The Villain's Counterattack

When things go too smoothly, beware of excessive joy leading to tragedy. This has been Du Duanlang's biggest warning over the past three months. However...

Things going too smoothly can easily make people let down their guard. The goddess Xueyuan practiced the "Eternal Youth Art" smoothly. With her realm, and having just lost the Qi of the "Moving Heaven Divine Art", her internal body lacked upgrades, so practicing the "Eternal Youth Art" was just the right treatment for her. Combined with the many supplements that the goddess Xiaoqing found, she made up for a third of her lost vitality in just three months.

If the time had not been too short and the true energy had not been fully restored, coupled with the silver hair, Xiaoqing suspected that Xueyuan had not aged at all. The hidden dangers of the Yitian Divine Art were greatly alleviated with the help of the "Eternal Spring Art".

Compared to Xueyuan's restored appearance, the situation of Goddess Xiaoqing is much worse. Unlike the Goddess Xueyuan, who is a fake old man who has aged prematurely, Goddess Xiaoqing is a real centenarian. The "Eternal Youth Kung Fu" has helped her equally a lot, but she cannot restore her youth as easily as Xueyuan.

What she needs is to constantly replenish her vitality, bit by bit. Most of the time, she uses this Taoist technique to enhance her body's activity, accommodating more vitality, expanding and enhancing rather than filling and restoring. It is a long-term process, but the goddess Xiaoqing enjoys it. Her favorite thing to do every day is to take medicine, practice, and look in the mirror.

Looking in the mirror is very cruel for an old person, especially a woman. However, the goddess Xiaoqing turned looking in the mirror into finding faults, looking for signs that she is younger today than yesterday. Every time she found the slightest change, she would be happy for a long time.

Perhaps it was this mentality that made her much more optimistic and positive, and her cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds, which made Duan Lang a little envious. He was also improving every day, but the speed of improvement was really not satisfactory. More than 99% of what he gained was transformed into nutrients for the storage space and the Book of Dreams.

With the goddess Xiaoqing bickering with him and the goddess Xueyuan taking care of him, Duan Lang was not lonely. Although there were always disagreements and disputes whenever Bu Jingyun was mentioned, Duan Lang provoked them again and again and refused to give in. Perhaps only at this time would they feel that he was just a thirteen-year-old child, not an old monster who had regressed.

They had never delved into the origin of the "Eternal Youth Technique". As long as they could confirm that it was usable and useful, there was no need to get to the bottom of it. Duan Lang would certainly not tell them, and even if he did, they wouldn't know whether it was true or not. Instead of that, it would be better to pretend not to know.

They were very sure that this magical skill could not have come from Tianxiahui, probably because this magical skill must be based on a profound internal skill. Looking at the entire Tianxiahui, only Xiongba could practice it, and with Xiongba's mentality, it would be impossible for him to open up this level of magical skill to the outside world.

The Taoist traces of this martial art are too obvious, and it is very different from the Wudang Tai Chi magic. Otherwise, they would suspect that it was created by Wudang Master Zhang. After three months of getting along, they thought they knew a lot about Duan Lang. They also revealed many secrets of the Sou Shen Palace to him. In return, Duan Lang also shared a lot of experiences with them.

Whether it was cultivation, health preservation, medical skills, mechanisms and traps, or even how to behave, Duan Lang could explain everything clearly, which surprised the two women. Later they learned that this boy had been trying hard to memorize and recite all the books in the Tianxia Society, and had persisted for a year, which made them admire his perseverance.

Then, hearing that he had abandoned his martial arts to escape his predicament within the Tianxia Society and retrained himself in the precious medical canon of Yin-Yang Miscellaneous Classics, a technique with lofty ideals but incompatible with less sophisticated internal cultivation techniques, his progress was slow, they all cast a look of pity. But then they realized that the boy had already mastered the Divine Art of Shifting the Sky, a technique created by the immortal body and undoubtedly superior to the Yin-Yang Miscellaneous Classics, their problem seemed resolved. The boy no longer deserved sympathy.

The help of the magic stone is huge for Duan Lang. It is not only able to block water and fire, but the biggest benefit is that it can amplify his strength twenty times. Duan Lang's life is short and his strength at the grandmaster level is too weak after all. It will take an astonishing amount of time to refine the fire of hell and the water of the underworld. However, he is unwilling to give up and even plans to sit at the bottom of the West Lake for ten years.

Now with the help of the magic stone, not only has his strength increased rapidly, but refining the Hellfire and Yellow Springs water has also become much easier and faster. In just three months, he has extracted most of the power of the two wonders of water and fire, revealing the deepest core: the Heart of Hell and the Heart of Yellow Springs.

These two strange cores seemed like jade condensed into substance, hidden in the core of water and fire. In addition to huge energy, they also contained the deep resentment and curse of the demons. The power of water and fire was greatly seized and dissipated, and the two cores finally couldn't help but explode.

When Duan Lang discovered it, there was nowhere to hide. The reminder from the goddess Xueyuan and the goddess Xiaoqing was very timely, but he did not choose the method they used to avoid the explosion of the blood prison that day. Instead, he took the initiative to leave the protection of the magic stone and turned around to wrap the Heart of Hell and the Heart of Yellow Springs in the magic stone.

Seeing Duan Lang's operation, the two women were stunned and then realized that this might be the best choice. Instead of letting these two evils wander around outside, it would be safer to seal them in the magic stone.

But they overlooked one thing: water and fire are incompatible!

Even though their origins are the same, they all come from the demon clan, but the result of the collision between cold, hot, fire and water is: a big explosion!

Duanlang, Xueyuan and Xiaoqing tried their best to protect the magic stone, but they were still unable to completely restrain the sudden explosion. The magic stone was shattered, and the underground cave turned from countless densely packed small pits into an underground lake, and the backflow of lake water caused a high tide.

Duan Lang tried his best to store all the fragments of the magic stone and the water and fire core fragments into the storage space, but he was unable to prevent the powerful explosion and was seriously injured and fell into coma.

The martial arts skills of the goddess Xueyuan and the goddess Xiaoqing were much more advanced than his. Even though they were seriously injured, they were able to bring him back to the ground. When Duanlang woke up, the first thing he saw was a burly man: Ah Hei.

Yes, just a few days after Duan Lang entered the underground cave of Leifeng Pagoda, Ah Hei gradually woke up. After recuperating for half a month, he returned to the home in his memory and became the son of the goddess Xiaoqing again.

The goddess Xiaoqing was extremely happy about Ah Hei's appearance, and did not even have too many doubts. She passed half of "The Demonic Body of Destruction" to him. Now Ah Hei is also a grandmaster-level fighter, and he is a very senior one, from the inside out.

The body of a divine beast plus the "World-Destroying Demon Body" was a combination that even Duan Lang wouldn't dare to underestimate.

"You're awake. You're really lucky." The goddess Xiaoqing had been paying attention to his situation. She was very happy to see him wake up, but she still made sarcastic remarks as usual, saying that as a man, he was not as good as a woman. In the end, she asked the two women to carry him back, which made Duanlang very upset.

The goddess Xueyuan brought the latest news. The magic stone was broken, and the two wonders no longer existed after losing their core. Leifeng Pagoda collapsed completely. West Lake experienced a three-day high tide. The whirlpool undercurrent was in chaos under the cave. It took three days for it to calm down. She used her great power to dive to the bottom of the lake to observe.

The crisis has passed and the hidden dangers are gone.

But what puzzled her most was where the sacred stone had gone. Even a fragment should still be there, but she had searched for days and found nothing.

"Is it possible that it was turned into powder together with the core of the two wonders? After all..." Duan Lang paused slightly, his eyebrows twitching, and the corners of his mouth twitching.

My magic stone was actually swallowed by the storage space and the dream book!

This was a super weapon that provided a twenty-fold increase in force, yet it was gone just like that. All that was gained in return was ten feet of storage space and the rich and pure true qi of a half-step grandmaster.