Douluo Traversal: I Pull Out a Dou Technique and You Don't Explode? Part 2

Those two words flashed through his mind, and he did not hesitate in the slightest.

Liu Bai shouted.

"Don't, don't attack."

He ran out of the bushes in a few strides. Seeing that he was only a child, everyone immediately let down their guard.

The leader saw that he was merely a child, seemingly only five or six years old, and promptly sheathed his blade.

"A child? How could there be a child in the Magical Beast Mountain Range?"

The burly leader walked over and crouched down.

"Kid, where are your parents? Why are you alone in the Magical Beast Mountain Range?"

Liu Bai forcibly squeezed a wronged expression onto his face as his mind began to race.

The Magical Beast Mountain Range? Magical beasts? Could this be some kind of Western fantasy or xianxia world?

As he pondered, he blurted out the words he had prepared long ago.

"My parents passed away. I don't know how I ended up here either. I got lost and can't find my way back."

Seeing Liu Bai's pitiful expression and his fair skin, which made him look entirely out of place in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, the burly man—

—had already filled in the whole story in his head.

Chapter 2: Soul Power and Dou Qi Rise Together—Awesome!

A child who had lost his parents had run into the Magical Beast Mountain Range in overwhelming grief, only to get lost.

Naturally, upon encountering them, he had instinctively rushed over.

The man gently rubbed Liu Bai's head.

"It's all right, kid. Since you don't know where your home is, come back with us for now."

Liu Bai chuckled inwardly. Sure enough, a child's appearance was useful anywhere!

Of course, there had also been a bit of a gamble involved, but thankfully, the result was a happy one.

The best way to understand this world was to find a way to connect with its people.

So far, the plan was going smoothly.

Liu Bai joined the caravan directly.

"What's your name?"

Walking beside the burly uncle, he asked casually, looking very forthright.

"My name is Liu Bai. What about you, Uncle?"

"Me? My name is Ma Qi. I'm a powerful Seven-Star Dou Zhe."

As he spoke, he struck a muscle-flexing pose.

"Hahaha, the boss is showing off to a kid again."

"Don't scare the little guy."

"Boss, if you were handsome, maybe the kid would like you more."

Ma Qi lowered his head and saw Liu Bai suddenly freeze. Thinking that the boy had been shocked by his strength, he laughed even louder.

But the reason Liu Bai was stunned at that moment was because of... Dou Zhe!

He had confirmed the world he was currently in!

He had never expected it to be Battle Through the Heavens!

The first long novel he had read as a child!

Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river; never look down on the poor young man!

After the shock came wild joy!

The Battle Through the Heavens World!

If the God Realm was excluded, its power ceiling was far higher than that of the Douluo World!

A Title Douluo was at most comparable to a Dou Emperor!

A Limit Douluo could reach, at best, a Dou Zong.

And most importantly, the cultivation system of the Battle Through the Heavens World was far more complete than that of the Douluo World.

Powerful cultivation methods and Dou Qi, Heavenly Flames and medicinal pills, as well as countless wondrous treasures of heaven and earth!

And what did the Douluo World have?

That little bastard had brought the Mysterious Heaven Skill from a wuxia world and somehow used it for three lifetimes.

The key was that it had somehow never fallen behind the times!

If Liu Bai brought a Heaven Tier cultivation method to the Douluo World, wouldn't that be utterly heaven-defying?

No, he wouldn't even need a Heaven Tier method. Even a Yellow Tier cultivation method would work wonders in the Douluo World. A Xuan Tier cultivation method combined with Dou Techniques would absolutely suppress the Mysterious Heaven Skill!

After collecting his thoughts, Liu Bai flattered him as well.

"Uncle, you're amazing. You're actually a legendary Dou Zhe expert."

Ma Qi burst into laughter.

"Hahahahaha, kid, from now on, you're under my protection!"

The group joked around as they continued forward.

They soon reached the destination of this journey.

Bitter Sea Town.

Hiss... Why did that name feel strangely familiar?

Yan Shisan, is that you?

After entering the town, the caravan handed over its goods, collected its payment, and prepared to return.

When Ma Qi learned that Liu Bai had nowhere to go, he waved a hand and took him into his caravan.

Liu Bai finally had his first foothold on the Dou Qi Continent.

Ma Qi's caravan was called the Ma Qi Caravan. The name was truly fresh and refined.

When Ma Qi learned that Liu Bai was already six years old yet had never come into contact with Dou Qi cultivation—

—he began teaching him. Even the basic qi-refining formulas of the Dou Qi Continent were quite profound.

They could help people absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and condense Dou Qi. After reaching the ninth stage, one could condense a Dou Qi Cyclone and charge into the Dou Zhe realm!

Since Liu Bai had never cultivated Dou Qi before, there was not a trace of Dou Qi in his body.

In short: Dou Qi, Stage Zero!

Moreover, Liu Bai knew that he was actually from the Douluo World. He had no idea whether he could even successfully cultivate Dou Qi.

That night.

In the small courtyard of Ma Qi's home, Ma Qi's house was not small—rather, it was somewhat large. After all, in a town with barely a thousand people, a Seven-Star Dou Zhe was already an absolute expert.

Liu Bai was settled in a side room. Sitting on the bed, he formed the hand seal for cultivating Dou Qi.

According to Uncle Ma Qi's earlier explanation, in the Dou Qi Continent, ordinary people generally needed anywhere from several weeks to several months to condense their first thread of Dou Qi.

Meanwhile, completing the entire Dou Qi stage usually took over ten years.

In the original novel, Xiao Yan began cultivating Dou Qi at four and condensed his cyclone to break through into a Dou Zhe at eleven.

At the time, he could be called the number one genius of the Jia Ma Empire!

Even so, it had taken six years.

The reason cultivation during the Dou Qi stage was slow was that it was a stage dedicated to laying foundations. If the foundation was not solid, how could one climb to greater realms in the future?

Liu Bai quickly entered a cultivation state. After all, he had often meditated in the Douluo Continent, and cultivating Dou Qi was essentially meditation as well.

Before long, he suddenly sensed a strange energy within his body being stirred. The energy of heaven and earth around him slowly flowed into his body under its pull.

What was this?

Could it be Soul Power?

But hadn't he yet awakened his Martial Soul?

Right, in the original novel, the internal energy Tang San produced by cultivating the Mysterious Heaven Skill was actually Soul Power.

In other words, Soul Power had always existed. It simply did not manifest externally before one's Martial Soul awakened.

So had cultivating Dou Qi triggered the Soul Power within his body?

As he thought, threads of the energy of heaven and earth had already flowed into his body, continuously circulating through the meridians all around him.

With every circuit, his body was tempered once. Although each improvement was slight, it was real and tangible.

Cultivating Dou Qi was about building one's foundation—strengthening the body and opening the meridians.

By continuously absorbing the energy of heaven and earth to nourish the body, one gradually strengthened the muscles, bones, and meridians, laying a solid physical foundation for future cultivation.

At the same time, the cultivation process gradually cleared the body's meridians, preparing for the future condensation of a Dou Qi Cyclone and the storage of more Dou Qi.

After these wisps of heaven and earth energy completed ten full circuits through his meridians—

—they finally gathered in his dantian and transformed into a thread of pure Dou Qi!

It was only a single thread, not yet enough to reach Stage One Dou Qi.

But this was already astonishing, because less than an hour had passed since he began cultivating!

Cultivating the first thread of Dou Qi in under an hour would be absolutely shocking in a place like the Jia Ma Empire!

At this rate, reaching Stage One Dou Qi should take no more than a few days.

Sure enough, the Soul Power in his body gave him an enormous advantage during the early stages of cultivating Dou Qi.