Wind Fox

The greatest use of the Blood Beast Body Forging Art was that it could draw upon the power of Demonic Beast blood essence to improve one of a cultivator's basic abilities.

These abilities were related to the attributes of the Demonic Beast blood essence required...

For the current Mo Tang, what he needed most was attack power and speed.

Lightning Attribute Dou Qi itself possessed exceptional attack power and explosive force, but it lacked endurance.

Therefore, Mo Tang planned to fuse with the blood essence of a Wind Attribute Demonic Beast to improve his agility and long-distance sprinting speed...

With wind and lightning combined, this was absolutely the most suitable choice for Mo Tang!

Having made his decision, Mo Tang took his money and headed straight for Commercial Street.

It was still the same shop where he had sold Magic Cores for the first time. If Mo Tang remembered correctly, the shopkeeper seemed to be a man named Huang He...

In just over a year, Mo Tang had gone from being an ordinary Mo Clan branch member to the captain of the Mo Clan's Second-Class Guard Squad.

Seeing him again, Huang He could not help but sigh at the unpredictability of life.

Forcing a somewhat fawning smile onto his face, Huang He eagerly led Mo Tang into the shop.

Upon hearing that Mo Tang needed the blood essence of a first-tier Wind Attribute Demonic Beast, he did not hesitate and immediately had someone bring over a half-foot-tall white porcelain bottle.

"Hehe, this contains the blood essence of a Wind Attribute Demonic Beast, a Wind Fox, which we just acquired. Please see whether it suits your liking, sir," Huang He said with a beaming smile.

"Wind Fox?" Mo Tang raised a brow, his interest piqued.

Although Wind Foxes were not particularly powerful among first-tier Demonic Beasts, they were incredibly fast. Sometimes, even powerful Dou Shi could only watch them disappear into the distance...

Catching one of these little creatures required no small amount of effort.

Wasn't this exactly the kind of Demonic Beast he needed?

"Then, Uncle Huang, how much is this blood essence?" Mo Tang asked directly.

"Oh my! Sir, please do not call me that. You're giving this old man far too much honor!"

Huang He waved his hands as he chuckled. "This thing is not worth much to begin with. If you need it, just take it..."

Mo Tang shook his head slightly. "How could that do? Uncle Huang, you should name a price. Otherwise, I'll go buy it somewhere else..."

Huang He had not been wrong. Demonic Beast blood essence could not compare to Magic Cores in price at all; it truly was not worth much.

That was why Mo Tang did not want to take something like this for free...

After all, his debts of gratitude were not so cheap!

Though deeply disappointed, Huang He still gave Mo Tang a very low price.

After bringing the Wind Fox blood essence home, Mo Tang once again shut himself in his room. Then, with a trace of excitement, he opened the system.

"Upgrading the Blood Beast Body Forging Art by one level requires 4 Low-grade Energy Points. Upgrade?"

"Yes/No"

"Yes!"

"First-tier Demonic Beast blood essence detected. Upgrade conditions met. Blood Beast Body Forging Art upgraded successfully! 4 Low-grade Energy Points consumed!"

A burst of excruciating pain struck him, nearly sending the completely unprepared Mo Tang straight to the afterlife...

By the time he recovered, his entire body was soaked as though he had just been pulled from water. Strands of purplish-red blood scabs clung to his skin as well.

Frowning, he hurriedly had Xiao Hong prepare bathwater and gave himself a thorough wash.

During this time, Mo Tang also checked his attributes.

Name: Mo Tang
Level: Seven-Star Fighter ↑

Cultivation Method: Thunderous Qi (Grand Completion) ↑

Fighting Skills:

Triple Blade Qi (Perfection) ↑

Blood Beast Body Forging Art · Wind (First Layer) ↑

Available Energy Points: 10 (Low-grade)

His eyes lit up. Mo Tang hurriedly climbed out of the water, quickly changed into a set of clothes, then grabbed his blade and headed into the courtyard.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

After practicing a set of blade techniques, Mo Tang discovered that his speed had increased by a full seventy percent!

Perhaps because his speed had not been particularly fast before, the improvement this time felt especially great.

But regardless, as his speed increased greatly, his combat power rose enormously as well.

In truth, for ordinary Mo Clan disciples, the most difficult part of cultivating the Blood Beast Body Forging Art was not obtaining Demonic Beast blood essence, but completely refining that blood essence into their bodies.

This process was extremely long. Some even required several years, or more than a decade!

Moreover, the higher the grade of the Demonic Beast blood essence, the longer it took... It was somewhat like the cultivation setup of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill in martial arts novels.

But with Mo Tang's system, time was no longer an issue at all...

As long as he had Energy Points and Demonic Beast blood essence, he could complete the cultivation in a single second!

With his increased strength, coupled with Mo Cheng's secret support from behind the scenes, Mo Tang's status in the Guard Squad naturally rose with the tide.

In merely three months, he became one of the four Deputy Commanders among the clan's Second-Class Guards.

He was also the only Deputy Commander among them who was not yet a Dou Shi...

Of the original four Deputy Commanders, Mo Li, who had been the most likely to inherit the Commander position left vacant after Mo Ran's death, was directly transferred by the clan head to serve as a personal guard for his daughter, Mo Linglin.

That position was far higher than that of a Guard Commander.

Thus, once one of the remaining three became Commander, two Deputy Commander positions would be left vacant.

Originally, Mo Cheng had directly appointed Mo Tang to one of those positions. However, because some were unconvinced, the clan specially held a competition for the matter.

Among those participating were four Dou Shi and seven Nine-star Fighters. Mo Tang was the only Seven-Star Fighter.

Originally, quite a few members of the Mo Clan had been preparing to watch Mo Tang make a fool of himself.

After all, they were all Mo Clan branch members and all had come from low-ranking guards. Why could he rise in such a short time to a position they could only look up to?

Even Mo Lan, the Mo Clan head, suspected that this little fellow had offended the Great Elder somewhere and was being deliberately targeted by that petty old man...

But when Mo Tang forcefully defeated two one-star Dou Shi and one two-star Dou Shi with his strength, everyone present erupted in an uproar!

"A Seven-Star Fighter defeated a Dou Shi? You've got to be kidding! Even Brother couldn't do that... Unless it were Sister Nalan..."

Second Miss of the Mo Clan Mo Linglin, who had come specifically to watch the excitement, opened her little mouth in shock, looking adorably incredulous.

As for Mo Linglin, she was indeed very beautiful.

She wore a fitted red outfit that perfectly accentuated her exquisite figure.

A tiny crystal ornament hung from her smooth forehead. As it swayed gently, it added a touch of liveliness to her face, which carried a hint of spoiled arrogance.

However, her parents had spoiled this girl too much, giving her a willful temperament that was not particularly likable.

Originally, she believed her own brother was the Mo Clan's greatest genius. And because they were of similar age, she also knew Nalan Yanran, the disciple of the Misty Cloud Sect Master.

Other than those two, no one else of their generation had ever caught the eye of Second Miss of the Mo Clan.

But after seeing Mo Tang fight today, the little pride in her heart was instantly shattered!