Dou Zhe Achieved, Five Elements Generate Each Other!

Ya Fei could not help but think of Lu Heng in her own courtyard.

Xiao Yan had reached the eighth stage at nine years old, already drawing the attention of countless people.

If they learned that someone was about to challenge the Dou Zhe realm at the age of nine, their jaws would probably drop.

Gu Ni sighed. "Miss, you really know how to keep your composure."

Then he thought of the boy Ya Fei had brought back three years ago, who now lived in her courtyard. Gu Ni asked quietly:

"Miss, how is that boy Lu Heng's cultivation talent? I truly do not understand why you brought such a child back. You should know about the rumors within the family concerning you."

Ya Fei curled her lips into a smile but did not directly answer Gu Ni's question.

"Uncle Gu Ni, time will give us the answer."

In the backyard, inside a small room.

Lu Heng was immersed in a marvelous state.

The Dou Qi that had originally filled his body had now completely vanished. In its place, at the dantian in his lower abdomen, was an azure vortex the size of a palm.

This was the mark of a Dou Zhe.

Moreover, Lu Heng could clearly sense that his vortex differed from that of ordinary people.

An ordinary person's vortex was gaseous, while his faintly possessed the thick texture of liquid. Verdant and glistening, it resembled a pool of emerald water.

Liquid Dou Qi was the mark of a Dou Master. Lu Heng was greatly delighted; his golden finger was indeed powerful.

"Phew..."

Lu Heng slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of stale air.

The world before him seemed to have become clearer.

The sound of fallen leaves outside the window, the faint movements in the neighboring room, even the dust pressed beneath his blanket—none could escape his senses.

Before Lu Heng could carefully experience the changes in his body, the golden Book of Destiny in his mind trembled once more.

The previously sealed second page slowly turned open.

[Dou Zhe Achieved, Five Elements Generate Each Other!]

[Conditions met: Break through to Dou Zhe, condense a vortex.]

[Obtained Li Fire Body Awakening Method. Required: five second-tier fire-attributed Magic Cores, ten second-grade fire-attributed medicinal herbs.]

[Li Fire Body: Increases cultivation speed and resistance to flames. Also provides high resistance against ice-attributed attacks such as cold poison. Increases explosive combat power!]

[Azure Wood Body can be enhanced. Required: five second-tier wood-attributed Magic Cores, ten second-grade wood-attributed medicinal herbs.]

[Technique advancement:

Five Spirits Chaos Art (Dou Practitioner Chapter), capable of simultaneously circulating fire- and wood-attributed Dou Qi.]

[Obtained Dou Techniques:

Azure Wood Seal (low Xuan rank), Blazing Sun Finger (low Xuan rank).]

[Obtained alchemist inheritance:

Pharmacopoeia of Ten Thousand Worlds: Volume I: pill formulas and alchemy techniques of the fourth grade and below.]

Lu Heng's mind was completely drawn to the contents of the Book of Destiny.

The Li Fire Body awakening method!

The Five Spirits Chaos Art was exactly as Lu Heng had guessed. It truly was a technique capable of mastering Five Elements Dou Qi.

And now that the five elements generated each other, wood gave rise to fire. He already possessed both fire- and wood-attributed Dou Qi!

This was the basic requirement for becoming an alchemist on the Dou Qi Continent. Coupled with his soul realm at the middle stage of the Mortal Realm, becoming a fourth-grade alchemist was merely a matter of time.

Then Lu Heng began circulating the mental method of the Dou Practitioner Chapter of the Five Spirits Chaos Art.

In only a moment, an unprecedented scorching heat emerged from deep within his dantian.

Beside the originally pure azure vortex, a faint crimson thread seemed to ignite and coil around it.

The crimson and Azure Wood Dou Qi accompanied and generated each other, intertwining without interfering with one another.

After his delight subsided, Lu Heng looked again at the materials needed to awaken his physique.

[Li Fire Body awakening materials: five second-tier fire-attributed Magic Cores, ten second-grade fire-attributed medicinal herbs.]

[Azure Wood Body enhancement materials: five second-tier wood-attributed Magic Cores, ten second-grade wood-attributed medicinal herbs.]

But this was truly expensive!

Together, these two sets of materials would cost nearly a hundred thousand gold coins. If not for Sister Ya Fei, Lu Heng truly would not know how to obtain them.

What did cultivation depend on?

Resources.

And where could Lu Heng, who had no background whatsoever, obtain so many gold coins? How else could he have entered the Dou Zhe realm so early?

"I'll have to let Sister Ya Fei support me again." Lu Heng chuckled.

"After awakening the Li Fire Body and stabilizing my foundation for a while, I'll join Jia Nan Academy."

Lu Heng pondered this to himself.

The Jia Ma Empire was ultimately too small. Across the entire Northwest Continent, only Jia Nan Academy was worth joining.

However, before entering Jia Nan Academy, Lu Heng intended to visit Green Mountain Town first and obtain the flying Dou Technique.

As for Xiao Yi Xian, he could get to know her first. Yet Lu Heng had no solution for the Woe Poison Physique. Perhaps the Book of Destiny would give him an answer in the future.

Lu Heng had also tried communicating with the Book of Destiny, but it could not be communicated with. Only by meeting its conditions could he receive rewards. At present, Lu Heng only knew that reaching a major realm would grant him techniques and the like.

Just as he had received a technique upon cultivating Dou Qi, and received the alchemist inheritance upon reaching the Dou Zhe realm.

But there was one thing that greatly puzzled Lu Heng: why did the Book of Destiny contain multiple physiques? Could it be that all five physiques would merge into one?

Unable to figure it out for the moment, Lu Heng glanced at his attribute panel within the Book of Destiny.

[Name: Lu Heng]

[Age: Nine]

[Cultivation: One-Star Dou Zhe]

[Soul Realm: Mortal Realm (middle stage)]

[Physique: Azure Wood Body (first tier), Li Fire Body (unawakened)]

[Technique: Five Spirits Chaos Art (Dou Practitioner Chapter)]

[Dou Techniques: Azure Wood Seal (low Xuan rank), Blazing Sun Finger (low Xuan rank)]

[Profession: Alchemist]

Lu Heng clenched his fist, feeling the abundant power within him, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Next comes the problem of money."

Five second-tier fire-attributed Magic Cores, five second-tier wood-attributed Magic Cores, and twenty second-grade medicinal herbs.

In Wutan City, the market price for a second-tier Magic Core was roughly three to four thousand gold coins, depending on its attribute and quality.

As for second-grade medicinal herbs, they were even harder currency. In the original work, Liu Xi, the first-grade alchemist hired by the Jia Lie Family, could lord it over everyone in Wutan City.

This entire set would cost no less than a hundred thousand gold coins.

What did a hundred thousand gold coins represent?

The so-called marketplace controlled by the Xiao Family only made that much in net profit in an entire year.

(In the original work, the starting price for auctioning the Wind Scroll Art was two hundred thousand. At the time, Xiao Yan mentioned that this was more than two years of the Xiao Family's profits.)

Lu Heng scratched his head, threw himself onto the soft pillow, and stared blankly at the ceiling beams.

"How is this cultivation? It's practically a gold-devouring beast."

Although he knew Ya Fei was wealthy and that the Mite'er Family was swimming in money, Ya Fei was currently in a state of exile.

Having only arrived in Wutan City a year ago, this sum was definitely not an easy burden for Ya Fei.

Just as he was thinking, faint footsteps sounded beyond the courtyard gate.

They were very light and somewhat dragging; clearly, the person walking was exhausted to the extreme.

Lu Heng's ears twitched. He rolled out of bed, casually draped an outer robe over himself, and pushed open the door.

Moonlight flowed like water through the courtyard.