In the silent courtyard room, the calm air suddenly rippled violently. Traces of faint white spiritual energy permeated from the air, continuously drilling into Yan Qingshan's body, strengthening his Dou Qi.
Yan Qingshan gritted his teeth, enduring the collision of energy inside and outside his body. The Qi Gathering Pill he had consumed had already taken effect. The enormous energy began to push his Dou Qi to compress and sublimate. Although this process was still considered safe, it was definitely painful, especially for the meridians in his body.
He silently endured the waves of tingling pain constantly coming from his meridians. Fortunately, his many days of hard training had not been in vain. After a long period of medicinal baths, his physique had greatly improved. Although the pain was unbearable, for the time being, it had not caused too much burden on his body.
Inside his Dantian Qi Sea, streams of pure energy from the Pill were frantically refined and assimilated by his Dou Qi, strengthening his aura and continuously condensing and compressing his Dou Qi.
This was a necessary process for advancing to a Dou Practitioner. Accumulating enough energy to break through to a Dou Practitioner required even a peak nine-stage Dou Disciple practitioner to prepare for more than a month before attempting the breakthrough.
Once a breakthrough to Dou Practitioner failed, if unlucky, one might even fall back to the eighth stage of Dou Disciple, wasting months of hard work. Therefore, it was common for many people to attempt the breakthrough a dozen or even dozens of times before successfully advancing to Dou Practitioner.
The third-grade medicinal pill, Qi Gathering Pill, contained energy that was effective even for a Dou Grandmaster, but its medicinal properties were mild, and even those in the Dou Disciple stage could use it. Of course, Dou Disciple cultivators would waste most of its medicinal power.
The Qi Gathering Pill contained an incomparably vast amount of energy, enough for a Dou Disciple cultivator to attempt the breakthrough more than a hundred times, making failure almost impossible.
The potion Yan Qingshan had concocted might not be as effective as the real Qi Gathering Pill, but the energy it contained was definitely more than enough for a Dou Disciple cultivator to break through to Dou Practitioner, so his chances of success this time were very high.
Inside Yan Qingshan's body, the Dou Qi continuously grew to a peak. After the Dou Qi in his body expanded to a critical point where it could no longer increase, a change finally occurred in his Dantian Qi Sea. The surging Dou Qi in his body, along with his hand seals, suddenly contracted rapidly towards his Qi Sea.
It was as if a vortex had appeared in his Dantian, infinitely compressing countless Dou Qi energies into a single point. The moment that point slowly rotated, it was as if his whole being had sublimated to another state, and he immediately felt a different world.
"This is... a Dou Practitioner!!!"
Yan Qingshan fell back into the icy cold bath barrel. The cold bath water made him a little more awake. Disregarding his joy, he regained his composure and closed his eyes slightly to sense the condition of his body.
Inner vision was an ability that martial artists could only master after reaching the Dou Practitioner level. The higher the strength, the more thorough the understanding of the body's condition.
Now, at the location of his Qi Sea Dantian, a palm-sized milky white Qi cyclone was slowly rotating, surrounded by a layer of nebula-like milky white energy gas.
There was an essential difference between a Dou Practitioner and a nine-stage Dou Disciple practitioner. What a Dou Practitioner cultivated was called Dou Qi, while what was cultivated after Dou Practitioner was the real Dou Qi. Although there was only a one-word difference, the substance was vastly different.
"Dawn, display my specific data!"
As Yan Qingshan's mind moved, a stream of information quickly appeared in his mind.
Host: Yan Qingshan
Cultivation: One-Star Dou Practitioner
Strength: 1.3
State: Tired
Agility: 1.2
Mental Power: 13
(Data collection target: average value of one-star Dou Practitioner in Qingshan Town. The median data of one-star Dou Practitioner is 1.0 for each indicator)
"There's not much time left, I have to prepare quickly!"
After Yan Qingshan sensed the power in his body for a while, he suddenly opened his tightly closed eyes, his mouth slightly open, and a mouthful of turbid air was exhaled, and his face regained a little rosiness.
Yan Qingshan quickly got up and cleaned everything up as quickly as possible. After leaving a letter on the table in the room, he took out the luggage he had prepared earlier and left Thousand Medicine House while the sky was beginning to show a hint of white light, taking advantage of the still thick night to head north into the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
Yan Qingshan left Thousand Medicine House without saying goodbye. This was something he had planned long ago, even several months ago. He had packed his luggage and letter before today, and he would leave as soon as he successfully broke through to Dou Practitioner, minimizing contact with people.
He had arranged a careful plan before the breakthrough, completely unwilling to cause any trouble. Qingshan Town was a small town, almost the lowest-end human settlement on the Dou Qi Continent, second only to the even worse mountain villages. But even in such a small town, there were many Dou Practitioner and even some Dou Master.
In Qingshan Town, most Dou Practitioner broke through after the age of twenty. Even the so-called geniuses of previous generations were all eighteen or nineteen years old at the youngest. There had never been anyone like Yan Qingshan, who was only barely fifteen years old.
Once the news of his breakthrough spread, he would inevitably be in the spotlight, attracting countless coveters.
He did not have the strength to protect his secrets, and having just broken through to Dou Practitioner, his aura would inevitably be unstable and difficult to guarantee that he would not be recognized. Therefore, he had made plans before the breakthrough. Once he successfully broke through, he would leave a letter and leave for a period of time, returning to Qingshan Town when he was sure.
Yan Qingshan had been preparing for this for a long time, formulating a meticulous plan. He would leave Qingshan Town for a few days every month, and leaving a letter again today would not seem abrupt and arouse suspicion.
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The Magical Beast Mountain Range in winter was quite desolate, especially after the snow fell, with silver frost covering the ground. Only some oily evergreen vegetation decorated the silver-clad landscape with a few green spots.
Amidst the intertwining of withered yellow and snow white, a series of footprints stretched deep into the Magical Beast Mountain Range. A young man wearing a gray-white fox fur coat, holding a blade, carefully walked through the desolate forest. This person was naturally Yan Qingshan.
"At this speed, I should be able to reach it around noon."
Yan Qingshan compared the route map and his memory, confirming that his direction was correct.
Yan Qingshan was now disguised as a medicine collector entering the mountain in the snowy season. He had gained a lot along the way to his destination. The leather bag behind him was bulging, and in this short period of time, he had gained at least a thousand gold coins.
Yan Qingshan walked very cautiously, with routes planned in advance. He had been relatively safe along the way, and several potential dangers were avoided by his early warning.
At noon, he arrived at a dense forest. Behind the dense forest was a cliff, and between the cliff and the dense forest was a flat open space, where he stopped.
"Set up camp first!"
Yan Qingshan stood on the top of the cliff and looked into the distance, seeing a vast expanse of snow. Being cautious, he did not rush to act. Instead, after finding some firewood, he began to set up camp in the open space.
Although he had carefully checked and found no peeping eyes around, he did not go down the cliff directly. Instead, he made the moves a winter medicine collector should make, setting up camp after finding a suitable place. Although it was a bit early at noon, his behavior did not seem abrupt.
The sun set quickly in winter, and medicine collectors and mercenaries entering the mountains in winter were different.
Mercenaries' goals were mostly magical beasts, while medicine collectors were for herbs and valued safety even more. They basically planned to set up camp early and would not be like those mercenaries who would only find a campsite when they were ready to rest.
After Yan Qingshan prepared the campsite, he hid behind the campsite's cover and began to prepare the things he needed. After confirming again that no one was watching him, he tied one end of the rope to his campsite and slowly slid down the cliff along the cliff wall.
Yan Qingshan controlled his figure and carefully slid down the cliff wall, stopping in front of a strange steep cliff wall. A strange pine tree grew out of the rock wall, which could be considered a place to barely stand.
Behind this strange tree was a pile of messy dead vines and bushes. If one observed carefully, one could find wind sounds in the gaps of these bushes, and there was a not small hole behind them, a hard-to-find mountain cave. If Yan Qingshan had not known his goal and observed carefully, he might have missed it on that day.
"Danger!!!"
Yan Qingshan's hand had just pushed aside the vines, and the pores all over his body suddenly contracted. The warning in his heart surged, the tip of his foot suddenly tapped the rock wall, then he pulled the rope, and his whole body shifted three feet upwards. A porcelain bottle was thrown by his other hand, hitting the attacker who suddenly rushed out.
In the whistling sound of breaking air, a long snake-like object with a color similar to the rock wall darted out and bit. It failed to bite Yan Qingshan, but instead bit the porcelain bottle he threw, shattering it into pieces. Powder with a faint fragrance spread in the air.
"Cliff Snake, huh!"
Yan Qingshan followed the momentum and adhered to the rock wall, twisting his body to adjust and clearly see this attacker, a first-rank monster Cliff Snake, this is a snake-shaped monster that lives in rock walls.
The Cliff Snake's body is flexible and flat, not only can it easily climb rock crevices, but also because its body is flat and long like wings, it can glide between cliffs. Moreover, this monster's attribute is a mutated form of the earth attribute, the rock attribute, with a body as hard as rock, difficult to be injured by ordinary swords, and extremely difficult to deal with.
The Cliff Snake failed in one attack, coiling in mid-air and then twisting its body and hissing towards Yan Qingshan, its triangular eyes emitting a bloody cold light, and its whole body emitting a dark yellow glow.
"Hiss～～～"
The Cliff Snake hissed again, its flat and narrow wing-like organs vibrated, twisting and rushing towards Yan Qingshan, the white sharp teeth in its huge mouth shimmering with a cold light, making people shudder.
"Puff..."
Just as the Cliff Snake was less than a foot away from Yan Qingshan, he stepped back, grabbed the rope and twisted to dodge, using the momentum to avoid the position. Because the distance was too close, the Cliff Snake had no time to adjust its position, crashing into the rock wall like a flying knife, the splashing flying stones scraped Yan Qingshan's body and made his skin hurt.
Yan Qingshan didn't dare to be careless, while twisting, another handful of powder was shot from his hand, covering the entire area where the Cliff Snake was.
The Cliff Snake's frantic writhing was suddenly greatly affected, after twisting and swaying in the white powder for a while, its whole body stiffened and got stuck in the rock crevice and didn't move.
Yan Qingshan didn't dare to be careless, took out the blade and gathered strength from afar and chopped, half of the Cliff Snake's body outside the rock crevice was almost severed, half of its spine was exposed outside, but even with such injuries, it only twitched slightly, it seemed it really couldn't move anymore.
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Chapter 7: Lion Heart King Technique
"This Cliff Snake is quite decent, it even formed a Monster Core."
Yan Qingshan swung the rope again and descended outside the cave entrance. After using the rope to pull out the Cliff Snake's corpse, he used a small knife to cut open the skull along the Cliff Snake's wound, obtaining a dark yellow monster core. After storing the Monster Core, Yan Qingshan came to the outside of the cave entrance again.
The outside of this hidden cave entrance was covered with broken rocks and strange vines, obscuring most of the space, completely insufficient for anyone to enter. After Yan Qingshan tested again and found no danger, he used the blade to open an entrance and leaped into the rock cave.
In the depths of the rock cave, Yan Qingshan inserted a torch into the mountainside beside him, his eyes scanning the surroundings, and soon found the earth-yellow stone door.
He walked over, crouched down, and after touching a small protruding point, his finger pressed down slightly. After a creaking sound, the stone door gradually moved upward.
After the stone door moved up, a faint glow emanated from inside the stone door. This was the light of a moonstone. Although the light was not very bright, it also dispelled the surrounding darkness, allowing Yan Qingshan to no longer need the torch.
Yan Qingshan threw a few stones without triggering any mechanisms, and after using the Cliff Snake's corpse as a shield, he carefully stepped into the stone chamber.
The stone chamber appeared very simple and empty. On the walls, moonstones were embedded for lighting, and in the center of the stone chamber, there was a seat.
On the seat, a withered skeleton sat, the pale skull having fallen from its position, landing at the thigh bone, the horizontal skull facing the entrance, appearing exceptionally eerie and strange.
In front of the skeleton, a rather wide and long bluestone platform was set up. On the bluestone platform, three locked stone boxes were neatly arranged, and in the other three corners of the stone chamber, piles of golden coins and other precious treasures were stacked.
The number of gold coins alone was astonishing, a rough glance revealing no less than hundreds of thousands, and there were other valuable gold and silver treasures, with a total value of at least millions.
In another corner of the stone chamber, a small flower bed was built with precious medicinal mud, and various flowers and herbs were planted in the flower bed.
A strange fragrance lingered within, at least high-grade herbs difficult to find on the market. When it came to actual value, these priceless herbs were the most precious.
The most precious among them was a strange herb displaying two colors, white and red, in the center of the herb bed. On the white branches, dots of ice crystal-like objects were covered, and on the fiery red herb crown, it was as if a ball of flame was burning.
A faint mist lingered around this plant, looking somewhat like a feeling of being among clouds and rainbows. This spiritual herb containing two completely different attributes was called Ice Spirit Blazing Grass, a truly top-grade medicinal material. Like the Blood Lotus Essence in Yan Qingshan's hand, it was one of the main materials for refining the fifth-grade Blood Lotus Pill.
Yan Qingshan did not linger his gaze on these herbs and treasures. Although these things were precious, they were not what he needed most at the moment. The thing he wanted most was... He turned his gaze to the three locked boxes on the bluestone platform.
Yan Qingshan came before the owner of this place, after respectfully bowing to him, he carefully took three keys from the withered skeleton's palm.
The owner of this stone chamber was clearly a predecessor willing to leave opportunities for future generations. He did not engage in any trials or similar processes, saving Yan Qingshan a lot of effort.
After obtaining the keys, Yan Qingshan came to the bluestone table and unlocked all the metal locks on the three stone boxes one by one.
On the stone table, the three stone boxes were opened by Yan Qingshan one by one, and the contents inside were also revealed. The first box was a colorful scroll, the second box was a black scroll, and the third box was more than one scroll, namely a light blue scroll.
Yan Qingshan's hand reached for the third stone box first. When he opened it, the smile on the corner of his mouth finally could not be suppressed. "As expected..."
"Ding... Discovered unrecorded knowledge, recording and analysis work begins... Creating folder…
Xuan High-Grade Dou Qi method: Lionheart King Technique…
Xuan High-Grade Dou Qi Skill: Mad Lion Roar…
Xuan Low-Grade Dou Qi Skill: Phoenix Flight Step…
Notes on Dou Qi Cultivation…
Lionheart King Technique Secret Methods…
Xuan-Grade Flying Dou Technique Manufacturing Method..."
Yan Qingshan's face was filled with joy. Dawn quickly operated to record. As Yan Qingshan expected, inside was the most important cultivation technique and battle skill inheritance of this stone chamber's owner.
In the original work, the third stone box in this stone chamber was robbed by the Qingshan Town Wolf Head Mercenary Company. Later, in the hands of Mu She of the Wolf Head Mercenary Company, the Xuan High-Grade Dou Qi Skill, Mad Lion Roar, appeared.
Although the existence of the cultivation technique was not mentioned in the original work, the owner of this place clearly intended to leave opportunities and inheritance for future generations. How could he only leave Dou Qi Skill but forget the most crucial Dou Qi method?
Many Dou Qi Skills actually only play their strongest role with matching Qi Method. Therefore, matching Dou Qi skills and Dou Qi methods are placed together. The third stone box proved that Yan Qingshan's idea was correct.
The Xuan High-Grade Dou Qi method was almost the highest-grade cultivation technique that could be found in the Jia Ma Empire. This Dou Qi method, even if the attributes were not completely the same, could be cultivated. At most, the efficiency would be slightly lower than completely matching attributes.
However, as long as it was not the kind of fire attribute cultivating water system Dou Qi method, a completely contradictory situation, this efficiency would not be much lower. At least it would be better than a lower-grade same attribute Dou Qi method.
In other words, unless a Xuan Middle-Grade or higher wood attribute cultivation technique could be obtained, this Lionheart King Technique scroll was his best choice at the moment.
Yan Qingshan calmed his mood and picked up the Lionheart King Dou Qi method scroll, carefully comprehending it.
"Xuan High-Grade, Lionheart King Dou Qi method, forging an unyielding lion heart, condensing the momentum of a king, becoming the appearance of a lion king…
Mad Lion Roar, Xuan High-Grade Dou Qi Skill, containing two attacks of Dou Qi and sound wave power. Regardless of weapons and fists, it is famous for its tyrannical attack power.
When refined to perfection, the two powers metamorphose into one, a roar of anger makes people lose courage, a mad lion destroys the body, the two powers become one, one mouth of wind and clouds in chaos, its power is comparable to a Di Low-Grade Dou Qi Skill…
Phoenix Flight Step, Xuan Low-Grade movement Dou Qi skill..."
"This Lionheart King Technique is actually not limited to attributes..."
After Yan Qingshan carefully read the introduction of the Lionheart King Technique and the Mad Lion Roar battle skill, the joy on his face could not be hidden, and his heart cheered and was very excited.
On the Dou Qi Continent, most high-grade cultivation techniques have attribute restrictions. That is, which technique is most suitable for which attribute, or in other words, it is tailor-made for which attribute, just like the first cultivation technique in the original work, the Terminal Blaze Technique, is a fire attribute cultivation technique.
This kind of attribute cultivation technique is naturally twice the result with half the effort for suitable attribute physiques, but it is not that other attribute physiques cannot practice it.
It is just that the efficiency of different attribute cultivation techniques is definitely not as good as matching attributes, and the Dou Qi attribute cultivated will not be so pure, making it difficult to play the Dou Qi method to the extreme, and not being able to comprehend its true meaning.
In this case, many core functions of the Dou Qi method cannot be used at all. For example, if a non-fire attribute physique cultivates the Terminal Blaze Technique, you may not be able to use it to absorb Heavenly Flame at all, then it is a Huang-grade cultivation technique in your hands, in this case, is it useful for you to practice it?
Of course, in addition to this attribute cultivation technique, there is also a kind of cultivation technique that is not based on a certain attribute, that is, a cultivation technique that is not limited to attributes, meaning that people of all physiques can cultivate it.
However, this kind of cultivation technique is generally more difficult to cultivate, and in terms of power amplification, it may be lower than a matching same attribute cultivation technique.
But for the current Yan Qingshan, this Lionheart King Technique is absolutely invaluable, because based on his background strength, if there is no opportunity, it is impossible to obtain a Xuan-grade Dou Qi method at all, let alone a Xuan High-Grade Dou Qi method, this thing is very precious even for the top forces in the Jia Ma Empire.
Yan Qingshan could not suppress the excitement in his heart, and sat cross-legged in this stone chamber, circulating the Dou Qi in his body to begin changing the cultivation technique route.
The Xuan High-Grade Dou Qi method was far stronger than the Huang-Grade Dou Qi method he had prepared earlier. The pale yellow Dou Qi was compressed and condensed into a silk-like cyan Dou Qi, and his aura became more condensed.
Not knowing how long had passed, Yan Qingshan slowly opened his eyes. Inside the stone chamber, it was as if a flash of white light had passed. As he rose, a breeze swept through the stone chamber.
Yan Qingshan only felt his whole body refreshed and invigorated, his condition exceptionally good. After stretching his muscles and bones, he shifted his attention to the stone table again.
On the stone table, the other two stone boxes were opened, and the two rainbow-colored and pitch-black scrolls were waiting for their new owner.
"Ding... Discovered new knowledge, recording and analysis work begins... Creating new folder... Seven-Colored Poison Scripture..."
Yan Qingshan first took out the rainbow-colored Seven-Colored Poison Scripture. The owner of this stone chamber was likely a physician or poison master, and he could leave behind Xuan High-Grade cultivation techniques and Dou Qi skills, and also create Xuan High-Grade Flying Dou Techniques, most likely a Dou Huang expert.
On the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, the knowledge results of this suspected Dou Huang expert on medicine and poison were recorded. The knowledge left behind by a Dou Huang expert, the inheritance of a Dou Huang expert, this was a very precious thing in the Jia Ma Empire.
After recording the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, Yan Qingshan carefully stored it along with the Lionheart King Technique into the storage ring. This lowest-grade storage ring also cost him thousands of gold coins. When he bought it, he really felt heartache, but if he didn't have a storage ring, how could he take away these treasures?
After the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, Yan Qingshan finally picked up the pitch-black Flying Dou Technique scroll, the Xuan High-Grade Flying Dou Technique, Eagle's Wings.
Flying Dou Technique, the rarest auxiliary Dou Qi skill on the continent. Rather than calling it a Dou Qu skill, it is more appropriate to call it a refined wing, which allows people to fly in the sky, which was originally only possible for Dou Spirit and above.
On the Dou Qi Continent, after reaching Dou Spirit, one can only barely hover and glide, and barely perform short-distance flight. True flight can only be achieved when strength reaches Dou King, when Dou Qi is released outward and transformed into energy wings, so that one can freely enter the blue sky and no longer be affected by terrain.
Dou King experts can fly with Dou Qi wings, but this flying battle skill allows experts below Dou Wang to enjoy this treatment as well.
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