Traveling Through Douluo, I Pull Out a Dou Technique and You Don't Explode? Section 31

It was simply torture.

As the two walked along, they came upon a shop selling weapons, with all manner of dazzling weapons displayed outside.

Yao Yue walked closer.

"Xiao Bai, I remember you've never used a weapon, have you?"

Liu Bai nodded.

"The Dou Techniques I cultivate can all be unleashed barehanded. I have no need for weapons."

Yao Yue stared at a particularly ornate longsword.

"Xiao Bai, how about I buy you a sword? Even if you don't use it, you can wear it at your waist. It'd look so cool."

Before Liu Bai could nod, she spoke up directly.

"Boss, wrap up this sword for me."

Yao Yue's mouth froze halfway open as she turned around.

Who was it? Who actually dared to snatch something from her!

Preparing to Break Through to Dou Ling

A little girl stood there as well, her pink hair tied high and falling to her waist. She was pointing at the sword Yao Yue had just been eyeing.

The two locked eyes.

"I saw this sword first, Princess."

"I was the first one to speak up, Miss."

"Hmph, so what? Boss, I want this sword. I'll pay double the price."

"You!"

Hearing the commotion, the shopkeeper hurried out. When he saw two young girls dressed in equally luxurious clothes, he quickly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

"Young ladies, have you both taken a liking to the same sword? Our shop has many other beautiful and practical swords. Why don't you two take another look?"

One look at their clothing and bearing told him they were no ordinary people. He did not want to offend either of them.

"Hmph, this is the one I want today, Princess!"

"You unreasonable brat, you're completely unreasonable."

Liu Bai rubbed his forehead helplessly.

They were already arguing?

"Alright, Xiao Yue. She was the one who spoke first about buying that sword. Let's pick another one."

Nalan Yanran looked at Liu Bai.

"Hmph, at least this big brother has manners."

Yao Yue turned her head viciously.

"Xiao Bai, you're actually taking her side! Hmph, I'm ignoring you."

Liu Bai rubbed Yao Yue's little head.

"Alright, let's pick another one. Weren't you choosing something for me? How about we buy a fan instead? Compared to a sword I never use, wouldn't a nice folding fan be better? It'd still make me look just as dashing."

Only then did Yao Yue turn back around.

She looked at Nalan Yanran.

"Hmph, lucky you. This princess can't be bothered to fight with you today. That sword is yours."

With that, she directly pulled Liu Bai to another shop nearby.

"Boss, bring out your best folding fan!"

Nalan Yanran happily got the longsword she wanted. It was not because the sword was particularly special; it was simply because it looked good. In actual use, it was inferior to the one she usually used, but this sword was just too pretty.

She subconsciously turned around and happened to see Liu Bai and Yao Yue emerging from that shop. There was now a White Jade Folding Fan in Liu Bai's hand.

She suddenly remembered that the little girl had called herself a princess. At such a young age, could she be Yao Yue, the second princess of the Jia Ma Imperial Family?

Then this man...

She understood. She had found his appearance familiar. Her grandfather seemed to have once shown her a portrait, and the man in it was him.

The youngest genius of the Jia Ma Empire, said to be nearing the peak of Da Dou Shi at only sixteen.

His talent was considered unparalleled!

She was twelve this year and had yet to break through to Dou Zhe. Compared to her, he truly was a peerless genius!

She suddenly thought of her fiancé. It was said that he had broken through to Dou Zhe a year ago, but recently there had been rumors that his cultivation had regressed. She did not know whether they were true.

But regardless of whether they were true or false, Nalan Yanran had no intention of sitting still and waiting for her fate.

She would control her own destiny. No matter how talented Xiao Yan was, she would never marry someone she did not like!

She turned around and picked up the sword.

She had to go back and continue cultivating!

It would soon be time for the Misty Cloud Sect to recruit disciples again!

She had to join the Misty Cloud Sect. Only then would she have the strength to resist her family!

Only then could she completely control her own destiny!

That evening, Liu Bai brought Yao Yue back to the Imperial Palace.

The moment Liu Bai returned, he announced that he was going into seclusion.

No one outside found it strange. They merely assumed that Liu Bai was going into seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Ling.

In reality, Liu Bai had returned directly to the Douluo World.

Douluo World, Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Liu Bai instantly appeared in the spring waters.

After several years of experimentation, he had already figured out how to open the gate in his mind and travel between worlds with a mere thought.

He no longer needed to take the gate out directly.

Since he was going to break through to Dou Ling, the best place was naturally within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

The energy of heaven and earth here was incomparably rich and perfectly suited to him. Only someone like Liu Bai, who had absorbed the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot, could cultivate recklessly within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Sitting cross-legged, Liu Bai officially began his secluded cultivation to break through to Dou Ling!

Dugu Bo was also cultivating above the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

"That brat has been down there for over a month. Why hasn't he come out yet?"

He could not sense what was happening inside the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well at all, especially since Liu Bai had dived so deeply.

Though somewhat puzzled, he was not particularly worried. It was not Liu Bai's first or second time entering the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to cultivate. Every time he emerged, his strength would soar.

Over the past few years, Dugu Bo's strength had also advanced by leaps and bounds with Liu Bai's help. Liu Bai had given him plenty of cultivation methods and Dou Techniques alike.

Moreover, Liu Bai had somehow learned alchemy. With the help of the pills he occasionally refined over the past few years, Dugu Bo's Soul Power Level had successfully broken through to level ninety-five.

This was advancement at the Title Douluo level. The gap between every level of a Title Douluo was enormous, especially after level ninety-five.

Though Dugu Bo was only level ninety-five, because of his cultivation method, his Soul Power was several times more abundant and refined than that of an ordinary level ninety-five. Combined with several Dou Techniques, his true combat strength far exceeded level ninety-five.

After taking only a few glances, Dugu Bo closed his eyes and continued cultivating.

Days passed, and another month went by.

That day.

Glug~

Dugu Bo instantly opened his eyes. The Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, which had been silent for two months, suddenly began to churn.

Dugu Bo immediately exited his cultivation state.

"That brat finally made some movement. Two months... I thought he was planning to live down there."

The next moment, a powerful aura erupted from within the spring!

Dugu Bo hurriedly dodged the splashing spring water!

He could not afford to touch that water.

"What a powerful aura. What exactly is that brat doing?"

Deep within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, at the boundary between the milky-white and crimson waters, Liu Bai floated cross-legged with his eyes shut. His entire aura had reached a profound state of stillness.

The outside appeared calm, but inside his body, an earth-shaking storm of energy and transformation was underway!

The Red Spirit Divine Mantra operated at full force, drawing the endless extreme ice and fire energy within the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well into his body like two violent rivers.

This energy was a hundred times purer and more tyrannical than ordinary energy of heaven and earth. If Liu Bai had not already undergone Ice and Fire Golden Body Refinement, with every inch of his body tempered by ice and fire, and with the medicinal effects of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot balancing each other out, his body would likely have burst apart instantly under this violent energy.

At this moment, the incoming ice and fire energy did not directly strike his meridians. Instead, the Red Spirit Divine Mantra skillfully transformed it into an incomparably vast yet balanced and gentle Dou Qi. It surged along the cultivation route before finally pouring into the vortex in his dantian.

Within his dantian, the diamond-shaped Dou Crystal that had continuously grown alongside his cultivation now shone with a dazzling brilliance, like a miniature sun!

It greedily devoured the pure Dou Qi flowing endlessly through his meridians. Its size slowly expanded and condensed at a visible rate, while its radiance grew ever brighter.

Level Ninety-Five Dugu Bo, Encountering Ning Rongrong

The energy accumulation needed to advance from the peak of Da Dou Shi to Dou Ling was terrifying!

It was a qualitative leap, the initial sublimation of one's very life level. The total amount of energy required was nearly equivalent to the sum of all previous levels combined!

Though the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well could provide endless energy, Liu Bai's absorption and conversion speed, as well as the capacity limit of the Dou Crystal in his dantian, still required time to adapt and break through.

This process took him a full month.

Liu Bai seemed to have turned into a stone statue. Other than the occasional slight tremor of his body from the impact of the energy, there was no other movement.

All his spiritual power had sunk into his body, meticulously controlling the movement of every strand of energy, guiding it to scour and temper his meridians, bones, and internal organs before finally pouring into his dantian to nourish the Dou Crystal.