Chapter 210 Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes and Reverse Scale 6400 (Two Chapters Combined, Seeking Monthly Tickets~)

What Su Zhou wanted to cultivate was naturally a divine ability like the Golden-Winged Great Peng, which allowed him to switch to a beastly form even after his human form's head was blown off, ensuring his survival.

When Garuda was hit in the head by Bai Canglang's extraordinary sniper shot, Su Zhou had activated the pentagram to strengthen his soul and entered bullet time. He clearly saw how the bullet shattered the girl's head, turning the brain matter and blood inside into a mess. Logically speaking, this should have been a guaranteed kill. At least, Su Zhou felt that if he were hit like that, he would be at least halfway to death.

As for why only halfway, it was because he hadn't figured out to what extent he needed to be killed to actually die. There was no one in this world who could beat him to that point yet.

But Garuda used a demon's true form, taking no damage and actually increasing in strength! Although he still beat her afterward, after her demon form was destroyed, the human form that reappeared had hardly any injuries. That recovery speed was truly amazing!

"That's basically like having several lives!"

So saying, Su Zhou took a bite of a pan tao (flat peach). His expression was serious, and his tone was solemn. "Although being long is a bit ugly... no, it's actually very beautiful, and it comes with several extra lives. Of course, I want to cultivate it!"

"You want to cultivate a true form?!"

Completely hearing the insincerity hidden in Su Zhou's words, Yala immediately felt heartbroken and slapped Su Zhou's face with her little tail. "You just want the life-saving ability of a true form! You're despicable!"

Su Zhou's tone was as astonished as if he had seen a spider walking on two legs or a crab crossing a zebra crossing head-on. "You don't want the life-saving ability of a true form?! You're castrated!"

Of course, besides wanting the life-saving ability of a true form, Su Zhou was also very concerned about the increase in combat power after transforming. The Golden-Winged Great Peng's spiritual power increased several times after returning to its true form, and its speed was close to the speed of sound. It would be a lie to say that Su Zhou wasn't envious. He wanted to "get one for myself" right then and there.

Moreover, the size of the demon spirit beasts was too large. They were already several meters tall at the Extraordinary Realm, which was still manageable. Su Zhou's human form could barely handle it, but if they reached the Commander Realm above Extraordinary, wouldn't they be tens or hundreds of meters tall? In the future, he might even encounter monsters as large as mountains, continents, or even stars.

The Panrong Undying Tree was an example. It occupied the land of an entire province, and its roots penetrated deep into the Earth's mantle. Attacking it with a human's size was simply too ticklish.

Even if Su Zhou's power was equally high and he could destroy a city with one blow, wouldn't it be tiring to trim the toenails of giant monsters every day?

If he also had a true form, he wouldn't need to bother so much. He could just crush them with his size. If he didn't get such a skill, he would really be letting down the undying blood in his body.

But soon, Yala told Su Zhou that the cultivation of a true form was not exclusive to demons.

"You don't think humans have it too?"

So saying, Yala clicked her tongue and wagged her tail. "You can call it 'Holy Visage', 'True Form', 'Dharma Image', 'Dharma Body', 'Legendary Body', or 'Mythological Form'... In different civilizations and different worlds, this type of cultivation has different names, but ultimately, it's a specialized combat form designed by transcendents for battle."

"In the ancient history of your world, this divine ability might have indeed been exclusive to various demon races. Even now, cultivators with bloodlines find it easier to cultivate than ordinary cultivators. But if you think only demons can transform, then in the future, when you see a black-haired human suddenly turning golden-haired with arcs of lightning flashing around them, or growing two more arms and becoming a four-armed giant, you'll definitely suffer a loss!"

Those who don't listen to the elders will suffer losses. Su Zhou could tell that Yala's words were sincere and deeply felt. There was no need to argue here.

However, although Su Zhou was strong, he had not yet reached the baseline strength to cultivate a "true form." At least, he had to reach the stage where his entire body was composed of extraordinary organs, which was the High-Level Extraordinary Realm, before he could begin to cultivate this divine ability.

After all, the most important thing about a true form was to use spiritual organs as a foundation to connect with the heavens and earth again and self-generate a combat form.

Su Zhou's current cultivation progress was "digestive organs," "eyes," "bone marrow," "internal meridians," "Thunder Swamp Heart," and the "Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes" that he might cultivate later. There was still some distance to go before his entire body was composed of extraordinary organs. For him, there were still "lungs," "spleen," "bones," "muscles," and finally, the "brain."

That being said, the transformation of the whole body into extraordinary organs does not require the cultivation of each organ. It is enough to maintain the internal circulation.

For example, the liver is indeed very important for ordinary people, as it can control human metabolism, store energy, detoxify circulation, and synthesize many important endocrine substances in the human body. However, for transcendents, the general meaning of metabolism and detoxification no longer requires the liver to do it. The only thing worth paying attention to is its ability to attract wood spiritual energy as a circulatory detoxification organ.

However, such a demand does not require special complete transformation, but rather the creation of a spiritual pool or furnace core to replace it.

The spleen is different. Even if many of its functions are meaningless to Su Zhou, it is the body's blood regulator, and it is paired with the Thunder Swamp Heart to regulate and control whether the thunder power in Su Zhou's body is restrained or bursts out. Su Zhou will cultivate it next—followed by the bones, lungs, and other organs.

After the body's circulatory framework is set up, other scattered organs and body tissues, such as skin, hair, and nails, will naturally transform... Of course, some inheritances will specifically cultivate these places. For example, the claws of flying birds and beasts have independent extraordinary cultivation methods, but humans do not need to do this.

"That's roughly the situation. The reason why I didn't tell you before is because your level hadn't reached it yet. Although your combat power is indeed very good and you can even defeat high-level extraordinary divine beasts, they have already completed their bodies, while you haven't."

Yala's tone rarely carried encouragement. When the realm arrived, she would naturally tell Su Zhou the cultivation method for the true form. After saying this, she shrank back into Su Zhou's hair.

"Understood. I can probably cultivate most of it before the end of the year. I estimate I can get it done before the Spring Festival."

Smiling with confidence, Su Zhou didn't think this was difficult at all. After all, with his talent, as long as he calmed down and cultivated, there would basically be no hurdles that could stop him.

What Su Zhou needed to think about was how to cultivate the special-grade extraordinary organ, "Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes," which he had obtained from the Divine Bird Peacock.

"The Peacock Plume is probably like human hair, but this thing is five-colored, and it even changes color with flowing light. It's fine for peacocks to have it, but me, a human..."

When he thought of the flowing, colorful spiritual light feathers and plumes that the Divine Bird Peacock displayed behind it during battle, Su Zhou felt a chill run down his spine. "But if I want to cultivate it, am I going to have to have a five-colored mullet? If I were a girl, I could at least say it was Mary Sue-ish, and long hair would be pretty, but I'm a guy. It's really too much..."

But after thinking about it, Su Zhou had a new idea. "Ultimately, peacocks show off their five-colored spiritual plumes because of their racial instincts. Why should I learn from peacocks? I can just store them in my body, or turn them into scales and stick them anywhere, right? If that doesn't work, I can just hide them in my hair and press them down with other hair. That's also a good method."

After resting, blowing the wind, and looking at the scenery for a while, Su Zhou left the Kunlun Secret Realm and returned to Earth.

On Earth, everything was peaceful. Most of the peripheral relic exploration staff didn't know what had happened inside the relic. At most, the movements of the outer troops were a bit large, but this wasn't anything strange. After all, if any monsters appeared in the relic, they would indeed need heavy firepower to suppress them.

When poor, use tactical maneuvers; when rich, blow it up. The Zheng Nation on Earth was naturally richer than rich, and it was common to bombard enemies wildly. Moreover, the number of avian spirit beasts in the Northwest Plateau was increasing, so they did need reinforcements.

And this was exactly the goal that Su Zhou himself and the Zheng Nation's officials wanted to achieve: to downplay his actions, hide the process and the existence of the other world. Not only was his strength already sufficient, so he didn't need to add to the limelight, but the current Zheng Nation also didn't need others to know about the Beast God Realm.

The students of the three major academies would stay here until around October 20th, and they would also conduct several team-based tentative explorations. After all, this was their future job. In the future, they would go to various relics countless times, and even explore other worlds. Although the Kunlun Secret Realm was no longer dangerous, the environment was very different from Earth, and it could serve as a rehearsal for exploring another world.

After inspecting the time-space gate in the sealed hall, the relevant personnel of the Dao Discipline Bureau stated that although it could be opened, it consumed a lot of time, energy, and resources. Considering that the Beast God Realm on the other side was not rich enough to warrant the Zheng Nation's attempt to open the gate, and considering that there were many powerful and dangerous divine beasts and spirit beasts on the other side, they suggested adding another layer of seal on top of the existing seal and only unlocking it when needed.

The relics left by the ancestors were already rich enough, so there was no need to buy the casket and return the pearl, eating what's in the bowl while looking at what's in the pot.

Su Zhou, as a professor, was theoretically required to continue leading the team for exploration and training, but it was not necessary. Both he and his team had performed well in this exploration operation. Further training would be like a picnic, so they were given the right to move freely. Whether they wanted to stay on Earth or explore the Kunlun Secret Realm, they could do so at will as long as they applied.

Su Zhou chose to condense the Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes in the Kunlun Secret Realm.

October 10, 2015, Kunlun Secret Realm, by the Yaochi Lake.

After official verification, Yaochi itself was a top-level non-attribute spirit gathering array. The stalactite-like mountain peaks collected the purest spiritual power in the entire secret realm and poured it into the spiritual power reserve pool, which was the small-world-level giant magic array in Yaochi.

The entire Yaochi was the power furnace of the Kunlun Secret Realm. The aerial palaces and cities that once flew in the sky were all powered by Yaochi.

Generally speaking, humans cannot directly use the lake water and energy crystals condensed in Yaochi, which are the jade liquid and spiritual jade marrow. This is like a person running to drink gasoline or eat combustible ice. The overly condensed spiritual power cannot be absorbed, but will disrupt the body's spiritual power circulation, causing great damage.

But Su Zhou was different—in the eyes of many researchers and professors, he had become a gluttonous incarnation in some sense. Not only could he directly drink Yaochi's jade liquid, but he could even chew up jade marrow with a hardness of 10, comparable to diamonds!

"Professor Su, can you do it again? I mean, let us record the data?"

By the Yaochi Lake, Su Zhou, with a dark face, held a bottle of Yaochi jade liquid in his hand. On the table in front of him was a neatly cut piece of jade marrow and several pan tao. Several professors of biology and energy were looking forward to surrounding him with various instruments, waiting for Su Zhou to open his mouth and eat.

If ordinary streamers couldn't have such a big battle, it would really be a bit like a mukbang streamer!

"I've already eaten several pieces. Are you guys done yet?!"

Although he knew that the other party really wanted to collect data on how he digested these energy crystals, and Su Zhou himself didn't mind eating a little more, after all, these two things actually tasted really good—being watched while eating gave him the feeling of being a giant panda.

Su Zhou wasn't unwilling to cooperate, but there wasn't much to study about his ability to digest spiritual power crystals, because his body itself was more solid than ordinary people's bodies. Even the spiritual power circulation in his body had the strength comparable to the foundation of a large array. Digesting those spiritual powers was naturally simple. Collecting it once was enough, and any more would be harassment from these professors.

Seeing that Su Zhou was indeed unwilling to eat anymore, the professors who had collected enough data left regretfully. Su Zhou sighed at this and looked at the jade marrow slices and pan tao in front of him, saying helplessly, "Hey, if I really went to be a mukbang streamer, I might really become popular!"

However, Su Zhou couldn't have imagined that after the revival of spiritual energy, the live broadcast industry would indeed usher in a second spring, because more and more capable people and strangers appeared, and the content was much more interesting.

Not to mention, there were really a lot more big eaters. Some streamers who were originally known for their large appetite actually awakened abilities related to digestion, and it was common for them to eat a cow a day.

As for pan tao... Although pan tao had been proven to have no legendary effect of prolonging life, its yield was surprisingly large, even larger than the popularization of spiritual plants that the Zheng Nation's officials were still studying—of course, this was because the pan tao forest was located on the shore of Yaochi, absorbing far more spiritual power than the outside world, but it also proved that the ancient immortals and gods did have unique skills in planting spiritual plants.

Not far from Su Zhou, a team led by the Agricultural Sage was trying to transplant a pan tao to the outside world, trying to cross it with ordinary peach trees to further expand the yield, and they were also trying to restore the methods used by the ancient immortals and gods to plant spiritual plants on a large scale.

Although it would reduce the efficacy, what the spiritual plant side lacked most now was yield.

If the research was really successful, it wouldn't be a joke that people would only give golden pan tao as gifts during the Spring Festival, and that official departments would use pan tao and yellow plum as year-end benefits would really happen.

"That's a good feeling."

Su Zhou only had one thought about this kind of thing: "But when will the Europa Union find the Golden Apple Tree? Although pan tao tastes good, I want to try something new."

After casually eating the pan tao jade marrow and jade liquid on the table, Su Zhou found a quiet clearing in the forest and began to cultivate the Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes.

Because this thing was related to the Devouring Demon Lord, this divine ability could not be explained to the officials for the time being. The reason Su Zhou reported was that he was preparing to spiritualize his bone, and the officials knew that Su Zhou had already completed his bone marrow, so they firmly believed it, but Sage Shu just sighed that the speed was really fast, but he didn't continue to care—after all, it was Su Zhou, and it was normal to be fast; they were already used to it.

The Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes themselves were special organs used by the Divine Bird Peacock to quickly convert spiritual power attributes, and they also had the effect of storing a large amount of spiritual power.

For peacocks, the more gorgeous they were, the better, but for Su Zhou, that was not necessary.

After conceiving for several days, he decided to slightly change the structure of the Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes, convert them into a scale-like shape, and cover them on his heart as a reverse scale-like existence.

The Thunder Swamp Heart was the spiritual power organ in Su Zhou's body that produced thunder-type spiritual power, but his essence was fire attribute, and there was a conversion process in the middle. Although this process was insignificant, the peacock was killed in a series of attacks because he grasped an insignificant flaw.

In the battle of transcendents, no danger and hidden dangers can be ignored.

And the Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes could solve this problem. With it directly connected to the Thunder Swamp Heart, Su Zhou's spiritual power conversion would no longer be stagnant, and he could even play with thunder in one hand and fire in the other, playing with thunder and fire in the sky, and even using thunder and fire to create chaos meteorites.

Changing the structure of the Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes was not too difficult. Under Yala's guidance, Su Zhou quickly covered them on his heart according to his physical condition, and then gathered spiritual power, and bit by bit transformed the ribs, flesh, and skin in this area, connecting them to other organs in his body.

Time passed little by little, and five-colored spiritual light began to flash on Su Zhou's chest, and there were faint flashes of thunder and lightning arcs.

As special-grade spiritual power organs, the Thunder Swamp Heart was directly connected to the Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes, so they naturally needed to run together and produce a reaction, and Su Zhou relied on his high-speed regeneration and tough body to always detect any problems in the first time, forcibly suppressing the subsequent reaction, and then healing the damage and trying another method of connection.

"It's very stable, no problem."

After being injured seven or eight times in a row, Su Zhou finally grasped the knack—there were five brand new blood vessels in his body, originating from the Five-Colored Spiritual Scales and extending to the other major spiritual power organs in his body.

If these seven or eight injuries were given to others to experiment, it would be at least seven or eight lives. In other words, Su Zhou had actually died seven or eight times. The price was severe, and rounding it up, he would probably need to eat a few pan tao to make up for the loss.

Regardless of these messy things, when the Five-Colored Spiritual Scales were connected to the other spiritual power organs in Su Zhou's body and began to exchange and connect spiritual energy with each other, Su Zhou felt that the spiritual power all over his body was boiling, as if a fire had been lit, and it began to quickly activate.

Originally, only his chest was glowing, but now, Su Zhou's whole body was rotating with five elements of spiritual light, and the surging spiritual power even caused his entire seated body to lift off the atmosphere and float slightly.

"So that's it, the Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes are not limited to the five elements of attributes, but only because peacocks are born with all five elements... This spiritual power organ is essentially for transcendents who hold multiple attributes to quickly switch their combat forms!"

"I understand!"

The Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes were completed!

At this moment, intense purple and blue flames suddenly lit up around Su Zhou, reflecting all areas within a radius of thirty meters with him as the center. The flames had no temperature, but everywhere they reflected, whether it was sand and soil or grass and leaves, was covered with layers of spiritual power patterns, emitting a faint light from itself, and it was strengthened to the extreme.

And Su Zhou turned his mind and retracted his spiritual power. Suddenly, all the things that had been strengthened before began to collapse, like ashes after being burned by fire—too explosive strengthening, like burning, exhausted the power inside these things, so after removing the strengthening power, like being burned to the end, they turned into dust.

This was his fire-type spiritual power—just releasing it without any attack was like a large-scale flame nova that would constantly burn enemies in this range.

And in the next instant, Su Zhou's mind moved slightly, the flames disappeared, and blue and blue arcs of lightning erupted again. A series of thunder and lightning arcs flickered, stringing together countless metal sands hidden in the dust, floating in mid-air, forming a hot and tight thunder net—and even Su Zhou himself felt that this switching speed was incredibly smooth and very comfortable.

Then, it was a hurricane.

Su Zhou used the power of the wind to activate the Storm Armor, and the whole person was like an armored human wrapped in a storm. This time, the power of the Storm Armor was greatly increased. After all, Su Zhou had only simulated the wind attribute with the power of the wind in the past, but in essence, he had not condensed the wind attribute spiritual power.

But now, he had it—so the storm was getting more and more violent, and even outside Su Zhou's Storm Armor, a second layer of spherical and spirally rotating wind shields was formed again! Although the defense of this wind shield was not high, it was more than enough to deflect arrows and bullets!

These three attributes were the three spiritual power attributes that Su Zhou used most often. He felt that he could also condense the three spiritual powers of earth, metal, and water, but he didn't have any cultivation methods to match these three spiritual powers, so he just roughly tried it out, condensing various different luster and different attributes of spiritual power in his hands. After confirming the effect of the Five-Colored Spiritual Scales, he stopped trying.

"Huh, my water-type spiritual power is surprisingly flexible to control, much smoother than metal and earth... That's right, I also have a water boost!"

Compared to the less used wind boost, Su Zhou almost forgot that he actually had a water boost in his body, and he was immediately happy: "In this way, I might be able to go to the official and ask for a water-type inheritance! Then, it would really be calling the wind and rain, a true dragon on earth!"

However, in this way, he was getting more and more like a certain Sea King—in addition to talking to fish, he could also control typhoons and floods.

At this time, Su Zhou felt that his strength had taken another big step.

Although the Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes were only converted into scales to protect the Thunder Swamp Heart, the effects it played could really be described as the reverse scales of the dragon. It could not only give Su Zhou the ability to attack with multiple attributes, but also allow Su Zhou to quickly gather spiritual power of other attributes, forcibly increasing one of them.

Just like the Divine Bird Peacock finally gave up manipulating the spiritual power of the water, gold, and earth systems and directly created a super-high-heat phoenix technique with a temperature of thousands, forcing Su Zhou to dodge continuously, it used the Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes to amplify the wood and fire attributes at that time.

Moreover, its existence also increased Su Zhou's spiritual power reserves to nearly a thousand cycles!

"The extraordinary first level is really not on the same level as the awakening level."

Although the Five-Colored Spiritual Plumes did not greatly improve his defense, Su Zhou was not short of defense. He restrained all his spiritual power back into his body, feeling the abundant spiritual power in his body, and couldn't help but sigh: "If I cultivate a true form and my strength doubles, then to what extent will I be strong?"

No one answered this question, and no answer was needed.

Soon, time flew by.

October 21, 2015.

As the time-space channel of the Kunlun Secret Realm became more stable, and the installation of various facilities entered the right track, the major academies and security bureaus and other institutions responsible for guarding began to gradually withdraw.

And the commendation order for Su Zhou's performance in this exploration process had also been issued.

The Zheng Nation's first ancient secret realm exploration, the Kunlun Secret Realm exploration operation, came to a successful end.

There are still updates, a little later, I am writing~

Seeking monthly tickets!

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