Chapter 92: Sudden Rank Surge

After flying for two days with the Purple Cloud Wings, Lin Feng landed in a secluded valley rarely visited by people.

Looking around, he saw no trace of anyone having been here.

Lin Feng took out Little Cai and saw that the creature was still asleep.

He gently placed it in the distant grass, lest the breakthrough would fling the little creature away.

Having done that, Lin Feng lightly flicked his ring and took out the strange Transparent Jade Bottle.

Staring at the blood‑red pill inside, he hesitated for a moment, then finally unsealed it.

Because a seventh‑grade pill has low sentience, it did not realize the seal had vanished and remained quietly inside the bottle.

Seeing this, Lin Feng swiftly slipped two fingers into the jade bottle, pinched out a pill, and hurriedly resealed it with the stopper.

The blood‑red pill, abruptly snatched out, showed a tiny dark‑red blood‑glint at its center, flashing like an eye between his fingers.

Immediately, he thrust outward forcefully, trying to escape, and even Lin Feng's hand was pushed a short distance by the pill.

However, the upward speed showed no sign of stopping at all.

Lin Feng finally understood why the pill had previously helped him strengthen his physique.

When that medicinal force entered his organs, it melted rapidly and merged with Lin Feng.

Instead, it became many times stronger than before, beyond his reckoning!

The dark‑red blood‑glint at the center seemed to sense the information carried by the threads.

A moment later, as the last spike of the sea‑urchin‑shaped Dou Crystal inside Lin Feng fully merged.

And Lin Feng's aura continued to rise as before.

Then those threads suddenly scattered outward, beginning to permeate every part of Lin Feng's body.

It looked just like a vibrant heart inside a sea urchin.

Perhaps, when it fully retracts into the Dou Crystal, it will signify Lin Feng's promotion to Dou King!

Yet it did not bring the exhilarating feeling of a breakthrough, only a strong sense of weakness.

And the Dou Crystal inside Lin Feng began to rotate slowly again.

Quietly, a faint yet highly rhythmic sound rose within the vortex.

Bang, bang...

As the pill entered his stomach, shortly after, the once solid pill began to writhe slowly.

The swelling throughout his body gave Lin Feng a strong feeling of bursting.

Before long, Lin Feng reached the Two‑Star Dou Spirit, then the Three‑Star, Four‑Star...

This reinforced body was about to burst; with his previous physique, he would have been torn to pieces.

These radiating liquid energies were flung by the vortex to every part of Lin Feng's body.

And the final spike was also shortening gradually at a rather slow speed.

The vortex's reverse thrust lasted for several hours before finally slowing to a stop.

Seeing the blood‑red energy cover his interior and then cease moving, Lin Feng couldn't help muttering in his mind.

The energy ripples passed unhindered through the vortex, meridians, bones, and finally burst out through the skin.

That thing, though impossible to put into words or explain.

Instead, it seemed to sense that Lin Feng's body had become more resilient, and the infusion speed surged severalfold.

Listening closely, it sounded like a heartbeat, exceedingly mysterious.

However, Lin Feng discovered that the dark‑red vortex, which had been spinning rapidly, had at some point slowed down.

But his intuition told Lin Feng that losing that thing would have very serious consequences.

At this moment, it resembled a clump of thick, blood‑red liquid.

Moreover, the rotation speed kept increasing, and the Dou Crystal's volume began to expand gradually.

A low hum quietly emanated, echoing within the vortex without fading.

Only the dark‑red blood‑glint at the pill's center remained, isolated and stationary.

A moment later, the dark‑red vortex suddenly emitted an extremely strong suction.

As the main body of the Dou Crystal became round, the surrounding edges oddly protruded.

This made cold sweat pour down his forehead, sliding continuously until it seeped into the ground.

This condition persisted for roughly several hours, and only ceased after the last trace of medicinal force was exhausted.

The sea‑urchin‑like Dou Crystal's light flickered on and off, and with its intensity, the rhythmic heartbeat sound rose again.

With the rhythm's sound, the light on the rhombus‑shaped Dou Crystal alternated between strong and weak.

In that instant when the two pulsations fully merged, the sea‑urchin Dou Crystal within the vortex shuddered, and a violently strong energy ripple burst outward!

But at this moment, as the Dou Crystal vanished from his body, his Dou Qi did not dissipate.

Within that tiny lump of liquid was contained an extremely dense energy.

The overwhelming aura frightened some nearby beasts below the fourth tier, making them shiver... then they hurriedly grabbed their treasures and fled far away...

Counting carefully, the sea urchin bore exactly nine long spikes.

After the lump of liquid writhed for a moment, its outer liquid abruptly fragmented into countless blood‑red energy threads.

As the energy continuously poured in, the Dou Crystal began to rotate autonomously, out of control.

After the red glint spread throughout his body, a strange wave suddenly returned to its origin.

Subsequently, it abruptly turned into a clump of viscous crimson liquid, flung toward every part of Lin Feng's body.

And under Lin Feng's focused mind, he noticed that the previously irregular Dou Crystal gradually became as round as a bead.

After a moment of thought, he concluded: the energy sustaining this vortex's rotation was nearly exhausted!

The scattered threads first reached the abdomen where the pill resided, then the lungs, heart, spleen...

And wherever the blood-red medicinal power passed, it would leave some of its potency, then slowly seep into Lin Feng's various organs.

Bang, bang...

Lin Feng, seeing this situation, hurriedly clutched the Devouring Life Pill tightly in his palm, not letting it escape.

Moreover, wherever those energy threads reached, they were stained with a layer of blood-red light.

Lin Feng's Dou Qi level also began to rise slowly.

If the qi vortex shatters below the Dou Wang level, then this person's cultivation path will also end.

In the end, Lin Feng's mind could no longer make out the appearance of that central point.

With the continuous infusion of energy, the rhombus Dou Crystal inside Lin Feng's body suddenly trembled slightly.

Because there is no qi vortex to store Dou Qi, this person cannot mobilize Dou Qi, nor can they store Dou Qi.

These threads paused for a moment, as if searching for their own path.

Whoosh~

Finally, every part of Lin Feng's body was touched by the red threads.

And as Lin Feng's Dou Qi level rose, the spikes on the sea urchin-shaped Dou Crystal inside his body kept retracting.

Then, under the nourishment of this medicinal power, Lin Feng's physique gradually became stronger...

A low, muffled sound echoed slowly inside his body, and in the end it completely matched the beat of Lin Feng's own heart.

This medicinal power, following those extending threads, transmitted to every part of Lin Feng's body.

However, due to the excess energy, the Dou Crystal could not absorb it all at once.

After receiving the information from those threads, the dark red point at the center suddenly began to spin.

And the energy sustaining the rotation is obviously the medicinal power of the Devouring Life Pill itself.

However, Lin Feng's mind could still perceive it.

Boom!

The overflowing energy began to gradually fill every part of Lin Feng's body, and the Dou Crystal also expanded uncontrollably and rapidly.

Seeing this situation, waves of ecstasy surged in Lin Feng's heart.

Moreover, the speed of rotation also became faster and faster.

He could feel that, with the intrusion of that liquid energy, each of his bones and flesh was almost like undergoing a metamorphosis, gradually filling with mighty power.

In a short while, it rose from two-star Great Dou Master to three-star, then four-star, five-star...

Afterwards, with a flash of dark light, an extremely vast and pure energy surged along that special red thread into Lin Feng's Dou Crystal.

A vast aura erupted violently from within his body.

Huh, why is there no movement?

He took a deep breath, hesitated slightly, then swallowed it in one gulp.

After a moment, Lin Feng's Dou Qi level had reached the peak of Great Dou Master.

At this moment, a Dou Ling aura burst forth violently from within Lin Feng's body, spreading through his body and out toward the nearby valley.

And that central dark red vortex, as it absorbed more and more life force, rapidly increased in volume.

When the rhombus Dou Crystal completely transformed into a sea urchin Dou Crystal, the light on its body began to flicker more urgently, and the heartbeat sound also became quicker...

After Lin Feng's physique was strengthened, those threads again transmitted a fluctuation toward the center point.

Lin Feng knew that this indescribable feeling of weakness was due to his body continuously having life force drawn away.

After half a day, the original nine spikes had dwindled to a lone solitary one.

In its place was a dark red vortex, like a black hole, hovering in Lin Feng's abdomen.

It seemed to be telling that dark red point that action could now begin...

This appearance was extremely like a sea urchin covered all over with long spines.

However, as soon as the words fell, that tiny dark red spot in the abdomen suddenly burst forth with an immensely vast blood-red medicinal power.

Once again, a somewhat special thread extended, stretching straight into Lin Feng's Dou Crystal.

However, the latter could feel that an extremely important thing inside his body was being rapidly sucked into that dark red vortex.

If one observed Lin Feng's outward appearance, they would discover that even his skin faintly showed a blood-red hue.

And whenever that liquid energy stained the meridians, bones, and flesh...

However, although Lin Feng had already advanced to Dou Ling, the energy infusion did not stop.

However, it did not absorb any of Lin Feng's Dou Qi.

After a brief moment of thought, Lin Feng already knew the answer: what was being sucked away was life force!

However, even as Lin Feng's Dou Qi level continued to rise, his aura also grew stronger.

Lin Feng would discover that these liquid energies actually gradually merged into it!