Fourth Calcaneal Bone Pool

  Tang Yan saw the two of them appear and shouted "bad luck", he knew that his second and third brothers had found him, it was absolutely not a good thing. His current strength wasn't even worthy of holding their shoes, this sentence was said by his eldest brother to Tang Yan. Tang Yan wanted to dodge them, but they blocked him in front, not letting Tang Yan leave. Tang Yan went left, they blocked the left, Tang Yan went right, they blocked the right.

  "What do you want?" Tang Yan asked with a sly smile, looking at the two of them.

  "Little junior brother, how dare you be so rude to me? I'm your second senior brother, aren't you looking for a beating? Have you forgotten that I knocked you out just a few days ago? Oh no, it was three times in one month." Tang Yan's second senior brother Lu Bei sneered at the trash talk.

  "What's wrong? Want to hit us? I'll tell you, this trash, if you don't want to die, listen to me obediently!" Third Brother Lu Yu pointed his finger at Tang Yan's chest, with a very arrogant tone.

  Honestly, Tang Yan really wanted to support them, but he had just recovered his martial arts qualifications and didn't want to die at their hands. Tang Yan could only endure it, thinking in his heart: "I'll screw you two pieces of trash, wait until I master the Devouring Dragon Technique, I'll make you both become idiots!" Facing the two of them, Tang Yan still asked in a low-key tone: "Second Brother, Third Brother, what do you want to find me for?"

  "You must have something for us, don't think we're idle? If you don't want to die, then obediently do things for us!" Tang Yan's second senior brother scolded.

  Next, they told Tang Yan about finding the thing and said they found a Bone Dissolving Grass in the forest behind the mountain, asking Tang Yan to go pick it for him. As for this Bone Dissolving Grass, Tang Yan had seen it before, it was a small white grass like bone beside the Bone Dissolving Pool in the demon beast forest behind the mountain. However, Tang Yan didn't dare to go there, as a Snow Scale Beast was guarding it, and normally Tang Yan only dared to take a look from afar, never daring to pick that Bone Dissolving Grass.

  Huagucao: Also known as Xiwengcao, it is one of the many precious herbs, its main effect is to wash the marrow and skeleton, it is a rare and precious medicine that cultivators yearn for. If used to refine Dan, it can allow lower-level cultivators to advance one level, the older the grass, the better the effect, advancing two levels is also not a problem. The problem is that this thing is hard to come by in a hundred years, it's hard to find even if you look for it!

  Of course, the master of the boxing school also knew that this branch of Huagu grass existed. It's just that the snow-scale beast was guarding it and he couldn't pick it up. Otherwise, would his apprentice still have a chance to get it? You think about it, Tang Yan's master couldn't even deal with that snow-scale beast, so isn't Tang Yan going there to look for death?

  You guessed it, these two guys just want Tang Yan to die, and the Bone Melting Grass is just an excuse. What's most important is that Tang Yan disappears. Of course, they would rather have Tang Yan successfully pick the Bone Melting Grass and return, so they can not only get the Bone Melting Grass but also find another way to kill Tang Yan.

  "Can't we not go?" Tang Yan said.

  "No way, if you don't go, I'll come over every day to kick your ass and make you live a life worse than pigs and dogs!" This narrow-minded Second Brother raised his fist and heavily kicked Tang Yan's abdomen.

  "Cough, cough, stop hitting me! I'm going, I'm going!" A good fellow doesn't take advantage of the situation.

  "Consider yourself lucky, now get out of here. If you do, we'll forget what happened before and Second Brother will make sure you live a good life in the Fist Sect!" Second Brother said with a smile to Tang Yan.

  The Quanmen only taught martial arts, but Tang Yan still liked weapons. On the day he joined the Quanmen, he used his own identity to get a ghost-headed knife. Although it wasn't a divine weapon, it was also a sharp weapon that made him feel safer when entering the mountains.

  No choice, weak strength can only use a weapon to defend oneself for now, even if encountering a second-tier magical beast it's possible to put up a fight. As for food, Second Brother and Third Brother are quite thoughtful, they had already prepared some for Tang Yan early on. A dozen or so steamed buns plus a few rice cakes, saying that should be enough for him to eat in the forest for three to four days.

  Like this, Tang Yan was taken by the two vice to enter the forest and help them pick Huagucao. Looking at Tang Yan crossing over the mountain and entering the magical beast forest, the two rubbish laughed loudly and then turned back to the sect.

  "Damn it, I'm so unlucky, what kind of bad luck is this!" Tang Yan said, carefully entering the forest with his Ghost Head Knife.

  "You stinky little brat, I'm telling you, after you master the Devouring Dragon Technique, who in the world will be your match? At that time, beauties will flock to you, and if you can't get them with your charm, you can just take them by force!" The guy inside the dragon ring said to Tang Yan.

  "I'm just afraid I won't be able to master it before I die!" Tang Yan cursed.

  "With me here, what are you afraid of? It's just a Snowscale Beast! Now your top priority is to break through the Four-Star Warrior rank, that way you'll have a higher chance of winning!" The old man inside the Dragon Ring said with disdain.

  "It's also true that breaking through the Four-Star Warrior first is a must!" Tang Yan felt that there was some reason to it, and having more power meant having an extra edge in winning.

  Next, Tang Yan returned to the gap in the giant stone again, piling up stones at the entrance. After everything was ready, Tang Yan began to sit cross-legged. Although the old man told him that the Jiao Long Jue was a yellow-level cultivation method, it could be upgraded like a divine weapon in an online game. To become stronger, he had to swallow dragon souls to evolve it. Apart from this cultivation method, he also had another fist technique that was passed down exclusively, which was also of the yellow level, the lowest among Tian, Di, Xuan, and Huang.

  In the past, Tang Yan had practiced a unique mental method that was exclusive to his sect. However, he no longer practices it now because the old man had told him that those so-called unique mental methods of his sect were not even comparable to the lowest-level techniques of the Earth Plateau. As for the Dragon Devouring Technique, even if one didn't absorb a dragon's soul and evolve, as long as they found some powerful magical beasts to devour, their mental method would at least advance to the Profound level.

  The Xuan-level mental method, looking at the entire Douwu continent, only one powerful sect has this Xuan-level mental method. Of course, it's not ruled out that some ancient families also possess Xuan-level mental methods. Therefore, the value of Xuan-level mental methods is worth a city.

  With the experience of last time, Tang Yan quickly began to break through again. He felt that the Qi in his Dantian was constantly gathering, and the energy was continuously released from the Dantian around his mother's finger. Another energy was generated around the Dantian, slowly growing bigger and bigger until it reached the size of a fist. With a loud "Bang!", the energy outside the Dantian exploded, releasing a powerful wave of energy that spread throughout Tang Yan's body like ripples on water, before receding back into his lower abdomen and the Dantian around his mother's finger.

  "Four-star, I've finally broken through to four-star!" Tang Yan put away his technique and smiled slightly.

  "It's really no use, a four-star general is still smiling like this!" The old man started scolding Tang Yan again.

  "Can't you reduce the impact on me a bit? By the way, you said that four-star fighters can devour low-level magical beast souls?" Tang Yan asked, wanting to become an expert in a short period of time.

  "I don't know, with your low-level spiritual power, you should be able to swallow some small ones, you can try it!" This time, the old man did not strike Tang Yan.

  "Really, I'll go try it out now!" Tang Yan said, thinking that there were many small animals around.

  As Tang Yan is currently a four-star warrior, capturing a wild boar is an easy task. In less than half an hour, Tang Yan caught the whole family of wild boars, big and small. One male, one female, plus five little wild boars as small as rabbits, each tied up with tree bark.

  "Old man, should we get rid of them and then search their corpses?" Tang Yan asked.

  "Not bad, but it only works in the last ten minutes before death. If you exceed that time, its soul will disappear, unless some powerful demons can exist for tens of thousands of years and still kill people!" The old man said to Tang Yan through mental power.

  "What? The primordial spirit can also kill people, won't it become a divine beast if it's not a demon?" Tang Yan asked.

  "Yes, but to be honest, that one sentence, I really have a bit of disdain for you, this 2B. Even the soul of a wild boar is worth absorbing. Think about it, when I was young, the first soul I absorbed was that of a twelve-stage sacred blue bird!" The old man said proudly to Tang Yan.

  "Damn it, you must have practiced the Dragon-Slaying Technique for decades!" Tang Yan heard him scornfully curse.

  "How did you know I've practiced the Dragon-Slaying Technique for decades? You're really clever!" The old man thought about it and nodded, "Indeed, I only came down from the mountain after practicing the Dragon-Slaying Technique for thirty years back then."

  "Can't you be more low-key? I'm just trying to test if the Dragon Devouring Technique is real by absorbing the wild boar's soul, who knew you'd use a trashy secret manual to deceive me!" Tang Yan said, pulling out the Ghost Head Knife from behind his back and walking step by step towards the constantly squealing wild boar.

  When the old man heard Tang Yan's words, he almost fainted. How could he deceive Tang Yan? Didn't he even think about his identity and dare to deceive a young boy? However, he didn't bother to argue with Tang Yan so much.

  Just as Tang Yan raised the ghost head knife, which was one meter long and half a palm wide, and slashed it down at the wild boar's head on the ground, killing it instantly. Although the scene was a bit bloody, Tang Yan did not forget to activate the Devouring Dragon Technique, inserting the ghost head knife into the ground with both hands, transforming his fingers into eagle claws, and using the Devouring Dragon Technique on the blood-soaked wild boar on the ground.

  A faint, ethereal thread seemed to emanate from Tang Yan's fingertips, hovering above the wild boar's corpse on the ground, ceaselessly gathering the soul essence within. One minute passed, two minutes passed, three minutes... About half an hour had elapsed, and not only did he fail to absorb any soul essence, but he couldn't even sense what the wild boar's soul looked like.

  "Damn it, are you kidding me?" Tang Yan searched on the wild boar for an hour without giving up, and finally couldn't help but curse.

  "What's wrong with you, it's just that your mental strength is too low, I didn't expect that you can't even compare to a pig's mental strength. From now on, don't tell people that I'm your master, this face I can no longer bear!" The old man said to Tang Yan.

  "Aren't you saying that I'm not even as good as a pig? Damn it, if it weren't for you, would I have ended up like this? I was originally a genius, with a bright future ahead of me. Look at me now, these past two years I haven't even been able to surpass the watchdog in our school's front gate!" Tang Yan heard his words and scolded him in her heart. Originally a Tsinghua University student, he had fallen to such a state.

  "Try again, I don't mind you devouring the little pig's soul! But remember, this matter must not be spoken of afterwards, it concerns the face of both of us!" Laozi knew that Tang Yan's current mood was not good, all because he had made Tang Yan live a life worse than a dog for these two years.

  It's okay, Tang Yan has a strong will to survive and never gives up. He is a young man who makes progress in adversity. Although he had just entered the sect and was feeling proud of himself at that time, he occasionally sneaked a peek at his junior sister taking a bath. Unfortunately, he didn't get to see anything, but he did hear some splashing sounds!

  Next, Tang Yan operated on the little pig, but the result was still the same, unable to find the soul. This made him start to suspect that the old man had cheated him. However, he didn't scold him. Although they were both from the Huang Jie secret manual, Tang Yan indeed felt that the Xiao Long Quan was much more powerful than the unique skills of the Fist Gate. In one aspect, Tang Yan felt a little comforted.

  However, Tang Yan was not one to give up. If he couldn't catch a small pig, then catching a ground mouse would do. Looking at the old mouse that was about the size of a fist, a hint of a smile appeared on Tang Yan's face as he said:

  "This shouldn't be a problem, right?"