Chapter 432

Roar!

With its mouth wide open, Red Cat spouted a torrent of demonic power, blasting Yu Xiaolong directly into the River Cang.

The winner was decided!

Red Cat returned with a smug look, looking like it hadn’t shamed Canglan Island.

“The strength of Red Cat has grown so strong.”

Su Lingxiu sighed in awe.

Even though her own power was still superior to Red Cat’s, subduing it had become more challenging.

Shi’er was even more upset. Despite his effort, he couldn’t keep up with Red Cat’s rapid growth.

In future, he must flatter Red Cat, otherwise life would become unbearable.

“In terms of cultivation level, Red Cat should be lower than that snake, right?”

Xu Yan pondered thoughtfully.

Li Xuan nodded, Red Cat is indeed at the Tongxuan Realm. However, the big beast had been consuming medicinal pills every day. Starting from consuming waste pills, this was its quick route for advancement.

It wouldn’t suffer from indigestion from consuming too many pills.

The method that it practiced was unique among big beasts. It revolved around opening the acupoints of big beasts and constantly evolving, even hiding big beast techniques within the acupoints.

Being the first beast of its kind, Red Cat possessed a special destiny, thus naturally its strength was superior.

Being able to defeat Yu Xiaolong was not unusual.

Yu Xiaolong’s offensive methods were related to his spirit beast and therefore fairly routine. Red Cat, on the other hand, had various demon techniques.

It even manifested fist techniques through its claws.

Yu Xiaolong flew back from the River Cang, shrinking his body size and looked at Red Cat incredulously. He had not expected to lose against this fat cat.

Moreover, Red Cat’s methods even showed an outline of martial arts.

Are these the so-called demonic techniques Xu Yan spoke of?

The confrontation between Red Cat and Yu Xiaolong was just a light amusement, eventually ending in laughter.

Next, Xu Yan started to pull out all the items from his storage bag. He had relocated an entire treasure vault from the Dai Family which he hadn’t had time to sort through.

Xu Yan began to recount his experiences in the Ling Domain.

The main points were the Qing Tian Jiao’s tomb. He also brought out the corpse of Qing Tian Jiao, causing everyone to be overwhelmed by the massive size of the sea monster.

Concerning the matter about being pursued by the Jade God Sect and Su Family, Xu Yan omitted it because he didn’t want his parents to worry.

However, he did tell them about looting the treasure vault of the Dai Family.

“Junior brother and sister should now have plenty of spiritual items to accumulate foundational resources.”

Xu Yan distributed out the hoarded items from the Dai Family’s vault, exciting everyone as they began to inventory the loot.

“This is a spiritual medicine, first-grade spiritual medicine.”

“So many second-grade spiritual medicines?”

“This——Is this the spiritual artifact from Ling Domain?”

Undeniably, the household treasure vault was loaded with not just a few first-grade spiritual medicines, but also abundant five and six-grade spiritual medicines.

“Master, this is spiritual tea from the Ling Domain. You should try it.”

During the inventory of the Dai Family’s treasure, they discovered a big jar of Spiritual tea. Upon a glance, one could tell this wasn’t ordinary spiritual tea.

It was at least third-grade tea.

“Good, good, much appreciated!”

Li Xuan had a beaming smile.

Xu Yan’s trip to the Ling Domain was extremely fruitful. With the tremendous treasures he returned with, Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu would no longer lack resources to build their foundation, enabling them to break through to the Divine Intent State faster.

Similarly, Xu Junhe and the others could, with the help of the higher-grade medicinal pills, break through to the Tongxuan Realm.

For the next few days, Canglan Island was extremely lively.

Many spiritual herbs were piled up and given to Su Lingxiu to organize. There were so many herbs and understanding their usage and effects could only be left to her.

For Su Lingxiu, there were so many types of herbs, most of which she did not recognize.

Fortunately, she had the insight of her genius mind. She could discern the effects and characteristics of each type of spiritual herb, categorize them accordingly and record each of their uses.

She could also concoct various miraculous pill formulas with them.

For example, pills that restore Divine Intent or enhance Divine Intent, both necessary for attaining the Divine Intent state.

Organizing the spiritual herbs took some time, but Su Lingxiu was busy and happy.

After Xu Yan reunited with his parents, the master and disciples stood on top of Canglan Island. It was there that Xu Yan narrated all the experiences of his journey to the Ling Domain, including the pursuit from the Jade God Sect and the Su Family.

“The Jade God Sect and the Su Family, how outrageous they are! Once we reach the Ling Domain, let’s settle the score with them.”

Meng Chong voiced indignantly.

“So it is, the Ling Domain is indeed strict in its hierarchy, with the names of Spirit Sects and world families looming over.”

Su Lingxiu exclaimed.

The plan to establish Chang Qing Pavilion in the Ling Domain would need to be postponed. Otherwise, it might lure the covetousness of the Spirit Sect and the worldly families, and even catch the eye of Transcendent Spirit Sect.

“Every Martial Artist who stands at the apex of Martial Arts has made it to the top by stepping on countless stepping stones; whether it’s the Inner Domain or the Ling Domain, in the end, it all boils down to survival of the strongest.

“It’s just that the hierarchy in the Ling Domain is more strictly enforced.”

Li Xuan stated indifferently.

The three people, Xu Yan, silently nodded their heads, acknowledging their master’s reasoning.

Isn’t the life of the lower-tier martial artists in the Inner Domain very tough as well?

Of course, the Inner Domain hasn’t reached the extreme of the Ling Domain in terms of its rigid hierarchical class system. In the Inner Domain, any loose cultivator with sufficient strength can sit on an equal level with the formidable entities of the major forces without any superior-inferior differences.

But in the Ling Domain, even a Refining God Heavenly Man who is a loose cultivator can’t sit on par with the Heavenly Men of the Spirit Sect and the worldly families, and they can still feel being looked down by the two.

“Master, can the spiritual beasts cultivate demonic Martial Arts?”

Xu Yan asked.

“Theoretically, they can.”

Li Xuan nodded his head and said, “That snake indeed has some talent, if it cultivates the path of demonic Martial Arts and metamorphosis into a Jiao, it shouldn’t be a problem. Whether it can become a True Dragon, all depends on itself.”

“Then let’s leave it to ponder for a while, and when it’s accustomed with the Red Cat, we’ll decide further.”

Xu Yan nodded and replied.

Since Xu Yan has said so, Li Xuan didn’t use any sorcery to inculcate the path of demonic Martial Arts to Yu Xiaolong, and decided to let the snake adapt itself to its new surroundings first.

In the following days on Canglan Island, Xu Yan was immersed in his self-revelations following his breakthrough, aimed at improving his strength and summarizing his experience of killing the Refining God Heavenly Man.

Meanwhile, he guided Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu on how to transform and enhance themselves during the breakthrough of the Divine Intent State, fulfilling his duty as the Big Brother.

In between this, Xu Yan occasionally guided Red Cat’s cultivation path as well.

Demotic Martial Arts is still a part of Martial Arts, and Xu Yan truly is a pathfinder in the field of Martial Arts. He is a talented monster with an extreme level of comprehension. After mastering the path of demonic Martial Arts, he was naturally able to give some guidance to Red Cat.

As for Yu Xiaolong, it was currently disheartened and lying somewhere, doubting its existence in the world.

Xu Yan watched Red Cat contemplating the array diagram for a while, and his face reflected deep thoughts.

“Have you realized something?”

Li Xuan was a bit expectant.

There were no doubts that his apprentice was the most abnormal. Though his talent may not concentrate on the Martial Arts of Qimen, the array path was a system of Qimen’s Martial Arts, and it seemed that Xu Yan might have reaped something from it?

“I have some insights, but I need some time to consolidate and figure them out.”

Xu Yan responded after giving it some thought.

Li Xuan nodded, without asking anything further. As Xu Yan said he had some insights, it was certain that he would get something out of it after consolidation.

Seeing this, Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu also delved into the array diagram for several days.

Presumably, they too had some insights, right?

Xu Yan continued to deepen his understanding of his Martial Arts path. Even though there’s still a considerable gap until his breakthrough of the Divine Intent State Preliminary stage, his strength was evolving every day.

Meng Chong and Su Lingxiu, with their continuous accumulation and consolidation of resources, showed signs of improvement in their strength.

Even the Red Cat was no exception.

One day, while having dinner with his mother, Xu Yan saw Red Cat laying next to Mother Xu like a chubby orange cat, with an array diagram and some written words in front of it.

After giving it some thought, Xu Yan spoke, “Red Cat, trying to conceive insights from this array diagram is pointless. You can’t figure anything out. Your talent is just like this.

“If you want to gain something, why not engrave the array diagram in one of your acupoints? If you are successful, maybe then you could understand something.”

Red Cat was startled and immediately began to contemplate Xu Yan’s suggestion.

Xu Yan thought for a bit and then added, “Of course, you don’t need to replicate the entire array diagram as it is. Follow your inspiration, engrave the possible array patterns, and ignore the rest.

“Once all the possible array patterns are engraved in the acupoints, then take some time to connect them for an array diagram.”

Upon hearing Xu Yan’s words, Red Cat cheered up, made two meow sounds to express its gratitude.

After placing the guiding steps for Red Cat, whether it would be successful or not, depends entirely on its own talent.

Xu Yan saw that his own mother had truly begun to treat the Red Cat like a domestic cat, and moreover because Red Cat had become very fond of his mother, he decided to guide it a little more.