Battle Through the Heavens: Purple Heaven Thunder Emperor

Chapter 292 Will it really attract that little phoenix?

More than 300 li south of Tianbei City lies a range of undulating mountains.

Numerous craters, several meters in size, appeared on the ground, and countless trees that could be embraced by two people were snapped in half and severely damaged.

"Stop, stop. I give up. I give up!"

A burly man, covered in wounds and shirtless, stared at the ever-growing fist. The sonic boom pierced his eardrums, and his face turned deathly pale. He hurriedly cried out for mercy.

"snort"

Xiao Bai snorted coldly, turned his fist into a finger, and a ghostly light emanated from the fingertip as he touched the burly man's brow.

"What did you do to me?"

As he watched the finger retract, the burly man suddenly felt something stir within his soul, and his eyes widened in fear.

"Get up and lead the way to your cave!"

Xiao Bai glanced at the Wolf King on the ground and was speechless. He had originally wanted to find a cave in this mountain range to refine pills, but he didn't expect that as soon as he landed, this guy rushed out and started fighting without saying a word.

The Wolf King wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his anger simmering but he dared not speak out. The fight he had just exchanged had made it clear to him that this human could easily kill him with his bare hands.

I struggled to get up, my bones still aching slightly.

He stole a glance at the young man in black robes in front of him, and felt like crying.

Insidious humans, they actually concealed their presence beforehand.

On the surface, it looked like a Battle Emperor, landing near his cave to lure him in.

The two walked through the ravaged forest, one after the other.

Along the way, trees destroyed by the aftermath of the battle could be seen lying scattered and some even uprooted.

Every step the Wolf King took aggravated his injuries, yet he dared not utter a single complaint.

"It's right there on that cliff in front of us."

The Wolf King pointed to a hidden cave not far away. The entrance was covered by vines, and a faint medicinal fragrance could be smelled.

Xiao Bai raised an eyebrow: "Your cave dwelling certainly hides quite a few good things."

Upon hearing this, the Wolf King's heart tightened, but he forced a smile and said, "If you take anything you fancy, my lord, please do so."

Xiao Bai remained noncommittal, slightly tilting his head. The space around him distorted slightly, and in an instant, a beautiful figure in white appeared from it.

Upon seeing the newcomer, the Wolf King's pupils contracted sharply, and he cursed inwardly: "Insidious, shameless! Two dignified Dou Zongs actually pretended to be two Dou Huangs! I was too naive after all!"

Let's go!

Xiao Bai was the first to step into the cave. As he entered the depths, his gaze swept over the surroundings, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

Inside the cave, a sizable medicinal garden had been carved out. The soil was soft and moist, and the air was filled with spiritual energy. Dozens of medicinal herbs were neatly planted there.

Although most of them are only grade six or below medicinal herbs, each plant is full of branches and leaves and has a strong medicinal fragrance, obviously having been carefully cared for.

"These...were all planted by you?" Xiao Bai looked at the Wolf King, his tone slightly softening.

The Wolf King nodded sheepishly, glancing at the thriving herb garden. A hint of pride flashed in his eyes, but it quickly turned into heartache.

"I... when I have nothing to do, I like to tinker with these medicinal herbs."

"A ghost-faced demon flower? I never expected to run into one here!"

Yao Tianhuo's voice came from the storage ring, tinged with surprise.

Upon hearing the voice suddenly coming from his storage ring, the Wolf King trembled and shouted in his heart.

Damn, just how many powerful people are around this guy?

But he quickly forgot about that. Seeing that the only seventh-tier medicinal herb in the center was about to be picked by Xiao Bai, he couldn't help but show a look of heartache and stammered:

"If you need it, sir, please take it, but could you at least leave a trace?"

"I never expected a magical beast like you to be so interested in medicinal herbs."

A hint of surprise flashed in Little Fairy Doctor's beautiful eyes, then she said softly:

"Don't worry, he won't destroy it!"

Xiao Bai didn't say much. He raised his hand and plucked the Ghost Face Flower into his storage ring. However, a tender bud remained at the root, its vitality undiminished.

Seeing this, the Wolf King breathed a sigh of relief, a strange sense of gratitude rising in his heart, and quickly said:

"Thank you for your mercy, sir!"

"Haha. We've collected another key ingredient for the Blood-Regenerating and Bone-Melting Pill. Now all we need is the Soul-Returning Fruit!" Yao Tianhuo's excited voice came from his storage ring.

Xiao Bai's eyes flickered with thought for a moment, then he removed the snow-white storage ring containing the Radiant Heavenly Fire and handed it to the Wolf King:

"You stay outside and attack immediately if anyone gets close."

The Wolf King accepted the storage ring with a puzzled look. When he sensed the terrifying soul fluctuations contained within, his heart trembled. He immediately realized that this was a helper for him, and at the same time, a means to intimidate him.

He hastily patted his chest as if to pledge his loyalty, licked his lips, and a fierce glint flashed in his eyes:

"Rest assured, sir, I will not allow anyone to disturb me!"

After the Wolf King left, Xiao Bai waved his sleeve.

BOOM!

A huge creature landed on the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

"Is this the dried corpse of the magical beast that Medusa sent?" Little Fairy Doctor stepped forward slowly, her eyes filled with curiosity.

Perhaps due to the prolonged time since death, the flesh and skin of the body withered and tightly wrapped around the bones, with only a pair of jade bone wings emitting a faint light.

If it weren't for Xiao Bai telling me that this was the corpse of an ancient phoenix, I wouldn't have been able to tell what kind of magical beast it was from its appearance.

"Hmm, aside from the essence blood and magic core, these bone wings are good materials for crafting the Heavenly Goose Nine Flight Wings, but unfortunately, they don't provide much of a boost to our current abilities!"

After sweeping his soul power over the dried corpse, Xiao Bai nodded and said.

"Aren't you afraid the Heavenly Phoenix Clan will cause you trouble!" Little Fairy Doctor raised her eyebrows and said irritably.

Before leaving, Zi Yan learned some information from Hei Qing, so she now has a slight understanding of the magical beast forces, especially the top ones.

They already have a lot of troubles, and if the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan is added to the mix, this trip to Central Continent will probably be even more exciting.

"Hehe. What's there to be afraid of? Maybe a little demon phoenix will come running over in a bit!"

Xiao Bai winked at Little Fairy Doctor and smiled mysteriously.

"Do you think those top-tier magical beasts are like cabbages, readily available everywhere?"

Little Fairy Doctor rolled her eyes and then went to the herb garden to look at the herbs, not believing his nonsense at all.

Turning his gaze away from that exquisitely beautiful, curvaceous back, Xiao Bai shook his head slightly, then looked up at the northern void with an inscrutable expression.

"Fenglei Pavilion"

A moment later, thunder rumbled in the cave, and the area around the dried corpse instantly transformed into a lightning field, with five-colored lightning crackling around it.

The thin layer of skin and flesh on the surface of the dried corpse vanished instantly, turning into nothingness, revealing the jade-like bones inside, from which faint traces of blue and red color could be seen seeping out.

As the lightning grew more intense, a wisp of blue-red smoke rose up, slowly gathering in the void, and finally condensing into a drop of blue-red blood.

Xiao Bai reached out and the drop of blood passed through the lightning and floated in front of him. He could clearly feel that this drop of blue-red blood contained a vast amount of energy and was emitting a strange fluctuation.

"I hope we don't actually attract that little phoenix!"

Upon seeing this, Xiao Bai's eyes flickered slightly. He then raised his hand and waved it, collecting the blood into a jade bottle that had been prepared beforehand and sealing it away.

Outside the cave, the moment the drop of blood took shape, the Wolf King's fur suddenly stood on end. A sense of oppression emanating from the depths of his bloodline gave him an urge to crawl.

"That ancient phoenix corpse...it's actually an eighth-tier being!!"

Yao Tianhuo's eyes widened in surprise as he looked into the storage ring on his hand. The fluctuation he had just experienced was definitely not something a seventh-level cultivator could produce.

Meanwhile, more than a thousand miles away at Qifeng Mountain.

The mountain is steep and shrouded in clouds and mist all year round. At the top of the mountain, there are scattered pavilions and towers, appearing and disappearing like a fairyland.

The most eye-catching feature is a giant silver tower, its entire body crackling with electric light, standing at the highest point of the mountain, with faint sounds of wind and thunder constantly emanating from it, echoing through the sky.

At this moment, in the cultivation room near the top of the tower, a woman dressed in a seven-colored robe closed her eyes, her delicate eyebrows revealing a noble air.

At one moment, the woman suddenly opened her eyes, revealing a pair of purplish-brown gem-like eyes that adorned her perfect oval face, giving her a beautiful, pure, and aloof air.

"Was that just a momentary illusion?" The woman murmured softly, her beautiful eyes filled with doubt.

Then, feeling the lingering boiling sensation in her blood, she gently shook her head.

"No, it's not my imagination; it seems like that direction is giving me a familiar, comforting call!"

He tilted his head slightly, his gaze fixed in a certain direction, as if trying to see through the void.

After hesitating for a moment, the woman got up, walked out of the cultivation room, and went all the way to the top floor of the tower. In front of a hall, the guards at the door saw her and their eyes immediately showed a hint of admiration.

"Is Pavilion Master Fei here? Qing'er requests an audience!" The woman stood in front of the palace gate and bowed.

"Is that Qing'er? Come in!" A calm voice, carrying an air of authority, came through the palace doors, which then opened automatically.

The woman stepped inside and saw a figure in a silver robe leaning against the back of the throne in the center of the hall. The figure, with silver-grey eyes, looked at her with a smile and nodded.

"Excellent! Your aura is stable. In just a few days, you have completely stabilized the fluctuations in your Dou Qi after breaking through to the Dou Huanghou realm. You truly deserve to be the most outstanding young person in our Fenglei Pavilion!"

"Qing'er dares not take credit; I should thank you for allowing me to cultivate in this North Thunder Tower!" The woman clasped her hands in a fist salute, her tone cool yet neither humble nor arrogant.

"You've come to see me, are you preparing to return to the East Pavilion?" The figure on the throne rested his chin on his hand, his posture relaxed.

"No!" The woman shook her head, frowning as she said.

"Just now, I suddenly felt my blood boiling, and I felt a certain place calling to me, so I would like to ask the Pavilion Master to accompany me!"

"Oh?"

The figure on the throne sat up straight, immediately intrigued. He knew the woman's identity; the clan behind her was a behemoth to the Wind and Thunder Pavilion.

"Where is that place? Can you sense it?"

"It shouldn't be far. At most a thousand miles away!" the woman pondered for a moment, then looked up and said.

"Is that so?" The figure on the throne nodded and said slowly:

"Then I'll have the four elders—Wind, Thunder, Cloud, and Lightning—accompany you!"

Seeing the woman's puzzled look, the figure continued, "This is an avatar of mine; my true self is not in this pavilion."

"A clone?" The woman's eyes flickered with curiosity.

"You were in seclusion these past few days and you don't know, but this time when the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool opened, a remarkable person emerged, causing the Ice River Valley to lose two elders at once. Those guys recently gave us some information, saying that the person used the Three Thousand Thunder Movement Technique in the Tianmu Mountains. The Pavilion Master has entrusted me with investigating and handling this matter."

Upon hearing this, the woman's pretty face froze for a moment.

"Hehe. Just listen to this, don't worry about it. Although that person has some strength, you can already fight against a two-star Dou Zong before you advance to Dou Huang. Once you break through to Dou Zong, you won't be any weaker than him!"

"I see." The woman nodded and said softly, "Then I'll have to trouble the four elders."

Meanwhile, inside the cave of the Azure Wolf King.

Bolts of five-colored lightning roared violently, striking the withered corpse of the demonic beast repeatedly, sparks flying everywhere.

The corpse had shrunk considerably, and a thick cloud of blue-red mist floated above it. Wisps of blue-red mist, tempered by lightning, rose and merged into the cloud.

"Is it coming out yet?"

Xiao Bai stared intently at the cyan-red cloud, where a giant, colorful bird was faintly forming.

"唳"

After a roar-like cry, an extremely terrifying soul pressure spread out from it, impacting in all directions.

"A mere magic core dares to be so arrogant!"

Xiao Bai's gaze turned cold. He lightly touched his brow with his finger, and a surge of powerful soul energy emerged, suppressing the power that had not yet spread.

As the power contracted, the blue and red clouds paused for a moment, then suddenly burst forth with a blinding light.

Xiao Bai narrowed his eyes slightly. As the intense light dissipated, an irregular crystal with blue and red colors floated in mid-air, and the surrounding space appeared distorted.

"An eighth-tier magic core!"

Xiao Bai's expression was filled with surprise as his gaze fell upon the dried corpse below. Under the violent bombardment of the thunder, only a pair of bone wings and two sharp claws remained.

"The rest will be sold to a certain Yan in the future!"

After storing everything in his storage ring, Xiao Bai looked at the five small jade bottles beside him, each containing a drop of bluish-red blood that emitted a faint glow.

"A good harvest. Next, it's time to refine the Four Symbols Soul Spirit Pill!"

Xiao Bai took a deep breath. Before the modification, the pill was about a low-grade seventh rank, but after his modifications, he didn't know what rank it had reached.

Because this thing is completely new in the Dou Qi Continent; no one has ever seen it before.

A jumble of thoughts flashed through Xiao Bai's mind. He fixed his gaze, flicked his finger, and a pitch-black medicine cauldron fell heavily to the ground.

"I wonder if this broken cauldron can withstand it!"

Xiao Bai muttered something to himself, then stopped thinking about it. With a thought, a wisp of crimson lightning flashed from his fingertip and fell into the cauldron.

In an instant, the temperature inside the cave rose sharply.

Then, one medicinal herb after another was continuously thrown into the cauldron, rushing into the flames and lightning, whereupon it withered instantly and turned into powder.

As time passed, drops of pure medicinal liquid were extracted.

Xiao Bai was completely focused on controlling the Bing Fire Yang Thunder. The crimson lightning in the medicine cauldron kept leaping, perfectly refining the essence of the medicinal herbs.

Since becoming an alchemist, he had never demanded so much of himself in making medicine, striving for perfection in almost every step.

More and more jade bottles filled with medicinal essence appeared beside the medicine cauldron, almost filling the space several meters around Xiao Bai. Finally, after the last auxiliary material was extracted, Xiao Bai breathed a sigh of relief.

"Next, we'll fuse the four main ingredients with the four types of essence blood!"

Looking at the four jade boxes and four jade bottles laid out in front of him, Xiao Bai's expression became solemn, and his eyes became even more focused.

There was only one dose of the medicinal herbs, and he couldn't afford to fail!

(End of this chapter)