Subduing the Green Wood Wind Wolf! An Unexpected Complication

Three golden lotuses appeared in Lu Yuan's pitch-black eyes.

A terrifying surge of soul power poured out and gathered between the Green Wood Wind Wolf's brows.

The wolf was doing everything he could to resist the poison invading his body, and his will was at its weakest. Lu Yuan placed a soul imprint on him with almost no resistance.

"It's done."

Sensing that a connection had been established between them and that the Green Wood Wind Wolf's life now depended on a single thought from him, Lu Yuan smiled in satisfaction. With a thought, he took the wolf into the space within his pupils.

He then devoured the poison in the Green Wood Wind Wolf's body again and fused it into his own Dou Qi.

"Whew."

Lu Yuan withdrew his hand and let out a long breath.

A sneak attack after building up power, the suppression of his Seven-Star Dou Wang cultivation, Poison Dou Qi countering the wood attribute, the strength of the Woeful Poison Body's poison, and the Purifying Lotus Triple Flower Pupils to finish things off-all of it had allowed him to end the battle so quickly.

So quickly that it almost felt hasty.

But if he had faced the Green Wood Wind Wolf head-on, even with the Seven-Star Dou Wang cultivation he had just acquired, he would probably have had to fight the wolf for a long time.

"Still, a win is a win." The corners of Lu Yuan's lips curled up.

His gains this time were real: not only had his own cultivation broken through to Seven-Star Dou Wang, but he had also subdued a Fifth-Order Magical Beast as a mount.

Yun Yun really was her lucky star.

"Lu Yuan, what on earth is going on with you!?" Yun Yun reached out and grabbed his arm, confusion and tension hidden in her eyes.

Although her cultivation had been sealed, her eyesight remained sharp, and her soul perception was only restricted, not unusable.

After spending day and night with Lu Yuan these past few days, she had long since confirmed that this young man's true cultivation was Dou Shi.

Now that he had displayed the cultivation of a Dou Wang, she feared he had used some secret technique with a tremendous cost to deal with the Green Wood Wind Wolf, just as she could use a secret technique to forcibly break the seal.

"I was lucky. By a chance encounter, I once obtained a special inheritance left behind by a top expert."

When Lu Yuan decided to raise his cultivation in front of Yun Yun, he had already thought of a suitable explanation.

Even if his cultivation and strength continued to soar in the future, it would still explain everything.

"The method of merging with the inheritance is simple. I need to keep coming into contact with sufficiently talented women and dual cultivate with them."

"As long as I successfully use the dual cultivation technique once, I can obtain part of the inheritance, including cultivation, which lets me raise my cultivation quickly."

"Kissing is one of the ways to confirm dual cultivation."

On the surface, everything Lu Yuan said was true.

The top expert naturally referred to the Fortune Catalog.

The special inheritance referred to copying and plundering.

Coming into contact with sufficiently talented women and dual cultivating meant obtaining fortune.

Successfully using the dual cultivation technique once meant successfully copying and plundering once.

He simply hadn't stated the facts clearly, and he didn't intend to.

"So that's why you said you'd take a gamble on your luck just now?" Yun Yun immediately caught on.

"Mm." Lu Yuan nodded slightly. "I wasn't sure whether your talent met the standard for obtaining the inheritance, or what kind of inheritance I would receive. The results look pretty good now."

"Then you've truly reached Seven-Star Dou Wang, and you don't just have that strength temporarily?" A different light entered Yun Yun's eyes as she looked at Lu Yuan.

She had already decided in her heart that Lu Yuan was someone she could entrust herself to. Even if she had to let him live off her and provide the resources to nurture him, she would not abandon him after starting a relationship with him.

But if she had a choice, she naturally hoped the man she had set her heart on was a genius, an expert who could stand tall between heaven and earth.

Originally, she had been satisfied only with Lu Yuan's talent. Now she was satisfied with his cultivation as well, and on top of that, he had an expert's inheritance.

"Of course. Speaking of which, it's all thanks to you. I should thank you." Lu Yuan lowered his eyes with a faint smile and met Yun Yun's gaze.

"What did I have to do with it?" Yun Yun grew a little shy under his gaze and lowered her head instinctively. "If you want to thank anyone, thank the senior who gave you the inheritance, and thank yourself for proving your worth. I only gave you a little insignificant help."

"Given the relationship between us now, let's stop thanking each other back and forth." Lu Yuan wrapped an arm around Yun Yun's waist. "I can sense the Amethyst Winged Lion King's presence coming this way. I'll take you away."

As he spoke, purple Dou Qi Wings appeared behind Lu Yuan. Holding Yun Yun, he rose into the air and shot into the clouds in the blink of an eye, flying toward the outskirts of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Not long after he left, a black-robed figure appeared in the forest. Beneath the robe was a young, delicate-featured face. "Teacher, it looks like we've arrived."

"We're a step too late," an aged voice said. "They've already left."

"Was it that mysterious female Dou Emperor?" Xiao Yan came to the entrance of the underground cavern.

"It was the person who saved her." Yao Lao's illusory figure emerged. His soul power swept through the cavern below, and he stroked his beard and nodded. "So they were hiding underground all this time. No wonder the Amethyst Winged Lion King couldn't find them even after mobilizing so many Magical Beasts."

"That person must have a special kind of turtle Magical Beast. My guess is an Earth Nether Rock Turtle."

"They succeeded because of this kind of Magical Beast, and failed because of one too. The Green Wood Wind Wolf, a Fifth-Order Magical Beast under the Amethyst Winged Lion King, found this place."

"But what surprises me is that there doesn't seem to have been a major battle here. The Green Wood Wind Wolf was probably killed in an instant, and its corpse was taken away too."

"Perhaps that female Dou Emperor broke the seal sometime during the past three days."

Although Yao Lao was experienced and had deduced some things from the traces left behind, he was not all-knowing, so he could only make a rough guess.

"Hmm?" Yao Lao's soul flashed back into the Bone Flame Ring. "The Amethyst Winged Lion King is coming. Hurry, let's go."

At that, Xiao Yan immediately concealed his presence and fled into the nearby bushes.

Before long, a massive purple figure appeared in the sky, radiating a terrifying, savage presence. One of the horns on his head was broken-it was the Amethyst Winged Lion King.

Sweeping his gaze over the forest below, the Amethyst Winged Lion King let out a roar. "You dared kill one of my subordinates, wretched woman! I'll kill you!"

After three days of searching with nothing to show for it, he had originally decided to give up.

But now, even if he had to turn the entire forest upside down, he would find them.

The Amethyst Winged Lion King, however, was destined to be disappointed.

Lu Yuan had the cultivation of a Seven-Star Dou Wang. Although he couldn't defeat the Lion King, taking Yun Yun out of the Magical Beast Mountain Range was no trouble.

His first stop, however, was the hidden valley, where he would meet up with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.

"Back when I could fly on my own, I never quietly admired the scenery below like this." Yun Yun wrapped her arms around Lu Yuan's neck and looked down at the rolling mountains.

"People who sit high above everyone else never know the hardships of the mortal world," Lu Yuan replied.

"Are you mocking me?" Yun Yun shot him a playfully reproachful glance.

"How could I?" Lu Yuan whispered in her ear. "I only meant that Yun'er was born a woman like a fairy from the heavens."

"But now, I've won you over."

Yun Yun had been surrounded by admirers since childhood, but she had never once heard words of love like these.

Her whole body went soft, and the dignified mature beauty buried her head in Lu Yuan's chest, hiding her emotions from view.

Lu Yuan found it amusing and decided to keep teasing her, but the next moment, his gaze suddenly sharpened.

"Damn, something's happened!"