The sound of huge waterfalls resounded day after day in the valley, year after year, and the moist water vapor made the small valley almost completely isolate the coolness of the outside world.
Under the waterfall that was rushing like a silver dragon, the boy with his upper body was gritting his teeth, wielding his bare hands and slashing the torrents in front of him. Every time he swung his palm, it would splash water all over the sky.
His feet were like the rhizomes of a shrub, sticking tightly to the wooden stake. The deep red soul power of Liu Tao's body surface appeared and appeared faintly. Whenever the water hit his body, there was always a faint mist rising.
If the palm wants to slash into the water, it must take a lot of effort. The boy who has been on the wooden stake for seven days now, every time he waves his palm, the muscles on his arms will feel a burst of sore and numbness.
Gripping his teeth, Liu Tao's heels gradually became weak. Finally, in the next slash, the fierce water flow finally burst into the lake below, who was approaching his limit with a bang.
"Puff." Liu Tao spit out of the lake surface, shook his dizzy head, then swam his almost numb body, and swam to the shore with difficulty. After reaching the shore, his whole body collapsed softly on the cold stone surface. The numb muscles made him not want to move at all.
"Come on, today's food." A hare that was roasted fragrantly came from behind and raised it in front of Liu Tao.
After opening his eyes and sniffing the fragrance deep, Liu Tao's stomach suddenly roared, moved his body with difficulty, leaning against the boulder, then took the roasted hare and started eating it voraciously.
Looking at Liu Tao's appearance, Old Liu smiled, his eyes swept across the ten wooden stakes under the waterfall, and said with a smile: "It's not bad. It's only seven days, and I can hold on to the third stake for so long."
With food in his mouth, Liu Tao had to mumble a few vaguely.
"There are seven days left, I don't know if you can complete the remaining wooden stakes." Sitting beside Liu Tao, Old Liu said casually.
After a slight moment, Liu Tao's eyes slowly narrowed, swallowed the food in his mouth hard, and sneered: "Yes, there are seven days left, and it's time to end all this."
"According to this process, you probably will have half a month to complete the remaining wooden stakes. It seems that you have to speed up the progress a little more." After touching your chin, Old Liu smiled faintly.
"How to speed up?" Hearing this, Xiao Liutao blinked in confusion. Now his cultivation speed is already considered high-speed. Can he still be improved?
"It can indeed be accelerated, but... using this thing will cause a lot of hardship." Mr. Liu confessed.
"Have I suffered less during this period?" Liu Tao rolled his eyes and curled his lips.
"Haha, too..." Nodded with a smile, Old Liu took out Liu Tao's mustard seed, and then slowly took out more than ten transparent jade bottles from it. The jade bottle was filled with a black liquid, which looked as sticky as black blood.
"What is this?" Liu Tao asked curiously staring at the strange thing.
"Burning!" Mr. Liu picked up a jade bottle, shook it gently, and smiled and said, "This is what I collected from some alchemists back then, and it was hidden in a secret place in the War Magician Canyon. I took some time to check it out these days, but I didn't expect it to be still there. Now it's put in your mustard seeds. This thing should be a high-grade Xuan-level elixir."
"Magic high-quality?" Liu Tao raised his eyebrows. It was difficult for him to see this level of pill with his own eyes.
"What's the effect of this thing?"
"This 'burning' is only effective for the soul masters who practice fighting soul power. However, for the war magician or puppet master practitioners, it is undoubtedly equivalent to poison. Applying it on the body can accelerate the consumption of the soul power in the body, and at the same time, it can also accelerate regeneration. In the stalemate between consumption and regeneration, your strength will gradually increase." Old Liu smiled, with a little cunning in his eyes: "But don't be too happy too early. I said that if you want to use it to increase the speed of cultivation, you must suffer a lot of bitter fruit."
"What bitter fruit?" Looking at Mr. Liu's expression, Liu Tao was also a little nervous and asked cautiously.
"Stretch your hand out." Old Liu smiled and pulled out Liu Tao's arm, then the jade bottle tilted slightly, and a drop of black liquid dripped on Liu Tao's arm.
"Hiss..." As soon as the black liquid was applied, Liu Tao was stunned at first, then took a sudden breath of cold air. On his forehead, cold sweat suddenly spread, gritted his teeth and his arms kept trembling.
In Liu Tao's perception, the black liquid dripping on his arm was like a ball of flame, constantly releasing the scorching temperature and the burning feeling was like placing his arm on the burning hot charcoal.
As if he had expected Liu Tao to react like this, Old Liu smiled faintly, took out a piece of warm and soft milky white jade piece from the mustard seeds again, and then slowly scraped the drop of black liquid, so that the area it covered gradually expanded a lot.
As the area of black liquid expanded, Liu Tao's arms trembled even harder, and blue veins swayed on his arms, looking quite terrifying.
The black liquid adhered to Liu Tao's skin surface, and a faint warm breath continued to emit, and Liu Tao's arms became more and more red.
This state lasted for more than ten minutes before slowly fading away.
After the hot feeling on his arms completely faded, Liu Tao breathed a lot of relief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked at the little jade bottles in front of him again, there was obviously a little more fear in his pupils.
"This thing... is so scary." Liu Tao patted his arms, which gradually returned to normal temperature with lingering fear. He stared at Mr. Liu and said bitterly, "Don't you really need to use this thing to practice, right?"
"See, what changes have happened to the fighting soul power flowing on your arms?" Without answering his question, Old Liu smiled.
After shrugging, Liu Tao had to close his eyes as he spoke, and his mind quickly moved to the meridians on his arm. After a little detection of his mind, he was somewhat shocked to find that the fighting soul power in the meridians on his left arm was not only much stronger than the fighting soul power flowing in other meridians, but also the energy contained in the fighting soul power here seemed to be slightly stronger than other places.
With a little surprise, Liu Tao slowly opened his eyes and looked at Old Liu who was smiling beside him. After a little silent, he gritted his teeth and said, "Come on, fight!"
Seeing Liu Tao gritting his teeth and nodding, the smile on Old Liu's face became even more intense. He had long expected that this guy would definitely not be able to withstand the temptation to quickly improve his strength brought by "burning".
"Let's go down, apply your whole body once a day in the future. Your cultivation speed should be twice as high." After waved his hand, Old Liu smiled.
Grinning, Liu Tao stuffed his clothes into his mouth, then clutched the cracks on the rocks beside him, and a vague sound came out of his mouth: "Come on!"
Looking at Liu Tao's appearance as if he was facing a great enemy, Old Liu shook his head helplessly. The jade bottle tilted, and the black liquid suddenly flowed out... "Ah..." The shrill and tragic howling suddenly echoed in the valley again.