Sign In Before the Magic Stone Tablet, Medicine Canon!

"Xiao Yan, Dou Qi: Third Segment! Grade: Low!"

At the center of Xiao Family Plaza stood an enormous black stone monument—the testing Magic Stone Tablet.

At that moment, atop the raised wooden platform before the testing Magic Stone Tablet, the massive black monument suddenly shone brightly. Several large golden characters appeared upon its surface.

Beside the testing Magic Stone Tablet, a middle-aged man glanced at the information displayed on it and announced it in an indifferent tone.

The moment the middle-aged man's words left his mouth, a wave of mocking commotion rose from the packed plaza, just as expected.

"Third Segment? Heh heh, just as I thought. This 'genius' has spent another year standing still!"

"Ah, this piece of trash has completely disgraced the family."

"If the clan leader weren't his father, trash like him would have been driven out of the family long ago and left to fend for himself. How could he still have the chance to freeload in the family?"

"Sigh, how did that talented youth, once renowned throughout Wutan City, end up in such a sorry state?"

"Who knows? Maybe he did something shameful and incurred the wrath of the gods."

Xiao Yan began cultivating Dou Qi at the age of four. At ten, he possessed Nine-Segment Dou Qi. At eleven, he broke through to the tenth segment of Dou Qi, successfully condensed a Dou Qi Vortex, and became a Dou Zhe.

However, not long after Xiao Yan became a Dou Zhe, the Dou Qi within his body began to vanish strangely. Even the Dou Qi Vortex he had painstakingly cultivated over more than a decade disappeared overnight.

Moreover, as time passed, the Dou Qi within his body grew less and less.

The result of his vanishing Dou Qi was that Xiao Yan's strength continuously regressed, leaving him with only Third Segment Dou Qi.

Xiao Yan walked down from the wooden platform. His eyes swept over the surrounding crowd before he turned away dejectedly and quietly returned to the back row of the line. His lonely figure seemed utterly out of place amid the world around him.

Just as Xiao Chen and Xiao Xun'er entered the plaza, the loud announcement came from its center, followed by all manner of mocking and jeering.

Xiao Chen looked at the somewhat lonely, dejected figure and walked toward him. Seeing this, Xiao Xun'er followed closely at his side.

"Little Yan!" Xiao Chen called out when he reached Xiao Yan.

"Brother Chen!" Xiao Yan replied as he looked at Xiao Chen, who had come to stand beside him.

"Gold will always shine eventually. Little Yan, do you believe in fortuitous opportunities?"

Xiao Chen walked up beside Xiao Yan, stretched out a hand, and patted him on the shoulder in consolation.

Fortuitous opportunities?

The Dou Qi Continent was vast, and many unknown recluses lived in obscurity. When their lives came to an end, these solitary individuals might hide the cultivation techniques they had created throughout their lives somewhere, waiting for someone fated to find them.

A saying circulated across the Dou Qi Continent: if one day you fell off a cliff and landed in a Mountain Cave, do not panic. Take two steps forward, and perhaps you would become an expert!

This saying was no lie. Throughout the continent's nearly thousand-year history, there had been no shortage of stories about people who became experts through fortunate encounters.

The consequence of those stories was a great many dreamers waiting by cliffs every day, ready to leap off in search of peerless cultivation techniques. Of course, most returned with broken arms and legs, while some never returned at all.

Xiao Yan had naturally heard of such things and fantasized about them as well. After all, who did not want to become powerful?

"Brother Chen, thank you."

Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Chen with his dark eyes and thanked him. He knew Xiao Chen was trying to comfort him.

When he had still been a "genius," everyone had treated him with great respect and sought to curry favor with him. But ever since his Dou Qi began regressing three years ago, those who had once respected and flattered him had revealed their true faces. Was this human nature?

Yet Brother Chen before him had always taken great care of him and encouraged him from time to time. Xiao Yan deeply engraved this kindness in his heart while he was at his lowest point.

Xiao Yan remembered several times when fellow clan members who had once respected him came looking for trouble after he became trash. In the end, Brother Chen beat them up badly and declared that Xiao Yan was under his protection.

"Brother Chen, I'm going to cultivate first."

After glancing around, Xiao Yan bid Xiao Chen goodbye and left the place that made him feel somewhat disgusted.

"The strange disappearance of the Dou Qi within Cousin Xiao Yan's body is rather peculiar, isn't it?"

Watching Xiao Yan's gradually receding figure, Xiao Xun'er said in a soft voice beside Xiao Chen.

Hearing this, Xiao Chen watched Xiao Yan's back slowly vanish into the distance, a thoughtful expression appearing on his face.

Calculating the time, Yao Lao should be about to awaken. The "fortuitous opportunity" Xiao Chen had spoken of was Yao Lao himself.

Although Xiao Chen had once considered taking the ring from Xiao Yan's hand.

He did not do so, because Yao Lao was merely an aid for early development.

Most importantly, Xiao Chen had latched onto Xiao Xun'er's thick, fair jade thigh.

A golden finger might arrive late, but it would never be absent!

At the same time, Xiao Chen had always believed that he would have a golden finger of his own, and today, it had finally arrived.

The system—an existence capable of turning an ordinary person into an expert, an existence that could lead one to the pinnacle of this world.

"Next, Xiao Chen!"

The middle-aged man's shout rang out from the platform once more.

The middle-aged man's voice pulled Xiao Chen from his thoughts back to reality.

"Brother Xiao Chen, it's your turn."

Xiao Xun'er's red lips parted slightly as she spoke gently beside Xiao Chen.

Hearing this, Xiao Chen composed his emotions, nodded at Xiao Xun'er, and said nothing more. He immediately strode toward the testing Magic Stone Tablet.

When Xiao Chen arrived before the pitch-black Magic Stone Tablet, he placed his fair palm against its surface and slowly closed his eyes.

Just as Xiao Chen stepped before the Magic Stone Tablet, Ling Er's soft, gentle notification sounded in his mind.

"Ding, you have arrived at the check-in location: before the Magic Stone Tablet. Would you like to check in?"

"Check in!"

"Checking in..."

"Ding, congratulations, Host. Check-in successful. Reward obtained: Medicine Canon!"

Medicine Canon: Records countless Pill Recipes, refining methods, and more from the myriad worlds. It takes all things as medicine and heaven and earth as its cauldron.

As Xiao Chen listened to Ling Er's soft, gentle notifications, a vast amount of information appeared out of nowhere in his mind.

While Xiao Chen absorbed the information from the Medicine Canon, light also lit up on the pitch-black Magic Stone Tablet.

"Xiao Chen, Dou Qi: Fifth Stage! Rank: Intermediate!"

Beside the testing Magic Stone Tablet, the middle-aged man looked up at the information displayed on the tablet, his tone somewhat astonished.

As soon as the middle-aged man's words fell, a commotion broke out across the square. People began whispering among themselves, discussing it.

"Fifth Stage!"

"Tsk tsk, I remember that when Young Master Xiao Chen was at the third stage of Dou Qi, he could already challenge opponents at the fifth stage!"

"Yeah, now that Young Master Xiao Chen is at the fifth stage of Dou Qi, he can probably challenge opponents at the seventh or eighth stage, right?"

At that moment, Xiao Chen was busy absorbing the Medicine Canon's information and had no mind to pay attention to the praise around him.

A moment later, Xiao Chen finally finished receiving the Medicine Canon's information. He turned and walked down from the wooden platform, listening to the voices around him.

Many found it hard to believe that he could fight opponents above his level.

Xiao Chen had read quite a few webnovels in his previous life, so he understood the importance of building a solid foundation during the early stages of cultivation.

Therefore, after transmigrating to the Dou Qi Continent and beginning his cultivation, Xiao Chen repeatedly compressed the Dou Qi within his body until it reached the limit his body could endure.

Gradually, compared to those of the same rank, Xiao Chen could naturally store more Dou Qi within his body, and thus possessed more energy than they did. Challenging opponents above his level was nothing impossible.

There was another reason as well: cultivators in the Dou Qi stage had not yet undergone a "qualitative transformation." Only after condensing a Dou Qi Vortex and becoming a Dou Zhe would they undergo a metamorphosis. At that point, the "Dou Qi" within their bodies would become true "Dou Qi."

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