248: Chapter 248 The Bodhi Tree, Need Help?

Time flies like an arrow, years pass like a shuttle.

In the blink of an eye, another six months had passed since the great battle where Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi had personally intervened.

Knowing the schemes of the Hun Clan, the Anti-Soul Alliance became much more cautious. They arranged for Dou Zong and Dou Zun level experts to stay on guard, and only dispatched Dou Sheng powerhouses in coordinated groups to avoid being ambushed or dragged into mutual destruction by Hun Clan Dou Sheng.

During this process, the Anti-Soul Alliance continued to advance through the Western Region of the Central Plains, rooting out the Earth Fiend Halls one by one with remarkable results.

"Hoo!"

Inside the space of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode, located at the bottom of the Lava World directly beneath Jia Nan Academy in the Black-Corner Region of the Northwest Continent, Xiao Ting slowly opened his eyes, a powerful aura radiating from his body.

Zhu Kun, who was dozing off, immediately opened one eye, a flash of admiration in his gaze: "You broke through to a Four-Star Dou Sheng. That is truly fast!"

A Four-Star Dou Sheng under the age of twenty—this was simply an unprecedented and unparalleled monster.

Even the Dou Di of ancient times did not have such an exaggerated performance.

"Finally broke through to a Four-Star Dou Sheng." Xiao Ting slowly stood up, hands behind his back: "The speed will slow down from here on out. I still need to go out and stir up trouble to accelerate it."

Zhu Kun: "..."

When he was twenty, no, two hundred—no, that's not right—when he was two thousand years old, he didn't even have the strength of a Four-Star Dou Sheng.

Although the situation for Magical Beasts and humans was somewhat different, Xiao Ting was being far too unsatisfied.

Seeming to know what Zhu Kun was thinking, Xiao Ting sighed: "After all, once Zi Yan completes her transformation, she will be a Four-Star Dou Sheng, and a powerful Dragon Phoenix at that. I cannot let her surpass me."

Zhu Kun: !

"Be reasonable. The reason Zi Yan was able to break through so quickly was because of the dragon phoenix origin fruit."

"That dragon phoenix origin fruit requires the Ninth Rank Void Ancient Dragon royal family and the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix royal family to perish simultaneously, and only has an extremely low chance of appearing after their life force fully condenses."

"In other words, Zi Yan was able to make such rapid progress only by inheriting the perfect legacy of two Dou Sheng powerhouses."

"And you, Xiao Ting, rely entirely on your own cultivation; it's ridiculously fast."

"Senior, you can leave in three months. I'll go out and wander around first."

After greeting Zhu Kun, Xiao Ting used the divine ability Flying Body Tracing to depart.

It is worth mentioning that during this period of receiving energy feedback from the Yin Yang Twin Flames and refining the Demon Saint Essence Blood, he never forgot to write his cultivation insights into his Diary every day, conveniently and reasonably mentioning the names of the women.

During this time, in Zhu Kun's eyes, he was just sitting there refining energy to improve his cultivation.

But in reality, his alchemy experience and experience in learning various Dou Technique were all increasing.

Even a divine ability like Flying Body Tracing could have its proficiency increased directly through the Plane Blessing.

"Let's go understand the situation first."

Xiao Ting used Flying Body Tracing, and within a few breaths, he arrived at Zixiao City.

The three Dou Sheng sent by the Anti-Soul Alliance to help him were living here, cultivating in peace, and also helping Xiao Ting protect Zixiao City.

Xiao Ting kept his word and gave them a portion of resources from the Hun Clan to help them improve their cultivation.

After learning about the recent movements in the Central Plains from the three, Xiao Ting secretly calculated: "It seems Void Swallowing Flame is about to break through. When that happens, the Hun Clan will definitely launch a counterattack."

Xiao Ting was not anxious about this at all.

A counterattack?

I hope you, Void Swallowing Flame, can withstand a single claw strike from Zhu Kun.

Even if Hun Tiandi personally takes action, he is not Zhu Kun's match in a one-on-one fight.

When the time comes, Zhu Kun will face Hun Tiandi, and Gu Yuan can free up his hands to deal with Void Swallowing Flame. If he doesn't finish him within ten moves, it counts as a failure.

Furthermore, the Void Ancient Dragon Clan has a newly promoted Nine-Star Dou Sheng, Great Elder Zhu Huo. Although he lacks an Emperor Realm Soul, relying on the formidable body of a Void Ancient Dragon and his proficient mastery of Void power, his strength will not be inferior to Void Swallowing Flame.

"The Hun Clan killed Soul Yuan Tian, so only three of the four elders remain. They probably cannot set up the great formation."

"On the surface, the Hun Clan has already fallen into a disadvantage!"

Taking a deep breath, Xiao Ting decided that he should still improve his strength as quickly as possible.

Now that he was a Four-Star Dou Sheng, he needed enough energy to maintain his rate of breakthrough.

Xiao Yan cultivated the Burning Technique and could rely on devouring powerful Heavenly Flames to save time.

The cultivation method Xiao Ting was currently practicing was not weak either, and he had the Purple Heaven Flame.

"Continuing to refine Demon Saint Essence Blood can also improve my cultivation, but the effect is not great. It is better to give it to other Dou Sheng powerhouses, as the return on investment is higher. I will save the rest to give to Cai Li, Xun'er, and the others as gifts later."

"I can give them the Demon Saint Essence Blood after they break through to Dou Sheng. I also need to prepare some things to help them break through to Dou Sheng as soon as possible."

Xiao Ting wrote these thoughts in his Diary, then set off for his next destination.

Savage Ancient Region!

In just over a hundred breaths of time, he crossed hundreds of thousands of miles and arrived at the outskirts of the Savage Ancient Region.

Here, there were poisonous miasmas that could kill even a Dou Zun expert if they were not careful. These poisonous miasmas were actually a type of special, invisible poisonous insect.

For Xiao Yi Xian, who possessed the Calamity Poison Body, these poisonous insects had considerable destructive power, but the poison within the insects was a tonic.

Xiao Ting raised his hand and released the fenyan holy stele, purifying the poisonous insects, devouring a large amount of poisonous gas, and refining the poisonous gas to a certain extent.

About three days later, the poisonous insects in one corner of the Savage Ancient Region were all concentrated into poison liquid and purified.

"It's here!"

Within his soul perception range, a giant purple butterfly appeared, dancing gracefully, breathtakingly beautiful.

Xiao Ting knew that this butterfly was actually the Netherworld Poison Flame.

The Netherworld Poison Flame is a flame that exists within the ancient Netherworld Poison Swamp. After being nurtured for millions of years by the sky-covering poisonous miasma in the swamp, and after the flame has consumed endless poisonous miasma, it gains a spirit in a hundred years and takes form in a thousand years.

When the flame reaches maturity, its color is greenish, moving through the poisonous miasma of the swamp like a ghost fire.

Because the flame itself was nurtured by poisonous miasma to gain a spirit, it contains deadly poison!

When the flame matures to the extreme, it will transform into a butterfly to seek out deadly poison.

With Xiao Ting's current strength, he easily took down the Netherworld Poison Flame and stored it inside the yellow spring divine stele.

When he returns to the space of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode, he would use the Purple Heaven Flame to devour the essence of the Netherworld Poison Flame, divide it into three, and then give it to Xiao Yi Xian and Xun'er to refine.

Since the flame had been subdued, Xiao Ting did not hesitate to use Flying Body Tracing, merging into space and escaping into the Savage Ancient Region.

The time was still early before the Bodhi Ancient Tree would be unable to withstand the negative emotional influence of the Dou Di and be forced to seek help and appear in the world.

But for Xiao Ting, finding and entering the internal space of the Bodhi Ancient Tree in advance was not difficult!

This was indeed the case; after penetrating deep into the Savage Ancient Region, Xiao Ting quickly discovered a difference in a certain space.

This space was surrounded by terrifying energy crystals; even if a Nine-Star Dou Sheng came, they would be unable to force it open.

Xiao Ting did not need to use brute force; using his divine ability made it as easy as returning home.

Not long after, Xiao Ting arrived in a special space.

Here stood an ancient tree, about ten-plus zhang tall, its entire body emerald green like precious jade, as if it had stood here for hundreds of millions of years, releasing an astonishing vitality.

"Bodhi Ancient Tree, do you need help?"