Perhaps this is the charm of a mature man!

"Third Brother?"

"Third Brother, why are you here?"

Xiao Yan's head buzzed when he saw Xiao Lang.

"What if I said I walked into the wrong room? Would you believe me?"

Xiao Lang answered instinctively, feeling like he'd been caught red-handed.

After all, in his mind, Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er were the original pair.

"..."

Xiao Yan's mouth twitched as he stared at Xiao Lang gloomily and said:

"Third Brother, it's the middle of the night. Who'd believe you walked into the wrong room?"

"Haha, just lightening the mood, right?"

Xiao Lang let out a dry laugh, then walked over to Xiao Yan, slinging an arm around his shoulder and saying:

"Big Brother here was just helping Xun'er little sister regulate her body. She's been feeling unwell lately, always saying she's blocked up, so I came to clear her out."

After speaking, he asked curiously: "But... little brother, why are you at Xun'er's room this late at night?"

"I... I... I also wanted to help warm up Xun'er little sister's fleshly body." Xiao Yan stammered.

"Little brother, Big Brother's not one to nag, but with talent like yours, staying up all night without cultivating—are you worthy of it?"

Xiao Lang put on a look of disappointment, saying: "If I had your talent, I'd be cultivating like crazy, striving to break through to Dou Practitioner as soon as possible and bring glory to the clan!"

"So, leave this kind of thing to Big Brother from now on. Don't let trivial matters hold back your cultivation!"

"Third Brother..."

Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Lang's sincere face, his heart warming. Third Brother had always been good to him since childhood, even filling the role of a mother.

Even as a transmigrator, he was deeply moved, gradually developing a strong sense of belonging to this family.

Though his Third Brother could be unreliable at times, there was absolutely no faulting how he treated him!

The reason he'd advanced so quickly was because the other had given up a large portion of his own cultivation resources.

It gave him hope of breaking through to Dou Practitioner by age eight!

"Silly boy, if Big Brother doesn't look after you, who will?" Xiao Lang patted Xiao Yan's little head and said: "Besides, Big Brother's counting on you to look after me in the future."

"Third Brother, rest assured. With me here, no one in this family dares call you trash!" Xiao Yan stared at Xiao Lang with a firm gaze.

After all, being only at one stage of Dou Power at age eight was a clear waste. (Changed here; originally it was three stages, but everyone read carefully and thought it was unreasonable, so I changed it to one stage. Won't change it later, so bear with it, don't flame.)

"Keep your voice down, or you'll wake Xun'er little sister." Xiao Lang ruffled Xiao Yan's hair. Though he had selfish motives in helping him, watching Xiao Yan grow up had given him a sense of brotherly responsibility.

Hearts are made of flesh, and after so many years, even raising a dog would build deep feelings.

But honestly, Xun'er's body... so soft and fragrant!

"Three years minimum, life sentence maximum!"

As soon as this thought arose, Mo Lang silently recited a line.

As a model youth of the new era, even after transmigrating, he couldn't forget the Party's teachings!

"By the way, brother, won't this hold back your cultivation?"

"Brother's given up. After all these years of cultivating, I'm still only at one stage of Dou Power."

"..."

Back in his room, Xiao Lang couldn't wait to activate the system and check the rewards he'd just obtained.

Water Art (Evolvable): An evolvable cultivation method that relies on devouring exotic waters to evolve infinitely, eventually surpassing even the Heaven rank, granting powerful Water Control Ability!

Note: Once Water Art begins cultivation, no other cultivation method can be practiced unless one abandons the art and starts over.

"Isn't this exactly like Flame Mantra? It even feels a bit worse than Flame Mantra—at least Flame Mantra can control fire and refine pills. What can I do with water control? Water down the story?"

Xiao Lang grumbled in dissatisfaction.

"Friendly reminder: An adult human body is sixty percent water."

"Hm!"

Hearing the system's prompt, Xiao Lang's eyes lit up, as if he'd discovered a new continent.

"So that means I can instantly dehydrate an enemy into a dried corpse??"

"Eww!!"

Ignoring the system's disdain, Xiao Lang checked the second item.

Three Thousand Weak Waters Fragment: An exotic water ranked seventeenth on the Exotic Water Ranking. Though only a third of it remains, it's enough to let you break through to Dou Practitioner!

At the same time, it can advance Water Art to the Yellow rank intermediate cultivation method.

"Looks like I guessed right. Exotic waters are just like exotic fires—meant to be devoured by my Water Art for evolution."

"Only a third, and the cultivation method only evolves to intermediate grade—that's pretty damn disappointing. Where's the promised overpowered power fantasy?"

"This system doesn't fit my style of showing off!"

Xiao Lang saw the last line of the description and couldn't help complaining again.

"Can't even play fair!"

He waited a long time, but the system didn't bother responding. Xiao Lang rubbed his nose in boredom, grumbling to himself.

"Still, the Green Lotus Core Flame only pushed Xiao Yan's Flame Mantra to Mystic Grade, and his strength went from two-star Dou Master to five-star Dou Master. Mine's about the same, so it's reasonable."

Xiao Lang didn't overthink it and directly selected Devour. In an instant, he felt a warm current slowly flowing through his entire body, and the Dou Power in his dantian kept growing stronger.

Cultivation knows no time; a night passed in the blink of an eye.

Xiao Lang opened his eyes. Feeling the Dou Disciple energy in his body had condensed into a vortex, he curled his lips into a smile.

"Finally reached Dou Practitioner. At least I didn't waste a whole night of hard work sleeping."

Right now, he only wanted to shout three words.

Who else!

"Friendly reminder, host is advancing too quickly. Do you wish to hide your strength?"

Just as Xiao Lang was about to go out and show off, the system's voice rang out again.

Without a second thought, Xiao Lang waved his hand and refused: "Hide what? I earned this with a whole night of hard work. Why should I hide it?"

"Getting stronger without showing off is like wearing fine clothes at night—isn't that just plain stupid?"

"Do you only feel happy when everyone calls you a waste?"

System: "Show-off."

"..."

Xiao Lang ignored the system's jab and instead focused on figuring out his Water Control Ability.

After all, he hadn't learned any combat skills yet. This Water Control Ability was his trump card, and he needed to keep developing it.

First, he could clearly feel that the Water Attribute Dou Qi in the air around him was much more friendly. It seemed that whenever he wanted, it would obediently let him absorb it.

Second, when he reached out, the Dou Qi in his hand could condense into a ball of water—but it wasn't actually water, just a form of Dou Qi.

After an hour of testing, Xiao Lang had a certain grasp of his Water Control Ability. What he didn't expect was that he could even force someone to pee!

"Third Brother, are you awake? The clan test is about to start. Father sent me to call you." A childish voice came from outside the door—it was Xiao Yan.

"After being called a waste for so many years, it's time to show them what a genius really is!"

Xiao Lang washed up, fixed his hair, and said with a smug, cocky expression.

"Third Brother, I feel like you're different somehow?" Xiao Yan looked at his third brother's aura and asked curiously.

"Maybe that's just the charm of a mature man!"

Xiao Lang chuckled and swaggered off toward the testing square.