In Ya Fei’s heart, she couldn’t help but think of Lu Heng back in her courtyard.
Xiao Yan reached the eighth stage at age nine, becoming the center of attention.
If they knew someone was about to charge into the Dou Zhe Realm at age nine, wouldn’t their jaws drop?
Gu Ni sighed, “Young Miss, you certainly are keeping your composure.”
Immediately, he thought of the boy she had brought back three years ago who lived in her courtyard.
Gu Ni asked in a low voice:
“Young Miss, how is that Lu Heng boy’s cultivation talent?
I truly don’t understand why you brought such a child back.
You should understand the gossip and rumors within the Family regarding you.”
Hearing this, the corners of Ya Fei’s mouth curled up.
She did not answer Gu Ni’s question directly.
“Uncle Gu Ni, time will provide the answer.”
…In the small room of the backyard.
Lu Heng was currently immersed in a wonderful state.
The Dou Zhi Qi that had previously filled his body had now completely vanished.
In its place, a palm-sized green vortex had formed within the Dantian of his lower abdomen.
This was the hallmark of a Dou Zhe.
Moreover, Lu Heng could clearly feel that his vortex was different from ordinary people.
An ordinary person’s vortex was gaseous, but his vortex faintly displayed a thick, liquid-like texture, emerald green and dripping, like a pool of clear water.
Liquid Dou Zhi Qi was the hallmark of a Dou Shi.
This made Lu Heng extremely joyful; his Cheat was indeed powerful.
“Whew…”
Lu Heng slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a mouthful of turbid air.
The world before his eyes seemed to have become clearer.
The sound of falling leaves outside the window, the subtle movements in the next room, and even the dust pressed under the quilt could not escape his perception.
Before Lu Heng could carefully experience the changes in his body, the golden Book of Destiny in his mind vibrated once more.
The previously tightly closed second page slowly flipped open.
[Dou Zhe Achieved, Five Elements Mutual Generation!]
Several large gold-stamped characters appeared in his mind.
[Activation Conditions Met: Breakthrough to Dou Zhe, condense vortex.]
[Obtained Vermilion Fire Body Awakening Method.
Requirements: Five Tier-2 fire-attribute Monster Cores, ten stalks of second-grade fire-attribute medicinal herbs.]
[Vermilion Fire Body: Increases cultivation speed, increases fire resistance, and provides high resistance to ice-attribute attacks like cold poison.
Increases combat explosiveness!]
[Azure Wood Body can be upgraded.
Requirements: Five Tier-2 wood-attribute Monster Cores, ten stalks of second-grade wood-attribute medicinal herbs.]
[Cultivation Technique Advancement:]
[Five Elements Chaos Art (Dou Zhe Chapter): Can simultaneously circulate fire and wood dual-attribute Dou Qi.]
[Obtained Dou Techniques:]
[Azure Wood Seal (Profound Rank Low Level), Blazing Sun Finger (Profound Rank Low Level).]
[Obtained Alchemist Legacy:]
[myriad realms pharmacopoeia · Volume 1: Pill Formulas and refining techniques for Fourth-Grade and below.]
Lu Heng’s mind was completely captivated by the contents of the Book of Destiny.
The Vermilion Fire Body Awakening method!
The Five Elements Chaos Art was exactly as Lu Heng had previously guessed; it truly was a technique that could master the Five Elements Dou Qi.
And now, with the Five Elements generating each other—Wood generates Fire—he already possessed fire and wood dual-attribute Dou Qi!
This was the basic requirement to become an Alchemist on the Dou Qi Continent.
Combined with his Middle Stage Mortal Realm Soul, becoming a Fourth-Grade Alchemist was only a matter of time.
Immediately, Lu Heng performed the Mind-Cultivation Technique of the Five Elements Chaos Art Dou Zhe Chapter.
In just a moment, an unprecedented surge of heat emerged from the depths of his Dantian.
Beside the originally pure green vortex, a faint, flickering wisp of crimson red wound around it as if ignited.
This crimson red and the Green Wood Dou Qi generated and accompanied each other, intertwining yet not interfering.
After the joy passed, Lu Heng looked at the Materials for Awakening his Physique.
[Vermilion Fire Body Awakening Materials: Five Tier-2 fire-attribute Monster Cores, ten stalks of second-grade fire-attribute medicinal herbs.]
[Azure Wood Body Strengthening Materials: Five Tier-2 wood-attribute Monster Cores, ten stalks of second-grade wood-attribute medicinal herbs.]
But this is truly expensive!
These two sets of Materials together would cost nearly a hundred thousand gold coins.
If not for Sister Ya Fei, Lu Heng really wouldn’t know how to obtain them.
What is cultivation about?
Resources.
Where would Lu Heng, who had no background, get so many gold coins?
How else could he enter the Dou Zhe Realm so early?
“I have to ask Sister Ya Fei to support me again,” Lu Heng chuckled softly.
“After Awakening the Vermilion Fire Body and settling in for a while, I’ll join Jia Nan Academy.”
Lu Heng pondered in his heart.
This Jia Ma Empire is ultimately a bit small.
In the Northwest Continent, only Jia Nan Academy is worth entering.
However, before entering Jia Nan Academy, Lu Heng planned to make a trip to Qingshan Town to secure a flying Dou Technique first.
As for Xiao Yi Xian, he could get to know her first, but Lu Heng didn’t have a solution for the Calamity Poison Body yet.
Perhaps the Book of Destiny would give him the answer in the future.
Lu Heng had also tried, but the Book of Destiny could not be communicated with; rewards were only granted when conditions were met.
Lu Heng currently only knew that after increasing a major Realm, he could obtain techniques and such.
Like the Cultivation Technique obtained upon reaching Dou Zhi Qi, and the Alchemist Legacy obtained upon reaching Dou Zhe.
But one thing Lu Heng was very confused about was why the Book of Destiny wanted multiple Physiques to appear.
Could it be a fusion of five Physiques?
Unable to figure it out for the moment, Lu Heng glanced at his attribute panel in the Book of Destiny.
[Name: Lu Heng]
[Age: Nine years old]
[Cultivation: One-star Dou Zhe]
[Soul Realm: Mortal Realm (Middle Stage)]
[Physique: Azure Wood Body (Tier-1), Vermilion Fire Body (Unawakened)]
[Cultivation Technique: Five Elements Chaos Art (Dou Zhe Chapter)]
[Dou Techniques: Azure Wood Seal (Profound Rank Low Level), Blazing Sun Finger (Profound Rank Low Level)]
[Profession: Alchemist]
Lu Heng clenched his fist, feeling the surging power within his body, feeling very satisfied.
“Next is the issue of money.”
Five Tier-2 fire-attribute Monster Cores, five Tier-2 wood-attribute Monster Cores, plus twenty stalks of second-grade medicinal herbs.
In Wutan City, the market price for a single Tier-2 Monster Core was about three to four thousand gold coins, depending on the attribute and quality.
As for second-grade medicinal herbs, they were even more of a hard currency.
In the original story, the First-Grade Alchemist Liu Xi invited by the Jia Lie Family could throw his weight around in Wutan City.
This whole set would cost at least a hundred thousand gold coins.
What did a hundred thousand gold coins mean?
The annual net profit of the Xiao Family’s so-called marketplace was only about this much.
(In the original work, the starting price for the auction of the ‘Wind Rolling Art’ was two hundred thousand, and at that time Xiao Yan mentioned it was more than two years of profit for the Xiao Family.)
Lu Heng scratched his head and threw himself onto the soft pillow, staring at the roof beam in a daze.
“This isn’t cultivation; it’s practically a gold-swallowing beast.”
Although he knew Ya Fei was a wealthy woman and the Mite’er Family was filthy rich, the current Ya Fei was, after all, in a state of being exiled.
Having only been in Wutan City for a year, this sum of money was definitely not an easy matter for Ya Fei.
As he was thinking, a faint sound of footsteps came from outside the courtyard gate.
The sound was very light and somewhat dragging; clearly, the person walking was exhausted to the extreme.
Lu Heng’s ears twitched.
He rolled out of bed, casually threw on an outer robe, pushed the door open, and walked out.
In the courtyard, the moonlight was like water.