence and blood.

As the essence blood was injected, the Thunder Dragon's body swelled up, its power shaking the heavens!

"Boom!"

Above the arena, two enormous dragon bodies, each tens of feet long, continuously bombarded each other.

It was like thunder roaring from the heavens, or like meteorites colliding from outer space.

The two clashed fiercely, and lightning flashed across the sky.

It formed a dark, oppressive domain of thunder, making one look down upon what was happening within.

A stalemate ensued.

"This kid actually managed to fight Xiao Gui to this extent! He's truly a rare genius, one that the Dao Alliance hasn't seen in a thousand years!"

Looking at the intertwined lightning in the sky, Dean Shen was greatly amazed.

Zhou Ling's performance was not just amazing, it was downright shocking.

"With such strength, he can indeed be considered the number one person below the Nascent Soul stage!"

Lin Zhishou also praised it.

"It's truly unimaginable who could have taught such a disciple."

"Patriarch Wang, your Wang family has really struck gold this time!"

"With such combat power, once he enters the Nascent Soul stage, wouldn't he be able to fight against the Divine Transformation stage?"

Other judges also chimed in with their comments.

Although everyone present was either a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator or a Deity Transformation cultivator, everyone knew the truth.

At Zhou Ling's age, their strength was far inferior to his.

"Spiritual Transformation!"

As his internal magical power rapidly depleted, Xiao Gui's expression grew increasingly grim, as his magical power was already less than 70% of its original strength.

Even if we win this match against Zhou Ling, we'll have little chance of winning the next one.

With his level of cultivation, the greater the consumption, the slower the recovery.

The previous two battles had already taken a toll on them, and only with the help of elixirs could they recover quickly.

However, the recovery effect will only get worse and worse.

At this moment, he couldn't care less about the energy expenditure and directly activated the secret technique of Spiritual Transformation to enhance the power of his Spiritual Aspect and Dharma Domain.

He then began to perform hand seals.

He spat out a mouthful of semen. This semen looked just like ordinary semen.

But upon closer inspection, it seemed that the essence blood contained spiritual patterns.

The essence of blood surged and instantly condensed into the shape of a blood-fire-thunder dragon.

Then, a surge of pure magical power burst forth from Xiao Gui's body and quickly flowed into the Blood Qi Thunderfire Flood Dragon.

With a thunderous roar, the Thunderfire Flood Dragon instantly transformed into a blood-red aura and merged into the Dharma Domain.

Within the domain, lightning surged and roared, like bolts of heavenly thunder.

What's most terrifying is that, as the blood-blooded dragon merged in, the thunder and fire energy within the domain instantly converged towards the spiritual form of the thunder and fire dragon.

This caused the aura of the Thunderfire Flood Dragon to rise continuously.

In the blink of an eye, he reached the mid-stage of the fourth rank.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Ling frowned, and four spiritual flames surged out from his body at the same time.

A surge of spiritual flames enveloped him.

At this moment, Zhou Ling used his spiritual flames, partly for protection.

At the same time, it also uses the talent of connecting the Spirit Flame with the [Five Elements Thunder Gang] to quickly absorb the power of the rules in the Spirit Realm.

Under the bombardment of the surging lightning and fire domain, the spiritual flames surged rapidly.

In just half a breath, the amount of rule power absorbed by each spiritual flame increased significantly.

In addition to absorbing the power of the rules within the domain, it also blocked the powerful pressure from the opposing domain.

"Xiao Gui's spirit form actually succeeded in communicating with the spirit; its power is not low!"

"But it seems that it was suppressed by Zhou Ling's spiritual flames and could not unleash its full combat power!"

The judges watching also exclaimed in surprise.

The combat abilities of Spirit Realm cultivators are top-notch.

Especially after fusing with a powerful spiritual entity, their strength will have a clear advantage among cultivators of the same level.

However, the fusion and refinement of spiritual forms is quite difficult, so there are fewer spiritual form cultivators than other cultivators.

Especially high-level demonic beast spirit forms, which are even more difficult to fuse with.

Only the Heaven-Mending Academy has such resources.

Although Xiao Gui had almost fully unleashed the power of the Spiritual Domain, and Zhou Ling seemed to be on the verge of being defeated, he managed to maintain his strength.

The Thunder Dragon Blood Soul appeared to flicker, but it soon unleashed formidable combat power.

At this moment, on the competition stage, the enhanced Thunderfire Flood Dragon opened its giant mouth and spewed out a huge ball of lightning, which fiercely bombarded the Thunder Flood Dragon.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Ling's essence and blood surged, violently pouring into the Thunder Dragon's body.

At this point, the more than a thousand drops of essence blood in his body had been completely consumed.

Thunder Dragon's body crackled with lightning, its power fully unleashed, creating a surging thunderous domain.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Ling activated five spiritual flames and simultaneously bombarded the Thunderfire Dragon.

Through [Intermediate Observation] and [Intermediate Analysis], Zhou Ling thoroughly understood his opponent's spiritual domain after this battle.

Zhou Ling was waiting for the opponent to use Spirit Transformation, so that the power of the rules within the domain would be at its weakest, so that he could break through it in one fell swoop.

If Xiao Gui does not use the Spirit Transformation to greatly enhance the Thunderfire Flood Dragon's Spirit Transformation with the power of the Dharma Domain.

Zhou Ling could only resort to a war of attrition; breaking through this domain would not be easy.

However, after the opponent used the Spirit Transformation, the power of the Thunderfire Flood Dragon Spirit Transformation seemed to increase dramatically.

However, with the help of the [demonic beast pressure], he was still able to block the opponent's spiritual pressure.

And this is the moment to break through the domain of law.

Of course, this task will be entrusted to Wu Dao Ling Yan.

The five spiritual flames, like five fiery dragons, roared and crashed into the Thunderfire Domain.

It swept through the domain in an instant, like a devastating blow.

As the domain dissipated, the once imposing spiritual form of the thunder and fire dragon also slowly crumbled.

Xiao Gui also appeared on the competition stage.

However, his expression was slightly pale at the moment.

"How could you possibly break through my Spiritual Domain?"

Xiao Gui looked incredulous.

They originally thought that the Spirit Transformation would be enough to defeat Zhou Ling.

Surprisingly, the opposite happened; the increased power of the spiritual form failed to defeat the Thunder Dragon.

Instead, Zhou Ling seized the opportunity to unleash his spiritual flames, shattering the domain.

How did this guy do it?
Xiao Gui was still a little confused at this moment.

Even though he could clearly sense that Zhou Ling was only a peak Foundation Establishment cultivator, neither his Law Domain nor his Spiritual Aspect could exert sufficient suppression on him.

It’s really incredible!
If he hadn't experienced it firsthand, he would have thought he was facing a Nascent Soul cultivator.

The Thunder Dragon Blood Soul was in no way inferior to his spiritual form, while the suppression of the Law Domain was completely blocked by the Spirit Flame.

"This kid's combination of Thunder Dragon Blood Essence and Spirit Flame is too exquisite!"

"No one else has such talent! To be able to break through Xiao Gui's Spiritual Domain like this!"

"Perhaps only he could do that!"

"Such ingenious tactics, how could they come from a teenager!"

Dean Shen and the others were quite surprised.

With their keen eyesight, they could see the changes in the Dharma Domain.

Zhou Ling actually seized the fleeting opportunity.

"I lost!"

Xiao Gui took a deep breath and cupped his hands in greeting to Zhou Ling.

At this moment, he completely regarded Zhou Ling as a fellow cultivator of the same generation.

Zhou Ling's strength has been fully recognized by him.

"Instructor Xiao, you flatter me!"

Zhou Ling cupped his hands in greeting.

His voice sounded a little hoarse.

At the same time, with the consumption of a large amount of essence and blood in his body, his originally strong body also appeared to have become a bit thinner.

Afterwards, the two did not say much. They each took out their pills and swallowed them, then looked at the battle scene not far away.

"Zhou Ling actually defeated a Nascent Soul cultivator!"

"I can't believe my eyes! A Foundation Establishment cultivator defeating a Nascent Soul cultivator? How is that possible?!"

"He's not at the Foundation Establishment stage anymore. Zhou Ling's Thunder Dragon Blood Soul is at the fourth level, and he's at the third level of Body Refinement, so he still has considerable strength!"

In the audience, people gasped in disbelief.

Zhou Ling, however, was focused on another competition.

Dean Gong was seen unleashing his sword domain in a fierce battle against the Cloud Roc Spirit that the opponent had conjured.

As his gaze swept across the area, Zhou Ling breathed a sigh of relief; Dean Gong was still in control.

"Boom!"

The Azure Wood Sword Domain in the air, like a rain of swords covering the sky, continuously suppressed the Cloud Roc Spirit Form, which was dozens of feet tall.

Yunpeng roared and flapped its giant wings.

As the giant wings roared, swirling clouds gathered.

A violent vortex of cloud energy blasted towards the sword domain, scattering the Azure Wood Sword Energy.

Its figure also broke free from the sword domain's shroud.

But immediately, more sword energy bombarded from all directions, surrounding Yunpeng Lingxiang once again.

As a result, the area around Yunpeng quickly became the Azure Wood Sword Domain.

Layer upon layer of sword energy surged forth, unstoppable, determined to destroy it.

Yunpeng launched a fierce attack, but to no avail.

His entire body gradually dimmed.

"Dean Gong seems to be having an easy time!"

Zhou Ling smiled to himself.

(End of this chapter)