Advancing to Da Dou Shi

The Three-Turn Qi Gathering Pill melted upon entering his mouth. Before Xiao Yan could even react, it rapidly transformed into three streams of pure energy, each stronger than the last, flowing down his throat like a rushing river and into his meridians.

The moment the three energies entered his meridians, Xiao Yan's hands, which were still in the cultivation hand seals, trembled violently. He discovered that two of the energies suddenly released a scorching heat like flames, while the other white energy suddenly became as cold as ice. Wherever the cold air passed, a thin layer of frost appeared on the walls of his meridians.

The sudden change in temperature almost pulled Xiao Yan out of his cultivation state, but fortunately he reacted quickly, calmed himself down, and gritted his teeth to endure the strange feeling.

The strangeness of this Bone Spirit Cold Flame is indeed quite extraordinary. I wonder what kind of torment my teacher endured back then to devour and refine it...

After a moment of reflection, Xiao Yan quickly focused his mind on his body. With a thought, a surge of cobalt blue Dou Qi erupted from his meridians, finally colliding fiercely with the energy of the Three-Turn Qi Gathering Pill at a certain point in his meridians.

"Bang..."

Hearing the soft thud emanating from within his body, Xiao Yan let out a low groan, his face flushing. He changed his hand seals and began to guide the three energies, whose sharpness had been somewhat diminished by the Dou Qi, along the path of the cultivation technique.

As it operated, the three energies—one cold and two hot—intertwined and merged harmoniously, occasionally releasing different temperatures, causing Xiao Yan considerable suffering.

But compared to devouring the Heavenly Flames, this pain is nothing...

Without the slightest hesitation, Xiao Yan directly channeled the Heavenly Flames within his body into his meridians. While protecting the meridians from impact, he used the power of the Heavenly Flames to refine the medicinal properties.

"Laugh..."

As the Green Lotus Myriad Beast Fire continued to burn, the three-colored energies were forced to completely fuse into a slightly pale blue liquid energy under the intense heat. Refined by the Heavenly Flames, wisps of pale blue energy slowly detached from the main body, and were finally completely converted by the Green Lotus Myriad Beast Fire into pure cobalt blue liquid energy, which was then poured into the vortex...

With the infusion of those strands of cobalt blue energy, the liquid energy within the cyclone surged at an astonishing rate.

"As expected of the Three-Turn Qi Gathering Pill from the teacher's collection, its efficacy truly does not disappoint!"

Seeing this, Xiao Yan felt a slight surge of joy. He realized that he was about to break through to the Da Dou Shi level!

The Cobalt Blue Flame, enveloped in pale blue energy, rapidly circulated through the meridians. With each complete circulation, a large amount of refined energy was injected into the vortex, causing the volume of the vortex to increase dramatically.

As time slowly passed, Xiao Yan in the outside world was enveloped in a faint cobalt blue radiance, which covered his body and formed the appearance of a Dou Qi Gauze.

At this moment, these cobalt blue lights were constantly twisting and turning, as if they were constructing and probing something. Faintly, those originally illusory Dou Qi Gauze actually began to show characteristics of something tangible.

At this moment, Xiao Yan was naturally unaware of the changes around him. Thanks to the calming effect of the Azure Lotus, he could maintain maximum control over his mind at any time. At this moment, all his attention was completely focused on the Dou Qi Vortex that was about to overflow within his body.

The internal vortex was slowly rotating, within which cobalt blue liquid energy, like a dam about to burst its banks, drifted and seemed poised to overflow from the already-limited vortex at any moment.

Xiao Yan kept a close watch on the overflowing vortex of energy, his mind not daring to relax for even a moment. Within his meridians, only a quarter of the medicinal power of the Three-Turn Qi Gathering Pill had been refined.

However, the vortex at this moment could no longer contain any more energy. Its capacity had reached its limit. If any more energy were forcibly injected, the vortex would likely burst, and the consequence would naturally be that Xiao Yan would become a cripple.

Of course, this is clearly unlikely.

He had no desire to return to Wutan City and truly become a fallen genius.

Xiao Yan slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, and his hand seals subtly changed. Before breaking through, every Dou Master would instinctively choose the most correct action. This was an action proven by countless predecessors. It was very simple: compressing Dou Qi.

As Xiao Yan's hand seals changed, the internal energy vortex was initially silent for a moment. After a while, ripples suddenly began to appear on the surface of the vortex. The ripples became more and more intense, until finally, it was almost like boiling water, with cobalt blue waves constantly churning in the center of the vortex.

In the instant the energy ripples fluctuated, the originally slowly rotating cyclone began to accelerate quietly, and in the blink of an eye, the originally slowly rotating cyclone had turned into a wildly spinning disc.

The whistling sound emitted by the rotation slowly spread within his body. These sounds, which seemed to contain some magical rhythm, passed through his meridians, bones, and cells, finally reaching the skin and entering the Dou Qi Gauze that was constantly twisting on Xiao Yan's body.

After the sound entered the Dou Qi Gauze, the swaying of the Dou Qi Gauze slowly stopped. A moment later, a blue light flashed, and the cobalt blue Dou Qi rapidly merged, converged, and finally blended together.

The radiance dimmed slightly, and a cobalt blue armor with two flame patterns branded on the chest appeared somewhat blurry on Xiao Yan's body. Although this cobalt blue armor was only in its initial form, the deep pale blue light and the faint yet powerful energy surge made it clear that it was far superior to the previous Dou Qi Gauze!

Unbeknownst to Xiao Yan, as this rudimentary Dou Qi Armor slowly took shape, his body was also undergoing a breathtaking transformation.

The wildly spinning vortex had obscured its exact shape, and as it spun at such a high speed, the liquid energy within it was decreasing at a visible rate. However, despite the decreasing energy, Xiao Yan could clearly sense that deep within the vortex, a substance possessing immense energy was slowly taking shape!

A moment later, the liquid energy in the cyclone gradually dwindled, and a cobalt blue rhomboid crystal, no bigger than a thumb, suddenly floated slowly in the center of the cyclone under Xiao Yan's watchful gaze, emitting a faint, intermittent glow.

Looking at the cobalt blue rhomboid crystal, a smile finally appeared on Xiao Yan's face.

You've advanced!

Next, it's time for takeoff!