After a while, the Shen family left the cave and moved back to the city.
After settling in the new house, they stayed dormant for a while and then slowly resumed their life as usual.
Time passed like a wind; five years and eleven months passed.
A young boy of six years was standing in front of the stall looking at the items on the display. His eyes are spiritually big, and the serious expression on his small face will rile up anyone's urge to pinch his chubby cheeks.
He is Shen Yi; after reaching the age of six today, his father gave him a hundred gold coins as a gift, just like the previous three years, and he is visiting the market in order to buy something useful.
'I have awakened my talent; now I have to find the last required item to exchange. I have been suppressing my realm at the nine-star dou practitioner limit for the past four years, waiting for suitable exercise. Today I will definitely get what I want and break through the Dou Master realm.'
Shen Yi thought to himself as he glanced at the items on the stalls around: medicinal plants, low-level pills, some basic alchemy recipes, and low-level yellow-grade skills.
While walking through the street, suddenly his pupil brightened, looking at the purple core lying on the stall.
He immediately walked toward it and asked, looking at the stall owner while pointing at the core, "What is the price of this beast core?"
The stall owner was startled, and then he picked up the lightning core and replied with a smile,
"Little brother, this is the rare lightning beast core. Although it's damaged, it's still worth twenty gold coins, and it's not for children to play with."
Shen Yi glanced at him speechlessly and then grabbed the pouch from his pocket and released twenty gold coins on the stall, then snatched away the core swiftly from his hand and walked away saying, "I want it."
The stall owner was startled, looking at Shen Yi back in a daze, and then he glanced at the twenty gold coins lying on the stall in front of him confusedly. 'How did he do that? Why did a child have so much money?'
Shen Yi didn't care about the stall owner's confusion, putting the beast core in his pocket, and started scanning other stalls around.
After buying a few more items, he turned around and returned to his house.
Upon walking inside the house, he directly walked inside his room and opened the drawer.
A smile appeared on his small face after looking at the nine more purple cores lying inside it.
'I have finally got the tenth lightning beast core. It's time to exchange that exercise.'
He thought about grabbing all nine cores from the drawer and then walked toward the bed and sat down cross-legged above it.
'Open the exchange interface.' Shen Yi thought to himself, and instantly a systematic interface appeared in front of him.
[Welcome to unlimited exchange.]
[Please specify anything you want to exchange.]
'I need an upgradable dou qi exercise based on the lightning attribute similar to Fan Jue, which must be upgradable with rare lightning attribute treasures.'
Shen Yi specified the exercise he wanted calmly.
The next moment an exercise name and description appeared in front of him with exchange requirements.
[Primordial thunder art, a lost art abandoned because of harsh requirements. It is a low-level exercise for warriors and can be ranked up with rare treasure based on the lightning attribute.
[Origin: Coiling Dragon Dimension]
[Price: Ten first-order items of lightning attribute]
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"Well, exchange it," Shen Yi muttered thoughtfully, looking at the exercise, which is suitable for his lightning attribute.
After finding out that he has lightning attribute affinity only, there is no flame or wood.
Shen Yi was very surprised, and then he didn't care, as he knew that he could exchange a unique treasure, which would grant him other affinities if he wanted.
Instantly the ten cores in front dissipated, and at the same time, a memory related to the exercise appeared in his mind.
Shen Yi analyzed the exercise in his mind, and a surprise flashed through his pupil.
"This is really a systematic dou qi exercise, although it's just the lowest yellow grade now, but after consuming the thunder attribute treasure, it will rank up. I remember the coiling dragon dimension is also based on dou qi and magic practice. Although they are known as warriors, they are no different from dou masters here."
He muttered thoughtfully and then closed his eyes and started preparing to run the exercise.
Slowly the dou qi in his meridian started flowing through a unique path, and then it started accelerating; even the vortex in his dantian started rotating at unimaginable speed.
Rumbling!
The next moment, as if he had imagined thunder roaring in his dantian and countless lightning sparks produced at the base of the vortex, they slowly engulfed the whole cyclone.
After a while,
A light purple color rendered the cyclone in his dantian, and tiny lightning bolts flickered inside it like in the middle of a thunderstorm.
'It was easy to transform the dou qi; I thought it would take days, as I have already reached the nine-star rank of dou practitioner.'
Shen Yi thought to himself as he opened his eyes. A purple lightning spark flashed, surrounding his pupils, then he raised his hand, and a light purple qi layer covered his palm, flickering with lightning.
"Also my physique feels lighter, and I think my agility has increased from before, probably because of this lightning attribute. Can I play like that Raikage Ai?"
He muttered, and with a short burst of lightning qi layer covered his whole physique, and he moved.
Swish! Swish!! Swish!!!
Afterimages flashed in the room, leaving behind a trail of lightning in the air. Shen Yi stopped and took a deep breath and muttered,
"My speed really increased, almost twice as fast as before."
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