Leveling Myself

Chu Yang suddenly discovered that the system panel seemed to be showing his current strength!

"Dou Qi Strength, Level One?" he could not help muttering to himself.

It was as though the system were deliberately joking with him.

How could he only be at Dou Qi Strength, Level One? Chu Yang felt extremely unwilling to accept it.

He felt that he had worked quite hard recently, practicing the Great Dou Absorption. Although he had not trained as desperately as Xiao Yan...

Huan Huan's voice laughed. "Do you think cultivation is as simple as eating?"

Chu Yang calmed down. He agreed with Huan Huan's words. Indeed, for an ordinary person cultivating, advancing even one level of Dou Qi Strength required a great deal of time!

This would not do. Chu Yang immediately thought to himself that he could not possibly cultivate as painfully as ordinary people. Who knew how long that would take?

Right, could he not take a shortcut?

Chu Yang immediately thought of those members of the Xiao and Galle families whose cultivation was at the Dou Qi Strength stage. After taking his Strength Advancement Pills, they could advance one level of Dou Qi Strength.

No, it seemed that one Strength Advancement Pill could allow someone to advance one level of Dou Qi Strength!

Then what if a person took two Strength Advancement Pills?

The younger members of the Xiao and Galle families had never tried that before, because he had never given them so many Strength Advancement Pills! There were quite a few people at the Dou Qi Strength stage in their families, but not everyone could obtain a Strength Advancement Pill to advance.

However, he could test it himself now!

After all, he had refined these Strength Advancement Pills himself. He could take as many as he wanted.

At that moment, Chu Yang smiled.

He did not believe that, just because he had arrived from Earth, these Strength Advancement Pills would be useless to him unlike the people of the Dou Qi Continent.

Xiao Yan had also transmigrated from Earth, yet had he not integrated into the Dou Qi Continent and become just like a native-born resident?

At merely Dou Qi Strength, Level One, Chu Yang could not bear to wait any longer. He wanted to improve quickly.

As for the side effects of this reckless advancement that ordinary people worried about, he believed that he would have ways to remedy them with miraculous pills in the future.

After all, the alchemy of a Dou Di could eventually refine divine pills so astonishing they could shake heaven and earth. The people of the Dou Qi Continent probably could not even imagine such things, because no figure at the Medicine Emperor level had appeared on this continent for a very long time.

After swallowing a Strength Advancement Pill, Chu Yang immediately checked whether his strength had improved.

The instant he sensed a subtle change in his body, the strength panel the system had given him displayed his current Dou Qi cultivation: Dou Qi Strength, Level Two.

It really had improved! Chu Yang was instantly delighted.

He remembered that he still had several Strength Advancement Pills in storage. He had not given them all to the Xiao family.

Could he now raise himself directly to the ninth level of Dou Qi Strength? Chu Yang immediately made up his mind.

As if hardening his heart, Chu Yang pulled them out and began eating Strength Advancement Pills one after another like beans.

If Xiao Zhan and the others saw him wasting them so extravagantly, they would probably be heartbroken. Among those at the Dou Qi Strength stage in the Xiao family, not everyone could get a Strength Advancement Pill. Even deciding who could take one required competition.

One "bean" after another entered his stomach, and Chu Yang felt the subtle changes in his body bit by bit.

...Dou Qi Strength, Level Three... Dou Qi Strength, Level Nine!

Wow! At last...

Chu Yang nearly shouted, "Long live!"

He had truly soared straight to the ninth level of Dou Qi Strength using these Strength Advancement Pills.

He wondered whether Xiao Yan would faint in the bathroom if he learned of this.

Xiao Yan possessed tremendous talent and was willing to cultivate bitterly, but Old Yao had no way to help him refine such excellent advancement pills. Moreover, they stubbornly believed that relying solely on pills for cultivation would be harmful to one's future progress.

But Chu Yang thought, That does not matter, Xiao Yan. I transmigrated here to surpass you. Besides, you will grow stronger by leaps and bounds later on, so do not even think about catching up to me!

Having reached the ninth level of Dou Qi Strength, Chu Yang naturally would not be satisfied with that.

After all, the ninth level of Dou Qi Strength was not much of a strength. Beyond it was the Dou Practitioner realm, followed by Dou Master, Da Dou Shi, Dou Ling, the Dou King who could manifest Dou Qi wings, Dou Huang, Dou Zong, Dou Zun, and, even more incredibly, Dou Sheng and Dou Di!

In fact, the Qi Gathering Pill Chu Yang had refined could allow him to break through directly to the Dou Practitioner realm.

However, he no longer had any Qi Gathering Pills, while he still had quite a few Strength Advancement Pills on hand.

Qi Gathering Pills were harder to refine than Strength Advancement Pills and consumed far more Medicinal Ingredients.

Still, if Chu Yang were to painstakingly cultivate his way into the Dou Practitioner realm, he believed that he would inevitably need to use a Qi Gathering Pill.

Of course, at the ninth level of Dou Qi Strength, he could also use the Qi Gathering Powder refined by Gu He to break through.

But ever since Chu Yang learned that Qi Gathering Pills were better than Qi Gathering Powder, he no longer cared for Qi Gathering Powder.

He planned to begin mass-refining Qi Gathering Pills, as well as other higher-grade pills, rather than merely producing Strength Advancement Pills in large quantities.

On one hand, the Xiao and Galle families would gradually become saturated with Strength Advancement Pills. On the other, even if they were brought to auction, they would not fetch a very high price, because many people in the early stages of cultivation were unwilling to rely entirely on Strength Advancement Pills to raise their Dou Qi Strength.

Chu Yang also understood that the Xiao and Galle families would not want their younger generations to keep taking Strength Advancement Pills.

They were also deeply convinced that one could not rely completely on pills for early-stage cultivation.

Although Qi Gathering Pills were more advanced than Strength Advancement Pills, not everyone needed one to advance from Dou Qi Strength to the Dou Practitioner realm. Most people would use pills only when they wished to advance quickly and did not want to spend too much time.

On one hand, many believed relying on pills was inferior to cultivating through one's own efforts. On the other, pills were generally expensive. Many people could not afford such expenses, nor were they willing to spend so lavishly.

Yet even so, with the Dou Qi Continent being so vast, pills remained highly sought after.

Now that Chu Yang was already at the ninth level of Dou Qi Strength, the process of advancing from the ninth level of Dou Qi Strength to the Dou Practitioner realm could be fast or slow. Some people could break through immediately, while others could struggle for years without crossing that mountain, eventually having no choice but to take Qi Gathering Powder.

Chu Yang clearly had no intention of cultivating bitterly like an ordinary person. He currently possessed a greater asset than even the most gifted alchemists—the Medicine Emperor System itself!

On the Dou Qi Continent, no alchemist had reached the Medicine Emperor level in a very long time.

And Chu Yang now had a shortcut before him. He firmly believed that on this path, he would advance faster than anyone else.

"Qi Gathering Pills. I am going to refine Qi Gathering Pills immediately!" Chu Yang swore to himself.

He wanted to break through to the Dou Practitioner realm as soon as possible.

He wanted to raise his strength quickly. Whether he left the Xiao family later or completed future missions, greater strength would allow him to accomplish things faster.