Great Dou Absorption Technique

Chu Yang suddenly ran into the hall, leaving everyone utterly bewildered by his inexplicable behavior.

The Qi Gathering Pill had just stunned the entire room, yet Chu Yang suddenly used some excuse to slip away. Why did this feel like all thunder and no rain?

However, Chu Yang had no time to care what anyone else thought.

All his attention was on the Lucky Draw points that had just arrived.

Chu Yang rushed out of the banquet hall and headed straight for the alchemy room. Of course, he had no intention of refining pills. It was merely an excuse.

But because of his status as an alchemist, no one in the Xiao family dared stop him.

After this incident, he had completely become well known throughout the Xiao family. No one would be so blind as Xiao Mei had been before, nearly offending him because she did not recognize him.

Chu Yang casually found an empty spot and prepared to savor his joy in peace.

There was no need to mention the Lucky Draw points entering his account. The system automatically deducted the one Lucky Draw point he owed. Last night, he had bought the Qi Gathering Pill and given it to Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yan, father and son, as though it had been free. He had not asked them for money at all, treating it as an advertisement for his identity as an alchemist.

Chu Yang was not actually a stingy person. Given his current situation, giving Xiao Yan a single Lucky Draw point's worth of something was no big deal.

Now then, it was time for the Lucky Draw to begin—

At once, an illusory roulette wheel appeared in Chu Yang's mind.

This time, the items on the wheel still did not display any specific names to Chu Yang.

Chu Yang simply closed his eyes and picked at random. As long as he did not draw some nonexistent option like "Thank You for Participating," it would be fine.

Chu Yang thought, The reward I got from the system last time was pretty good. The Medicine Emperor's Secret Canon could steadily improve my ability to refine various pills. This time should not be bad either, right? Maybe it will give me an upgraded alchemy technique.

Very quickly, the pointer on the roulette wheel stopped spinning.

Chu Yang opened his eyes and softly read aloud, "Great Dou Absorption..."

What the hell?

This was obviously not a pill-refining manual left behind by the Medicine Emperor, was it?

Judging by the name, it should be some kind of Dou Technique or cultivation method.

Chu Yang knew that on the Dou Qi Continent, Dou Techniques and cultivation methods were divided from low to high into Yellow-tier, Mystical-tier, Earth-tier, and then the highest, Heaven-tier. Within each of those four tiers, Dou Techniques and cultivation methods were further divided into low, middle, and high grades. Their power naturally varied accordingly.

When it came to Dou Techniques and cultivation methods, compatibility with the cultivator was important, but what mattered most was the cultivator's own strength. Even if a cultivator at the level of a one-star Dou Practitioner mastered a rare high-grade Heaven-tier technique, they would still find it difficult to defeat a Dou Master who cultivated a Yellow-tier technique.

But that was merely because the difference in cultivation level was too great. If the two sides were of similar strength and one possessed a technique much higher-tiered than the other's, then during battle, the advantage would become obvious the moment they clashed.

Right now, Chu Yang was not in the mood to think about such complicated matters. He was only curious what this strangely named "Great Dou Absorption" actually was.

Because he had never seen a Dou Technique or cultivation method by that name in Battle Through the Heavens.

Although he understood that since he had transmigrated into this world, everything would no longer follow the original plot, and the history of the Dou Qi Continent might be completely rewritten because of him, Chu Yang still found it rather strange that something so completely unfamiliar had appeared.

Sometimes, the unknown was what fascinated people most!

But immediately afterward, a huge amount of information regarding the Great Dou Absorption Technique surged into his mind as if his head were about to explode.

Ah! So it was both a Dou Technique and a cultivation method! Chu Yang immediately understood the nature of the Great Dou Absorption Technique.

The system really was something else!

And that little loli, the system's spokesperson, might have had a sharp tongue, but perhaps she was soft-hearted toward him after all. Maybe she even secretly liked him! Chu Yang could not help feeling smug.

After cultivating the Great Dou Absorption Technique, one would gain two extremely notable traits: attraction and repulsion.

How was that supposed to work?

The information explained it in detail—

The most miraculous part was the attractive force. It could actually absorb the Dou Qi cultivated by others and use it for oneself...

"Damn!"

Upon seeing this, Chu Yang could not help exclaiming in shock!

Wasn't this... similar in principle to how Old Yao, the soul hiding within that ancient ring, secretly absorbed the Dou Qi Xiao Yan cultivated?

But after thinking carefully, Chu Yang felt that the two were actually quite different.

This seemed like some kind of cultivation technique he had learned about before transmigrating, perhaps a strange martial arts inner technique described in the once-popular wuxia novels of his past world.

Or perhaps it was a similar technique he had read about in some other fantasy novel.

The more he understood how miraculous it was, the more excited Chu Yang became!

This system truly treated him incredibly well! For a moment, when he thought of the system spokesperson's previous coldness and mischievousness, Chu Yang found it all adorable and endlessly charming.

The Great Dou Absorption Technique could absorb the Dou Qi cultivated by others, which meant he would no longer need to cultivate so painstakingly... Chu Yang knew how miserable Xiao Yan's cultivation journey had been. Just hearing about it made one's scalp tingle.

Chu Yang knew that when Xiao Yan first met Old Yao, Old Yao had told him—and Xiao Yan himself already understood—that for the sake of going farther in the future, a beginner Dou Qi cultivator must never use methods that forcefully accelerated their strength.

That was because the early stages of Dou Qi cultivation were primarily about widening the meridians, tempering the body, strengthening the channels, and laying the foundation for condensing Dou Qi within the body later on. During this initial stage of cultivation, the body's channels were at their most fragile and most malleable. Therefore, one had to proceed step by step and could not use excessive force. Otherwise, when the Dou Qi within the body gradually became stronger in the future, the meridians would be unable to withstand its impact, ultimately resulting in ruptured channels and death.

During the years when Xiao Yan had been considered useless, Xiao Zhan had anxiously considered pouring Dou Qi into his body by force several times. Yet each time, he stopped at the critical moment, because he understood the dangers involved all too clearly.

Therefore, after coming to this continent, Chu Yang had felt that there was absolutely no way he could walk the same miserable path Xiao Yan had, taking one painstaking step at a time.

Perhaps he could not endure it at all.

But Chu Yang had never even dreamed that there would be such a bizarre method in the world, one that allowed him to take a shortcut.

"Has heaven finally shown me some favor?"

After drawing the Great Dou Absorption Technique, Chu Yang could not help sighing.