Wielding the Three Desires as Though No One Could Stand in His Way, the Ice-Fire Demon Tiger!

"Aunt Leng, will Su Xun really be all right going in alone?"

"Maybe I should go with him!"

Na'er huddled behind Leng Yaozhu, but her eyes kept stealing peeks.

Leng Yaozhu rapped Na'er on the head in exasperation.

"Still peeking?!"

As she spoke, she pushed Na'er's head back behind her.

Na'er refused to accept that.

"You're allowed to look, Aunt Leng, so why can't I?"

"That's a double standard!"

Leng Yaozhu neither blushed nor missed a beat.

"I've walked more roads than you've eaten meals. What haven't I seen?"

"Besides, Little Xun is my disciple."

"He practically grew up in my arms when he was little."

"How can you compare yourself to me?"

"Behave!"

Listening beside them, Su Xun went numb.

Seriously!

Am I even a person to you?!

Are you treating me like a monkey on display?

He felt that his dignity had suffered a tremendous insult!

The next instant, Leng Yaozhu shot him a displeased glare.

"What are you standing around for? Hurry up and strip!"

"...Right away."

With his back to them, Su Xun briskly took off his clothes, then lay down in the connection pod.

He was entering the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform to try to raise both Night Owl and Little Abao to the ten-thousand-year level.

And entering the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform required him to be naked.

Wow, how come his is perkier than mine?

Na'er's thought reached his ears, and Su Xun's face instantly darkened.

Before he could teach the little girl a lesson, the connection pod had already closed. Its glass cover turned frosted, blurring the view outside.

At the same time, "tentacles" descended, drawing his consciousness into the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform.

The Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform's environment was modeled after the mixed zone of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Compared to the outskirts, the environment was not all that different; it merely covered a larger area.

The fundamental difference, however, lay in the cultivation levels of the soul beasts within.

The soul beasts in the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform all had cultivation levels above thirteen thousand years.

There were also a small number of ten-thousand-year soul beasts.

Before he could take a careful look around, every faint sound nearby had already reached his ears.

Fortunately, before entering, he had spent some time adjusting and could now filter sounds roughly.

Thus, as the sounds reached his ears-

His multicolored eyes swept over his surroundings, taking in everything within three hundred meters with perfect clarity.

He immediately locked onto a Wind Baboon just over three thousand years old.

He used no soul skill.

Relying solely on the enormous disparity in spiritual power, Su Xun mobilized the power of the three desires-eyes, ears, and body-and forcibly erased himself from the Wind Baboon's sight.

Then he simply strolled toward the Wind Baboon.

The sounds of his feet treading on dead branches and fallen leaves spread through the air, yet the Wind Baboon noticed nothing.

Only when Su Xun was mere meters away-

Did it sniff lightly and detect an unfamiliar scent.

By then, however, a faint glow already radiated from Su Xun. His Divine Dragon Qi flared to life, black-and-white qi flowing throughout his body.

Bang!

The dead branches and fallen leaves exploded as Su Xun pushed off and abruptly shot forward.

At such close range, his scent grew stronger, but the Wind Baboon could neither see where Su Xun was nor hear his movements.

Fortunately for it, air currents had begun swirling around its body the moment it sensed something amiss.

Following the wind's guidance, it finally detected Su Xun's position. With a furious roar, it swung its long arm, gathering the air currents into a wind vortex that came smashing down with a howl.

The next instant, Su Xun's figure finally appeared in what had been empty space before its eyes.

Yet the Wind Vortex Fist it took such pride in exploded with a boom beneath Su Xun's plain, unadorned fist, empowered by Divine Dragon Qi.

A look of stunned disbelief appeared on the Wind Baboon's face.

Terrifying force surged into its body, blasting its entire right arm apart in a spray of blood.

The Wind Baboon flew backward like a kite with its string cut, smashing an ancient tree clean in two.

Then its neck lolled to one side, and it breathed its last.

Its body dissipated, becoming a mass of purple spiritual energy that flew toward Su Xun, merged into his body, and was divided among his three soul spirits.

"At the Soul Elder level, the ratio has already dropped to one-thirtieth. A three-thousand-year soul beast only gives a mere hundred-year increase."

Su Xun murmured, though he hardly found it difficult.

Among his three soul spirits, even Night Owl, whose spiritual-energy cultivation was the lowest, was already over eight thousand years old.

Here in the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform, where even the weakest beasts started at three thousand years, killing another dozen or so would pretty much do it.

As that thought passed through his mind, Su Xun used his control over the three desires of eyes, ears, and body to roam the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform's outer region as though no one could stand in his way.

From those soul beasts' perspective, a person would inexplicably pop up beside them, thrash them like spinning tops, and send them straight to their deaths.

Inside the connection room, Leng Yaozhu and Na'er watched Su Xun wield the three desires within the Spirit Ascension Platform, astonishment written all over their faces.

"Aunt Leng, could Su Xun be some ferocious beast in human form?!"

Na'er was utterly bewildered. She felt that Su Xun simply could not be human.

Leng Yaozhu replied irritably:

"I think you're the one who looks like a ferocious beast in human form."

"With my Spirit Domain Realm spiritual power, do you think I couldn't tell whether he was human?"

"You're so talented. If you didn't spend every day thinking about food, you might not be much worse than Little Xun right now."

"You're always looking for excuses."

Na'er immediately puffed out her cheeks in defiance.

"You're playing favorites again and again and again, Aunt Leng! Su Xun isn't even human. How can I compare to him?!"

Leng Yaozhu was speechless, then unleashed her ultimate move:

"Keep spouting nonsense, and you won't be allowed to eat for three days."

Na'er's eyes widened in shock. At the same time, she instinctively clapped both hands over her mouth, her expression declaring that she would never speak again.

Seeing this, Leng Yaozhu gave a little snort. As if I couldn't keep you in line!

Inside the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform, Su Xun repeated the same method, and soul beast after soul beast fell at his hands.

Although he had only a rudimentary grasp of Divine Dragon Qi, its enhancement perfectly concentrated and unleashed the already terrifying physical strength he possessed after activating his body root.

Combined with his advantage in spiritual power and his control over the three desires, he held the initiative completely.

Before long, Little Abao, whose spiritual-energy cultivation had already been about a thousand years higher, was the first to advance to the ten-thousand-year level.

"Staying on the outskirts is still too slow. Let's try going deeper."

After recovering some soul power, Su Xun headed farther in.

With his eyes and ears working together, even without the Spiritual Detection skill, his sweeping spiritual power still achieved a similar effect.

And its detection range was far from small.

When focused in a single direction, it could even reach beyond a thousand meters!

Everything around him was thus under his control.

Before long, several more soul beasts fell at his hands, leaving Night Owl just over a hundred years short of advancing to the ten-thousand-year level.

Su Xun pressed on without letting up, searching for his next target.

Whoosh-

Suddenly, the sound of violently disturbed air reached Su Xun's ears.

He raised an eyebrow and looked in a particular direction.

There, a demon tiger roughly six meters long leaped up and glided through the air. Dark-purple markings covered its tawny fur, its eyes were one blue and one red, and the wings on its back were likewise one blue and one red.

Its eerie eyes scanned the ground below, as though patrolling its territory.

This was an Ice-Fire Demon Tiger!

Judging by its size and the aura it emitted, its cultivation was probably over four thousand years.

You're the one!

With a slight shift of thought, Su Xun stirred his spiritual power. His body blended into the surrounding illusion, and the sounds produced by his movements were erased as well.