The Terror of a Dou Wang Expert

Time slowly passed. The vortex inside the Cave grew larger and larger, while Xiao Jin rolled around in agony.

He had never experienced such pain in either this life or his previous one. Even childbirth could not be much worse, right? The previous two times he had broken through major realms, he had felt so good he could fly. He had never expected that directly advancing two major realms would be this painful.

Just as Xiao Jin rolled all over the Cave, a young man appeared outside. It was Xiao Huohuo, who often trained in the back mountains. He had been drawn here by the unusual Heaven and Earth Energy nearby.

"Teacher, what's going on? Could there be some treasure inside?" Xiao Huohuo asked Old Yao in his mind.

"From the looks of it, someone should be breaking through to Dou Wang. But why would breaking through to Dou Wang cause such a huge disturbance?" Old Yao was also puzzled.

"Dou Wang? There aren't any experts like that in the several cities around us. I suppose only the Jia Ma Imperial Capital has experts of that level." Xiao Huohuo spoke to Old Yao inside the ring with a face full of admiration, feeling deeply envious as he wondered when he would be able to break through to that realm.

"You brat, can't you show a little ambition? With your talent and my guidance, it won't take you more than a few years to break through to Dou Wang. Who knows how old the fellow inside is, yet he only just broke through to Dou Wang. What is there for you to envy?" Old Yao scolded Xiao Huohuo in disappointment.

"Then, Teacher, should we go in and take a look?" Xiao Huohuo said indifferently. Naturally, he understood all that. He had confidence in his own talent as well. But that was a matter for the future. Seeing someone break through to Dou Wang now, he could not help feeling envious.

Just as Old Yao was about to reply, he suddenly sensed the Heavenly Flame within his soul body trembling, as if it had encountered something terrifying. The sensation even affected him somewhat, and Old Yao's expression changed drastically.

What's going on? The Heavenly Flame within me is the Ancient Spirit Cold Flame, ranked eleventh on the Heavenly Flame Ranking. What could possibly be inside to make the Ancient Spirit Cold Flame so terrified? Could it be a Heavenly Flame ranked among the top five? Old Yao thought.

At that moment, Xiao Huohuo curiously looked into the Cave, only to be immediately rebuked by Old Yao. "What are you looking at? I can sense it. There's something extremely dangerous inside. We'd better leave at once."

Old Yao's face was solemn. If he were still at his peak, he would have gone inside no matter what. It might be a Heavenly Flame ranked among the top five, after all. He would have to investigate such a wonder of Heaven and Earth.

But now that his physical body had been destroyed, his Soul Power was far weaker than before. He could only display strength around that of a Dou Emperor. Even if there really was a Heavenly Flame ranked among the top five inside, it was not something he could interfere with in his current state.

As the aura within the Cave grew increasingly powerful, the Ancient Spirit Cold Flame inside Old Yao trembled more and more violently. Gritting his teeth, Old Yao said to Xiao Huohuo, "Leave, quickly. I can feel that thing inside is becoming more and more dangerous."

Hearing Old Yao's words, Xiao Huohuo immediately turned and ran without a second thought. If even Old Yao considered it dangerous, then a piece of trash at the seventh stage of Dou Qi like him had no business joining the excitement. What Xiao Huohuo did not know was that Old Yao had saved his life again. If he had entered the Cave, the Earth Demon Kui would likely have killed him instantly.

Even Old Yao inside the ring would not have been able to stop it. After all, it was an Earth Demon Kui at the peak of the earth rank, equivalent to a peak Dou Zong expert. It was not something the current Old Yao could resist. Meanwhile, Xiao Jin was still writhing in unbearable pain and had no time at all to control the Earth Demon Kui and make it stop.

If Xiao Huohuo entered the Cave, there would be only one outcome: Xiao Huohuo and Old Yao, dead.

Ten minutes later, the pain within Xiao Jin finally began to fade. The energy vortex surrounding him also dispersed into the air. Xiao Jin slowly rose to his feet as powerful Dou Qi surged forth from every part of his body. Feeling the changes within himself, Xiao Jin was overjoyed.

The Dou Crystal and Qi Vortex within his body had completely disappeared. He no longer needed to mobilize the Dou Crystal in his body before using it to draw the Dou Qi from his Dantian, as he had in the past. Now, when he mobilized his Dou Qi, it surged directly from all parts of his body into his meridians. Whether in cultivation or battle, he could mobilize Dou Qi far more quickly.

No wonder Dou Wang was a dividing line. On the Dou Qi Continent, only Dou Wang experts barely qualified to call themselves strong. Below Dou Wang, they were just a bunch of insignificant weaklings. Only ordinary people would call them experts.

Besides that, Dou Wang experts possessed an ability that everyone below Dou Wang dreamed of: Dou Qi Transformation Wings. With Dou Qi Transformation Wings, one could soar freely through the skies. This was immensely useful whether for escaping or fighting.

Xiao Jin put away the Earth Demon Kui and walked out of the Cave. Dou Qi surged through his body toward his back.

With a bang, a pair of broad wings appeared behind Xiao Jin's back. Looking at the seven-colored wings formed from his Dou Qi, Xiao Jin's face was filled with delight. Like a child discovering a new toy, he touched them here and looked them over there.

Xiao Jin controlled the wings and slowly flapped them, causing his body to rise into the air. His flying posture was rather unsightly, but it was his first time flying, after all.

Naturally, he still needed time to adapt. Xiao Jin slowly flew a hundred meters into the sky and began practicing moving up, down, left, and right. Before long, he found the trick and flew faster and faster.

Xiao Jin spread his arms and embraced the sky, his heart filled with lofty ambition. He had to reach the peak of this world and see the scenery from the mountain's summit.

After flying for a while, Xiao Jin checked the rate at which his Dou Qi was being consumed. What he found left him stunned. The Dou Qi within his body had not been consumed in the slightest. It had even increased a little as his cultivation technique circulated.

Xiao Jin hurriedly circulated his cultivation technique. The surrounding Heaven and Earth Energy poured endlessly into his body and was refined by the Imperial Flame. Feeling the speed at which Dou Qi entered his body as the technique circulated, Xiao Jin came to a conclusion.

It turned out that as his strength rose, the restrictions on his cultivation technique were gradually lifted. Its cultivation speed and Dou Qi recovery speed were now equivalent to those of a high-grade earth-rank cultivation technique. Xiao Jin was overjoyed.

After all, as long as a Dou Wang expert had not exhausted the Dou Qi in their body, they could keep flying with Dou Qi Transformation Wings. Xiao Jin's Dou Qi recovery speed exceeded his consumption speed.

That meant he could fly forever. Coupled with Illusory Dance Nine Heavens at perfection and Meteor Fire Rain at perfection, Xiao Jin was confident he could contend with a Dou Emperor expert. Even if he could not win, they could forget about catching him. And even if he could not escape, did he not still have the Earth Demon Kui?

Xiao Jin already possessed the capital to venture out and roam the continent.

After flying for a little longer, Xiao Jin had become able to control his Dou Qi wings with ease and prepared to fly straight home.

Just then, he spotted Xiao Huohuo training diligently in the back mountains. Xiao Huohuo continuously attacked a huge boulder before him with every part of his body.

Fists, legs, palms, elbows, knees. Every strike was delivered with all his strength. The boulder was already covered in fist marks and palm prints left by Xiao Huohuo.

Yet Xiao Huohuo seemed unable to feel the pain in his body as he continued striking the boulder before him.