Purple Extreme Astral Thunder, Dark Cinder Baleflame

Before Xiao Yu could finish savoring the pleasure, a peculiar sensation welled up within him.

Joy stirred in Xiao Yu's heart. This sensation was very familiar; it appeared every time he broke through a major rank.

He hurriedly held his breath and focused, reining in his Dou Qi as he waited for his body to change.

An aura of supreme yang and unyielding strength radiated from Xiao Yu's body. Purple vapor began spilling out, enveloping him.

Within that vapor, bolts of intensely purple lightning flickered, leaving trails of purple astral energy wherever they passed.

A tremor rose from his soul. Xiao Yu's eyes widened involuntarily, purple vapor pouring from his left eye as lightning crisscrossed within it.

"Purple Extreme Astral Thunder!"

A voice thundered in his mind. In an instant, purple thunder erupted throughout the cave, filling it with dazzling light as though he were bathing in a sea of lightning.

Just then, an opposing aura of extreme corrosion emerged, and dark-gray baleful energy surged from his body.

Deep-gray flames sprang into being within that baleful energy, igniting all over Xiao Yu's body. Baleful energy poured from his right eye, gray flames dancing within its depths.

"Dark Cinder Baleflame!"

Purple lightning crackled as it blasted every corner of the cave, while the deep-gray flames burned the massive rock beneath Xiao Yu into nothingness.

More than an hour passed before the two powers began retreating into Xiao Yu's body, and both his eyes returned to normal.

"Hah, hah, hah..."

Gasping for breath, Xiao Yu finally emerged from that peculiar state.

Only after recovering his senses did Xiao Yu begin examining the condition of his body.

With practiced ease, he circulated his Dou Qi, drawing two powers-one purple, one dark-from the Dou Qi Golden Core in his Dantian and gathering them in his hands.

Purple lightning coiled around his left hand, its radiance bathing the entire left side of Xiao Yu's body and the space beside it in purple!

Deep-gray flames ignited in his right hand. The space to Xiao Yu's right seemed to lose all color, leaving only the deepest gray!

"Purple Extreme Astral Thunder! Dark Cinder Baleflame!"

These were the new Divine Thunder and Origin Flame born after Xiao Yu broke through to Dou Ling!

Xiao Yu began studying his new Divine Thunder Origin Flame, drawing out information about it.

Purple Extreme Astral Thunder possessed vast, resplendent might that shook the heavens and cowed the earth. This ultimate heavenly lightning could transform into purple extreme astral energy; beneath its heavenly might, souls perished and spirits were swept away!

This Divine Thunder specifically targeted the soul. Beneath its blazing heavenly majesty, the souls of all living beings trembled in terror. Its heavenly lightning struck the soul directly, scattering it into oblivion in an instant.

Its power far surpassed that of the previous three varieties of Divine Thunder. Even Blue-Silver Cold Lightning fell short of Purple Extreme Astral Thunder in its lethality against living beings. After all, this thunder could target the soul and deal it a devastating blow.

If the other varieties of Divine Thunder could only inflict physical damage on an enemy's body, then Purple Extreme Astral Thunder could inflict both physical damage and magical attacks against their soul.

Dark Cinder Baleflame bore the earth's baleful power from the ninefold nether depths, its dark cinders shrouded in gloom. Born from the netherworld, this baleful fire could transform into dark cinder baleful energy, corroding all things and contaminating and eroding others' power, throwing their entire bodies into chaos!

This flame specifically targeted the fundamental essence. Beneath its netherworld cinders, nothing escaped corrosion; even the slightest contact posed a mortal danger.

Beyond a flame's inherent ability to burn all things, it could also inflict irreversible corrosive damage. Unless Xiao Yu withdrew it himself, not even time could undo its erosion.

Unfortunately, Xiao Yu still could not bring out the full power of his new Divine Thunder Origin Flame.

Even now, the ones Xiao Yu had mastered most thoroughly were his first Origin Flame and Divine Thunder. As for the others, he probably could not unleash even twenty or thirty percent of their power.

That made sense. Xiao Yu was only a Dou Ling now. Even if he were given a treasure as great as the heavens, he would struggle to control it and unleash its power.

It was like giving a sharp blade to a three-year-old child. If the child could not even hold it steady, how could they wield it?

He still had a long road ahead in mastering the Divine Thunder Origin Flame. He also believed that once he fully mastered it, nothing on the Dou Qi Continent would be able to threaten him.

Even if he went to the Great Thousand World, he would likely have no equal.

Putting away his Origin Flame and Divine Thunder, Xiao Yu left the cave.

Outside, the sun shone brilliantly over verdant mountains and clear waters, with birds singing amid fragrant flowers.

"If I had nothing tying me down, living here in seclusion wouldn't be bad."

Drawing a breath of fresh air, Xiao Yu praised the surroundings of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Then he darted off into the distance, moving several times faster than before.

The gap between a Dou Ling and a Da Dou Shi was anything but small. His current Dou Qi reserves were more than ten times what they had been as a Da Dou Shi.

If he encountered the Wind-Piercing Eagle again, even if he could not defeat it, he would not end up in such a sorry state as before.

With his newly acquired Divine Thunder Origin Flame, turning the tables and killing the Wind-Piercing Eagle was not impossible.

Even without Purple Extreme Astral Thunder and Dark Cinder Baleflame, Blue-Silver Cold Lightning and Extreme-Breaking Ice Flame alone would give it plenty to choke on.

Considering his current Dou Qi reserves, he could unleash the attack that had frozen the Wind-Piercing Eagle more than a dozen times in succession.

If he bombarded a single target with Blue-Silver Cold Lightning and Extreme-Breaking Ice Flame as though they cost nothing, that baptism of ice and fire would be more than anyone could handle.

Xiao Yu held a bit of a grudge, too. If he encountered the Wind-Piercing Eagle again, he might just go head-to-head with it and let it taste what being wounded felt like.

"Next, I'll gather some more medicinal ingredients and see if I can find what I need to refine the Mystic Essence Pill. Then I can leave the Magical Beast Mountain Range."

As he darted through the forest, Xiao Yu settled on his next plan and put it into action.

Only one year remained until the Three-Year Agreement. To reach Dou Wang within that year, the Mystic Essence Pill was indispensable!

Having advanced to Dou Ling, Xiao Yu was like a fish in water within the depths of the Magical Beast Mountain Range. Fifth-order magical beasts could no longer threaten him.

Lightning-affinity Dou Zhe were not only formidable in strength, but exceptional in speed as well. They could match wind-affinity Dou Zhe, and even held a slight edge.

Ordinary lightning-affinity Dou Zhe were faster than wind-affinity Dou Zhe in explosive bursts, though their endurance fell slightly short.

But that limitation did not apply to Xiao Yu. His terrifying Dou Qi reserves were beyond those of an ordinary Dou Ling. Perhaps only a Dou Wang could compare with him.

Thus, with his speed, he could easily escape even a fifth-order magical beast. If he encountered one like the Wind-Piercing Eagle, it would merely take a few extra tricks.

And it was not as though he lacked the strength to fight. As for whether he could win, he did not know-he had never tried, and he would not risk trying.

Over the following days, Xiao Yu also used Three Thousand Puppet Thunders to control more than a dozen fourth-order magical beasts that came looking for trouble, making them search for medicinal ingredients for him.

He had to admit that with more than a dozen workers under his command, gathering medicinal ingredients was indeed much faster.

In just a dozen or so days, he gathered as much as he previously had in two or three months.

During that time, he was also pursued by a fifth-order magical beast, the Spineburst Mad Ape, because Xiao Yu had enslaved one of its capable subordinates, a fourth-order magical beast called the Treasure-Seeking Ape.

Naturally, Xiao Yu would not give up such a special magical beast, one capable of sniffing out the aura of treasures. Thus, after a disagreement, man and beast began their chase.

But how could the Spineburst Mad Ape catch Xiao Yu? He also used the Myriad Transformation Flame to conceal his aura and those of the dozen or so magical beasts he controlled, easily leading them out of the Spineburst Mad Ape's territory.

While Xiao Yu was still feeling smug, little did he know that an overlord of the Magical Beast Mountain Range had already taken notice of him...