Earth Rank Intermediate Volcano Skill

Under the cover of night, Feng Wu used his finely crafted Slaughter Knife to slice open the belly of a Flame Wolf leaping over his head, carving a huge gash into it.

Its bloody organs were about to spill out. Before it could fully die, Feng Wu swept out with Absorption Palm and Cloud Dispelling Palm at the same time, crushing the Flame Wolf's internal organs into pulp through the wound!

His luck that afternoon had been fairly good. This was the third magical beast Feng Wu had encountered all afternoon.

Feng Wu had killed two of them. The other, a Cloud Leopard, was relatively troublesome among Rank 1 Soul Beasts. Feng Wu could not catch up to it and let it escape, while gaining a large gash on his shoulder in the process.

Even so, Feng Wu had gained fifteen experience points that afternoon. Added to his morning gains, he had earned twenty-five experience points in a single day.

That was far faster than slaughtering ordinary cattle and sheep at the Slaughter Shop. One day's progress equaled the growth of the previous two days.

Little Er Ha had also mooched off Feng Wu's experience all afternoon. After it was doubled, it had increased by more than three points.

Though that was not much, it had completely surpassed the bounds of an ordinary beast and reached the level of a Fierce Beast.

The most obvious change was that Er Ha had grown larger. The little puppy that had once been only as long as a forearm was now nearly knee-high.

Though it was still not very big due to its age.

According to the system interface, however, it was undeniably a Fierce Beast now.

Its newly grown sharp steel-like teeth and claws were not to be underestimated. Furthermore, Little Er Ha's Dou Qi was already sufficient to support two uses of its innate skill, Space Jump.

It had also awakened a second innate talent, a hidden passive ability. When Little Er Ha swung its claws, it could add a measure of Wind Attribute and spatial cutting power.

The amount was small, but its power was considerable.

Feng Wu had tested it on the hide of a ranked Soul Beast, and it could easily rip through it.

The experience Little Er Ha needed to advance from a Fierce Beast to a ranked beast had also increased dramatically, requiring a full 100 experience points.

That would be extremely difficult to accumulate. If all that experience had to be shared from Feng Wu himself, Feng Wu would need to gain at least 500 experience points.

"Looks like I'll need you to join the fights from now on. You need to learn how to fight and grow on your own too," Feng Wu said to Little Er Ha as he lay in their temporary campsite.

He had already tested it. Little Er Ha was actually extremely strong. Though it was not large, it now had slightly more strength than an ordinary Martial Artist at Dou Qi Level Eight.

Another half month passed. In the forest, Feng Wu used Absorption Palm with his left hand to forcibly drag away an Azure Wolf attacking Er Ha from behind. No matter how the Azure Wolf struggled and clawed at the ground, it could not stop itself from being pulled over.

Faint crimson blood could be seen seeping from beneath the Azure Wolf's tail. If Feng Wu had not been afraid of pulling out something filthy from behind, he estimated that he could have torn the Azure Wolf to death alive.

His right hand unleashed a fierce blast of Cloud Dispelling Palm, stirring up a gale that shoved another Azure Wolf attempting to ambush him from the side into a nearby tree trunk.

When it fell back down, the Azure Wolf could only let out weak, despondent howls.

Copper head, iron tail, weak waist!

It was clearly not going to survive.

"Little Er Ha, hurry up and finish yours so we can go home." Feng Wu smashed the spine of the Azure Wolf he had dragged over with Absorption Palm using a Mountain Splitting Palm hand chop, then shouted toward the distance.

As though responding to Feng Wu, two howls rang out. A figure half the height of a man suddenly sprang from a distant bush, a massive wolf head clamped in its jaws!

Who else could it be, judging by those features, but Little Er Ha?

"Awroo!" Before Little Er Ha could share the joy of avenging itself with Feng Wu, a cocoon of interwoven silver and green light suddenly appeared around it, enveloping its body.

"This is? It's evolving!" Feng Wu pulled up the system panel and looked. Sure enough, its experience had reached the maximum value of (103/100).

After living outside Wu Tan City for a full half month, Little Er Ha had finally evolved.

The evolution did not take long. But once the light cocoon dispersed, Little Er Ha, which had shot up to half a man's height over these past days, took another leap forward! It now stood as tall as Feng Wu's chest!

Standing upright, it was well over 1.5 meters tall, with a body length of more than 2.5 meters. Calling it a Tibetan Mastiff would not be an exaggeration!

Looking at its fangs gleaming with blue-silver light and its blade-like claws, Feng Wu did not doubt in the slightest that Little Er Ha's combat strength might now rival his own.

After all, while it was still a Fierce Beast and nearing the end of its growth with its experience almost full, Little Er Ha had already been able to face some Rank 1 Magical Beasts alone.

If Feng Wu had not already trained both Absorption Palm and Cloud Dispelling Palm to the Major Completion Realm, upgraded Absorption Palm to a Profound Rank Intermediate Dou Technique, and raised Cloud Dispelling Palm to a Profound Rank High Grade Dou Technique, it would be hard to say whether he could defeat the ranked Little Er Ha now.

Not only had Feng Wu's Absorption Palm reached the Major Completion Realm, it had also become a Profound Rank Intermediate Dou Technique. It now truly possessed the ability to draw out blood!

The fact that Feng Wu had nearly pulled the intestines of that Rank 1 Azure Wolf out through its anus earlier was proof enough!

Cloud Dispelling Palm had advanced to a Profound Rank High Grade Dou Technique and reached the Major Completion Realm in proficiency. Even without being used alongside Absorption Palm, it possessed formidable power!

Combined together, Feng Wu could now use one hand to crush an ordinary defensive Rank 1 Soul Beast directly into blood, flesh, mud, and pulp!

Its power was absolutely no weaker than an Earth Rank Dou Technique!

Over the past half month, Feng Wu and Little Er Ha had dealt with more than seventy magical beasts of varying sizes, excluding ordinary Fierce Beasts and wild animals, obtaining thirteen Magic Crystals of various attributes.

They had gained nearly 500 experience points in total!

A total of 250 experience points had been spent advancing and upgrading the two Dou Techniques, Absorption Palm and Cloud Dispelling Palm.

There were still more than 200 left. Together with the 472 experience points Feng Wu had previously saved up.

That came to more than 700 in total, slightly more than the experience required to upgrade the Volcano Skill cultivation method.

Without hesitation, Feng Wu directly poured his experience points into the cultivation method.

Sharpening the knife would not delay the chopping of wood. Spending 700 extra experience points now would save him 7,000, even 70,000, in the future!

In any case, Feng Wu could not possibly obtain a better cultivation method in Wu Tan City, so there was nothing to regret.

As Feng Wu poured in his experience, the experience in his bar rapidly drained away like water from an opened sluice.

After having more than seven times the maximum capacity of his current level's experience bar extracted in succession, Feng Wu felt a wave of weakness strike him, so intense that he nearly fainted.

Had Little Er Ha not nudged him from behind with its head, he would have collapsed to the ground.

"Whew—!" It took Feng Wu quite a while to recover. He supported his waist as he rose to his feet.

At that moment, Feng Wu had less than twenty experience points left in his experience bar. He had even dropped from the peak state of Dou Qi Level Nine.

He was incomparably weak.

But what excited Feng Wu was that the Volcano Skill scroll before him was shining brilliantly!

The four words Earth Rank Low Grade Cultivation Method that had originally been on the surface of the scroll had now changed into four new ink-black words: Earth Rank Intermediate!

Earth Rank Intermediate cultivation method, Volcano Skill!

Dou Zhe 0 Star—Dou Zhe 1 Star, experience required to level up: 110 points!

Compared to Earth Rank Low Grade, it saved another full 20 points. Later on, the difference in experience between each level might be 200! 2,000! 20,000!