Xiao Yu's origins were melodramatic enough to belong in a television drama, but perhaps this was the best outcome.
Besides, to Xiao Yu, the fact that he had been found explained why he was so special, why he could give rise to divine wonders like origin flame divine thunder.
His body must have harbored some terrifying secret. Otherwise, how could the Xiao Clan's defunct Dou Di bloodline have granted him such astonishing talent?
Even an intact Xiao Clan Dou Di bloodline could not have enabled him to produce this origin flame divine thunder. Thus, this body's origins had become another mystery.
And something struck Xiao Yu as deeply wrong. Why had he been unable to cultivate for the first twelve years, only to awaken his talent after he transmigrated?
Was his soul special, or had this body always been so powerful, with its original owner simply failing to uncover its potential?
Everything was difficult to explain, and Xiao Yu could not make sense of it.
Since he could not figure it out, he decided not to dwell on it. Even if some earth-shattering secret lay behind it, he would learn it when the time came. Why torment himself needlessly?
For now, breaking through to Dou Sheng was his highest priority.
Xiao Yu looked at the Thunderflame Illusory World around him, warped by his soul pressure, and reinforced it once more. Then he took out the Energy Cores and arranged them before him.
He sat cross-legged, looking at the densely packed, glowing Energy Cores before him. The four at the very front, in particular, radiated energy fluctuations countless times stronger than the others.
"Let's begin."
Murmuring to himself, Xiao Yu drew a deep breath, then began circulating energy along the pathways of that mysterious cultivation technique within his body.
At once,