Chapter 171: Breakthrough Dou Wang
The sky was covered with thunderclouds.
Deafening thunder roared in the lonely valley.
Thick thunder fell, and flashes of lightning illuminated the dark valley.
Outside the valley, a strong, dazzling silver-white light burst out, dispelling the surrounding darkness, extremely conspicuous.
This strong light came from a dazzling ball of light.
The surrounding thunder seemed attracted to this ball, constantly deviating from their path and rushing toward it.
They fell on the ball of light, making a hissing sound of electricity. After flowing on it for a while, they dripped like liquid.
Flowing to the ground, these thunder liquids, now containing pure thunder attribute energy, gathered into a one-meter-square pool.
A metallic luster shimmered in the flow, with lightning arcs jumping across it.
Above the thunder liquid, within the flashing light ball, a figure sat with closed eyes, his body enveloped in silver-white lightning, even his hair and eyebrows turned silver-white.
He looked like a human-shaped lightning!
This figure was Xiao Bai, who had been cultivating in Thunder Valley for months.
His blood and qi boiled with rich thunder power. He slowly opened his eyes, and two silver-white lightning bolts shot from his pupils.
His once black-and-white eyes were now silver-white, emitting bursts of strong light.
At that moment, a raging thunder roared straight toward him.
Xiao Bai's eyes shifted slightly, facing this thunder, comparable to a Dou Wang's peak attack, with a calm expression.
His silver-white palm rose slowly, colliding fiercely with the incoming thunder.
"Boom!"
After a loud noise, the thunder's lightning tumbled, arcs hissing, reluctantly gripped by the silver hand.
Closing his fingers, ignoring the arcs on his arm, he crushed it. Drops of thunder liquid slid from his fingers, rippling on the ground.
"My body has reached its limit. It's time to break through to Dou Wang!"
Feeling his strengthened body, a low, thunderous murmur echoed outside the valley.
With that, strange energy fluctuations surged from Xiao Bai's body, previously surrounded only by blood and qi, as a powerful aura erupted.
Seven-star Dou Ling!
Eight-star Dou Ling!
His aura climbed rapidly, reaching nine-star Dou Ling in moments, still rising.
When it hit the peak of nine-star Dou Ling, it slowed. After a pause, an energy ripple surged from Xiao Bai, spreading outward.
It struck the valley's stone wall, dislodging gravel.
Xiao Bai wasn't surprised. A month ago, his cultivation had reached nine-star Dou Ling's peak in this thunder-rich valley.
Instead of breaking through immediately, he left his sheltered corner, drawing thunder to temper his body outside the valley.
With Xiao Yi and the others absent, the thunder's full power was his to harness, undiluted by their absorption.
Initially, he chose the sparsest thunder areas, resisting without Dou Qi, relying solely on his body. Each strike tore his flesh, but his robust physique healed quickly, ready for more.
Previously, Xiao Yi and the others had tempered his body and Dou Qi, but this was far more intense.
Only Xiao Bai dared such tempering. Repeatedly forged, his body became like hundred-times-refined steel.
From sparse thunder zones, he moved to the densest.
Now, thunder that would endanger any Dou Wang was a mere tickle to him!
With a thought, a faint soul wave spread, following a mysterious connection.
Soon, the heavy thunderclouds rolled, and four colored lights—blue, red, yellow, and gold—approached rapidly from the distance.
"Awooo!" An excited dragon roar drowned out the valley's thunder, echoing through the air.
The four thunderclouds, dyeing the gray sky with their colors, hovered above Xiao Bai, adding vibrancy to the valley.
"They're all very energetic!" Feeling the little guys' sharply increased auras and lively energy, Xiao Bai smiled.
A golden light flashed, and a massive shadow loomed.
"My Lord, look at me! Am I majestic?" an excited voice rang out.
"Damn! What did you eat?"
Xiao Bai's eyes widened at the ten-foot-tall behemoth. The once cute dragon head was now ferocious, its slender body covered in cold, flashing scales, with four powerful claws nearly as big as him!
"I don't know! Xiao Yi and the others were wandering in the thundercloud, and I smelled a familiar scent. I followed it to a small black thunder ball!"
The little golden dragon scratched its chin, puzzled, and continued:
"The surrounding lightning gathered around it but seemed scared, not daring to approach, like it was their master, letting the black ball absorb their power. But when I approached, the lightning scattered!"
"The black ball tried to flee, but I shouted 'Don't run!' and it stopped. It smelled so good, I couldn't help but swallow it!"
"After that, my body kept growing, and now it's like this!"
".!" Xiao Bai.
That black ball couldn't be the Black Demon Thunder Mang Tianchi got!
No, it shouldn't be the real Black Demon Thunder. The little golden dragon couldn't handle that now.
What was it? Only Mang Tianchi would know.
But this guy ate and digested it. Would Mang Tianchi be furious?
Even if they met later, Xiao Bai wouldn't dare ask!
That's a half-saint!
"Forget it! We'll deal with it later!" Xiao Bai didn't blame the dragon. It had eaten it; what could he do?
If he met Dean Mang later and it was important, he'd compensate him.
"Your body's bigger, but your aura hasn't changed much?" Xiao Bai checked with soul power, finding no issues, and said with disdain.
"Hey, my Lord, your eyes turned white, and your eyesight's failing?" The dragon, dissatisfied, raised its tone: "Didn't you see my origin's stronger?"
"Hehe." Xiao Bai sneered: "Yes, stronger origin. Need me to dig some out for practice?"
"No, no!" The dragon grinned sheepishly, flattering: "My Lord sees clearly, wise and majestic, truly eternal."
"Okay!" Xiao Bai waved, cutting off the boastful dragon.
Ignoring it, he waved again, and the four colored thunderclouds rolled slightly.
After a few thunders, they shrank into streams of light, circling Xiao Bai before merging into his body.
As the four thunder seeds returned, his Dou Qi boiled instantly.
The little golden dragon felt the resonating energy, growing restless as Xiao Bai's Dou Qi flowed.
"Is this a breakthrough? Hope nothing goes wrong like last time! No one's here to save us!" it whispered.
"Get lost, you crow's mouth!" Xiao Bai retorted. This dragon was asking for trouble today.
Inspecting his Dantian, the Dou Crystal's burrs were gone, now perfectly round, no longer a spiky sea urchin.
His meridians were spacious, crystal-clear, faintly fluorescent. Silver-white Dou Qi flowed rapidly within.
As it circulated, each cycle back to the Dantian sent waves of aura, like water hitting a boiling oil pan.
The rich thunder energy around found an outlet, entering Xiao Bai's pores with his aura's pull.
Thunder falling above veered toward him.
Xiao Bai didn't flinch, treating it like dust, unconcerned.
This was why he strengthened his body. Without this, he wouldn't be so at ease.
Especially with a new thunder seed coming!
The thunder liquid pool below surged, a silver-white mass with lightning arcs wrapping Xiao Bai.
It turned into pure energy, flooding his body.
Fast!
Very fast!
Xiao Bai had broken through many realms, but never with such abundance, like swimming in a thunder energy ocean.
Even without techniques, these energies would push him past the Dou Wang barrier.
But he didn't let them. He let the energy invade his meridians, flesh, and bones, refining it through his technique to reach his Dantian.
Ignoring the pain of the energy rush, he refined it slowly. Each refined bit entered his Dantian, shrinking the Dou Crystal with each cyclone rotation.
As it shrank, Xiao Bai felt his Dou Qi interacting with external energy, a closeness distinct from soul power control.
"Is this the Dou Wang's ability to mobilize external energy?" he realized.
Over time, the Dou Crystal vanished.
"Bang!"
A shattering sound echoed in the void, and his surroundings changed instantly.
The Dantian's cyclone emptied, no longer radiant with energy; all Dou Qi seemed to vanish.
Xiao Bai didn't care. With a thought, flood-like Dou Qi rushed from his body, filling his crystal meridians.
At Dou Wang, Dou Qi no longer flowed solely from the cyclone but from all parts of his body.
"Breakthrough so quickly?" The dragon, sensing Xiao Bai's stronger Dou Wang aura, was surprised.
Compared to his last Dou Ling breakthrough, this was too fast!
"Fast?" Xiao Bai shook his head, eyeing his silver-white skin, thunder power accumulated from body tempering, unused in this breakthrough.
He'd prepared too thoroughly, making this breakthrough feel effortless.
His shoulders trembled, and Dou Qi surged through a strange meridian route.
"Boom!"
Silver-white light overflowed, and ten-foot-long wings, arcing like thunder, sprouted behind him, gorgeous and noble.
"Dou Qi into wings. I've finally reached this with my own strength!"
Xiao Bai glanced at the silver wings. Previously, his flying skills made others mistake him for Dou Wang.
Now, no more misunderstandings!
He, Xiao Bai, could form wings with his own Dou Qi!
After admiring them, he retracted the wings, his mind sinking into his sea of consciousness.
He gazed at the ancient talisman, unchanged, as if eternal.
Lost in thought, he wondered: Who made this talisman? Why choose him? What was his purpose here?
Unanswered questions piled up, suppressed in his heart.
As his thoughts surged, the talisman's lines lit up, profound yet unforgettable.
Recalling Taoist talismans from his past life, Xiao Bai tried replicating them on beast skin, clear in his mind but blank after.
After failed attempts, he gave up.
The talisman's firepower and attack he'd hoped for became a pipe dream!
Now, a faint black light emerged from a corner of the talisman, dark lightning arcs flickering.
"Is it coming?" Xiao Bai's face grew solemn, focusing on the lightning.
The last Gengjin thunder had been brutal. What surprises awaited this time?
Under his gaze, a dark lightning surged from the talisman, streaking through his sea of consciousness, heading straight for his kidney.Book Recommendations:
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