Chapter 63

Two months later, inside a cave somewhere in the Silver Moon Forest, Huang Xiaolong sat cross-legged, the glow of his battle aura flickering continuously. Suddenly, the space behind him rippled, and a black dragon appeared.

After the black dragon appeared, it flashed and disappeared, then a blue light emerged, and a blue dragon hovered behind Huang Xiaolong.

After two months of relentless practice, Huang Xiaolong finally managed to summon his dual dragon martial souls separately!

That's right, separately!

After two months of intense training in the Silver Moon Forest, Huang Xiaolong's aura had become even stronger than before he left Tianxuan Manor. His battle aura cultivation had advanced from the early stage of the sixth rank to the peak of the early stage.

The moonlight was like water, and the surroundings were silent.

Inside the cave, black and blue lights alternated continuously.

More than an hour later, the black and blue lights disappeared. Huang Xiaolong retracted his dual dragon martial souls into his body, opened his eyes, stood up, and walked out of the cave.

Looking at the tranquil moonlight outside the cave, he saw no sign of the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey. Huang Xiaolong shook his head; this little guy must have run off somewhere while he was practicing.

Huang Xiaolong leaped down from the cave entrance, landed on the ground, and the Asura Blade appeared in his hand. He floated up and swung the blade, and a blade of light, like starlight, rained down continuously, sometimes extremely fierce and roaring, and sometimes so subtle that it was hard to see with the naked eye.

The sound of the Asura's weeping echoed like a ghost in all directions.

After two months of hard training, the power of the Asura's Tears had increased significantly.

At this rate, Huang Xiaolong would be able to perfect the Asura's Tears within half a year.

Just as Huang Xiaolong was practicing the Asura's Tears, the ground suddenly shook violently, "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The intense tremors kept approaching.

Huang Xiaolong turned his head and saw, in the distance, a giant gorilla ten zhang tall chasing a small monkey half a meter tall, heading this way.

The gorilla kept chasing and hitting with its hands, but each time the small monkey would flash and dodge, making the gorilla roar in anger.

Seeing this comical scene, Huang Xiaolong couldn't help but chuckle, "This little guy!"

The small monkey being chased by the giant gorilla was naturally the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey, who had run off somewhere earlier.

Whenever Huang Xiaolong sat down to practice, the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey would run out and return soon after, often with a large creature in pursuit. This little guy had done this many times.

Sometimes, it really gave Huang Xiaolong a headache.

"Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!" From a distance, the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey saw Huang Xiaolong, its eyes lit up with joy, and it waved and called to Huang Xiaolong, clearly saying, "There's work to be done again!"

At that moment, the giant gorilla suddenly slapped down a palm at the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey.

"Boom!" A loud noise echoed, and a huge pit appeared where the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey had been, with rocks flying everywhere. The Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey jumped and rubbed its behind, screeching angrily at the giant gorilla, as it had almost been hit.

Seeing this, Huang Xiaolong shook his head and smiled. He flashed and leaped up, swinging the Asura Blade to attack the giant gorilla, which was now just a few dozen meters away.

Seeing Huang Xiaolong take action, the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey stopped running and joined in, attacking from the side.

This giant gorilla was a beast called an Iron Gorilla, which was not only incredibly strong but also had extremely tough skin, as if it were coated in iron. Ordinary blades and swords would spark when they hit it.

Iron Gorillas were rarely seen, and it was unknown where the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey had encountered this one.

Fortunately, this Iron Gorilla had not yet broken through to the seventh rank and was only at the peak of the late sixth rank. With Huang Xiaolong's Asura Blade, which could cut through iron like butter, it took only a few minutes to slice through the Iron Gorilla's throat.

Blood spurted out, and the Iron Gorilla fell to the ground with a loud thud.

After confirming that the Iron Gorilla was no longer moving, the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey climbed onto the corpse and began to harvest its spoils.

The Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey clawed open the Iron Gorilla's scalp, extracted the beast core, and swallowed it.

It was unknown how the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey could tell, but generally, beasts below the seventh rank rarely formed beast cores. However, every beast the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey provoked and hunted always had a beast core.

After the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey swallowed the Iron Gorilla's beast core, Huang Xiaolong stepped forward, his hands forming claws, and he suddenly sucked in the blood soul energy from the Iron Gorilla's body, which flowed through his meridians into his body.

After a while, all the blood soul energy from the Iron Gorilla's body was absorbed by Huang Xiaolong. He leaped and extended his hands, grabbing at a tree about twenty meters away.

The moonlight around them disappeared, and it instantly became dark.

Two black claw marks appeared.

"Bang!" From a distance of twenty meters, Huang Xiaolong tore off two pieces of bark from the tree, each about half a meter long and half a foot deep. The tree trunk was marked with two black claw marks, and dark, deathly energy radiated from around the marks, causing the leaves of the tree to slowly turn black and yellow.

Seeing the power of the first move of the Asura Ghost Claw, Ten Thousand Ghosts Roaring, Huang Xiaolong nodded in satisfaction.

During these two months of training in the Silver Moon Forest, not only could he summon his dual dragon martial souls separately, but his Asura's Tears, Ten Thousand Ghosts Roaring, the Asura Sutra, and the Yi Jin Jing had all improved significantly.

If he had been training at the academy or in Tianxuan Manor, his progress would never have been this fast.

At this moment, the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey chirped.

"Are you saying you found some treasures in this Iron Gorilla's cave?" After the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey gestured with its hands, Huang Xiaolong asked. The Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey nodded, then turned and beckoned Huang Xiaolong to follow it back in the direction the Iron Gorilla had been chasing it.

After about twenty minutes, the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey led Huang Xiaolong to a dense forest and then into a large cave.

"Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!" Upon reaching the cave, the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey chirped excitedly to Huang Xiaolong and darted inside first, with Huang Xiaolong following closely behind.

As they entered the cave, a faint, unusual fragrance wafted from ahead.

As they went deeper, the fragrance became stronger.

After a while, Huang Xiaolong reached the bottom of the cave. The bottom of the cave was surprisingly vast, covering more than a thousand square meters, with the cave ceiling about thirty to forty meters high. In the middle of the cave bottom, there grew a giant tree that required seven or eight people to encircle it, with branches extending and many roots anchored in the cave ceiling.

Between the leaves of the giant tree, there were points of crystalline light.

Huang Xiaolong stared at the giant tree in front of him, stunned, then overjoyed, hardly believing it: "This, is an Iron Tree?!"

The Iron Tree could produce a peculiar fruit called the Iron Fruit. Those who cultivated battle aura and consumed the Iron Fruit could not only enhance their battle aura but also temper their bodies, strengthening their muscles, bones, and even their internal organs. If one could consume the Iron Fruit for a long time, their entire body would become as tough as iron, just like the Iron Gorilla, making them impervious to ordinary blades and swords.

"Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!" At this moment, the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey flashed up the Iron Tree, picked an Iron Fruit, and gulped it down.

Huang Xiaolong smiled. Sometimes, he really wondered if the Spirit Devouring Purple Monkey had a dog's nose, and an even better one, as it always found rare and exotic fruits within a hundred miles of wherever they went.