After briefly testing the abilities of a Dou Saint, Gu He returned to the Void Lightning Pool.
This time, he did not linger outside. Instead, he flew to the boundary between the Black Demon Lightning and the lightning monsters, prepared to flee at once if anything went wrong.
Sitting cross-legged at the boundary, Gu He sent a faint gust of force from his right hand, striking a Black Demon Lightning bolt not far ahead. Possessing extremely weak sentience, the Black Demon Lightning shot toward Gu He along the direction from which the gust had come. When it was only a hundred meters away, a jet-black flame enveloped it. No matter how it struggled within, it could not escape.
Having captured a Black Demon Lightning bolt, Gu He began refining it wholeheartedly.
As the jet-black lightning, as thick as a water bucket, gradually shrank within the dark flames until it vanished completely, an incomparably vast amount of pure energy surged into Gu He's body. Even though every trace of progress for a Dou Saint required a terrifying amount of energy, as the Black Demon Lightning's energy poured into him, he could clearly sense his cultivation rising at a rate that would horrify ordinary Dou Saints.
Once all the energy had been absorbed, although Gu He had not reached the intermediate stage of One-star Dou Sheng, he was already extremely close. Under normal circumstances, this was equivalent to saving one or two years of cultivation.
Gu He captured another nine Black Demon Lightning bolts in the same manner, raising his cultivation to the peak of One-star Dou Sheng before finally stopping and leaving.
"Zi Yan, let's go. I'll take you to Dragon Island," Gu He said directly after returning to Dan Gu Courtyard and finding Zi Yan.
"Gu He, you've already become