Dou Qi Vortex (Please Bookmark, Please Recommend)

Tianxin Empire, Tiannan City, Xu Family!

Inside a spacious, grandly furnished, luxuriously decorated room, a youth sat cross-legged on a soft couch. His hands formed seals as he absorbed Heaven and Earth Energy. Streams of milky white energy materialized from the air and entered his body with each breath, where they were refined and circulated endlessly through his Meridians.

The youth was quite handsome, with clear brows, bright eyes, and well-defined features. Though he had not yet come of age, one could already see how dashing he would be when grown. His name was Xu Haoyu, the name he had taken after transmigrating.

He was now at the ninth stage of Dou Qi. One step further, and he would reach the tenth stage.

For anyone cultivating Dou Qi, once they broke through from the ninth stage to the tenth, their Dou Qi would automatically gather toward their dantian. If they succeeded, they would condense a Dou Zhe vortex and successfully advance to become a Dou Zhe. If they failed, a large amount of Dou Qi would dissipate, dropping them back below the eighth stage of Dou Qi.

The tenth stage of Dou Qi was a watershed that blocked the vast majority of people beneath the Dou Zhe realm.

However, nothing was absolute. There was a kind of medicinal pill that could increase the chance of advancing to Dou Zhe.

A Rank 4 Pill—the Qi Gathering Powder!

"Now! Although my chances of breaking through are already extremely high, with the Qi Gathering Powder, I can advance to Dou Zhe with one hundred percent certainty!"

Xu Haoyu suddenly opened his eyes. He casually grabbed the jade bottle beside him, opened it, poured out the Qi Gathering Powder within, and placed the fragrant pill into his mouth.

The pill melted as soon as it entered his mouth, sliding down his throat and into his body.

In an instant, the Dou Qi within Xu Haoyu's Meridians seemed to have consumed some miraculous tonic. It began expanding rapidly, filling his Meridians to the brim.

At that moment, he had already broken through to the tenth stage of Dou Qi. When water filled to the brim, it overflowed; this realm was extremely unstable. All the Dou Qi in his Meridians began continuously gathering toward his dantian.

Xu Haoyu's expression turned solemn. At that moment, his immense soul perception surged forth in full force, violently compressing the cloudlike Dou Qi energy within his dantian.

This process was extremely troublesome. If there was insufficient Dou Qi energy, the compression would inevitably fail. Likewise, if one's soul perception was insufficient and could not compress it into a vortex, it would also fail.

However, Xu Haoyu had lived two lives, before and after reincarnation, which had granted him extraordinarily powerful soul perception. Moreover, he had taken the Qi Gathering Powder, and its medicinal effects were still at work.

An endless stream of Dou Qi energy continued gathering from his Meridians into his dantian, filling it with cloudlike Dou Qi energy.

Time passed bit by bit, and the energy compressed bit by bit. A tiny vortex prototype appeared within Xu Haoyu's dantian. It was somewhat illusory and not solid enough.

"Condense!"

Xu Haoyu roared inwardly as his soul perception surged forth even further, like a heavy hammer striking down repeatedly. During the process, almost visibly, the vortex prototype became increasingly complete until it finally took shape.

Boom!

As if heaven and earth had been split apart, with the rotation of the vortex, Xu Haoyu's Dou Qi completely transformed into Dou Qi energy. He had truly broken through to become a Dou Zhe, officially embarking upon the path of Dou Qi cultivation.

A Dou Zhe could look inward. Xu Haoyu focused his mind within his dantian, gazing at the milky white vortex he had compressed, feeling deeply satisfied.

When he opened his eyes, they shone with vigor. Xu Haoyu's lips curled upward as he said happily:

"I began cultivating at four years old. In just five years, I reached the ninth stage of Dou Qi. Now that I've advanced to a 1-Star Dou Zhe, I can finally choose a cultivation technique and truly embark on the path of cultivation."

That was right. Xu Haoyu was only nine years old. A 1-Star Dou Zhe at his age could be called a genius anywhere.

He was a transmigrator, and his soul perception was unlike that of ordinary people. Not only had it allowed him to complete his early education quickly, but it also made his cultivation twice as effective with half the effort.

The Dou Qi stage was the beginning of Dou Qi cultivation. It nourished the Tendons and Bones and strengthened the body. At this stage, one could not yet cultivate techniques. Everyone had to slowly temper their foundation. Yet after breaking through to 1-Star Dou Zhe, as long as one possessed a good cultivation technique, they could rapidly advance through the realms and begin making explosive progress.

Breaking through to 1-Star Dou Zhe before the age of ten meant Xu Haoyu's talent was enough to let him cultivate smoothly all the way to Dou Zong. Beyond that, however, would depend on opportunity.

Xu Haoyu then rose and jumped down from the soft couch, stretching lazily. His bones crackled, and the Dou Qi energy filling his dantian left both body and mind feeling refreshed.

After loosening up his Tendons and Bones, Xu Haoyu placed his left hand over the Storage Ring on his right hand. He came from a good family, so acquiring spatial equipment like a Storage Ring had been quite easy.

He infused it with Dou Qi energy. Then, with a flash of light, a crystal ball used to test Dou Qi attributes appeared in Xu Haoyu's hand.

When choosing a cultivation technique, the first thing to consider was one's Dou Qi attribute. Only by cultivating a technique compatible with one's own Dou Qi attribute could one improve rapidly. Otherwise, breaking through realms would be out of the question, and even a Dou Qi backlash was entirely possible.

In truth, Xu Haoyu had tested his Dou Qi attributes before. But now that he had broken through to 1-Star Dou Zhe, he wanted to test them again.

With a thought, Dou Qi energy surged from his vortex, traveled along his Meridians to his palm, and flowed into the crystal ball.

In an instant, the crystal ball blazed with light. Yellow, red, blue, green... all sorts of colors changed back and forth, like the colorful lights in a nightclub.

The light shone over Xu Haoyu's face, making his black eyes seem even deeper.

People of the Dou Qi Continent either had only one attribute—earth, fire, wind, lightning... Even those with multiple attributes would not have as many as he did. For example, alchemists required Fire and Wood Dual Attributes, while Xu Haoyu possessed every attribute.

If this were a world of immortal cultivation, he would undoubtedly have mixed spiritual roots, the most useless kind of talent and constitution.

But in the Dou Qi Continent, this instead gave him more choices. He could cultivate whichever attribute of Dou Qi he wished. He could even cultivate Fire and Wood Dual Attributes and become an alchemist.

Xu Haoyu casually put away the crystal ball and let out a long breath.

"Every time I see it, I'm still surprised. This body of mine, with every attribute, gives me tremendous room to choose. On the Dou Qi Continent, no profession is more esteemed than that of an alchemist. Of course I'll cultivate Fire and Wood Dual Attributes and strive to become an alchemist in the future."

At that moment, a burst of laughter sounded in the room.

"Heh heh heh, you're a clever boy. Cultivating Fire and Wood Dual Attributes to become an alchemist is indeed an excellent choice. But for someone like you, cultivating only Fire and Wood Dual Attributes would be wasting your talent!"

Xu Haoyu's body tensed as he warily looked around. There was actually someone else in his room. He immediately shouted coldly:

"Who are you? Show yourself!"

As his words fell, an iron box on a wooden rack nearby was blasted open by energy. A Storage Ring slowly floated upward, and a stream of milky white energy drifted out, condensing into an illusory figure. It was an old man with a rather fierce face. Stroking his beard, he laughed and said:

"I am Li Xiantian. My friends across the continent once called me the Heavenly Wrath Venerable!"