Taiyi Dao Fruit

"Wang!"

In the midst of ice and snow, a bark echoed; Jiang Li flew toward the sound and saw a large cauldron standing in a pit on the ground, with a red Big Dog squatting beside it.

Lifting its head, it shook its skull, and the string of Jade Talismans around its neck glimmered.

Naturally, the Big Dog was none other than Xiao Tian.

As for the Jade Talismans around its neck, they were the spoils of the battle—Dao Fruits.

Although Su Nu had been cast into a spatial fissure, and Guangli Bodhisattva had fled, the rest of the enemies weren't so lucky. At the time, there had been no chance to collect these spoils and the Dao Fruits hadn't been processed, so their corpses had just been allowed to fall. However, Jiang Li had not forgotten about these spoils.

He had simply delegated the retrieval work to Xiao Tian.

"Well done."

Jiang Li landed on the ground, voraciously rubbing the dog's head while taking the chain of over a dozen Jade Talismans.

This string of Jade Talismans mainly consisted of Top Five Grade Dao Fruits; the Prodigious Number of Lower Four Grades Dao Fruits were temporarily residing in Xiao Tian's belly.

Jiang Li sensed them one by one; the Dao Fruits of the nine Arhats were all there, including Yun Jiuye's [Heavenly Immortal·Bai Yunzi], Jiang Biehe's [Disciple Hui An, Mu Zha], and [Prince Ganlu, Jin Zha].

Xiao Tian held its head high, enjoying the head rubbing, and even squinted its eyes.

It didn't matter whether the head rub felt good; what mattered was that its master thought it felt good, so it had to act like it felt good, or else it might really become uncomfortable.

Xiao Tian had learned from experience with all three sides.

"Well done, your reward is a Fourth Grade Dao Fruit."

While enjoying the head rubs, Xiao Tian abruptly opened its eyes, unwittingly opening its mouth wide.

A Fourth Grade Dao Fruit?

Without giving it more time to think, Jiang Li had already gently raised his hand, and in the palm appeared a phantom of a slender white hound.

[Dao Fruit: Howling Celestial Dog]

[Category: Demon]

[Fitting Conditions: Dog species]

[Promotion Ceremony: Become Jiang Li's dog]

[Divine Skills: True Monarch Daoist Soldier, Ten Thousand Miles Tracking, Sharp Teeth and Fierce Blade, Invisible]

[True Monarch Daoist Soldier: True Monarch Qingyuan Miaodao's Daoist Soldier; Power in sync with the True Monarch, Physical Body strengthens with the True Monarch's refinement, and can also receive Power augmentation from the True Monarch]

[Ten Thousand Miles Tracking: Wuji over heaven and earth, tracking over ten thousand miles. Can track the target through their Qi Mechanism, without being confined to person or object]

[Sharp Teeth and Fierce Blade: The Celestial Dog cultivated to be slender as a waisted serpent, shape like a white elephant, and menacing like an owl; Copper head and iron neck are hard to parry, meeting its fierce blade even bones will dissipate. Sharp teeth comparable to Divine Weapon, can break through various indestructible]

[Invisible: Hide and vanish, coming and going without a trace]

The Howling Celestial Dog's attached Dao Fruit also had its information, and if one were to be serious, this dog's Power was entirely capable of reaching the fourth rank.

It couldn't be helped; after all, it was the Daoist Soldier of Erlang God.

A Daoist Soldier is a special kind of Magic Treasure, whose upper limit of strength depends on its master. The stronger the master, the higher the Soldier's Power naturally rises.

The Howling Celestial Dog itself had a quite notable battle record, having once bitten the Great Sage Equalling Heaven's calf, tripping him, and had also bitten off one of the heads of the Nine-headed Insect. During the battle for deification, it had also taken advantage of Zhao Gongming's unguarded moment to bite his neck, forcing him to flee on a tiger.

Of course, the above deeds were mostly ambushes; this dog was quite dishonorable in battle, mostly cooperating with its master for surprise attacks, focusing on striking when least expected.

However, its lethality was still strong, especially those sharp teeth, which had injured Sun Monkey and severely wounded Zhao Xuantan.

The former had already stealthily consumed Peaches and immortal pills, cultivating a Vajra Unbreakable Body, and the latter, although not having an Indestructible Body, had a foundation not weaker than others.

After Xiao Tian received this Dao Fruit, whenever Jiang Li fought against someone, he could let others experience the same treatment as the Great Sage.

"Come."

Jiang Li pressed with the back of his hand, and the white hound's phantom flew into Xiao Tian's head, the Invisible yet substantial Innate Qi also pouring into Xiao Tian along with the fusion of the Dao Fruit.

"Wang!"

Xiao Tian's red eyes widened, feeling an unprecedented sense of power suffusing its body. The Dao Fruit, drawing upon the Innate Qi, was refining it.

The Dao Fruit was turning it into a dog-shaped Magic Treasure, to become an attached object like the Great Circle Sword.

'Damn it, won't I be unable to hide my signal sending to the female master from my owner?' thought the Big Dog, alarmed.

But Jiang Li narrowed his eyes.

As a Daoist Soldier, especially as a Howling Celestial Dog, Jiang Li could be privy to every bit of its inner thoughts, should he choose to.

So, it was exposed.

'You traitor,' Jiang Li felt the urge to slay the dog.

It was totally unexpected that Xiao Tian would start playing both sides again, secretly becoming Tianxuan's dog in the background.

The sudden surge of killing intent from the master made Xiao Tian shudder. It looked at Jiang Li with a pair of clear, innocent dog eyes, as if displaying a kind of pure stupidity, hoping the master would recognize its innocence.

It was too late though; this servant had been blackened by association and had been assimilated by Jiang Li.

Confronted with those feigned innocent eyes, Jiang Li let out a cold chuckle, causing Xiao Tian's fur to bristle.

"Wang wang wang (That shorty seems to have run into urgent business)!"

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Tian's nose twitched, and the newly acquired Divine Skill helped it detect Yin Tulong on the move. It immediately stuck out its left paw, pointing at the sky and barking repeatedly.

Jiang Li immediately received Xiao Tian's mental note. After dispensing the Howling Celestial Dog Dao Fruit, he no longer needed to use his Great Grandmaster wisdom to decipher Xiao Tian's body language and could directly grasp the meaning.

"Yin Tulong is flying back to Yuxu Temple?"

Jiang Li's Third Eye flashed as he locked onto Yin Tulong's figure. "Has something happened to Yuxu Temple?"