Sunset Forest Training

For the next stretch of time, Yang Xiong trained entirely within Sunset Forest. He had traversed nearly every part of it and encountered all kinds of soul beasts.

However, given Yang Xiong's current Soul Power Level, he basically ran for his life whenever he saw a high-level soul beast. Since he had learned Teleportation through his First Soul Skill, Dark Tortoise Displacement, he could escape immediately as long as he did not encounter a soul beast that was too fast.

Especially after repeated training, he became increasingly proficient with Teleportation. Even when he truly encountered danger, he could use Dark Tortoise Armor to evade attacks from Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. As for Ten Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, Yang Xiong would leave at the first sign that something was wrong.

As for injuries, they were even less of a concern. Even if he was hurt, he only needed to use his Second Soul Skill, Golden Heart, after escaping to recover quickly. It could even immediately purge toxins from his body after he was attacked by poison-attributed soul beasts. This Second Soul Skill truly was excellent, worthy of having come from the top-tier soul beast, the Golden Spirit Cypress.

Sunset Forest truly contained an enormous variety of soul beasts, and Yang Xiong had personally seen quite a few excellent ones that might serve as his Soul Rings in the future. In particular, he had discovered a Unicorn Fire Tyrant Dragon with an extremely high cultivation, apparently over eight thousand years old. It was undoubtedly among the finest Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, but unfortunately, Yang Xiong would have to wait until his Fourth Soul Ring before he could absorb it.

However, for some unknown reason, although he had encountered Ten Thousand-Year Soul Beasts many times, Yang Xiong had always managed to flee desperately. Those Ten Thousand-Year Soul Beasts also did not seem particularly intent on pursuing him, which was rather strange.

Especially on several occasions when he had been driven into a desperate situation, the soul beasts chasing Yang Xiong had seemed to be lured away by something, or frightened off by something. Something felt off, as though someone had been helping him eliminate certain fatal dangers.

Still, through this training, Yang Xiong improved very quickly, whether in actual combat experience or Soul Power.

In particular, after enduring extreme mental strain every day, he would hide away and cultivate his Soul Power. Its growth rate remained quite fast. In less than two months, Yang Xiong's Soul Power had already reached level twenty-five. This training had apparently been worthwhile.

At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi could not help smiling as he looked at the letter on the table.

"Uncle Bone, that boy Yang Xiong is quite impressive. He has remained in Sunset Forest for a full two months, yet he has still managed to raise his Soul Power through cultivation. It seems his aptitude is even better than we imagined."

Bone Douluo snorted. "That brat is courting death. If we had not arranged for someone to protect him in secret, he would have been killed by those Ten Thousand-Year Soul Beasts long ago."

Ning Fengzhi shook his head. "You are underestimating Yang Xiong. Even without anyone secretly protecting him, he should be able to survive in Sunset Forest. Although I arranged for Ninth Elder to follow him in secret, he merely intimidated those Ten Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and helped him deal with fatal threats. With the cultivation of a Soul Grandmaster, he still has to face Thousand-Year Soul Beast attacks alone."

"You know Ninth Elder's temperament as well. He is extremely solitary in both conduct and dealings, and he is alone without children. If he did not truly value that boy, why would he care so much about Yang Xiong?"

Bone Douluo nodded. "With Ninth Elder protecting him, as long as the boy does not encounter a Titled Douluo-level expert or a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, preserving his life should not be a problem."

Ning Fengzhi nodded. "Ninth Elder sends back news every day. This child Yang Xiong has hidden himself quite deeply."

"Not only does he possess an External Soul Bone, but he also achieved thirteen consecutive victories in the Soul Duel Arena without relying on Soul Skills. In terms of combat power alone, he likely has no rival among Soul Grandmasters. He is comparable to talented youths with a Top-Grade Martial Soul like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon. Now he is surviving alone in Sunset Forest as well. It seems I still underestimated him."

"Uncle Bone, if you truly value Yang Xiong, you should move a little faster. If he keeps growing like this, Ninth Elder may well take him as a disciple."

Bone Douluo's face darkened at those words. "Although Yang Xiong has performed well, he has actually abandoned The Way of Defense. That truly disappoints me. I still want to observe the boy a while longer and see whether he really has the potential to protect our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect."

"As for Ninth Elder, no matter how strong he is, he is only a Soul Douluo. The gap between him and me is far too great."

Ning Fengzhi merely smiled without speaking. No matter what, the emergence of a genius in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect was a good thing, especially since Yang Xiong had performed even better than he expected. However, cultivating Yang Xiong from this point onward would likely require considerable thought.

From the first day Yang Xiong left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, someone had secretly followed and protected him. Moreover, this person was extremely powerful. This was how the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect valued outstanding geniuses, especially a genius like Yang Xiong, who had made immense contributions to the sect many times.

Yang Xiong calculated the days as he made his way through every relatively broad region of Sunset Forest.

That morning, Yang Xiong arrived at a very strange place.

It was an inverted cone-shaped mountain hollow. Dense heat seemed to rise from within it, while the entire hollow appeared shrouded in a black-green aura, making it impossible to see its exact condition.

Yet merely standing at a distance, Yang Xiong could tell that the green aura was a deadly poison. It even faintly contained toxins of both the Ice Attribute and Fire Attribute.

Yang Xiong had forged his body amid Ice Attribute and Fire Attribute conditions for years. His body had long developed a certain resistance to ice and fire, and he was extremely sensitive to such attributes.

Yang Xiong was instantly overjoyed. He had searched all of Sunset Forest and had finally found the true objective of this journey.

"The Ice Fire Yin Yang Well. This must be the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well. I never expected everything to come so effortlessly."

In all of Douluo World, the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well was truly a place capable of defying fate and changing one's destiny. It was also the greatest treasure on all Douluo Continent.

Although Yang Xiong had read many books over the years and learned a great deal of knowledge about Medicinal Herbs, he knew absolutely nothing about treating people and possessed no medical knowledge at all.

Thus, Yang Xiong had long abandoned the idea of obtaining Immortal Herbs by treating Dugu Bo.

Dugu Bo in particular was temperamental and killed people at the slightest displeasure. He would not care that Yang Xiong was an inner disciple of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would not truly offend Dugu Bo for his sake.

As for approaching Dugu Yan, that was even less realistic. Not only was Dugu Yan already Yu Tianheng's Girlfriend, but Dugu Bo had not given anything to Yu Tianheng, his prospective grandson-in-law, either. Otherwise, with Yu Tianheng's potential and background, casually consuming a single Immortal Herb would have made him countless times stronger than he was now.

Do not say that Dugu Bo did not recognize Immortal Herbs. Dugu Bo himself had tried countless methods to remove the Martial Soul Poison from his body, so he had definitely read many Heaven Dou Empire collections concerning Medicinal Herbs.

Besides Immortal Herbs, the Ice Fire Yin Yang Well also contained many top-grade Medicinal Herbs, such as Ten Thousand Year Ginseng and Ten Thousand Year Snow Silkworm. Anyone with even a basic understanding of medicine would know their value.