Wutan City, Xiao Family.
Beside the Test Magic Stele, Xiao Yan and Xiao Ze, the two brothers, looked at the glaring words and shared the same misery.
"Xiao Ze, Dou Qi, First Stage."
Xiao Ze had been transported to the Douqi Continent for many years.
He discovered that his cultivation talent was even worse than Xiao Yan's, whose strength had regressed.
Xiao Yan had been drained of Dou Qi by Medicine Elder for three years and still possessed three stages of Dou Qi. Yet Xiao Ze only had the first stage.
"I thought Third Young Master Xiao Yan's cultivation talent was bad enough. Who would have thought Fourth Young Master only had the first stage of Dou Qi?"
"The Xiao Family has been utterly humiliated by those two brothers."
"After giving birth to two useless sons like them, how does Xiao Zhan still have the nerve to remain clan leader?"
Looking at the result on the Test Magic Stele—only the first stage of Dou Qi—Xiao Ze was utterly speechless.
Before long, Xiao Xun'er's test result came out: ninth stage Dou Qi.
Compared to Xun'er, both Xiao Yan and Xiao Ze could not help feeling ashamed of themselves.
"I've been on the Douqi Continent for three years, yet I don't even have a cheat system. My talent is this terrible too. How am I supposed to survive on this continent where strength reigns supreme?"
Xiao Ze grumbled. The moment his voice fell, his expression froze.
Because right before his eyes, a system's electronic panel suddenly appeared.
Yet the words displayed on the System Panel left him shocked and astonished.
[You were born in the Central Plains, and your name was Xiao Xuan. As a once-in-a-millennium genius of the Xiao Family, you became a Dou Zhe at the age of six.] [You became a Dou Ling at ten, a Dou Wang at eleven, and a Dou Emperor at twelve.] [You advanced to Dou Venerate at fifteen and became a Dou Saint at twenty.] [Having reached the peak of the Nine-Star Dou Saint realm, you exhausted the power of your entire clan's bloodline in an attempt to break through to Dou Di, but failed.] [Before your death, you entrusted your good brother Gu Yuan with looking after the Xiao Family.] [Yet you discovered that the Xiao Family had now been looked after by your good brother until it had been reduced to a Da Dou Shi.] [Gu Yuan even sent his daughter to infiltrate the Xiao Family and secretly steal the Tou She Ancient God Jade you left behind for the Xiao Family.] [You have decided to rise against the odds from this day forth and reclaim everything that belongs to you.]
Looking at the system's panel, Xiao Ze was shocked and surprised. He had never expected that he would actually bind to a system.
And it was Xiao Xuan's Panel System, which left him utterly stunned.
Xiao Xuan was the ancestor of the Xiao Family and the foremost genius on the Douqi Continent.
Even without a protagonist's halo, he had reached the Half-Step Dou Di realm. If he had not lacked Origin Emperor Qi, then with his talent, he would have broken through to Dou Di long ago.
Moreover, without the Burning Art, he had relied on his own raw strength to devour three Heavenly Flames and suppress the mutual rejection caused by them.
If Xiao Xuan ranked second on the Douqi Continent, no one would dare claim first.
Xiao Ze was thrilled. After three years, he had finally bound to a system—his very own cheat.
And most precious of all, the system he had bound to was the panel system of Xiao Xuan, the Xiao Family's ancestor.
[Current mission: Cultivate for ten minutes.] [Reward: Fifth-stage Dou Qi.]
Xiao Ze accepted the system mission. He only needed to cultivate for ten minutes to directly reach the fifth stage of Dou Qi?
If Xiao Yan found out, he would probably be jealous enough to cry.
Before Xiao Ze had time to complete the mission, Xiao Yan beside him patted him on the shoulder and said,
"Fourth Brother, don't be too discouraged. Although you only reached the first stage of Dou Qi in this test, there's no need to lose heart."
"Am I not in the same situation as you?"
"I currently have third-stage Dou Qi. Compared to you, how much stronger am I really?"
Xiao Yan sighed. He felt deeply struck. Three years ago, he had been high-spirited, an undisputed genius youth.
Even across the entire Jia Ma Empire, youths with talent like his had been exceedingly rare.
Yet over the past three years, he had no idea what had gone wrong with his body. Not only had his strength been unable to improve, it had continuously regressed.
The Dou Qi within him kept draining away, like a bottomless black hole. No matter how much Dou Qi entered his body, it would continue to leak away until every last trace was gone.
Under such circumstances, how could his Dou Qi realm possibly rise?
If not for the solid foundation he had built in the past, he would probably now be just like Xiao Ze, possessing only the first stage of Dou Qi.
Seeing that his younger brother Xiao Ze had still tested at only the first stage of Dou Qi, Xiao Yan consoled him.
But Xiao Ze did not feel depressed or sad. He had just bound to Xiao Xuan's Panel System; his rise and comeback were merely a matter of time.
Oh, no. More accurately, it was no longer even a matter of time.
As long as he cultivated for ten minutes, he could directly attain the strength of fifth-stage Dou Qi.
Was that still a matter of time?
No!
After leaving the Testing Plaza, Xiao Ze turned and headed for the family's Back Mountain.
Finding a quiet place, he sat cross-legged and began cultivating.
He closed his eyes, calmed his mind, and began cultivating. Ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye.
Ten minutes later, he slowly exhaled a breath of stale air and discovered that the Dou Qi within his body had instantly grown several times more abundant.
Words immediately appeared on the system's panel.
[Current mission: Cultivate for ten minutes.] [Reward: Fifth-stage Dou Qi.] [Mission complete. The host has obtained the strength of fifth-stage Dou Qi.] [Reward distributed.]
Xiao Ze froze for a moment, then immediately checked his System Panel.
It displayed:
[Host: Xiao Ze.] [Realm: Fifth-stage Dou Qi.] [Technique: None.] [Dou Skill: None.] [Equipment: None.]
His realm had indeed reached the strength of fifth-stage Dou Qi.
He released his Dou Qi and felt the power within him, now several times more abundant. Sure enough, he had reached fifth-stage Dou Qi!
As expected of Ancestor Xiao Xuan's Panel System.
Wasn't this cultivation talent absurdly powerful?
It was countless times stronger than Xiao Yan's cultivation talent.
Xiao Ze had reached the fifth stage of Dou Qi in merely ten minutes.
Leaving the family's Back Mountain, he returned to the Xiao Family's main hall.
At that moment, inside the Xiao Family's main hall,
Xiao Zhan, both the clan leader and the father of Xiao Ze and Xiao Yan, was engaged in a fierce argument with several elders.
The reason was that Xiao Ze and Xiao Yan's test results had just been unsatisfactory.
Several clan elders believed that all cultivation resources for the two brothers should be suspended to avoid wasting them.
But Xiao Zhan, ever protective of his sons, disagreed, and thus fiercely argued with the elders.
Just then, Xiao Ze walked in.
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