DouQi World, Northwest Continent, Jia Ma Empire, Imperial Capital.
This is a world of cultivation, where they cultivate DouQi, a violent and powerful internal energy, people who cultivate can live for thousands or even millions of years, and depending on the cultivation realm, even be immortal.
At this moment, inside a mansion, a young boy of approximately 18 years old is sitting, with his eyes closed and making a peculiar hand sign. Surrounding it is a thick cloud of dark green, grayish gas.
"It's now or never." he muttered before making a few more hand symbols and concentrating.
His name is Yao Ming, and unlike the rest of this world, he does not belong to this world. He was an ordinary Earthling who ended up dying and then being reborn into this world as a baby almost two decades ago.
Yao Ming is Nalan Su's eldest son with a mysterious woman named Yao Xueqi, who just as suddenly appeared, disappeared after giving birth to Yao Ming, leaving behind only a storage ring.
The next moment the air seemed to tremble, the entire gas cloud was suddenly absorbed by Yao Ming's body, and then a crack was heard.
A vortex of energy appeared above him, rotated countless times, sucking energy from heaven and earth, after some time disappearing and leaving a layer of light red energy all over Yao Ming's body.
"Finally, I advance to the Martial Grandmaster Realm... With this we can begin to change destiny." Yao Ming muttered after opening his eyes and looking at himself, as he felt the rising power in his own body.
He had just advanced in his cultivation, reaching the fourth great cultivation realm. Called Martial Grandmaster.
The cultivation realms are: Martial Disciple, Martial Warrior, Martial Master, Martial Grandmaster, Martial Spirit, Martial King, Martial Emperor, Martial Ancestor, Martial Venerate/Venerable, Half-Martial Saint, Martial Saint, Half-Great Emperor, Great Emperor.All cultivation realms are divided into 9 stars, with the exception of Martial Venerate, Martial Half-Saint, and Half-Great emperor.
Martial Venerate, in addition to the nine stars, has nine distinct stages, called nine changes or nine turns, each stage consists of compressing and refining all of your douqi to then advance.
The Half-Saint realm has three stages, Initial, Intermediate and Advanced, the practitioner must transcend mortality and then transform his body into these three stages, sanctifying his body, to then become a saint.
"Hahaha, it was worth risking absorbing all the poison from the old man's body, I went from 7-star Martial Master straight to 1-star Martial Grandmaster. Now I can refine higher stage level 4 pills easily." Then, Yao Ming let out a satisfied sigh and uttered excited words, then stood up.
"Time to go, it must be 10 am now." Yao Ming thought before opening the room's door and walking through, his next destination was the Nalan family's main hall.
Not long after, Yao Ming entered the hall, where he came across three people, a girl of approximately 15 years old, a middle-aged man and an old man.
"Xiao Ming greets Grandpa, Father and Little Sister." Upon seeing them, Yao Ming greeted them politely, cupping his hands and bowing slightly. These three were Nalan Yanran, Nalan Su and Nalan Jie. Yao Ming's half-sister, father and grandfather.
"There's no need for so much formality, we're your family." The old man said. "You...You managed to advance by a large margin." He added as he watched Yao Ming carefully.
"It was all thanks to Grandpa." Yao Ming responded with a smile.
"You boy, the poison that tormented me so much for years has served as a boost in your cultivation, and there are no side effects." Nalan Jie said in surprise at Yao Ming's calmness and excitement."
*Cough Cough*
"And so, you barely finished your cultivation, and came here in a hurry.I suppose you're ready to do what you said you would do three days ago, am I right?" Coughing lightly twice, Nalan Su broke the relaxed moment between grandfather and grandson by asking a question.
At this moment, the previously silent Nalan Yanran focused her gaze on Yao Ming, showing some expectation.
Until that moment, even though she was surprised by Yao Ming's progress in cultivation, she still hadn't uttered a single word. This is because despite being half-brothers, they never got along, Yao Ming always kept a certain distance from her.
It's not that they had a grudge against each other, as children of different mothers, Yao Ming simply doesn't want to have a headache because of his stepmother, fights over family leadership or any unnecessary crap like that, the path of cultivation is difficult in itself, no more headache is needed.
"Replying to Father, exactly, I came to you to get the engagement agreement made between the Nalan Family and Xiao Family back then. Then I will leave for Wutan City to break the engagement, and then propose my engagement." Yao Ming replied naturally.
"Are you sure you want to go alone? I'm a little worried about their reaction." Nalan Jie said next, looking slightly embarrassed.
Unlike the original plot, Yao Ming made the entire family aware of Nalan Yanran's desire to cancel the engagement, and instead of just letting everything happen naturally, he decided to intervene.
"Aren't I the one who should go?" Nalan Yanran finally said, only now did she utter a word.
"Yanran. You-"
"No way, you shouldn't go, with your personality, it would only bring misfortune to both the Nalan family and your Mystic Cloud Sect." Before Nalan Jie finished what he was going to say, Yao Ming cut him off by saying.
"You!!" Nalan Yanran exclaimed, looking dissatisfied, but choosing to remain silent afterwards,she would probably be scolded by her father and grandfather if a disagreement with Yao Ming started.
"Well, I ask you to give me her agreement, and the two copies of my order prepared for me." No longer paying attention to Nalan Yanran, Yao Ming asked for things directly.
Seeing this, both father and grandfather remained silent, and looked at each other, no matter how hard they tried over the years, these two didn't seem to get closer as brothers.
"Alright alright, here it is. Ming'er, will you go right away?" Nalan Jie said as he handed three scrolls to Yao Ming.
"Yes, this is the plan, I have already prepared everything I will need, including the engagement gifts, don't worry, I will do my best to bring pride and not disgrace to the family, I thank grandfather and leave now." Yao Ming replied as he reached out to collect the three scrolls, not forgetting to roll his eyes and look at Nalan Yanran.
"You!!!!" Taking the hint, Nalan Yanran exclaimed, about to no longer hold back, but was faced with Yao Ming's cold back, who without delay left the hall.
Yao Ming headed directly to the mansion's gates, upon leaving he turned and looked at the structure, smiling slightly.
"I've lived and cultivated here for 18 years, it's time to leave comfort and make my own way, until next time... And Xiao Yan, I hope I won't be disappointed." Thinking about everything he's been through and what's to come, Yao Ming muttered lightly, turning around again and starting to walk away from the residence's entrance.