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📜 **Tianzun's Profile – Age 10**
🔹 Name: Tianzun
🔹 Age: 10 Years
🔹 Cultivation Level: 8-Star Da Dou Shi
🔹 Alchemy Rank: Tier 5 Alchemist (High Stability)
🔹 Heavenly Flame: Emperor Devouring Seed (100% Soul Fusion)
🔹 Qi Attribute: Cosmic Black-Green Flame Qi
🔹 Technique: Heavenly Devouring Flame Scripture
🔹 Soul Realm: Stable | Bound to Flame Core World
🔹 Signature Pills: Tier 2–3 (Sold), Tier 4–5 (Kept)
🔹 Inventory: Premium Celestial Cauldron, 3 Dou Zong Burst Cards, Sect Infrastructure Pack
🔹 Current Wealth: 980,000,000+ Celestial Shards & 6.4 Million Gold Coins
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🌠**Cultivation Surge – One Year Later (Age 5)**
Tianzun sat cross-legged inside the silent inner sanctum of his crafting realm. His body radiated an eerie green hue as galaxies spiraled slowly within his Qi Sea.
It had been a year since he began cultivating the **Heavenly Devouring Flame Scripture**. The results?
He had once again reached **Dou Shi Realm**, but far more refined than before.
His body no longer trembled during sessions. The pain was subdued, replaced by a measured harmony of devouring and expansion.
His new cosmic Qi vortex now spun with layered galaxies, drawing in spiritual essence from the crafting realm's infinite void. Stars formed in his dantian.
A second black hole rotated quietly at the edge of the cosmos.
He smiled faintly.
> "Pain taught me power. Now I begin again."
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🌌 **Three Years Passed – Age 10**
Tianzun's years of diligence bore fruit.
đź’ **Cultivation Progress:**
* Age 6: 2-Star Dou Shi
* Age 7: Da Dou Shi Reached Again
* Age 10: 8-Star Da Dou Shi
> "Each advancement took ten times the effort Xiao Yan expended in the original timeline," Tianzun thought. "But every scar made me stronger."
He trained in silence, meditating 14 hours a day, crafting 6 hours, sleeping barely 2.
But the gains were extraordinary.
🧪 **Alchemy Achievements:**
* Tier 2 Low to Tier 3 High: Mass produced, sold via the Auction House
* Tier 4–5: Crafted secretly, kept for sect and personal missions
* Specialty: Rare anti-poison and enhancement pills for future use
**Prescription Sources:**
* Obtained exclusively from high-tier missions
* Tianzun was selective—he only accepted missions that granted pill prescriptions as rewards
He now held **17 prescriptions**:
* Tier 2: 6 types
* Tier 3: 5 types
* Tier 4: 4 types
* Tier 5: 2 types
The Xiao Clan had no clue.
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🏡 **Xiao Clan Reputation – Influence & Bonds**
Tianzun's presence was now felt across the entire clan.
He spent his free time walking among the people, listening to their troubles, solving issues quietly.
The elders? He outwitted them politely.
The children? They followed him with stars in their eyes.
The women? They whispered about his long white hair and jade-like face.
Even the guards stood straighter when he passed.
Xiao Zhan, in private, often told others:
> "My youngest son carries the calm of mountains and the cunning of rivers. His silence speaks louder than war drums."
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🌸 **Romantic Thread – Xun'er**
Tianzun's bond with Xun'er had reached an unspoken depth.
No words needed.
No touches craved.
Just a look—a shared glance across the courtyard—and they understood one another.
She trained with him, sat beside him while he meditated, sometimes dozed off against his shoulder.
One evening, when a spring wind carried flower petals past them, she murmured:
> "I wonder... was I born to meet you?"
He didn't reply.
He only tucked a flower behind her ear.
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🔥 **Xiao Yan's Rising Flame – and Arrogance**
At age 11, Xiao Yan had finally broken through to **1-Star Dou Zhe**.
The clan celebrated.
He was the prodigy. The hero of his generation.
He gained a girlfriend—Xiao Mei.
He gained admirers, followers, and fame.
But he lost time with Tianzun.
Tianzun saw it clearly.
> "He's walking into a flame that will burn him. But perhaps that pain... is necessary."
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📜 **Time Mapping Panel – Status**
Tianzun opened his system's personal archive panel.
🗓️ Upcoming Events:
* Xiao Yan's fall: 1 year
* Yao Lao awakening: 4 years
* Misty Cloud Sect development arc: 4 years(3 years agreement)
He tapped the screen thoughtfully.
> "Time is generous. I must not be idle."
He leaned back, stars twinkling in his soul world.
> "I'll be ready."
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đź’¬ **Closing Reflection**
Tianzun sat in meditation, his long white hair swaying lightly with flame wind. He was not yet famous in the world. His name not sung in streets.
But in this silence, he was becoming something far greater.
The fire within him whispered:
> "You will be the storm."
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đź“š **End of Chapter 42: "The Path of a Silent Fire"**