Chapter 311: Seizing the Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring Again
After surveying all of Qian Renxue's hidden forces, Dugu Feng returned to his residence in Tongshui City.
Everything was arranged. All that remained was to await the course of the war.
Back in his room, Dugu Feng unfolded the Shura Domain.
He released a chill aura, condensed entirely from tangible killing intent.
That aura gathered and grew, quickly transforming into dark-red Shura power.
The Shura power swelled and soon filled the entire room.
Dugu Feng was enveloped in crimson gloom.
In the air—though invisible to the naked eye—threads of killing intent and blood-reek converged into the Shura power around him like rivers returning to the sea.
The killing intent and blood-scent here were pure, untainted by the City of Slaughter's evil miasma.
Dugu Feng absorbed them with ease.
As the Shura power increased, his heart beat fast, and the sound of blood coursing rose within him.
From the outset, Dugu Feng had known that Shura power was a bloodline force. After his Killing God Domain evolved into the Shura Domain, the Shura power fused into his blood.
Now, as it mounted, Dugu Feng felt an immense strength contained within his blood.
This power was stronger than soul power. It could utterly alter his physique, remaking him.
Even—
Even transcending humanity!
The thought struck Dugu Feng suddenly.
This power could ultimately set him beyond human.
Even after absorbing three external spirit bones and looking like a giant scorpion, Dugu Feng had never thought he was anything but human.
But the change in his blood made him feel he had become something else.
A Shura.
No wonder the Shura God could ascend from the Douluo Continent. The Shura power he comprehended was too strong—a power that fundamentally changed a person's essence.
It had even created a race.
No longer the same as humans.
Dugu Feng immersed himself, borrowing the battlefield's killing aura to train with all his might.
Aside from meeting Qian Renxue and cultivating—and "in-depth exchanges" with Ning Rongrong and Ye Lingling—
All his other time went to cultivation. He had to break through to Soul Sage as soon as possible.
Time passed, and Dugu Feng felt mounting urgency.
In Death Canyon, the Emerald Dragon-Serpent had discovered Bibi Dong twice in a short span.
The deranged Bibi Dong kept feeding soul beasts. Another soul beast on the verge of one hundred thousand years had entered slumber.
Once it advanced, it would be time for Bibi Dong to absorb her sixth spirit ring.
Dugu Feng would not sit and watch her grow stronger.
He would seize that hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
Three more months flashed by. Dugu Feng was a single step from his breakthrough.
He went straight to find Qian Renxue.
He dared not wait any longer.
In the temporary palace where Qian Renxue stayed, she greeted him warmly.
"Brother Feng, you've been busy cultivating. What brings you here today?" Qian Renxue smiled, in high spirits.
In the ongoing clashes with Star Luo, there had been wins and losses.
But Star Luo was increasingly falling into her tempo.
Qian Renxue was delighted.
When Star Luo was fully lulled, it would be time to unleash her hidden forces, break through the lines in one stroke, and defeat the Star Luo Empire.
"Brother Xue, I've come to take my leave.
After focused cultivation, I'm about to break through to Soul Sage. I plan to return to Sunset Forest and prepare to absorb my seventh spirit ring," Dugu Feng said frankly.
He would not go to Sunset Forest but to Death Canyon.
Qian Renxue blinked, inwardly shocked. Dugu Feng was reaching Soul Sage so soon.
She immediately put on a look of envy. "Brother Feng, your cultivation speed is astounding.
I'll be counting on you going forward!"
Qian Renxue clapped his shoulder with easy affection, playing up their brotherly bond.
"Rest easy, Brother Xue. Your enemies are my enemies. When I return, I'll help you defeat the Star Luo Empire!" Dugu Feng said grandly.
Qian Renxue nodded with relief, inwardly marveling at how monstrously gifted he was.
Unrivaled on land and sky in this generation.
His cultivation was faster even than Grandfather's in his youth.
It seemed she needed to speed up as well. She was level seventy-seven; Soul Douluo was not far away!
Qian Renxue suddenly realized she truly was cultivating too slowly.
Born with rank-twenty soul power, and now thirty years old, yet still not a Soul Douluo—
Compared to Dugu Feng, she was trash.
And the Star Luo prodigy Zhu Zhuyun was younger than she and already a Soul Sage.
Tang San of the Clear Sky Sect had also reached Soul Emperor, with spirit rings absorbed beyond the limit; he should be around level sixty-four now.
There was no shortage of prodigies in this generation.
Qian Renxue felt a pang. Too much time had been wasted!
This time she would defeat Star Luo in one swoop and then cultivate with full focus for a stretch.
Whatever Qian Renxue thought, Dugu Feng took his leave and immediately departed Tongshui City.
He flew east toward Death Canyon.
Revealing his strength to Qian Renxue had been unavoidable. After all, even Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, and Tang San were Soul Emperors.
As the Heaven Dou Empire's foremost prodigy, he would naturally be close to Soul Sage; there was no point in hiding it.
When he had helped Qian Renxue defeat Prince Xue Xing in Heaven Dou City, he had already shown Soul Emperor strength.
Now that he was about to advance to Soul Sage, it was only logical.
As his power grew, it became harder to conceal anyway.
Dugu Feng smirked inwardly. His strength beyond soul power was too great.
Not something a mere Soul Sage could measure.
Any enemy who treated him as a Soul Sage would suffer bitterly.
His thoughts spun as he sped through the air, drawing near to Death Canyon.
When he arrived, he chose tunneling again.
Far from Death Canyon, he began to dig.
This time was different from before.
Bibi Dong was extremely vigilant. Around the soul beast poised to evolve into a hundred-thousand-year existence, four Titled Douluo stood guard day and night.
Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo were among them.
Beyond the Titleds, Contra-, Sage-, and Emperor-level powerhouses ringed the area like a lattice of posts.
She had spent vast manpower and resources to raise a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
Bibi Dong could not bear any loss.
This time, Dugu Feng was snatching food from a tiger's jaws.
After entering the earth, he carefully sealed the entrance behind him.
Then he took out a triangular blue gem and poured a tenth of his soul power into it.
The Hanhai Qian Kun Cover's first skill, Hanhai Bodyguard—one-tenth of his soul power bought twelve hours of concealment.
This was Dugu Feng's confidence for the attempt.
With this divine tool, even Bibi Dong, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and the rest could not detect him.
Spiritual probes would not sense him at all.
(END CHAPTER)
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