Living in Dou Po, Writing a Diary! They're Forcing Me to Live Off Them
Chapter 2

The Cheat Arrives! World Observer?

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[Great Dao Notes (Xiao Ting)] [You have been chosen by the Great Dao to become a World Observer.] [Record your true experiences in the Great Thousand World at any time. With a single thought, you may generate content and upload it to Traveler's Notes.] [Starting from your first record, you may receive a Great Dao Blessing every year on your birthday. The strength of the blessing is related to the observer's cultivation realm, recording time, and other factors.] [Keep recording every day, and each day you may receive a minor plane blessing. The strength of the blessing is related to the observer's cultivation realm, recording time, and other factors.] [Blessings include, but are not limited to: infusions of worldly energy at all levels, fortune and misfortune warnings for opportunities descending from heaven, sudden enlightenment in cultivation methods and Dou Techniques...] [Blessings are merely carriers of opportunities and resources; they do not produce opportunities themselves.] [You may freely choose whether to become a World Observer. Signing your name signifies your consent.] [By becoming a World Observer, you may obtain one strand of Plane Origin and undergo one cleansing infusion of worldly energy.]

A vast amount of information flooded into Xiao Ting's mind, and he instantly absorbed and understood it.

"I knew it. As a transmigrator, how could I possibly not have a cheat?" Light bloomed in Xiao Ting's dark eyes.

These Great Dao Notes sounded incredibly high-end. Clearly, the cheat granted to him as a transmigrator had finally arrived.

Before the cheat: My cousin will become the future Flame Emperor, my childhood sweetheart and prospective girlfriend is the daughter of the Gu Clan's patriarch, and by lying flat, I can enter the Great Thousand World. My name will resound in the Endless Fire Territory, and in the future, I'll seize Mu Chen's opportunities and become the Great Ruler.

After the cheat: I don't eat beef. Every last one of you, look me in the eye.

"What is it? Xun'er, are you unwilling?"

Xiao Ting stared directly at Xun'er, making her increasingly bashful.

With such a beauty before him, and with affection between them, he was in no hurry to study the Great Dao Notes.

"Xun'er invited Brother Xiao Ting so many times, yet Brother Xiao Ting always found excuses to refuse. Now that Brother Xiao Ting is inviting Xun'er, how could it be so easy?" Xun'er suppressed the shyness and delight in her heart, then smiled brightly. "It depends on how Brother Xiao Ting performs. Xun'er will consider whether to agree afterward."

"Then how about I cook dinner myself tonight?" Xiao Ting looked utterly sincere.

"Pfft." Xun'er could not help laughing.

Xiao Ting's cooking skills were indeed excellent. For a young master of the Xiao Clan to possess such culinary talent, he had Xiao Yan to thank for it.

When Xiao Yan was little, he often declared that "Sichuan cuisine is number one under heaven," yet whenever he cooked himself, he could never make anything tasty.

Instead, Xiao Ting, his little tagalong, could prepare delicious dishes simply by following his instructions.

Over time, Xiao Yan had practically been driven into despair by cooking.

Meanwhile, Xiao Ting had developed cooking skills that made every elder and junior in the clan incredibly envious.

"Then I want ten dishes!" Xun'er held up her fingers as she made her demand, wearing an expression that said she was very greedy.

"No problem." Xiao Ting agreed readily.

Just cooking was enough to settle it. A top-tier rich and beautiful girl like Xun'er was far too understanding.

"Then I'll go prepare the ingredients. Just wait and see tonight."

Xiao Ting took the opportunity to suggest leaving. He wanted to study the Great Dao Notes.

"Then Xun'er will be waiting for Brother Xiao Ting." Xun'er nodded obediently.

Xiao Ting turned and left with a smile, directing a sliver of his attention toward the Notes as he wrote down his name.

Refusing a cheat when one was offered would make him an idiot. As for conspiracy theories, he should first consider whether he was even worth scheming against.

But in the next instant, he felt himself enter that strange world from before once more.

Boom.

Worldly energy gathered into visible lightning and descended from the sky.

When the lightning struck him, the pain Xiao Ting had expected did not come. Instead, a massive surge of energy entered his body, coursing through his limbs, bones, and every cell.

All his meridians were opened in an instant. His meridians, bones, and everything else were strengthened, while the impurities and filth within his body were crushed and erased into nothingness. His soul force was also growing.

The most obvious change came from the vortex in his dantian. It rapidly expanded and grew denser, stopping only when it was nearly condensed into liquid. This represented his cultivation reaching the Nine-Star Dou Zhe Peak.

He was one year younger than Xiao Yan, and he had started cultivating a year later than Xiao Yan, who possessed an adult's mind. He was not usually as diligent either. Not long ago, he had only just broken through to the Dou Zhe realm and had yet to learn a cultivation method.

Becoming a one-star Dou Zhe at fifteen made him a rare genius. Reaching four-star Dou Zhe or above before the age of eighteen would definitely not be a problem.

According to Jia Nan Academy's admission ratings for the entire continent, he would at least be rated S-class.

But now, he was a Nine-Star Dou Zhe who was not yet fifteen!

Xiao Ting understood that after signing his name in the Notes and becoming a World Observer, he had received a cleansing infusion of worldly energy.

His cultivation talent had now reached the limit of what ordinary people could possess. Compared to Xun'er, whose body had been tempered by the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame since childhood, the only thing he lacked was Dou Di bloodline power to draw upon.

It sounded like many changes, but under the influence of the Great Dao Notes, everything had silently been completed in the span of a breath.

Just then, a delicate shout suddenly rang out beside him. "Xiao Yan, Xiao Ning is your cousin. Why did you strike him so ruthlessly?"

After the cultivation assessment portion of the coming-of-age ceremony ended, there was also a challenge segment for disciples below the Dou Zhe realm, meant to assess their combat ability and their progress in Dou Techniques.

Xiao Ning was dissatisfied with Xiao Yan stealing the spotlight. He believed Xiao Yan's rapid advancement in cultivation must have left his foundation unstable, so he stepped forward to challenge him.

Yet even after taking medicinal pills to raise his cultivation, he was still defeated by Xiao Yan and severely injured.

This made Xiao Ning's elder sister, Xiao Yu, unable to resist teaching Xiao Yan a lesson.

"How ridiculous. Just because he is your younger brother, you get to hold double standards?" Xiao Yan calmly met Xiao Yu's gaze, dissatisfaction flickering in his eyes. Even with so many outsiders present, he could not help mocking her. "It was already a meaningless challenge match. Why did he insist on attacking?"

"If he wanted to attack, then so be it. Once he lost to me, it could have ended. Why did he take pills and forcibly raise his cultivation to fight me?"

"When he forcibly raised his cultivation to the Dou Zhe realm to fight me, why didn't you step in to stop him then, hmm?"

Those few irrefutable questions turned Xiao Yu's face livid.

She leaped high into the air and landed on the platform, speaking coldly. "All I know is that you severely injured my brother. I must seek justice for him. If you're a real man, accept my challenge."

Xiao Zhan's expression darkened, while the First Elder, Second Elder, and the others also changed expression.

Xiao Yu standing up for Xiao Ning like this would only make the Xiao Clan a laughingstock to outsiders.

Xiao Yan was so angered by her shamelessness that he laughed. He was preparing to give her a savage tongue-lashing.

But before he could speak again, another figure also leaped onto the platform and stood in front of him. "Xiao Yu, you aren't the only one who plays favorites and protects family. I'll fight you in my cousin's place."

The one who stepped onto the stage was Xiao Ting. During the Xiao Clan juniors' cultivation assessment one month ago, he had revealed Nine-Section Dou Qi.

If not for Xiao Yan's astonishing improvement from Three-Section Dou Qi to Seven-Section Dou Qi,

Xiao Ting would have been the most dazzling among the Xiao Clan's younger generation.

As for Xun'er... her surname was Gu.

"Little Ting."

Gratitude flashed through Xiao Yan's eyes, and he immediately wanted Xiao Ting to leave.

He had decided to risk everything, if necessary, to teach this woman who used all her brains to grow legs a lesson she would never forget.

"Xiao Ting, this has nothing to do with you." Xiao Yu's expression shifted slightly as she spoke coldly. "I'm only going to give Xiao Yan, my cousin, some guidance on how to care for his clansmen, for the sake of my younger brother. I will stop at the right point."

"Then why not give me, your younger cousin, some guidance instead?" Xiao Ting stepped forward with a smile. "I only broke through to the Dou Zhe realm recently, so I'm not very familiar with using Dou Qi. Cousin, you are an elite who studied at Jia Nan Academy. Since you care so deeply for your younger brother, you will surely be willing to offer me some instruction."

The moment he said this, the scene seemed to freeze.

Xiao Zhan's pupils contracted. His right hand unconsciously tightened, crushing the already shattered cup into powder as he rose excitedly to his feet. "Ting'er, you broke through to the Dou Zhe realm?"

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