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A young man in black stood on the testing platform, his posture upright, as spirited as ever. But unlike his former arrogance, he now possessed more composure, his brilliance more restrained.
"Cheating, that guy must be cheating."
Xiao Ning, who was fantasizing about Xiao Yan completely falling to the bottom and taking the opportunity to capture Xiao Meng's heart, had a distorted look on his face.
After the testing phase, there is also a challenge phase. Those who fail have the opportunity to challenge those who pass, but only once.
Klein, Xiao Ning's follower, considered it for a while and finally decided to make Xiao Yan his target.
He didn't believe that this good-for-nothing had really stood up again.
Klein jumped onto the stage, and under everyone's gaze, he slightly bowed to Xiao Yan, "Cousin Xiao Yan, please!"
Looking at this cousin who had given him many unpleasant looks when he was down, a slightly mocking smile appeared on Xiao Yan's face… Do you still think I'm an easy target?
He walked onto the stage, not giving the other party too much of a chance to perform, and used the simplest, lowest-level Yellow-class low-level Dou Technique, "Stone Crushing Palm," to slap him onto his back.
The whole place was silent, shocked by Xiao Yan's powerful performance, only Xiao Meng was jumping and shouting over there:
"Young Master Xiao Yan is amazing! Young Master is the best!"
Xun Er had a sweet smile on her face, she was much more reserved than Xiao Meng.
Xiao Meng's exuberance caused many people to turn their attention to her. In response, she raised her eyebrows and waved her fair fist:
"What are you looking at? Want to challenge me?"
The young men and women turned their heads in unison…
Challenge her? They weren't crazy!
When Xiao Yan walked off the stage and came to her side, Xiao Meng immediately put away her fierce look and looked well-behaved.
Xiao Meng's appearance of being a clinging little bird made Xiao Ning burn with jealousy. He thought fiercely in his heart: He must completely defeat Xiao Yan before he truly rises, at the coming-of-age ceremony next month! Otherwise, he would have no chance.
After the test, Xiao Yan rarely relaxed for a moment, not immediately starting to cultivate, but accompanying Xun Er on a day of fun as promised.
This made Xun Er happy all day long. Of course, it would be better if she could get rid of the maid who insisted on helping to carry things and stubbornly followed them during the outing.
An old man who had been secretly guarding Xun Er, merged into the shadows, frowned, feeling that this development was somewhat dangerous.
However, he was just a small Dou Emperor, with little influence. He couldn't comment on the young lady's behavior.
Besides, it wasn't his mission. Apart from the safety of the young lady, everything else was irrelevant to him.
After relaxing for a day, Xiao Yan plunged back into intense and fulfilling cultivation.
...
Northwest of the Monster Mountain Range, near the Cloud Lanzong's base.
Ancient trees towered into the sky. Each of the thick trees that required several people to hug were like giant umbrellas. The crowns of the trees overlapped and intertwined, almost blocking the sky.
Occasionally, a few rays of sunlight shone through the gaps between the branches and leaves, forming mottled light and shadows.
There was a thin layer of mist in the forest, adding a bit of mystery to the entire environment. The humid air was mixed with the scent of soil and the smell of plants, making people afraid to breathe too deeply.
From time to time, strange roars echoed in the forest, the deep growls of monsters.
"Kekeke…"
A hoarse and sharp laughter, giving people a sense of weirdness, sounded. Large swaths of black mist gushed out, covering the sky and the earth, as if to engulf the entire forest.
These black mists quickly condensed, eventually turning into a more profound black mist that was about ten feet wide.
"Kekeke…"
The eerie laughter rang out again, circling in the forest like the cawing of a crow, lingering for a long time.
A withered hand, like a dry branch, stretched out from the black mist, accurately pinching the neck of a "Red-tailed Fox" that was lying on the ground, afraid to move due to the pressure it emitted.
Judging from the Dou Qi surging from its body, this Red-tailed Fox was a fourth-order monster!
But even such a powerful monster, comparable to a human Dou Spirit, had no resistance in front of this strange figure.
He patted the Red-tailed Fox's head with his other hand, and the monster lost its breath. A phantom, almost transparent, fox shadow was drawn out by the figure in the black mist.
This shadow was the soul of the Red-tailed Fox!
The strange figure did not dislike the almost transparent soul, but praised it:
"Not bad, not bad. I didn't expect the soul power of the monsters here to be so strong. Just right, I want to refine a 'Soul Enhancing Pill' for trading. I need a lot of souls, so I'll use you guys.
"Although using human souls to refine the Soul Enhancing Pill has fewer side effects, it's not like I'm using it, so who cares…
"I still need human souls to hand over to the higher-ups… Where would I have any to spare?"
"Chi la…"
Black chains, like venomous snakes, stretched out from the black mist, turning into blurred black lines, and shot out towards the surrounding monsters.
The front ends of the chains were extremely sharp, covered with mysterious runes, circling around the tips of the chains, revealing a trace of baleful aura.
The chains accurately pierced the heads of the monsters, and quickly hooked away their souls as they left.
Afterwards, he looked at the hooked souls with some disappointment. Not every soul was as powerful as the Red-tailed Fox just now. Most of them were very weak, and some even dissipated directly at the moment of death, hooking nothing.
He cursed under his breath, but he didn't stop the movements in his hands, continuing to harvest souls.
More and more souls were gathered into the hands of the mysterious figure. These souls came from all kinds of magical beasts, mixed together into a mass.
Within that soul cluster, terrified and bewildered faces of beasts constantly appeared and disappeared. They crushed against each other, as if trying their best to fight for dominance.
Black mist floated in the air, weaving around thick tree trunks at low altitude, rapidly traversing the forest.
The mysterious figure's actions lasted for two whole days, and countless magical beasts suffered at his hands.
In the end, he discovered that only the souls of magical beasts in that small area were particularly powerful, while the rest were very ordinary. Continuing the slaughter would not yield much benefit, so he stopped.
Looking at the soul cluster in his hand, which was surrounded by a faint black mist, he was still not satisfied.
"It's still a little too little..."
After hesitating for a moment, he somewhat reluctantly took out a soul body from the bag around his waist, which was constantly wailing, screaming, twisting, and in a state of pain.
With a slap of his palm, he also slapped this soul body into the soul cluster.
He found a cave that looked relatively hidden and placed two black chains as a warning at the entrance.
The black mist slowly dissipated, revealing a gaunt, gloomy face. He was wearing a black robe with a wide hood, making him appear tall and thin.
His right hand formed a palm blade, cutting out a flat surface in the cave. He walked to the flat surface and sat down cross-legged.
Staring at the transparent soul sphere surrounded by a faint black mist, the black-robed man stretched out his hands, extending them diagonally upwards.
Two streams of light black gas flowed out from between his palms, constantly squeezing the soul cluster in the middle from all directions.
The distorted soul cluster, with a hint of madness, continued to shrink, eventually converging into a pill the size of a dragon's eye.
This was a highly condensed soul, almost free from its illusory state, possessing a physical form.
"Soul Enhancement Pill... It's done." He grabbed the dragon-eye-sized pill in his hand, placed it in a white jade bottle, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Heh heh... It took me so much effort, I hope it won't disappoint me." The black-robed man muttered to himself.
The black mist surged out of his body again, enveloping his entire being. He suddenly soared into the sky, quickly flying away into the distance.
Although he rampaged unscrupulously through the Magical Beast Mountain Range, none of the magical beasts dared to utter a sound. They had all been terrified by his previous slaughter, and they couldn't wait for this murderous star to leave quickly.
After the black mist had gone far away, a semi-transparent worm with twelve rings and star-like colors slowly crawled out from underground.
Amon gazed in the direction where the Soul Hall Protector had left, clicked his tongue, and was slightly disappointed.
After discovering him, Amon deliberately revealed the soul power of his clone, attracting his attention. As expected, the Protector took the bait, captured the Red-tailed Fox, extracted its soul, and also took away the Worm of Spirit that parasitized in its soul.
He originally wanted to try to smuggle into the Soul Hall through the method of deliberately being captured by his clone, to investigate the methods of the Soul Hall.
But he didn't expect that this Soul Hall Protector would directly refine these souls into pills.
However, the disappointment on his face did not last long, and he muttered to himself with interest:
"Interesting... This pill seems to be refined for a deal with someone, I wonder which lucky person will use it."
"If it's really as I expected, then the gain from this accidental encounter may be very great..."
Almost at the same time, all the Amons who were not around the main body suddenly realized that Amon's overall size had reached its maximum value.
Although the main body and the avatars, and the avatars and the avatars, could no longer maintain a mental connection after being too far apart, this restriction of the laws of heaven and earth would act on every Amon and be known by all Amons.
Therefore, Amon's main body regarded this as a signal, telling the avatars that he was about to make a big move.
...
Wu Tan City, Wu Meng clicked his tongue and separated a Worm of Spirit with most of his cultivation from his body.
These Worms of Spirit committed suicide very consciously after landing on the ground.
This was a pre-arranged agreement between the main body and the avatars. If the size reached the upper limit, then the temporarily unnecessary avatars would be cleared to free up "quota" for the Amon on the main body's side.
Eastern Magical Beast Mountain Range, Ape Gong found a safe place to hide. Worms of Spirit also crawled out of its body and then died.
Ape Gong's aura suddenly plummeted.
Such scenes also happened in many places.
But soon, Amon's size reached the upper limit again.
Wu Meng's expression changed slightly: "What is the main body doing?"
Although he was a little puzzled, he did not hesitate at all and repeated his previous actions.
Ape Gong did not continue to do so, because if he continued to weaken, his survival would become a problem in the dangerous Magical Beast Mountain Range.
The specific amount of "volume quota" freed up by this method of self-weakening is determined by the clone itself.
The place where Wu Meng is located is safe, and it is okay to continue weakening, then he will continue to repeat this behavior until he believes that his cultivation has reached the lowest point, and continuing to weaken will affect himself.
This method of transmitting information regardless of distance through the laws of heaven and earth has great limitations and can only do this, unable to go further and transmit more specific information.
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