Moon-Gazing Palm? Forgotten Promise Palm!

"Fox Thought Technique!!"

As Tushan Rongrong cast her technique, Hai Bodong instantly found his body too stiff to move. He floated into the air, his limbs spread wide.

"What comes next might hurt a little. Bear with it..."

Tushan Rongrong produced dozens of silver needles from somewhere. Though the smile remained on her face, she sent a chill down his spine.

"Bring it on! What great winds and waves haven't I weathered? A little pain is noth-"

"Aaaah!!!!"

Yet in the very next second, reality slapped Hai Bodong squarely in the face. His screams rang throughout Mo City, and even ordinary passersby keenly felt the pain in his voice.

Inside the Ancient Map Shop, Tushan Rongrong inserted every last silver needle into Hai Bodong's many acupoints, including Tianchong, Qihai, Zhongshu, Lifeng, and Linghui.

These included the seven corporeal souls of the Dao. The stimulation acted directly upon the soul, provoking an instinctive reaction, so it was hardly surprising that Hai Bodong, who had experienced life and death, screamed so very loudly.

Hai Bodong's entire body had now been pricked into a hedgehog, a chilling sight to behold. Just hearing those sounds, Luo Yang did not dare take so much as a glance, afraid he would have nightmares that night.

During their days in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, whenever he had a "nightmare," Luo Yang had to throw himself into Sister Rongrong's unremarkably flat embrace, seeking that nonexistent sense of security...

Luo Yang pretended he had heard nothing and browsed here and there in Hai Bodong's shop, whiling away the boredom.

"Aaaah!!!"

The silver needles remained in Hai Bodong's body for nearly twenty-five minutes before a fierce ripple of power forced every last one out, sending them shooting into the rafters, walls, and bookshelves.

Fortunately, Tushan Rongrong had been prepared. She flashed in front of Luo Yang and lightly swept her sleeve, blocking the few silver needles flying toward him.

"Phew~ Sister Rongrong, thank goodness you were here. That really scared me to death..."

Luo Yang felt only a familiar fragrant breeze sweep toward him before the deadly silver needles fell to the floor. He patted his wildly pounding little heart, having nearly wet himself from "fright."

"Look at that tiny scrap of courage you've got." Tushan Rongrong looked at Luo Yang with a smile that seemed both teasing and doting.

After forcing out the silver needles, Hai Bodong briefly lost consciousness. Then his body suddenly began trembling violently. Fierce ripples of power rapidly spread from within him, shattering the surrounding tables and ice pillars with a series of cracks wherever they passed.

Tushan Rongrong mobilized her Demonic Power once more, smashing all the ripples spreading toward them into nothingness.

Hai Bodong seemed unaware of the destruction he had caused. After his body shook violently for a while, his aged face suddenly tensed, and strange, dark cyan power rapidly gathered at his forehead.

A moment later, it actually formed a tiny, dark purple serpent marking made of power... The serpent marking coiled upon Hai Bodong's forehead, firmly sealing the surging Dou Qi within him.

Moon-Gazing Palm!!

Once the needles' stimulation of his acupoints had taken full effect, Tushan Rongrong began the next step in removing the seal, delivering her signature Moon-Gazing Palm straight to the crown of Hai Bodong's head.

It was the only move she knew.

But as a certain expert had put it well, one need not fear someone who knew ten thousand palm techniques, only someone who had practiced one palm technique ten thousand times.

And Tushan Rongrong had practiced this Moon-Gazing Palm far more than ten thousand times...

The Moon-Gazing Palm, also known as the Forgotten Promise Palm, could sever connections with a single strike.

Before coming, Tushan Rongrong had already devised a countermeasure. First, she would use the acupuncture she had learned from Cui Yuling to stimulate Hai Bodong's soul, creating a sliver of separation in the Snake Seal attached to the Dou Crystal inside his body.

Then she would use the Moon-Gazing Palm to completely sever the connection between the manifested Snake Seal and Hai Bodong's Dou Crystal and disperse it.

"Ah~ Oh~ Mm..."

Compared to his screams when the silver needles pierced his corporeal souls, Hai Bodong's sounds now were more ones of enjoyment, comfortable little moans.

The Demonic Power within the Moon-Gazing Palm struck the serpent marking. Taking advantage of its suppressive effect, the powerful Demonic Power slowly tugged at the marking. As it pulled the marking to the top of Hai Bodong's forehead, purple power abruptly surged upward.

A fierce force actually blasted the serpent marking right out of Hai Bodong's head.

The instant the serpent marking left Hai Bodong's body, it trembled violently, then turned into a wisp of smoke that curled away and dispersed.

The moment the serpent marking left his body, Hai Bodong's tightly closed eyes snapped open, brilliant light shooting from them as though it were tangible.

A ferocious presence, like a waking lion, erupted from within the body that had been deeply suppressed for decades.

Under this formidable presence, ice crystals actually began forming throughout the previously quiet Ancient Map Shop, and the temperature plunged by dozens of degrees.

"Haha!! That damned seal is finally gone! I'm a Dou Emperor again!"

The Fox Thought Technique's effect faded, and Hai Bodong's feet touched the floor. His face overflowed with wild joy as he threw back his head and laughed uproariously.

Carried by Dou Qi, the powerful sound waves shook the newly formed layer of ice inside the shop until it shattered with a boom.

After laughing wildly for quite some time, Hai Bodong suddenly turned his gleaming gaze toward the master and servant before him, his cloudy old eyes narrowing slightly...

The corners of Tushan Rongrong's lips lifted. Her face was as calm as the water in a bottomless well as she gazed placidly at the Dou Huang expert before her, whose strength had recovered.

The surrounding air continued to grow colder, and ice crystals rapidly condensed. Yet within a one-meter radius centered on Tushan Rongrong and Luo Yang, there was not the slightest trace of ice. Even the air inside and outside that circle differed like summer and winter.

Frigid air swirled around Hai Bodong as he stared at the calm-faced woman in yellow. Her silent, somewhat unfathomable bearing finally brought a little clarity back to Hai Bodong, whose confidence had swollen enormously.

He had already used seventy percent of his Dou Qi, yet the ice still could not get within one meter of her. This was absolutely not something a Dou Wang expert could accomplish. He had already recovered his Dou Emperor strength; never mind seventy percent of his Dou Qi, even thirty or forty percent would have been enough to kill a Dou Wang in an instant.

"Congratulations on breaking your seal, Ice Emperor. But isn't this ice manipulation a little too crude?" Tushan Rongrong noticed the subtle shift in Hai Bodong's expression.

"I happen to know an expert at playing with ice as well. If there's a chance, I'll let you two spar..."

She slowly raised her fair hand and waved it lightly. Wherever the green Demonic Power passed, countless bitterly cold ice crystals turned to nothingness, vanishing without a trace.

Seeing Tushan Rongrong dispel his proudest profound ice with such effortless ease, Hai Bodong instantly came to his senses. With his belated realization came a chill down his spine.

Fortunately, he had not done anything out of line just now, or he would have been in danger.

As a thought flashed through his mind, a gentle smile spread across Hai Bodong's aged face. He smiled and nodded at Tushan Rongrong and Luo Yang with apparent friendliness, while the cold air lingering around him slowly withdrew into his body.

"Haha! My apologies, my apologies. I've only just recovered and still haven't quite adjusted. Please don't take offense, you two..."