Ten days later.
Chu Lan made an antidote for Dugu Bo, suppressing and channeling away the toxins.
The Natal Poison Pill became the vessel for the toxins within Dugu Bo's body!
The process went fairly smoothly!
The result was fairly satisfying!
During this time, Dugu Yan used half of the Ice-Fire Immortal Herb and tempered her body, raising her Soul Power to level thirty. She then absorbed her third Soul Ring and became a Soul Elder.
Her third soul skill was Jade Phosphor Ice Poison.
Unlike in the original work, it possessed an ice attribute and could condense into tiny ice crystals.
Her Soul Power had also reached level thirty-two!
Afterward.
She also used the Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone!
Her cultivation soared once more!
Dugu Yan's Soul Power had now reached level thirty-nine!
Ten days ago, she had only been level twenty-nine.
With normal cultivation, those ten levels of Soul Power would have taken Dugu Yan at least four years!
Chu Lan successively used the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and the Ice-Fire Immortal Herb, opening up his Eight Extraordinary Meridians.
His Soul Power had also reached level twenty-seven.
However...
The Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum and the Ice-Fire Immortal Herb alone were nowhere near enough to satisfy his appetite!
He immediately used two more immortal herbs: the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and the Primal Unity Immortal Herb!
His spiritual power surged, and his Purple Demon Eyes advanced.
His Soul Power leaped directly from level twenty-seven to level thirty. Chu Lan believed that once he added a third Soul Ring to Tiger Soul, his cultivation would soar again!
Chu Lan had originally intended to search for a soul beast in the Star Dou Great Forest.
Just like last time.
After all!
Whether in quantity or strength, the soul beasts in Sunset Forest were inferior to those in the Star Dou Great Forest.
However...
While searching for Dugu Yan's third Soul Ring, he encountered a six- or seven-thousand-year-old Sacred Nether White Tiger!
It was likewise an exceptionally rare soul beast!
Extremely powerful!
Chu Lan had no way to seal the Sacred Nether White Tiger's Soul Ring energy and could only endure it with his body.
Fortunately!
He had used two portions of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber, undergone ice-fire body tempering, and consumed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
He had already laid down a solid foundation!
Chu Lan even brought the Soul Ring to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to absorb it, using the energy field inherent to the well itself to weaken the Soul Ring's pressure!
Only then did he absorb the Soul Ring without mishap!
And gained an astonishing augmentation-type soul skill. Once activated—
It could raise Soul Power and spiritual power by fifty percent!
Strength, speed, and defense increased by two hundred and fifty percent!
It granted immunity to negative statuses!
Soul skill consumption was reduced by fifty percent!
And the power of soul skills increased by fifty percent!
Even Dugu Bo had to marvel at how powerful the soul skill the Sacred Nether White Tiger gave Chu Lan was!
After adding the third Soul Ring to Tiger Soul, Chu Lan's Soul Power soared just as he had expected!
Level thirty-nine!
The same as Dugu Yan's current level!
After bidding farewell to Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, Chu Lan returned to Moonlight Pavilion after many days.
As for Heaven Dou Royal Academy... missing ten days or half a month would not be a problem.
"Master~"
The moment Chu Lan arrived, Tang Yuehua received word.
"Master, my elder brother Tang Xiao came by during the past ten-odd days you were away."
"Oh?"
Chu Lan frowned tightly.
Of course, he was not surprised by this.
The Clear Sky Sect was constrained by Spirit Hall, and while its disciples could not openly appear before the world, it was still easy for a Titled Douluo to leave the sect and enter the outside world without being noticed.
The top floor of Moonlight Pavilion.
Chu Lan asked, "What did you talk about?"
Tang Yuehua poured Chu Lan a cup of fragrant tea and explained gently, "Because I had not sent any messages or resources back to the sect for a year, my elder brother feared that something might have happened here, so he came to take a look."
Chu Lan gave Tang Yuehua a suspicious glance and asked meaningfully,
"Then... did anything happen here?"
"Of course not." Tang Yuehua appeared especially clingy. Like a kitten begging for her master's touch, she took the initiative to press herself against Chu Lan's side.
Chu Lan said sternly, "From now on, keep doing things as you did before. Do not let your elder brother grow suspicious again. I do not want him appearing here anymore."
Tang Yuehua replied, "Yes, this servant obeys."
Chu Lan waved a hand.
Tang Yuehua understood and slowly withdrew.
Chu Lan was secretly alarmed.
If Tang Xiao learned that he had controlled Tang Yuehua, the consequences would be impossible to predict.
He could control Tang Yuehua, Xue Beng, and the others because they were too weak!
Tang Xiao was entirely different!
Control a Titled Douluo? Chu Lan did not believe he had that ability yet!
"I was busy in Sunset Forest the whole time and had no chance to travel to other worlds. I wasted so many opportunities. Who knows how many good things I missed out on."
Chu Lan let out a sigh.
Although he had often returned empty-handed before, he still felt that he had lost out badly.
He had been robbed blind!
To guard against danger, Chu Lan summoned Tiger Soul in advance before crossing into another world.
Whoosh!
[Divine Weapons and Strange World]
An ancient and magnificent ice palace stood before him. There were no lamps or flames within, yet the faint, frigid glow of the ice illuminated the hall.
Chu Lan suddenly appeared there.
Before him stood five enormous ice coffins, neatly arranged in a row.
The coffins were as translucent as jade, and each one held a strange corpse sealed within.
The instant his fingertips touched the ice—
Boom!!!
Images surged into his mind like a breached sea, forcibly flooding his consciousness!
Chu Lan's awareness instantly sank into them.
At the Zhuolu Ancient Battlefield, blood stained the earth crimson. The heavens split apart, mountains and rivers overturned.
A towering demonic god stood between heaven and earth, and the weapon in his hand was identical to the Tiger Soul in Chu Lan's grasp!
"Could it be..."
Chu Lan's mind shook violently.
Chi You!?
Gods and demons battled chaotically across the sky. The firmament exploded, thunder crashed down, and a sea of blood surged to the heavens.
Tiger Soul's blade force split heaven and earth, its might shaking all eight directions!
Scene after scene surfaced and replayed within Chu Lan's consciousness before finally being branded deep into his soul.
A tsunami soared into the sky as the vast sea overturned and countless waves swept forth!
Towering mountains collapsed with a thunderous roar, while the earth cracked and peaks crumbled!
Wild winds swept through the nine heavens, scouring away all things!
Ice filled the sky, freezing mountains and rivers and sealing a hundred li in frost!
Heavenly fire spread across the plains, burning away all eight directions and scorching heaven and earth!
Every scene was terrifying beyond measure!
In that brief instant!
Chu Lan felt as if he had personally stood within every catastrophic natural disaster, experiencing each earth-destroying force of nature with absolute clarity.
Then!
The force trajectories, attack patterns, Soul Power circulation, and explosive techniques of all seven blade arts were forcibly branded deep into his consciousness!
Whoosh!
Five seconds were far too short. Chu Lan vanished from the ice palace and returned to Moonlight Pavilion!
However...
The images in his mind did not vanish with it.
Chu Lan remained immersed in his comprehension of the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Seven Great Limits Blade Technique.
After a long while.
He slowly opened his eyes, a sharp gleam flashing within them.
"Awesome!!!"
He had struck gold again, and Chu Lan was immensely excited.
Still exhilarated, he gripped Tiger Soul and began practicing the Swallowing Heaven and Earth Seven Great Limits blade technique according to the images in his mind.
Like a sponge, he crazily absorbed the essence of the blade art.
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