Encounter Again

Of course, this was because Hun Han's soul power was twice that of an ordinary person. Otherwise, if it had been someone else, their face would have turned pale, and they might even have fainted.

The Mysterious Water Lightning Bat's defeat also proved that Hun Han was qualified to cultivate this thing.

The Dou Qi within Hun Han's body began to circulate slowly along the route described on the scroll. Finally, it seeped out through his palm and entered the scroll.

When the Dou Qi entered the scroll, silver light burst forth. The bat wings on the scroll transformed into two tiny streaks of silver light and shot into Hun Han's palm. In the end, they traveled to his back.

"Ah!"

Everything had only just begun.

Under the effect of those two streaks of silver light, two tiny branch meridians were forcibly pulled open along Hun Han's spine.

A fiery, heart-wrenching pain erupted across his back, cold sweat pouring from Hun Han's forehead. Hun Han was quite decisive. He raised his hand and struck the back of his own head, knocking himself unconscious.

"What was going on? Don't tell me knocking myself out caused the cultivation to fail?"

When Hun Han awoke from his slumber, there was none of the fiery pain he had expected in his back. This was very different from what had been described in the story. Anyone who cultivated a Flying Dou Skill would inevitably feel a stabbing pain in their back afterward. Yet Hun Han felt nothing at all.

Feeling uneasy, Hun Han looked at the scroll on the ground. It was now completely blank. He touched his storage ring and flicked his finger, producing a crystal mirror in his hand. By the light emitted by the Moonlight Stone, Hun Han could see a pair of palm-sized silver tattoos on his back, shaped like bat wings.

With a thought, Hun Han activated the Dou Qi within his body. The tattoo, originally only the size of a palm, suddenly radiated silver light. A pair of lifelike silver bat wings appeared behind him.

When spread, the bat wings spanned two and a half meters. Strands of silver lightning coiled around them, making them look exceptionally dazzling. Hun Han gently flapped his wings, and a faint buoyant force slowly lifted him into the air.

Cool—for only a second.

The next moment, with no flying experience whatsoever, Hun Han lost his balance due to uneven lift on both sides and fell straight from the air.

"Looks like I still need to find a place to master this skill. Now, it was time to head to the Exploding Heaven Gang and sign in!"

Hun Han stopped supplying Dou Qi. The Lightning Bat Sky Wings behind his back transformed into a streak of silver light and rapidly contracted, finally becoming a silver tattoo.

Hun Han rose to his feet, walked to the cave entrance, circulated his Dou Qi, and punched the massive boulder blocking the entrance.

Overlord Fist

As Hun Han's punch struck, the massive boulder at the cave entrance was blasted away by brute force. All the rocks were shredded into powder by the violent Dou Qi.

"Eh, my body has become stronger again."

Hun Han was secretly delighted. His physical strength had vaguely increased once more. After the Lightning Bat Sky Wings had opened up his meridians last night, his body had clearly become a little stronger.

Originally, Hun Han's physical strength could only shatter a massive boulder into chunks. Now, he could blast it into powder. By rough estimate, Hun Han's physical strength had reached the power of a hundred oxen.

One ox was a hundred jin, so a hundred oxen was ten thousand jin.

After leaving the forest, Hun Han arrived by the roadside. The Yellow Steed that had been tied to a large tree by the road had vanished after one night. Not just in the Black Corner Region—even elsewhere, there would always be people doing such petty theft.

Helplessly, without the Yellow Steed, Hun Han could only travel on foot. By noon, after crossing five mountain ridges, the outline of a massive city built from red-veined stone appeared faintly in the distance. At the four gates of the city, dense black dots could vaguely be seen gathering like ants and pouring into the city's great red mouth.

"Twilight City!"

Hun Han looked at the map in his hand. The blood-red city ahead was the location of the Blood Sect's headquarters—Twilight City.

"I wonder where the Exploding Heaven Gang is. Never mind, I'll ask around in the city first!"

If the system had not issued a location sign-in mission, Hun Han probably would never have known that there was such a gang in the Black Corner Region. Even though he was familiar with the storyline of Battle Through the Heavens and possessed God's perspective, there had been no such gang in the Black Corner Region as far as he knew.

Since someone could name their organization the Exploding Heaven Gang, Hun Han truly wanted to meet the gang leader who had founded it and see just who they were to come up with such an outrageously awesome name.

Outside Twilight City's gates stood ten men dressed in red robes. They sat on chairs beside the gate. Before them was a large table, upon which rested an enormous chest.

Nearly every city in the Black Corner Region was controlled by some faction. To enter a city, one had to pay these factions a sufficient entrance fee. Only then could one avoid being robbed by them. After all, anyone with even a little sense would not kill the goose that laid the golden eggs.

Of course, there were no absolutes. If they did not kill the goose that laid the golden eggs, it was only because the egg was not valuable enough to tempt them.

"Boss, do you know how to get to the Exploding Heaven Gang?"

After eating two bowls of fried sauce noodles at a noodle shop in the city, Hun Han asked the proprietress while paying the bill.

"The Exploding Heaven Gang?"

The proprietress looked Hun Han over, then asked, "Kid, are you trying to join a sect? If you want to join one, I suggest joining the Blood Sect. I heard the Blood Sect's leader is a Dou Emperor!"

Hun Han shook his head. "No. Someone gave me a letter that needs to be delivered to the Exploding Heaven Gang's leader. I already have my own faction."

For safety's sake, Hun Han told a well-intentioned lie.

"Leave through the western gate and cross three mountains. You'll come upon a fork in the road. Take the path leading toward the tallest peak, and you'll reach the Exploding Heaven Gang," the proprietress said kindly.

"Oh, thank you."

Hun Han paid for the noodles and headed toward the western gate. Before he had taken more than a few steps, a voice called out to him.

"Hey, little brother! Little brother, don't leave!"

Hun Han stopped and turned around, only to see a beggar shouting at him from behind. The beggar's hair was disheveled, and his clothes were filthy beyond recognition. He held a broken bowl in one hand and a wooden stick in the other. Dressed like that, he could hardly inspire any goodwill in a place like the Black Corner Region. Hun Han frowned slightly and asked, "What is it?"

The beggar examined Hun Han and said in surprise, "Wow, incredible, truly incredible! Spiritual light is shooting out from the top of your head, do you know that? At such a young age, you already possess such powerful bones and muscles. You're a once-in-a-century genius!"

Hearing this, Hun Han's gaze went blank, and a bewildered curve appeared at the corner of his lips. He mocked, "Are you going to say that the responsibility of punishing evil, eliminating villains, and maintaining world peace will fall to me too?"

The beggar neither blushed nor panted as he nodded and continued, "That's right. Mm, you're indeed clever. What you lack now is merely a suitable master. I can see that we are fated. How about this? For just one hundred gold coins, I'll take you as my disciple!"

Hun Han rolled his eyes at him and said with a smile, "I have things to do. Old man, you should go fool someone else!"

With that, Hun Han placed one gold coin into the old beggar's bowl. Then, without looking back, he headed toward the western gate.

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