Chapter 42 Three Years
Time passes silently, slipping away from everyone.
Since Xiao Yun broke through the Dou Ling, his cultivation speed has slowed down, and it is not as easy to break through as in the previous realms.
Such daily life is undoubtedly boring and tedious, not as interesting and exciting as adventuring outside. Every day is just repetitive cultivation, accumulating Dou Qi in the body, and progressing slowly like a grinding mill. Most people cannot persist at this point, and they all start to seek pleasure and give up on themselves, but this is reality. If you want to become stronger, you must endure the pain that ordinary people cannot endure.
Fortunately, Xiao Yun was used to this kind of hard training life in the Xiao family before, and there were no teaching courses in the inner courtyard, so he could freely manage his time. In addition to training, he would go to the back mountain from time to time to be struck by lightning, occasionally go to the arena to fight, or help Zi Yan and other inner courtyard students to refine some pills, which was not so boring. As
spring passed and autumn came, as Xiao Yun trained hard in the inner courtyard, a major event also happened in the Xiao family in Wutan City, Jiama Empire.
Because of Xiao Yun, the Xiao family, which was not even the first family in Wutan City, began to become famous throughout the Gama Empire. People knew that the seven-year-old fighter, the genius Xiao Yun who reached the level of fighting spirit and fourth-grade pharmacist at the age of ten, came from the Xiao family.
But recently, the second genius of the Xiao family, the cousin of the genius Xiao Yun, Xiao Yan, was in a lot of trouble because of the matter of being cursed by heaven. He originally had the talent of a fighter, but when he became a fighter, the fighting energy cyclone inexplicably dissipated, and the fighting energy in his body regressed to the level of the eighth stage of fighting energy, and could no longer be improved.
"Father, can't you and the three elders see what's wrong with my body?"
In the meeting hall of the Xiao family, Xiao Zhan and the three elders sat in the upper seats, while Xiao Yan, who looked painful, sat in the lower seat and said sadly.
Seeing Xiao Yan, who was once high-spirited, become like this now, Xiao Zhan, as a father, was very sad, but even if he and the three elders jointly investigated, they could only come to one conclusion, that Xiao Yan's body was very healthy and there was no problem at all.
"Yan'er, don't be anxious or sad. Perhaps it's because your father and the elders are too weak to tell what's wrong with your body." Xiao Zhan looked at Xiao Yan, who had lost hope, and comforted him softly, "But don't be discouraged. Although we can't tell, your cousin Xiao Yun will definitely find a way. He was a fourth-grade pharmacist several years ago. Now his strength must be even greater, and he will definitely be able to find out the reason why your fighting spirit has dissipated!"
"Yes, Xiao Yan, your father is right. Even if we old guys can't do it, Xiao Yun will definitely find a way."
"Yes, yes. I heard that Xiao Yun broke through the Douling Spirit Realm three years ago and his strength far exceeds ours."
The three elders nodded in agreement. Although they usually competed for power with Xiao Zhan, this matter concerned the second most talented person in the family. Even though Xiao Yan was Xiao Zhan's son, they still hoped that Xiao Yan's talent could be restored.
"Cousin Xiao Yun, will he be able to do it? But he is still far away in Canaan Academy and has not been home for several years. Will cousin come back for this?" Upon hearing Xiao Yun's name, Xiao Yan's eyes lit up, but then dimmed immediately. Canaan Academy was far away in the Black Horn Region and was far away from the Gama Empire. Would Xiao Yun really be willing to spend a month or two to come back for him?
Hearing Xiao Yan's somewhat doubtful words, the Great Elder immediately blew his beard and glared and said, "You little bastard, Xiao Yun is a kind-hearted kid. He brought back so many skills for the family before. Even the breakthroughs in the cultivation of several of us old guys are due to him. He will definitely not forget the Xiao family!"
Even Xiao Zhan nodded in agreement and said, "The Great Elder is right, Yan'er, don't say bad things about your cousin in the future. As for your matter, I will write a letter and send someone to deliver it to Canaan Academy. After Xiao Yun sees it, he will definitely come back!"
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Canaan Academy, in an attic in the inner courtyard.
The warm sunlight shines through the gaps between the leaves, lighting up the entire room. Inside the room, a black-clad teenager is sitting cross-legged on the bed, his eyes slightly closed, his hands forming a strange seal in front of him, immersed in cultivation.
The energy of the surrounding heaven and earth is continuously absorbed into his body as his chest rises and falls.
After a long time, the teenager opens his eyes, and a flash of red light flashes in his eyes, like lightning, and a powerful aura bursts out from his body. "Alas, the three-year period has come, but I have only reached the two-star fighting king. I am really not comparable to Xiao Huohuo." There is a hint of helplessness in his plain words.
Such Versailles words, if these words were heard by other people in the inner courtyard, especially those elders who have been stuck in a small stage of the Dou Wang realm for a long time, they would probably be so angry that they would vomit blood.
In three years, from a one-star Dou Ling to a two-star Dou Wang, although Xiao Yun also spent a lot of time to master the art of alchemy, such a speed of practice is already unimaginable for ordinary people. But Xiao Yun still thinks it is a bit slow. You know, Xiao Yan practices like playing. In twenty years, he has completed the journey that others cannot complete in several or even more than ten lifetimes, and became the youngest Dou Emperor in Douqi Continent.
Sure enough, I still have to go out for adventure. I can't save Douqi Continent by burying my head in hard practice!
Xiao Yun thought to himself that since he broke through the Douling level, his cultivation speed inevitably slowed down. Even if he stayed in the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower every day, his cultivation speed could not return to the speed of the past. After all, he was not using the real Meteoric Heart Flame, but only a seed fire. For people at the Douling level, unless they were at the lowest level, the acceleration effect of the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower could be ignored. The
Douwang level was the watershed for the strong on the mainland. Countless strong people at the peak of the Douling level were stuck at this level and could never break through. Although Xiao Yun had no bottlenecks because of the blessing of the golden finger, this golden finger could not accelerate his cultivation speed.
After breaking through to Dou Wang, Xiao Yun spent five months to successfully break through to the two-star Dou Wang. At this rate, it would take him nearly four years to break through to Dou Huang, not to mention the realms after that, which would be slower and slower. If he continued to work hard like this, by the time he finally broke through to Dou Zun in his thirties, Emperor Hun Tian would have already begun to destroy the world.
Compared to Xiao Yun's slow progress in Dou Qi, he was making rapid progress in the art of refining medicine. In just three years, his art of refining medicine was almost better than his teacher's. A large part of the talent of a pharmacist is related to soul power. Many pharmacists, including Elder Huo, have been stuck at a certain level because their soul power is not up to standard. Take Elder Huo as an example. If he can break through to Douhuang, the breakthrough in cultivation can drive the growth of soul power, so he can easily become a sixth-grade pharmacist.
Xiao Yun's soul power is naturally very strong, which is destined to make him have a very high talent in pharmacism. When he broke through Douling, Xiao Yun had already become a fourth-grade pharmacist, and then only one year later, he broke through to the fifth-grade pharmacist realm. Now, he is already a fifth-grade peak pharmacist. Even the sixth-grade elixir has a high success rate of 30%, while Elder Huo only has a pitiful success rate of less than 10%.
As early as when Xiao Yun was still a fourth-grade alchemist, Elder Huo had no more to teach him, because alchemists above this level had already mastered most of the techniques of alchemy, and the only thing they were competing for was who had the better flame and who had the stronger soul power.
As for how to refine pills, one could only rely on oneself to understand, and teaching was simply not enough, so all Elder Huo could do was to teach him all the pill recipes he knew, and Xiao Yun did not disappoint Elder Huo's expectations, and quickly learned all the pill recipes he was taught. A series
of
knocks on the door interrupted Xiao Yun's thoughts, followed by a majestic voice, "Cousin Xiao Yun, the family has sent you a letter."
"Okay, I'll be down right away, come in." Xiao Yun stood up, tapped his feet, and landed on the ground, opened the door and walked out.
Standing in the corridor on the second floor, Xiao Yun watched a tall figure walk into the hall. The person was Xiao Long. In the past few years, Xiao Long and the other two had made great progress in their cultivation with his help. The two brothers Xiao Long and Xiao Hu have both reached the Seven Stars of Fighter. In this year's inner courtyard selection competition, they ranked last and second to last and entered the inner courtyard. After entering the inner courtyard, Xiao Yun directly let them join the Xiao Clan and provided them with shelter and certain training resources. As Xiao Ding is still young, it is estimated that it will take a few more years for him to reach the minimum standard for entering the inner courtyard.
"Who sent it here? Did something happen in the family?" Xiao Yun walked down the stairs and looked up at Xiao Long.
After respectfully handing the envelope to Xiao Yun, Xiao Long touched his head and said with a silly smile: "It was sent by the clan leader. I just got the letter and came to see you, my cousin, and I don't know what it is."
"Okay, here, some small gadgets to speed up your cultivation. Take them and practice." Xiao Long casually threw a jade bottle to Xiao Long. Xiao Yun sat on the sofa in the hall and opened the envelope to read.
Xiao Long's face showed joy, and he quickly took the jade bottle. For him, the small gadgets given by the powerful Xiao Yun casually were rare treasures. Seeing Xiao Yun's actions, Xiao Long stopped disturbing him and quietly left the hall.