One Year Later

After finishing all that, he checked his personal information once more.

Name: Xiao Bai

Attribute: Light

Energy: 0

Strength: Stage Seven of Dou Qi (a weakling who could only be slapped to death with both hands)

Dou Techniques: Disguise—Beginner

Mystic Seal—Minor Success

Flash Step—Major Success

Shattering Stone Palm—Major Success

...

Seeing the improvement in his strength, Xiao Bai had initially been somewhat excited. But the tiny sprout of arrogance in his heart was swiftly snuffed out by the system before it could even grow.

"So my strength has gone from being slapped to death with one hand to needing two hands to beat me to death."

He had grown stronger, but his heart was still filled with helplessness. He was still far too weak.

Not to mention anything else, just the words "weakling" had dealt him double the damage and left him utterly ashamed.

It could even be said that he had no face to meet the elders of Jiangdong!

How shameful!

He had cultivated for so long, yet he still belonged to the weakling category.

However, as a new-generation transmigrator who had survived countless bombardments of junk information, this kind of verbal attack was nothing more than a light drizzle.

He did not take it to heart at all.

At the very least, this weakling was no longer the weakling he used to be. As Cheat had said, he was now a chicken that required two hands to beat to death.

Even if he was still a weakling, he was no ordinary chicken. He was a daddy-level existence among weaklings.

For short, Chicken Daddy—or perhaps Tyrant Chicken!

That was more fitting for his extraordinary identity!

In no time at all, Xiao Bai had recovered from Cheat's blow and resumed absorbing energy.

After completing the mission, his previously somewhat imperfect soul had become whole.

It was an indescribable feeling, as though his very soul had been elevated. All at once, his senses became considerably stronger.

This made Xiao Bai even more enthusiastic about improving his strength. Even his energy absorption speed increased by more than ten percent.

Although ten percent sounded like very little, cultivation was a gradual, long-term process. Accumulated bit by bit, it was already much better than before.

Others cultivated by drawing the energy in the air into their bodies, circulating and tempering it continuously, then slowly turning it into their own Dou Qi.

That greatly increased the time required.

But things were different for Xiao Bai.

With Cheat's assistance, Xiao Bai only needed to keep supplying energy. Once his energy points reached a certain value, Cheat would directly inject it into his body and turn it into Dou Qi for its owner to use.

That was Xiao Bai's advantage. He could spend less time raising his level.

"Cheat Daddy, can I choose not to do missions? I don't like this feeling of being arranged. I want to stand on my own. I want to become more independent..."

In accordance with the user's strong request, the mission function has now been canceled. Please support yourself from now on.

"Oh, alright then!"

Xiao Bai fell silent...

After temporarily resolving all his problems, Xiao Bai threw himself wholeheartedly into cultivation.

Time passed quickly, and before he knew it, a year had gone by.

Not long after the morning sunlight spread across the earth, a figure was already cultivating atop the roof in a rather decent little courtyard.

The figure wore flowing white robes, their edges traced with gold that spread across the entire garment, lending the wearer an additional air of nobility.

His long black hair was neatly draped behind his back and tied with a golden ribbon. It was clear that it had been carefully groomed.

His face featured a pair of sword-like brows and handsome, resolute features. What a refined young man—who knew how many young maidens would lose their hearts to him?

The youth's eyes were tightly shut. As the sun gradually rose, it baked the dew from his body, turning it into wisps of mist that curled around him, making him seem as though he had stepped out of the clouds.

Anyone who saw him would know that this youth did not belong to the mortal world, but resembled an immortal untouched by worldly desires.

As the dew on his body vanished, the youth, who had cultivated here for who knew how long, finally opened his eyes.

A gleam flashed through them, and the mist surrounding him seemed to have been swept by something. It began to melt away like snow, quickly disappearing from sight.

"Finally... I, Xiao Bai, have successfully entered the Dou Zhe realm," the youth murmured.

Judging from his words, this youth was none other than Xiao Bai—the seed-level genius of the Xiao Family, the high-spirited and arrogant young man who had defeated many Xiao Family youths with a single move in the martial arena a year ago, leaving countless members of the younger generation unable to lift their heads.

And from what he had said, his strength had now improved immensely once again.

A Dou Zhe had truly stepped into the world of cultivation. Those at this realm had begun to distinguish themselves from ordinary people.

A Dou Zhe was the new level reached when someone at Stage Nine of Dou Qi continued cultivating, constantly compressed the Dou Qi within their body, and formed a qi vortex inside themselves.

Condensing a qi vortex was a necessary condition for entering the Dou Zhe realm. Some people might succeed in a single attempt, but others might need to condense it many times, perhaps even nine times before succeeding.

This would affect their future cultivation speed, causing them to fall behind others in their rate of improvement.

This was of great importance to future cultivation, but such matters were still far too distant for Xiao Bai. After all, he was a user with Cheat—how could he be compared to ordinary people?

He could not!

Since Xiao Bai had never experienced such difficulty, how could he care about something like that?

At most, he merely sighed that his energy absorption efficiency was still too low.

He opened the Panel.

Name: Xiao Bai

Attribute: Light

Energy Points: 888

Strength: One Star Dou Zhe

Dou Techniques: Mystic Seal—Perfected

Disguise—Major Success

Shattering Stone Palm—Perfected

Flash Step—Perfected

Roar of the Mad Lion—Major Success

...

This was Xiao Bai's current situation.

His strength had risen dramatically, and his Dou Techniques had also achieved success in cultivation. This gave Xiao Bai confidence and greater assurance in what he intended to do next.

As a transmigrator, four years had already passed since he first arrived in this world. Xiao Bai could say that he had spent all this time cultivating without ever going out to see the world. That was not good!

His strength had been low in the past, and he had feared that he might accidentally provoke some spoiled young master while traveling outside, only to be hunted down and killed by him.

Thus, Xiao Bai had always been extremely low-key.

He usually cultivated. When he was not cultivating, he would look around the clan for people who bullied men and women, then give them a warning. That was why Xiao Bai had managed to cultivate his Dou Techniques to the perfected realm in such a short time.

So, Xiao Bai had truly been very low-key!

But now that he had strength, it was time to go out and take a look at the sights of this other world.

While he was at it, he could find a cliff to jump off and see whether he was the child of destiny. Maybe after jumping down, he would encounter the inheritance left behind by some once-powerful expert, just waiting for him to pick it up?

Perhaps he would advance much faster on the path to becoming stronger.

His previous cultivation speed might have been that of a tractor, but after obtaining an inheritance, he would become a sedan. If he found several more, would that sedan turn into a speeding sports car?

The prerequisite for all of this was that he had to go out—leave the Xiao Family.

At that thought, something appeared on Xiao Bai's face.

It was called greed!