Gale Wings

The struck Gale Eagle gave Mo Tang a firsthand demonstration of what it meant to be "a bird with broken wings," plunging headfirst from the sky.

"Damn, it fell all the way to the bottom!"

Watching the Gale Eagle drop straight into the deep ravine, Mo Tang's mouth twitched. He could only carefully climb down along the cliff face to search for it...

Fortunately, although the bottom of the ravine was pitch-black, it was only a few hundred meters deep, so it was not difficult to find.

However, once he reached the bottom of the ravine, Mo Tang felt that the darkness around him was exceedingly eerie, sending chills down his back.

As the saying went: one should not linger in a place of trouble.

After finding the Gale Eagle's corpse, Mo Tang hurriedly scrambled back up the rock wall on both hands and feet.

Putting on a performance worthy of a "gecko man."

When he finally returned to the stone platform at the cave entrance, he immediately plunged into the cave.

For that brief moment just now, he had felt as though something behind him had been watching him...

The sensation had made his hair stand on end!

After entering the stone chamber, that feeling finally vanished...

It even made the bones before Mo Tang seem kind and welcoming.

He took out the Gale Eagle's corpse. Seeing the intensely corrosive black blood continuously flowing from its wound, Mo Tang knew its flesh was useless.

Before the poison could spread through the entire body, he first cut off the Gale Eagle's wings, then dug out its Magic Core. Everything else was discarded.

When Mo Tang had raised the Wind-Lightning Twin Wings to Minor Accomplishment earlier, the refining methods had already been deeply imprinted in his mind.

Unlike many other Flight Battle Skills, the Wind-Lightning Twin Wings could be crafted at different grades.

As mentioned before, the most perfect option for the Wind-Lightning Twin Wings was naturally to find a pair of Demonic Beast wings containing the Wind Lightning Attribute. A Flight Battle Skill refined from them could even allow a Dou Wang to attain the flight speed of a peak Dou Emperor.

The next best option was to use a pair of Wind Attribute wings and a pair of Lightning Attribute wings of equal grade to craft it together...

The completed Flight Battle Skill would then manifest as two pairs of wings, much like the four-winged angels from the Western myths of his previous life.

The lowest-grade option was to use Wind Attribute or Lightning Attribute wings alone. While it could still be successfully crafted, it would only ensure flight speed equivalent to that of the flying Demonic Beast used.

Though this was still beyond the reach of many people, it offered no special bonuses and was considerably less impressive.

What Mo Tang was about to make was this lowest-grade version.

Sitting cross-legged, Mo Tang glanced at the pair of azure wings before him. His hand seals shifted, and his eyes gradually closed.

A powerful surge of Dou Qi mixed with soul power slowly spread from his body. It eventually gathered together and carefully wound around the wings.

"Screech!"

Just as Mo Tang's Dou Qi and soul power completely enveloped the pair of wings, a sharp eagle cry suddenly rang out within his soul.

"Mmgh...!"

Mo Tang, his eyes tightly shut, let out a muffled groan. Two streams of bright red blood flowed from his nostrils, while beads of cold sweat began to seep from his forehead.

This Gale Eagle was, after all, a Fourth-Order Magical Beast, comparable to a Dou Spirit level Strong individual.

Mo Tang, however, was only a six-star Dou Master. Even if he was a Transmigrator and had been born with a powerful soul...

He was not an alchemist, nor did he possess any methods specifically for cultivating the soul. Thus, at times like this, he still appeared somewhat weak.

Still, these were merely the Gale Eagle's wings. Even if some remnants remained, they could not truly cause a Dou Shi any serious accident...

After suffering only a small setback, Mo Tang still forcibly suppressed the wings.

Time slowly passed. An hour later, Mo Tang's tightly closed eyes slowly opened. A gleam flashed through his dark eyes before swiftly fading.

Mo Tang slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, and a trace of delight flickered in his eyes.

"I didn't expect refining these wings would even give my Dou Qi a slight increase..."

Of course, the increase was very limited. Compared to the vast sea of Dou Qi within his body now, it was nothing at all.

His gaze slowly turned toward the azure wings floating before him. After the earlier refinement, they seemed even more translucent, with an azure glow radiating around them.

Since these were for his own use, Mo Tang did not need to go through the trouble of turning the wings into a scroll...

Of course, even if he wanted to make them into a scroll, he could not do it.

Using Dou Qi to guide the azure wings into his hands, a peculiar force instantly invaded Mo Tang's consciousness through his arms.

However, after the previous refinement, the Gale Eagle's residual soul could no longer harm Mo Tang at all. It collapsed at the first touch...

Controlling the Dou Qi within his body, he slowly circulated it along the path described on the scroll.

A moment later, the Dou Qi flowed to his arms and gradually entered his palms...

The instant the Dou Qi appeared in his palms, the azure wings above them suddenly shone brilliantly. The azure and silver colors grew increasingly intense, eventually turning into two tiny azure-silver streaks that shot into Mo Tang's palms like lightning.

After entering Mo Tang's body, the azure-silver lights swiftly circulated through his meridians...

When they reached the meridians along Mo Tang's spine, they abruptly stopped. Then, turning around, they forcibly tore out two extremely tiny branch meridians.

The two branch meridians extended from the main channels and only gradually stopped once they reached his back.

Outside, Mo Tang, who had still been staring blankly at the vanished eagle wings, suddenly let out a miserable scream. Sweat immediately poured down his forehead. His fists clenched tightly as he panted heavily and cursed hoarsely, "Damn it! It hurts this much? Why wasn't there any warning beforehand?!"

His body curled up on the ground as Mo Tang bit down hard on his lip.

Traces of blood spread through his mouth. After holding on for a while, Mo Tang finally could not endure the agonizing pain of his meridians being torn apart and promptly passed out.

After an unknown amount of time, Mo Tang finally regained consciousness.

Although stabbing pains still occasionally ran through his body, he was much better overall.

Grinning, Mo Tang touched the altered area around his shoulders and back, only to find that it felt as though he were touching feathers.

He controlled the Dou Qi within his body and guided it through the two tiny branch meridians into his shoulder and back area.

In an instant, amid a faint azure radiance, a pair of almost tangible azure wings appeared behind Mo Tang. Spread open, they were two or three meters wide.

Curiously looking at the eagle wings marked with azure patterns, Mo Tang controlled them and gave them a slight flap...

A faint buoyant force appeared beneath him, and as the wings flapped, Mo Tang's feet slowly rose from the ground...