Cultivating Sky Severing Style One

Before long, Xiao Kun recovered his senses and hurriedly swallowed a medicinal pill that eased pain and healed injuries. As the stabbing pain in his body gradually subsided, he let out a long breath.

He could not help but sigh. Flying Dou Techniques truly were not so easy to learn.

Once he felt that there was nothing wrong with his body, Xiao Kun examined the Dou Technique scroll. Sure enough, the lifelike pair of golden Azure Sky Peng wings on it had already vanished.

Thinking of those wings, Xiao Kun pulled off his shirt and took a crystal mirror from his Storage Ring. Using the reflected light, he saw a pair of palm-sized golden Peng Wings tattoos on his back muscles.

Staring at the tattoos, the Dou Qi in his body moved with his thoughts and flowed through the newly formed branch meridians into the tiny tattoos.

As Dou Qi poured in, the tattoos gradually began to shine with golden light, then manifested into a pair of solid golden wings nearly a zhang wide.

Feeling the Dou Technique's consumption, he found that it used twice as much Dou Qi as his Dou Wang-level Dou Qi Wings. With such a huge expenditure, just how much faster was it than before?

With that question in mind, Xiao Kun immediately put on his shirt and spread his Peng Wings again. As Dou Qi flowed into them, the wings gave a slight flap, and Xiao Kun shot into the sky as a streak of light.

Under the azure sky, a golden streak suddenly flashed past. Accompanied by a burst of laughter, it quickly vanished once more.

That golden streak was the exhilarated Xiao Kun. Though the Dou Qi consumption was twice that of his usual Dou Qi Wings, his speed was five times greater than before.

Combined with his original Dou Qi Wings, his speed could now reach six times its former level. Even ordinary Dou Emperors would be unable to catch him.

After spending half a day adapting to his new speed, Xiao Kun felt that it was about enough and returned to the cave.

He took out another Earth-tier High-grade Dou Technique, the Sky Severing Finger, intending to study it in detail.

Recalling the method for learning the Dou Technique, Xiao Kun circulated the Dou Qi in his body to both hands, then transmitted it into the scroll through his palms.

Feeling the scroll absorb his Dou Qi and seeing faint light begin to radiate from its surface, Xiao Kun relaxed. He poured in Dou Qi with all his strength, maintaining it continuously for half an hour.

After half an hour of Dou Qi infusion, tiny cracks began to appear on the scroll. Seeing the initial results, Xiao Kun grew even more excited. Vast Dou Qi surged from every corner of his body like a tide and poured entirely into the scroll.

As more and more Dou Qi flowed in, the cracks on the scroll multiplied. In the end, faint golden light even leaked from within them.

Before long, a loud bang rang out as the scroll exploded, and an intense golden light filled the entire cave.

The golden light was so intense that even Xiao Kun could not look at it directly. After a while, once his eyes had adjusted, he saw densely packed words within the golden radiance.

The moment he cautiously reached out and touched them, all the words turned into a streak of golden light and darted into Xiao Kun's mind.

As the golden light entered, Xiao Kun felt as though his head had exploded. Intense pain filled his mind, only gradually subsiding several dozen seconds later.

Only then did Xiao Kun sense a vast amount of information in his mind. As he began to read it, the introduction to the Dou Technique appeared at the very beginning.

Reading the introduction in his mind, he discovered that although this Dou Technique had only one name, it was divided into two styles: Sky Severing Style One and Sky Severing Style Two.

Sky Severing Style One could be cultivated at the Dou Wang level. It inherited the unpredictability of finger techniques—once it struck someone, it would seal the Dou Qi in the affected area, disrupting the flow of their Dou Qi and greatly reducing their combat strength.

Sky Severing Style Two, however, was entirely different from the first. First, it required one to reach the Dou Zong level before it could be cultivated.

Second, Sky Severing Style Two possessed overwhelming power. Even when used by a Dou Zong expert, it would form a hundred-zhang giant finger descending from the heavens, locking onto and suppressing the enemy, leaving them no choice but to take the strike head-on. Ordinary Dou Zongs would likely be annihilated by a single finger.

It also recorded that this technique had an advanced counterpart: the Heaven-tier High-grade Dou Technique, Hand of the Heavens.

After reading the introduction to the Dou Technique, Xiao Kun's blood began to boil. He immediately examined its detailed cultivation method.

He found that, just like the Emperor's Seal Art Xiao Yan cultivated in the original story, it required opening several specific meridians before the Dou Technique could be used.

A month and a half later, Xiao Kun had finally opened the five required meridians and could officially cultivate Sky Severing Style One.

However, before formally cultivating Sky Severing Style One, Xiao Kun sensed that his realm had stabilized and swallowed a King Augmenting Pill. Two days later, he successfully broke through to the eighth star of the Dou Wang realm.

After his breakthrough, Xiao Kun felt the greater power coursing through him and nodded in satisfaction before throwing himself back into cultivating the Dou Technique.

A month and a half later, in the eastern region of the Magic Beast Mountain Range, a youth was fighting a fifth-rank Fire Attribute Blaze Eagle.

Silver light flashed in the youth's eyes, and he instantly appeared behind the Blaze Eagle. He pointed at its right wing, and a concealed force carrying armor-piercing power directly broke through the protective Dou Qi on the Blaze Eagle's surface and penetrated deep into its right wing.

A mournful cry followed. The Dou Qi in the Blaze Eagle's right wing began to collapse, and its body started swaying unsteadily in the air, losing its previous agility.

Seeing this, the youth directly wrapped his right hand in Heavenly Flames, forming a sharply angular white handguard. Under the Blaze Eagle's despairing gaze, he delivered a fatal blow to its head.

With the youth's punch, the Blaze Eagle's head was pierced through. The terrifying heat of the Heavenly Flames instantly roasted its brain into ashes. Thus, the Blaze Eagle fell.

The youth who had so swiftly slain a fifth-rank Magic Beast was Xiao Kun.

Over the past month and a half, he had not only broken through to the ninth star of the Dou Wang realm, but had also become proficient in using Sky Severing Style One.

Just now, he had first used Shifting Phantom to teleport behind the Blaze Eagle, then used Sky Severing Style One to sever the Dou Qi in its right wing. Finally, while its movements were impeded, he used Flame Shaping to control the Heavenly Flames and form a handguard, piercing through the defenses of its head in one strike and burning its brain into ashes.

Thus, he had claimed victory in one fell swoop.

After completing his cultivation of Sky Severing Style One, Xiao Kun found it quite practical. It did not consume much Dou Qi, and the force it fired was not only difficult to detect but also possessed armor-piercing power. It should be quite useful for ambushes.

Having finished his assessment, Xiao Kun hurried down to collect the corpse. A fifth-rank magic core was still very useful.

As he dissected the corpse, Xiao Kun discovered that the Blaze Eagle's body contained not only a magic core, but also a crimson Beast Fire. Delighted by the discovery, he quickly collected it in a jade bottle.

Looking at the Beast Fire in the jade bottle, Xiao Kun thought that he could give it to Xiao Yan next time. Perhaps it might trigger a massive return in the form of a Heavenly Flame.

Thinking of that possibility, Xiao Kun smiled knowingly and carefully stored the Beast Fire in his Storage Ring.

Afterward, Xiao Kun returned to the cave. Next, he planned to advance to the Dou Emperor realm and properly cultivate Flame Shaping to mastery, allowing the creatures he shaped to possess simple intelligence and attack independently.