Three days later.
After obtaining the Fire Bead, Xiao Yu encountered another Fire Lizard at the Two-Star Dou Zong level. Unsurprisingly, he finished it off within a few exchanges.
Xiao Yu then refined the two Fire Beads, taking another step toward Two-Star Dou Zong. His foundation was simply too deep, however. The Fire Beads, which could have raised an ordinary low-level Dou Zong by one star, only brought him to the middle of One-Star.
He had known that his progress would slow after reaching Dou Zong, but he had never expected it to be this absurd.
I should finish tempering my body with the heart flame here in the Magma World. With so much fire energy around, its effects should be a little better.
Xiao Yu gazed out over the endless magma as he considered this.
To avoid being disturbed by the Fire Lizards, Xiao Yu concealed his aura with the Myriad Transformation Flame, which he had not used in a long time.
There were simply too many of those creatures. The first Dou Emperor Fire Lizard he had encountered had been alone, which was manageable. But the Dou Zong Fire Lizards he met afterward had brought dozens of Dou Wang Fire Lizards and several Dou Emperor ones with them.
Just clearing them out had taken Xiao Yu quite some time. Moreover, he believed that the Fire Lizards he had encountered were only a tiny fraction of their numbers. Countless more probably lurked within that boundless sea of magma.
The Myriad Transformation Flame replaced the golden light dao flame, forming a ring around Xiao Yu and completely concealing his aura.
Taking out the Fire Beads he had obtained from killing the Fire Lizards, along with the origin Fire Bead of the fallen heart flame, Xiao Yu sat cross-legged and