The Tagor Desert.
Outside Temple City.
Beneath the azure sky, yellow sand swirled through the air, carrying scorching heat.
"Boom!"
With a thunderclap out of a clear sky, a dark silhouette suddenly fell from the heavens like a meteor, slamming into the blazing sands and gouging a deep crater in the ground.
The tremendous commotion immediately drew the attention of the Snake-People in Temple City.
Snake-People scouts poured out of Temple City, converging on the spot where the dark silhouette had fallen.
"Cough, cough..."
After a long while, a dry cough came from inside the crater.
Then a figure clambered out, looking thoroughly bedraggled.
"Why does my body feel like it's about to fall apart? It hurts like hell..."
Su Tian stood up and stared at the billowing yellow sand around him, stunned. "Where... am I?"
Just as Su Tian was puzzling over this, a series of crisp sounds suddenly rang out in his mind.
"Ding! Congratulations on arriving on the Dou Qi Continent, host. The check-in system has been successfully activated!" "Host's current level: Dou Qi Stage One." "Ding! Complete your first check-in to receive a check-in reward!"
"Dou... the Dou Qi Continent? Dou Qi Stage One?"
Su Tian was dumbfounded by those words.
Could it be...
Have I transmigrated?
Su Tian remembered that before a once-in-a-century downpour struck back on Earth, lightning had flashed across the sky. Through the flashes, the bolts seemed to intertwine into something resembling a QR code.
The bizarre sight had made Su Tian freeze for a moment. Then, overcome by curiosity, he had taken out his phone and rashly scanned the QR code woven from lightning in the sky.
The next instant, Su Tian's vision blurred, and he lost consciousness.
When Su Tian regained consciousness, he discovered that he had somehow arrived on this so-called Dou Qi Continent.
Before Su Tian could gather his wits, however, the voice in his mind rang out again.
"Check in?"
"Check in!"
Su Tian's head was buzzing, and he answered immediately, almost on instinct.
"Check-in successful. Reward obtained: emperor clan bloodline!"
"Boom!"
The moment the words faded from his mind, Su Tian felt a surge of formidable energy slam brutally into every pore of his body, pouring into him like a raging torrent.
The sudden, excruciating pain turned Su Tian's face deathly pale. He sucked in a sharp breath and collapsed onto the ground, his body involuntarily curling into a ball.
"What the hell is this..."
Su Tian clenched his teeth, trying to endure the tearing agony, but their constant chattering betrayed the inhuman torment he was suffering.
Amid that terrible pain, Su Tian could feel the blood inside him seemingly disappearing at an alarming rate.
An overwhelming weakness rapidly spread through his body.
Just as Su Tian was about to succumb to unconsciousness, a violent roar suddenly exploded inside his mind.
"Boom!"
Su Tian's mind jolted awake. Gritting his teeth, he desperately clung to his last shred of consciousness.
Eventually, a low hum suddenly rang out. Golden light seeped eerily from Su Tian's body, radiating the crushing pressure of a supreme sovereign.
"Thump-thump! Thump-thump!"
Within Su Tian's chest, his heart beat powerfully, slowly pumping out droplets of golden blood.
They seemed to contain some incredibly powerful force.
This blood carried a bloodline power that had existed only in ancient times: the emperor clan bloodline!
A golden manifestation resembling an emperor faintly appeared high in the sky.
In an instant, an invisible wave of might swept outward.
Only after a long while did it slowly dissipate.
And just as the aura of the emperor clan bloodline erupted within Su Tian...
Several thousand meters away, inside a towering palace in Temple City, a woman with exquisite curves lounged lazily upon a throne. She wore an elegant purple brocade robe, beneath which her voluptuous figure resembled a ripe peach, exuding a subtle allure.
Her long, silky black hair spilled casually from her delicate shoulders across the throne. Beneath her brocade robe, a purple serpent's tail swayed gently, its wild, bewitching allure enough to send heat coursing through anyone who saw it.
A gaze tracing that almost perfect figure would ultimately settle on her breathtaking face.
She was none other than Queen Medusa, leader of the Snake-People Tribe, whose reputation for beauty rivaled her fearsome notoriety!
"Hmm? This aura..."
Queen Medusa's long, beautiful eyes narrowed slightly as she looked in a certain direction beyond the temple and murmured softly.
"Buzz, buzz, buzz..."
Suddenly, a whispered message quietly reached Queen Medusa's ears.
Her enchanting face registered a flicker of surprise. After a brief hesitation, she waved her fair hand, and a dark silhouette immediately darted out from within the pavilion.
"Remember, I want him alive."
Queen Medusa's red lips parted slightly. The dark figure cupped his fists in acknowledgment, then gave his shoulders a slight tremor. A pair of dark teal Dou Qi Wings appeared, and his figure vanished into the air in the blink of an eye.
That dark figure was actually a Dou Wang expert!
Watching the Dou Wang expert disappear into the sky, Queen Medusa reclined lazily on her throne again, her beautiful eyes half-closed as though she were pondering something.
Meanwhile, outside Temple City, Su Tian finally completed the inheritance of the emperor clan bloodline.
"Ding! Congratulations on successfully obtaining the emperor clan bloodline, host."
The system's voice rang out in Su Tian's mind. He slowly opened his eyes and released a long breath, a sharp golden gleam flashing through his gaze.
"Current level: Nine-Star Dou Shi."
"If I remember correctly, that process just now should have been what they call blood replacement, right?"
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In his previous life, Su Tian had been a high school senior and a part-time, unsuccessful webnovel writer. He had read hundreds upon hundreds of novels, and Battle Through the Heavens was his favorite. Naturally, he knew its plot inside out.
Especially when he thought of the final "battle of the two emperors."
It made Su Tian's blood boil with excitement. He wished he could become Xiao Yan himself and boldly battle that ruthless overlord, Hun Tiandi!
And when he thought of Queen Medusa, Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, and the others, Su Tian felt the blood surge through his entire body...
In the original novel, Xiao Yan had entered the Heavenly Tomb and, with his ancestor Xiao Xuan's help, successfully replaced his blood and obtained the Dou Di bloodline.
Looking back on what had just happened, Su Tian felt it closely resembled the process described in the book.
"Emperor clan bloodline? Why do I remember there being no mention of a bloodline power like this in the novel?"
Recalling the novel's plot, Su Tian could not help feeling puzzled.
Still, as he felt the changes in his body, Su Tian was quite satisfied.
After all, he had suddenly arrived in an unfamiliar world. Having some power to protect himself made him feel considerably more secure.
"This seems pretty good. It actually took me straight from Dou Qi Stage One to Nine-Star Dou Shi. If I take one more step, I'll reach Da Dou Shi."
He recalled that Xiao Yan had already been a Six-Star Dou Zun when he received the Dou Di bloodline inheritance. Only by desperately suppressing it had he limited his advancement to two stars.
Now, however, Su Tian had crossed nearly three major cultivation realms.
Although he had ultimately stopped at Nine-Star Dou Shi, Su Tian was already content.
"Could this so-called emperor clan bloodline have some connection to those legendary Dou Di bloodlines?"
Su Tian frowned slightly, curiosity stirring within him.
The system, however, offered no answer to his question.
Soon, Su Tian shook his head, no longer bothering to ponder it, and turned his attention to his surroundings.
Looking around, he saw nothing but yellow sand dancing endlessly through the air.
Su Tian's brows furrowed slightly as an uneasy premonition arose in his heart. "This place... don't tell me I'm in the Tagor Desert?"
The Tagor Desert was the territory of the Snake-People Tribe, who harbored a deep hatred for humans.
If Su Tian was unlucky enough to encounter the Snake-People Tribe, he would probably be unable to escape even with wings.
"Come on, I only just arrived on the Dou Qi Continent. Heaven, you can't screw with me like this!"
Who knew whether Su Tian's mouth had been blessed with the power to make his words come true?
The moment he finished speaking, rustling sounds arose all around him.
Su Tian's heart lurched, and he hurriedly looked around.
Across the desert, hundreds of brightly colored little snakes flicked their tongues as they rapidly converged on Su Tian's position.
Farther away, Su Tian could vaguely make out what seemed to be more than a dozen figures racing toward him as well.
"For fuck's sake..."
At that moment, Su Tian felt as though ten thousand horses were stampeding through his mind. He was utterly thrown into disarray.
Su Tian was about to turn and run, only to discover that little snakes already surrounded him on every side.
"Hiss, hiss..."
Seeing that Su Tian seemed intent on fleeing, several little snakes slapped their tails against the ground and sprang into the air. Their jaws gaped, sharp fangs gleaming coldly as they lunged at him.
With no other choice, Su Tian could only steel himself and fight.
"Sss!"
At Su Tian's thought, a powerful surge of fiery-red energy shot out of the vortex in his dantian and instantly covered both his hands.
"So this is Dou Qi..."
Feeling the formidable power radiating from the Dou Qi around his hands, Su Tian's eyes lit up, and excitement surged within him.
Just then, a little snake darted close and lunged to bite Su Tian's neck.
Su Tian snorted coldly, clenched his right fist, and smashed it down at the snake's head.
"Bang!"
There was nothing fancy about the punch. It was utterly straightforward.
Yet it carried every ounce of Su Tian's strength.
"Splat!"
The little snake was instantly blasted into a heap of pulped flesh beneath Su Tian's fist.
At the bloody sight before him, Su Tian's expression changed, and nausea rose in his stomach.
But more than anything, Su Tian felt excitement and exhilaration.
"So this is what fighting feels like..."
At that moment, Su Tian seemed to experience the thrill of battle.
His expression brightened with excitement as Dou Qi surged from his vortex and gathered over his body, forming a layer of strangely patterned, fiery-red markings.
"This is... Dou Qi armor!"
Su Tian looked down at the strange markings covering his body, froze for a moment, then cried out in surprise.
Dou Qi armor could only be formed after reaching the Dou Shi realm!
It undoubtedly provided an enormous boost to his defenses.
"Bang!"
Su Tian's gaze suddenly sharpened, and he shifted one step to the left.
The next instant, a brightly colored little snake shot past, grazing his head. Su Tian abruptly turned and grabbed it, crushing it in his grip.
With his Dou Qi armor protecting him, Su Tian was now brimming with fighting spirit.
He felt a magnificent, heroic presence welling up throughout his body, as though he were an ancient god of war.
"Come on! I'll slaughter every last one of you beasts!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The little snakes' attacks naturally could not penetrate the defenses of Su Tian's Dou Qi armor.
With that protection, Su Tian grew utterly fearless, his attacks becoming sharper and fiercer with every strike.
In no time at all, the yellow sand was littered with the corpses of little snakes.
A Dou Shi expert was truly terrifying!
"Whoosh!"
Just as Su Tian finished off all the little snakes around him, breathed a sigh of relief, and prepared to retreat, a sharp whistle through the air suddenly reached his ears.
Su Tian's heart jumped. He hurriedly looked up, only to find a sharp, long arrow hurtling straight toward him.
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