Chapter 128: Retreat and Advance
With the bone wings, Xu Haoyu seemed to be assisted by God.
The journey that originally took nearly a month was compressed to one-third, and in less than ten days, they returned to the Tianxin Empire.
Tiannan City!
Looking at the city where he had grown up, Xu Haoyu's mouth curled up, feeling happy from the bottom of his heart. He hugged Zi Yan, who was still sleeping in his arms, and then walked towards the city gate.
As soon as he entered the city, he was recognized. As the Xu family's base, and he was the grandson of the great elder, there was almost no one in the city who didn't know him.
On the street, when people came up to say hello to him, Xu Haoyu would respond with a smile. Then, when the other party saw that he was holding a pretty girl in his arms, they would leave with a strange look on their faces without much chatting.
His return to the Xu family almost caused a sensation. He was once the number one genius of the Xu family, and now he is back.
Xu Tianlong couldn't wait to see his grandson, but when he saw Xu Haoyu holding Zi Yan, his face became strange, and he laughed strangely and said:
"My grandson also knows to take the girl back, but did you knock her out or something?"
Xu Haoyu shrugged and said innocently:
"Grandpa, this wasn't my fault. She wanted to advance on her own. Let's go to the forbidden area first. It's the safest place for advancement."
The so-called forbidden area is located deep in the Xu Mansion. It was originally the place where some elders of the Xu family practiced in seclusion. In order to prevent them from being disturbed by outsiders, there were soldiers guarding it specially. Over time, it became a forbidden area.
Xu Tianlong nodded. With his perception, he had discovered that both his grandson and this little girl had reached the peak of Dou Wang.
This made him feel quite shocked. When his grandson left, he was only a four-star Grand Fighter. But after just three short years, he has become a top Fighting King. Canaan Academy is truly terrifying. It seems that he will have to send more talented people from the clan there in the future.
Then, Xu Tianlong led the way in front, and Xu Haoyu followed behind with Zi Yan in his arms. After a while, they arrived deep inside the Xu family. Coming here was like being in the wilderness, with ancient trees and towering mountains. There were caves dug out in the mountains, and each cave was large enough for one person to meditate.
Finally, Xu Haoyu carried Zi Yan into a cave halfway up the mountain and placed her on a stone bed. Seeing that Zi Yan was still dazed, he whispered in her ear:
"It's very safe here. You can advance without worrying about being disturbed. I'm going to leave first. I'll wait for the day when you successfully advance."
Zi Yan nodded imperceptibly, and then continued to fall into a deep sleep. Just as Xu Haoyu turned and left, her body began to emit a faint purple light. She fell into a deep sleep, and the purple light began to wrap her up, gradually forming the shape of a cocoon.
Xu Haoyu left the cave, closed the stone door, and looked at Xu Tianlong who was still waiting for him. He walked over and spoke solemnly:
"Grandpa, I'm back. In addition, I also plan to go into seclusion and try to break through to the Douhuang realm."
Xu Tianlong was even more shocked, but he just reached out and patted Xu Haoyu on the shoulder, and said with emotion:
"Go ahead. I won't ask too much about your experiences outside. I believe in you. After you go home, you can rest assured to retreat. With Grandpa here, no one will disturb you."
Xu Haoyu took a deep breath and said:
"Okay, Grandpa, I'll explain it to you after Zi Yan and I come out of seclusion. The little girl just now is Zi Yan, and she is my best friend at Canaan College."
After saying this, Xu Haoyu turned around, picked an empty cave, walked in, and closed the stone door.
Sitting on the stone bed, Xu Haoyu began to adjust his condition. When he recovered to his peak condition, he opened his eyes and thought to himself:
"When the water is full, it will overflow. If I continue to practice for a while, I should be able to find an opportunity for a breakthrough naturally. However, I can also take the initiative to speed up the process." Thinking of this, Xu Haoyu flipped through the ring and took out two scrolls. One of them was a green scroll, which was a wind-attributed earth-level intermediate skill, Listening to the Wind, from Han Feng's collection.
This is not the technique that Han Feng practiced. It is more likely that he obtained it from Yao Chen after he killed him. Yao Chen's friend, Feng Zun Feng Xian, practiced wind-attributed Dou Qi. This may be Feng Zun's technique.
The other silver scroll is a mid-level earth-level technique with thunder attribute, the Thunder Mirror, which comes from the collection of the Demon Flame Valley.
Strangely enough, the highest-level skills collected by the old demon who practiced ice-attributed fighting spirit were not of ice attribute, but of thunder attribute.
There are two volumes of martial arts, one is an intermediate earth-level martial arts with wind attribute, and the other is an intermediate earth-level martial arts with thunder attribute. Xu Haoyu just used them to replace the intermediate mysterious martial arts he originally practiced, the Gale Art and the Purple Lightning Art.
He opened the two volumes of exercises, placed them on his forehead one after another, and used his soul perception to study. A large number of meridian routes and understanding of properties filled his mind.
After finishing the study, Xu Haoyu rubbed his brows and sorted out the two volumes of exercises separately until he had mastered them initially.
He entered into the state of cultivation again, his mind sinking into his meridians. Then, a surging fighting spirit like a torrent flowed through his meridians.
Xu Haoyu's mind moved, and he began to split it up, separating the wind-attributed Dou Qi and the thunder-attributed Dou Qi from it respectively.
Then, the green wind-attributed Dou Qi and the purple thunder-attributed Dou Qi, under his control, began to operate according to the new practice route. Wind and thunder alternated in his body. Different Dou Qi had different characteristics, and the feelings they brought to him were completely different. He experienced them carefully.
At the same time, just as his wind and thunder attributed Dou Qi circulated a cycle according to the new technique, the Dou Qi underwent new changes again. First, it was continuously compressed. The Dou Qi, which was originally like a big river, began to compress into a small stream.
The quality of his Dou Qi became higher, allowing him to accommodate more of it. His body suddenly burst out with a suction force, continuously absorbing energy from the outside world. It was first tempered by the fire in his heart, then circulated in his meridians, and after being tempered into pure Dou Qi, it was integrated into the wind and thunder Dou Qi.
This made his wind and thunder fighting spirit gradually recover into the appearance of a big river. It looked the same as before, but the quality was completely different.
It took Xu Haoyu a month to complete this process. During this month, Xu Haoyu's wind and thunder fighting spirit was changed from the intermediate Xuan-level Gale Art and Purple Lightning Art to the intermediate Earth-level Listening to the Wind and Running Thunder Mirror.
With his mind immersed in the meridians and looking at the brand new wind and thunder fighting qi, Xu Haoyu finally activated the True Art of Return to Oneness and began to reintegrate the wind and thunder fighting qi, merging Ting Feng Yin and Ben Lei Jian into the True Art of Return to Oneness.
In the wide meridians, three streams of Dou Qi were surging continuously. The wind-attributed Dou Qi and the thunder-attributed Dou Qi were reintegrated into the mixed Dou Qi. This process was turbulent, like a rushing waterfall or a bursting mountain torrent. Fortunately, his meridians and body were strong enough to withstand this impact.
When his fighting spirit was unified again, Xu Haoyu was invigorated. Not only did he find an opportunity for a breakthrough, his art of unity was also elevated to the quasi-heavenly level. This volume of skills was integrated by him, and a mysterious aura emanated from him.
Suddenly, the situation in the outside world changed suddenly, and the energy of heaven and earth within a radius of dozens of miles was converging towards Tiannan City. To be precise, it was converging towards Xu Haoyu.
Once the heavenly-grade martial arts is released, it can instantly absorb all the energy of heaven and earth within a radius of 100 miles. The quasi-heavenly-grade martial arts is between the high-level earth-grade and the low-level heaven-grade, and already possesses some of the power of heavenly-grade martial arts.
The surging energy gathered into a vortex above the Xu family, and then condensed into a beam of light, pouring towards Xu Haoyu.
Xu Haoyu did not dare to delay and summoned the strange fire to cover him. With the characteristics of the Fallen Heart Flame, he first filtered the energy, and then he frantically absorbed the pure energy after the filtration, turning it into his own Dou Qi and into nourishment for his promotion to Dou Huang.
(End of this chapter)