Shi Jun’s aura was very strange, surrounded by black python shadows.

The desolate beast battle body evolved from cultivating the Five Pillars Skill is nothing more than five types: Fire Ape, Earth Bear, Kui Ox, Flying Tiger, Flying Bird, or a combination of the five into an indefinable form.

As for the transformation of the clone, that belongs to a special mutation, not within the normal range of changes.

It’s similar to forcibly altering the beast pattern based on the body’s inherent foundation.

At this moment, Shi Jun also displayed a similar mutation.

Shi Jun practiced the Profound Tiger True Refining Technique, which aligns with the Gold Element’s Dao of Slaughter, and now transformed into a four-zhang-sized Winged Blood Tiger.

In the Great Wilderness, there’s the Black Tortoise Auspicious Beast with a snake coiled around a turtle appearance, but never seen a python coiled around a tiger.

Moreover, this python shadow appeared slightly ethereal, emitting a hiss akin to a mournful wail.

Shen Can sensed the changes within Shi Jun’s body and discovered the python shadow was sprouting from his flesh and blood, merging with his being, radiating a wave similar to divine sense.

Subsequently, Shi Jun returned to his original state, attempting to continuously transform into a desolate beast battle body.

Each time he transformed into the battle body, the python shadow would fly out accordingly.

When returning to human form, the python shadow would retract into his body, hiding deep within his flesh, so even he struggled to consciously control it, unable to summon it freely.

"Stay by my side for now, I want to study this carefully."

Shen Can placed great importance on the circumstances surrounding Shi Jun.

The primary goal within the clan moving forward is to overcome the cultivation method of desolate beast battle bodies to mitigate the shortage of Divine Treasure Realm Martial Artists within the clan.

As for the Divine Treasure Realm, Shen Can felt that in the short term, only Uncle Huo Shan could be promoted, while others, even if cultivating the battle body, would likely be restricted to this point without extraordinary fortune.

For future Divine Treasure Realm warriors to emerge, the next generation must be awaited.

Currently, the clan already has five young martial artists who have condensed the Power of Seventy-Two Desolations, with dozens more pursuing it.

Once sufficient clan members with the foundation of the Power of Seventy-Two Desolations are born, more Divine Treasures can appear.

For these young individuals to grow to the level of advancing to the Divine Treasure Realm, it might take as little as twenty years or as long as fifty years.

During these years, Celestial Vein Ninth Layer desolate beast warriors are needed to support the tribe.

This batch of clan members cultivating the desolate beast battle bodies are also the first batch of experiments, and if they can ’perfectly’ control themselves,

they can be taught to the second generation for cultivation.

With the desolate beast battle body plus a foundation exceeding the Power of Seventy-Two Desolations, the success rate of advancing to Divine Treasure will increase significantly.

The reason Shen Can insists on desolate beast battle bodies is justified.

Based on his own promotion and the previously acquired cultivation experience of the Giant Wood Bo Division’s Divine Treasure,

the difficulty for the Human Race to advance to the Divine Treasure is not about the method but about the inherent issue.

The Human Race watches desolate beast cultivation but lacks the desolate beast physique, causing Celestial Veins to be unable to withstand the onslaught of violent energy during advancement.

Before impacting the Divine Treasure, one’s Celestial Vein couldn’t hold up.

Once the Celestial Vein snaps, how can one advance further?

Learning the desolate beast’s techniques without the strength of a desolate beast physique.

Looking at the external power cultivation techniques of Giant Wood, Earth Armor, and other Bo Divisions, it seems they all rely on luck for advancement.

But if scrutinized, which one isn’t stabilizing their Celestial Vein and Divine Treasure with external power?

If the Celestial Vein is as firm as iron and stone, and the body stable, then any Sealing Secret Technique can directly charge through.

But in reality, such overbearing advances depend entirely on luck.

Moreover, cultivation isn’t about taking a crooked path, vigorously stacking body and Celestial Vein strength, which instead results in a supremely strong body unable to penetrate the Divine Treasure with blood energy.

True cultivation should be about balance; a strong enough body can support the Celestial Vein against violent blood energy, and both need to find a critical point.

Using suitable blood energy at the right level, break open the stable Dantian, opening up the Divine Treasure.

Of course, this is the ideal state, even Shen Can experienced slight damage in his Celestial Vein and Divine Treasure due to the Five Elements Mutual Generation Cycle.

But as long as it’s controlled within an manageable range, it’s considered a success.

Not like the current martial artists advancing to Divine Treasure, requiring years to recover from the lingering injuries post-breakthrough.

Shen Can also needs to deduce a more ’perfect’ Jinzang Technique within these thirty to fifty years.

The method he previously used was the Five Elements Cycle, naturally self-sufficient.

Except for him, no one else in the clan has cultivated all Five Elements, so the suitable Jinzang Technique for the clan requires further deduction and practice.

Using desolate beast battle bodies to compensate for physical deficiencies, using Divine Storage Technique to assist the blood energy’s operation to open the Divine Treasure, while finding adequate resources as cultivation provisions.

...

A month later.

Outside the Blood Bone Purgatory.

A roar erupted, attracting the attention of clan members undergoing trials here.

Shi Jun let out a roar.

Then, his whole body surging with blood energy transformed into a Blood Tiger, with a crimson python shadow quickly emerging on his back.

The Blood Python raised a roar toward the sky, then spat out several blood-colored light clusters.

Each light cluster rapidly transformed into a Xiaoyang Blood Shadow.

"Charge!" 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Immediately, several figures rushed out from among the gathered people, attacking Shi Jun.

Several Xiaoyang Blood Shadows met the approaching assailants, slicing down with blades, the Xiaoyang Blood Shadow was cleaved into blood mist, but in a flicker, it transformed back into blood shadow.

Shi Jun stood still, while the Blood Python continuously swayed its body, controlling the Xiaoyang Blood Shadows to keep striking the attacking clan members.