Dou Wang

After returning to his small courtyard, Lin Yuan took out the scroll, a satisfied look appearing on his face.

"Abyss Concealment Method. Better to hide beneath the abyss than strive to stand above the peak? I like that idea."

Three days later, in Lin Yuan's courtyard.

As Lin Yuan completed the hand seals in the courtyard, Lin Yuan's Aura began to slide from Two-Star Great Dou Master, all the way down to Two-Star Dou Master. When it reached that point, Lin Yuan changed the seal in his hands, and his aura stopped falling, stabilizing.

Lin Yuan sensed his current cultivation and aura, a faint satisfied smile appearing on his face. "Completed. The Abyss Concealment Method is simpler than I thought. For outsiders, I'll display the strength of a Two-Star Dou Master for now.

"Next." Lin Yuan took a look at his storage ring, turned, and headed to the Enforcement Office. After choosing a mission to be carried out outside the academy, he left Jia Nan Academy.

Half a day later, Lin Yuan arrived at a remote valley in the Black Corner Region. This was a secluded, uninhabited valley he had discovered while training in the Black Corner Region with the Enforcement Team before. There were no Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures inside either, making it an extremely out-of-the-way place.

After using his Soul Power at full strength to probe the surroundings, Lin Yuan relaxed. He found a quiet spot, sat down cross-legged, adjusted his breathing for a moment, then took out the Life Devouring Pill.

"Life Devouring Pill, you will become the wings on my road to rise." Lin Yuan stared at the high-quality Life Devouring Pill in his hand for a moment, his eyes narrowing, then swallowed it in one gulp.

After the pill entered his mouth, it turned into a blood-colored ball of light, emitting a life-like rhythm, as if resonating with his heart. It drew on Lin Yuan's life while simultaneously releasing unimaginable energy. This energy wildly flooded into the azure Dou Crystal in Lin Yuan's body, very quickly filling it completely, forcing the Dou Crystal to transform step by step. Soon, it reached the limit of a Great Dou Master.

At the same time, a powerful surge of energy flowed out from the pill, continuously bursting apart and repairing Lin Yuan's physical body, making it sturdier and more powerful.

After some time, the azure rhombus-shaped Dou Crystal emitted a burst of light. Under the infusion of energy, the originally somewhat irregular Dou Crystal gradually became as round and smooth as a pearl.

And as the main body of the Dou Crystal became rounded, the edges covering its surroundings protruded outward, making the Dou Crystal look extremely like a sea urchin covered in long spikes. This was precisely the Dou Spirit's Sea Urchin Dou Crystal Body.

As if sensing the Sea Urchin Dou Crystal, even more powerful energy was continuously released from the Life Devouring Pill and surged toward the Sea Urchin Dou Crystal. As the energy flooded in, the nine "energy spikes" of the Sea Urchin Dou Crystal shrank one by one back into the Dou Crystal. After some time, all nine energy spikes finished retracting, and Lin Yuan advanced to Peak Dou Spirit.

As the Sea Urchin Dou Crystal transformed into a sphere, it then emitted a pulse. The energy that had previously entered Lin Yuan's body, continuously damaging and repairing his flesh, seemed to sense this pulse and released a similar rhythm. At a certain moment, the Dou Crystal abruptly turned into a pool of viscous liquid, and this liquid quickly flowed to every part of Lin Yuan's body. Whenever the liquid energy came into contact with his meridians, bones, flesh, and blood, one would discover that it merged with the energy that had previously repaired Lin Yuan's body and slowly fused into his body!

As that liquid energy fused in, Lin Yuan's body continuously transformed, and his entire body gradually filled with increasingly vast and powerful strength.

In an instant, a formidable aura erupted from Lin Yuan's body, an aura already beyond comparison with a Dou Spirit's, startling numerous birds in the surrounding area.

As Lin Yuan broke through to Dou Wang, the energy of the Life Devouring Pill was consumed at an even faster speed. At the same time, Lin Yuan's aura grew stronger and stronger. Half a quarter of an hour later, the energy of the Life Devouring Pill was completely consumed, and Lin Yuan's cultivation stabilized at the level of a Two-Star Dou Wang.

Only then did Lin Yuan, who had kept his eyes tightly shut while looking inward, open them. He raised his sleeve and wiped the crimson at the corner of his mouth. A thoughtful look appeared in Lin Yuan's eyes as he praised, "So this is what the process of breaking through to Dou Wang with the Life Devouring Pill is like. What a Life Devouring Pill. As expected of a Peak Seventh-Grade Pill."

Afterward, Lin Yuan rose, preparing to quickly relocate, lest someone sense the momentum of his breakthrough and come to investigate. As he stood, Lin Yuan felt a wave of dizziness, and his gaze also swept over a few gray-white strands in the long hair hanging by his ear.

"My vitality was taken by the Life Devouring Pill? Heh."

Not paying too much attention to the vitality he had lost, Lin Yuan circulated the Dou Qi within his body. An unprecedented sense of power filled his entire body.

"The power of a Dou Wang and a Great Dou Master are indeed worlds apart."

Circulating his Soul Power, Lin Yuan discovered that his Soul Power had also obtained considerable progress with the breakthrough in his cultivation. This discovery made the always steady Lin Yuan unable to help revealing a rare smile from the heart.

"My Soul Power also made such a huge breakthrough. This was worth it!"

Activating the Abyss Concealment Method, Lin Yuan quickly restrained his aura, then swiftly left from the ground.

At this time, far away in the Xiao Clan of Wu Tan City in the Jia Ma Empire, a shout filled with a youth's anger and determination also rang out from the mouth of the young man whose engagement had been annulled.

"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. Don't bully a poor young man!"

Half a month later, in a remote valley in the Black Corner Region, an azure streak of light flew swiftly through the sky, like an azure ribbon sweeping across the heavens. It was Lin Yuan, who was consolidating his cultivation and practicing Dou Techniques here.

After a while, the streak of light landed on the ground. As the Azure Fire Wings withdrew, Lin Yuan, dressed in azure robes, revealed a faint satisfied smile.

"Half a month. I can finally use the power of this Two-Star Dou Wang proficiently, Roaming Dragon Steps is also cultivated successfully, and this mission target has been dealt with too. I should bait a few more fish while I'm at it, then it'll be time to go back."

After thinking for a while, Lin Yuan used the Abyss Concealment Method to cover his cultivation to Three-Star Great Dou Master, skillfully took out a thin mask resembling human skin and put it on, replacing his handsome young face with that of a young man around twenty. He changed into a set of expensive robes, took out three storage rings and wore them on his hand, hung a proud smile at the corner of his mouth, and showed an arrogant expression of someone ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth.

It made his entire person look like someone with high cultivation, a strong background, and no shortage of money. At a glance, he resembled exactly the kind of family genius the various talents of the Black Corner Region loved most: young and successful, then ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth.

This was one of Lin Yuan's newly created aliases, Jin Shaoyu, the rich young master from the Golden Goose Empire, used for fishing.

Afterward, Lin Yuan, wearing this disguise, left the valley and headed toward some auction houses in the Black Corner Region, preparing to scatter the bait.

"I hope I can catch a few fat fish this time."

Lin Yuan, draped in the alias of a rich young master from a Golden Goose Empire clan, first attended a mid-to-low-end auction in the Black Corner Region. After confirming with his powerful Soul Power that no experts above Dou Wang were participating, he openly and carelessly won several items that Dou Spirit experts had been bidding on, deliberately stirring up the greed and killing intent of others.

He even loudly revealed his alias as a rich young master from the Golden Goose Empire at the auction, deepening the impression that he was a fat sheep: a wealthy clan young master who had achieved success at a young age and thus knew nothing of the immensity of heaven and earth.

When Lin Yuan left the auction hall, the hint of mockery and pity in the eyes of the auction house staff did not escape his gaze either.

"Very good. Looks like my performance this time wasn't bad. The fishing is about to succeed!"

After the auction ended, Lin Yuan quickly set out toward Peace Town, not giving others too much time to think and scheme, stirring the greed of those who wanted to rob and kill.

Finally, someone unable to control their greed blocked Lin Yuan's path, preparing to kill him and seize his goods.

"Kid, hand over your storage rings and I'll spare your life." A male Six-Star Dou Spirit erupted with powerful Dou Qi and spoke coldly to Lin Yuan.

Just then, another Six-Star Dou Spirit joined in as well, grinning viciously. "This prey has a share for me." Looking at Lin Yuan, he said mockingly, "Kid, this is the Black Corner Region. Little young master of the Golden Goose Empire, your clan's influence is useless here. Having money to buy things doesn't necessarily mean you'll live to use them. Killing geniuses like you who don't know the immensity of heaven and earth gives me the most pleasure. Haha."

Very quickly, another two groups joined in. One side was a Five-Star Dou Spirit, while the other side was a Three-Star Dou Spirit and a Four-Star Dou Spirit. They were precisely the two groups whose items Lin Yuan had outbid them for at the auction. Both groups expressed that they only wanted to take the items Lin Yuan had snatched from them during the auction.

After waiting a little and seeing that the few people before him had all begun arguing over how to divide him, the spoils of war, while no one else joined in, Lin Yuan thought to himself, There should be no more. Looks like this is the harvest this time. Then let's draw in the net!

The instant Lin Yuan decided to draw in the net, his Dou Qi erupted violently. The moment the aura of a Dou Wang burst forth, just as the few people were stunned by the unexpected Dou Wang pressure, Lin Yuan used his exceptional Dou Qi Control to simultaneously operate the Mysterious Tier High Level movement technique Roaming Dragon Steps and the Profound Tier Low Grade movement technique Instant Step. At the same time, his right hand instantly gathered Spiral Qi Force, and in an instant, he completed a sneak attack on one Six-Star Dou Spirit. That Six-Star Dou Spirit died on the spot.

The instant the sneak attack was completed, Lin Yuan condensed several Flame Bullets in his left hand and shot them rapidly at the remaining four. The four could only hastily circulate Dou Qi to defend.

And while firing the Flame Bullets, Lin Yuan followed the momentum and charged at extreme speed toward the other Six-Star Dou Spirit. The Dou Qi defense the other Six-Star Dou Spirit had hastily condensed collapsed instantly under Lin Yuan's long-planned, overwhelming attack of Flame Bullets plus Spiral Qi Force. He was pierced through in an instant by the Spiral Qi Force on Lin Yuan's hand chop and died immediately.

Lin Yuan used Roaming Dragon Steps to shed the force, and as he spun, he once again condensed Flame Bullets and released them toward the remaining three, forcing the three to maintain the fragile defenses they had hastily organized. However, the natural chasm between Dou Spirit and Dou Wang was difficult for most people to cross, let alone when they were facing Lin Yuan, who was extremely skilled in battle.

The three were also swiftly killed by Lin Yuan while maintaining their fragile defenses, through the piercing ability of Spiral Qi Force and the extreme speed of Roaming Dragon Steps.

This battle, from Lin Yuan making his move to the death of the five people, lasted no more than twenty breaths from start to finish.

After killing the five, Lin Yuan condensed five fire cones and controlled them to pierce through the five people's brains and hearts once more. Immediately afterward, he skillfully began collecting the spoils of war.

After collecting the spoils of war, Lin Yuan used Dou Qi flames to quickly burn the five corpses to ash, then rapidly left the scene and flew toward Jia Nan Academy.

After returning to Jia Nan Academy, Lin Yuan once again restrained his Dou Qi to the appearance of a Three-Star Great Dou Master, went to the Enforcement Team to turn in the mission, and then went to the Cultivation Method Pavilion to return "Spirit Flame Art" and "Roaming Dragon Steps." By the time he returned to his small courtyard, it was already night.

In the bedroom, Lin Yuan took out the spoils of war from this trip, seven storage rings in total. He took out the items from the seven storage rings and counted them. Lin Yuan could not help feeling satisfied with this harvest.

After counting, this harvest totaled around two million gold coins, more than ten Profound Tier cultivation methods and Dou Techniques, seven Fourth-Tier Magic Cores and fifteen Third-Tier Magic Cores, as well as quite a few medicinal herbs. Among them, the most valuable was a spirit fruit required for refining a Dou Spirit Pill.

"The biggest goal of this trip outside has already been completed. I also took the opportunity to gain the wealth of seven Dou Spirits through fishing. Once I digest these spoils of war and exchange them for the cultivation resources I need, the resources for my cultivation in the near future will be enough."

"As expected, accumulating resources through robbing robbers is fast."

After calming his emotions, Lin Yuan walked into the small courtyard. At this moment, a gentle breeze brushed across Lin Yuan's face. Lin Yuan raised his head and looked at the sky, gazing at the incomparably vast starry expanse. His inner heart, filled with all kinds of thoughts and calculations, also seemed to empty in an instant, and the depth in his eyes seemed to fade, becoming clear.

Lin Yuan spread his hands and closed his eyes, enjoying the breeze brushing his face at this moment and the vast starry sky. His mind continuously emptied as well, and the maturity between his handsome brows and eyes that did not match his age seemed to fade. He gently fell onto the lawn in the courtyard, quietly feeling the leisure and beauty of this moment.

A quarter of an hour later, Lin Yuan's eyes opened once more. His clear gaze once again became deep and distant, and the maturity between his brows and eyes also returned.

He sat cross-legged in place, repeating his day-after-day cultivation while thinking about the next step.

"It's time to go to the Inner Academy! But before that."