Xiao Yan's brow furrowed slightly as he watched the Nihility Dev Fme nibbling at the Monster Core like a cute kitten mung on dried fish. He thought, 'Although this Nihility Dev Fme is indeed a Heavenly Fme, the energy it tains is far less than that of a true Heavenly Fme.'

  'However, it's exactly because of this that I still refi smoothly even with my current Dou Practitiorength."

  Seeing the Nihility Dev Fme devour aire Rank 2 Monster Core and swell its belly into a small round ball, there was no doubt that this little creature could grow just like other Heavenly Fmes.

  As recorded in the Heavenly Fme Ranking, the Green Lotus Core Fme took ten years to gain spirit, one hundred years to take shape, and ohousand years to turn into a lotus. When it was fully mature, its color would tilt toward the green side, and the lotus core would form a cluster of green fmes called 'Green Lotus Fme.'

  It took a thousand years for the Green Lotus Core Fme to be born.

  However, the Nihility Dev Fme was extremely unique. Whereas other Heavenly Fmes needed special enviros and could only grow by abs the purest and most special energies from heaven ah, the Nihility Dev Fme was like a bck hole. It didn't discriminate and could absorb anything it could e.

  Therefore, the growth rate of the Nihility Dev Fme was extraordinarily fast. Even in a pce devoid of anything like the void, the Nihility Dev Fme could still grow.

  The Seed Fme of the Nihility Dev Fme naturally shared this trait. Its sed characteristic was the ability to devour anything and then transform it into Nihility Bck Fme to nourish itself.

  Xiao Yan didn't know why, but he always felt like the Hun was using the Nihility Dev Fme as part of a bigger scheme…

  "All right, little one, now that you've had your fill, it's time to get to work," Xiao Yan said with a smile as he reached out his finger and stroked the Nihility Dev Fme.

  The Nihility Dev Fme, resembling a noble zy cat, stepped into the void aered his Acceptance Soul.

  'The ability to transverse the empty space is a skill that only a Dou Aor could achieve, yet this newly born Nihility Dev Fme Seed Fme already do it.'

  'This thing called talent be seriously frustrating.'

  This little Heavenly Fme was already capable of something that oe Dou Aor could do, which was truly terrifying!

  Xiao Yan stopped his wandering thoughts and sat cross-legged as he felt the Nihility Dev Fme ehe Acceptance Soul.

  The Nihility Dev Fme had indeed been refined, but the most important step had not yet been pleted.

  The evolution of the Fme Mantra!

  'The current level of the Fme Mantra barely reaches the weakest of the High Huang Css Qi Methods. However, the gap between Huang Css and Xuan Css is greater than the sum of the previous three levels bined. I hope the Nihility Dev Fme lend a bit of strength, and I would be grateful to the heavens if it could reach the Xuan Css.'

  Xiao Yan quickly focused his mind and began to slowly circute his Qi Method. The Qi cye started up like an engine as the Fme Mantra operated.

  At this moment, the Nihility Dev Fme ihe Acceptance Soul shed its zy demeanor and became like an enraged bck cat, its fur standing on end as strands of bck fme burst forth from within the Acceptance Soul in an explosive manner.

  Uhe circution of the Fme Mantra, the yellow Qi cye began te with the strands of bck fme! Even the small amount of Bone Chilling Fme present in the Qi cye began te at this time.

  After one plete cycle of cultivation through the Fme Mantra's pathways, all the Dou Qi had almost fully ied into ohe inally yellow Dou Qi had pletely transformed into a deep ink-bck color.

  Moreover, on the surface of this deep ink-bck Dou Qi, one could see tiny bck fmes rising like hairs!

  Ink-bck Dou Qi! A Low Xuan Css Qi Method!

  The Fme Mantra had successfully evolved!!

  Not only that. The Qi cye also underwent a transformation with the successful evolution of the Fme Mantra. Whether it was due to the Nihility Dev Fme or not, the Qi cye became more and more viscous until it finally turned into a liquid!

  'Qi cye liquefa! Dou Master realm!'

  Xiao Yan had only retly broken through to a 9-star Dou Practitioner. He initially thought it would take some time to press the Dou Qi in his Qi cye into liquid and break through to the Dou Master realm. Uedly, when the bck fmes of the Nihility Dev Fme merged during the evolution of his Qi Method, they iently pleted this step for him!

  The pression of the Qi cye was also aplished by the Nihility Dev Fme, thus allowing him to break through directly into the Dou Master realm!

  Xiao Yan slowly opened his eyes, and a flicker of bck fme passed through them in a brief but vivid manner.

  There was no doubt that if he wished to use the Nihility Dev Fme now, he could do so at will.

  However, the power of this bck fme might be far less than that of a true Heavenly Fme.

  Yet, he wasn't worried. The growth rate of the Nihility Dev Fme Seed Fme was much faster than that of a true Heavenly Fme, and he believed that given time, he could certainly foster its growth.

  'Joining the Hall of Souls brought me not just the Seed Fme of the Nihility Dev Fme and the evolution of the Fme Mantra, but also two stages up!' Even Xiao Yan was amazed by his gains this time.

  At the very least, from the perspective of what he had gaihis gamble had paid off for him.

  Risk and opportunity did indeed exist side by side!

  Xiao Yan opened his palm and with a thought, a wisp of bck fme appeared with a whoosh.

  'densing real fire! This is something only a 4th-tier Alchemist or a Dou Spirit could achieve!' Xiao Yan couldn't express how thrilled he was when he saw this ball of bck fme in front of him.

  Although it was just borrowed fire, and he was far from being a 4th-tier alchemist, not even a 3rd-tier one, he couldn't hide the excitement in his heart.

  If he entered an enemy, throwing out this bck fme could likely reduce the oppoo nothingness, leaving not even bones behind.

  With a thud, Xiao Yan didn't hesitate to take out his medial cauldron and pulled out a set of 3rd-tier medial ingredients from his ste ring.

  After throwing the bck fmes into the cauldron and feeding it with Dou Qi as fuel, he began to pour in the medial ingredients while watg the Nihility Bck Fme in the medial cauldron obey his trol.

  'No wonder a Heavenly Fme is the greatest dream of tless alchemists; this speed of refining ingredients is more than twice as fast.'

  Even though this was only the Seed Fme giving Xiao Yan some of its fire, not its true form, the speed of refining the ingredients already left him in shock. Some ingredients that couldn't be melted before were now visibly reduced to ashes by the bck fme.

  Unfortunately, his attempt at alchemy ended in failure. The reason was simple: while using the Nihility Dev Fme did speed up the process, this accelerated refining speed also meant that he couldn't keep up with the rhythm, causing the alchemy process to fail.

  Even though the alchemy attempt failed, Xiao Ya only ohing in his heart at this moment: exhiration!

  He sprang up with a carp flip, ched his fists, and threw a few punches into the air. The whooshing sound of the wind underscored how his strength had increased leaps and bounds from before.

  'Being a Dou Master is indeed worlds apart from being a Dou Practitioner,' Xiao Yan couldn't help but recall the Dou Masters he had defeated despite being in a lower realm. To think that with such physical strength, they still lost. They must have beey weak...

  After advang to the Dou Master realm, the liquid energy that peed every bone and flesh in his body was almost like a transformation, gradually imbuing him with robust strength.

  This was also why Dou Masters could utilize a Dou Qi cloak.

  "Oe Bst!"

  "Fme Splitting Tsunami!"

  "Bck Fme Cloak!"

  Xiao Yan nodded in satisfa as he saw a yer of Dou Qi cloak as thin as cicada wings appear around his body, with tiny fmes dang upon it.

  "From today onwards, I am a true Dou Master!"

  Being a Dou Master meant that he had left the on ranks behind. Although Dou Masters were still sidered a retively lower echelon on the ti, they were undoubtedly much more formidable and higher in status pared to the lowest Dou Practitioners. Most importantly, he was still young. He had plenty of time ahead of him to strive freater heights!

  Xiao Yan picked up the Soul and, whidicated not a Tian Css but a Low Di Css rating. After all, his earlier Tian Css rating was a kind of backdoor entry, part of a Bet-on Agreement with Hun Huzi.

  He licked his lips. Though he had indeed received the Tian Css rating reward from Hun Huzi, he had reached Di Css on his own strength. The Soul Points he earned were definitely not going to be left unused.

  "11060. There are so many Soul Points. I might be able to exge them for something useful."