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All the way along his flight, Lin Feng released his vast Dou Zun-level aura without holding anything back. Because of that overwhelming presence, none of the surrounding magic beasts dared to approach him.
So even though the beasts in this region were violent by nature, they kept their distance and didn't dare to block his path. After about an hour of flight, Lin Feng finally reached the depths of the Ten Thousand Medicinal Mountain Range.
He descended, landing lightly atop a lush, towering tree. Lifting his gaze, his eyes swept toward the enormous, perilous peak that loomed before him.
This mountain sat at the very center of the Ten Thousand Medicinal Mountain Range. It covered a vast area, its body like a pillar propping up the heavens, stretching straight into the clouds.
From the midpoint upward, the upper half of the mountain was completely shrouded in a dense, milky mist of energy, making it impossible to see or probe what lay within.
Even though Lin Feng was still some distance away, he could clearly sense the intense energy fluctuations emanating from the mountain.
"If one were to cultivate in a place like this, the results would be twice as effective with half the effort. Unfortunately, this pocket world has long fallen into disrepair.
The energy here contains violent impurities. Anyone absorbing it must first refine and purge those impurities before merging the energy into their body — a process that drastically reduces efficiency."
Lin Feng reached out and made a grasping motion in the air, sighing softly with regret.
"If only I had grown up here as a child, with an abundance of cultivation resources and no shortage of techniques… even without any lucky encounters, I'd probably have reached high-level Dou Zong before turning thirty."
He shook his head. "Forget it. This place doesn't belong to me anyway. No point thinking about what-ifs. I should focus on finding that Ancient Dragon Bear first."
A moment later, Lin Feng flicked his head slightly, then pressed off the branch beneath his foot. With that single movement, his figure shot forward like a great roc spreading its wings, swiftly diving into the heart of the mountain.
Since he didn't bother to conceal his aura, the moment he entered the mountain range, he suddenly felt a faint probing energy sweeping toward him from afar. But as soon as that probing Dou Qi sensed his Dou Zun-level power, it instantly retreated.
"Hehe, looks like that peak Rank 7 magic beast with sharp senses is one of the guards that the Rank 8 Ancient Dragon Bear left behind."
The corner of Lin Feng's lips curved into a faint smile as he continued flying toward the mountain peak.
That Rank 7 beast's detection technique couldn't possibly fool someone like Lin Feng, whose soul had already reached the Late-stage Spirit Realm. Even before that probing Dou Qi appeared, he had already locked onto the beast's location.
Just as Lin Feng was about to reach mid-mountain, his figure suddenly halted in midair. In the next instant, his body flickered and appeared silently atop a thick tree trunk. Closing his eyes slightly, he took a deep breath, letting a faint, delicate fragrance drifting in the air enter his senses.
"This scent… could it be the Pill Soul Serum?"
The moment the unique aroma filled his lungs, Lin Feng's eyes snapped open, and a glint of joy flashing within them. The Pill Soul Serum was precisely one of the auxiliary ingredients required to refine the Core Soul Marrow.
"Well, since fate allowed me to find it, I might as well take it."
With that thought, Lin Feng immediately turned in the direction the fragrance came from and shot off like a streak of light.
In the blink of an eye, he stopped beside a small stream. Looking ahead, he saw that at the stream's source stood a massive boulder nearly ten meters tall, its surface covered with moss.
At the very center of the boulder was a small cavity. Within that hollow, he could faintly see a pool of thick, emerald-green liquid — viscous and gleaming — releasing waves of that same delicate fragrance.
"Hehe, come to me, then."
Seeing the emerald-green Pill Soul Serum, Lin Feng's eyes instantly lit up, and with a light wave of his hand—
The thick liquid was pulled by Dou Qi, turning into a strand of emerald-green light that sliced through the air and came to hover before him.
As soon as Lin Feng took away that Pill Soul Serum, ripples began spreading rapidly across the surface of the deep pool from which the stream originated. A moment later, a Seven-Star Dou Zong-level aura surged upward within Lin Feng's perception.
Splash!
Before long, a dark shadow shot out of the pool, sending up a towering splash several dozen meters high.
The creature wasn't very large by magic beast standards—barely two meters long. Upon closer inspection, its entire body was covered in shimmering blue scales. Each scale bore tiger-like stripes that gave the beast an extra touch of ferocity.
Its enormous, fanged jaws gleamed coldly in the light, making one's heart tremble just from looking at it. Once it landed on shore, the creature's head lifted, its eyes—each as big as a bronze bell—scanning sharply across its surroundings.
Then, it locked onto the culprit in the sky—the thief who had just taken the treasure it had guarded for hundreds of years.
"A Rank 7 Mystic Water Tiger Flood Dragon, huh…"
Lin Feng raised an eyebrow slightly as he looked down.
Though this Mystic Water Tiger Flood Dragon possessed the strength of only a seven-star Dou Zong, it carried a faint trace of dragon blood.
That alone made its combat power far above most of its peers. For many other competitors in this place, even an Eight-Star Dou Zong would hesitate to face it alone. However, to Lin Feng—a Dou Zun powerhouse—this so-called beast was little more than a kitten.
Under the beast's fierce glare, Lin Feng calmly manipulated his spatial ring, taking out a large jade bottle and drawing the Pill Soul Serum into it before putting it away.
After that, he produced another jade bottle and said casually, "Since you also carry the bloodline of the Dragon Clan, I'll be fair. I took your Pill Soul Serum, so here's a compensation—one high-grade tier-seven pill. Of course, if you're looking to die, you can try your luck."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Feng's aura erupted outward.
That oppressive pressure—belonging solely to a Dou Zun—instantly blanketed the surrounding area. Within a radius of several kilometers, every magic beast, including the Mystic Water Tiger Flood Dragon itself, felt its limbs weaken under the crushing force.
The Tiger Flood Dragon, meeting Lin Feng's gaze directly, even showed a flicker of fear in its large, bronze eyes.
After intimidating it sufficiently, Lin Feng retracted his aura and casually tossed the jade bottle containing the high-grade seventh-tier pill down toward the beast. Then, with a flash of black light, he soared toward the mountain peak ahead.
As for the Mystic Water Tiger Flood Dragon, it wisely caught the jade bottle in its mouth and quickly dove back into the pool. At its current Rank 7 stage, its intelligence was already on par with humans.
It understood that continuing to provoke such an overwhelming existence would only lead to death.
Besides, exchanging Pill Soul Serum for a high-grade seventh-tier pill wasn't exactly a loss—if anything, it might even be better nourishment. Thus, it sensibly retreated into its lair and resumed cultivating.
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