Technique Evolution, Breakthrough to Dou Shi!

In the courtyard.

Under a year of arduous cultivation and the polish of time, Ye Yan had completely shed the childishness on his face.

Replaced by sharply defined facial features, as well as a composed temperament and sense of security that gave young maidens and married women greater peace of mind!

Yet Ye Yan paid no attention to this.

His mind sank into his Dantian.

Just now, he had been extracting Wood Qi from the Green Wood Vine. Right after extracting ten wisps, he suddenly felt a distinct spirituality emerge within his Dantian.

Could it be that the Life Fire Seed has finally been successfully nurtured?!

Ye Yan thought to himself.

With joy, he performed an internal inspection, examining in detail the cauldron, whose size remained unchanged but which had solidified into something substantial.

The seventy-plus wisps of Wood Qi coiled around the cauldron began to decrease frantically at a rate of one wisp per second.

Ten wisps decreased in ten breaths, a hundred wisps in a hundred...

The Wood Qi leaped like fish in the deep sea, soaring into the air and falling into the crimson patterns at the bottom of the cauldron.

The wisps of Wood Qi fell one by one, finally disappearing into the markings at the base of the cauldron, absorbed by the flame pattern at the center.

As one with the cauldron, he could naturally sense the flame pattern seemingly slowly receding, replaced by a steadily increasing spirituality.

Just as Ye Yan waited quietly,

his thoughts wandered, and he thought of a problem.

That Life Fire Seed was nurtured by him through the cauldron. Once such a fire seed grew powerful,

wouldn't he end up having children??

Just like Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi.

Thinking of this strange question, Ye Yan suddenly gave himself a slap.

He could still get distracted at such a crucial moment; it seemed the intensity of his arduous cultivation had not yet reached its limit.

However, once that Life Fire Seed grew up, this fire seed would definitely be a partner.

Sensing that spirituality, the joy in Ye Yan's heart made him unable to resist indulging in a further daydream.

At this moment, the qi vortex above Ye Yan's Dantian automatically and frantically spun, swallowing the surrounding energy like a whale gulping water.

The moment the energy entered his body, it was driven by the original Dou Qi to circulate through his meridians.

Even the remaining Wood Qi on the cauldron was frantically sucked into the flame pattern at the bottom of the furnace.

When the last wisp of Wood Qi also vanished, the flame pattern at the bottom of the cauldron finally receded.

Replaced by a fire seed the size of a mung bean, crimson at the center and cyan-green at the edges.

Following the appearance of the fire seed, the qi vortex, which was already in a spinning state, rotated even more frantically.

Startling Ye Yan into hastily withdrawing his mind to control the spinning qi vortex.

At that exact moment, the mung bean-sized Life Fire Seed leaped within the Heaven Burning Furnace.

Like the clapper of a bell!

Accompanied by the leaping of the Life Fire Seed, the qi vortex above the cauldron began to split off the greater part of its Dou Qi, forming a cluster of Dou Qi cloud that dropped into the cauldron.

Dong, dong, dong!

The closer the Dou Qi cloud got to the cauldron, the smaller it became, until it almost turned into a droplet of liquid.

Dou Qi condensation into liquid?

Ye Yan blurted out.

This was the mandatory path for breaking through to a Dou Shi.

This Life Fire Seed had this function as well?

Just as Ye Yan was filled with doubt, another cluster of Dou Qi cloud fell from the qi vortex and finally turned into liquid.

In this manner, the qi vortex above continuously shed Dou Qi clouds, turning them into liquid.

Eventually, Ye Yan could sense the weakness of the qi vortex, driving his body into an extreme state of thirst.

Dong, dong, dong!

Meanwhile, at the bottom of the cauldron,

accompanied by the uninterrupted leaping of the Life Fire Seed, those nine droplets of liquid composed of Dou Qi clouds also moved in tandem with the bounding of the fire seed.

One fire and nine liquid droplets actually emitted a sound akin to morning bells being struck from within the bottom of the furnace.

Yet amidst the continuous leaping, those nine droplets of liquid seemed to constantly evaporate under the soundwaves of the cauldron.

The evaporated Dou Qi liquid continuously rose, finally merging into Ye Yan's bones, flesh, and meridians...

These special liquids made Ye Yan feel surges of warmth flowing through various parts of his body, reinforcing his meridians and so on.

Even the foundation he had laid grew considerably more robust.

However, the bone-deep thirst brought by the lack of Dou Qi still remained.

Frightened, Ye Yan hurriedly swallowed a few Qi Recovery Pills to accelerate the recovery of his Dou Qi.

When the nine droplets of liquid completely vanished, the rapidly leaping Life Fire Seed finally slowed down.

Yet the strange soundwaves emitted by the cauldron, triggered by the bounding and trembling of that fire seed, still continued.

The soundwaves seemed omnipresent, driving the cells deep within his body to slightly vibrate as well, expelling impurities from the depths of his physique.

When that thin qi vortex finally recovered somewhat,

Ye Yan at last discovered that his originally Huang Tier High Stage technique had silently evolved to the Mystic Tier Lower Grade.

After recovering, his Dou Qi had also grown much denser, almost shimmering with a liquid luster.

Should I take advantage of this opportunity to break through to a Dou Shi?

A thought flashed through Ye Yan's mind.

Feeling the rapidly surging energy in the surrounding heaven and earth, Ye Yan hesitated for only a second before instantly deciding to break through while the momentum lasted.

His foundation was already solid enough.

The evolution of his technique was both his fortuitous encounter and the best opportunity to break through to a Dou Shi.

Ye Yan sat cross-legged, his hands forming a cultivation hand seal, and then sank his mind into his body.

As Ye Yan entered the state of cultivation, the energy surging between the surrounding heaven and earth became even more ferocious, until his body became almost like a black hole, frantically plundering the surrounding energy and madly absorbing those gathered forces.

Ye Yan began to wildly guide this energy entering through the pores of his entire body.

This energy was far too miscellaneous and had to undergo the refinement and extraction of his meridians before it could be completely transformed and merged into the qi vortex.

Yet Ye Yan was ultimately only at the realm of a Nine Star Dou Zhe; even while desperately and frantically controlling that swarming energy, he felt somewhat unequal to the task.

Fortunately, seeming to understand Ye Yan's situation, the Life Fire Seed—even without sufficient intelligence—accelerated its bounding within the cauldron.

The soundwaves transmitted from the cauldron assisted Ye Yan in suppressing the energy that flooded into his body, subsequently refining it and transforming it into pure Dou Qi energy.

Finally, Ye Yan poured that pale red Dou Qi into the crimson qi vortex.

Following the influx of this majestic Dou Qi, the entire qi vortex seemed as though a huge boulder had been cast into a calm lake, splashing massive ripples.

The qi vortex, which had already been leisurely spinning, began to rotate at a high speed as if tirelessly tireless.

A fierce suction force crazily pulled the energy between heaven and earth toward him, plunging it through his pores and into Ye Yan's body.

Is Xiao Yan about to break through?

Sensing the commotion in the room, Ye Jingheng did not dare to open the bedroom door, instead standing watchfully outside and looking around.

Why is there such a huge commotion? Even these miscellaneous heaven and earth energies are being absorbed.

Feeling the heaven and earth energy continuously pouring into the house, Ye Jingheng felt his heart skip a beat.

If this wasn't handled well, it could affect his future.

Yet right now was the crucial moment of breakthrough; if he entered, it might interfere with the youth.

Torn with internal conflict, Ye Jingheng ultimately chose to wait by the door.

And inside the house.

Faced with that frantic heaven and earth energy, Ye Yan worried for only a few breaths.

Under the assistance of the Life Fire Seed, that heaven and earth energy continuously shrank, ultimately turning into droplet after droplet of pure liquid the size of mung beans.

The liquid flowed along the meridians and finally plunged into the qi vortex.

Unlike the Dou Qi clouds separated previously, the qi vortex immediately rippled with waves upon absorbing the liquid energy.

Even as droplet after droplet of liquid merged, the crimson qi vortex began to slowly shrink.

Although the qi vortex shrank, the Dou Qi contained within it grew even more concentrated.

Under the influx of this heaven and earth energy, the meridians and bones within Ye Yan's body imperceptibly grew tougher and broader.

Accompanied by the continuous merging of liquid into the qi vortex,

the originally shrunken qi vortex returned to its original size as more liquid poured in.

At this moment, exactly as Ye Yan anticipated, the qi vortex began to spin in the reverse direction, flinging those liquids toward all parts of his entire body.

Just like the nine droplets of liquid before, these fluids officially initiated the transformation of his bones and flesh.

I've finally broken through to a Dou Shi!