After summoning Xue You, Xiao Yu left the ruins below in his care and found another place to familiarize himself with his current cultivation realm.
Arriving in the elders' residential area, Xiao Yu went straight into Zi Yan's courtyard.
As elders of the Xiao Court, they each had a private courtyard. The courtyards were spacious, fully equipped, and rather lavishly decorated.
After stepping into the courtyard, Xiao Yu did not even ask whether Zi Yan was there. He simply entered one of the larger rooms.
Sure enough.
The little one was nowhere to be found. Xiao Yu knew her well; she was probably still inside the Desolate Spirit-Gathering Tower, absorbing energy to her heart's content.
Once inside the room, Xiao Yu sat cross-legged and entered a meditative state, sorting through his surging power and learning to control it.
Looking inward, he saw that the Dou Qi Source in his dantian was no longer anything like its former self. It was now a ball of light whose interior he could not make out.
But that ball of light contained more than Dou Qi. There were also fluctuations of spatial power. The combination of the two had given birth to this new Dou Qi Source.
The ball of light shone with dazzling brilliance and radiated intense heat. Xiao Yu could clearly sense that his current Dou Qi reserves were four or five times what they had been at the peak of the Dou Emperor realm.
After he crossed the barrier of the Dou Emperor realm, his already immense Dou Qi had grown even more terrifying.
"A Dou Zong can walk through the air because advancing to this realm grants the ability to manipulate space..." Xiao Yu murmured.
Because of this distinction, the distance between a Dou Emperor and a Dou Zong was