Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir Direct Guidance

"Wow, Brother Lin Yu, how did you do that? Did you hide your true strength? I remember only Dou Zuns can travel through space over short distances, right?"

"Lin Yu, you... you're a Dou Zun?"

Xiao Yan was so shocked he could barely speak. What the hell was this? They had both transmigrated here, so why was he so unlucky? That guy had become a Dou Zun after fifteen years, while he had spent fifteen years stuck at Dou Qi Three-stage! What a fucking blow!

Lin Yu smiled awkwardly. "I'm only at the peak of Dou Emperor, not a Dou Zun. As for that... th-this... I can't really explain it either, so don't dwell on it!"

With that, Lin Yu headed toward the counter.

Xun'er pouted and looked at Lin Yu reluctantly. Fine, fine. Since Brother Lin Yu wouldn't say anything, she wouldn't ask.

Xiao Yan did not think much of it and instead looked around Lin Yu's shop.

Xiao Yan had come here a few times before, but only because he needed something from Lin Yu. He had never properly examined the place. In short, his impression was that it was terribly run-down, looking like an outhouse from the outside.

But this time was different. From outside, it was still a square, dilapidated wooden shack, seemingly just over twenty square meters. Yet the moment he stepped inside, the space opened up to roughly sixty or seventy square meters. It was rectangular overall, with redwood flooring and walls in red and gold—or more accurately, red overlaid with flowing golden threads in dragon-and-phoenix patterns. Two rows of shelves stood beside the entrance and extended all the way to the counter. The shelves were filled with a dazzling assortment of bottles and other items, each with a description beneath it listing its name, grade, effects, and price. There were cultivation techniques, pills, and various magical artifacts.

Of course, if you did not pay, you could only look and not touch, so there was no possibility of theft.

The counter was very simple, with only a roulette wheel placed on top. The countertop connected to the walls on both sides, with only a gap at the far left for people to enter.

There was just enough room behind the counter for someone to sit. The wall behind it was made entirely of transparent square compartments—twenty-seven in total. Each compartment contained a different flame, and every single one of them felt extraordinary!

When Xiao Yan arrived here, the ring on his finger visibly trembled, but since he was still carefully looking around the shop, he did not notice.

Xun'er walked beneath the wall behind the counter. As she gazed at one of the flames, she could clearly feel the Golden Emperor Blazing Sky Flame within her resonating with it. Some of the flames even made the Golden Emperor Blazing Sky Flame inside her feel fear!

Xun'er walked up to Lin Yu and tugged at his clothes. "Brother Lin Yu, what is that flame?" As she spoke, she pointed at the flame that had resonated with her.

"That's the Golden Emperor Blazing Sky Flame! The same one that's inside your body. Isn't there writing right there?"

"How is that possible? Then these are all Heavenly Flames, right? Brother Lin Yu, how do you have so many Heavenly Flames? And I remember the Heavenly Flame Ranking only has twenty-three flames. Why do you have twenty-seven? And those six flames that even make my Golden Emperor Blazing Sky Flame wary—what kind of flames are they?"

Lin Yu clicked his tongue inwardly at Xun'er's barrage of questions.

"Uh... since you asked, Xun'er, I'll answer them one by one. First, a Heavenly Flame isn't necessarily limited to a single one. Second, the twenty-three Heavenly Flames are those recorded on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, but who can say that's absolute? There must be many Heavenly Flames that haven't been discovered. Third, the seven Heavenly Flames that make you feel wary are Emperor Flame, Nihility Devouring Flame, Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, Samadhi True Fire, Pure Yang Flame, and Four Symbols Formless Flame. The first three rank among the top three of the Heavenly Flame Ranking and are above your Golden Emperor Blazing Sky Flame. The latter four are not on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, but they are still stronger than your Golden Emperor Blazing Sky Flame, which is why you feel wary. Hmm... as for how I obtained them, that's a secret."

Xun'er was left completely dazed. Then she puffed out her cheeks and said to Lin Yu, "Brother Lin Yu, you can't even tell Xun'er?"

Lin Yu raised his right hand, pressed two fingers together, and lightly tapped Xun'er on the forehead.

"Ow! Brother Lin Yu is tapping my head again! It hurts!"

"Silly girl, stop pretending. Could the amount of force I used just now possibly hurt you? What, do you want me to blow on it for you?"

Xun'er curled her lips. "Hmph!" ╭(╯^╰)╮

Then Lin Yu's expression turned serious.

"Xun'er, I'm sorry! I don't want to lie to you, but I can't tell you yet. I can share everything about myself with you, but the time isn't right. Forgive me, Xun'er!"

Looking at Lin Yu's serious face, Xun'er lowered her head in shame. She also had secrets she had not told him. She had not told Lin Yu that she had come to the Xiao Family with a purpose. She had not told him that her name was not Xiao Xun'er, but Gu Xun'er. She had not told him...

The more Xun'er thought about it, the more ashamed she felt. What right did she have to pry into Brother Lin Yu's secrets?

"Brother Lin Yu, I... I'm sorry. I have no right to ask about your secrets. Sob... I'm sorry, I also have secrets I haven't told you. Sob, sob..." As she spoke, Xun'er began to cry.

Lin Yu looked at Xun'er, wiped the tears from her face with both hands, and whispered in her ear.

"All right, all right. You don't need to blame yourself either. I know you're the young lady of the Ancient Clan, so I've been working hard to become stronger so I can be worthy of you. Just wait for the day I come riding seven-colored auspicious clouds to marry you." As he spoke, he gently scraped her nose with a finger.

Xun'er looked at Lin Yu and thought, So Brother Lin Yu knew all along. Brother Lin Yu said he wants to marry Xun'er. Is that why he reached the peak of Dou Emperor at such a young age? Was it all because he wants to marry me? Ah, how embarrassing... Should I wait for Brother Lin Yu?

Her face turned bright red as she thought about it.

Then Xun'er spoke in a voice as soft as a mosquito's buzz. "Then... then I'll wait for Brother Lin Yu to come marry me..."

"Xun'er, does that mean you agree?"

"Mm... mm-hmm." Xun'er nodded with a flushed face.

"Xun'er! I want a kiss! Hehe..." Lin Yu said with a mischievous grin.

"Huh? I... I... Brother Lin Yu... Xiao Yan... Brother Xiao Yan is still here..." Xun'er fidgeted shyly, so embarrassed that she could not even finish a sentence properly.

"Who cares about him? I want you to kiss me right now, Xun'er." With that, Lin Yu closed his eyes.

Xun'er secretly glanced at Lin Yu's face, then looked over at Xiao Yan. Seeing that he was not paying attention to them, she lightly planted a fleeting kiss on Lin Yu's cheek before lowering her head again in bashfulness.

Lin Yu was not pleased. He wanted a kiss on the lips, not the cheek. No way.

"Xun'er, I want a kiss on the lips, not the cheek!"

With that, he pulled Xun'er into his arms, lifted her face, and planted a loud kiss on her soft, delicate lips.

"Mm... ngh..."

Xun'er's eyes widened. She struggled in Lin Yu's arms for a moment before giving up, closing her eyes and savoring Lin Yu's intense affection.

"Brother Lin Yu, you're so bad. If you keep doing this, Xun'er won't talk to you anymore."

Lin Yu pretended to be angry. "Then I'll never kiss you again!"

Xun'er hurriedly explained, "No, no! That won't do. I just... in the future... if Brother Lin Yu wants to kiss me, then just kiss me..."

"Hehe... you said that yourself, Xun'er!" Lin Yu looked like his scheme had succeeded.

"Mm..."

Xiao Yan had actually finished looking around long ago. Seeing Lin Yu and Xun'er interacting, he tactfully chose not to disturb them.

Once the two finally finished spreading their lovey-dovey sweetness, Xiao Yan let out a breath and walked over to Lin Yu.

"Lin Yu, about what you said regarding restoring my talent..."

Seeing Xiao Yan ask about this, Lin Yu smacked his forehead and released Xun'er.

"Ah, I almost forgot about the important matter. Sorry, Brother Xiao Yan."

Xiao Yan's face darkened with black lines!

Over the past eight years, Lin Yu's shop had sold many things. Not long ago, Lin Yu had accumulated around ten thousand points. The reason the shop had changed so dramatically was that the system had upgraded it when his points reached ten thousand.

At the same time, a new function had appeared: the lottery function, divided into Ordinary Lottery and Advanced Lottery.

"Brother Xiao Yan, I've got a new lottery feature here. Want to give it a try? It's divided into Ordinary Lottery and Advanced Lottery!"

Ordinary Lottery: 1,988 Gold Coins per draw. The items are random, and anything may be drawn. The host receives no points. The host receives one free Ordinary Lottery draw every day! One Advanced Lottery draw can be obtained for every 100 draws!

Advanced Lottery: Only special items can be used for a draw. You may choose an item category—for example, if you choose cultivation techniques, then only cultivation techniques can be drawn. Both low-grade and high-grade items may be drawn. When customers draw, the host receives no points. For every customer draw, the host receives one Advanced Lottery opportunity.

"??? A lottery? Explain it."

"An Ordinary Lottery costs 1,988 Gold Coins, and the items are random. An Advanced Lottery requires a special item in exchange. You can choose the category of item you want to draw, such as magical artifacts or cultivation techniques. Once you choose a category, you can only draw items from that category."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Xiao Yan stroked his chin.

"Give me an Ordinary Lottery, then! Here are two thousand Gold Coins." Xiao Yan took out a Gold Card and handed it to Lin Yu.

"Hehe, boss, how generous. This is the Ordinary Lottery wheel. Just press the button below." As he spoke, Lin Yu took out a wheel. There was nothing special about it—just a pointer atop a circular disk. The disk itself was blank, with a button underneath.

"Uh... no matter how I look at it, this doesn't seem real."

"Don't worry about such details. You'll know once you press it."

"Fine, I'll give it a try!" Saying that, Xiao Yan extended his right hand and pressed the button.

The instant he pressed it, the wheel began to spin. Lin Yu, Xun'er, and Xiao Yan stared at it without blinking.

Before long, the wheel stopped. A flash of light appeared and vanished in an instant, leaving an extra card on the table.

The card read:

Dou Huang Experience Card, One Hour
(Grants the strength of an early-stage Dou Huang for one hour.)

"Congratulations, Brother Xiao Yan! With this, you can instantly possess the strength of a Dou Huang!" Lin Yu could not help but sigh. The protagonist truly was different—he drew such a good item on his first try. The previous few people who had come to draw had all gotten things like socks and underwear.

"Good stuff! Your lottery is way too amazing, isn't it?" Hearing Lin Yu say that, Xiao Yan repeatedly exclaimed in amazement.

Uh, but to Lin Yu, this thing was pretty useless. He already had three Dou Huang Peak Experience Cards that lasted three days each. Since he had been staying in Wutan City, with the bug given by the system, he simply had no use for them.

Besides, Lin Yu's current strength had already reached the peak of Dou Huang. These cards could only gather dust in some corner.

Lin Yu actually really wanted Xiao Yan's ring, since Yao Lao was inside it.

But directly asking Xiao Yan for it would make his intentions too obvious. Ah, right—he could ask the system whether this ring counted as a special item.

After thinking that, Lin Yu silently called out in his heart, "System, System, does Xiao Yan's ring count as a special item?"

Before long, the system's cold voice sounded in Lin Yu's mind.

"Ding."

"Xiao Yan's ring is the cheat item of the protagonist of Battle Through the Heavens. It is a special item!"

"Hearing you say that, I have a way now." Lin Yu smiled upon hearing this, preparing to trick Xiao Yan out of his ring.

Though it could not exactly be called tricking him. It was more like an equal exchange.

"Brother Xiao Yan, do you want to try the Advanced Lottery?"

"Advanced Lottery? But doesn't that require a special item? I don't have any special items."

"I don't really understand what counts as a special item either. We can try it. Take out everything you have on you and test them one by one. Let's see if anything triggers it." Lin Yu could not make his intentions too obvious, so he could only subtly guide Xiao Yan into taking out his other belongings, and thus the ring.

"Fine, let's try it!" As he spoke, Xiao Yan began taking out the things on his body.

He even took off his socks and shoes. Before long, he was left with only a pair of shorts and the ring around his neck.

Xiao Yan took the ring off his neck, clenched it in his hand for quite a while, then handed it to Lin Yu.

Holding the ring, Lin Yu chuckled inwardly and pretended to be greatly shocked.

"This ring can trigger the Advanced Lottery!" He rubbed his chin and pretended to be puzzled. "What exactly is so special about this ring?"

"Ah, stop thinking about it! Hurry, hurry, I want to draw!" Hearing Lin Yu say that it could trigger the Advanced Lottery, Xiao Yan no longer cared what was special about the ring.

After all, restoring his talent was more important.

Over the past three years since losing his talent, Xiao Yan had endured endless ridicule. He did not want to live like this anymore!

His father had told him that if he still failed to break through to the seventh stage of Dou Qi by next year's coming-of-age ceremony at sixteen, then as someone without talent, he would lose his qualification to enter the Dou Qi Pavilion and seek a Dou Qi cultivation technique. He would instead be assigned to one of the family's businesses to manage ordinary affairs for the clan. This was a clan rule, and even though his father was the clan leader, he could not change it!

Seeing Xiao Yan's anxious expression, Lin Yu secretly laughed.

"Alright. For the Advanced Lottery, you can choose a category. I'll help you choose cultivation techniques. They might be able to help you restore your talent. If not, I'll think of another way for you." Lin Yu spoke to Xiao Yan solemnly, though of course he was only pretending.

"Alright, press the button!"

Slap

Xiao Yan closed his eyes and heavily pressed the button with one hand, his face filled with solemnity.

A flash of light appeared, and an ancient-looking book materialized on the table. Several bold, flowing characters were written across its cover:

Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir Direct Guidance

Then, a piece of information appeared in Lin Yu's mind:

Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir Direct Guidance

Five Elements: Fire

Characteristics: An alchemy cultivation technique possessing four divine abilities that enhance the attributes of external disciples

Cultivation stages: Nine Orifices, Cyclic Heaven, Lead and Mercury, Golden Pill, Control and Absorption, Returning Pearl, Infant, Sea of Bitterness, Pure Yang.

Lin Yu was stunned. What did this mean?

Ding

Just as Lin Yu was trying to make sense of the situation, the familiar system notification sounded.

"The information is provided to make it easier for the host to explain it to buyers."

Oh, so that was how it was. Not bad. "Then why wasn't there any information for the things sold before?"

"The host will not receive prompts for things they already know about."

So that was it. It was pretty user-friendly. Otherwise, he might end up selling things in the future without even knowing what they did.

"Brother Xiao Yan, this cultivation technique is called the Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir Direct Guidance. It's an alchemy cultivation technique. Its stages are Nine Orifices, Cyclic Heaven, Lead and Mercury, Golden Pill, Control and Absorption, Returning Pearl, Infant, Sea of Bitterness, and Pure Yang. Once cultivated to Pure Yang, it can rival a Dou Emperor." Lin Yu explained it to Xiao Yan seriously.

Xiao Yan held the book fondly, unable to put it down. He sat off to the side and eagerly flipped through it by himself.

"A Dou Emperor? Brother Lin Yu, is that true?" Xun'er could not remain calm either upon hearing that this technique could rival a Dou Emperor once cultivated to completion.

After all, ever since the Tou She Ancient God, no Dou Emperor had appeared on the Dou Qi Continent.

"Of course it's true! Anything produced by Lin Yu is guaranteed to be top quality, hahaha!" There was no denying that although it had been drawn from the system, the system was on Lin Yu, after all.

"So amazing! Brother Lin Yu, can Xun'er draw a prize too?" Xun'er's eyes sparkled like stars as she looked at Lin Yu expectantly.

Lin Yu found Xun'er's expression amusing. "Of course you can, but I don't know whether you have any special items!"

Xun'er hurriedly waved her hands. "No, no, no. I'll just draw from the ordinary one. Here, this is 2,000 Gold Coins."

"Alright, alright. Here you go, draw!" Lin Yu took the card with one hand and brought out the roulette wheel with the other.

Xun'er extended her slender jade-like hand and gently pressed the button. The roulette wheel began to spin.

Before long, the roulette wheel stopped. With a flash of light, a piece of clothing appeared on the table.

Lin Yu stared at it. Holy shit, a Maid Outfit! He could not help imagining Xun'er wearing it. His face took on a lecherous expression.

Hehehe...