Liu Yun's Spectacular Breakthrough

In the endless darkness, silence and loneliness reigned. An invisible wind chilled Liu Yun to the bone.

In his daze, he was being madly devoured by the darkness. The sensation was incredibly real. He struggled frantically, but his body seemed trapped in a swamp. Breathing was difficult, and he could not break free at all.

Just as Liu Yun felt utterly hopeless, a glimmer of light like salvation flashed before him.

Seizing the opportunity, he struggled with all his strength.

At last, his consciousness began to return, and his mind gradually cleared.

After regaining control of his body, before he could even inspect his condition internally, he discovered that something soft was pressed tightly against him in a kiss. The other person seemed to be forcefully blowing something into his mouth.

Liu Yun was startled. His first reaction was that someone was trying to harm him.

But then he remembered that he seemed to have been severely injured and unconscious. Perhaps someone was trying to save him.

Sure enough, his sense of taste soon returned, and the medicinal flavor explained everything.

The instant he woke up, Liu Yun's instinctive resistance had stopped the medicine at his throat.

But what happened next completely stunned him.

Something forcefully entered and pressed directly against his throat, forcibly sending the medicine in his mouth down.

Liu Yun slowly opened his eyes. For some reason, he felt a faint sense of relief. Fortunately, it was a woman.

Xiao Yi Xian had just finished everything. She was secretly delighted, silently praising herself for her cleverness.

Then she raised her head and looked down, meeting Liu Yun's gaze... Both of them froze!

Xiao Yi Xian's face turned red at an unimaginable speed. She was so embarrassed that she wished she could find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.

Liu Yun, on the other hand, had rather thick skin and showed no reaction at all.

Of course, Xiao Yi Xian could not see his expression. Aside from his eyes, mouth, and nose, every other part of his body was tightly wrapped in bandages.

"Don't misunderstand! I only... only did that to save you!"

Xiao Yi Xian turned away, pressing both hands tightly against her flushed cheeks as she stammered.

Gazing at her slender, willow-like waist, Liu Yun could not help being captivated. His eyes seemed to shine. Thinking of the original plot, a name surfaced in his mind: Xiao Yi Xian.

"Th... thank you!" Liu Yun said. His voice was weak and feeble, dry and chilling like an evil ghost crawling out of Nine Nether.

Liu Yun froze, then hurriedly examined his body internally. One look was enough to horrify him. How was this still the body of a person?

As he fully awakened, boundless pain surged through him, tormenting him as though he were being cut into a thousand pieces.

He could not understand why he was still alive.

His meridians were in disarray, and nearly every bone in his body had shattered into fragments. Such devastating injuries should have been enough to kill him ten times over!

At this moment, although the medicinal power was working as hard as it could, the results were far from obvious. The only intact thing in his body was the Dou Qi Nebula revolving around the Tears of Cold Flame!

It had to be said that the Tears of Cold Flame was truly a heaven-defying treasure. Without it, his Dou Qi Vortex would likely have been destroyed as well. By now, he would probably have become a cripple!

If he was not mistaken, the Tears of Cold Flame had undoubtedly played an unimaginable role in allowing him to survive under such circumstances.

Judging from its size alone, the Tears of Cold Flame was a full circle smaller than before.

Upon closer inspection, green energy was constantly emanating from its surface. It was this energy that was keeping him alive.

"So, was this training experience a blessing or a curse?"

Liu Yun pondered silently. A guy like him, who cultivated using the system, had actually tried to imitate others and work hard!

"No, I absolutely can't do this again in the future!"

"If the next mission still asks me to hunt a peak third-tier Magical Beast, I'll refuse without hesitation," Liu Yun resolved inwardly.

No matter how generous the reward was, he could not accept it. This was truly life-threatening!

Liu Yun no longer paid attention to Xiao Yi Xian beside him. He needed to quickly find a way to recover his body!

With a thought, he moved the Tears of Cold Flame out of the Dou Qi Nebula.

In an instant, the Dou Qi Nebula's rotation slowed several times over, and the Dou Qi around its outer edges even showed signs of dispersing.

"As expected of a treasure!" he marveled.

Without hesitation, Liu Yun hurriedly controlled the Tears of Cold Flame and guided it through the meridians throughout his body.

Wherever it passed, severed meridians recovered as good as new. Even the medicinal power of the Bone-Regenerating Pill was purified, and pure energy began continuously repairing his bones.

The injuries in his body slowly healed, his condition gradually improved, and the pain began to fade.

This process lasted for a long time, and Liu Yun felt as though his body had become stiff!

Who knew how much time had passed? Seeing no reaction from Liu Yun, Xiao Yi Xian turned around to look and found that he had long since closed his eyes.

She sighed softly in relief. It seemed that he had only briefly awakened before falling unconscious again.

"No matter what, I managed to save him!"

Xiao Yi Xian was overjoyed. In a wonderful mood, she quietly tried to leave the tent to get some fresh air outside.

But at that very moment, a tremendous change occurred. The air inside the tent suddenly became turbulent, and Dou Qi crazily surged toward Liu Yun's body.

The Mummy on the bed suddenly sprang up. The bandages around his body shattered into pieces, revealing a young man with perfectly defined muscles and a face so handsome it was practically criminal.

Xiao Yi Xian witnessed the entire scene, her initial fright turning into surprise.

Her cheeks flushed as she admired the body before her. Whether in looks, physique, or cultivation talent, he was a perfect man—so perfect that Xiao Yi Xian could not help thinking, I'm not worthy of him.

Whether intentionally or not, Xiao Yi Xian glanced toward a certain spot. Her pretty face turned crimson, and she hurriedly covered her eyes with both hands.

Yet after a while, she could not resist parting her fingers. Her eyes seemed almost alive as they blinked softly.

Liu Yun once again touched upon the opportunity to break through to the Dou Master realm. Unlike last time, he no longer needed to suppress his cultivation. With almost no effort at all, his Dou Qi Nebula began to liquefy.

Inside his body, that nebula fell like rain, forming a sea of Dou Qi below. The Tears of Cold Flame seemed to welcome spring, hopping about atop the Dou Qi sea like a child at play.

Liu Yun felt quite distressed. After helping heal his wounds once again, the Tears of Cold Flame was only the size of a thumb. It had originally been as large as a pigeon egg.

Casting aside these stray thoughts, he calmed his mind and focused entirely on his breakthrough.

But breaking through to Dou Master was not so simple. After all, he was now crossing into a major realm.

His foundation was now incomparably strong, and breaking through a major realm required an astronomical amount of Dou Qi. The Dou Qi he absorbed from the air alone seemed insufficient.

Liu Yun frowned and suddenly opened his eyes, meeting the gaze of Xiao Yi Xian, who was peeking through her fingers with her face covered. An invisible awkwardness filled the air.

Liu Yun also realized that something was wrong and followed Xiao Yi Xian's gaze down toward his own body.

He was naked!

His old face immediately reddened. He swiftly took out a set of green clothes from his Ring and put them on, then pulled out a mask and wore it over his face.

He had no time to speak with Xiao Yi Xian, because he was currently in a wondrous state. Once he passed through it, he would become a Dou Master. Such an opportunity did not come often.

But the energy seemed to be insufficient!

After a brief moment of thought, he retrieved a Huiyuan Pill from the system space and swallowed it, then continued meditating to advance.

The Huiyuan Pill was a Fourth-grade Pill, obtained through the Return from Ya Fei's auction of the Qi Replenishing Pill. Its function was still to restore Dou Qi.

However, it was ultimately a Fourth-grade Pill, used by high-level experts to replenish Dou Qi. It contained an exceedingly terrifying amount of energy and should be enough to resolve his current predicament.

Outside, the winds and clouds suddenly shifted. Overwhelming Dou Qi gathered, and Mu Li and the others were blown stumbling about by the sudden gale. Before the astonished eyes of the crowd, the tent was torn to pieces by the converging energy.

"This scene...?"

Mu Li stared in dumbfounded amazement, marveling at the spectacular scene of Liu Yun's breakthrough.

When his father had broken through to Dou Master, he had been there as well. But compared to what he was seeing now, that had truly been nothing!

So, was this person breaking through to Dou Ling? Or Dou Wang?

(This was another chapter that got censored. I have no idea what exactly violated the rules. So strange—it's giving me a headache!)