Outside Green Mountain Town, in a mountain village, a little girl in green searched the forest for medicinal herbs.
Hearing the sound of pages turning by her ear, the little girl's eyes narrowed before she froze. A flash of disbelief crossed her bright, watery eyes.
"Brother Casanova is actually giving me an Earth-tier Dou Technique!"
"Although Brother is a playboy, he doesn't seem like a bad person!"
The little girl murmuring to herself was none other than Xiao Yi Xian.
Though she was still young, being called his wife by Cang Lan had made her delicate little face flush red.
"Where is the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion?"
"I'm an orphan now. I really want to go see that handsome, playboy big brother!"
"But... I don't want to marry him and become his wife in the future!"
The Xiao Clan.
Xun'er pursed her lips, her unhappiness written all over her face.
"Why didn't he ask whether I wanted it before giving it to someone else?"
"That's an Earth-tier Flying Dou Technique..."
Although she was a young lady of the Ancient Clan, Flying Dou Techniques were exceedingly rare. And at the Earth tier, even if she went to beg her father now, he would only think she was being unreasonable!
"Hmph! I don't care for your Earth-tier Dou Technique anyway. You don't look like a decent person at all!"
Seeing what came next, Xun'er immediately became indignant.
Not only had Cang Lan shown no respect for her father, he even wanted to spread his affection around!
Besides.
What decent person would make such a strange laugh?
After thinking for a while, Xun'er propped up her cheek, and those strange images surfaced in her mind once more!
Naturally, Cang Lan within the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion knew nothing of what was happening outside.
After writing his diary, he quickly calmed his mind.
Of the four rewards, the only one that satisfied Cang Lan was the Nine-Colored Spirit Nurturing Lotus.
The Dou Qi within the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion was so dense it had turned liquid. Cultivating here was certainly far faster than in the outside world.
The Nine-Colored Spirit Nurturing Lotus could gather energy from a hundred li around it and increase cultivation speed tenfold.
A tenfold increase in cultivation speed was not particularly exaggerated!
But when paired with One Qi Transforms into Three Thousand, the boost would become thirty thousand times cultivation speed!
With thirty thousand times cultivation speed, anyone could simply gulp down heaven and earth energy every day and eventually break through to the Dou Di realm.
With a trace of anticipation, Cang Lan silently said, "Extract the divine item!"
At a thought from Cang Lan, an azure ball of light appeared above his palm.
The next moment, a crack split open across the ball of light, as though something was about to break free from its shell.
Crack—
As the first crack appeared, more faint cracking sounds followed. A dazzling multicolored radiance suddenly shot out from the blue ball of light, like brilliant neon.
After only an instant, the ball of light completely shattered.
In its place, rosy light filled the sky, piercing through the thin mist and dyeing the heavens in vibrant colors.
The mist drifted dreamily, beautiful beyond compare. Standing within it felt like entering an immortal realm!
As he watched the Nine-Colored Divine Lotus in his hand, over three feet tall, slowly bloom, Cang Lan's eyes lit up.
Looks were justice!
Each of its nine petals carried a dreamy, otherworldly hue. Only after the divine lotus had fully blossomed did the strange phenomenon between heaven and earth finally fade away.
What appeared before Cang Lan once more was a lotus carrying a faint, elegant fragrance and emitting a soft glow.
Whoosh—
As the divine lotus bloomed, the thin mist between heaven and earth suddenly surged. Fierce winds swept in from all directions toward the divine lotus.
A strong wind revealed the strength of the grass. This terrifying energy storm turned the endless grassland into the surface of a lake, with waves rising and falling as far as the eye could see!
Splash—
The ethereal mist formed from heaven and earth energy collided and condensed amid the gale. Several breaths later, a torrential rain of energy poured down from the sky.
Vast and ancient energy washed over the heavens, while the drifting mist transformed into a downpour that fell like a curtain of water hanging from the sky.
Standing within it, even without actively circulating his cultivation technique, the vast and violently surging energy poured into Cang Lan's body through every pore.
The unrefined heaven and earth energy was as violent as a powerful tonic, stabbing pain into every cell.
His meridians also began to ache with a sluggish, blocked sensation under the violent impact of the chaotic energy of heaven and earth.
Standing beneath the curtain of energy rain, Cang Lan circulated the Blazing Flame Divine Art.
As the god-tier cultivation art began to operate, the dull pain and blockage in his meridians showed faint signs of easing.
With the tenfold cultivation speed brought by the Nine-Colored Divine Lotus, in just over ten minutes, Cang Lan's cultivation directly broke through to Two-star Dou Huang.
At the same time, an intense swelling pain followed!
At that moment, his body felt like a balloon on the verge of exploding. If he continued cultivating by force, it would not be long before he exploded and died!
Leaving the Nine-Colored Spirit Nurturing Lotus within the rain curtain, Cang Lan flashed out, leaving fifteen hundred clones inside to cultivate on their own.
"Bang—"
The moment after Cang Lan left, the clones within the rain curtain successively broke through to One-star Great Dou Master, then immediately burst apart.
The fifteen hundred clones exploded one after another, turning into clusters of pure energy that drifted toward Cang Lan.
As the energy cultivated by his clones fed back into his body, Cang Lan's aura abruptly surged.
"Bang—"
The next moment, a muffled boom rang out from within Cang Lan's body. His cultivation, which had only just broken through to Two-star Dou Huang, directly rose to Three-star Dou Huang!
"Hiss—"
His cultivation had suddenly risen by two stars, causing the meridians in Cang Lan's body to violently expand. The agonizing pain of being stretched from within made a bead of cold sweat the size of a soybean appear on his forehead!
Pain!
Cang Lan sucked in a breath of cold air, and that single word was written all over his stiff face.
Enduring the pain, he took a step away. Only after moving far from the Divine Lotus did Cang Lan sit down and circulate his cultivation art!
The closer he was, the more the chaotic energy between heaven and earth would still forcibly pour into his body!
As Cang Lan regulated his breathing and meditated, it was not until half a day later that the excruciating pain, like having his veins pulled out like shrimp veins, eased somewhat, leaving him able to walk normally without much trouble!
Good thing he had sent fifteen hundred clones out to search for the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill.
Otherwise, with them added to the Nine-Colored Spirit Nurturing Lotus's tenfold cultivation speed!
This time, even if he did not burst from being overstuffed—
He would probably have been painfully killed on the spot!
Summoning his diary, Cang Lan recorded his "narrow escape from disaster"!
Whew, that was close...! I almost got taken out just now!
The Dou Qi inside the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion is far too overbearing. Good thing I was clever and only used half of my Thirty Thousand Times Cultivation Speed!
Even cultivating so conservatively, I nearly never got to see my wives again!
Sure enough, in cultivation, haste makes waste. Taking things one step at a time is the proper path of cultivation!
I spent a little over ten minutes rising to Three-star Dou Huang, only to trade it for a body full of agonizing pain. Totally not worth it!
Honestly, this is miserable!
I'm setting a flag as a warning to myself: from today onward, I shall be irreconcilable enemies with diligent cultivation!
Enduring the pain, Cang Lan made this solemn vow in his heart.
Once the Thirty Thousand Times Cultivation Speed was fully activated—
If he continued cultivating himself, exploding to death would only be a matter of time!
The women: !!!???
"Listen to that. Is that something a human being could say?"
The women found it unbelievable and silently grumbled to themselves.
Thirty Thousand Times Cultivation Speed—was this what it meant to be a cheat user?
What did he mean by rising from One-star Dou Huang to Three-star Dou Huang in just over ten minutes?
What was infuriating was that Cang Lan was actually dissatisfied with it?
For them, who needed months or even years to rise by a single star, were they supposed to just die?
At that moment, as they read Cang Lan's diary, the women's inner voices were astonishingly unanimous!
"Please, just be human!"
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