Chapter 9: The Unyielding Buzhou Mountain

In the world of primordial chaos, time is the least valuable. In the blink of an eye, another century had passed.

On this day, in the second layer of the Ganyang Wind and Thunder Fire, a cloud, spanning a thousand miles and tinged with green and purple, suddenly began to vibrate violently.

The vibration originated from a certain point at the center of the cloud and quickly spread to every remote corner of the cloud, making the entire cloud appear particularly ethereal due to the speed of the vibration.

At the same time, the air around the cloud produced a buzzing sound due to the intense vibration, and the occasional eerie howls from within the cloud reached their peak, filled with an indescribable mournfulness!

This vibration and eerie howling lasted for about a minute.

After a minute, the cloud, which occupied a thousand-mile radius and had solidified into a tangible form, exploded with a "boom," scattering into countless Ganyang winds, thunder, and fire, spreading in all directions and creating a visible ripple, whether in space or air. In the blink of an eye, it dispersed over a ten-thousand-mile radius, unable to coalesce again, gradually dissipating.

Amidst this fierce explosion, a Pixiu, nine meters long, six meters tall, with a dragon's head, a horse's body, and a scaled foot, stood motionless amidst the violent Ganyang wind, thunder, and fire. Its grayish-white fur shimmered, and its eyes sparkled, exuding an intimidating aura. No matter how terrifying the impact, it felt like a gentle breeze, causing no damage whatsoever!

"After a hundred years of hard work, I've only improved by a factor of two... It's really too slow..." Luo Fan thought, somewhat detached.

During this entire century, he had almost traversed every place within a ten-thousand-mile radius, visiting each cloud-shaped life form composed of Ganyang wind, thunder, and fire in order of size, from smallest to largest. He continuously used the terrifying destructive power of these clouds, which had only simple instincts, to temper his body.

In the second layer of the Ganyang Wind and Thunder Fire, the smaller the cloud, the weaker the internal pressure. Given the limited strength of his body, he had to follow this order to gradually enhance his body, achieving the effect of tempering.

In just this short century, he had visited at least seven to eight thousand clouds with simple instincts!

Each cloud he passed through provided a small or large improvement to his physical body, allowing him to withstand the tempering of larger clouds. The larger the cloud, the more significant the effect on his physical body!

By today, his physical body had doubled in strength compared to a century ago. In other words, it had reached about eight times its strength before entering the Ganyang Wind and Thunder Fire layer!

This improvement could be described as astonishing—before entering the Ganyang Wind and Thunder Fire layer, Luo Fan's physical strength had already reached an incredible level, surpassing even the toughest steel.

With an eightfold increase on that basis, his current physical strength was likely not far from that of diamond.

However, while his physical progress was so evident, the mysterious energy within his body, which he hoped to improve, had not advanced at all...

It remained the same as before...

This made him realize that what he urgently needed was not the tempering of his body but the opportunity to break through his cultivation technique! In other words, he needed to find the summit of Buzhou Mountain as soon as possible, observe it, and understand the aura it emitted to find the opportunity to break through his cultivation technique!

Suddenly, a strange feeling arose in Luo Fan's heart.

"This breakthrough is very important... very important... Once I break through, I can change my fate..." Under this feeling, Luo Fan's eyes were somewhat dazed as he muttered.

"Huh? What was I just saying?!" Luo Fan's eyes cleared, and he looked around in surprise.

"Could this be what they call a premonition..." He naturally saw no abnormal situation, making him even more uncertain.

However, regardless of his doubts, his determination to find the summit of Buzhou Mountain and quickly grasp the opportunity to break through became even stronger!

Having made up his mind, he had no more interest in continuing to temper his body here. He activated the mysterious energy within his body to protect himself, took a step, and rose several miles into the air without hesitation, directly piercing through the barrier above the second layer of the Ganyang Wind and Thunder Fire—specifically, the barrier at the two-thousand-mile mark, which separated the upper and lower layers.

From below, the barrier appeared dark blue, and his line of sight could not penetrate it to see what lay above.

The summit of Buzhou Mountain was clearly not in the second layer of the Ganyang Wind and Thunder Fire, so he could not see it while his body was in the second layer.

Originally, he thought he would need to cross several more layers to see the summit of Buzhou Mountain. However, to his surprise, after crossing the barrier above the second layer, the first thing he saw was a mountain standing tall, piercing the sky, and supporting the black, star-studded sky, a thousand miles away!

At the same time, the vast and indomitable aura that had pervaded the world suddenly increased a hundredfold!

In an instant, his entire mind entered a mysterious, indescribable state.

Indeed, just by breaking through the second layer, he had already seen the summit of Buzhou Mountain!

Beneath his feet was an incredibly vast, deep blue plane, like an ocean.

A thousand miles ahead, Buzhou Mountain rose from the sea, supporting the black, star-studded sky above.

The summit of Buzhou Mountain was not a simple conical shape but a very peculiar, slightly tilted flat surface.

The entire sky seemed to press down on Buzhou Mountain in a way that was unimaginably profound, making anyone standing there feel as if the entire sky was pressing down on them,震撼心神.

The moment Luo Fan saw Buzhou Mountain, his entire mind was completely immersed in that indescribable state, his eyes fixed on the summit of Buzhou Mountain. All the shapes, information, and auras of Buzhou Mountain he had seen before rapidly intertwined and combined in his mind.

His body gradually began to emit the same vast and indomitable aura, which was a hundred times stronger than the one below.

From the moment he entered this place until his body began to emit that vast and indomitable aura, only two or three breaths had passed.

In just those two or three breaths, dozens of clouds, ranging from deep purple, deep red, to deep green, the largest being a hundred meters in size and the smallest less than a meter, emitting eerie cackles, had already rushed to his side!

These clouds were composed of various Ganyang winds, thunder, and fire, combined in a special way, and possessed more complex instincts than the clouds below.

Judging by the aura they emitted, any one of these clouds, even the smallest one-meter cloud, was stronger than the largest cloud in the second layer below.

If these dozens of clouds were to attack, even with his formidable body, Luo Fan would not be able to withstand them and would likely perish in an instant.

Just as the dozens of cackling clouds were about to engulf Luo Fan, a vast and indomitable aura erupted from his body!

Under this vast and indomitable aura, the dozens of clouds suddenly paused, as if frozen, stopping just a hair's breadth away from Luo Fan...

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