Myriad Worlds Gate

Just as Li Chenfeng was rejoicing over successfully condensing his Dou Qi Cyclone and advancing to become a Dou Zhe, the world suddenly spun around him, and he found himself in a strange place...

This was an utterly illusory space. A colossal gate a hundred meters tall, gleaming with golden light, stood silently before him. Li Chenfeng stood before the enormous gate, looking utterly insignificant.

"This...!"

"Where is this?!"

Li Chenfeng's face was filled with uncertainty and alarm.

Yet his heart remained fairly calm. After all, he had experienced transmigration and rebirth; compared to that, this was a minor spectacle.

Looking up, he saw three cloud-patterned inscriptions hovering above the hundred-meter gate. Their strokes were bold and sharp, as though every line had come alive.

At one moment, they resembled immortals dancing with swords; at the next, drifting clouds in the void, gathering and dispersing without form. But when Li Chenfeng looked closely, they seemed to contain the sun, moon, and stars!

He gently placed a hand against the gate, and a flood of information suddenly surged into his mind...

"Myriad Worlds Gate... traversing the myriad heavens and worlds..."

After slowly sorting through the information in his mind, Li Chenfeng finally understood what stood before him.

"I thought this was just a rebirth-in-another-world story. Turns out it's also a world-hopping story..."

Li Chenfeng smiled faintly and muttered to himself.

"Hmm... I should make arrangements outside first, then see what this so-called traversal of myriad worlds is all about..."

With a thought, Li Chenfeng vanished from where he stood.

In the cultivation chamber, Li Chenfeng, who had been sitting cross-legged the entire time, slowly opened his eyes.

Upon closer inspection, a milky-white Dou Qi vortex was quietly spinning within his Dantian. Strands of spiritual energy invisible to the naked eye were absorbed from his surroundings and refined within his body.

Although he had already become a Dou Zhe, he had no Cultivation Method, so his cultivation speed remained exceedingly slow. Once he acquired a complete Cultivation Method, that speed would increase severalfold in an instant.

The higher the grade of the Cultivation Method, the faster one cultivated, the purer one's Dou Qi became, and the greater the power of one's Dou Techniques. All these things were closely connected.

He sat cross-legged once more and slowly closed his eyes, forming seals with both hands. Since he had already tested his affinity and found it to be wind-attributed, he chose the Nalan Clan's inherited Low Earth Tier wind-attributed Cultivation Method, "Raging Wind Tide."

This was also the highest-grade Cultivation Method currently possessed by the Nalan Family!

As time passed, Li Chenfeng finally completed one full great circulation of the Raging Wind Tide Cultivation Method.

With each circulation of Dou Qi, that mysterious energy purified Li Chenfeng's Dou Qi once again.

Afterward, he could feel the speed of Dou Qi circulation within his body increase slightly...

That mysterious energy was the true body of the Myriad Worlds Gate!

Li Chenfeng was delighted as well. The Myriad Worlds Gate actually possessed such a benefit.

Although he did not know exactly how much time had passed, Li Chenfeng could feel that the Dou Qi within his body had doubled!

Moreover, the originally milky-white Dou Qi Cyclone had turned a faint azure...

Li Chenfeng had no intention of stopping, and the Dou Qi within his body began circulating again.

Perhaps because he had grown increasingly proficient, the rate at which Li Chenfeng's body absorbed spiritual energy from the outside doubled again. His long robe began to flutter without wind, and a low whistling suddenly echoed through the silent cultivation chamber.

Who knew how much time passed? When the Dou Qi within Li Chenfeng's body completed its tenth great circulation according to the Raging Wind Tide Cultivation Method, he felt his Dou Qi Cyclone in his Dantian tremble slightly. The spinning cyclone stalled for an instant, then suddenly expanded outward by a third.

Joy surged through Li Chenfeng's heart, because this was precisely the sign of another breakthrough. Only now had he truly become a Dou Zhe!

On the third day after Li Chenfeng entered the cultivation chamber for secluded training, outside the stone doors of the secret cultivation ground stood the Nalan Clan's old master, Nalan Jie, along with the current clan leader Nalan Su and his wife, all waiting anxiously.

Madam Nalan, especially, being an ordinary person, was restless as she held little Nalan Yanran in her arms.

"Mother, why hasn't Brother come out yet? He hasn't seen Yanran for three whole days. Mother, I miss Brother."

Little Nalan Yanran sounded somewhat downcast as she tugged at her mother's sleeve and spoke softly.

"Be good, Yanran. Your brother will come out soon. Look, isn't Grandpa and Father waiting here too? So Yanran needs to be good as well. When your brother comes out, he'll definitely see our adorable little Yanran first!"

Faced with five-year-old Nalan Yanran, Madam Nalan could only suppress the anxiety in her heart and comfort her.

At the side, Nalan Su furrowed his brows and looked toward his father, Nalan Jie.

"Father, today is already the third day. Why is there still no news from Feng'er? Even if he failed to condense his Dou Qi Cyclone, there should have been some sign by now, shouldn't there?"

Nalan Jie's expression was stern. Hearing his son's words, he immediately snorted coldly.

"What are you worried about? As the head of the Nalan Clan, do you not even have this much patience?"

"Feng'er is the greatest genius our Nalan Clan has seen in a hundred years. He also has the Fourth-grade Medicinal Pill, Qi-Gathering Powder. It is absolutely impossible for him to fail at condensing a Qi Cyclone!"

"Then why has there been no news for so long? Condensing a Dou Qi Cyclone should take no more than a day at most!"

Nalan Jie shook his head. "It is nothing. Extraordinary people do extraordinary things. You and I are merely ordinary people. Feng'er was destined for greatness from birth, so do not judge or restrain him by our standards and perspective!"

Ordinary people took little time to condense a Dou Qi Cyclone because their meridians and bodies had their limits. The amount of Dou Qi they could compress and gather was limited, so breakthroughs differed from person to person. The longer it took, the more Dou Qi one could absorb and contain, and the more terrifying one's future achievements would be!

"If our Nalan Clan could produce a Dou Zong, that would already be a blessing from heaven!"

However, Li Chenfeng's achievements were destined to leave this old master utterly dumbfounded.

Just as the three of them were lost in their differing thoughts, the stone door before them finally stirred.

Rumble!

The ground beneath their feet trembled.

The stone door slowly opened, and a figure emerged from the darkness beyond it.

Step by step, he came before Nalan Jie and the others.

"Brother!"

With a crisp, pleasant cry, the tiny figure in Madam Nalan's arms broke free from her mother's hold and rushed toward the newcomer.

Nalan Jie and Nalan Su's family also revealed relieved smiles.

Li Chenfeng crouched down and held the little girl rushing toward him in his arms. He rubbed his face against her soft, rosy cheek, drawing a burst of clear laughter from her.

"Did Yanran miss Brother?" Li Chenfeng asked softly as he looked at his adorable little sister.

"I did!" Xiao Yanran nodded solemnly.

"I missed you every day. Brother, why did you lock yourself in that dark place? Yanran couldn't even find you when she wanted to."

Looking at the aggrieved Xiao Yanran, Li Chenfeng smiled and rubbed her head. Seeing her obedient little expression, he said, "Brother was cultivating in there. If I don't cultivate diligently, how will I protect our adorable little Yanran in the future?"

"Then I want to cultivate too! I want to cultivate with Brother! In the future, Yanran will become a very powerful girl and protect Brother!"

Seeing Nalan Yanran clench her tiny fists and make such a solemn vow, Li Chenfeng nodded. "All right. In the future, Yanran will definitely become a beautiful and powerful Battle Saint. Then Yanran can protect Brother!"

"Mhm, mhm! Yanran definitely will!"