Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard” Chapter 570: Zhou Hao Breaks Through
Previously on Steady Cultivation: Starting With the Perk “Work Hard, Rest Hard”...
The news of Zhan Tian being hunted by Yuanhao quickly spread far and wide.
While many felt outraged at Yuanhao for picking on someone weaker, even greater shock came from Zhan Tian's astonishing leap in power.
How long had it been? Zhan Tian had surged to Six-Order Dao Venerable, leaving all onlookers dumbfounded.
Soon enough, folks remembered the Seven Stars Dominator's immense riches, and suddenly it all clicked!
With the Seven Stars Dominator tossing out a hundred million Chaos Jade Marrows just to create a battlefield, handing out heaps to disciples seemed totally logical. Cultivating with Chaos Jade Marrow naturally sped up progress without seeming too outrageous.
Outsiders remained clueless that Zhan Tian had not just grasped six Dao Principles but merged them seamlessly; if they knew, the astonishment would have been off the charts.
This shifted everyone's focus onto the Seven Stars Dominator's disciples, with plenty plotting mischief. Why hunt treasures blindly when snatching Chaos Jade Marrow from those disciples looked faster and simpler?
Right then,
Zhou Hao roamed the Wood Domain in search of treasures.
Along the way, he encountered cultivators who eyed him with odd looks.Zhou Hao grew a tad confused.
Reaching a treasure site in the Wood Domain where something valuable was on the verge of surfacing, he paused to await its emergence.
In the meantime, several cultivators showed up to observe the treasure's appearance.
Yet Zhou Hao quickly picked up that the gazes of those gathered cultivators had slowly moved from the treasure onto him.
As Zhou Hao sensed trouble brewing, nine Dao Venerables had already encircled him.
Zhou Hao knitted his brows, scanning the nine.
“Fellow cultivators, what is the meaning of this?”
“Heh heh, you're one of the Seven Stars Dominator's disciples, right?” one sneered with a grin.
Zhou Hao arched a brow and admitted, “Correct. I'm Zhou Hao, disciple of the Seven Stars Dominator. What do you seek?”
“We won't demand much. Our insights have stalled lately, and we desperately need ten thousand Chaos Jade Marrows to break through. Could Your Highness Zhou Hao spare some?” the Dao Venerable chuckled slyly.
Zhou Hao glanced at the rest. “Is that your plan as well?”
He unleashed his aura, surging to ninth-order might.
Still, the nine stood firm.
Three released overwhelming auras, hitting eleventh-order and even twelfth-order peaks!
Not even the feeblest among them dipped below ninth-order!
These nine packed serious high-tier punch!
Zhou Hao caught a whiff of the setup, his face darkening. “You've been tailing me!”
Exactly—these nine weren't drawn by the treasure; they'd shadowed him all along!
He was their mark.
Zhou Hao steadied his features. “Apologies, I possess Chaos Jade Marrow, but it's not free. Trade it is, at a fair rate!”
“Refuse, and don't fault us for rudeness!”
The nine lunged together. A mighty formation exploded into being, trapping Zhou Hao dead center.
Dozens of Dao Principles intertwined masterfully into a flawless unity, condensing a miniature Little Chaos realm!
Zhou Hao's link to the outer world snapped mostly shut; external Dao Principles vanished from his senses.
Once the formation locked in, the nine Dao Venerables wasted no time, barreling toward Zhou Hao!
Innumerable strikes meshed into a web, engulfing him instantly.
Zhou Hao's visage turned solemn, yet panic stayed absent.
As blows rained down, a disc materialized overhead!
This disc split into twelve sections; nine glowed brightly, three lingered dark.
The flood of attacks hammered Zhou Hao, only to get devoured by the disc!
Like an insatiable void, the disc gulped endless assault energy and Dao Principle might!
For a full hour, the nine hammered away relentlessly, but Zhou Hao stood unyielding like a rock, though his face soured more by the minute.
The nine shared looks, unsurprised.
As a Dominator's disciple, Zhou Hao boasting top-tier defensive treasures was expected.
They trusted their united assault would wear him down eventually!
The onslaught pressed on, pinning Zhou Hao in spot, escape impossible.
Zhou Hao's plight wasn't hopeless though—his gear was top-notch, holding off the nine for ages. Plus, he abruptly noticed three among them wielded Dao Principles matching exactly the three Divine Beast Dao Principles he still needed to grasp.
He originally intended to seek out three Dao Principles rich in concentration for meticulous study, yet to his surprise, he discovered three cultivators who had comprehended the three Divine Beast Dao Principles right here.
Upon taking a closer look, the three faint panels on the disc were slowly beginning to brighten at a glacial pace.
Zhou Hao restrained his aura carefully, preventing any oddity from being noticed by these individuals.
At the same time, he covertly activated Chaos Jade Marrow to hasten his grasp of the three Divine Beast Dao Principles.
This chance appeared only once in a thousand years.
His Divine Beast Compass possessed the ability to draw in and eternally claim the Dao Principle origins from others, while he himself could directly comprehend these three Divine Beast Dao Principles. Merging both techniques, the panels' glow surged forward at an astonishing velocity.
He truly possessed an abundance of Chaos Jade Marrow; his master had bestowed upon him a full million pieces directly, reserved for later when his Little Chaos underwent evolution.
However, with such a scarce opportunity at hand, he felt no reluctance to expend some Chaos Jade Marrow to aid his current comprehension.
The nine Dao Venerables unleashed their attacks relentlessly, displaying absolutely no intention of pausing!
“Your Highness Zhou Hao, we don’t want a fight to the death with you. We don’t need much—ten thousand pieces of Chaos Jade Marrow and we’ll leave immediately!”
The twelfth-order Dao Venerable declared.
Zhou Hao’s eyes narrowed. He gazed at him and questioned, “Are you Lei Bu Dao Venerable of the Splendor Dao Court?”
The twelfth-order Dao Venerable kept his expression steady, though inwardly he was shocked. “Heh heh, Your Highness Zhou Hao, my identity is not important. I hope Your Highness considers carefully. We will not hold back.”
In that instant, one cultivator’s face twisted. “My Dao Principle origin is being devoured!”
“Same here!”
“I feel it too!”
These three outbursts caused Lei Bu Dao Venerable to furrow his brow.
“Is it serious?” Lei Bu asked.
“It’s only one Dao Principle that’s affected!”
“Same here!”
“Likewise!”
Lei Bu’s frown deepened, and in a flash, he recalled the gap on the disc hovering above Zhou Hao’s head from moments before.
Could it be...
Lei Bu swiftly pinpointed the issue and commanded, “Those three, stop using those three Dao Principles to attack!”
“All right!”
In fact, they had already been considering the same thing.
Yet their response arrived a split second too late—Zhou Hao had already employed Chaos Jade Marrow to swiftly comprehend their three Divine Beast Dao Principles.
