Three Out of Five Cheats, Fifteen Years Later

"Travel to the world of Battle Through the Heavens. Choose three out of five. Please select your transmigration cheats."

"First: Emperor Realm Soul. After transmigrating, you will obtain an Emperor Realm Soul, but you will be unable to improve it further.

Second: Powerful Soul Talent. No barriers to breakthroughs. Your Soul Talent will be powerful, and breaking through Soul Realm levels will be effortless, as natural as water flowing downhill.

Third: Dou Di Inheritance. You will randomly obtain the complete inheritance of one Dou Emperor from ancient times to the present.

Fourth: All Heavenly Flames on the Heavenly Flame Ranking. You will obtain every Heavenly Flame on the Heavenly Flame Ranking.

Fifth: Innate Fire Spirit Body. Similar to the Woe Poison Body, the Fire Spirit Body is naturally attuned to fire. Absorbing flames will allow you to rapidly increase your cultivation."

Sitting on the sofa, Xiao Yan held his phone and watched an AI-generated video. Hearing the polar bear accent coming from it, he could not help saying, "Wasn't it supposed to be the twelve zodiac signs deciding your exclusive shelter? And that accent is wrong too, isn't it? Shouldn't it be a male voice saying, 'You're transmigrating into Battle Through the Heavens and getting fifteen points. How would you spend them?'"

Though he said that, Xiao Yan seriously thought it over in his head, then typed a comment.

"You can only choose two, three, and five. One and four look good, but they're actually massive traps."

"Emperor Realm Soul looks like the best option, but having your upper limit locked in place is way too cruel. Beyond the Dou Qi Continent, there are Outer Realm Evil Demons and even stronger fighters. Being stuck at Emperor Realm Soul would feel glorious early on and unbearably stifling later."

"All the Heavenly Flames—don't forget that the top three Heavenly Flames possess intelligence. Even if they didn't, given how precious and powerful these flames are, either stronger people would snatch them away, or the flames would roast you dry. It doesn't specify complete control; it only says you obtain them. That's far too big a trap."

"This is way too vague. Without enough conditions, choosing anything is just asking to die."

"Two, three, and five aren't that clear either, but at least there don't seem to be any huge traps. Make do with those."

After typing his comment, Xiao Yan hit send, then reread what he had posted and started laughing.

He felt that he was being a little too childish. He was already in his twenties, yet he was seriously considering which options to choose in a video like this. As if it could possibly be real.

The moment that thought crossed his mind, Xiao Yan's vision suddenly went black.

It seemed as though a very long time had passed before he painfully forced open his eyelids. His vision was completely blurred, and he could not see clearly.

Just as he wondered whether staying up too late had finally caused something to go wrong with his body, noisy voices suddenly reached his ears.

"Clan Head Xiao, Madam has given birth! Madam has given birth! It's a young master!" cried an elderly midwife.

"Really? Let me see, let me see!" A man's excited voice rang out.

"Xiao Zhan! Don't touch him carelessly!" a weak female voice immediately followed.

"Yes, yes, I won't touch him, I won't. This boy looks adorable right after being born. He really takes after you, my lady. He'll definitely be a fine seedling for cultivating Dou Qi in the future."

"You sweet talker~"

Listening to the couple flirt, Xiao Yan was completely dumbfounded.

Xiao Zhan? Dou Qi?

He had transmigrated into the world of Battle Through the Heavens?!

Fifteen years passed in the blink of an eye.

Behind the Xiao Clan's mountain.

Xiao Yan sat atop a large boulder, regulating his breathing in meditation.

"Same as always. The moment I cultivate Dou Qi, it starts draining away. Yao Lao really can suck it dry," Xiao Yan thought.

Fifteen years after transmigrating, he had followed the same path as the original Xiao Yan.

At most, he had not grown arrogant and complacent when his talent was at its peak, which meant that when his cultivation declined, he had drawn ridicule.

Yet the course of his life had not changed.

He had still begun cultivating at the age of four, and after breaking through to the Dou Zhe realm, his cultivation had immediately begun to regress.

Now, after that regression, he had achieved the impressive result of eighth stage Dou Qi in yesterday's test.

It was not that he had been lazy. Dou Qi could only be cultivated for one hour a day; otherwise, his meridians would be unable to bear the strain.

The reason he was five stages ahead of the original Xiao Yan was entirely because his soul power was stronger and his cultivation efficiency was higher. Otherwise, he would only be at third stage Dou Qi now.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yan still found it somewhat absurd.

Just because he had chosen three out of five transmigration cheats online, he had actually transmigrated into the world of Battle Through the Heavens and become Xiao Yan, the protagonist from the original story?

Well, he had no attachments in his previous life, so transmigrating here was not bad.

Although the original Xiao Yan had suffered the massacre of his clan, the abduction of his teacher, and countless life-and-death crises before finally becoming a Dou Emperor.

He would not have to go through all that.

The three cheats he had selected had truly appeared along with his transmigration.

Soul Talent, Dou Di Inheritance, and Fire Spirit Body.

Soul Talent allowed his soul strength to grow rapidly. Although he had never deliberately cultivated it, he already possessed soul power at the level of a third-tier Alchemist.

The Dou Di Inheritance contained that Dou Emperor's primary methods, cultivation techniques, Dou Skills, and specialties.

His luck had been incredible. The Dou Emperor he had drawn was one who cultivated the body.

As a result, Xiao Yan had a Heaven Rank high-tier body-tempering cultivation technique in his mind, along with a large number of Heaven Rank and Earth Rank Dou Skills.

As for those Dou Skills, there was no need to mention them for now. Without sufficient cultivation, he could not use them, let alone learn them.

It was worth mentioning that Xiao Yan could sense that if his soul kept improving while his physical strength failed to keep up, he would not directly perish, but he would become like Yao Lao—a soul lingering in the world, with the body gone, trapped in a half-dead state.

That reminded him of the scam option, Emperor Realm Soul.

If he had really chosen it, he probably would have been finished the moment he was born.

Of course, the Soul Talent option was not much better. If it kept growing at this rate, his demise would only be a matter of time.

Fortunately, while the Dou Di Inheritance could not allow him to cultivate its technique at the Dou Qi stage, it included quite a few methods of improving physical strength.

His body now was comparable to that of a second-tier magical beast. If they truly fought, an ordinary Dou Master might not be his match.

And this was merely the improvement speed brought about by some minor methods.

Once he became a Dou Zhe and officially cultivated that Heaven Rank high-tier body-tempering technique.

By then, his body would be able to keep pace with the growth of his soul power, and he would no longer have to worry about his soul power vastly surpassing his body.

Back to the point.

Soul Talent and the Dou Di Inheritance had already shown tangible effects, but even now, Xiao Yan could not tell what the Fire Spirit Body actually did.

Did cultivating fire-attributed techniques let him achieve twice the result with half the effort?

He was only at the Dou Qi stage. He could not cultivate techniques yet.

Could absorbing flames rapidly increase his cultivation?

He was only at the Dou Qi stage. Forget finding special flames—even if he found them, he could not absorb them.

As for controlling flames, that was even more ridiculous.

The same point still stood: he was only at the Dou Qi stage!

Xiao Yan felt somewhat helpless.

Fortunately, judging by the timeline, his bargain-bin fiancée would soon come to break off their engagement, and Yao Lao, the bargain-bin teacher inside his ring, should make his appearance as well.

Once that happened, he would quickly break through from the Dou Qi stage to the Dou Zhe realm, and every aspect of him would surely undergo astonishing improvement.

Just as Xiao Yan was imagining the future, a Xiao Clan servant came to the rear mountain and called out to him:

"Young Master Three, the clan head has summoned you to the main hall."

Xiao Yan abruptly came back to his senses, and his expression instantly turned serious.

Reading it in the original story was one thing. Experiencing it personally was another.

Having an engagement broken off was indeed humiliating.