Dou Po: Choose Four of Nine, Starting by Stealing Qing Yanjing!

Chapter 1: Nine choices out of four in Battle Through the Heavens, intercepting Qing Yanjing at the start!

"What the hell! I live on the ninth floor, damn it! The ninth floor! How did that transport truck drive all the way up here?"

In a desolate wilderness, Meng Chen stood beside a dirt road under the blazing sun, looking utterly bewildered.

Wait, where did this send him? Was this even Earth?

Just as Meng Chen was muttering to himself, a virtual screen abruptly appeared before him.

[Dear traveler, according to your choices, your "nine choices out of four in Battle Through the Heavens" is being distributed. Please check and claim it.]

"Huh?" Meng Chen stared at the virtual screen, even more baffled.

What nine choices out of four in Battle Through the Heavens? What kind of nonsense was this?

Wait!

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration crossed Meng Chen's mind, and he remembered what was going on.

Before he had been hit by the transport truck, he was sitting under the air conditioner browsing Tieba, where he had seen a post related to Battle Through the Heavens.

[If you transmigrated into the world of Battle Through the Heavens and were allowed to choose four out of these nine items, which four would you pick?]

1. Special physique: A random special physique from the heavens and myriad realms.

2. Guardian: A random guardian, ranging from the lowest Dou Saint to the highest Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign.

3. Flame Mantra: A bizarre cultivation method that continuously evolves by devouring Heavenly Flames.

4. Heavenly Flame: A random Heavenly Flame.

5. Xiao Yan's favorability: Xiao Yan's favorability toward you increases significantly; he regards you as a good sworn brother.

6. Ten Fiends Treasure Art: A random Ten Fiends Treasure Art.

7. Medusa's favorability: Medusa's favorability toward you increases significantly; she regards you as her lifelong partner.

8. Tian-tier cultivation method: A random Tian-tier cultivation method.

9. Nine Secrets: A random Nine Secrets.

Faced with these nine options, Meng Chen had decisively chosen 1, 2, 6, and 9.

Then, living on the ninth floor as he did, he had been struck by a transport truck that seemingly came out of nowhere.

Heh... truly, what bad luck. How on earth did that truck charge up to the ninth floor?

Gazing at the shifting text on the virtual screen, Meng Chen instinctively swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"So, I really transmigrated to the Dou Qi Continent? Doesn't that mean those four options I picked are—"

[Option one is being distributed. Congratulations on obtaining the Divine King Physique. Beginning fusion...]

"The Divine King Physique? Which Divine King?"

Hearing the name of the special physique, Meng Chen felt a trace of anxiety and silently prayed.

Please, let it not be that Divine King!

The next second, Meng Chen felt a warm current surge within his body, flowing like a babbling brook through all his limbs and bones. It felt incomparably comfortable, as if he had returned to his mother's embrace, and he instinctively closed his eyes.

His skin began to grow crystal-clear and warm like jade, radiating a golden divine brilliance from the inside out—brilliant yet not dazzling.

The origin of the Divine King Physique fused with him, and that ultra-pure divine blood continuously regenerated, replacing his former mortal blood to flow within him. It was pure yang and sacred, seeming capable of cleansing the darkness and evil of the world.

A moment later, Meng Chen slowly opened his eyes. His pupils contained divine light, too piercing to look upon.

Under the transformative power of the Divine King Physique's origin, his appearance became even more handsome and youthful, radiating an imposing heroic aura. Bathed in golden divine brilliance from head to toe, he looked like a divine child descending to the mortal world, refined and untethered.

"So it's this Divine King Physique..."

Meng Chen spoke, filled with astonishment.

The Divine King Physique he had fused with was none-the-less the special physique possessed by Jiang Taixu and Ji Haoyue in Perfect World, and moreover, it was a primeval pure-blood version.

Although the Divine King Physique could not compare to top-tier physiques like the Sacred Physique or the Overlord Physique in Perfect World, placed here in the Dou Qi Continent, or even the Great Thousand World, it was utterly peerless.

Perhaps only Mu Chen's Eight Divine Veins could compare to the Divine King Physique.

[Option six is being distributed. Congratulations on obtaining the Ten Fiends Divine Gu Secret Art. Beginning infusion...]

[Option nine is being distributed. Congratulations on obtaining the Nine Secrets Combat Character Secret. Beginning infusion...]

Immediately following that, two massive waves of knowledge slowly poured into Meng Chen's mind, imprinting themselves bit by bit into his memory and helping him firmly commit the Divine Gu Secret Art and the Combat Character Secret to heart.

"Divine Gu Secret Art! Combat Character Secret! What a truly perfect match!"

Meng Chen had not expected these two divine arts, and could not help feeling a sense of deep emotion.

The Divine Gu Secret Art was an invincible divine art mastered by the Gu Clan, one of the Ten Fiends. The Gu Clan naturally mastered the Dao of time and space, possessing boundless strength—their left hand severed space, and their right hand severed time, making them overwhelmingly powerful.

Meanwhile, the Combat Character Secret was one of the Nine Secrets, known as the "Battle Saint Law." It could simulate any attack and evolve infinite divine arts, boasting unmatched offense. When cultivated to the highest level, it could even manifest the divine might of Emperor weapons to suppress all living beings!

As for why Meng Chen said the two divine arts were a perfect match:

Compared to the True Dragon, Thunder Emperor, or Nine-Leaf Swordgrass, the Divine Gu Secret Art fell slightly short in terms of sheer slaughter, but the appearance of the Combat Character Secret precisely made up for this shortcoming.

[Option two is being distributed. Deploying your guardian...]

"Deploying a guardian?" Meng Chen froze slightly.

Right after, he heard an extremely faint cracking sound coming from directly above his head, and instinctively looked up at the sky.

When he saw dense cracks spreading across the sky directly overhead, Meng Chen's pupils contracted, and he secretly thought things were bad.

He shifted his body, trying to dodge.

Yet the sky abruptly shattered, spatial fragments splashing everywhere as a plump figure plummeted from a spatial tunnel, crashing straight toward Meng Chen!

"Shit!" Meng Chen cried out in shock.

He was too late to avoid it and was instantly pinned in a full embrace.

In that split second, Meng Chen felt an indescribable softness.

At the same time, a fragrance mixed with a faint, bloody scent rushed into his nasal cavity, lingering thickly—an epic lungs-cleansing experience!

Fortunately, Meng Chen did not lose himself in this gentle harbor. He struggled to extricate himself from beneath the guardian's plump and tender physique, while the virtual screen before him shifted once more.

[All four options have been fully distributed. We wish you a pleasant transmigration journey. See you at the peak...]

The virtual screen gradually faded and disappeared.

"See you at the peak, huh."

Meng Chen pondered that final sentence carefully. Did it mean that once he cleared the Battle Through the Heavens world in the future, it would appear again?

Putting that aside for now, Meng Chen turned his attention to his guardian.

She lay on her side, unconscious on the ground. She must have suffered heavy injuries, her aura feeble and emanating wisps of blood qi, though it was impossible to tell where she was hurt.

Three thousand strands of black silk were scattered about, and she wore a gilded, branch-shaped divine crown. Her delicate brows were slightly furrowed, and though her face was concealed by a white veil, it could not hide her peerless grace and elegance.

She was dressed in a white-and-blue long dress engraved with golden textures. Her twin peaks were massive, heavy like jade melons—so protruding that she could not see her toes when looking down. The thin, gauze-like long sleeves were lightly stained with dust, making her look like a fairy fallen into the mortal world, naturally adding a touch of fragility.

Beneath her slender, willow-like waist was a peachy, plump posterior, as wide as a millstone and broader than her shoulders. The skirt slit reached up to the roots of her thighs, revealing golden-ratio, plump, and slender legs. Her jade feet wore high heels, exuding an aura of utter nobility.

The more Meng Chen looked at her, the more familiar she seemed. Rummaging through his memories, he finally confirmed who she was.

Wasn't this fucking the Saint-Grade Butt Sovereign!

Meng Chen was both shocked and delighted; never in his wildest dreams had he expected his guardian to be Qing Yanjing!

Looking closely at Qing Yanjing, Meng Chen grew contemplative, thinking inwardly: Judging by her appearance, could this be Qing Yanjing during her period in the Hundred Spirit Continent?

He remembered that Qing Yanjing came from the Qing Lineage, one of the three major main lineages of the Buddha Ancient Clan. Possessing the Eight Divine Veins, she was the proud daughter of heaven of the Buddha Ancient Clan, hailed as the "Buddha Goddess."

And when she cultivated to the Earth Sovereign Great Perfection, her father—the patriarch of the Buddha Ancient Clan and the master of the Qing Lineage—accidentally died, causing the Qing Lineage to begin its decline.

Thus, in order to revitalize the Qing Lineage, Qing Yanjing chose to leave the clan and undergo trials. However, during her time in the Hundred Spirit Continent, she became temporarily crippled due to unknown reasons, and was subsequently rescued by Mu Feng...

Seeing Qing Yanjing in her current state, Meng Chen roughly guessed the situation.

"So, I intercepted Qing Yanjing in advance? Doesn't that mean Mu Feng won't be able to play the hero saving the beauty, and Mu Chen won't even be born?" Meng Chen thought, watching Qing Yanjing as she showed the slightest sign of waking up.

Good grief! Meng Chen gave a mental thumbs-up to the "nine choices out of four" system that had just left.

He could only say this move was too wild, directly deleting the protagonist of The Great Ruler.

Only, considering Qing Yanjing's current condition, would she be able to serve as his guardian?

As Meng Chen pondered, Qing Yanjing slowly stirred awake. Her eyelids fluttered, and the lips beneath her veil parted slightly, involuntarily letting out a soft moan...