Nine Years Old, a Dou Zhe!

"Dou Zhe, One Star!"

The four gleaming golden characters on the pitch-black Testing Magic Stone Stele were so dazzling that Xiao Ying, the Xiao Family Second Elder personally in charge of the test, nearly bulged his eyes out of their sockets. He wondered if he was dreaming.

Silence. The entire plaza was silent!

After a brief moment of stunned daze, everyone present fixed their vacant gazes on the Black Stone Stele glowing with golden light.

"Bang!" On the platform, the current Xiao Family Patriarch, Xiao Zhan, was so agitated that he failed to control the Dou Qi in his body. The jade teacup in his hand exploded into powder, and the red sandalwood chair beneath him was blasted into splinters as well.

On the platform, Second Elder Xiao Ying looked at the tiny boy standing beside the Testing Stone Stele. The boy had a calm, indifferent expression and both hands in his pockets. For no apparent reason, a trace of fear flashed through Xiao Ying's heart. He then shouted, "Xiao Yang, Dou Zhe, One Star!"

As the Second Elder's voice rang out, the entire Xiao Family's Testing Plaza erupted into discussion.

Xiao Yang, who had just been on the platform, had somehow already leaped down and was walking toward the back of the crowd.

Passing through the crowd, the tiny child went straight to the side of a teenage boy and girl. "Big Brother, Sister Xun Er."

The girl wore a Green Dress and Plain Skirt, elegant and noble like a secluded orchid in a quiet valley.

The black-clad teenager beside her looked rather dejected, but he still forced a smile. "Xiao Yang, well done."

The girl in green reached out and rubbed the child's head. "Not bad, Xiao Yang. A nine-year-old One-Star Dou Zhe. With talent like that, you're even stronger than Brother Xiao Yan was back then!"

Xiao Yang nodded, but did not say anything more.

Xun Er did not mind. She had long since grown accustomed to Xiao Yang's taciturn nature.

On the contrary, she took endless pleasure in teasing Xiao Yang into speaking.

In Xun Er's eyes, Xiao Yang was always wearing a serious expression on his slightly chubby, baby-faced cheeks. He was simply too cute.

Xiao Yang walked to the shade of a nearby tree and sat down, leaning against its trunk. To others, he appeared to be resting with his eyes closed, but in truth, Xiao Yang was communicating with his system.

That was right. Xiao Yang possessed a system, and this was proof that he was a transmigrator.

There was no need to mention Xiao Yang's previous life. In this life, he had transmigrated into the world of Battle Through the Heavens and become Xiao Yan's younger brother.

The original story had stated that when Xiao Yan was three years old, the Xiao Family's only Dou Wang expert, Xiao Yan's grandfather Xiao Lin, passed away.

Because of that, the Xiao Family moved from the capital of the Jia Ma Empire back to Wutan City.

Then, when Xiao Yan was four years old, Xiao Yan's mother passed away.

The original story never mentioned the reason for Xiao Yan's mother's death. But in this world, there was only one reason for both Xiao Yan and Xiao Yang's mother to die—difficult childbirth!

Xiao Yang had been transmigrated into the womb. Or, it could be said that he had retained his memories and been reincarnated.

The point in time was shortly before Xiao Lin's death.

At the time, Xiao Yan was three years old, and his mother had become pregnant again. Not long afterward, Xiao Lin went out and seemed to encounter a powerful enemy. After a fierce battle, his old injuries flared up, and he died from his grievous wounds.

Before his death, he instructed Xiao Zhan to lead the Xiao Family out of the capital and return to their ancestral home in Wutan City.

On the way back to Wutan City, the Xiao Family was attacked. Xiao Yan and Xiao Yang's mother suffered internal injuries, and after giving birth to Xiao Yang with great difficulty, she passed away.

Thus, Xiao Yang was exactly four years younger than Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yang was nine years old this year. In other words, Xiao Yan was already thirteen.

In other words, Xiao Yan had already been drained of his Dou Qi by Yao Lao for more than a year. The halo of genius had faded, and he had fallen from the altar.

However, Xiao Yang had no interest in paying attention to Xiao Yan at this moment.

All his attention was focused on his Novice Gift Pack.

From the day his system awakened, Xiao Yang had learned the condition for activating it: condensing a Dou Qi Cyclone and officially becoming a Dou Zhe.

The age at which one became a Dou Zhe determined the quality of the Novice Gift Pack received.

Becoming a Dou Zhe at eighteen meant receiving the lowest-quality Novice Gift Pack.

Becoming a Dou Zhe at fifteen guaranteed an Earth Tier Technique and its corresponding Dou Technique.

Becoming a Dou Zhe at twelve meant receiving a Heaven-Tier Cultivation Technique and its corresponding Dou Technique.

Now, after cultivating bitterly day and night, Xiao Yang had finally succeeded. At nine years old, he had officially become a Dou Zhe.

This not only broke Wutan City's record, but more importantly, it meant that Xiao Yang's Novice Gift Pack was guaranteed to contain a Heaven-Tier Cultivation Technique and Dou Technique!

Filled with anticipation, Xiao Yang rubbed his hands together and opened the system gift pack. In an instant, the entire space of his sea of consciousness was filled with dazzling golden light.

A dark-gold scroll appeared before Xiao Yang.

With a thought from Xiao Yang, the scroll slowly unfurled, and a line of text gradually emerged: Vajra Glazed Body, Heavenly Low-Level Dou Technique.

The body transforms into a vajra. Nothing can withstand its edge, and nothing can resist its might. When this technique is cultivated to perfection, the body becomes a Vajra Glazed Body, measuring nine zhang and nine chi—the ultimate state. Its golden light illuminates the world; its fists can shatter the heavens, and its feet can split the earth!

It contained the corresponding Heavenly Low-Level Technique, the Great Sun Glazed Art. It condensed Great Sun True Fire and refined a glazed golden body. The body was like vajra, and the heart like glazed crystal—flawless and immaculate!

Xiao Yang could not help but freeze for a moment. The Vajra Glazed Body had indeed appeared in the original story. It had emerged at a Space Trading Fair in the later stages and was created by the Glazed Saint a thousand years ago.

However, the corresponding Heavenly Low-Level Technique, the Great Sun Glazed Art, had never appeared. It seemed that it had been lost.

Night descended, and stars speckled the sky.

Xiao Yang carefully read through the Great Sun Glazed Art in his hands.

Heaven-Tier Cultivation Techniques were naturally incomparably powerful, but cultivating them was not an easy task.

After breaking through to the Dou Zhe realm, everyone gained the qualification to cultivate a technique. Once they cultivated one, the colorless, milky-white Dou Qi in their bodies would transform into Dou Qi with the attribute corresponding to the technique.

To successfully convert the attribute of one's technique-based Dou Qi, one had to circulate the Dou Qi within the body according to the technique's cultivation route and complete one full cycle.

Although the higher the grade of the technique first cultivated, the greater the benefits to the cultivator,

the higher the technique's grade, the more complicated its circulation route would be. The amount of Dou Qi required to complete the first cycle would also be greater.

Generally speaking, a Dou Zhe who had just condensed a Dou Qi Cyclone would have only enough Dou Qi to complete one cycle of a low-level Earth Tier Technique at most.

This could be seen from the fact that even Xun Er, the little princess of the Gu Clan, had initially cultivated only a High Profound Rank Technique.

As for Xiao Yan, the protagonist, he did not truly come into contact with a Heaven-Tier Cultivation Technique until he reached the Dou Zun level.

However, everyone knew that anything produced by the system was bound to be excellent, so there was naturally a way to make up for this.

It was just that Xiao Yang would have to suffer a little.