"By the way, exactly how many stars are you as a Dou Emperor?" Xiao Yan asked casually.

  "Three stars."

  Xiao Yan frowned, "And what about the Amethyst Winged Lion King? How many stars would it be sidered?"

  "Magical beasts don't have a clear star cssification as we humans do. If we pare it in terms of Dou Teiques and Dou Qi, it could at most pete with a 2-star Dou Emperor. However, magical beasts excel in close bat and rely on their physical strength. The close bat skills of the Amethyst Winged Lion King could rival a 4-star or even a 5-star Dou Emperor."

  Yun Yun expined as she flew, her gaze fixed ahead, "All things sidered, its overall strength might also be equivalent to a 3-star Dou Emperor, about the same as me."

  "However, I will not lose this time."

  Xiao Yan and Yun Yun had chosen to front the Amethyst Winged Lion King at dusk. They khat the amethyst crystals on the Lion King could absorb sunlight, so by choosing this time when it could not, the Lion King might not be able to match Yun Yun who had cultivated Di Css Dou Teiques.

  Xiao Yan turned his head to Yun Yun and said with a grin, "Remember to sound a bit fiercer."

  Yun Yun shot him an annoyed look. Are you the Dou Emperor, or am I? Why should I take orders from you?

  "Just take care of yourself."

  After dropping a faience, Yun Yun eled her Dou Qi and surged forward with a burst of speed toward the cave of the Amethyst Winged Lion King. Her speed as a wind attribute Dou Emperor was terrifyingly unmatched.

  Moments ter, four hundred-meter-high green tornadoes appeared around the Amethyst Winged Lion King's ir. The terrifying tornadoes engulfed the cave from all sides, wreaking havod sweeping all nearby magical beasts into the sky.

  A Dou Emperor's strike could be described as earth-shattering. Even a single High Xuan Css Dou Teique could rival the devastating power of nature.

  "Amethyst Winged Lion King, e out now! This old dy is going to turn your territory upside down today!"

  Xiao Yan nearly burst out ughing when he heard Yun Yun following his earlier suggestion. Clearly, this was their pn: she would infuriate the Amethyst Winged Lion King, while he would sneak into the cave to search for the Purple Spirit Crystal.

  "Human woman, you are c death! Today I will grind your boo dust!" Yun Yun had unched a direct atta the eerritory of the Amethyst Winged Lion King. How could it tolerate this as the ruler of this territory? Its furious roar suddenly thundered across the sky.

  As the roar echoed, a purple figure shot out of the cave with lightning-like speed. Instantly, a burst of light turhe surrounding dense forest into a chaotic wreckage.

  A blue and a purple light, one chasing the other, shot straight into the sky. Over a thousaers in the air, they began to collide violently.

  Xiao Yan immediately wiped the smile off his face when he saw that Yun Yun had successfully distracted the Amethyst Winged Lion King. He donned his bck Soul Robe and pulled down the hood, his eyes turning cold and sharp.

  The Soul Robe cealed both his aura and his soul.

  Then, after retrag the Purple Cloud Wings, he dove into the dense forest.

  He khe Amethyst Winged Lion King would surely try to use its perception to search for him, but the Lion King could never have imagined he possessed an item like the Soul Robe.

  The ground was strewn with the corpses of magical beasts that had bee up into the sky by tornadoes and dropped to their deaths. He could evehe bodies of Rank 4 magical beasts among them. Regrettably, he did not have time to collect the monster cores; otherwise, it could have been a windfall.

  His feet swiftly leaped over the bodies, and he soon arrived at the massive entrao the Amethyst Winged Lion King's cave. He slightly crouched his body, then suddenly dashed inside.

  Xiao Yan did not use any lighting tools; occasionally, purple crystal ks were embedded in the surrounding cave walls. These crystals were natural formations within the cave, highly prized as decorative items and of siderable value.

  Having traversed the long passage, he soon came to a jun where two paths diverged.

  Frowning at the two forks ih, he paused for a moment as he looked down at the footprints on the ground. The right path had small, lion paw prints, and he khat a young Amethyst Winged Lion King was still in the cave.

  Without a doubt, the right path led to the young Amethyst Winged Lion King's chamber.

  'Left!' Xiao Yan did not want to enter the young Amethyst Winged Lion King. It eak Rank 3 magical beast. He wasn't sure he could defeat it.

  It would be his bad luck if the Ten Thousa Fme was really there.

  The left passage was quite winding. Xiao Yan made several turns as he went deeper. Then, he suddenly noticed that the temperature around him was rising as he progressed.

  This filled him with etion. It was a sign that he had not taken the wrong path!

  After walking for a while, a sudden burst of light emanated from the tunnel. Xiao Yan's face lit up with joy as he quied his pad stepped out of the passage. A spacious stone room appeared in front of him.

  The stone room was filled with various spiritual fruits and fire attribute medial herbs. Xiao Yan even spotted some cultivators' ons scattered on the ground.

  'This is the treasure vault of the Amethyst Winged Lion King!'

  Meow! ψ(*｀ー′)ψ

  Mao Wu suddenly emerged from the Acceptance Soul and in a fsh, perched on a spherical obje the middle of the stone room. The intense heat radiating throughout the tunnel inated from this very ball.

  In the ter of the stone room, a pile of amethyst stones over a meter high formed a ptform-like structure. Atop this amethyst ptform urple-colored ball the size of Xiao Yan's head.

  When Xiao Yan saw the purple glow swirling around the ball, he recalled a passage from a book on magical beasts regarding the Amethyst Winged Lion King.

  It mentiohat during the birth of its cubs, there was a rare ce that something called the Amethyst Birth Essence could be produced.

  It recious fire-attribute treasure, and its shell could only be cracked using a Purple Spirit Crystal.

  Xiao Yan eechless upon seeing the Amethyst Birth Essend then urged, "You fanething on the same level as the Ice Spirit Cold Fountain? Hurry up and check if the Ten Thousa Fme is here!"

  Since joining the Hall of Souls, Xiao Yan had also learo put on airs.

  There's a whole box of this level of stuff in this young master's ste ring!

  Moreover, it was difficult to take this ball away. One would either have to dig up the ground and take it along with the Amethyst Stoform or use a Purple Spirit Crystal to crack its shell aract the essenside.

  With her the Ten Thousa Fmes nor the Purple Spirit Crystal found, how could he spare attention to this thing?

  Meow!!! Mao Wu lunged forward and scratched Xiao Yan's cheek a few times with a look of disdain, hating the iron for not turning into steel. Then, much to Xiao Yan's amazement, its mouth suddenly opened and turned into a bck hole.

  It swallowed the entire ball whole!

  "Holy crap! That's amazing!"

  Truly worthy of being the Nihility Dev Fme. It really could devour anything.

  Just as Xiao Yan was marveling at Mao Wu's dev ability, a wisp of blood-red fme suddenly emerged from a gap in the middle of the remaining Amethyst Stoform.

  'Ten Thousa Fme!'

  Xiao Yan rushed toward the fme the moment he saw it. He had never expected the Ten Thousa Fme to be sealed within the Amethyst Stoform and used to heat the Amethyst Lion Birth Essence.

  'Huh? Something's nht. Why is this Ten Thousa Fme so weak? And it doesn't even have an Essence Fme...'

  'Is this really a Ten Thousa Fme?!'

  It wasn't until he got closer that he realized it was ihe Ten Thousa Fme. However, this was not the Essence Fme, but merely a wisp taken from the maihousa Fme and sealed onto the Amethyst Stoform to heat the Amethyst Lion Birth Essence.

  Therefore, when he initially ehe cave and swept the area with his Spiritual Strength, he did not detect the wisp of Ten Thousa Fme within the Amethyst Stoform because it was too weak and had been sealed ihe stone.

  Only Mao Wu, also a Heavenly Fme with a bit of spiritual intelligence, could detect it thanks to its nature as a Heavenly Fme.

  Just as Xiao Yan was inwardly menting this, a shadow silently appeared behind him.