Douluo Continent!
Deep in Mount Yan!
Xiao Ran sat cross-legged on a large boulder, working out a Foundation Establishment cultivation art suited to Qian Renxue. He needed to account for her actual physical condition, make bold assumptions, verify them carefully, and finally put them into practice.
It was no easy task.
Suddenly, that familiar ding rang in his ears:
[Ding! A major deviation in the Douluo Continent storyline has been detected. Tang Chen, demigod, Chief Elder of the Clear Sky Sect, King of Slaughter of Slaughter City, and successor to the Asura God, has died at Qian Daoliu's hands. Rewarding the host with one Cultivation Empowerment.]
Xiao Ran opened his eyes, somewhat stunned.
Who?
Tang Chen!
How had he come out of Slaughter City too? And he'd actually died at Qian Daoliu's hands.
Just how far had the Douluo Continent storyline veered off course?
But as far as Xiao Ran was concerned...
Let it veer. The farther, the better.
Deviations in the Douluo Continent storyline were the catalyst for his cultivation to skyrocket.
A stream of pure energy coalesced out of nothingness and poured into Xiao Ran's body, circulating through his meridians before finally merging into the Ancestral Dragon Breathing Art.
Early Golden Core!
Middle Golden Core!
Late Golden Core!
Shattering the core to form a nascent soul!
Within Xiao Ran's dantian, countless spiderweb cracks spread across his brilliantly golden, perfectly rounded golden core with a series of sharp cracks.
The fluctuations of magic power, compressed to their utmost limit, were like a volcano on the verge of erupting.
Until, with a boom!
The golden core shattered completely!
Xiao Ran let out a muffled grunt. Rather than falling, his cultivation took another step beyond the top of the hundred-foot pole.
An infant formed from magic power, its features