Douluo: Son of the Stars

Chapter 211: Finally able to practice, rapid advancement

The battle between the two major families in Wutan City finally ended with the victory of the Xiao family. As the loser, the power of the Jialie family shrank rapidly and it was difficult for them to regain their former glory.

Even most of the family's wealth was dispersed and occupied by the Xiao family. With the help of Tong Rui's power, the other two families were completely reduced to third-rate small families. Now Wutan City can be said to be dominated by the Xiao family alone.

After the process of competition among the big families spread widely in Wutan City for nearly a week, people who were tired of the old and loved the new gradually shifted their attention and refocused on another major event, which was the enrollment of Canaan College.

However, this has nothing to do with Tong Rui, his daily life is still very monotonous.

However, the difference is that, because of Tong Rui, the Xiao family's patriarch's lineage has completely secured the highest point of power in the Xiao family. Therefore, as his family expanded, Xiao Yan was able to collect a lot of medicinal herbs for Tong Rui to try.

Although it was useless, Xiao Yan was willing to try. After all, Tong Rui was such a big shot, so of course he had to hold on to him.

After many days, a crescent moon hung lonely in the dark night sky, and the faint and cold moonlight fell on the earth.

In the dark forest, a faint bonfire beat lightly, bringing a ray of warm light to the silent night.

Next to the campfire, the boy leaned against a tree trunk, playing with the flames with the fire stick in his hand with some boredom.

"Let's go, Ah Xing, let's continue to go deeper into the Monster Mountain Range." Xiao Yan said to the bored Tong Rui with a giant black ruler on his back.

"Oh? Did you get the herbs you needed?" Tong Rui stood up and stretched.

"We got it. A large number of mercenaries from Qingshan Town have entered the forest. We won't fight with them here. Also, Yao Lao just found something wrong in a place. I want to go take a look."

After hearing this, Tong Rui nodded and followed Xiao Yan to that place. On the way, Xiao Yan also rescued a little girl who was about to be attacked by a rock snake.

Ignoring the little girl's surprised expression, the two of them headed straight towards the strange cave.

The entrance to the cave is not wide, only allowing two or three people to pass through. The cave is dark, but there is a faint light emanating from it, making it look quite mysterious.

There were many knife-like marks around the cave entrance, but perhaps due to the passage of time, these knife marks had become extremely blurred. If it weren't for the two people's sharp eyesight, they might not have been able to detect them.

After walking for more than ten minutes, the two were blocked by a stone gate in front of them that emitted a faint yellow light.

"Do you want to open it directly?" Tong Rui asked Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan walked forward, touched the stone door with his palm, and tested its thickness: "It would probably take a fighting master level of strength to force it to break, can you do it?"

Tong Rui did not answer Xiao Yan. He touched the stone door and then punched it to create a big hole.

Seeing the light inside the door, Xiao Yan picked up a few stones from the ground and threw them hard into the stone door. When he saw no reaction, he felt relieved.

The two stepped into the stone door, and their vision suddenly became wider.

Inside the stone door is a huge stone chamber. The stone chamber looks a bit simple and empty. The walls are inlaid with moonstones for lighting. In the center of the stone chamber, there is a seat. On the seat, a withered skeleton sits on it. On the top, the deep-set skull fell on the pale thigh bone. This appearance, in this quiet atmosphere, looked very eerie.

In front of the seat, there is a rather wide and long bluestone platform. On the bluestone platform, three locked stone boxes are placed neatly.

In addition, in the three corners of the stone chamber, there were actually a lot of golden gold coins and other precious belongings piled up. The number of such large gold coins was probably no less than hundreds of thousands.

"Purple-blue leaves, white spirit ginseng fruit, snow lotus seeds, and ice spirit flame grass."

Xiao Yan found a small flower bed made of mud in a corner. Various flowers and plants were planted in the flower bed, and a strange fragrance lingered in the air.

Tong Rui also looked around, but didn't find anything of particular interest. Instead, he found three black keys in the skeleton.

After putting away everything in the stone chamber, Xiao Yan also walked over.

After Tong Rui picked up the key, the skeleton's arm broke apart, and a small scroll hidden in the gap between the bones was revealed.

The two of them took a look, but couldn't figure out anything, so they put it away and planned to study it later.

After the two confirmed that there was nothing extra, they walked straight to the three stone boxes.

This time no one stopped them. The two opened the three stone boxes, and Xiao Yan was very surprised.

Among the three stone boxes, there is nothing useful except the Seven-Colored Poison Sutra. The rest, whether it is the flying fighting skill Eagle Wings or the intermediate Xuan-level sonic fighting skill - Crazy Lion's Chant, are all very useful.

After the two of them sorted out their harvest, they didn't do anything extra and just left, continuing to go deeper into the Warcraft Forest.

With Tong Rui behind him, Xiao Yan's combat experience increased rapidly.

Every day, Xiao Yan would gather herbs and fight monsters in the area around the waterfall. At night, he would return to the cave to practice alchemy and cultivate his fighting spirit.

But a month later, the two men and one soul stared at a ball of green flame in front of them with curiosity on their faces.

"This is the fire taken from the body of a first-level fire wood snake? Are you sure I won't be burned to ashes from the inside out if I inhale this stuff?" Tong Rui's eyes twitched slightly.

"Don't worry, your body is very tough. Even this flame will hardly harm your internal organs. Plus, I'm here to control you. As long as you can refine this fire, you can practice."

Looking at Yao Lao's confident expression, Tong Rui nodded half-believingly.

"Then how can I refine it? I don't have fighting spirit either."

"Don't worry, just follow the previous method and swallow a pill to transform it into Dou Qi. Then I will control Xiao Yanzi's body and help you refine it into the origin fire. During this process, you just need to keep absorbing Dou Qi."

Listening to Yao Lao's words, Tong Rui nodded, swallowed the pill given by Yao Lao, and swallowed the green flame into his stomach.

He slowly closed his eyes, crossed his legs in a training posture, formed training seals with his hands, and began to practice fighting spirit on the spot.

Although the flame looked fierce, there was no burning sensation in Tong Rui's stomach. Instead, Tong Rui felt his stomach was warm.

Afterwards, Tong Rui felt Xiao Yan's palm on his back, and a warm fighting spirit flowed along his back into his body.

The fighting spirit circulated along the meridians in the body and finally reached the lower abdomen, where a ball of fighting spirit condensed into a cyclone shape. If you look closely, you will find that this cyclone is simply a temporary balance formed by the large amount of fighting spirit absorbed and the dissipated fighting spirit.

Xiao Yan's Dou Qi swirled around the Qi, and after not finding any problems, Xiao Yan began to act according to what Yao Lao said.

The Dou Qi guided the Yanmu Snake Beast Fire in Tong Rui's body to Tong Rui's pseudo Dou Qi Cyclone.

"In the cyclone, create a small space to accommodate the green fire..."

As the cyclone spun at high speed, the fighting spirit flowing in the meridians also began to rush rapidly. Because of the high-speed rotation, a small hollow area appeared in the center.

Seeing that this move was indeed effective, the soul power of Yao Lao's soul wrapped around the cyclone gradually increased, and as the soul perception increased, the rotation speed of the cyclone also became faster and faster. In the end, the rotation track of the light yellow cyclone was almost invisible, and the invisible whistling sound of the wind continued to echo outside the cyclone.

He focused his attention on the increasingly spacious hollow area at the center of the cyclone. When it was as big as a fist, Yao Lao slowly withdrew his soul perception from the cyclone.

Yao Lao used Xiao Yan's Dou Qi to slowly wrap the wisp of green fire, passed through the surrounding Dou Qi blockade, and finally drilled into the small empty area.

As soon as the green fire entered the hole, Tong Rui rushed to burn the entire cyclone.

With Yao Lao's efforts to maintain it, the cyclone finally slowly stabilized, and at the place where the cyclone connected with the central hole, Tong Rui could find that wisps of fire-attributed fighting spirit were continuously running out of the cyclone and then pouring into the green fire in the hole.

Following Yao Lao's control, Xiao Yan could naturally see the condition of Tong Rui's Dantian.

The two souls watched the green fire nervously. As more and more Dou Qi was poured into it, the Dou Qi around it stopped dissipating and instead spun with the green fire. In the dark hole, the green flame flickered alone, and a faint warm feeling emanated from it, and finally penetrated into the Dou Qi cyclone outside.

When the green flame appeared in the hole, it was as if a large circulating machine was activated, and the fighting spirit began to slowly circulate around the green flame.

The green fire needs to absorb the fire-attributed fighting spirit in the cyclone to grow, and the temperature it emits increases the speed at which the cyclone absorbs the fighting spirit. This kind of careful cooperation, with each side taking advantage of the other, has brought considerable benefits to both the green fire and the cyclone.

In the outside world, Yao Lao and Xiao Yan withdrew from Tong Rui's body after seeing that the Dou Qi in his body had stabilized.

After the external fighting spirit entered Tong Rui's body, it no longer dissipated outwards, but instead actively surrounded the green fire in Tong Rui's body.

At this time, the pill that Tong Rui had swallowed seemed to have activated its medicinal power.

Under the complicated gazes of the man and the soul, Tong Rui quickly skipped the stage of accumulating the fighting spirit and directly condensed the fighting spirit cyclone.

Just when the two thought Tong Rui was about to wake up, the fighting spirit seemed to automatically operate along a certain route and quickly refined the remaining medicinal power.

Yao Lao and Xiao Yan looked at each other, then carefully observed Tong Rui. They felt relieved when they saw that he did not look in pain.

During the past two years at the Xiao family, even though there were no high-grade medicinal materials, Tong Rui swallowed countless pills.

In order to research a method to treat Tong Rui, Yao Lao used mostly high-level medicinal materials for condensing fighting spirit, combined with some medicinal materials that stimulate the body.

Therefore, the medicinal power in Tong Rui's body was extremely powerful. With the automatic operation of the mysterious skills in his body, Tong Rui quickly skipped the fighter stage in front of the astonished eyes of the two.

Because of Tong Rui's strong body, the effect of the medicine meant that his fighting spirit had no intention of stopping at all.

As Tong Rui entered the state of cultivation, the energy surging between the surrounding heaven and earth became more and more rapid. In the end, Tong Rui's body almost turned into a black hole, continuously absorbing the energy of heaven and earth that was madly pouring into his body.

Until the fighter reached the peak of the ninth star, the Dou Qi was refined and extracted through the meridians, and finally became pure Dou Qi energy. Finally, it was infused by Tong Rui into the cyclone that looked like a rotating galaxy.

In the cave, as the cyclone in Tong Rui's body rotated at a high speed, the suction emitted by his body became more and more terrifying. In the end, the mottled energy between heaven and earth seemed to have formed a shiny energy light curtain around Tong Rui, which was extremely dazzling.

Yao Lao was suspended in mid-air, looking at the situation created by Tong Rui, his brows slightly frowned: "What is this little guy doing? How dare he absorb such mottled energy directly into the cyclone?"

The energy of heaven and earth that swarmed into Tong Rui's body shrank rapidly after coming into contact with the green fire. In just a blink of an eye, those huge balls of energy of heaven and earth were actually burned by the green fire into drops of liquid energy the size of a fingernail.

After the green fire had burned away the impurities in the energy, it seemed to have some spirituality and avoided these drops of pure liquid energy, allowing them to crash straight into the cyclone.

Faced with this seemingly endless infusion, the starry cyclone simply opened its arms and accepted everyone.

However, as long as it enters the coverage area of ​​the green fire, no matter what kind of energy it is, it will be fiercely refined by the green fire into drops of pure energy liquid. Finally, it will be like a drizzle falling in Tong Rui's body, continuously dripping into the cyclone.

Afterwards, after these fighting spirits turned into liquid, they actually merged into the green flame. As the green fire was continuously assimilated into the color of the starry sky cyclone, it eventually turned into a blue-purple flame and continued to condense.

The energy liquid condensed from the fighting spirit was increasing. Under the burning and condensing of the flames, the liquid energy in the cyclone was rising suddenly at an astonishing speed.

As time slowly passed, Tong Rui in the outside world was already shrouded in a faint blue-purple light. The blue-purple light covered his body, forming the appearance of a fighting spirit gauze dress.

At this moment, these blue-purple lights were constantly twisting, as if they were constructing and testing something. Faintly, those fighting spirit gauze clothes that were originally illusory actually showed characteristics similar to real things.

Inside the body, the cyclone was spinning slowly, and in it, the blue-purple liquid energy was floating like a dam that was about to release floodwaters, as if it would overflow from the cyclone that had reached its limit at any time.

Time passed slowly, and the liquid energy in the cyclone was rapidly decreasing. Everything seemed to be proceeding in the smoothest way.

The liquid energy in the madly spinning cyclone had gradually run out. Suddenly, under Tong Rui's gaze, a blue-purple diamond-shaped crystal only the size of a thumb slowly floated in the center of the cyclone, motionless and quiet. A flickering light above its body showed the fragility of this newborn creature.

Afterwards, the last bit of medicinal power in the body was completely transformed into pure Dou Qi, which continued to merge into the Dou crystal, making it glow brightly.

Inside the cave, Tong Rui's eyes suddenly opened, blue-purple light burst out from his eyes, and fighting spirit swept out, sweeping away everything around him.

Tong Rui stood up, looked at Xiao Yan's surprised eyes, Yao Lao's gratified eyes, and then looked at his own hands.

He could also sense the Dou Crystal in his body that contained a large amount of Dou Qi. He raised his hand and summoned a blue-purple flame that emitted starlight.

Then, Tong Rui looked at Xiao Yan: "What am I? A Grand Fighter?"

"Hahahaha, congratulations, Axing, you can also practice Dou Qi." Xiao Yan hugged Tong Rui excitedly.

Seeing this, Yao Lao also nodded: "It seems that my guess is correct. As long as the fire is planted in your body, you can use the fire to condense your fighting spirit."

But then he looked at Tong Rui in confusion: "But, what kind of martial arts are you practicing?"

Tong Rui asked doubtfully: "Kung Fu? The fighting spirit in my body is running automatically. I don't feel the existence of the Kung Fu?"

"Oh? Automatically run?" Yao Lao frowned. "Could it be that you once practiced some powerful technique before you lost your memory, but accidentally lost your fighting spirit. Now that you have regained your fighting spirit, you unconsciously re-run the technique based on your body's memory?"

Tong Rui and Xiao Yan looked at each other and shrugged, but still said indifferently: "I have already lost my memory anyway, so this is not a big deal."

"But, Xiao Yanzi, you have to work harder. I have become a great fighter just after practicing."

After hearing this, Xiao Yan raised his middle finger and said, "Damn, if I hadn't fed you so many medicines over the years, would you be so fast? But, your body is really enviable."

Tong Rui could only spread his hands and said, "It's a pity that I don't know how it came about, otherwise I could teach you."

But then he thought of something, looked at Xiao Yan and asked: "By the way, doesn't your technique require you to devour strange fire? Then do you think you can devour my fire?"

Yao Lao also stopped thinking to himself at this time, looked at the fire in Tong Rui's hand, and asked in surprise: "What is this? The beast fire of the Flame Wood Snake before?"

Tong Rui shook his head: "I don't know either. It seems that after being infected by my fighting spirit, it became like this."

Yao Lao looked at the flame in Tong Rui's hand and seemed to think of something: "Your flame reminds me of the Three Thousand Flames, which ranks ninth on the Strange Fire List."

"The Three Thousand Flames, also known as the 'Three Thousand Starry Sky Flames', are purple-black in color, but yours is a little lighter. Legend has it that it was formed in the starry sky and can absorb the power of the stars to become stronger and stronger. Silver fire fell from the sky, and a thousand miles of land became like a desert, with no distinction between day and night, no stars, and no sun."

"Because it is located in the starry sky, which is difficult for ordinary people to reach, the existence time of the Three Thousand Flames will be longer than other strange fires. It is precisely because of this that it has been given enough time to evolve. Therefore, most of the Three Thousand Flames that have been discovered are super spiritual creatures with high intelligence. Even if they are found, it is extremely difficult to capture them."

"This kind of fire has an extremely special ability, which is the rumored 'Three Thousand Starry Sky Physique'. Some strong men who have fought with people who possessed the Three Thousand Starry Sky Fire called it the 'Immortal Body', which has a very strong recovery ability. As long as you are not blasted into a pulp, any injury can be recovered, it's just a matter of time."

"It seems that your incredibly hard physique might be the Three Thousand Starry Sky Physique. If you say that you lost all your fighting spirit because the Three Thousand Flames were taken away before, that would be more reasonable. It is precisely because of this that after being infected by your fighting spirit, this ordinary flame has become like the newly born Three Thousand Flames."

Tong Rui opened his eyes wide, nodded in confusion, but then asked: "Does that mean Xiao Yan needs this fire? How do we give it to him?"

Yao Lao looked at the fire in Tong Rui's hand and shook his head: "Your fire is still too weak. If you separate the fire, it will hurt your foundation. You can use your fighting spirit to cultivate its growth until it can separate into a ball of fire. Then you can give the fire to Xiao Yan."

Tong Rui nodded after hearing this: "Okay then, I'll take care of it first, and you can call me if you need me."

Seeing Xiao Yan's touched expression and Tong Rui's natural gesture, Yao Lao couldn't help but sigh at the sincerity of these two people.

When ordinary people see a chance to obtain a strange fire, even if they are not sure whether it is true, it is not uncommon to kill people for the treasure.

When Yao Lao thought of that disciple, his face was filled with hatred and loneliness, but then he shook his head and stopped thinking about those trivial things.

Then Yao Lao looked at Tong Rui again and said, "Then, maybe you can also learn the art of alchemy."

(End of this chapter)