Chapter 71: The Fox Borrows the Tiger's Might

  Huoyan Valley is not a deep valley, and its terrain is not low. The entrance is also not like those of real valleys, which only have a few paths.

  Hu Gao was walking on the less crowded Longwang Xiaodao, chasing after a strange beast in the forest for a while before meeting Zhou Longqi, so they didn't meet anyone when entering Huoyan Valley.

  "It seems I've had a burst of good fortune, there's treasure about five miles ahead, possibly the Black Fire Lotus." Hu Gao suddenly received Xiao Wu's transmission and stopped to tell Zhou Longqi.

  Hu Gao wasn't worried that Zhou Longqi would compete with him for the Black Fire Lotus. Although he had only just met this disappointed young master, from some details it could be seen that this guy was absolutely someone who had seen the world and wouldn't take an interest in some trivial small things. Even his coming to Huo Yao Valley was merely to satisfy a little curiosity after being cooped up for a long time.

  "Really? Where? Why can't I feel it?" Zhou Longqi immediately came to life, shouting loudly as he chased after Hu Gao, stretching his neck to look ahead.

  "I really can't feel it at all, Brother Hu Gao, how did you manage to do it?"

  "My Totem is a bit special, with a stronger perception ability." Hu Gao found an excuse to answer, "Going?"

  "Go! Of course I went! Zhou Longqi finally got his hands on the Black Fire Lotus. I told you, my luck isn't bad!"

  When Zhou Longqi heard that Hu Gao's Totem was special, he immediately understood. His own Totem was in the Awakening stage, and the biggest change was that it had a very strong aura. Hu Gao's Totem also awakened with a very strong perception ability, which wasn't hard to understand either. So Zhou Longqi didn't ask any more questions and urged Hu Gao to hurry up.

  This is a three-meter diameter cave with an intriguingly tilted posture, and strangely, the air inside is even fresher than outside.

  Hu Gao hadn't had time to think carefully when Zhou Longqi shouted "Hei Huo Lian, I'm here!" and then directly walked into the cave.

  Hu Gao had no choice but to follow them inside. Xiao Wu had already sensed that there was only one late-stage first-tier demonic beast inside, and with the three of their combat strength, it wouldn't be difficult to deal with.

  The cave is not deep and relatively spacious inside. Zhou Longqi, who was walking in front, quickly figured out the situation inside the cave.

  "Wow! What a big tiger!"

  In the cave lies a grey giant tiger, nearly four meters long. Zhou Longqi saw it and immediately shouted loudly.

  Watts, furious! Hu Gao cursed inwardly at the terrible situation and drew out his Shadowless Sword, having an urge to slash Zhou Longqi to death. The two old men in grey also made preparations for attack, their faces dark with anger.

  This is a Smog Tiger, ordinary Smog Tigers can spit out choking smog. Due to different living environments, the smog spat out by Smog Tigers has different effects. This Smog Tiger in front of us lives in Flame Valley, it might be able to spit fire!

  Seeing the ash-gray tiger jump up in fright, Zhou Longqi showed no fear at all, but instead stared at a green chrysanthemum in front of the ash-gray tiger and shouted loudly: "Wow, be careful, don't trample my chrysanthemum!"

  This is a tranquilizing chrysanthemum, which has the effect of calming the mind and suppressing the totem. It's a poisonous drug. If a warrior mistakenly ingests this poison when awakening his mind and gathering his totem, the awakened mind will fall dormant again, and the totem that was about to be gathered will also disperse. Some warriors use this thing to gamble on their totems. The first awakening can be used for gambling, and it can also be gambled during the Tianxia realm when gathering the second totem.

  This fixed soul chrysanthemum also has an effect on Zhou Longqi now, it can make his awakened totem stable to a certain extent, as for whether he can awaken again, it's hard to say, it depends on whether he is willing to take the risk.

  Also because he was able to get out of his own predicament, Zhou Longqi was so excited.

  Similarly excited is the Smoke Grey Tiger. As previously told by Old Man Huo to Hu Gao, the demonic beasts of Flame Valley have their nature influenced more or less by the fire poison here. Some demonic beasts seek out fierce medicines like Red Tassel Fruit to release it, while others like the Smoke Grey Tiger seek out Ding Lingcao to stabilize and calm its restless soul.

  The chrysanthemum was not yet fully open, and Hu Yin waited here for it.

  Zhou Longqi shouted loudly, clearly indicating his identity as an enemy.

  A loud roar, the smoky tiger pounced on Zhou Longqi, its scarlet mouth open wide, with wisps of yellow smoke about to spew out.

  Damn it! Hu Gao leaned his sword and dodged Zhou Longqi in front of him, preparing to intercept Yan Huitu.

  However, Zhou Longqi suddenly shouted: "Wait a minute, let me!"

  After finishing speaking, Zhou Longqi's body surged with green yuan energy, and his entire body burst out with a powerful aura, as if he was the true king of the hundred beasts in the mountains and forests, while the one in front of him was just a small grey cat.

  The ash-gray tiger let out a low growl, and the momentum of its previous charge slowed down, apparently intimidated by this sudden burst of powerful momentum, looking somewhat bewildered.

  "Charge!" Zhou Longqi took a step forward, his body radiating a fierce aura as he cracked his knuckles. His eyes gleamed with a fierce light, and his entire being seemed to vibrate with energy. If Hu Gao hadn't known better, he would have thought that the person standing before him was a powerful cultivator at the Unity Realm.

  Yanhu Tiger let out a whimper, shrinking its body, and when Zhou Longqi took another step forward, the terrified Yanhu Tiger turned tail and fled, dashing out of the cave and far away from this terrifying atmosphere.

  "Awesome!"

  Hu Gao put away the Shadowless Sword, his heart filled with shock and curiosity. He could feel that this was an aura of dominance emanating from Zhou Longqi, mixed with a strong sense of overbearingness, which ordinary people couldn't perceive, but would cause their souls to suffer a severe impact.

  This Zhou Longqi is absolutely not simple! This should be the aura emitted by his Totem! What exactly is his fourth-stage totem, that it can scare away a late-stage first-tier Smoky Grey Tiger with just its aura?

  Could it be a divine beast? Hu Gao was puzzled in his heart, why didn't his own divine beast contract totem, the Five-clawed Golden Dragon Xiao Wu, have such an aura?

  Hugao suddenly thought of another way to use aura, different from the one he learned from Qihong, which was to borrow the aura of Totem.

  Xiao Wu is still a young dragon, far from growing up, but Hu Gao has the variant Totem Blood Light Snake. When he enters the Unity Realm, he can condense the Blood Light Snake. This ninth-ranked variant Totem role will have what kind of momentum?

  "Of course I'm awesome, who am I!" Zhou Longqi said with a smirk, running over and digging up the entire Dingpao Chrysanthemum.

  "Hu Gao brothers, do you need this fixed chrysanthemum?"

  "What am I coming for? To sell money? If you need it, just take it." Hu Gao said, he knew the effect of Ding An Chu, this thing was useless to himself except for selling money. Zhou Longqi took the initiative to dig up Ding An Chu and asked like this, obviously the other party had a use for it.

  "Then I'll take it!" Zhou Longqi put the Dingpao Chrysanthemum into his spatial ring, recalling how he had just asserted his dominance.

  The feeling of being a late-stage demonic beast that can scare away an eighth-level cultivator is really cool! Zhou Longqi felt that his future prospects were boundless, and at the very least, after walking on the path of Hu Gao, he would be like this.

  The awakening of the Totem made Zhou Longqi unable to summon Yuanli to use his Yuanjue, but his cultivation speed was still there, and it was even faster than that of ordinary warriors. Moreover, after scaring away the Huoyan Tiger earlier, Zhou Longqi suddenly thought of a possibility.

  "Hu Gao brothers, you say that with the aura of Totem added to Body Repair, how would it be? I mean, if I cultivate Body Repair, what would happen?"

  "Do you want to infuse the Totem's aura into your body?" Hu Gao came back to his senses, "I've researched this aspect before, it's like this..."

  As he spoke, Hu Gao drew out the Shadowless Sword, and his aura burst forth. In a flash of lightning, a single sword strike landed on the stone wall beside Zhou Longqi's head. Before the two gray-robed old men could react, Hu Gao had already sheathed his sword.

  The two old men in gray clothes finally reacted. Earlier, they only felt that Hu Gao's body suddenly burst out with a thousand swords, forcing them to hold their breath, and then they watched with wide eyes as Hu Gao stabbed his sword towards Zhou Longqi's head. After understanding Hu Gao's intention, the two old men were already covered in cold sweat on their foreheads.

  This sword has stunned them into inaction!

  "This is the sword move I've been practicing. Did you see it? Ninth stage of the Condensed Shadow Realm, not a single reaction." Hu Gao didn't mind teaching Zhou Longqi this either.

  Because he thinks Zhou Longqi is a very talented martial artist, but for some reason, he can't use his strength in battle. Since the other party asked this way, it's clear that they want to take the path of physical repair, a path that Zhou Longqi thinks can solve the predicament, and Hu Gao doesn't mind being a pioneer, selling him a favor.

  "Awesome!" Zhou Longqi just murmured a sentence, and the light in his eyes became even brighter.

  It turns out that Hugao's body repair method is indeed suitable for himself. It turns out that a strong and powerful body repair can be so fierce!

  At this time, Zhou Longqi had already made a decision about his own future.

  Now, with the help of Totem Awakening's rapid growth in Yuan force, tempering one's physical body is very helpful for walking the path of Body Refining.

  In a year or two, let's see how my own situation will be. If the awakening is successful, I'll ascend to heaven in one step; if the awakening fails, the foundation of my physical body is still there; if the awakening hasn't ended yet, then I'll just take some tonifying and calming medicine!

  In any case, I am different from my father.

  Hu Gao searched around in the cave and found that apart from this stem of Dingpaku Chrysanthemum, there was nothing else of value.

  "Let's leave, there's nothing left."

  After finishing speaking, Hu Gao took the lead and walked out of the cave. He had already seen that Zhou Longqi was grateful to him, but the two old men in gray clothes were very stingy and obviously did not want to use treasures to repay him. Otherwise, with Zhou Longqi's temperament, he would have taken out everything inside the space ring for him to choose from long ago.

  It turns out that Hu Gao misunderstood, Zhou Longqi's space ring was indeed empty.

  "Boss, it's best for you to act alone now. The deeper we go into the Flame Valley, the thicker the flame energy is. If I come out and absorb it, it will be very beneficial to my cultivation..."

  As Hu Gao walked further away, Xiao Wu finally couldn't help but transmit his voice into his mind.

  "Fire energy?" Hu Gao raised an eyebrow, wasn't this the energy contained within the Black Fire Lotus? Was it also present in the air?

  "Right, boss. Although the fire energy in the air can't be directly absorbed into the body, I can do it. If I wasn't afraid of being noticed by others, I could absorb it now."

  "I know, I'll tell them to split up now."

  Hu Gao made a decision, Zhou Longqi was suitable for making friends and traveling together, but when it came to cultivation, Zhou Longqi's nonsense was really too much. Hu Gao needed to calm down and think about his insights and creations, and now Xiao Wu's words made him even more determined to leave.

  No matter what, Xiao Wu's cultivation is still very important. He came to the Flame Valley mainly to help Xiao Wu improve his cultivation, especially after thinking about the use of the Totem's aura just now, he needs to find an opportunity to cultivate a bit.