Two days ter, Xiao Yan followed the spiritual map in his memory aured deeper into the Magic Beast Mountains. He leaped over a ravine and sloroached a steep cliff face. After carefully seleg for quite some time, he finally picked a cave about four to five meters above the ground.

  Cautiously climbing the somewhat damp and slippery rocks, he moved agilely like a monkey and quickly ehe cave he had previously selected.

  "This pce isn't bad."

  The inside of the cave was slightly cool but spacious enough for one person to live fortably.

  Xiao Yan finally felt at ease after using his powerful Spiritual Strength to explore the area and firming there were no traagical beasts nearby. He dragged a rge rock from below the cliff to block the entrance of the cave. Theook a b and pillow from his ste ring and structed a simple single bed using a few wooden sticks. Utilizing a special glowioo provide light, he created a simple yet funal living spa the cave.

  Xiao Yan hadn't arbitrarily chosen this pce as his base. The spiritual map from the Hall of Souls had marked three pces where the Ten Thousa Fme was believed to be. All of them were not far from this location. He could use this cave as a tral point to gradually explore these three areas.

  Although his current location was not yet at the deepest part of the Magic Beast Mountain Range, he had already entered Rank 3 magical beasts, thus f him to proceed with caution.

  Xiao Yan gradually circuted the Fme Mantra. The Fme Mantra that had refihe Seed Fme of the Nihility Dev Fme had now reached the Low Xuan Css Qi Method, allowing his Dou Qi to de a faster rate.

  'I'll cultivate the Flying Dou Teique first; it's better to master a means of escape.'

  Xiao Yan flipped his palm, and a bck scroll appeared in his hand. It was the High Xuan Css Flying Dou Teique he had acquired.

  Flying! What young man has not dreamed of s through the skies?

  Holding the scroll in both hands, Xiao Yan licked his lips and carefully uhe finely bound string before slowly unfolding it.

  "The name of this Dou Teique is Eagle Wings, also knourple Cloud Wings. It took me, the author, and a few friends three years to successfully capture a Purple Cloud Bck Fire Eagle. Then, using a secret method to obtain both wings, we were finally able to create this scroll that allows oo learn a flying Dou Teique. Toward the end of my life, I used Dou Qi to create this Dou Teique. Remember, it only be learned by one person!"

  Xiao Yan discovered that the pair of Purple Cloud Wings depicted in the Dou Teique scroll had a soul embedded withihe prerequisite for cultivating this Dou Teique was to be able to withstand a spiritual attack from the wings and successfully ie the Purple Cloud Wings into one's own soul.

  After reading the entire scroll of the Dou Teique, Xiao Ya as if this flying teique was tailor-made for him; entering its initial phase seemed far too easy. He slowly extended his hand and touched the pattern on the scroll. Immediately, the scroll unleashed a burst of Spiritual Strength that struck him.

  'Pying soul games with me?' Xiao Ya out a cold ugh as a spiritual attack erupted from his body.

  Having cultivated the Spirit Heart Gathering Soul Teique and a Soul Skill, he effortlessly subdued the fragmented fierce soul that had been sealed within the scroll for who knows how long in just a few exges.

  The Purple Cloud Bck Fire Eagle also had no choice but to submit to his powerful Spiritual Strength.

  Ohe eagle submitted, a warm current gathered on his back, and a pair of bck eagle wing tattoos appeared there.

  He slowly circuted his Dou Qi, gathering it all onto his back. Then, apanied by seari, a pair of dark, Dou Qi wings, about one and a half meters long, appeared behind him.

  'To ehe Purple Cloud Wings to fly requires a siderable amount of Dou Qi; fortunately, the Fme Mantra has already evolved to the Xuan Css.'

  Xiao Yan trolled the wings to flutter slightly, creating a small lifting force beh him. As he ied more Dou Qi, the thrust gradually increased, allowing him to float in the air.

  With the Dou Qi of his current Dou Master realm, his full-speed flight was roughly equivalent to the speed of a small car, about eighty kilometers per hour.

  Xiao Yan's eyes hardened as he cried out in his heart, 'Fire, arise!'

  Whoosh!!! Bck fmes suddenly repced the purple-bck colored Eagle Wings. The Nihility Dev Fme surged out of his Acceptance Soul, coursed through his meridians, and gathered at his back to form a pair of exceptionally rge dark fire wings.

  They made him look like a demon lord.

  Boom! Like a jet emitting bck fmes, the terrifying thrust caused Xiao Yan to pletely lose trol. It sent him crashing headlong into a rock wall, resulting in a rge bump.

  'Ouch, ouch, ouch. The power has indeed increased greatly with the addition of the Nihility Dev Fme, but the ption of Dou Qi is just as terrifying.'

  After ceasing the input of Dou Qi, the Purple Cloud Wings g to his back again and transformed into a pitch-bck eagle wing tattoo. More practice would be o master the flight distance, power, and turns.

  Xiao Yan took out the mysterious fragment map and the Heavenly Fme Ranking catalog from his ste ring after applying some oio the rge bump on his forehead.

  Meow! The previously listless Mao Wu suddenly became aggressive upon seeing the fragment map, baring its teeth and g at the air. Xiao Yan noticed a faint pink lotus pattern on the fragment after following Mao Wu's gaze.

  If Xiao Yan wasn't mistaken, this faint lotus pattern was likely branded with a Heavenly Fme, which expined why it aroused such hostility from the Nihility Dev Fme.

  In fact, only a few Heavenly Fmes could provoke suimosity from it.

  "Purifying Demonic Lotus Fme. Ranked 3rd in the Heavenly Fme Ranking. It has the special effect of purifying all things. The demonic fme takes the shape of a lotus and is light pink in color. Could this fragment map be a treasure map for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Fme?!"

  Meow!!!

  "Do you think so?"

  Meow~

  "Too bad it is only a fragment; the plete map would be ideal."

  Xiao Yan stretched zily and pushed aside a rock at the entrance of the cave, allowing the gentle sunlight to bathe the nd. From the cliff, he looked out at the distant, endless expanse of the Magic Beast Mountain Range, which resembled a massive green dragon.

  He could even imagihe wild, primitive-like life he was about to lead.

  He had set three goals for himself. The first was to explore three locations identified on the spiritual map where the fire attribute energy was exceptionally dehe sed goal was to cultivate his Soul Trainihod, the Spirit Heart Gathering Soul Teique, to a minor level of mastery, elevate his Spiritual State to the Intermediate Mortal State, and ensure he could reliably refine 3rd-tier medial pills. The third goal was to cultivate the Fme Splitting Tsunami and the Mad Lion t, with the tter needing to reach at least a major level of mastery to be effective.

  With a whoosh, the Purple Cloud Wings appeared behind Xiao Yan. He kicked off with both feet, wings unfurling as he glided down the cliff and flew toward the wilderness of the Magic Beast Mountain Range below.

  "Woo-hoo! Magic Beast Mountain Range, here I e, Xiao Yan!"

  Roar, roar, roar! Seeing a figure desding, the Rank 2 magical beast, Giant Bear, roared and stood up, swinging its massive paw at him.

  "Ha ha ha, it looks like bear paw is on the menu tonight! I haven't had stewed bear paw in a long time!"

  "Oe Bst!"

  ...

  Time flew by, and more than four months had passed, leaving just over half a year until Xiao Yan's duel with Nan Yanran.

  In the deep silence of the night, Xiao Yan was croug behind a rock, his gaze fixed on the massive mountain not far away. At the top of the mountain, a huge cave entrance artially visible, obscured by branches.

  "What a hassle. The st location turns out to be the ir of the Amethyst Winged Lion King." Xiao Yan cautiously peered at the mountaintop from behind the rock, careful not to alert any creatures ihat someone ying on their ir.

  In the past four months, thanks to reag the Xuan Css with his Fme Mantra and a fortuitous enter with a Fire Attribute Xuan Fruit, Xiao Yan had advanced from a 1-star Dou Master to a 3-star one.

  He had also iigated the two loarked on the spiritual map, only to find that both of them were nothing but bullshit.

  One was an underground magma river that had formed a vein of Xuan Fire Crystals, which could be used as fuel. The other was caused by the death of a Rank 5 fire attribute magical beast.

  Now, only one location remained on the map, but what made his head hurt was that the cave was pletely inaccessible!

  The Amethyst Winged Lion King, a Rank 6 magical beast with strength parable to a Dou Emperor, was still very much alive! Even if the Ten Thousa Fme was is ir, what could he do? He couldn't possibly defeat this 'dungeon boss' at all!