While testing the changes in his strength, he sensed something, instantly retracted his qi layer, and the next moment the room door opened and his mother walked inside with a doubtful expression.
"What are you doing? I heard some strange noises from your room."
She asked suspiciously, looking at him, and then started scanning the room.
Shen Yi shook his head and replied calmly, "Nothing, I am just practicing something."
Shen Yue was startled, and then a smile appeared on her face, and she said,
"Okay, but don't overwork yourself; come out after a while. The lunch is almost ready."
After speaking, she turned around and left the room.
Shen Yi glanced at his mother's back and then opened the exchange interface silently.
[Welcome to unlimited exchange.]
[Please specify anything you want to exchange.]
"I want a second order, unique thunder treasure."
Shen Yi replied calmly, looking at the interface; instantly a list of items appeared in front of him.
[Lightning Crystal]
[Thunder Ice Cube]
[Lightning Bead]
[Thunder Beast Core]
[Thunder Pond]
[Thunder Prison Vine]
[Lightning Cloud Sword]
(Click for more options.)
Shen Yi glanced at the whole list of second-order items; the second-order items are equivalent to middle-rank yellow-grade treasures.
'There are so many treasures among them that are useful for my exercise. What is this 'thunder ice cube'?
He clicked the thunder ice cube, and the next moment, a description of the treasure appeared in front of him.
[Thunder Ice Cube: A condensed sky thunder frozen for hundreds of years. It can enhance the lightning attribute and give ice properties to the lightning attack.]
[Price: Two second-order items]
A surprise flashed through Shen Yi's face looking at the description of the treasure.
'This is the way I can follow. I was planning to exchange attribute treasure and gain more attributes; now it seems I can exchange a dual attribute treasure. I can gain other attributes while ranking up my exercise.'
He thought to himself, and a playful smile appeared on his face, then he noticed the price; his smile disappeared, and instead his brow furrowed.
'This exchange talent is really extorting; why does it require two second-order items for one?'
He thought to himself and then shook his head and didn't care.
"Probably such a price is because the thunder ice cube is a dual-attribute treasure. Anyway, it can't be helped; I have to find what it wants in exchange… Beast cores are easy to get but not possible for someone at my age. I can't even visit that famous auction house in this city."
Shen Yi muttered thoughtfully, looking at his short-statured reflection in the mirror beside him, and then he sighed, turned around, and walked outside the room.
After the lunch, he returned to the room and then sat down cross-legged on the bed calmly.
'It's time to break through the dou master realm, then I will think about ways to find the second-order items.'
He decided and then started running the exercise; soon the cyclone in his body accelerated and started absorbing and condensing the dou qi. At the same time, the surrounding energy started flowing toward him at an alarming rate.
The lightning attribute dou qi was filtered and purified by his cyclone and then stored, while the remaining chaotic dou qi was released back outside. This cycle continued again and again.
After a few hours,
The cyclone in his dantian spun faster and faster, every rotation pulling more lightning-attribute Dou Qi inward.
Countless thin arcs of purple lightning flickered across his skin, snapping in the air like tiny whips.
'Almost there… just a bit more pressure.'
Inside his body, the cyclone was no longer a calm vortex—it was a raging thunderstorm, crushing the Dou Qi tighter with every turn.
The compressed lightning energy hissed, its pale glow growing denser, heavier, until it felt as if it might shatter the cyclone walls at any moment.
Crack!!!
A deep, muffled crackling sound echoed from within his dantian. The cyclone compressed inward, collapsing in on itself with pressure and force acting upon it.
The lightning Dou Qi, once light and mist-like, condensed into thick, swirling liquid—every droplet carrying the power of countless wisps of gas. The moment the transformation began, a violent surge erupted outward.
Shen Yi's brow furrowed as he felt his tiny meridians strained under the pressure, expanding painfully before toughening, reinforced by the raw elemental energy flooding through them.
Bones and tendons resonated with a faint hum, muscles tightened, and even his heartbeat felt heavier and steadier.
The liquid lightning in his dantian rotated slowly now, very heavy and stable, each revolution accompanied by a low crackle of electricity.
Shen Yi opened his eyes and exhaled deeply.
"So this is the Dou Master realm… It's more dense and sharper than before; now I can defeat hundreds of my previous selves in the dou practitioner stage."
He muttered thoughtfully, flexed his fingers in the air in front of him, and watched thin arcs of lightning dance along them. Now every movement of his body carried a weight that hadn't been there before, as well as the restrained explosiveness ready to tear through anything in his path.
"Six years old, dou master? Who would believe that?"
A playful smile appeared on his face, and then he glanced at the sun setting down outside.
'It seems I have to find a suitable place for my next major breakthrough; I can't do it at home… Almost a few hours passed, and because it was the beginning realm, it didn't cause much disturbance. The next dou grandmaster realm will definitely cause disturbance, and I don't want anyone to find out my secrets yet.'
He thought and decided to be careful after this breakthrough.
…
A few days later,
Shen Yi glanced at the four blood sacs belonging to second-order beasts and a few boxes in front of him in the room.
It was his father who brought these items home upon his request.
After following his idea of opening a restaurant, his father is now a renewed businessman in the Wutan city with considerable wealth.
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