Gathering the Companion Amethyst Source

"It should be around here. The First and Second-tier Magical Beasts nearby have almost vanished. Only Third and Fourth-tier Magical Beasts occasionally patrol their territories, but they don't dare come even slightly close to this mountain. That means what's inside is, if not a Sixth Tier Magical Beast, at least Fifth-tier."

"There are also some purple flame flowers and purple agates outside the mountain. They should be signs that an Amethyst Winged Lion has been active here for years, drawing the mountains, rivers, plants, and trees under its influence. That means the beast king inside is very likely the Amethyst Winged Lion King we're looking for!"

"Little Husband, be careful. Once I lure it away, you find your chance. If there's any danger at all, don't force yourself. Call for help and escape at once. I'll come kill my way over to save you immediately."

When it was safe, you pinned me beneath you; when it was dangerous, I'll shield you behind me! When it's time to stand firm, push through hard, but when you shouldn't persist, don't ever force it!

After they reached the depths of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Yun Yun's expression grew serious. She was no longer full of the tender, charming allure she had shown in the mountain stream. Instead, an Empress-like bearing faintly flowed from her.

Yun Yun instructed Su Qingyun, her eyes full of worry for him.

Outside the beast king's main lair, though no Magical Beast dared invade, a few kilometers away, there seemed to be two Fourth-tier Magical Beasts that had submitted to the Amethyst Winged Lion King keeping watch. Any other Magical Beasts that came close would be driven away by their roars.

Su Qingyun gave Yun Yun a reassuring look. Instead, he even reminded Yun Yun of a few things, telling her to be careful of the beast king's attacks, especially its sealing skill.

On the Dou Qi Continent, some High-Tier Magical Beasts possessed a strange Magical Beast secret art. Among these secret arts, what troubled practitioners the most was none other than sealing skills. This was a restrictive Dou Technique unleashed by consuming the beast's own energy and the energy crystals a Magical Beast had accumulated over many years. Once struck, one's Dou Qi would be sealed and one's realm suppressed.

Yun Yun did not know that Su Qingyun specifically warned her to be careful because he knew the Amethyst Winged Lion King could use the Amethyst Seal.

She thought it was because the two of them had been so deeply affectionate these days that they had fallen into the river of love, and that he was caring about her. Her heart felt sweet, so she took Su Qingyun's words to heart.

Only then did Yun Yun reluctantly soar into the air.

Her graceful figure swept over the ridge and landed outside the mountain where the beast king's lair was. Holding a longsword that emitted a Green Glow, she slashed into the Beast King Cave with one strike, rushed in, and swiftly killed the Third and Fourth-tier Magical Beasts inside. Then she said coldly, "Amethyst Winged Lion King, come out and meet me!"

Hearing the disturbance and attack at the cave entrance, several Fourth-tier Magical Beasts deep inside the cave were the first to appear, only to be effortlessly cut down beneath Yun Yun's sword.

Compared to when she had first come to the Magical Beast Mountain Range, her realm had risen by more than one star. Now she even felt that the bottleneck of five stars had loosened a little. Not only had her strength improved greatly, her confidence had also surged.

Spring wind brushed the face, making one smile; in a single day, she drained her Lover dry.

Very soon, an extremely fierce-looking lion-headed Magical Beast appeared, flapping its wings and flying into the void.

This lion-headed Magical Beast was enormous, a full seven or eight meters long. The surface of its body was covered in a layer of purple crystal. Under the sunlight, it shone brilliantly in every direction.

It had a pair of blood-red beast eyes glinting with strange purple light, a huge mouth filled with fangs, and atop its lion head was a fiery-red spiral horn. Clusters of purple flames coiled and swirled around the tip of the horn. On the sides of its huge lion body grew a pair of purple wings. As the purple wings flapped, clusters of pale purple flame swept out like flamethrowers, blotting out the sky and covering the earth.

The huge Magical Beast stood in the void, and an invisible pressure descended from the sky, making Su Qingyun, hidden among the towering ancient trees, feel a wave of pressure as well.

"That's the Amethyst Winged Lion King? With my current strength, I still feel a little fearful facing this pressure. As expected of a Sixth Tier Magical Beast comparable to a Dou Huang."

The peerless young man hid beneath the dense shade of the ancient forest. He watched Yun Yun and the Amethyst Winged Lion King, and sure enough, it did not take long before a disagreement broke out and they began to fight.

Su Qingyun had experienced battle with a Dou Huang for several days, the two of them going back and forth, you squeezing and me thrusting, the fighting rather intense.

But this was the first time Su Qingyun had personally experienced a Dou Huang-level battle. It truly was fierce.

Above the sky, a huge green tornado storm, with a wave of Yun Yun's hand, carried a violent whistling of wind as it frantically swept toward the Amethyst Winged Lion King.

Wherever the storm passed, the forest below was completely torn into a stretch of yellow earth, and Magical Beasts scrambled over one another to flee from within.

The Amethyst Winged Lion King shook its wings, and towering pillars of Purple Flame two or three zhang high surged from its body as well, then crashed toward the storm.

Wave after wave of powerful gale and flame currents swept over, blowing Su Qingyun's hair up.

And just as Yun Yun attracted the Amethyst Winged Lion King's attention and lured it away, Su Qingyun seized the chance.

Stepping with Carefree Steps, he skillfully wove between the towering trees and swiftly rushed in from the side of the cave entrance.

Inside the Beast King Cave's entrance, there were quite a few corpses of Third and Fourth-tier Magical Beasts, all killed by Yun Yun.

Su Qingyun thought for a moment, then took out a green dagger named the Green Dagger.

This was something Yun Yun had given him in advance for self-defense. It was said to have been forged from rare Green Meteorite Steel, able to cut iron like mud. It truly was not an empty boast.

It quickly cut open the tough-skinned, thick-fleshed, sturdy corpses of Third-tier Magical Beasts. Even the bodies of Fourth-tier Magical Beasts, as resilient as steel, could not withstand the edge of the Green Dagger.

And sure enough, from the corpses of these Magical Beasts, Su Qingyun harvested several Third and Fourth-tier Magical Beast cores.

Magical Beast cores of this level were worth quite a fortune. A single one was worth over a hundred thousand gold coins.

However, Su Qingyun naturally did not collect these Magical Beast cores for gold coins. Though gold coins were useful in Wu Tan City and even throughout the Jia Ma Empire, once one reached the Dou Huang Realm or above, the use of gold coins diminished greatly.

In the end, gold coins were still products of the mortal world. They could only be used to trade for low and mid-level items, while treasures useful to those above the Dou Huang Realm were not something gold coins could measure.

Though they were not for gold coins, these Magical Beast cores were indispensable materials for refining pills, and Su Qingyun would need them sooner or later.

After taking Magical Beast cores for a few minutes, Su Qingyun also felt that it was about enough. After all, this was the Amethyst Winged Lion King's lair, and it was not wise to stay long. He still needed to go obtain the Purple Spirit Crystal as soon as possible.

In truth, within the Amethyst Winged Lion King's lair, the Purple Spirit Crystal was not the most precious thing. Instead, it was the Amethyst Companion Source and the Little Amethyst Winged Lion, which were placed separately in two branch caves.

The Amethyst Companion Source needed to be smashed open with Purple Spirit Crystal, so Su Qingyun used his perception ability and obtained several pieces of Purple Spirit Crystal from one of the caves.

Finally, he reached the central area inside the cave. A pile of purple crystals over a meter tall had accumulated into a square platform. On the purple crystal platform, a purple spherical object the size of a head quietly rested there.

And the rich purple liquid inside this purple sphere was the Companion Amethyst Source.

Without the slightest hesitation, Su Qingyun grabbed the Purple Spirit Crystal and smashed it over.

At the lower side of the purple sphere, a hole about half a centimeter wide broke open. The purple liquid inside seemed to have been connected to a pipe, flowing out along the opening.

With lightning speed, Su Qingyun took several white jade bottles from the Storage Ring that flickered like a nebula and began gathering this amethyst source.

This Storage Ring had naturally also been given to him by Yun Yun.

Who knew which night of passion it had been, but when Yun Yun had grabbed Su Qingyun's hand, preparing to experience something wondrous, she saw that Su Qingyun did not even have a Storage Ring on his hand. So she took out this dazzling Storage Ring and even renamed it: Yun.

In Yun Yun's words, they were a match made by heaven, born to wait for each other. Otherwise, why would even their names match so perfectly? Qingyun, Yun Yun.

So she chose the character Yun. This was the bond that belonged to the two of them, a token of their love.

The process of gathering the amethyst source went very smoothly. Su Qingyun gathered a full eighteen bottles.

One had to know that in the original story, Xiao Yan had only gathered six bottles, because he had made no preparations, and most of it had been lost.

However, when Su Qingyun turned around, he heard only a low growl. A Little Amethyst Winged Lion was glaring at him furiously: Bad person! Stealing my food!