BTTH : From Humble Beginnings to Dou Di

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The gray specks of light exploded instantly whenever they landed on the green flames surrounding Lin Feng's body.

At the same time, a small portion of the strange flame beside him would be consumed with each explosion.

After pondering for a moment, Lin Feng's figure darted downward again.

The scarlet energy below would be even denser and his chances of breaking through to Dou Zong would increase that much more.

After descending several hundred more meters, Lin Feng found himself standing above a pitted, uneven ground full of crater-like depressions.

These craters, some hundreds and some thousands of meters wide, continuously emitted wisps of gray smoke.

That smoke was filled with a terrifying fire poison.

Even with his Heavenly Flame, Lin Feng didn't dare go any deeper.

Clearly, if he were to pass through these craters, he'd truly enter the heart of this volcano.

"Lin Feng, hurry up and lend me one of your Heavenly Flames! Let's see just how much this so-called Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool can help me advance from an Eight-Star Dou Zong!"

Seeing that they'd reached the bottom of the pool, Tian Huo Zun Zhe immediately popped out and shouted.

"Here you go. Go over there and train on your own."

Lin Feng replied casually, summoning the source flame of Fallen Heart Flame from his body and sending it into Tian Huo Zun Zhe's soul.

"Heh heh! Off I go then!"

Tian Huo Zun Zhe manipulated the Fallen Heart Flame to form a protective barrier around himself, then quickly disappeared into the scarlet energy in the distance.

Seeing the old man vanish, Lin Feng turned his gaze downward again.

"So after diving all this way, I've only passed through a shallow pond atop the volcano… and arrived at its entrance."

Looking at those craters, Lin Feng shook his head with a wry smile.

Only now did he realize just how small he truly was before the might of heaven and earth.

Sigh. Never mind. For now, I'll just train. Once I grow stronger in the future, I'll come back to see what lies deeper inside this volcano…

Muttering to comfort himself, Lin Feng began adjusting his state.

It only took a few minutes before he smoothly entered a cultivation state.

A fierce suction force suddenly erupted from his body.

Centered on him, a powerful vortex stirred this once-still crimson world into commotion.

The dense and oppressive scarlet energy surged toward him like thick, coiling pythons, endlessly pouring into his body.

Each time that scarlet liquid touched the cyan flames surrounding him, a faint hissing could be heard the gray specks of light within the liquid scattering and breaking apart instantly.

Protected by Green Lotus Core Flame, even the potent fire poison was kept at bay and could not invade his body.

When the first torrent of scarlet liquid poured into his body, Lin Feng trembled violently.

Such immense energy, under normal circumstances, would've taken him several days of serious cultivation to gather yet here, it took only seconds.

No wonder this was known as the perfect place for Dou Huang to break through to Dou Zong.

Still not satisfied, Lin Feng quietly released his spiritual power.

Shielded by the Green Lotus Core Flame, his spiritual power wildly swept up the surrounding scarlet energy.

"…What's this…?"

Not far away, Feng Qing'er suddenly opened her purple-brown eyes, her tone full of shock.

She hadn't been startled awake by anyone else but because, as she absorbed more and more of the energy here, she sensed that the Three Thousand Lightning Illusionary Body soul clone at the center of her brow was also absorbing the scarlet energy along with her.

However, perhaps due to her suppression, the energy the clone absorbed wasn't much.

But if even a soul-condensed clone could gain strength here, didn't that mean "Could it be… the scarlet energy at the bottom of this Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool can even temper the soul?"

Startled, Feng Qing'er unconsciously murmured what she was thinking aloud.

After a moment's thought, she decided to test it herself.

Slowly raising her pair of jade-like hands, she rapidly formed a series of dazzling and strange seals, her movements as quick as lightning.

In the next instant, her pretty face turned solemn and she gave a soft yet firm shout:

"Three Thousand Lightning Illusionary Body—Manifest!"

As her shout fell, an invisible force slowly seeped out from within her body.

Under its eerie wriggling, it condensed into a clone identical in appearance to Feng Qing'er herself.

What was even more shocking was that this clone actually possessed the strength of a five-star Dou Huang.

As soon as the clone appeared, it automatically emanated a suction force.

Under its influence, the surrounding viscous scarlet energy was drawn toward the clone, pouring into its body.

After absorbing that vast energy, the clone began improving at an astonishing speed.

"It really works!"

Seeing this effect, Feng Qing'er's pretty face lit up, her eyes full of heat.

One had to know the clone formed by Three Thousand Lightning Illusionary Body was notoriously difficult to strengthen under normal circumstances.

Yet here, at the bottom of this Blood Pool, it could improve so quickly and easily.

However, when she saw that the fire poison was also entering the clone's body, she hurriedly split off half of the protective lightning shield covering herself and transferred it to the clone.

But as her own shield weakened, some extremely faint strands of fire poison began slipping past the lightning barrier, following the scarlet energy into her body as well.

At this level… with my current physique, I should be able to withstand it until I advance to Dou Zong.

Sensing the wisp of fire poison within her, Feng Qing'er's delicate brows furrowed slightly before slowly relaxing, her tone full of confidence.

After all, her magical beast physique far surpassed that of ordinary humans.

What's more, Lin Feng, a seventh-tier alchemist, was here with her.

If it really came to it, she could always ask him to help purge the fire poison from her body once they left.

With that thought, Feng Qing'er once again closed her beautiful eyes and resumed her cultivation.

Only, she quietly forgot that the clone beside her had a shield of similar strength meaning it too was absorbing fire poison.

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While Lin Feng and the others were all cultivating at full speed, far away in the southern regions of Central Plains, at the Falling Star Pavilion in the Sky Star Mountains, things were anything but calm.

The current strongest expert of Falling Star Pavilion, Feng Zun Zhe, a Four-Star Dou Zun, was sitting there with a dark, gloomy face as he listened to the report of a rather disheveled-looking middle-aged man before him.

"That Jia Nan Academy is simply outrageous! How dare they slaughter so many of my Falling Star Pavilion's experts?!"

After hearing the man's report, the usually calm Feng Zun Zhe suddenly let out an angry roar.

As that roar—issued by a Dou Zun-level expert—rapidly spread outward, even the space around them trembled faintly!

It should be known that Feng Zun Zhe had been worried about the Xiao Clan and the others encountering danger on the way.

So he'd personally sent out the Pavilion's Second Elder as the team leader along with the Third and Fourth Elders, both Seven-Star Dou Zong, and three ordinary Five-Star Dou Zong Elders to assist.

This kind of lineup was enough that even among the forces of the Central Plains, few would dare provoke them lightly.

And yet now, out of that six-man team, only one Five-Star Dou Zong had narrowly escaped death and returned alive.

The other five—an Eight-Star Dou Zong, two Seven-Star Dou Zong, and two Five-Star Dou Zong had all perished there.

Such losses were deeply painful even for Falling Star Pavilion, one of the Four Pavilions!

Most importantly, they had paid such a heavy price and gained absolutely nothing in return.

The middle-aged man reporting the situation finally breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing that he was safe for now.

This man was the sole survivor Feng Zun Zhe had sent out the only surviving Five-Star Dou Zong.

After being spared by Elder Qian and Elder Bai of Jia Nan Academy, he'd spent nearly a month traveling in terror through a spatial wormhole to return to the Central Plains.

Unlike when they'd set out, there was no Feng Zun Zhe personally sending them directly to Xiyun City and the jade slip Feng Zun Zhe had given them, which was being kept on the Eight-Star Dou Zong, had long since been lost.

As a result, he'd been forced to detour again and again, using the spatial wormholes of various cities and flying on his own, crossing the Northern and Central Regions step by step.

After nearly five months of arduous travel, having practically crossed the entire Central Plains, he had finally returned to his sect's base today.

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