Chapter 2 Sign in in front of the magic stone tablet, Pharmacopoeia!
Chapter 2: Signing In Before the Magic Stone Stele, Medicine Canon!
"Xiao Yan, Dou Qi, three segments! Level: Low-tier!"
In the center of the Xiao Family's plaza, a massive black stone stele stood, which was clearly the Test Magic Stone Stele.
At this moment, before the Test Magic Stone Stele, on a high wooden platform, the huge black stone stele suddenly glowed, and several large golden characters appeared on its surface.
Next to the Test Magic Stone Stele, a middle-aged man glanced at the information displayed on the stele and announced it indifferently.
As soon as the middle-aged man's words left his mouth, as expected, they caused a mocking commotion in the crowded plaza.
"Three segments? Hehe, as I expected, this 'genius' has been treading water for another year!"
"Sigh, this good-for-nothing really shames the family."
"If it weren't for the patriarch being his father, such a good-for-nothing would have been driven out of the family long ago to fend for himself. How could he still have the chance to freeload in the family?"
"Alas, how did that talented young man, once famous in Wutan City, fall to such a state?"
"Who knows? Perhaps he did something bad that angered the gods."
Xiao Yan began cultivating at four, possessed nine segments of Dou Qi at ten, broke through ten segments of Dou Qi at eleven, successfully condensed a Dou Qi cyclone, and became a Battle Practitioner.
However, shortly after Xiao Yan became a Battle Practitioner, the Dou Qi in his body began to mysteriously disappear. Not only did the Dou Qi cyclone, painstakingly cultivated for over a decade, vanish overnight,
but the Dou Qi within his body also diminished with the passage of time.
The disappearance of Dou Qi resulted in Xiao Yan's strength continuously regressing, now only leaving him with three segments of Dou Qi.
Xiao Yan stepped down from the wooden platform, his eyes scanning the surrounding crowd, then he turned away forlornly and quietly returned to the last row of the queue. His solitary figure seemed somewhat out of place with the world around him.
As soon as Xiao Chen and Xiao Xun'er entered the plaza, that loud announcement came from the center of the plaza, followed by various sounds of laughter and ridicule.
Xiao Chen looked at the somewhat lonely and desolate figure. He walked towards that figure, and Xiao Xun'er, seeing this, also followed closely behind him.
"Xiao Yan Zi!" Xiao Chen called out when he reached Xiao Yan's side.
"Brother Chen!" Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Chen, who had come to his side, and replied.
"Gold will always shine. Xiao Yan Zi, do you believe in serendipitous encounters?"
Xiao Chen walked to Xiao Yan's side, extended his palm, patted Xiao Yan's shoulder, and comforted him.
Serendipitous encounters?
The Douqi Continent is vast, with many unknown reclusive figures. After their lives reach their end, these reclusive individuals, perhaps due to their eccentric nature, might hide the cultivation methods they created throughout their lives in some place, waiting for a fated person to discover them.
There's a saying that circulates on the Douqi Continent: if one day you fall off a cliff and land in a cave, don't panic. Take two steps forward, and perhaps you will become a powerful expert!
This saying is not false; in the continent's nearly thousand-year history, there are many stories of people becoming powerful experts through fortuitous encounters.
The consequence of this story was that it created a large number of dreamers who waited by cliff edges every day, ready to jump off and obtain peerless cultivation methods. Of course, most of these people returned with broken arms and legs, and some even never returned.
Xiao Yan had naturally heard of these stories and fantasized about them, after all, who wouldn't want to be powerful?
"Brother Chen, thank you."
Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Chen with his dark eyes and thanked him. Xiao Yan knew that Xiao Chen was comforting him.
When he was once a "genius," everyone treated him with utmost respect and flattery. But ever since his Dou Qi began to regress three years ago, those who used to respect and flatter him now showed their true colors. Is this what human nature is like?
However, Brother Chen always treated him with great care and encouraged him from time to time. This made Xiao Yan, who had fallen into a slump, deeply remember this kindness in his heart.
Xiao Yan remembered a few times when those same clansmen who had once shown him respect came to trouble him after he became a good-for-nothing. In the end, it was Brother Chen who beat them up and declared that Xiao Yan was under his protection.
"Brother Chen, I'm going to cultivate now."
Xiao Yan glanced around, greeted Xiao Chen, and then left this place that made him feel somewhat disgusted.
"Cousin Xiao Yan's Dou Qi mysteriously disappearing is quite strange, isn't it?"
Watching Xiao Yan's receding figure, Xiao Xun'er, beside Xiao Chen, said softly.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Chen looked at Xiao Yan's figure slowly disappearing into the distance, a thoughtful expression on his face.
By his calculations, Old Yao should be waking up soon. The "serendipitous encounter" Xiao Chen spoke of was precisely Old Yao.
Although Xiao Chen had once considered getting the ring from Xiao Yan's hand.
But Xiao Chen didn't do that, because Old Yao was only an early-stage development aid, nothing more.
The most important thing was that Xiao Chen had latched onto Xiao Xun'er's thick, fair jade leg.
A golden finger might be late, but it will never be absent!
At the same time, Xiao Chen always believed that he would have his own golden finger, and today, his golden finger arrived.
The System, an existence that can allow ordinary people to become powerful, an existence that allows one to reach the peak of this world.
"Next, Xiao Chen!"
The middle-aged man's shout on the stage rang out again.
The middle-aged man's voice pulled Xiao Chen, who was deep in thought, back to reality.
"Brother Xiao Chen, it's your turn."
Xiao Xun'er's red lips parted beside Xiao Chen, and she said softly.
Hearing this, Xiao Chen composed himself, nodded at Xiao Xun'er, and without another word, stepped towards the Test Magic Stone Stele.
When Xiao Chen arrived before the dark Magic Stone Stele, his fair palm touched the stele, and then he slowly closed his eyes.
Just as Xiao Chen arrived before the Magic Stone Stele, Ling'er's soft and gentle prompt sounded in Xiao Chen's mind.
"Ding, arrived at sign-in location: before the Magic Stone Stele. Would you like to sign in?"
"Sign in!"
"Signing in..."
"Ding, congratulations to the Host, sign-in successful, reward obtained: Medicine Canon!"
Medicine Canon: Records countless pill formulas, refining techniques, and more from all the heavens and myriad realms, using all things as medicine and heaven and earth as a cauldron.
Xiao Chen listened to Ling'er's soft and gentle prompts, and at the same time, a large amount of information appeared out of thin air in Xiao Chen's mind.
While Xiao Chen was receiving the Medicine Canon's information, the dark Magic Stone Stele also lit up.
"Xiao Chen, Dou Qi: five segments! Level: Intermediate!"
Next to the Test Magic Stone Stele, the middle-aged man looked up at the information displayed on the stele, his tone somewhat surprised.
As the middle-aged man's words fell, a commotion erupted in the plaza, and some people whispered amongst themselves, discussing.
"Five segments!"
"Tsk tsk, I remember Young Master Xiao Chen could challenge opponents with five segments of Dou Qi when he was only at three segments!"
"Yes, Young Master Xiao Chen is now at five segments of Dou Qi, I'm afraid he can challenge opponents with seven or eight segments of Dou Qi, can't he?"
At this moment, Xiao Chen was still receiving the information from the Medicine Canon and had no intention of paying attention to the praises of the surrounding people.
A moment later, Xiao Chen finally finished receiving the Medicine Canon's information, turned, and walked down the wooden platform, listening to the sounds around him.
Many found it hard to believe that he could challenge opponents beyond his own level.
In his previous life, Xiao Chen had read many web novels and understood the importance of building a solid foundation in the early stages of cultivation.
Therefore, when Xiao Chen transmigrated to the Douqi Continent, from the very beginning of his cultivation, he repeatedly compressed the Dou Qi within his body, pushing it to the limit his body could withstand.
Gradually, the Dou Qi within Xiao Chen's body, compared to those of the same rank, naturally allowed him to store more Dou Qi, and his energy was also naturally greater than theirs, making challenging opponents beyond his level not impossible.
Another point is that cultivators in the Dou Qi stage have not yet undergone a "qualitative change." Only by condensing a "Dou Qi cyclone" and becoming a Battle Practitioner will a transformation occur. At that time, the "Dou Qi" within the body will become true "Dou Qi."