Yun Yun: The Sweet Puppy Turns into a Big Bad Wolf
Boom!
The power pouring out of the Fortune Catalog surged through Lu Yuan's limbs and bones again and again like a river bursting its banks.
His Dou Crystal transformed and his Dou Qi soared. At the same time, his flesh, sinews, bones, and internal organs were tempered and nourished by this power, rapidly growing stronger.
It was like forging iron: a thousand hammer blows drove out the impurities, making him purer, while pure power was poured into the cracks to heal them efficiently.
"Sixty percent of a Three-Star Dou Emperor's cultivation doesn't just raise my realm. Half the power goes into tempering my body, but that's even better." A light rose in Lu Yuan's dark eyes.
If only his realm had risen, a mere Dou Shi's body wielding a Dou Wang's cultivation would have been like a child piloting a Gundam.
But the Fortune Catalog had tempered his sinews, bones, and organs as well. That was like the child growing into a Gundam.
He could wield all his power as easily as moving his own arm.
Although the power was "wasted," Lu Yuan was even more satisfied.
When Xiao Yan had used the Xiao Clan bloodline to raise his cultivation in the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Xuan had spoken of the importance of a solid foundation.
The Fortune Catalog really delivered. When it raised his strength, it raised everything, leaving no weaknesses or gaps.
The power of heaven and earth grew increasingly clear to his senses.
Ordinary Dou Wang could only form wings from Dou Qi and fly using their own Dou Qi.
Stronger Dou Wang could draw their Dou Qi into resonance with the power of the same attribute between heaven and earth, harnessing a portion of it for their own use. Flying with Dou Qi wings normally cost them nothing.
High-Rank Dou Wang could absorb power directly through their bodies even without circulating a cultivation method, and draw upon the power of heaven and earth to set up barriers.
"I won the bet."
Lu Yuan stopped kissing Yun Yun, only to find that she was clumsily responding.
Suddenly finding no one to respond to, Yun Yun instinctively opened her eyes and saw Lu Yuan watching her with a smile in his eyes.
"What are you looking at!?" Yun Yun lowered her head, her eyes full of bashfulness.
No one would have believed that this was the famous Misty Cloud Sect Master.
"Looking at how lovely you are, Yun'er, as beautiful as a flower." Lu Yuan held Yun Yun's chin.
The unabashed compliment left Yun Yun standing there in a daze.
How did this innocent, shy little brother turn into a domineering big bad wolf?
"We're about to die, and you're still in the mood to say things like that." The light in Yun Yun's eyes dimmed, and a self-mocking smile touched her lips. "This time, I've capsized in a gutter."
"Still, getting to experience all this before I die, and having you with me, isn't so bad."
At that, Yun Yun's gaze sharpened.
"In a moment, if the Earth Nether Rock Turtle can't fool the Green Wood Wind Wolf, I'll use a secret method to forcibly restore my strength and kill it."
"Once I use this secret method, all the meridians in my body will rupture, and I'll die a quarter of an hour later. It's a way to take an enemy down with me."
"When the time comes, remember to send my body back to the Misty Cloud Sect. I imagine the sect will give you some benefits, so I won't have broken my word."
Surprise flashed in Lu Yuan's eyes. He hadn't expected Yun Yun to be so ready to risk it all, willing to fight for her.
"Don't say such discouraging things." Lu Yuan bent down and picked Yun Yun up. "I won the bet. I can take you away now, so just watch."
With that, Lu Yuan turned and walked over to the Earth Nether Rock Turtle. Three golden lotuses appeared in his eyes.
The next moment, space rippled around the Earth Nether Rock Turtle, and its body vanished.
"What kind of technique is that?" Yun Yun looked astonished.
"You'll find out later." Lu Yuan raised a finger and drew on the Poison Dou Qi within him, gathering it together.
This was Extreme Wind: Meteor Kill.
But Lu Yuan had no Wind Attribute Dou Qi, and he was unwilling to draw on the power of heaven and earth and alert the Green Wood Wind Wolf, so he used only the Poison Dou Qi within him.
Perhaps he could give this move a new name.
Extreme Poison: Meteor Kill?
Yun Yun watched the power gathering at his fingertip and asked in surprise and doubt, "Why does that opening stance look familiar?"
Lu Yuan didn't answer. His soul perception was focused to its limit, watching the Green Wood Wind Wolf's every move outside.
The beast had its head lowered, sniffing the ground. Dou Qi flowed through its gray-green fur, and a trace of puzzlement flitted through its dark green slit pupils.
It had clearly picked up the Earth Nether Rock Turtle's lingering scent, but Lu Yuan's cloud of poison had led it in the wrong direction, and it was hesitating.
Soon, the Green Wood Wind Wolf made its decision.
It raised a front paw and smashed it down at the ground.
"Boom!"
Earth and rock split apart, sending fragments flying.
The underground cavern was exposed, and light streamed inside.
"Now!"
Lu Yuan stopped holding back and struck with all his might!
The Poison Dou Qi, compressed to its limit, shot out as a thin line.
The dark green power had completely solidified, giving off terrifying fluctuations that corroded the air, with a piercing force that made the heart tremble.
At the same time, Lu Yuan released his Seven-Star Dou Wang cultivation without the slightest concealment, his violent presence pressing down on the Green Wood Wind Wolf like something solid.
"What!?" Yun Yun was the first to react, her eyes widening in shock.
Wasn't Lu Yuan a Dou Shi?
How was he displaying the cultivation of a Dou Wang!?
The fear of death engulfed the Green Wood Wind Wolf in an instant.
But he was a Fifth-Order Magical Beast, after all, and had the wind attribute. At the critical moment, he used his bloodline Dou Technique and drew on the Wind Attribute power around him, forcibly twisting his body aside.
"Puchi!"
Lu Yuan's Dou Technique pierced one side of the Green Wood Wind Wolf's neck with overwhelming destructive force.
"Awooo-!"
The Green Wood Wind Wolf roared, gray-green blood gushing from its nostrils as a fierce light blazed in its slit pupils.
Dou Qi surged wildly around it, the wooden spines along its back bristling one by one. Wind blades took shape at its sides as it moved to attack Lu Yuan at once.
But Lu Yuan smiled.
"It didn't kill you outright? That's just as well."
"I'll have another pet."
As a Fifth-Order Magical Beast, it already possessed intelligence no lesser than an ordinary person's.
Feeling provoked, the Green Wood Wind Wolf drew on all its Dou Qi to reinforce its bloodline Dou Technique.
But the next moment, its body swayed violently, and much of the Dou Qi gathered around it dissipated.
When the Poison Dou Qi had pierced its neck, it had also seeped through his wound into the flesh and blood throughout his body.
Few cultivators or Magical Beasts of the same rank could withstand the poison of the Woeful Poison Body head-on.
Thread after thread of Poison Dou Qi ate away at the Green Wood Wind Wolf's meridians.
Sensing that something was wrong, it tried to use its Dou Qi to force the poison out, only to find that the poison was like a living thing, entangling itself ever more deeply with the Wood Attribute Dou Qi in its body.
Carrying Yun Yun, Lu Yuan walked slowly out of the underground cavern, the Dou Qi winding around his fingertip gradually fading.
"A Fifth-Order Magical Beast, a Green Wood Wind Wolf, with both wood and wind attributes."
"Not a bad mount."
At its peak, the Green Wood Wind Wolf could still have relied on its powerful Fifth-Order Magical Beast physique to withstand it.
But with its neck pierced, the poison had gone straight into its meridians. It was too late to drive it out.
"Three breaths."
Lu Yuan spoke softly.
The Green Wood Wind Wolf sent the few remaining wind blades around it slashing at him.
Lu Yuan easily dodged them. The wind blades struck the rock wall behind him, leaving cracks deep enough to expose bone.
Yet he didn't even blink, continuing forward at a measured pace.
"Two breaths."
The Green Wood Wind Wolf's limbs began to tremble, and unnatural dark green patterns appeared on the skin beneath its gray-green fur.
"One breath."
Lu Yuan walked up to the Green Wood Wind Wolf and watched him fall stiffly to the ground.
"Contract!"