BTTH : From Humble Beginnings to Dou Di

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”Fierce Bear Earth-Shattering Fist!”

High above a nameless mountain forest, Lin Feng’s entire body flickered faintly with a golden glow as he suddenly let out a sharp shout.

The moment his voice fell, a crimson bear-shaped shadow abruptly emerged on his fist.

With a slight flap of his Dou Qi wings, he shot forward at incredible speed, aiming straight for the patch of black mist ahead in the sky.

His fist, condensed with turbulent and violent Dou Qi, smashed ruthlessly into the head of the black figure currently being entangled by Xiao Yixian.

The immense force turned the figure into nothing more than a blurry afterimage as it was sent hurtling backward through the air.

”Boom!”

With a thunderous crash that echoed throughout the area, the ground beneath the black figure trembled violently upon impact.

A tangible shockwave rippled outward at great speed, destroying every tree and obstacle in its path!

”I… I am a Heaven-Grade Protector of the Hall of Souls! How dare you two treat me like this be careful, or—”

The shadow within the black mist hadn’t even finished its harsh threat when several invisible chains suddenly shot out from behind Lin Feng.

With a chilling clang-clang sound, the iron chains pierced directly through the Protector’s body mid-sentence.

”Ahhh!”

In an instant, the words in his mouth became a shrill, agonized scream.

His soul was struck with a devastating blow, and the surrounding black mist that shrouded his body disintegrated rapidly, no longer sustainable.

His soul form, under the irresistible pull of the invisible chains, was dragged helplessly toward Lin Feng.

Facing this Heaven-Grade Protector—already battered and weakened after being alternately attacked by the two of them—Lin Feng calmly and skillfully stripped the storage ring from the man’s finger, then took out a jade bottle.

After sealing the Protector’s soul inside the bottle, he casually tossed it into his storage ring.

”Seems like these direct, head-on battles… really aren’t bad at all.”

Clenching and unclenching his fist, Lin Feng’s lips curled upward into a faint smile.

During this time, whenever he passed through a major city, he would always stop by the local medicinal shops and auction houses to browse.

Thanks to his deep pockets, he’d managed to collect quite a number of the medicinal ingredients required to enhance his Myriad Steel Tempering Technique.

Of course, he’d also taken the time to sift through a pile of medical formulas.

From those, he handpicked several that he felt were quite good—prescriptions capable of increasing his physical strength and constitution.

Along the way, after gathering ingredients, he would refine them into pills and take them.

The pills worked hand in hand with his Mid-Grade Earth Class Body Refining Dou Technique, and combined with his vast resources to back it up…by now, his physical strength had already risen to a level comparable to a Rank 7 magic beast.

For that reason, he had also started cultivating a few more rigid and forceful types of Dou Techniques.

Only this way could he fully capitalize on his powerful physique.

As for Yin Er and Ying Shan, those two puppets, they too had been tempered by lightning and had now reached the level of a Seven-Star Dou Zong.

”If it weren’t for you cultivating that Mid-Grade Earth Class Body Refining Dou Technique, how could you possibly have such terrifying combat strength?”

Seeing his excited expression, Xiao Yixian slowly descended next to him and said, half-grumbling.

Ever since this guy started cultivating that strange Dou Technique, even his… that place had grown noticeably larger.

Whereas before she’d been able to fight him to a standstill, lately she’d been getting pinned and ground into the dirt by Lin Feng every single time.

Every time she thought of this, she felt both a faint sweetness and a lingering fear.

After all, that sore, aching feeling lingered with her every day now, impossible to shake off, and left her somewhat uncomfortable.

”Hehe…”

Hearing the tone of her voice, Lin Feng immediately guessed what she was thinking, and he just gave a silly laugh to gloss it over.

After carefully putting away the jade bottle containing the Hall of Souls Protector, he quickly changed the subject: ”This place shouldn’t be too far from Bone Transforming City, right?”

At his words, Xiao Yixian was taken aback at first, then nodded in reply: ”That’s right. From here to Bone Transforming City is just over ten thousand li. If we travel at full speed, we should be able to arrive by tomorrow.”

An ordinary mid-level Dou Zong flying at full speed could cover about two hundred meters per second.

Even if they only flew half the day, they would still reach their destination the next day.

So a distance of ten thousand li was indeed not all that far for them.

”Then let’s set out. The Bone Transforming City trade convention begins in three days.”

Hearing this, Lin Feng nodded slightly and turned to the graceful figure beside him.

As soon as he spoke, his wings flared violently, and his figure shot toward the west like an arrow!

Seeing this, Xiao Yixian’s figure also instantly vanished from where she stood, streaking after him in the same direction.

Ever since Lin Feng had finished sorting through Dan Yitian’s relics, he had given one Origin Ascension Pill each to Xiao Yixian and the Han Clan’s Grand Elder.

With the help of the pill, Xiao Yixian had already advanced to Six-Star Dou Zong.

The Han Clan Grand Elder had also broken through to Five-Star Dou Zong.

Of course, the reason Lin Feng was willing to give the Han Clan such high-level pills was also to repay them for what they had done for him during that period.

After that, Lin Feng and Xiao Yixian continued their journey toward Bone Transforming City while also hunting down Hall of Souls Protectors along the way.

Whenever they captured a Protector, they would refine him together with the souls he had collected into a Soul Essence and absorb it.

In just a month and a half, Lin Feng had captured a total of seven Protectors and more than fifty Soul Envoys.

Among them, three were Heaven-Grade Protectors, each with strength at least at the level of a Seven-Star Dou Zong.

The strongest had already reached the level of an Eight-Star Dou Zong.

Of course, he didn’t capture the Protectors in every city they passed.

Instead, he would randomly choose every few cities to carry out a raid.

Sometimes they even veered off course from their path to Bone Transforming City, specifically taking spatial wormholes to other cities to hunt Hall of Souls Protectors.

Because of this, it had taken them a month and a half to finally arrive near Bone Transforming City.

That said, it was undeniable that the strength of the Protectors in Central Plains and the quality of the souls they collected were far superior to those of the Protectors in the major empires and the Black-Corner Region.

Putting aside the Protectors’ strength, the souls they collected were mostly at the Dou Shi to Dou Ling level, unlike the Northwestern Region’s Protectors, who indiscriminately gathered any soul regardless of quality.

Through this process, Lin Feng’s soul power had also reached the level of a mid seventh-tier alchemist.

The next day, as the blazing sun rose from the east to hang overhead, Lin Feng and Xiao Yixian finally arrived at their destination.

Within Bone Transforming City, the predominant color was a faint, eerie white.

At a glance, it was as if the entire city were constructed out of bones, sending a faint chill through the hearts of onlookers.

Yet the bustle and liveliness of the city were not diminished in the slightest.

The deafening clamor of voices could be heard clearly even from a great distance.

”This Bone Transforming City is quite prosperous. Though it’s far inferior to Xi Yun City, among the cities I’ve seen, it still ranks among the top three,” Lin Feng said as he walked along the streets, gazing at the uniform, bone-white buildings all around with a hint of admiration.

”From the information we’ve gathered, the Yun Clan of Xi Yun City is one of the overlords of the Northern Region of the Central Plains. They have a Dou Zun ancestor overseeing the clan.

Even Wind Lightning Pavilion has to show them some respect when they meet. Naturally, a city like Bone Transforming City, with only peak Dou Zong-level overseers, cannot compare,” Xiao Yixian replied, tucking a strand of silver hair behind her ear.

Just as Lin Feng was about to say something, a clear and piercing crane’s cry suddenly rang out from the distant sky.

The sudden call instantly drew countless gazes upward from within Bone Transforming City below.

Lin Feng instinctively looked up as well, only to see a massive, seven-colored crane in the distant sky, flapping its giant wings and speeding toward them.

Bathed in the noonday sunlight, its multicolored feathers reflected dazzling brilliance, magnificent and striking.

In the blink of an eye, the giant crane, carrying a fierce gust of wind, swooped down over the city.

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