15: Chapter 15 Snow Lotus Spirit, Advances to Fighter Level

"Good!"

Elder Li nodded in satisfaction, flipped his hand to produce a Starfall Pavilion token, and handed it to Hun Tiandi, effectively leaving him an opportunity.

"Young man, if you change your mind in the future, you can hold this token and come find this old man at the Starfall Pavilion!" Elder Li smiled.

"This junior thanks you, Senior!"

Hun Tiandi bowed slightly, and then Elder Li left with the two people.

The mercenaries in the Tianmu Mountain Range had been completely cleared out, and the group of Dou King experts had also departed.

The Tianmu Mountain Range grew quiet. Corpses were everywhere, flesh and blood were scattered, blood gathered into streams, and a thick, pungent smell of blood spread throughout the area.

The blood mist evaporated, and the sky seemed to be dyed with a layer of red light.

In the valley, a day passed. All the flesh and blood on Tiangang's body had been eaten clean; his limbs, torso, and organs were picked apart by the desert ants that loved flesh.

Only Tiangang's skull remained. After killing the ants, he collected Tiangang's white bones and placed them into his storage ring.

Hun Tiandi turned and left the valley, finding the place where he had previously been in seclusion.

In the quiet valley, lush green grass swayed. A cascading waterfall, like a bolt of white silk, fell into a pool, splashing up crystal-clear droplets.

"Cough, cough!" Suddenly, Hun Tiandi began to cough violently, spitting out a mouthful of blood. Fighting Tiangang had not been without a price.

This battle had been extremely dangerous; if he had miscalculated by even one step, it might have been he, Hun Tiandi, who lost his life.

He had first provoked the Storm Wolf pack to exhaust Tiangang's Dou Zhi Qi, then secretly poisoned him by scattering five bags of medicinal powder, invisibly causing Tiangang, who was busy slaughtering magical beasts, to be poisoned.

He had then launched a sneak attack, giving him no chance to recover his Dou Zhi Qi, which accelerated the spread of the poison.

Finally, Tiangang had misjudged Hun Tiandi's strength, even though he had broken through the extreme limit while at the Dou Zhi Qi stage.

His combat power was comparable to a nine-star Dou Practitioner, and his physical body was powerful. With preparation against an unprepared foe, Tiangang, who had the strength of a three-star Dou Master, had been outmaneuvered and killed just like that.

"Worth it!"

Hun Tiandi sat cross-legged on the spot, flipped his hand to take out healing pills from his storage ring, swallowed them, and formed a hand seal. Wisps of pale white Dou Zhi Qi from the void were inhaled into his body.

The remaining Dou Zhi Qi within his body circulated, refining the power of the pills and flowing constantly through his meridians.

His Dou Zhi Qi was also growing, and his injuries were recovering.

In his exhausted state, Hun Tiandi could clearly sense his sore and numb muscles and bones greedily absorbing the dissolved, gentle medicinal power like a glutton.

When the last trace of medicinal power was fully absorbed, he vaguely perceived that the explosive power contained within his physical body seemed even stronger than before...

After finishing his meditation, Hun Tiandi opened his eyes. A flash of light streaked across his pupils, and he exhaled a breath of stale air.

He flipped his hand to take out a dark red storage ring—the very one taken from Tiangang's finger—and his gaze fell upon it as he fell into deep thought.

With a thought, the surging soul power from his sea of consciousness between his brows poured out and forcefully invaded the ring.

"Boom!" A pile of items fell before him: bottles and jars of pills, and three Dou Technique scrolls. When unfurled, they were exactly the Wolf Step and Sky Wolf Hand that Tiangang had used.

He had no interest in them and set them aside. He opened the first jade box, which contained a pale yellow, block-like object.

He lightly scratched the surface with his fingernail, and the yellowish skin revealed a hint of blood-red color, causing his gaze to narrow slightly.

In the youhai storage ring, the herb scrolls contained a description of this object.

"blood lotus essence!"

The blood lotus essence is an extremely rare high-level herb. This herb grows in symbiosis with yellow lotus essence, but its quantity is extremely scarce.

Its appearance is similar to yellow lotus essence, and those unfamiliar with herbs would find it difficult to distinguish accurately between the two.

Furthermore, blood lotus essence is one of the main ingredients for the Blood Lotus Pill. When refined into a pill and consumed, it forms a strange layer of energy blood shackles on the surface of a person's body, capable of defending against high-temperature scorching.

"Sigh, was it worth it for Father Yun to pay the price of his life for the blood lotus essence?"

Hun Tiandi muttered to himself; in his heart, the most precious treasure in this world was life.

The blood lotus essence made people greedy, leading to Tiangang of the Sky Wolf Mercenary Group intercepting and killing him, which sparked the subsequent bloody turmoil in the Tianmu Mountain Range.

He closed the lid and stored it in his storage ring; it would serve as a keepsake!

What Hun Tiandi did not know was that if Sky Wolf had not been in seclusion, this blood lotus essence would have long been given to his father by Tiangang.

There was a pale gold card with a balance of over a million, which was likely the savings of the Sky Wolf Mercenary Group.

He collected the miscellaneous items and placed them in a separate storage ring.

After standing up, his figure flickered as he leaped onto the mountain peak. With his hands behind his back, he gazed at the distant clouds and mist, falling into silence.

Sun rose and moon set; five days passed by in this relaxed manner.

Hun Tiandi healed his injuries and adjusted his state to its peak.

"Today, I advance to Dou Practitioner!"

This was the best time for him to advance to Dou Practitioner, and it was also the first test on the road to becoming a powerhouse.

In a hidden cave within the mountain peak, moonstones emitted a faint glow. He sat cross-legged, took a deep breath, flipped his hand to take out a jade bottle from the youhai storage ring, and poured out a blue-green pill that appeared in his palm.

The Qi Gathering Powder pill was round and smooth with a perfect luster. A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth!

Smelling the rich medicinal fragrance, it was refreshing and delightful.

Without a moment's hesitation, he swallowed it. A faint coolness spread, and in the blink of an eye, it dissolved into a warm, pure energy in his abdomen, surging through his body.

Suddenly, Hun Tiandi's thin body trembled violently. His handsome face remained calm as water, his hands formed seals, and his breathing was steady.

The Dou Zhi Qi within his body moved according to his will, rapidly wrapping around the rich, pure medicinal power and refining it crazily.

In the dim cave, the calm, waveless air suddenly rippled, and wisps of pale white Dou Zhi Qi were drawn in from the space around him.

Like streams returning to their source, they swirled around his body and merged into it.

The Dou Zhi Qi within his body and the medicinal power of the Qi Gathering Powder constantly collided, causing Hun Tiandi's meridians to vaguely feel a sense of expansion.

Fortunately, his meridians had been clear from birth, and after breaking through the extreme limit, his meridians had been tempered to be extremely tough and wide.

The Dou Zhi Qi in his body carried wisps of medicinal power, refining it into pure white Dou Zhi Qi, and his meridians were rapidly expanding to fill his entire body.

The Dou Zhi Qi on the surface of his body and within was being crazily drawn in, and one-third of Hun Tiandi's hundred meridians were filled...

The refinement continued. After an unknown amount of time, the meridians in his body were completely filled, unable to hold any more; the Dou Zhi Qi had accumulated to its limit.

The collision of the Dou Zhi Qi caused Hun Tiandi's meridians to feel pain.

"Dou Qi Whirlpool, condense!"

Hun Tiandi gave a low shout, his hand seals changed, and his ten fingers formed a strange hand seal.

When the hand seal was formed, the Dou Zhi Qi within his body seemed to be drawn, fiercely contracting toward his lower abdomen.

The pure white Dou Zhi Qi in the hundred meridians of his body began to converge, regardless of order.

When all the Dou Zhi Qi had finished condensing!

With a thought, his surging soul power poured out to compress the Dou Zhi Qi. That pure white Dou Zhi Qi seemed to possess a spirit, constantly resisting violently.

The force of the resistance was fierce, but it was directly forcibly suppressed by Hun Tiandi's powerful soul power.

The Dou Zhi Qi contracted to the size of a palm, solidifying and remaining motionless.

"Again!"

He drove his soul power to crazily impact and compress it. "Bang!" After a soft, muffled sound, the resistance vanished.

Suddenly, a savage burst of energy erupted from Hun Tiandi's body, his cyan clothes fluttered automatically without wind, and the sound of flowing water could be heard.

Hun Tiandi opened his eyes, an irrepressible excitement visible on his face, his chest heaving violently.

"Hahaha, I've succeeded in reaching the Dou Practitioner stage!"

A burst of arrogant laughter erupted in the cave. Sensing the surging energy within his body, a line of clear tears appeared at the corners of his eyes.

As long as one successfully condensed a Dou Qi Whirlpool, it meant becoming a true Dou Practitioner.

After a long while, a smile appeared on his handsome little face, and he stood up and sat cross-legged.

He closed his eyes slightly, his mind sinking into his body.

Internal vision is a skill mastered by Dou Practitioners; those with powerful strength can explore their bodies more thoroughly.

At the position of his lower abdomen, a palm-sized, pure white whirlpool was slowly rotating. Outside the whirlpool, a layer of energy resembling starlight flowed.

Although his Dou Qi Whirlpool was currently very small in volume.

The energy contained within it was absolutely ten times more vigorous than that of the previous tenth stage of Dou Zhi Qi.