I love cockroaches

  At this time, Tang Yan's eyes were tightly fixed on the mouse corpse on the ground, and he had an urge to die. If it was said that the wild boar's spirit was stronger than his, then so be it. But even a mouse's spiritual power was stronger than his, making him wonder if this thing could really devour? Fortunately, the old man comforted him, saying that as long as he reached the level of Dou Shi, he would be able to absorb a first-level magic beast, and Tang Yan calmed down.

  Tang Yan is now a four-star Dou Zhe, he believes that with his current cultivation, it will not take a month to reach the level of Dou Shi. However, Tang Yan still really doubts whether this Dragon Slayer Manual is true or not. Otherwise, how could the spiritual power of an old mouse be stronger than him? Is it possible that he is even inferior to an old mouse?

  "Alright, kid, go find a cockroach and try it out!" the old man said, knowing that Tang Yan still had doubts about him.

  "Cockroach? How come I didn't think of that, would locusts work?" Tang Yan thought of some of the smallest animals to say.

  "It should be okay! However, there won't be any locusts during this season. If you don't believe in the Dragon Devouring Technique, try it on a cockroach!" The old man said to Tang Yan, but he thought to himself: "How did I end up with such a foolish disciple? Fortunately, his willpower is strong."

  Suddenly, Tang Yan began to search around the stones and finally caught two cockroaches in a long-dead tree. He killed them on the spot with his grass shoes. Then he started to operate the Dragon's Breath Technique, stretching out his right hand, five thin spiritual threads enveloped the dying little insect, making Tang Yan laugh triumphantly: I succeeded! I succeeded! I successfully swallowed a cockroach!

  Yes, Tang Yan activated the Devouring Dragon Technique and successfully swallowed a cockroach's soul. Although the cockroach's soul was very small, Tang Yan felt a weak spiritual energy being absorbed into his body through the spiritual threads.

  "If the ancestors saw you using the Xi Long Jue to absorb a cockroach, they would be so angry that they would die!" The old man said with great laughter, seeing Tang Yan's excitement.

  "After swallowing a cockroach soul, I felt that my dantian had increased by a bit of qi. Is it possible to break through if I swallow a certain number of them?" Tang Yan said to the old man what he had just felt.

  "It can be said that back then, I swallowed a 12th-level demonic beast and broke through one level!" The old man replied to Tang Yan's words with disdain.

  "That's easy!" Tang Yan heard the old man's words and a thread of excited smile appeared on his face.

  "Are you going to continue eating cockroaches?" the old man asked.

  "How did you know I had this idea? How about it, am I clever enough?" Tang Yan said.

  "Narcissism!"

  Although the Bone Pool is deep in the Magic Beast Forest, many magic beasts also appear there. Tang Yan originally planned to break through the Dou Shi level before using the Dragon Slaying Technique. However, time no longer allows him to practice anymore. Of course, he can hide in the mountains for a few years and then come out. Would Tang Yan do that? If so, he would have been living in the mountains long ago. Did he still need to be in the back mountain? Did he still need to be bullied by his senior brothers every day?

  It's not that Tang Yan is afraid of death, but with Tang Yan's intelligence, living in the deep mountains for a year or two wouldn't be a problem. However, the issue is that he can't bear to part with his little junior sister.

  To survive, to marry a stunningly beautiful junior sister, Tang Yan must return to the sect, and with just one more year of time, he believes he can surpass his fellow disciples and win the favor of the little junior sister, and maybe even become the next leader of the Fist Sect. Thus, Tang Yan continued to search for cockroaches, in this withered tree head, searching for over a dozen cockroaches, absorbing their souls after which he went on to search elsewhere.

  Apart from the cockroaches, there were also some butterflies, and even small caterpillars didn't escape. For a moment, Tang Yan didn't know how many small insect souls he had absorbed. He only knew that his spiritual energy was almost depleted, but he also gained something - he realized that at this speed, as long as he spent five days, he could definitely break through to the Five-Star Warrior rank.

  Three days passed, Tang Yan searched for insect eggs everywhere, repeatedly practiced the Dragon's Breath Technique, and when he was tired, he sat down to meditate. After meditation, he continued to devour them. In three days, within a radius of one mile, the ground was filled with the corpses of insects, occasionally with a few newly hatched featherless bird corpses, harming humans and livestock!

  "Old man, I feel like my spiritual power has increased a lot!" Tang Yan said with his eyes fixed on a beehive in the tree.

  "Oh, this is normal, you keep using your spiritual power to devour insects and refine them, it's natural that you've made progress, you should understand this principle!" The old man didn't expect Tang Yan to make progress so quickly. He remembered that his own spiritual power was cultivated through meditation, while Tang Yan's spiritual power was actually refined from torturing small insects to death. He couldn't help but admire Tang Yan's luck.

  "Old man, I think it's not necessarily to kill the insect before using the Dragon's Breath Technique, what do you think?" Tang Yan stared blankly at the beehive on the tree that was as big as a washbasin.

  "Hmm, I think that as long as your spiritual power is stronger than the opponent's, it'll be fine. Otherwise, it's easy to backfire and if that happens, you might become an idiot!" The old man said with a pretentious tone of concern for Tang Yan.

  "How many little bees do you think are in this beehive?" Tang Yan heard his words, and a faint smile appeared on his face again.

  "There aren't even a thousand of them, just several hundred!" said the old man.

  "Haha, my old man's luck is just good!" Tang Yan said with a pleased expression.

  To avoid being counterattacked, Tang Yan looked for a lone little bee on the side, and with five fingers spread out, the bee collecting nectar on the flower fell to the ground. It was buzzing just now, but it has become a corpse. Tang Yan is really ruthless. In order to survive in this era of cold weapons, Tang Yan doesn't care about being good or evil, as long as he can make himself stronger, he will do whatever it takes, even if it means killing people and setting fires.

  At this time, Tang Yan slowly climbed up the big tree, carefully approached the beehive hanging on the branch, and sat on a fork in the tree less than four meters away from the beehive, with an expression as if he had discovered a new continent. He rubbed his palms together a few times, then made a move called "Double Dragons Emerging from the Sea", directing it at the beehive on the branch. One by one, the bees in the hive fell to the ground. Similarly, the internal Qi in Tang Yan's body increased thread by thread, accumulating gradually.

  Due to the large number of bees, Tang Yan couldn't possibly swallow so many small bees at once. After swallowing about two hundred small bees, Tang Yan's spiritual energy was already gone by 70-80%, and he had no choice but to sit cross-legged on a branch of a big tree.

  The Dragon's Breath Technique not only absorbs the souls of animals, but also refines their essence. As long as Tang Yan meditates and activates the technique, the absorbed essence is automatically filtered and stored in his dantian. The souls of 200 bees are equivalent to three days of Tang Yan's cultivation, and in just three short days, he gains the internal energy that others would take a month to cultivate.

  "Not bad, not bad, come again!" Tang Yan woke up from his meditation and opened his eyes to look at the beehive on the branch above him.

  About two hours later, within a radius of about 50 meters, not even a single live little bee could be found, only a pile of dead bees on the ground. However, Tang Yan ignored all this and just stared at the beehive the size of a face basin on the branch, drooling at the fragrance of honey wafting from it. If he wasn't here to practice his skills, he would have already grabbed the hive with a torch. Just as Tang Yan's right hand was about to reach the hive, a blue light shot out from his fingertips and enveloped the beehive on the branch.

  "Damn it, you old ghost! Are you trying to get in my way? Do you want to monopolize everything?" Tang Yan cursed as he stared at the beehive disappearing on the tree branch.

  "Little one, I'm also doing this for your own good. This is a few years' worth of honey, and if you add some medicinal herbs to it and refine the elixir, you can create some top-grade nourishing and spiritual gathering pills that will be beneficial to you in the future!" The old man said to Tang Yan.

  "So much, can't you let me eat a bit first!" Tan Yan heard his words and didn't argue with him about it.

  "Alright, seeing how hard you've been working these past few days, I'll give you a little something!"

  The old man finished speaking, and on Tang Yan's palm appeared a small bottle of honey. Tang Yan was moved to tears, but not because the old man had given him honey, rather it was because the dragon ring on his hand was a spatial ring. As for spatial rings, Tang Yan had heard of them before, but he had never seen one, such things were extremely rare, even his master didn't have one.

  "Can this dragon ring be used as a storage item?" Tang Yan asked again.

  "Of course, this is a divine ring, what's wrong?" The old man asked with satisfaction.

  "How big is the space?" Tang Yan asked.

  "I don't know!" The old man replied.

  "Don't you know? How can you not know, weren't you stuck inside? Or haven't you read any books? You don't even recognize a few square meters?" Tang Yan didn't expect the old man to be so ignorant.

  "This thing was created by the first generation of masters, and its space is so vast that I've walked for several years and still can't explore it all. So, I'd rather not guess how big it is, but I'll say it's at least half the size of a continent. What? Are you surprised? Honestly, I was also very surprised back then, especially by the dense spiritual energy inside, which is several times thicker than outside. Think about it, if you can absorb the spiritual energy inside... Hehe, no need for me to say more, you'll understand!" The old man said with a pleased expression.

  Upon hearing the old man's words, Tang Yan's eyes sparkled brightly and he didn't want to think about it anymore. He lay down on the tree branch and fell asleep. As expected, Tang Yan once again entered that vast white world, and similarly, the old man appeared in front of him with a sly smile, staring at Tang Yan and saying: "Are you thinking of absorbing these spiritual energies now?"

  "How did you know?" Tang Yan said with embarrassment.

  "Look at you, I knew it. But let me tell you, the spiritual energy here can be used by you as long as you bring your Dragon Devouring Technique to the Xuan level!" The old man said with a smile to Tang Yan, this greedy guy.

  "Xuanjie level? Isn't Huangjie level enough?" Tang Yan asked with a hint of disappointment.

  "Of course not, don't worry, as long as you absorb a dragon soul, you can advance to the Xuan stage!" The old man said.

  "Can the Devouring Beast advance?" Tang Yan asked, thinking of the giant dragon's strength.

  "I've told you all, this is a Dragon Devouring Technique, only those with the Dragon Devouring Soul can advance, the Demon Beast can at most only let your cultivation progress slightly!" The old man explained to Tang Yan.

  "Damn it, why didn't you say so earlier and waste my expression!" Tang Yan scolded, immediately exited the space, woke up from sleep to say. Then picked up the dry food on the ground and said: "Can you also help me put these things into the spatial ring?"