Eight-Star Da Dou Shi!

Xiao Yang fused his Great Sun Glazed True Fire with the Yin-Yang Dual Flame. While its power had indeed increased, it had also left the balance of yin and yang within him somewhat unstable. This Hellfire Phoenix's Source Fire had arrived at exactly the right time.

But what he needed to do now was quickly take the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill, the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill, and another Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill to raise his cultivation to Nine-Star Da Dou Shi. Then, he would take the Life Devouring Pill and elevate his cultivation to the Peak Dou King.

At that point, the Hellfire Phoenix's Source Beast Fire, together with the Rank 6 Magic Core of the Amethyst Winged Lion King he had obtained before, would become Xiao Yang's greatest aids in breaking through to Dou Emperor.

Only after carefully studying the Life Devouring Pill's Pill Formula did Xiao Yang understand why this pill qualified as a peak seventh-grade medicinal pill.

Leaving aside the side effect of having only three years left to live, if it merely raised someone to the Dou King realm, then pills used at the Dou King level generally ranked only at the fifth grade. How could it possibly deserve to be ranked as a peak seventh-grade pill?

Yet after examining the formula closely, Xiao Yang realized that saying the Life Devouring Pill raised a Da Dou Shi to Dou King was not entirely accurate.

A one-star Dou King was a Dou King, and a Peak Dou King was also a Dou King, but were those two truly the same thing?

More accurately, the Life Devouring Pill burned one's lifespan and ignored factors such as talent, forcibly raising one's cultivation by two major realms!

In other words, a one-star Da Dou Shi who took the Life Devouring Pill could rise to a one-star Dou King. But if a Nine-Star Da Dou Shi took it, their cultivation could directly rise to a Nine-Star Dou King!

And that was equivalent to reducing the difficulty of advancing through the Dou King realm to that of the Da Dou Shi realm!

Moreover, once one advanced to Dou Emperor, the Life Devouring Pill's effects would be broken.

And was it really difficult for a Peak Dou King powerhouse to advance to Dou Emperor within three years?

No. Quite the opposite—advancing from Peak Dou King to Dou Emperor within three years was an entirely normal pace.

Between life and death lay immense terror, but also immense opportunity! Only when a blade was pressed to one's throat would one truly risk everything to cultivate.

Many times, if you did not force yourself, you would never know just how far you could go.

Only by being driven into desperate circumstances could one be reborn. Without destruction, there could be no establishment. One had to burn one's boats. The alchemist who created the Life Devouring Pill might have been cold-blooded, but he truly understood human laziness. He was indeed a genius and an eccentric of his generation.

Thus, the moment Xiao Yang truly understood the Life Devouring Pill's effects, he made up his mind completely. Once this school year ended and the plot was about to begin, he would return home. First, he would raise Old Dad's cultivation to Nine-Star Da Dou Shi. Then he would force-feed Old Dad the Life Devouring Pill!

As for having only three years left to live, heh. Three years after the plot began, Old Dad would be captured by the Soul Hall anyway.

Xiao Yang would not entrust Old Dad's life and death to Soul Emperor's kindness.

A novel was a novel, and reality was reality. This time, Xiao Yang had made up his mind. He absolutely could not keep indulging this Old Dad of his.

Because he and his older brother Xiao Yan had appeared one after another, Old Dad felt that the Xiao Family's future was secure and its prosperity was just around the corner. As a result, he had grown noticeably lax even in his cultivation.

Other families had children living off their parents. He was doing the opposite—living off his sons.

Xiao Yang had not originally intended to be so strict with Old Dad. After all, once he and his older brother both advanced to Dou Di, their dim-witted Old Dad could effortlessly coast all the way to Nine Star Dou Sheng.

If he wanted to be lazy, then let him be lazy. Xiao Yang owed him the debt of being born and raised in this life, so he could spoil him if he wished.

But Xiao Yang had come to his senses now. Something was not right. Even if he and Xiao Yan were transmigrators blessed with exceptional talent, his eldest and second brothers were not lacking in talent either! They had already become four- or five-star Dou Shi in their twenties.

And that was considering that after breaking through to Dou Zhe, his eldest and second brothers had at most cultivated Yellow Rank high-grade techniques.

His second brother, Xiao Li, in particular—Lightning Attribute techniques were not easy to find.

To put it bluntly, the Xiao Family simply lacked resources, and that had delayed the two brothers' talents.

Going by that calculation, they should have reached three- or four-star Dou Zhe by the age of eighteen at the latest.

That level of talent would not be considered poor even in Jia Nan Academy's Outer Courtyard.

So the question was, if his eldest and second brothers' talents were not bad, then how bad could Old Dad's talent possibly be? It could not be that it all came from their mother, could it? That was clearly unrealistic.

So the case was solved. It was purely because Old Dad had become far too content with lying flat and wasting away after having two genius sons!

It was entirely Xiao Yang and Xiao Yan's fault for spoiling him!

So, Old Dad, work hard! Your good days are about to end!

The edge of a treasured sword comes from grinding; the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from bitter cold!

Meanwhile, far away in Wutan City, Xiao Zhan suddenly felt a chill run down his spine and sneezed several times in succession. "Strange. Why do I feel cold in the middle of summer?"

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Xiao Yang took out the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill.

After his battle against the two teams of the Black White Twin Devils, Xiao Yang had successfully broken through after the battle, stepping into the realm of a five-star Da Dou Shi.

After taking this Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill, he would become an Eight-Star Da Dou Shi.

Once he had fully adapted to the strength of an Eight-Star Da Dou Shi after some time, he could take a second Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill. At that time, his cultivation would reach Nine-Star Da Dou Shi!

At the same time, it would mean that the moment had arrived for Xiao Yang to take the Life Devouring Pill and break through to Nine-Star Dou King!

A Peak Dou King at just over nine years old and not yet ten—allowing another year to break through to Dou Emperor, Xiao Yang would become a genuine Dou Emperor powerhouse at just over ten years old, not yet eleven!

Even Xiao Xuan and Gu Yuan in their younger days might not have been able to achieve such a rate of advancement!

If he took another Imperial Zenith Pill, then that would be it—Three-Star Dou Emperor. He would be at the same level as Yun Yun!

After calming his somewhat surging emotions, Xiao Yang took out the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill the system had awarded him earlier.

The azure pill was encircled by three patterns of black, white, and gold, seamlessly intertwined as though formed by nature itself!

He swallowed the pill in one mouthful. The Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill melted as soon as it entered his mouth, swiftly transforming into three streams of pure energy, each stronger than the last. Like rushing rivers, they surged down his throat before roaring into his meridians.

Of the three streams of energy, one was cold and deathly still, one overflowed with vitality, and the final one was vast and forceful, like the blazing midday sun—fiercely hot beyond compare.

Xiao Yang did not dare slack off. His hand seals shifted as he activated the Great Sun Glazed Art, guiding the three streams of energy along the cultivation route and sending them into rapid circulation!

The Great Sun Glazed Art truly deserved its title as a Heaven-Tier Cultivation Technique. With ease, it suppressed the three streams of energy, which were overwhelmingly powerful at Xiao Yang's current level, and refined them into obedience.

Of the three streams, the icy, deathly energy and the vast, masculine energy were opposed to each other, yet the vibrant force of life mediated between them. They flowed along the cultivation route, passed through Xiao Yang's meridians, and finally converged within his dantian!

The vast and surging energy was refined without end. Before he knew it, an entire night had quietly passed.

It was not until the following morning, when the dawn light streamed into the room, that Xiao Yang slowly opened his eyes!