Douluo Continent: From Seven Treasure Glazed Tile to Crescent Moon's Solemnity

Chapter 203 Dark Harvest

Ning Feiliu smiled without saying a word. After all, he was a transmigrator with cheat codes; what could he say?

He's said it was just good luck many times.

Let's not talk about it now.

After finishing her long-awaited chat with Dugu Yan, Ning Feili went to check on the newly grown Qiluo tulip to see how it was doing.

The tulips have sprouted, but only leaves have grown back; not even flower buds have appeared yet.

Even so, one can still smell the faint, refreshing fragrance when approaching the leaves of the Kira Tulip, which is extremely similar to the fragrance of the fully grown Kira Tulip that Ning Feiliu consumed.

"It will take a long time for it to grow up..." Ning Feiliu sighed and said.

Even with that miraculous growth-promoting medicine for immortal herbs, it can only slightly shorten the growth time of the immortal herbs, which have an extremely long growth cycle.

At this growth rate... it will take at least another ten years for the Kira tulip to fully mature.

This is actually quite fast. Normally, a fully mature immortal herb would take at least hundreds or thousands of years to mature. Now, with the immortal herb growth-promoting medicine and the unique growing environment of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye, it can mature in about ten years. Isn't that fast?

However, the mature Kira tulip contained far less energy than the naturally grown Kira tulip he had consumed.

It's speculated that consuming such a magical herb might not significantly change the quality of one's martial soul, but the increase in soul power would not be as substantial as in the original version.

However, this is enough. The most important thing is the effect of upgrading the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

The rest are not particularly important.

Therefore, the most important thing is that the cultivation time of the Kira tulip must be short and it must be mass-produced.

Of course, it's impossible to harvest rice two or three times a year, just like growing rice.

Even if he later bred the Qiluo Tulip with a shorter growth cycle, it would only shorten the cultivation time by a third at most, and it could only be cultivated in such a short time at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye.

However, for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, as long as there is an opportunity to upgrade their martial soul to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, that is enough.

For Ning Feiliu, it would be enough if he could cultivate a few immortal herbs for his four brothers in the next twenty years. As for the Qiluo Tulips for others, he wouldn't care so much.

After returning, Ning Feiliu first went to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well to greet Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.

After talking with Dugu Yan, Ning Feiliu did not return to Tiandou City, but planned to spend the night at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

After all, putting aside the fact that Tiandou City is currently under curfew, there's also the question of where he'll find accommodation.

Through his conversation with Dugu Yan, he learned that Ye Lingling was now living at the clinic, resting there and conducting experiments and cultivating there, just like he had done before.

So of course he felt embarrassed to go back to the clinic to stay.

As for returning to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School?

Although I have to go back, I don't plan to stay there tonight.

Ning Fengzhi will definitely throw a grand welcoming ceremony for him.

So he stayed at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well that night.

While Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan resumed their cultivation, Ning Feiliu's eyes flickered as she took out... from the Iron Sun Box.

A scroll.

He opened the scroll, which contained a map. According to the map's orientation, it should be the desolate land in the northwest of the continent.

There was a sign on it that read "Slaughter City" in large characters.

This was the map of the City of Slaughter that he had obtained from that Soul King-level Fallen One.

However, the killing city recorded here happens to be located... in the northern part of the continent, near the western edge.

In other words, it seems that Ning Feiliu's mission to travel to the northern border of the continent will inevitably involve a trip to the City of Slaughter.

and……

As he took out the map, a line of small print appeared before his eyes—

[Achieve the title of "God of Slaughter," leave your own legend in the City of Slaughter, and obtain the "Reincarnation Domain" and the foundational rune "Dark Harvest."]

It's not the God of Slaughter's Domain, but a domain called Reincarnation?

Furthermore, there is a brand new world rune behind it—"Dark Harvest".

This is... the first time Ning Feiliu has ever seen a "foundation rune". All the runes he currently has, whether it is the incomplete Resurrection or the complete Calm and Composed, are different.

These are just world runes, while keystone runes like Conqueror, Press the Attack, Lethal Tempo, and Fleet Footwork... he has never seen them before.

After killing the Soul King-level Fallen One and obtaining the scroll related to the City of Slaughter, he unexpectedly triggered a quest that would grant him the Keystone Rune "Dark Harvest".

He could ignore the "Reincarnation Domain," whose effects he didn't know.

But this keystone rune, "Dark Harvest"...

Ning Feiliu found it hard to resist the temptation. The incomplete resurrection runes allowed him to obtain the immortal herb almost unharmed, thus defying fate.

His composure allowed him to double his cultivation speed, and it was also because of his composure that he was able to destroy the bandit stronghold led by the Soul King-level Fallen One without fear of soul power consumption.

So what about the Dark Harvest keystone rune?

Dark Harvest... it's an incredibly powerful rune in the late game.

Once he has collected enough souls, even a normal attack from him in the later stages could probably destroy an entire army.

It has to be said, Ning Feiliu was smitten.

This trip to the Killing City will not only allow me to obtain the powerful foundational rune Dark Harvest, but also help me complete the quest to travel the northern border of the continent, and obtain a fragmented Rejuvenation rune.

This is a win-win situation.

But... the killing capital.

That place was somewhat eerie. All soul skills were unusable there, and soul power was the source of power. Only by relying on soul power or the initial form of a martial soul could one survive there.

However, according to the original storyline, Tang San was able to kill even a Fallen Soul Douluo-level being using his hidden weapons.

This proves that soul power is not very useful in that place; it can only increase strength and speed, but cannot penetrate the body to attack directly.

Therefore, Tang San was in his element there and could easily pass through the City of Slaughter.

It seems difficult, but it's actually not.

After all, Hu Liena could get through there even without Tang San's hidden weapons, which proves...

With strong combat skills, one can also pass through the Killing City.

And coincidentally, Ning Feiliu's continuous accumulation of Jax's centuries of martial arts skills made his combat experience unparalleled.

In the Killing City, where no one uses soul skills and soul power levels are significant, passing through without injury wouldn't be a problem for him.

The so-called hellish battle in the Slaughter City is actually nothing special; the hardest part isn't the Hell Road that follows.

The most difficult one... is Tang Chen, who is parasitized by the Crimson Nine-Headed Bat in the City of Slaughter and thinks he is the King of Slaughter, and there is also that mysterious woman wearing a black veil.

That mysterious woman in black veil once suggested to Tang Chen that he should let Tang San and Hu Liena meet beforehand, so that he could easily kill one of them.

Either kill them outright.

However, Tang Chen was wary of Tang Hao and Bibi Dong, who possessed the Killing God Domain and could freely enter and wreak havoc in the City of Slaughter, so he rejected the black-veiled woman's suggestion.

In other words, passing through the Killing City requires not only strength, but also connections...

Do you have a powerful backer who was once a killing god in the Killing City?

Ning Feiliu certainly doesn't have one; the only two killing gods at present are Tang Hao and Bibi Dong.

Why did he go over and hug her leg?

Even if you try to curry favor with someone now, whether they believe you is another matter. You're not their son, nor are you a student they've watched grow up. Why should they support you?

But... the Dark Harvest rune...

It looks really tempting.

Ning Feiliu was somewhat conflicted, and his Crescent Moon Divine Weapon's combat methods were all ranged, even the Folding Mirror required soul power to fly.

It's not like the hidden weapons that Tang San throws out and then doesn't care about anymore.

Suddenly, he remembered the suggestion Ning Fengzhi had made to him before: the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda still had the power to forge another Crescent Moon Divine Weapon...

He frowned, sighed, and decided to think about it later.

……

The next day.

Ning Feiliu decided to return to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

However, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School actually knew that he was safe and sound some time ago.

After all, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School has business almost all over the Douluo Continent. The disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School can be said to have searched for metal ores and gems all over the continent with their unique treasure-hunting abilities.

Things like Wuhun City outside of the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire are relatively easy to deal with.

But the Heaven Dou Empire is the headquarters of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School openly supports the Heaven Dou Empire, and the Heaven Dou Empire naturally treats the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School very well in return.

Not only are the merchant taxes of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School lower, but the disciples and elders of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School can also travel freely throughout the Heaven Dou Empire.

Therefore, even in the northern part of the continent, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School has many merchant guilds and disciples and elders who have traveled there.

After Ning Feiliu wiped out the bandit stronghold, he encountered the disciples and elders of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, who then reported the situation to the school.

Therefore, Ning Fengzhi and the others were not in a hurry at all.

What Ning Feiliu didn't expect was that... Ning Fengzhi didn't seem to have told Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan about his safety.

That's why Dugu Yan was so worried about him.

However, he didn't take it to heart and first returned to the castle of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

"Sect Master!" The elders and disciples on duty outside the door greeted Ning Feiliu respectfully.

Ning Feiliu is no longer the neglected son of the sect leader. Now, even if he is not Ning Fengzhi's son, but an ordinary direct disciple of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, he is still a disciple of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

With his talent, as well as the Xuan Shui Pills and alchemical potions he contributed to the sect, he was respected by everyone in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

In particular, he was appointed as the Pavilion Master of Wuliu Pavilion by Ning Fengzhi.

"Okay, go and inform the sect leader and the young sect leader that I'm back," Ning Feiliu said calmly.

"Okay, I'll go and inform the sect leader and the young sect leader right away," a disciple said immediately.

Then he turned and went inside.

Ning Feiliu didn't wait for him to report, but instead walked into the sect herself.

He walked towards his room.

A year has passed in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, yet it seems as if nothing has changed at all.

Ning Feiliu walked forward and unexpectedly ran into an acquaintance.

"Miss... the sect leader said you should go back." A maid said pitifully to the somewhat unfamiliar-looking girl in front of her.

Ning Feiliu recognized that it was Ning Rongrong, but more than a year had passed, and Ning Rongrong looked much taller, and her face had lost some of its babyish appearance.

Soul Masters in Douluo Continent grow up very quickly.

Ning Rongrong is now nine years old. While she may not have grown as fast as Zhu Zhuqing, who had a youthful face and large breasts at less than twelve years old, she will not be like an ordinary person at around ten years old.

Ning Rongrong now looks to be about the age of a junior high school student in her previous life.

"I'm not going back." Ning Rongrong gritted her teeth, concentrated her soul power in her right fist, and slammed it hard into a sandbag standing in the garden.

What is she doing?

Ning Feiliu raised an eyebrow, somewhat puzzled.

Is he venting his emotions?

Or is she... planning to become a Soul Master like him?

Sure enough, Ning Rongrong did just that. She didn't just randomly vent her anger by hitting the sandbag. Instead, she attacked the sandbag with a methodical punch and kick.

What Ning Feiliu didn't know was that the blow he dealt to Ning Rongrong a year ago had made her regret it.

However, Ning Rongrong still harbored some pride despite Ning Feiliu's previous cold attitude.

She admitted that she had made a mistake, but Ning Feiliu was unwilling to forgive him.

She had no intention of continuing to pester Ning Feiliu.

But... when I think that Ning Feiliu could also defy fate and become a Soul Master, then she... can too!

Although she didn't have Ning Feiliu's suddenly appearing Crescent Moon Divine Weapon Martial Soul combination, she could... practice close combat!

In her vision, all the future enhancements will go to herself, and then she will develop martial arts skills so that she can fight others just like that!

Therefore, during the year that Ning Feiliu left the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, she practiced her boxing very diligently.

"Miss..." the maid pleaded, somewhat embarrassed.

After all, if she doesn't bring Ning Rongrong back on time, Ning Fengzhi will definitely punish her.

So she reached out to stop Ning Rongrong's actions.

But just then, Ning Rongrong lost her temper, shoved the maid to the ground, and said, "Aren't you annoying...?"

"It's still the same as always, nothing's changed..."

Just then, a voice that Ning Rongrong found somewhat familiar came from inside.

She turned around and her impatient expression instantly changed, becoming somewhat complicated. She called out, "Third...Third Brother, you're back."

"I'm not your third brother," Ning Feiliu said again, frowning.

"It's been so long, can't you forgive me yet?" Ning Rongrong suddenly became annoyed, stubbornly raising her head, but tears welled up in her eyes as she said aggrievedly, "I know I was wrong, I know I've let you down, why can't you forgive me? What terrible crime have I committed?"

As she spoke, she felt even more wronged and burst into tears, saying, "Do you want me to kneel down and apologize to you? Fine, I'll kneel down then!! Please forgive me! Please forgive me! Please forgive Rongrong! I can't stand your hostility anymore!"

Then she really had to bend her knees and kneel down to apologize to Ning Feiliu.

(End of this chapter)