Chapter 217: Re-entering the Star Dou

Ning Feiliu could only smile lightly at this; a powerful background and influence are indeed useful at times.

But in life-or-death situations, this instead becomes a reason for the opponent to want to kill you even more thoroughly.

After all, no one wants to be constantly hunted down by a powerful enemy thereafter.

If you let an enemy with a powerful background go, will he be grateful to you and stop hunting you?

No, after he returns, he will instead use all his influence and connections to hunt you down.

"Alright, Teacher, Sister Yan, I really must go now, but I will still return after some time," Ning Feiliu finally said, "If it really comes to it, I will also write a letter back."

The speed of delivering letters on the Douluo Continent is much faster, especially when dispatching Spirit Masters to deliver them; that speed is truly comparable to the modern logistics speed of his past life.

After all, no matter how much of a fantasy sewer the Douluo Continent is, it is still a fantasy world.

"Alright, Feiliu, take care of yourself," Dugu Yan said with a light smile on her pretty face as she bid him farewell.

"Mm, you and Teacher as well, please take care," after saying this last sentence, Ning Feiliu finally turned and walked toward the twenty Elders and disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect who were accompanying him this time.

"Let's set off," he said to the Elders and disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

"Yes, Pavilion Master."

Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo watched as Ning Feiliu, surrounded by a crowd of Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Elders and disciples, slowly disappeared from their sight.

Only then did Dugu Bo say softly, "This kid... his heart is very wild, he really isn't peaceful at all; I'm afraid he will be running all over the Douluo Dalu in the future."

Dugu Yan, however, immediately smiled and said, "Feiliu has this ability, so naturally he has a broad mind and lofty ambitions. Although Heaven Dou City is large, it is ultimately not the place for Feiliu to spread his wings and soar... the entire Douluo Continent is the stage for him to display his talents to his heart's content."

"Yanyan, you really are... how does it feel like you've also been influenced by this kid and changed so much," Dugu Bo said with a strange look on his old face, "But why didn't you follow this kid to travel this time? Grandfather thinks it would be a good thing for you to go out with him..."

In fact, before this, Dugu Bo had once told Dugu Yan that he allowed and even encouraged her to go out and gain experience with Ning Feiliu.

After all, going out to gain experience is not a bad thing, and Dugu Bo does not resist such things.

Which Title Douluo on the Douluo Continent today hasn't traveled across the entire continent when they were young?

That kid Ning Feiliu is right; only by going out to see this vast world can one see more things, see further, and gain something for oneself.

In the original story, Dugu Yan followed the Imperial Fighting Team all the way to Soto City to gain experience, and Dugu Bo certainly acquiesced to it, so he would not resist Ning Feiliu taking Dugu Yan out to gain some experience.

It was just that Dugu Yan refused.

Because...

Dugu Yan shook her head, smiling as she looked in the direction where Ning Feiliu, who had already disappeared from sight, had left, and said, "I'm not strong enough yet... I can't help Feiliu with anything, and instead, I might become a burden to him on the road, so I want to... become stronger before I go to travel the Douluo Continent with him."

And... this year's Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament is about to begin.

Although she could abandon all this and choose to follow Ning Feiliu, she is too weak right now.

Hearing about Ning Feiliu's experiences over the past year or so—facing a bandit group that wanted to kill him for money alone, killing a local great noble's son who preyed on commoners along with his powerful entourage, wiping out a village of Fallen Ones led by a Soul King, and fighting a Soul Emperor powerhouse who was eyeing him covetously...

Hearing these various deeds made Dugu Yan feel thrilled.

She also thought about whether she would become a drag if she followed Ning Feiliu out to gain experience and encountered such battles.

Perhaps she could rely on the group attack ability of her Jade Phosphor Snake clan's poison to help Ning Feiliu kill all the lower-level enemies.

But when facing those Soul Kings and Soul Emperors, her strength would instead make Ning Feiliu have to watch over her and be distracted.

And Ning Feiliu is not very worried when facing low-level enemies.

So if Dugu Yan followed Ning Feiliu, she would instead become a burden to Ning Feiliu.

It was precisely because of this consideration that Dugu Yan gave up the plan to disregard everything, even giving up participating in this year's Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, to follow Ning Feiliu and gain experience.

And her consideration was correct; Ning Feiliu might eventually have to enter Slaughter City this time, and she couldn't possibly follow him in, so she was right not to follow him.

"After becoming stronger, I can follow Feiliu to gain experience and won't be a burden to him," Dugu Yan thought to herself at this moment.

As long as she breaks through to Soul Emperor... then even if she can't catch up to Ning Feiliu's cultivation realm, she won't be a burden to Ning Feiliu.

So... she must continue to work hard on her cultivation.

And after Ning Feiliu said goodbye to Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, he led the Elders and disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect into the Star Dou Great Forest once again.

"The goal this time is to find a Cockscomb Phoenix Snake over 50,000 years old; I'm counting on you all," he said, looking at the Elders and disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

"Not at all, it is our honor to serve the Pavilion Master," one of the two accompanying Elders, the outer sect Elder Wang Xiao, said with a smile.

His strength is at the peak Soul Saint level, his martial soul is the relatively common War Tiger, and he is one of the six outer sect Elders directly under the Wuliu Pavilion by Ning Fengzhi's order.

However, he is now very glad to have been arranged by Ning Fengzhi under the Wuliu Pavilion.

Because the Wuliu Pavilion is currently the place where Ning Feiliu cultivates and produces various Alchemy Potions, and now the vast Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect only produces Alchemy Potions in the Wuliu Pavilion.

The profits from this are, of course, also shared by the disciples and Elders of the Wuliu Pavilion.

Even though the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is already wealthy and powerful, and the treatment given to the sect's disciples and Elders is quite good.

But their businesses in gems, antiques, and the like still cannot compare to the exorbitant profits of Alchemy Potions, an industry closely related to Spirit Masters.

After all, the main theme of the Douluo Continent world is Spirit Masters and powerful strength; compared to Alchemy Potions that can directly provide Enhancement to strength and even play a decisive role at critical moments, gems and antiques are really far inferior.

It's about the same as giving you two choices: one is an antique worth a thousand gold, and the other is a martial arts manual that can truly enhance your strength.

It is estimated that everyone would be more willing to choose the latter.

After all, the thousand-gold value of an antique is just for display.

The income of the Wuliu Pavilion is also quite enviable, and other disciples and Elders of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect have already wanted to apply to join the Wuliu Pavilion.

Unfortunately, it is useless for them to apply.

The Wuliu Pavilion is a direct organization within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, not the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect being a direct organization of the Wuliu Pavilion.

No matter how broad-minded Ning Fengzhi is, he cannot encourage this kind of atmosphere and let the Wuliu Pavilion replace the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

So Wang Xiao and the others became the first batch of people to eat the cake and even completely monopolize it.

They all know that the treatment they enjoy is all derived from the Alchemy Potions created by Ning Feiliu's outstanding creativity.

So they are also very grateful to Ning Feiliu.

Especially since Ning Feiliu is also a future powerhouse-in-waiting with excellent talent; the strong are always sought after by others. Wang Xiao and the others naturally admire Ning Feiliu even more.

"Alright, once we enter the Star Dou Great Forest, we must head straight into the ten-thousand-year Soul Beast region of the Star Dou Great Forest, then slowly search for a Cockscomb Phoenix Snake over fifty thousand years old." Ning Feiliu did not say much more, stating his goal directly, and said, "I hope everyone will be careful; if you discover the target, do not alert it."

Even if a Cockscomb Phoenix Snake reaches over fifty thousand years, it does not possess any outstanding combat power.

However, it is impossible for a Soul Beast to live for over fifty thousand years without some strengths.

The strength of a Cockscomb Phoenix Snake is its speed, so one can imagine how fast a Cockscomb Phoenix Snake over fifty thousand years old would be.

Perhaps if one is not careful, it will simply run away.

"Yes, we will be careful." Another Elder, Feng Ximei, immediately nodded and said.

Among the two Elders accompanying this trip, she and Wang Xiao are both at the Soul Saint level, but she is an Agility Attack System Battle Spirit Master, and the disciples she manages are also Agility Attack System Battle Spirit Masters, mainly responsible for scouting work.

Wang Xiao is an Assault System Battle Spirit Master, and he and the disciples he manages are naturally mainly responsible for combat.

It can be said that the division of labor between him and Feng Ximei is quite clear.

"Once the target is discovered, remember to drink the Invisibility Potion immediately, then surround it, understand?" She turned to the disciples responsible for scouting work and said.

"Understood!" Ten disciples said in unison.

The Invisibility Potion can lower the speed of soul power circulation and the speed of one's own life activities, while simultaneously hiding one's aura, making the user difficult to be discovered.

This is also the potion Spirit Masters like most, second only to the Swiftness Potion; by taking the Invisibility Potion, they can accomplish many things.

And as the party producing the Invisibility Potion, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect naturally keeps plenty of Invisibility Potions for itself.

Especially for the Wuliu Pavilion; for this trip, Wang Xiao and Feng Ximei had each prepared two to three bottles of various Alchemy Potions stored in their own Soul Guidance Devices.

Other disciples without Soul Guidance Devices were only equipped with corresponding Alchemy Potions; for instance, the Agility Attack System Battle Spirit Masters responsible for scouting work carried two Invisibility Potions on their persons.

However, even if they used up these Alchemy Potions, Ning Feiliu's Steel Sun Box actually still contained many Alchemy Potions.

During the last training session, he had prepared no less than ten bottles of each type of Alchemy Potion, storing them in the Steel Sun Box like stockpiled goods.

But over that year or so, these hundred-plus bottles of Alchemy Potions were almost entirely consumed.

Like the Upgrade Potion and Spirit Power Recovery Mixture, which can increase the speed of soul power cultivation, there is naturally no need to say more.

For Glimmer, which boosts combat power, Ning Feiliu also downed a bottle when facing the bandit stronghold occupied by that Fallen One Soul King, as well as when facing that Soul Emperor.

This one, however, did not have much consumption.

The Invisibility Potion, Eagle Vision Potion, and Clarity Potion were the ones he used without feeling the pinch, and they were all consumed.

Therefore, this time Ning Feiliu again stockpiled many Alchemy Potions according to demand and consumption; this time, there were a full two hundred bottles of Alchemy Potions in the Steel Sun Box.

Ning Feiliu was therefore also able to provide quite a few potions to these disciples and Elders of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

With the existence of the Invisibility Potion, they also did not need to worry about the target discovering them and running away immediately.

Then the group quickly passed through the outer perimeter of the Star Dou Great Forest and arrived directly at the ten-thousand-year Soul Beast region.

But for five consecutive days, they had no harvest.

Because... the Cockscomb Phoenix Snake is not a gregarious Soul Beast, and it does not even have high requirements for its living environment.

It is just that while there are no survival requirements, they have no combat ability, possessing only the characteristics of releasing smoke bombs and extreme speed.

Therefore, their survival ability is not very good, which leads to the fact that there should not be many Cockscomb Phoenix Snakes over fifty thousand years old.

Ning Feiliu and his group saw quite a few Cockscomb Phoenix Snakes, but those over fifty thousand years old... they really did not see any.

So after several days passed, they had no harvest.

Just as Ning Feiliu was already considering whether to give up the type of Soul Beast for his original Soul Ring absorption and no longer persist with the Cockscomb Phoenix Snake.

And instead... turn to "same-level" absorb a powerful forty-thousand-year Soul Beast.

Absorbing a Soul Ring from a Soul Beast that is not the original source will result in a "rejection" phenomenon of the Soul Ring.

Ning Feiliu had felt it when he re-absorbed his first Soul Ring for the first time before.

The more powerful the heterologous Soul Beast Soul Ring, the more intense the rejection reaction, but it is not impossible to change.

It is just that one cannot be too risky and exceed the previous limit for absorbing Soul Rings.

When Ning Feiliu was truly considering this problem, he felt troubled again; if he were to re-absorb a Soul Ring, he would certainly prefer to absorb a Soul Ring from a Soul Beast of the same race as a Beast.

This would also pave the way for him to absorb the Soul Rings of those powerful Beasts in the future.

But among the remaining Beasts, there were only the Hell Demon Dragon and the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear; the remaining Beasts of the same race were either Beasts without kin, like Di Tian or Xue Di.

Or they were like Bing Di, the Titan Snow Demon, or Xie Di, who were not within the range of the Star Dou Great Forest, but had to be found in places like the Extreme North or the Sun Moon Forest of the Sun Moon Continent.

The Extreme North is easy to talk about, as it is at the end of the Northern Territory of the Douluo Continent.

But the Sun Moon Forest of the Sun Moon Continent... one can only say that with a difference of ten thousand years, the Sun Moon Continent is already on its way drifting over, and one does not know how far it is from the Douluo Continent.

As for the rest, there were only the Hell Demon Dragon and the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

But as mentioned before, the Hell Demon Dragon and the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear... these remaining two types of Soul Beasts are rarer than the last.

It is estimated that the Hell Demon Dragon is as hard to find as a Cockscomb Phoenix Snake over fifty thousand years old, and as for the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, it is ten times harder than a Cockscomb Phoenix Snake over fifty thousand years old! But just as Ning Feiliu was in a dilemma...

"Pavilion Master! Elder Feng! We have discovered the tracks of a powerful Cockscomb Phoenix Snake!" Suddenly, a scout disciple landed in front of Ning Feiliu and his group, saying with a face full of surprise.

"Good! First take the Invisibility Potion to hide, do not alert the target, then go together to surround it!" Ning Feiliu immediately stood up and said.

"We have already taken the Invisibility Potion and hidden ourselves, and we are also blocking its escape routes from eight directions as we approach it." The scout disciple said at this time.

The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect disciples dispatched this time are all Spirit Masters above the Soul Ancestor level; the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect has internal rank divisions for Elders and disciples, and generally, one must have Soul Emperor cultivation or above to become an Elder.

Those below the Soul King level are all at the disciple level; although among their disciples there is no lack of Soul King powerhouses like Ning Feiliu.

But facing a Cockscomb Phoenix Snake over fifty thousand years old that rivals a Soul Saint powerhouse, they are naturally not enough.

It is precisely because of this that Feng Ximei and Wang Xiao need to cooperate with Ning Feiliu to take action in order to capture this Cockscomb Phoenix Snake.

(End of this chapter)