Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard”

The other group was precisely the people from the Taihao Holy Hall.

After trying, they discovered they couldn’t damage the giant stone treasure, so they began circling around it.

Zhou Hao and the others had long since concealed themselves, not wanting to be discovered by this group.

However, things did not go as planned.

Someone exclaimed in alarm, “Something’s wrong here! The number of falling gemstones is extremely low, it looks like someone has already cleaned this place! Someone else discovered this spot!”

The leading cultivator’s gaze sharpened. He immediately opened the eye in his brow, and a divine light shot out, scanning the surrounding stone walls, canyon, and caves.

Soon, Zhou Hao and his few hidden companions were forced into visibility by this divine light.

The eight of them were forced to appear, confronting the nine people opposite them.

“Eliminate them!” the opposing leader immediately said.

“Kill!” Lin Feng also shouted.

Both sides only faced off for a moment before immediately launching into battle.

Meeting on a narrow path, with treasure right before their eyes, for the sake of the Supreme Treasure, they had to fight for it with their lives.

Zhou Hao engaged an opponent. The moment they clashed, he estimated that his opponent had actually reached the level of an Eight-Order Fused Dao Venerable!

One whole tier higher than him!

A terrifying attack slammed into his defenses, causing Zhou Hao’s face to pale.

“Heh, just Seven-Order? Prepare to die!” the opposing cultivator sneered coldly, immediately erupting with his full power to attack.

Zhou Hao was beaten back repeatedly, the Dao Principle Origin Essence power within his body being consumed in massive quantities!

“Damn it, I’m being suppressed!” Zhou Hao inwardly cursed his misfortune.

He glanced at his other senior and junior brothers. They were also fighting extremely arduously. Especially Lin Feng, fighting two people alone, was being suppressed even more severely!

He hadn’t expected this group to be so strong!

“I must find a way to achieve a breakthrough right here on the battlefield!” Zhou Hao rapidly pondered in his heart.

He looked inward into the depths of his consciousness. There, he could see a pearl spinning rapidly. The pearl was divided into twelve equal parts, and each section was engraved with a type of Divine Beast Dao Principle.

Seven of them were already lit up: Mysterious Snake, Golden Tiger, Shadow Rat, Fan Ox, Lu Horse, Eternal Goat, and Devouring Dog. These seven were essentially just alternative names for seven types of Dao Principles.

Zhou Hao immediately took out seventeen treasures. Using the most wasteful method possible, he began consuming these treasures. Strands of Time Dao Principle were refined from these treasures and then absorbed by the mysterious pearl.

The Divine Beast Dao Principle representing “Chen Dragon” was rapidly being lit up.

The Chen Dragon Dao Principle was, in fact, the Time Dao Principle.

Zhou Hao’s treasure could directly absorb the essence of other treasures, thereby allowing him to directly master Divine Beast Dao Principles. Unfortunately, this consumption was extremely wasteful. Zhou Hao had been reluctant to use it before, but now, with the situation critical, he couldn’t afford to care about that anymore!

With the help of the treasures, the mysteries of the Time Dao Principle were grasped by him one by one. While continuously fending off the enemy’s attacks, he was also secretly cultivating in the background!

It could be said this was practically cheating!

Zhou Hao’s ability to rapidly break through to the Dao Venerable Realm also relied on this pearl. This was the reliance that allowed him to advance so quickly all along!

At a certain moment.

The Time Dao Principle was completely mastered by Zhou Hao!

Above the Treasure Star, the Time Dao Principle itself trembled, celebrating the fact that someone had managed to grasp the Time Dao Principle.

Zhou Hao’s opponent’s expression darkened, but he didn’t panic. Merely mastering a single Dao Principle couldn’t lead to fused Dao Principles. The boost to combat power was extremely limited.

However, he soon discovered something was off. The power of the Dao Principles Zhou Hao was unleashing instantly surged by several dozen times at the very least!

The situation reversed in an instant. Zhou Hao went from being the suppressed party to suddenly becoming the suppressing party.

“Impossible! How did you complete the Eight-Order fusion in an instant?!” the opponent said incredulously.

Zhou Hao gave a light smile. His pearl’s function was powerful; it could instantly help him fuse a portion of Dao Principles. Even though he had only just entered the Eight-Order fusion level, his strength still skyrocketed immediately!

Just moments ago, he had been fighting across realms and was merely suppressed. Now, fighting on the same level, his opponent was no match at all.

In that moment, this cultivator was trapped. He could only grit his teeth and continue fighting Zhou Hao. The interior of this canyon was like a cage; movement inside was extremely slow. Now that the battle had started, escaping was impossible. They could only fight to the bitter end!

He could only hope his teammates could quickly finish off their own enemies and come help him out of this predicament.

However, when he seized a moment to check on his teammates’ battles, he was horrified to discover that his teammates were all being suppressed in turn by Lin Feng and the others!

This situation filled him with extreme confusion and terror!

“How can this be? This group’s strength wasn’t that strong before! How did they all suddenly power up in the blink of an eye?!”

Zhou Hao seemed to see through his thoughts, sneering coldly, “You provoked someone you shouldn’t have! Go die!”

Zhou Hao immediately unleashed his secret technique. A swift Sword Light, condensed with eight types of Dao Principles, slashed viciously onto the enemy’s body.

The opponent’s body was split in two. A terrifying tearing force erupted at the wound, frantically destroying and devouring the enemy’s flesh, blood, True Spirit, and even his Origin Essence power!

The enemy rapidly restored his body, but Zhou Hao’s attacks came one after another, weakening him wave after wave.

At a certain moment, Lin Feng’s voice sounded in his ear.

“Senior Brother Zhou Hao, let me kill him!”

Zhou Hao turned in shock and saw that Lin Feng had already slain his own enemies and was swiftly rushing over in this direction.

Knowing that Lin Feng had mastered the Slaughter Dao Principle, Zhou Hao decisively knocked the enemy back towards Lin Feng’s direction.

“Perfect timing!”

Lin Feng laughed heartily. A giant sword slashed down fiercely onto that cultivator’s body. The Slaughter Dao Principle erupted. A terrifying killing force instantly severed all of the opponent’s vitality, including all of his True Spirit Incarnations, which were completely erased in that very instant!

When this cultivator was slain, a bloody light merged into Lin Feng’s body.

A bloody glint flashed in Lin Feng’s eyes. His aura surged upward yet again by a significant margin!

Then, without the slightest hesitation, he turned his sword towards the other enemies.

Watching this, Zhou Hao felt a secret thrill of fear, marveling at Lin Feng’s Slaughter Dao Principle. It could erase Dao Venerables, growing stronger with each kill. Such a killing machine was simply terrifying to the extreme.

Moreover, he was surprised by the direction of Lin Feng’s Dao Principle fusion. It seemed all Dao Principles were being fused into the Slaughter Dao Principle, which was different from the normal cultivation path.

While he was marveling, Lin Feng, with the help of the other senior and junior brothers, slew several more people. Lin Feng’s aura continuously rose. Finally, after slaying the last enemy, he broke through yet another level, reaching the terrifying level of a Nine-Order Fused Dao Venerable!

After defeating this group of enemies, the few of them immediately collected all the spoils of war.

Just as they began distributing the loot, an aura descended out of thin air, ruthlessly suppressing them.

The terrifying aura pressed them all flat against the ground. A flicker of terror flashed in Zhou Hao’s eyes. A colossus had descended! We’re finished!