Three Years, Breaking Through to Dou Zhe

"Whew..."

In a low house in an alley, Su Yun was absorbing Dou Qi.

Pale white currents of energy seeped out of the air, then continuously surged into the young man's body.

As Dou Qi kept pouring in, a trace of fatigue flashed across Su Yun's face. He released his hand seal and stopped cultivating.

Su Yun stood up from the basin, twisted his stiff, aching neck, and stretched. A crackling series of pops rang out as his bones shifted.

"It's been about three years since I obtained the system..." Su Yun silently calculated the time.

Although his system had already fallen behind the times, unable to let him sign in, clock in, or play the role of some peerless expert who could instantly crush heaven, earth, and the air itself,

if used properly, combined with his foresight and prior knowledge, his future was still promising.

Su Yun walked out the door and headed toward the main street. This time, he was going out to clear his head.

Over these three years, aside from necessary supplies, he had almost never left home.

Now his cultivation had already reached Ninth Stage Dou Qi, and the Dou Qi in his body was full to the brim, with no room to advance further.

He had just finished cultivating and was not in good condition. If he rashly tried to break through to Dou Zhe and condense a Dou Qi Cyclone, the chance of failure would be high.

He needed to adjust his state.

Ever since he learned this was the Douqi Continent, his mind had been filled with nothing but cultivation, and he had not paid much attention to his surroundings.

Naturally, he had no friends in Wutan City, and with his mental age, he could not play with them anyway.

This so-called relaxation was nothing more than wandering around Wutan City.

After relaxing in Wutan City for two hours, Su Yun's thoughts became active again.

"Nine years old and Ninth Stage Dou Qi. Forget the Jia Ma Empire, even in the Central Plains, that should count as a genius, right?"

Thanks to the Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid, his current cultivation already looked down on his peers. Even Xiao Yan could not compare.

If he succeeded in one go this time and condensed a Dou Qi Cyclone, then he would reach Dou Zhe two years earlier than Xiao Yan.

Su Yun cheered himself on in his heart.

He had been fortunate enough to become one of the transmigrators, had obtained a system, and had smoothly retrieved Medicine Elder's lifetime Memories. His luck could not be considered too bad...

No matter what, he could not harbor fear. Even if people flamed him as an idiot, he had to e-press onward!

If he could not even condense a single Dou Qi Cyclone, he might as well go AFK.

After adjusting his state, Su Yun returned home and sat cross-legged.

He took a deep breath, forcefully pressed down the churning unease in his heart, and further regulated his breathing on the bed.

After two hours, Su Yun finally adjusted his condition to its peak. Now was the best moment for him to break through to Dou Zhe.

Su Yun's face was calm, revealing no expression. His hands formed the seal to absorb Dou Qi, his breathing gradually became steady, and the faint Dou Qi within his body moved in response to his will.

Inside the room, the calm air suddenly rippled. Threads of pale white Dou Qi seeped out of the air and drilled into Su Yun's body.

As time passed, the surrounding Dou Qi continuously surged in, and the scale of the Dou Qi inside Su Yun's body slowly expanded.

Under the constant infusion of Dou Qi from outside his body, the Dou Qi within Su Yun had gradually filled most of his meridians.

Sensing the condition inside his body, Su Yun took a deep breath. His hand seal abruptly changed, his ten fingers forming a strange seal.

With the change of the hand seal, the surging Dou Qi in his body seemed to be pulled by a violent suction force and suddenly contracted rapidly toward the position of his lower abdomen.

When all the Dou Qi had shrunk to his lower abdomen, the pale white Dou Qi had already begun to turn milky white.

Su Yun sensed the pale white Dou Qi in the meridians throughout his body emptying out in a rush. He focused his mind and, relying on the exceptional Soul Power from having lived two lives, compressed the Dou Qi inside him.

However, the clump of milky white Dou Qi in his lower abdomen began to resist, constantly churning violently.

The force of resistance was not weak, but Su Yun's two lifetimes added together were almost thirty years, and his Soul Power at the stage of Ninth Stage Dou Qi could absolutely be called outstanding.

After the two forces remained in a slight stalemate for a short while, the Dou Qi continued contracting.

After an unknown amount of time, a soft muffled sound quietly rang out within his body...

As that muffled sound rang out, the feeling of resistance vanished into thin air.

Su Yun let out a heavy breath of relief, his chest heaving violently.

Lying on the bed and sensing the abundant energy within his body, a faint smile appeared at the corner of Su Yun's mouth. Just as he was about to get up, drowsiness surged into his mind, and he fell into a deep sleep.

This sleep lasted an entire night. When Su Yun woke, it was already early morning the next day.

Dawn slowly drew back the curtain, and the newborn sun shone on the young man's cheeks. Several sparrows chirped by the window.

On the bird's nest outside the house, the young chicks' wings had already grown full; there was no need to worry that they could not soar a thousand li.

Su Yun lightly exhaled, moved his slightly stiff and aching legs, and sat cross-legged.

With his eyes slightly closed, Su Yun's mind gradually sank into his body.

Internal Sight. This was an ability only those at the Dou Zhe level could master. The stronger one was, the more thoroughly one could explore the situation within one's body.

His mind sank to the location of his lower abdomen. A palm-sized milky white cyclone was slowly rotating, and around the outside of the cyclone was a layer of milky white energy gas resembling a nebula.

His mind gazed at this tiny cyclone, and Su Yun nodded in satisfaction.

Although the current cyclone was very small, the energy contained within it was not something that could be compared to when he had been at Ninth Stage Dou Qi before.

Dou Zhe and the Dou Qi stage were almost fundamentally different.

The energy absorbed before becoming a Dou Zhe was called Dou Qi, but after becoming a Dou Zhe, the energy absorbed was true Dou Qi!

Although the two were only one word apart, the gap between them could not be summed up in just a word or two.

His tightly shut eyes suddenly opened, and three parts confidence flashed through Su Yun's deep pupils.

With Dou Zhe strength, forget the Douqi Continent; even in Wutan City, he did not rank anywhere.

But the pleasure of advancing still gave him a trace of satisfaction.

No matter how weak he was, he was still stronger than at the Dou Qi stage.

After adjusting his mindset and silently telling himself that now was not the time to get carried away, Su Yun cast aside the complacency he had just developed and began browsing through Medicine Elder's Memories.

Dou Zhe was different from the Dou Qi stage. He could already begin cultivating a Dou Qi Cultivation Technique.

On the Douqi Continent, Yellow Tier Cultivation Techniques were everywhere, but Xuan Tier and above were not something commoners could come into contact with.

The same went for Dou Techniques. Those above Xuan Tier required joining a sect or academy to obtain. Of course, if you had sufficient financial resources, you could also try your luck at an auction.

Su Yun was not worried about this aspect.

Alchemists, especially high-grade alchemists, did not care for Gold Coins.

If you wanted a high-grade alchemist to help you refine medicinal pills, you had to produce bargaining chips that could move them, and in this regard, cultivation techniques and Dou Techniques were especially useful.

As a Peak Eighth-Grade Alchemist, Medicine Elder's collection would certainly not be small. Getting through this very early transitional period naturally would not be a problem.

"Wait..."

"I still don't know my attribute."

Su Yun felt a headache coming on.