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[You decided to strike while the iron was hot, continuing to upgrade your cultivation technique and increase your strength.]
[First, you went to the Magic Beast Mountain Range and found the broken cliff. Inside the cave hidden along the sheer precipice, you obtained the incomplete fragment of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame map.]
[You knew that this was the key to whether you could obtain the inheritance of the Ancient Tuoshe Emperor in the future and become a Dou God.]
[As for the locations where the remaining map fragments would appear, you were fully aware of them and had already formed a plan in your mind to seize them.]
[When Yao Chen saw the map, he sighed in amazement at your incredible luck, that you could obtain such an opportunity in a place like this.]
[You merely smiled without saying a word.]
Ye Hao: …
This show-off moment had a few more details than usual.
If only there were a show-off system.
This wave alone would have guaranteed at least a thousand show-off points.
[In the days that followed, you cultivated diligently while gathering medicinal ingredients. At the same time, you had Yao Chen guide you in practicing alchemy.]
[Your progress was astonishing. In less than half a year, you reached the level of a fourth-tier alchemist.]
[Yao Chen was utterly dumbfounded. He swore that you were the most talented person he had ever seen.]
[In merely half a year, you advanced from someone who did not even understand the basics to a fourth-tier alchemist.]
[He had a premonition that your future achievements in alchemy might very well surpass his own.]
Ye Hao said, "This must be my overwhelming good luck at work again."
From knowing absolutely nothing to becoming a fourth-tier alchemist in only half a year, how could that not count as extraordinary talent?
He wondered whether, once the simulation ended, his alchemy skills might rise to another level.
It would be even better if his strength improved as well.
Make a wish first, just in case.
What if it actually came true?
[You were very cautious, worried that some of the Venerables from the Hall of Souls might discover your secret.]
[While continuing as usual to collect powerful souls, you also prepared the necessary pills for devouring the Green Lotus Core Flame.]
Ye Hao said, "Being careful is never wrong. Hun Tiandi is truly a bit of a madman."
For the sake of becoming an emperor, he not only slaughtered the Stone Clan and the Spirit Clan, he even killed more than half of his own Soul Clan members.
Utterly insane.
However, one thing he said was correct. The victor becomes king and the loser becomes bandit. History is always written by the winners.
[Midway, you returned once to the Heavenly Burial Ravine and delivered some souls.]
[The Earth-tier Protector of the Hall of Souls looked at the souls you brought back. Although their numbers were large, they were not particularly powerful.]
[Still, compared to others, your performance was already exceptional. They praised you without reservation.]
[After that, you left the branch hall at Heavenly Burial Ravine and returned to the Jia Ma Empire.]
[After months of painstaking collection, you gathered most of the medicinal ingredients, lacking only the Ice Spirit Cold Spring.]
[In your memory, there were only two places that possessed the Ice Spirit Cold Spring.]
[One was Gu Te in Black Rock City, the other was Queen Medusa, who possessed an entire pool of Ice Spirit Cold Spring.]
[Without the slightest hesitation, you decided to head to the Tager Desert.]
[There, not only was another fragment of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame map, but also the Ice Spirit Cold Spring and the Green Lotus Core Flame.]
[Three gains in a single move.]
[On the way to the Tager Desert.]
[You encountered dozens of third and fourth-tier alchemists fighting viciously over some medicinal herbs.]
[Some even intended to slaughter children to use their blood as an alchemical catalyst.]
[As someone educated in the new era, you naturally could not accept such acts. Coincidentally, their souls were still somewhat usable, so…]
[You killed them all, collected their souls, and prevented them from slaughtering innocents.]
[Thus reducing their sins.]
"Good, good, good!"
"So you just gave them a physical salvation?"
This wave truly was fortunate. You had just delivered souls, and immediately gained another batch.
[You arrived at Desert City on the edge of the Tager Desert.]
[You asked a passerby, "Excuse me, is there a map shop here called 'Gu Map'?"]
[The passerby led you to the entrance of the Gu Map Shop.]
[After thanking him, you walked inside.]
[The shop was not large. Two moonlight stones were enough to illuminate the entire room.]
[No one greeted you.]
[You walked to the shelves and began searching through the dusty maps for the fragment of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame map.]
[Behind the counter, the old man who was carefully drawing a map noticed your actions, and his expression gradually turned cold.]
[He had been selling maps here for many years. No one had ever dared to cause trouble on his territory.]
[In his eyes, your behavior was a direct provocation to his dignity.]
[The old man shouted coldly, "Get out. I will not do business with you."]
[At the same time, he threw the black pen in his hand at you.]
[The pen shot forward at extreme speed, accompanied by a sharp sonic boom. It carried enough force to pierce through walls as it flew toward you.]
[You paid it no mind. With a slight movement of your left foot, a powerful surge of Dou Qi condensed into a wall of energy, blocking the pen.]
[Seeing this, the old man's face filled with shock. He hurriedly stood up from behind the counter.]
[He walked up to you, bowed deeply, and said, "Greetings, Dou Ancestor."]
Ye Hao said, "I preferred your unruly look earlier."
Or perhaps he could have used a move like Ice Dragon Soars.
If he truly had used that move, the old man would have been beaten senseless.
[Cold sweat poured down the old man's face, and he turned deathly pale.]
[He had never imagined that one day he would encounter a Dou Ancestor expert, and that he would recklessly dare to attack you.]
[At this moment, he could only pray desperately that you would not hold it against him.]
[He had hidden here for decades simply because he did not want to die.]
[You ignored him and simply retrieved the small fragment of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame map from the pile.]
[You asked, "Where is the other fragment?"]
[After hesitating for a moment, the old man replied tremblingly, "Replying to you, my lord, I only have this one piece."]
[Boom!]
[A violent storm of Dou Qi erupted from your body, blasting the old man backward and slamming him heavily into the counter.]
[He spat out a mouthful of blood, his aura instantly weakening.]
[You said coldly, "Hai Bodong, I will give you one last chance."]
[Hai Bodong was horrified. He never expected you to expose his true identity in a single sentence.]
[Terrified of death, he no longer dared to conceal anything and respectfully presented the fragment of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame map with both hands.]
[After obtaining the map, you struck him with another palm as punishment.]
Ye Hao said, "What was Hai Bodong thinking? Facing a Dou Ancestor expert, he still tried to muddle through. He was lucky. Otherwise, he would have died."
[Hai Bodong, having been struck by your palm, suffered injuries too severe to bear and died.]
Ye Hao: …
[You then collected all the medicinal ingredients he had gathered for refining the Breaking Calamity Pill.]
[Afterward, without any delay, you headed to the Tager Desert.]
[Yao Chen witnessed everything and was already too shocked to speak.]
[He never imagined that while others considered finding a single fragment an immense opportunity, you seemed to know in advance and could always locate them with perfect accuracy.]
[You even knew that Hai Bodong had another fragment hidden. He was completely convinced.]
[In the desert, after finding a suitable place, he willingly refined all the necessary pills for you to devour the Green Lotus Core Flame.]
"Worthy of the Medicine Venerable. He understands how to judge the situation and choose the right master."
[One month later.]
[Fully prepared, you officially stepped into the Serpent-People Tribe.]
[The moment you appeared, you released the aura of a Dou Ancestor expert.]
[The terrifying pressure descended like a mountain from the heavens, suffocating everyone in the temple.]
[They had no idea how they had offended you.]
[All of them looked on in terror.]
[At that moment, it felt as though they saw their ancestors beckoning to them.]
[Wails and cries echoed throughout the temple grounds.]
[Even several reclusive elders of the Serpent-People Tribe knelt and begged for mercy.]
[Queen Medusa forced herself to withstand your pressure and walked out.]
[Drenched in sweat and bowing deeply, Queen Medusa asked, "Dou Ancestor, may I ask how my Serpent-People Tribe has offended you? Please enlighten us."]
[You said calmly, "Hand over the Ice Spirit Cold Spring. Otherwise, the Serpent-People Tribe will cease to exist."]
[Queen Medusa looked at you in shock. Aside from herself, no one else knew about the Ice Spirit Cold Spring.]
[She could not understand how you knew.]
[With matters having reached this point, she knew she could not conceal it and handed you a bottle she carried with her.]
[You shook your head. "Not enough."]
[Queen Medusa said, "My lord, that truly is all."]
[You said, "Take me to the depths of the temple."]
[Queen Medusa felt as if struck by lightning. She looked at you in disbelief, her emotions tangled to the extreme.]
[At that moment, she felt as though she stood before you completely exposed, without a single secret remaining.]
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