BTTH: Breaking The Simulation

Xiao Feng's gaze swept around the room, and he quickly locked onto the only wooden shelf that hadn't collapsed.

On the shelf, there were only four items: a black wooden box and three white jade pill bottles.

Seeing this, a trace of excitement flashed in Xiao Feng's eyes. However, instead of recklessly approaching, he controlled two beast corpse puppets to open the black wooden box and the white jade pill bottles.

"Crack!"

Perhaps due to the immense strength of the beast corpse puppets, or maybe because the jade bottles weren't very sturdy, one of the white jade bottles directly broke in two, and a blood-red pill rolled out.

Xiao Feng raised his eyebrows slightly upon seeing this, revealing a contemplative expression.

If Xiao Feng remembered correctly, in the original story, Xiao Li only found two Life-Devouring Pills and their formula.

But now, Xiao Feng saw three white jade pill bottles, leaving two possibilities.

The first possibility was that one of the pills inside the three bottles wasn't a Life-Devouring Pill.

The second possibility was that one of the bottles would break in a few years, damaging the pill inside. This would explain why, by the time Xiao Li stumbled upon this place, only two Life-Devouring Pills remained.

Under Xiao Feng's control, the beast corpse puppets soon emptied the scroll from the wooden box and the pills from the other two bottles.

Xiao Feng opened the scroll and found that, as expected, it recorded the formula for the Life-Devouring Pill.

After staring at the three identical Life-Devouring Pills for a while, Xiao Feng concluded that the second possibility was more likely.

Which was good. The two remaining Life-Devouring Pills could be given to Little Doctor Immortal and Qing Lin.

As for whether they would face lifespan issues after taking the Life-Devouring Pills, Xiao Feng wasn't concerned at all.

At their cultivation speed, breaking through from Dou King to Dou Emperor within three years was easy, not to mention reaching the Dou Ancestor realm.

"Woohoo, time to take off!"

Xiao Feng secretly cheered and immediately sat down cross-legged, swallowing one of the Life-Devouring Pills.

"Rumble…"

As the pill entered his stomach, Xiao Feng felt his Dou Qi surge. The pill's domineering power was like fire, burning his lifespan as fuel to enhance his cultivation wildly.

In less than half an hour, Xiao Feng broke through to the two-star Dou Spirit stage, his advancement showing no sign of slowing as he rapidly approached the three-star Dou Spirit realm.

Four-star, five-star, six-star Dou Spirit…

After several days of hard cultivation, the last trace of the Life-Devouring Pill's power was finally exhausted, and Xiao Feng's strength soared from two-star Dou Grandmaster to one-star Dou King.

Feeling the boundless Dou Qi within, Xiao Feng slowly opened his eyes, revealing a satisfied smile.

Xiao Feng took out a glazed mirror and looked at his reflection. His once-black hair had turned white. He smirked and said, "Yo, not bad. He still looks pretty handsome!"

Although his hair had turned white, it wasn't the kind of white associated with the elderly. Instead, it resembled the striking white hair of Wei Zhuang, adding a mysterious charm to his appearance.

Xiao Feng stroked his chin, thinking to himself, "I didn't expect to find the Life-Devouring Pill so quickly. Little Doctor Immortal and the others probably haven't broken through to Dou Grandmaster yet. I'll spend another half month out here training and getting used to my increased power before heading back."

...

Several days later, deep in the Magic Beast Mountain Range

"Rumble…"

Amidst the earth-shaking roar, a massive Golden Phoenix-Tailed Eagle, over fifty meters long with a wingspan of more than one hundred meters, was forcefully slain by Xiao Feng in his Empire Giant form.

This sixth-tier Golden Phoenix-Tailed Eagle was one of the overlords of the Magic Beast Mountain Range. Its entire body was covered in dark golden feathers, and its tail resembled that of a peacock. It was said to possess a trace of the ancient Phoenix bloodline.

"Boom!!!"

The enormous body of the Golden Phoenix-Tailed Eagle crashed to the ground, shaking the area within a few hundred meters.

After dealing with the eagle, Xiao Feng dispelled his Empire Giant form and felt that he still had about sixty per cent of his Dou Qi left, nodding in satisfaction.

With the strength of the Empire Giant, which rivalled a three-star Dou Ancestor, he could have instantly killed the Golden Phoenix-Tailed Eagle.

However, Xiao Feng wanted to turn the eagle's corpse into a new flying corpse puppet, so he needed to preserve its body.

Thus, while fighting the eagle, the Empire Giant didn't use any grand attacks like Windrage Dragonflame, instead crushing it to death with brute force.

Based on the amount of Dou Qi consumed during the fight, Xiao Feng estimated that, with his current one-star DOu King strength, he could maintain the Empire Giant form in full combat for about ten minutes.

Though ten minutes wasn't long, it was more than enough for Xiao Feng to wipe out any opponents below the Dou Ancestor level.

"Rustle, rustle..."

Under Xiao Feng's control, nearly a hundred corpse-animating gu insects crawled into the Golden Phoenix-Tailed Eagle's body through its mouth.

Usually, just one gu insect would be enough to control a corpse puppet.

However, the body of a magical beast was much larger than that of a human, so controlling it with a single insect wouldn't work. The larger the magical beast's body, the more corpse-animating gu insects were needed.

Soon, the lifeless Golden Phoenix-Tailed Eagle stood up again under the control of the gu insects. It then spread its enormous wings and soared into the sky, flying thousands of meters in the blink of an eye.

Though the flying corpse puppet's power was far inferior to when it was alive, its speed was comparable to that of a Dou Emperor, much faster than Xiao Feng could fly on his own.

After testing the eagle's performance, Xiao Feng stored it in his spatial ring and found a secluded cave to hide in.

At this moment, there were less than ten minutes left on the simulation countdown, so Xiao Feng immediately opened his character status panel:

Name: Xiao Feng

Cultivation: One-star Dou-King

Bloodline: Empire Giant

Domain: God of Slaughter Domain

Spirit Bone: 100,000-year Mirror Demon Spider Right Leg Bone (Mirror)

Abilities: Telepathy, Future Prediction

Technique: Nine Transformations of the Swirling Dragon (Third Transformation)

Battle Skills: Dugu Nine Swords, Azure Sea Rising, Ambidextrous Combat Technique, Jingniao Sword Technique, Dragon Subduing Palm, Tempest Rending Dance, Phantom Step, Lion Mountain Strike, Gale Step

Merit Points: 156,827

Simulation Attempts: 0 (Countdown: 6 minutes)

Not only did Xiao Feng's strength increase dramatically compared to the last simulation, but his merit points also surged by tens of thousands.

The reason for this rapid merit increase was that Xiao Feng earned merit by hunting magical beasts.

For example, after killing the Golden Phoenix-Tailed Eagle, it dropped over 110,000 merit points.

After all, it wasn't uncommon for a beast overlord like the eagle to occasionally destroy human villages, so the merit dropped was naturally significant.

(End of Chapter)

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