Chen Xuan, Where Exactly Did You Come From?

On the training grounds behind the Snake-People Tribe's Sacred Hall, Chen Xuan stood in the center of the square. Black Dou Qi surged from his body, its terrifying power sending faint ripples through the void.

Only after an unknown length of time did Chen Xuan slowly open his eyes and let out a deep breath.

Lately, Chen Xuan had been training his physical strength. Thanks to the Meteor Tear, he felt his body growing increasingly formidable.

At first, he had merely felt his physical strength becoming more terrifying, but after training intermittently over the past two years, he could sense that his body was probably strong enough to clash head-on with Dou Emperor-level magical beasts.

On the Dou Qi Continent, most cultivators only cultivated Dou Qi and soul power, seemingly paying little attention to physical strength. As a result, most possessed powerful Dou Qi and souls, but lacked strong bodies.

Chen Xuan, however, felt that the body was actually extremely important.

The body was the vessel for Dou Qi and the soul. Only a sufficiently strong body could support sufficiently powerful soul power.

Only by combining a powerful body, a powerful soul, and abundant Dou Qi could one become a truly formidable existence.

If someone possessed only powerful soul power while their body remained ordinary, they were merely a castle in the air, liable to collapse at any moment.

"With a body comparable to a Dou Emperor's, power now approaching the Peak Dou Emperor level, and a soul on par with a fifth-grade Alchemist's, it looks like I'll be taking the all-rounder route from now on."

After pondering for a moment, Chen Xuan could not help speaking with a hint of self-mockery.

Although he did not know why other experts neglected physical strength, Chen Xuan was confident that as long as he developed all three powers in tandem, he could defeat opponents at the same level.

When two experts were evenly matched in strength and their Dou Techniques were comparable, the keys to victory were the body and the soul.

Once the soul had been cultivated to a profound level, even if the body shattered, soul power could provide another chance to rise.

A powerful body, meanwhile, could withstand Dou Techniques capable of destroying heaven and earth.

In the original story, the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, one of the three great magical beast races on the Central Plains Continent, could even tear through the void with sheer physical strength. Some powerful Dou Techniques felt like nothing more than a scratch to them.

And when the body, soul, and Dou Qi had all been cultivated to profound heights, that meant invincibility!

Whatever Dou Di Bloodline or high-level magical beast he faced, all would shatter beneath his all-round power.

"Chen Xuan, are you admiring yourself again?!"

Suddenly, Queen Medusa's voice rang out in his mind.

"What kind of pig talk is that?!" Chen Xuan immediately retorted.

"Hmph, you are! You're admiring how powerful you are again, aren't you?"

"Besides, I don't speak pig. I speak snake!"

Queen Medusa gave a cold snort and replied with haughty defiance.

After more than three years, she could safely say she knew Chen Xuan's temperament very well.

Although he cultivated remarkably quickly, was highly talented at learning Dou Techniques, and was quite capable at political administration, a human was still a human.

Every so often, this fellow would actually indulge in self-admiration, marveling at his own tremendous power while taking a jab at her, Medusa.

Who was Medusa?

She was Her Majesty the Queen, aloof and proud. Naturally, she would never let Chen Xuan defeat her in a war of words.

Over time, she had also picked up the strange expressions Chen Xuan occasionally blurted out.

*???*

Chen Xuan was left speechless.

You really aren't speaking pig. You're speaking snake!

Something seems wrong with that, but somehow nothing seems wrong either.

This girl's getting better and better with her tongue. Did she learn it from me?

Chen Xuan bitterly regretted his past actions. He should never have taught her these things. Now even he, once hailed as a keyboard warrior, was beginning to find himself outmatched.

"Let me tell you, I, Chen Xuan, was once hailed as the most handsome man under heaven."

"All kinds of beauties fought over me. Keep this up, and you'll lose me."

Chen Xuan immediately chose to counterattack.

"Are you sure you were a handsome man and not an old man? Don't tell me you were still a lonely single dog?"

Queen Medusa could not help asking skeptically.

At that moment, Chen Xuan's heart took a critical hit worth ten thousand damage.

Although Chen Xuan had considered himself quite handsome in his previous life, for some reason, he could never keep the beauties around. Even when he did get together with someone, they would inexplicably break up within a few months.

As a result, he had reached twenty and remained a single dog.

This was simply one of the world's unsolved mysteries!

Chen Xuan had no desire to answer Medusa's doubts.

"Chen Xuan, where exactly did you come from? I always feel as though you're completely different from other humans."

Queen Medusa then directly voiced the question that had lingered in her heart for so long.

Queen Medusa had originally assumed that Chen Xuan was a descendant of some great clan who had possessed her body after an accident.

Yet after all these years, she had found not the slightest trace of arrogance deep within him. Whether it came to humans, the Snake-People Tribe, or magical beasts, he had his own unique views.

He spoke of things like all things possessing spirits and all lives being equal-ideas completely unlike those of this world.

On the Dou Qi Continent, the strong lived and the weak died. That was its ultimate law.

Although Chen Xuan also accepted the principle that the strong reigned supreme, deep within his heart, he still regarded all things in the world as equal.

He seemed to view the world with extraordinary gentleness. Even though he possessed great power, he only used it when necessary and never abused it.

In short, he only wielded his power when he needed to.

And yet he did not reject that great power. In fact, he was even more eager than she was to improve his strength.

To Queen Medusa, this was inconceivable.

Those who possessed great strength had long since grown accustomed to such a life. Everything they did rested on the foundation of their own overwhelming power.

He seemed utterly out of place in this world!

"What kind of snake talk is that? Where else could I have come from? I'm just an ordinary person!" Chen Xuan froze for a moment, then replied with a smile.

An ordinary person?!

Queen Medusa's expression was one of utter disbelief. Then she snorted coldly. "An ordinary person, are you?"

"An ordinary person can produce a Heaven-Rank Dou Technique? An ordinary person can produce the insights of a ninth-grade Alchemy Master? An ordinary person can control my body, is that it?"

A lethal three-hit combo!

It laid bare the doubts in Queen Medusa's heart!

"At some point in the future, you'll know!"

Hearing her words, Chen Xuan slowly raised his head and gazed at the azure sky, a trace of nostalgia crossing his face.