In the blink of an eye, five years passed.
During this period, Xiao Lin had been consistently focused on the creation of his cultivation technique. To be honest, creating a cultivation technique was far more difficult than creating a Dou Technique.
It wasn't something where a mere flash of inspiration would allow you to instantly bring a cultivation technique into existence. If it were a Dou Technique, perhaps you could create it through a sudden epiphany or during combat with others.
But wanting to create a cultivation technique was definitely not that simple. This was also the reason why a cultivation technique was worth far more than a Dou Technique of the same grade.
Every cultivation technique currently circulating on the Dou Qi Continent was something ancestors had researched with painstaking effort. So, although it looked like Xiao Lin had spent five whole years on this research, it was actually nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Some people might spend their entire lives and never necessarily be able to create a single cultivation technique. Of course, during these five years, Xiao Lin couldn't have been purely researching the cultivation technique; he was definitely cultivating continuously as well.
During this time, some of Xiao Lin's friends had come to visit him.
For instance, his best friend Nalan Jie.
Since they had grown up together, wearing the same pair of pants since childhood, Nalan Jie had come to offer his condolences upon the death of Xiao Lin's wife. He also understood why Xiao Lin hadn't really left his house for these five years.
Being best friends, he naturally knew the depth of the feelings Xiao Lin had for his wife.
Therefore, aside from the occasional visit to check on Xiao Lin, Nalan Jie didn't say much else. Sometimes, saying nothing at all is the best comfort. Nalan Jie clearly hoped that Xiao Lin would step out from the grief of his wife's passing sooner rather than later.
However, what Nalan Jie didn't know was that Xiao Lin had long since recovered. The reason he hadn't wanted to leave the house these past few years was simply because he wanted to create a cultivation technique.
At the same time, after awakening his past wisdom, Xiao Lin's feelings toward Nalan Jie were actually somewhat complicated. One must realize that the reason for the marriage contract annulment drama in the original story was something for which both he and Nalan Jie had to take the blame.
Yes, not just Nalan Jie; Xiao Lin believed he himself also had to take the blame!
After all, that childhood marriage arrangement was set by both him and Nalan Jie together. It would be inappropriate to pin the blame entirely on Nalan Jie's head.
Furthermore, in the original story, Nalan Jie himself had vehemently opposed Nalan Yanran's annulment of the marriage, and because of it, he hadn't even given his granddaughter a kind look for a long time.
If one had to find something to criticize Nalan Jie for, it was probably that during the final decisive battle between Xiao Yan and the Yun Lan Sect, he didn't choose to stand on Xiao Yan's side, but chose neutrality instead.
However, that was only human nature. Firstly, no matter how you looked at it, his granddaughter was the Young Sect Leader of the Yun Lan Sect. In the eyes of outsiders, the Nalan Clan was naturally on the side of the Yun Lan Sect.
It would be better to say that under those circumstances, Nalan Jie being able to withstand the pressure and remain neutral was already doing everything expected of a friend. At the very least, he didn't kick them while they were down, did he?
Secondly, behind Nalan Jie, there was after all a Nalan Clan to consider. As Xiao Lin's friend, he would choose to stand behind the Xiao Clan, but as the Clan Leader of the Nalan Clan, he had no choice but to make compromises.
This led to the scene where Nalan Jie chose neutrality during the Yun Lan decisive battle. In addition, based on his past memories, Xiao Lin could feel that the interactions between the two were indeed sincere and devoid of any ulterior interests.
Thinking about it, that made sense; otherwise, why would the Nalan Jie of the original story be so enraged after Nalan Yanran annulled the marriage? With no outsiders present, who would he be putting on an act for?
From this, it could be seen that whatever the rest of the Nalan Clan was like, Nalan Jie's personal character was guaranteed. It was just that thinking about the events of the original story made Xiao Lin feel a small knot in his heart.
But eventually, Xiao Lin let it go.
After all, the Nalan Clan was the Nalan Clan, and Nalan Jie was Nalan Jie. The friendship they shared since childhood was something that couldn't be erased. Aside from Nalan Jie, other clans friendly with the Xiao Clan also visited from time to time during this period.
The large and small affairs of the Xiao Clan were still being handled by the current Clan Leader, Xiao Dongcheng. Although Xiao Dongcheng was prepared to hand the position of Clan Leader over to Xiao Lin, now was clearly not the time.
It was precisely because of this that Xiao Lin could currently research his cultivation technique without distractions. At most, he would occasionally look after his son, Xiao Zhan. Fortunately, his son was sensible.
Aside from the first two years when he was very young and often clung to him, he was quiet and well-behaved when following the other members of the clan later on. In this way, Xiao Lin spent five relatively peaceful years.
On this very day, after five years of researching the cultivation technique, Xiao Lin finally had a harvest!
Night fell, and the sky was full of stars.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, boundless Star Power fell from the sky.
This Star Power was something that others could neither see nor feel, except for the person who caused all this commotion. That's right: the one who made this boundless Star Power fall from the sky was none other than Xiao Lin!
At this moment, he had just finished a new round of secluded cultivation.
"So this is Star Power; it's truly miraculous!"
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Xiao Lin looked at his right hand and couldn't help but murmur to himself. At this moment, in the palm of his right hand, bits of azure starlight lingered. Just as Xiao Lin had said to himself, this Star Power was indeed incredibly miraculous.
"Dou Qi fused with Star Power... then it should be called Star Dou Qi, right?"
Toying with the Star Dou Qi in his hand, Xiao Lin's tone carried a joy he couldn't hide.
Xiao Lin could feel that the Star Dou Qi in his hand contained an incredibly majestic power. This kind of Dou Qi fused with Star Power didn't exist in the original story—or rather, no one had ever thought that Star Power could be fused into Dou Qi.
Of course, it was also possible that they simply couldn't feel the Star Power.
However, to say that Star Power didn't exist in the original story was pure nonsense. Don't forget how the Three Thousand Burning Flame was born? If the world of Battle Through the Heavens didn't have Star Power, there would be no such thing as the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
Xiao Lin had actually come up with the idea for this Star Dou Qi on a whim.
The cause was the Low-Level Xuan Grade cultivation technique he had practiced earlier, the Starlight Art. The essence of the Starlight Art was actually to absorb Star Power to give one's Dou Qi an attribute effect.
However, because the grade of that cultivation technique was too low, it failed to achieve this point; at most, it only allowed the practitioner to increase their cultivation speed a little bit at night.
From this cultivation technique, it wasn't hard to see that someone in the past had also had the idea of practicing Star Dou Qi, but they simply hadn't succeeded in the end.
When Xiao Lin was researching his new cultivation technique, he used this Starlight Art as a blueprint. After spending five years, Xiao Lin had finally upgraded the Starlight Art into another cultivation technique.
Mid-Level Earth Grade cultivation technique—Starry Canon!
As the creator, Xiao Lin naturally had the right to name the cultivation technique.
This cultivation technique was Xiao Lin's greatest achievement over these five years. A person practicing this cultivation technique could feel the existence of the Star Power from the heavens and draw it in for their own use, transforming their ordinary Dou Qi into Star Dou Qi.
As everyone knows, on the Dou Qi Continent, based on the different attributes each person possesses, they can practice different attributes of Dou Qi. For example, Fire attribute Dou Qi, Wind attribute Dou Qi, Lightning attribute Dou Qi, Poison attribute Dou Qi, and so on.
What one could master by practicing the Starry Canon was precisely Star Dou Qi!