Dou Qi Ninth Stage! (Please Keep Reading!)

Over the past few days, Xiao Yang had attempted to break through several times.

Unfortunately, he had failed every time.

Today, he was preparing to try again.

Over the past few days, he had barely practiced Eight Extremes Collapse. Instead, he had spent all his time soaking in the bathtub and cultivating Dou Qi.

Whenever he got hungry, he would get up, eat something, and continue cultivating.

If Dou Qi had not been able to nourish the physical body, if Xiao Yang's physique had not been fairly strong, and if the Foundation Building Divine Liquid had not possessed the same body-nourishing effects as the Foundation Building Elixir, he might have soaked himself into a bloated corpse.

He formed a peculiar hand seal and sat cross-legged in the bathtub.

The tub was filled with pale golden Spirit Liquid.

The liquid reflected specks of golden light.

After a month and a half of absorption, the Spirit Liquid had faded somewhat and was faintly transparent.

Yet the energy contained within remained extraordinarily vast.

Only Xiao Yang's head remained above the Spirit Liquid.

As his Dou Qi circulated, wisps of golden mist began rising from the liquid and entered his body with each breath.

A great deal of golden energy within the Spirit Liquid also flowed continuously into his body, where it was converted into his own Dou Qi.

At this moment, Xiao Yang vaguely felt a swelling sensation in his dantian, as though it were already full.

He tried to store the refined Dou Qi within it, but he could not.

It was as if some invisible membrane were blocking the Dou Qi.

Xiao Yang was not discouraged. Again and again, he sent the converted Dou Qi into his dantian.

Even though the Dou Qi faintly dissipated each time, he still did not retreat.

After all, unlike Xiao Yan, he was not recultivating, so breaking through the bottleneck would not be so easy.

However, as Xiao Yang repeatedly sent Dou Qi toward his dantian, he could feel that the "membrane" blocking him was already on the verge of shattering.

Just then, Xiao Yang pushed himself in one final burst, absorbing the surrounding energy with all his strength and converting it into his own Dou Qi.

Even his meridians felt faintly swollen at this point.

In an instant, a vast amount of Dou Qi arrived before his dantian.

This time, he would either succeed or die trying!

If he failed, he could only rest for a day to let his meridians recover.

A huge amount of Dou Qi gathered before his dantian, while even more Dou Qi surged in endlessly from behind.

Finally...

Crack!

Xiao Yang seemed to hear something shatter in the darkness.

Boom!

A vast amount of Dou Qi surged into his dantian.

A system notification also sounded in his mind.

[Mission: Break through to the Ninth Stage of Qi Cultivation. Reward: Physique +1, Bone Structure +1, one portion of Foundation Building Divine Liquid. Completed. Claim reward?]

As Xiao Yang broke through the bottleneck, the surrounding energy began pouring into his body without end.

That energy was converted into Dou Qi, circulated through his meridians, and finally entered his dantian, where it was marked with his imprint.

In an instant, he could feel that the energy within his dantian was several times greater than before his breakthrough!

Xiao Yang's face was filled with delight.

Normally, after reaching the Ninth Stage of Qi Cultivation, one still needed to cultivate slowly until reaching the Tenth Stage of Qi Cultivation.

Upon entering the Tenth Stage of Qi Cultivation, one could begin attempting to condense a Dou Qi Vortex and break through to the Dou Zhe realm.

Of course, one could also attempt to condense a Dou Qi Vortex while at the Ninth Stage of Qi Cultivation.

However, condensing one at the Ninth Stage of Qi Cultivation made failure extremely likely.

Once one failed, one's cultivation would fall back to the Eighth Stage of Qi Cultivation.

At the Tenth Stage, the success rate was much higher, but it required spending a long time cultivating further.

But Xiao Yang had Qi Gathering Powder!

The effect of Qi Gathering Powder was simple: it allowed someone at the Ninth Stage of Qi Cultivation to condense a Dou Qi Vortex with a one hundred percent success rate!

That was what it supposedly did, anyway. Xiao Yang did not know whether Tian Can Tu Dou had messed with the setting.

The claim of guaranteed success had been made earlier in the story.

Later, it was said that success was not guaranteed, but with the protection of Qi Gathering Powder, even if condensing the Dou Qi Vortex failed, one's cultivation would not fall.

To be safe, he planned to cultivate for a few days to stabilize his realm before taking the Qi Gathering Powder and attempting to condense a Dou Qi Vortex.

His Qi Gathering Powder was of supreme quality and even possessed a Pill Pattern.

After taking it, the chances of condensing a Dou Qi Vortex should still be very high.

Now, it was time to claim his reward!

"System, claim the reward!"

The next moment, that familiar energy appeared in his body once more.

Another bottle of Foundation Building Divine Liquid also appeared in the System Space.

Soon, his physique and Bone Structure finished improving.

Looking at the Physique and Bone Structure values of 19 and 29 on the System Panel, Xiao Yang felt somewhat frustrated.

It seemed he would need one more mission before he could completely break through this level.

When that time came, both his physical body strength and talent would increase dramatically!

After claiming the Mission Reward, Xiao Yang stood up, dried himself off, and changed into his clothes.

He gave it a try and found that after reaching the Ninth Stage of Qi Cultivation, he could use Eight Extremes Collapse forty or fifty times.

His efficiency in completing Eight Extremes Collapse Proficiency would increase once again.

Eight Extremes Collapse was currently Xiao Yang's most powerful Dou Skill, so it remained very important to him.

After all, a certain protagonist still used Eight Extremes Collapse even in the later stages.

That showed just how great Eight Extremes Collapse's potential was.

Most importantly, reaching Perfection might reward him with an Earth Tier Dou Technique!

After thinking for a moment, Xiao Yang began creating a mission.

He would have to create this mission sooner or later anyway.

He might as well try creating it now and give himself more motivation.

[Mission: Raise Eight Extremes Collapse Proficiency to the Perfection realm. Reward: Earth Tier Mid-grade Dou Skill Nine Flame Fist]

Looking at the Mission Reward, Xiao Yang's eyes filled with excitement.

It really was an Earth Tier Dou Technique!

And an Earth Tier Mid-grade Dou Technique at that!

One had to know that Earth Tier Dou Techniques were extremely precious.

The entire Jia Ma Empire basically did not possess any Earth Tier Dou Techniques.

Even the Misty Cloud Sect, which possessed the inheritance of a Dou Zun, could only possibly obtain an Earth Tier Dou Technique after entering the Gate of Life and Death.

To obtain an Earth Tier Dou Technique, one could only go to dangerous places such as the Black Corner Region.

Or join Jia Nan Academy.

As an academy founded by a Thunder Clan Dou Zun, its foundations were quite solid.

Moreover, that irresponsible Dou Zun principal should have already broken through to Half Saint by now.

And now, Xiao Yang only needed to raise Eight Extremes Collapse Proficiency to Perfection to obtain an Earth Tier Dou Technique.

He calculated that, given the amount of Dou Qi he now possessed and his increased Cultivation Efficiency, it might take only a little over two months, at most three months, to raise Eight Extremes Collapse to Perfection!

After calculating the time, Xiao Yang eagerly put on his Special Armguards and began practicing Eight Extremes Collapse.

Now that his physique had improved and the amount of Dou Qi he possessed had increased severalfold, his speed of practicing Eight Extremes Collapse was much faster than before.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Loud sounds began echoing from Xiao Yang's courtyard once again.

They were the sounds of Eight Extremes Collapse striking the sandbags.

The people around him had long since grown used to it.

The sound had continued for more than a month before stopping over the past few days because he needed to break through to the Ninth Stage of Qi Cultivation.

This had left them feeling somewhat unaccustomed.

Now, the sound rang out once more.