Lin Feng sat alone in his secluded cultivation room, surrounded by dense Dou Qi energy. His eyes were closed, as if engaged in a silent battle with the profound power of heaven and earth.
Suddenly, a gale arose within the cultivation room, and the surrounding Dou Qi surged wildly like ignited flames. Lin Feng's aura became exceptionally powerful at this moment, like a volcano about to erupt, containing boundless power.
Within his body, Dou Qi surged like a raging river, relentlessly assaulting the barriers of his cultivation realm. Each impact brought a violent tremor, as if to tear the entire cultivation room apart.
Finally, with a deafening roar, Lin Feng broke through the shackles of his cultivation realm! It was as if a door to a new world had opened within him, and a completely new power surged into his limbs and bones.
At this moment, Lin Feng seemed to have merged with heaven and earth; he could feel the pulse of the surrounding Dou Qi energy and even control it for his own use. His eyes gleamed with a sharp light, as if they could pierce through all illusions and see through the essence of the world.
"Hoo..." Lin Feng slowly exhaled a breath of foul air, sighing, "It's been fifteen years since that kind driver brought me to the Dou Qi Continent. I've finally broken through to the sixth-star Great Dou Master."
Without a system or a background, one can imagine how difficult this journey was. Reborn as the son of a mercenary, his parents later perished at the hands of magical beasts while on a mission.
Over the years, he relied on extreme caution, even when he broke through to Dou Zhe at the age of ten, he dared not announce it, only saying he had reached the fourth stage of Dou Qi. In Stone Desert City, he was neither here nor there, until he ventured into the desert to fight magical beasts and find herbs to exchange for cultivation resources.
He unexpectedly acquired the legacy of a fourth-grade alchemist, which gradually changed his situation. However, he still dared not reveal his alchemist identity, always selling only first-grade healing pills, and always conducting transactions while shrouded in a black robe and wearing a mask.
Only after breaking through to Dou Master did his situation slowly improve. After all, this wasn't his previous life, and the Stone Desert City, bordering the Snake-People tribe, was a place where fighters were even more ferocious due to years of war with them. A moment's carelessness, revealing undue wealth, could mean certain death that very night.
Therefore, before ensuring his own safety, Lin Feng dared not reveal his identity as an alchemist.
Thus, he only revealed his alchemist identity after reaching the Dou Shi realm. After that, things improved greatly; the cultivation resources he obtained became increasingly abundant and of higher quality, allowing Lin Feng's progress to accelerate.
Now, at the age of 15, he successfully broke through to the six-star Great Dou Shi realm. Even his alchemist skills had advanced to the third-grade high-level alchemist level.
Of course, Lin Feng publicly displayed only the one-star Dou Shi and second-grade alchemist levels; this wasn't a pretense of weakness. Having reached the six-star Great Dou Shi realm, in this small Stone Desert City, apart from the City Lord's Mansion, Lin Feng was practically unmatched.
But what did this minor Great Dou Shi mean in the entire Jia Ma Empire? Lin Feng understood the principle that "the tallest tree in the forest is the first to be felled by the wind."
Someone who could reach the level of a 6-star Great Dou Master at the age of 15 must possess some unknown treasure. If others knew, some would inevitably take the risk. Although Lin Feng wasn't afraid, he didn't want such trouble.
However, after this seclusion, Ye Feng could announce his advancement to a third-grade alchemist. After all, generally speaking, except for those who were irrational, people would treat alchemists with utmost respect and flattery.
Furthermore, Lin Feng planned to leave Stone Desert City when he broke through to the fourth-grade alchemist. It was far too barren compared to the capital of Jia Ma, and it was uncertain whether he could even gather enough herbs for a complete fourth-grade pill.
Moreover, after adopting Little Qinglin, Lin Feng had roughly determined Xiao Yan's age. The arrival of Xiao Ding and Xiao Li later further confirmed this.
Xiao Yan is now almost twelve years old, and his three-year period of seclusion is about to begin. Therefore, it's time to seize the opportunity in the cave near Qingshan Town in the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
In previous years, he dared not act rashly because there was still room for improvement and his Dou Qi level was not high enough. Now that there is no further progress, it's time to seize the opportunity.
Not only does it contain Xuan-rank flying Dou Techniques and some precious medicinal herbs, but more importantly, it contains a quarter of the Demon Flame Relic Map. If there is an opportunity in the future, it might be the chance to obtain the Pure Lotus Demon Flame.
Moreover, the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame in the Tagor Desert is something that even the Medusa Queen, a peak Dou Huang, had to be injured to seal. It's not something a mere Great Dou Shi like him can covet.
There's also the quarter of the Strange Flame Relic Map that Ice Emperor Hai Bodong, who is said to like fighting in peak matches, has, but that's also beyond his reach at present.
Therefore, it's time to leave Stone Desert City.
The door to the secluded cultivation room slowly opened, and Lin Feng's figure appeared in the doorway. A ray of sunlight fell upon him, momentarily giving him the air of a peerless gentleman, a jade-like figure among men.
Haha, all an illusion. Although Lin Feng had been meticulously maintaining his physique and skin since his transmigration and rebirth, he knew that strength was temporary, but handsomeness was for life.
However, in Stone Desert City, surrounded by the vast desert, while his physique remained excellent and his appearance outstanding—after all, he was an alchemist—the environment, with its constant desert training, inevitably resulted in a bronze complexion.
Of course, this was also due to the abundance of fire and earth attribute medicinal herbs here. Once he reached Green Mountain Town or the capital of the Gama Empire, he was determined to cultivate a body of ice-cold, jade-like flesh. Right now, he was simply limited by his circumstances, but sacrificing his skin color in exchange for a physique almost comparable to a mid-tier third-order magical beast.
But this was his current limit, as it was only achieved through alchemy and arduous training. He didn't possess any powerful body-refining techniques, and the alchemy he obtained was merely a remnant of a fourth-grade alchemist.
He would definitely exchange it for a powerful body-refining manual when the opportunity arose. His cultivation technique, however, was quite good, also obtained from an alchemist. It was a high-level Xuan-rank fire-attribute technique—the Heavenly Yang Technique.
Of course, he cultivated more than just this one technique. Perhaps due to the peculiarity of his transmigration, he possessed the rare five-elemental attribute Dou Qi.
This was quite rare in the Dou Qi Continent; most people only had a single attribute, or the dual fire and wood attributes of alchemists, with fire being stronger than wood. His Dou Qi attributes were balanced across the five elements, allowing him to cultivate five techniques and perfectly fuse them. He
even formed a five-elemental great cycle, his Dou Qi becoming purer with each cycle, and the efficiency of combining the five techniques was comparable to a low-level Earth-rank technique. This could be considered his cheat code.
The only opportunity currently available near Stone Desert City is Little Azure Phosphorus; let me have it. A nobody with no power or connections tries to mess with the Snake People and Ice Emperor Hai Bodong. I'm not some mindless rebirth story where you get stronger after dying once. Hahaha
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