Hiding

"Flying Dou Technique?!!" Xiao Ming's pupils contracted.

Flying Dou Techniques were the rarest of all Dou Skills.

A Flying Dou Technique was a rather bizarre Secret Technique. It could allow a cultivator to extend two tiny secondary branches from the veins in their back. As long as those two branches extended outward, even if their strength had not reached the Dou Wang level, they could condense a pair of wings and fly through the sky.

Flight was a temptation enough to set countless hearts racing. In pursuit of that temptation, many experts had charged one after another toward the unattainable Dou Wang realm. Under such circumstances, Flying Dou Techniques, which offered a shortcut, were naturally exceedingly precious.

Moreover, the methods for creating many Flying Dou Techniques had already been lost, further increasing their rarity.

Even throughout so many Life Simulator runs, Xiao Ming had only seen the term "Flying Dou Technique" in Jia Nan Academy's Library Pavilion.

That alone showed just how rare Flying Dou Techniques were.

After seeing clearly that the item in his hand was a Flying Dou Technique, Xiao Ming's breathing quickened ever so slightly.

Soaring through the skies was everyone's dream, and Xiao Ming was naturally very interested in flying freely. Flight was the best guarantee for escaping with one's life.

He was only a Da Dou Shi now. Who knew how long it would take before he could rely on himself to reach the Dou Wang realm and soar through the heavens?

Now that he had a Flying Dou Technique in hand, he could at least satisfy his craving for flight.

Xiao Ming felt an urge to cultivate this Dou Skill immediately. Flying Dou Techniques were often much quicker to cultivate than other Dou Skills, and it would give him another means of preserving his life in the Secret Realm.

However, after Glanced At the Dou Skill's grade, Xiao Ming hesitated.

"This Flying Dou Technique is only Yellow Tier High Grade. Isn't that a little too low?"

The current Xiao Ming was no longer the Xiao Ming from when he was four years old, without a Simulator.

Back then, he could spend several days pestering a Maid to learn the most basic cultivation method just so he could cultivate Dou Qi. After succeeding, he could be happy for half a day.

Xiao Ming's standards had now been spoiled. One Must Know that none of the Dou Skills he cultivated were below Profound Tier High Grade; he even had Earth Tier Middle Grade Dou Skills.

He had no interest in giving Yellow Tier Dou Skills a second glance. They could only gather dust in his Na Ring.

If not for the fact that he planned to return to the Xiao Family someday and toss these things into the Library Pavilion In The Clan,

Yellow Tier Dou Skills would not even qualify to remain in his Na Ring.

Thus, Xiao Ming found this Flying Dou Technique somewhat too low-grade.

Some people might say that having a Flying Dou Technique was better than having none.

Wasn't being picky about this and that just being pretentious?

Well, Xiao Ming was not being pretentious.

Having a Flying Dou Technique was indeed better than having none.

However, if a Flying Dou Technique's grade was too low, its speed might not be very fast, and it would consume more Dou Qi than higher-grade ones.

As his strength increased in the future, the boost it provided would only grow smaller.

Xiao Ming had originally planned to enter the Inner Academy after this training expedition, cultivate there until his level was higher, and then come out.

Mm, the exact time would probably be when he graduated from the Inner Academy.

It could be said that this period was relatively safe. By then, Xiao Ming felt that he should also possess Dou Wang-level strength.

In other words, there would be very few periods when he actually needed a Flying Dou Technique.

Perhaps only these next few days were an urgent exception.

Wasn't it a bit wasteful to use such a valuable Dou Skill just for these few days?

Most Important of all, if it were not for these few days, Jia Nan Academy's Library Pavilion also had a Mysterious Rank Middle Grade Flying Dou Technique, Flying Cloud Wings.

If he was going to use one, it should be that one.

Although he might Not Necessarily find that Dou Skill, what if he did?

Therefore, Xiao Ming hesitated.

After pondering for a moment, Xiao Ming still put the Dou Skill into his Na Ring and said softly,

"Forget It, let's look around some more. A Yellow Tier High Grade Flying Dou Technique appeared here and had Not Yet been used. Perhaps I can find a Mysterious Rank Flying Dou Technique in another pavilion as well."

The Second Floor had already been searched, and Xiao Ming no longer wanted to keep searching it.

At this moment, he turned his gaze toward the passage leading to the final floor.

Just as he was about to move, noisy curses came from downstairs.

"Damn it, why is this pavilion's door open?"

"Something's wrong. There's another newly made hole in the Square outside."

"Could It Be someone got here before us?"

"Fuck, everything here has been taken away. Only some scraps of broken metal are left. Someone definitely came here before us!"

Hearing the curses, Xiao Ming's expression changed slightly.

"These people got in so quickly?!!"

Xiao Ming knew how brutal the struggle for the Secret Realm entrance had been.

Although he had been among the Very Front batch of people on the ground to enter the Secret Realm Passage, the successive screams and clashes of weapons that Rang Out Behind Him before he entered the passage were enough to show how difficult it was to enter the Secret Realm.

He had even felt that if he had been one step slower, he might have been held outside the Secret Realm.

For these people to reach the pavilion only ten-odd minutes after him, they were clearly no weaklings. There might even be a Dou Ling among them.

"With how irritable these people are, if they see me, they might gang up and attack. That would be troublesome."

With that thought, Xiao Ming gave up on continuing to explore the Third Floor alone.

He had come out to train. While he was not afraid of battle, he could forget about one with such a vast disparity in strength.

He had not Lived Enough yet.

Tap, tap, tap!

The footsteps downstairs grew clearer and clearer, and Xiao Ming even heard them climbing the stairs.

It seemed that although they knew someone had gotten to this pavilion before them, they had not given up on exploring it.

Xiao Ming understood that Without Further Delay, he had to hide, or he would be discovered.

His Eyes casually Swept Over the area and spotted the tightly shut window in the stairwell. His eyes Brightened, and Xiao Ming silently vanished from where he stood.

Just over ten seconds after Xiao Ming disappeared, several figures with powerful auras Appeared Before the entrance to the Second Floor corridor.

One of them, a Red-robed Man, looked at the spot where Xiao Ming had just been standing with confusion.

"Strange, there should have been someone up here."

"Could it be that you sensed it wrong?"

The Muscular Man standing beside him asked suspiciously.

After all, his strength was nearly equal to that of the Red-robed Man, yet he had not sensed the aura the man spoke of.

It was hard not to doubt him.

"No. The Cultivation Method I practice is extremely sensitive to blood vitality. Just Now, I vaguely sensed blood vitality comparable to that of a Tier 2 Magical Beast. I don't know why I can't sense it now."

"A Tier 2 Magical Beast?"

Upon hearing this, the Strong Man's mouth twitched uncontrollably.

Unless someone had specifically tempered their Physical Body with medicinal substances, whose fleshly body could reach such a level?

Even That Person's physical body could not, right?

The Strong Man covertly Glanced At the Green-clothed Middle-aged Man at the Very Front, and A Trace Of wariness flashed through his eyes.

The looks the Others gave the Green-clothed Man were the same.

It was no wonder they were so wary. Among this group, the Green-clothed Man was the strongest, at the Dou Ling level.

The Others were only Da Dou Shi at eight or nine stars, or even five or six stars.

How could they not be wary? If not for the tacit understanding among these Da Dou Shi, joining together in secret to resist this Dou Ling,

they would not even have the qualifications to stand here.

The Green-clothed Man acted as though he saw nothing of the covert glances around him.

Naturally, he knew of their intention to join forces against him.

But what use was this temporary alliance cobbled together downstairs? Once they saw treasure, he would not even need to act; the alliance would collapse on its own.

At that point, how could these Da Dou Shi compete with him?

So, he was not worried at all.

However, after Swept Over the discarded pills on the ground and the opened room doors in the corridor, the Green-clothed Man's expression became extremely grim.

"Whether It's Right or Wrong what Blood Cloud said, there's no doubt that this place has been visited."