Star Codex, Astral Dou Qi!

Star Codex, Astral Dou Qi!

In the blink of an eye, five years had passed.

During that time, Xiao Lin had remained focused on creating a cultivation method.

To be honest, creating a cultivation method was far more difficult than creating a combat technique. It was not something that could be accomplished just because inspiration suddenly struck.

With combat techniques, perhaps one could create one through sudden enlightenment or in battle against others. But creating a cultivation method was absolutely not that simple.

That was why cultivation methods of the same grade were worth far more than combat techniques.

Every cultivation method circulating across the Dou Qi Continent had been painstakingly researched by those who came before.

So although Xiao Lin had spent five years on this research, that was nothing at all.

Some people might exhaust their entire lives without necessarily creating a single cultivation method.

Of course, during those five years, Xiao Lin could not have been merely researching cultivation methods. He had certainly continued cultivating himself.

During that time, some of Xiao Lin's friends had also come to visit him.

For example, his closest friend, Nalan Jie.

Having grown up inseparable from Xiao Lin since childhood, he had come to pay his respects after Xiao Lin's wife passed away.

He also understood why Xiao Lin had barely left the house over the past five years.

After all, they were close friends. He naturally knew how deep Xiao Lin's feelings for his wife had been.

Thus, aside from occasionally visiting Xiao Lin, Nalan Jie did not say much else.

Sometimes, saying nothing was already the best comfort.

Nalan Jie clearly hoped that Xiao Lin would soon emerge from the grief of losing his wife.

What Nalan Jie did not know was that Xiao Lin had long since recovered. The only reason he had not wanted to leave the house these past years was because he wanted to create a cultivation method.

At the same time, after awakening his past-life memories, Xiao Lin's feelings toward Nalan Jie had become somewhat complicated.

After all, when it came to the broken engagement in the original story, both he and Nalan Jie had to bear much of the blame.

Yes, not only Nalan Jie—Xiao Lin believed that he himself was equally responsible!

After all, the childhood betrothal had been arranged by him and Nalan Jie together.

It would be inappropriate to place all the blame on Nalan Jie alone.

Moreover, in the original story, Nalan Jie had strongly opposed Nalan Yanran breaking off the engagement. Because of it, he had even continued treating his granddaughter coldly.

If there was anything Nalan Jie could be criticized for, it was probably that during Xiao Yan's final battle with the Misty Cloud Sect, he had not chosen Xiao Yan's side and had instead remained neutral.

Still, that was only human nature.

For one thing, no matter what, his granddaughter was the Young Sect Master of the Misty Cloud Sect. In the eyes of outsiders, the Nalan Household was naturally on the Misty Cloud Sect's side.

Rather, under those circumstances, Nalan Jie had already done all he could by withstanding the pressure and remaining neutral. At the very least, he had not kicked Xiao Yan while he was down, had he?

For another, Nalan Jie had the Nalan Household behind him after all.

As Xiao Lin's friend, he would choose to stand behind the Xiao Household. But as the head of the Nalan Household, he had no choice but to compromise.

That was why Nalan Jie had chosen neutrality during the battle with the Misty Cloud Sect.

Furthermore, based on his memories of the past, Xiao Lin could tell that the friendship between the two of them had indeed been sincere and without any consideration of profit.

Come to think of it, otherwise, why would Nalan Jie in the original story have been so furious after Nalan Yanran broke off the engagement?

With no outsiders present, who would he have been putting on an act for?

This showed that, whatever the other members of the Nalan Household were like, Nalan Jie's character was trustworthy.

It was only that thoughts of the original story still left a small knot in Xiao Lin's heart.

But Xiao Lin eventually let it go.

After all, the Nalan Household was the Nalan Household, and Nalan Jie was Nalan Jie.

The bond between them, forged while growing up inseparable since childhood, could never be erased.

Aside from Nalan Jie, the other families on good terms with the Xiao Household also came to visit from time to time during this period.

The Xiao Household's affairs, great and small, were still handled by Xiao Dongcheng, the current head of the Xiao Household.

Although Xiao Dongcheng was already preparing to pass the position of household head to Xiao Lin, clearly, the time was not yet right.

That was precisely why Xiao Lin could now research cultivation methods without distraction.

At most, he occasionally spent time guiding his son, Xiao Zhan.

Fortunately, his son was sensible as well. Aside from frequently clinging to him during the first two years, when he was still young, Xiao Zhan was quiet and well-behaved whenever he was with the others in the household afterward.

Thus, Xiao Lin spent five relatively peaceful years.

Then, on this very day, Xiao Lin, who had researched cultivation methods for five years, finally gained something!

Night fell, and the sky was filled with stars.

Boom!

Suddenly, boundless Astral Power descended from the heavens.

No one else could see or sense this Astral Power.

Except for the person responsible for all this commotion.

That was right. The one who had caused the boundless Astral Power to descend from the sky was none other than Xiao Lin!

At that moment, he had just emerged from another round of secluded cultivation.

"So this is Astral Power. It really is miraculous!"

Sitting cross-legged on his bed, Xiao Lin looked at his right hand and could not help murmuring to himself.

At that moment, faint azure starlight swirled in his right palm.

Just as Xiao Lin had said, this Astral Power was truly incomparably miraculous.

"Dou Qi fused with Astral Power... then it should be called Astral Dou Qi, right?"

As he played with the Astral Dou Qi in his hand, Xiao Lin's voice was filled with unconcealed delight.

Xiao Lin could sense that the Astral Dou Qi in his hand contained immensely vast power.

This Dou Qi infused with Astral Power did not exist in the original story. Or rather, no one had ever thought of integrating Astral Power into Dou Qi.

Of course, perhaps they simply could not sense Astral Power.

But saying that Astral Power did not exist in the original story would be complete nonsense.

Had everyone forgotten how Three-Thousand Burning Flame came into being?

If that world had no Astral Power, then there would be no such thing as Three-Thousand Burning Flame.

Xiao Lin had only created this Astral Dou Qi because of a sudden idea.

The origin lay in the low Xuan-tier cultivation method he had cultivated long ago, the Starlight Formula.

The essence of the Starlight Formula was actually to absorb Astral Power, thereby allowing Dou Qi to gain an attribute.

However, because this cultivation method was ultimately too low-grade, it had failed to achieve that. At most, it merely allowed its practitioners to cultivate a little faster at night.

It was not difficult to see from this cultivation method that someone had once wanted to cultivate Astral Dou Qi as well, but had ultimately failed.

When Xiao Lin researched his new cultivation method, he had used the Starlight Formula as its foundation.

After spending five years on it, Xiao Lin had finally upgraded the Starlight Formula into another cultivation method.

Mid Earth-tier cultivation method—Star Codex!

As its creator, Xiao Lin naturally had the right to name the cultivation method.

This cultivation method was Xiao Lin's greatest achievement over the past five years.

Those who cultivated it could sense the Astral Power of the myriad stars and draw it into their own use, transforming their ordinary Dou Qi into Astral Dou Qi.

As everyone knew, on the Dou Qi Continent, people could cultivate different attributed Dou Qi according to their own innate attributes.

For example, fire-attributed Dou Qi, wind-attributed Dou Qi, lightning-attributed Dou Qi, poison-attributed Dou Qi, and so on.

And what one could master by cultivating the Star Codex was Astral Dou Qi!

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