Battle Through the Heavens
作者: Heavenly Silkworm Potato© WebNovel
章 1: The Fallen Genius
“Third stage Dou Zhi Qi!”
Watching the five large words imprinted on the Magic Testing Monument that were so bright to the point of being eye piercing, the young man didn’t display any expressions. The corners of his mouth were lifted into a self-ridiculing smile. He tightly clenched his hands into fists and due to the strength that he used, his slightly sharp nails bit into his palm, bringing waves of pain.
“Xiao Yan, Dou Zhi Qi, Third Stage! Rank: Low!” Next to the Magic Testing Monument was a middle-aged man who after looking at the information displayed, announced the results in an indifferent voice.
The moment the words from the middle-aged man left his mouth, a ridiculing commotion ran through the packed field.
“Third stage? Haha, I told you, this “genius” would once again stay where he was!”
“Ugh, this cripple really has disgraced the clan.”
“If his father wasn’t the clan leader, we would have banished this kind of crippled out of the clan and let him live by himself. He definitely wouldn’t have the chance to eat and sleep in the clan.”
“Wow. How could the genius that was renowned in the Wutan City fall to this state today?”
“Who knows? Maybe he did something unforgivable and made the gods angry at him…”
Words of pity and ridicule were emitted from the surrounding and fell into the young man who was standing at the same place like a wood stump. The words were like sharp stakes driven into his heart, making the young man’s breathing a little hurried.
The young man raised his head and showed his delicate and slightly immature face. His dark eyes lifelessly fell upon his peers who were ridiculing him and the self-ridiculing smile at the corner of his mouth seemed to have become more bitter.
“Were these people always so harsh? Maybe it’s because they showed their most humble smile before me three years ago, thus, they want to take it back now…” With a bitter smile, Xiao Yan turned around. His quietly went to the last row of the group. His lonesome figure seemed to be unable to fit in with the rest of his surroundings.
“Next, Xiao Mei!”
With the announcer’s voice, a young girl quickly ran out from within the group of people. As soon as the young girl appeared, the chatter nearby lowered as heated gazes zoomed onto her face.
The young girl was only around fourteen and couldn’t be considered to be an extreme beauty. However, her face which was still a hint of childishness showed a faint enchantment. Innocence and enchanting beauty, this contradicting combination made her the focus of the crowd.
The young girl quickly went up and her small hand practically touched the black Magic Testing Monument. Then, she slowly closed her eyes.
A moment after the girl closed her eyes, the jet black Magic Testing Monument lighted up.
“Dou Zhi Qi: Seventh Stage!”
“Xiao Mei, Dou Zhi Qi: Seventh Stage! Rank: High!”
“Hah!” Hearing the score called out by the announcer, the young girl’s face showed a prideful smile.
“Tsk tsk, seventh stage Dou Zhi Qi, incredible. With this speed, she’ll be a true Dou Zhe in at most three years.”
“Indeed worth of the clan’s top talent.”
Hearing the sounds of envy from the crowd, the young girl’s smile became deeper. Vanity was a temptation that many girls couldn’t resist from.
Talking with her sister friends, Xiao Mei’s gaze shot through the surrounding crowd and stopped on a lonely figure outside of the crowd.
After furrowing her brows and thinking for a while, Xiao Mei decided against walking over. The two were not on the same level anymore. With the performance of Xiao Yan in the past few years, after he undergoes the Adulthood Ceremony, he would only be at most a middle to lower rank member within the clan. On the other hand, the talented her would be a focus point for resources from the clan. It could be said that her future couldn’t be measured.
“Ugh…” Sighing out of the blue, Xiao Mei suddenly thought of the young man three years ago that was excluded a prideful aura. Starting to train at the age of four, reaching the ninth stage of Dou Zhi Qi at the age of ten, tenth stage at eleven where he was able to condense his Dou Qi into a vortex successful, becoming the youngest Dou Zhe that the Xiao Clan had seen a hundred years.
The young before had unlimited potential and captured countless young girls’ hearts, including Xiao Mei.
However, the path of a genius meets its bends. Three years ago, this young man who had reached the peak of his fame suddenly had the cruelest blow of his life. Not only was his Dou Zhi Qi Vortex, that he spent over ten years cultivating, disappearing within one night, as time went on, the Dou Zhi Qi within his body also became strangely less and less.
The direct impact of his Dou Zhi Qi disappearing was that his strength continuously decreased.
Falling the podium of genius to becoming less than a normal person in one night, this blow made the young man lose his vigor. The fame of being a genius also was slowly replaced with disdain and ridicule.
The higher one stood, the harsher one fell. The fall this time, perhaps Xiao Yan would never be able to recover from it.
“Next, Xiao Xuner!”
Amidst the noisy crowd, the announcer’s voice once again sounded.
As this name was called, the crowd suddenly became quiet. All of their gazes turned.
Everyone’s gaze focused on a young girl wearing a purple dress. She was quiet standing and the calm expression on her young face didn’t change at all with the gazes of everyone.
The young girl’s calm and indifferent demeanor was like a lotus blossoming. With such a young age, she had already had such a aura around her. It was hard to imagine how beautiful she would be in the future.
Whether by demeanor or beauty, this purple dressed young girl was prettier than the earlier Xiao Mei by quite a bit. It was natural that everyone would act in such a manner.
Taking small and graceful stuff, the young girl named Xiao Xuner moved to before the Magic Testing Monument. Her small hand reached out and her purple sleeve mixed with black and gold threads fell, revealing a snow-white wrist. She then lightly touched the monument.
After a slight silence, an eye-piercing light shone from the monument.
“Dou Zhi Qi: Ninth Stage! Rank: high!”
Watching the words on the monument, the whole field fell silent.
“…. She’s at the ninth stage, that’s terrifying! The top expert of the younger generation of the Xiao Clan will definitely be Miss Xuner’s.” After the silence, the young men around all swallowed their saliva as their eyes were full of respect.
Dou Zhi Qi was a stage that every Dou Zhe had to pass. The early Dou Zhi Qis ranked from the first stage to the tenth stage and once one reached the tenth stage of Dou Zhi Qi, they could condense their Dou Qi into a vortex and become a respected Dou Zhe!
Within the crowd, Xiao Mei furrowed her brow as she looked at the purple dressed girl before the monument. A trace of envy flashed across her face.
Looking at the information on the monument, the middle-aged announcer finally showed a rare smile. He respectfully said to the young girl: “Miss Xuner, in half a year, you will be able to condense your Dou Qi Vortex and if you succeed, you would become a Dou Zhe at the age of fourteen, becoming the second youngest to do so within the past hundred years in the Xiao Clan!”
Yes, she would be second. The first would be Xiao Yan who no longer had the title of genius.
“Thank you.” The young girl slightly nodded and her face didn’t show any joy despite his praise. She quietly turned around and under everyone’s gaze, she walked to the depressed young man at the very end.
“Brother Xiao Yan.” When she passed the young man, the young girl paused her steps and bowed respectfully at Xiao Yan. Her pretty face showed a smile that made the girls around her feel jealousy.
“Do I still have the qualifications to be called such now?” Looking at the clan’s new most radiant pearl, Xiao Yan bitterly spoke. She was one of the few people who remained respectful towards him after his fall from grace.
Brother Xiao Yan, you once said to Xun Er that one must be able to let go of things in order to take on responsibilities. Those that can take on and let go with ease are truly free.” Xiao Xuner said with a light smile. Her voice, while young, warmed people’s hearts.
“Haha, a free person? I can say that. Look at me now, does this look like a free person? In addition… this world wasn’t mine to begin with.” Xiao Yan said dispiritedly with a self-deprecating smile.
Faced with Xiao Yan’s lack of vigor, Xiao Xuner’s think brows slightly furrowed. She seriously said: “Brother Xiao Yan, although I have no idea what happened to you, however, I believe that you will once again stand. You will take back your former glory and respect…” Speaking to this point, the young girl paused as her face showed a quick flush: “The Brother Xiao Yan at that time was also extremely attractive.”
“Haha.” Faced with the young girl’s frank words, the young man awkwardly laughed but didn’t say any more. Young men were supposed to be arrogant and reckless. However, at this point, Xiao Yan didn’t have the qualifications to do so. He silently turned around and walked out of the field.
Standing at the same spot and watching the young man’s back which seemed to be separated from the rest of the world, Xiao Xuner paused for a second before she chased after Xiao Yan and walked beside him under countless jealous gazes.
章 2: Dou Qi Continent
The moon was like a silver plate among a sky full of stars.
At the peak of a cliff, Xiao Yan was laying down on the grass field as he held a stalk of grass in his mouth. He nibbled at it, allowing the faint bitter taste to slowly spread in his mount.
Raising up his white hand, he put it before his eyes. His gaze fell through the gaps of his finger and focused in onto the large silver moon in the sky.
“Ai…” Thinking back to the test in the afternoon, Xiao Yan let out a light sigh. He lazily pulled back his hand and placed both hands below his head, creating a makeshift pillow. His gaze also became unfocused.
“Fifteen years, huh?” Lowly muttering to himself, words that made no sense came out of the young man’s mouth.
In Xiao Yan’s heart, there was a secret that only he knew. He wasn’t someone from this world. Rather, Xiao Yan’s soul didn’t belong to this world. He came from a blue planet called Earth. As for how he got here, he had no explanation on the mysterious processes at work. However, after living for a while, he came to the late understanding that he had come into a new world!
As his age grew, Xiao Yan started become familiar with this new land.
The continent he was on was called the Dou Qi Continent but it didn’t have the various types of magic that were common in novels. Rather, Dou Qi was the only main show of this land!
On this continent, the practice of Dou Qi had been perfected to the peak after the hard work of countless generations. In addition, as Dou Qi knowledge and influence expanded, it even got to the point to be common within normal citizens. This made Dou Qi and the daily lives of people inseparable. With this, the status of Dou Qi on this land was irreplaceable!
Because of the extreme status of Dou Qi, from this main branch, countless new branches of Dou Qi training methods sprang up. Some of the new Dou Qi training method were naturally better than others.
After much analysis and accounting, the Dou Qi Continent split the Dou Qi training methods into four classes and twelve ranks. The classes were Tian, Di, Xuan and Huang!
The ranks within each class were Beginner, Medium and High!
The rank of the Dou Qi training method, known as Qi Method, also impacted one’s future achievements. For example, someone who practiced a Middle Xuan Qi Method would be stronger than someone who practiced a High Huang Qi Method even if they were at the same level of Dou Zhe.
On the Dou Qi Continent, there were three ways to determine the strength of one.
First was the strength of the person. If one’s strength is at a one start Dou Zhe, even if he was practicing a Tian Class rare Qi Method, it would still be hard to defeat a Dou Shi.
Second was the Qi Method. If the strengths were the same, if the Qi Method level was higher of one was higher than the other, then there were countless benefits when fighting.
Finally, the last way was the Dou Techniques!
It was like what the name said, they were techniques to use Dou Qi. Dou Techniques also had levels and overall, they were the same, using Tian, Di, Xuan and Huang, four levels.
There were countless Dou Techniques on the Dou Qi Continent but those that were made available to the public were usually around the Huang level. If one wanted to get a higher tier Dou Technique, they needed to enter a sect or a Dou Qi school on the continent.
Of course, there were those who by luck got an ancient Qi Method from an ancestor that had its own compatible Dou Techniques. These Dou Techniques from Qi Methods, when combined with the Qi Method, would be quite a bit stronger than normal.
These three conditions were the base of predicting one’s strength. Overall, if one could own a Qi Method that was of a decently high level, the benefits in the future would be a lot higher.
However, high level Qi Methods were hard for a commoner to obtain. The Qi Methods that were available to all were at most in the Huang level. Some of the larger clans or small sects had Xuan level Qi Methods. For example, in the Xiao Clan, the top Qi Method, which only the clan head could practice, was Angry Lion Roar. This was a wind attributed, Xuan Class Middle Level Qi Method.
Above Xuan was the Di Class. However, for Qi Methods at that level, perhaps only first-rate factions or large empires would have those.
As for the Tian Class, it had been over a couple hundred since it had appeared.
In theory, if a normal person wanted to get a high tier Qi Method, it was harder than ascending the heavens. The land of the Dou Qi Continent was vast with thousands of races. At the north, there were the barbarians that had infinite strength and could merge with a beast’s soul. At the south of the continent were genius high level beast clans as well as the dark races that were known for its viciousness.
Because of how vast the land was, there were many unknown and nameless people. At the end of their lives, they perhaps would leave their Qi Method that they spent their whole life perfected, hidden somewhere. It would wait for some lucky person to take it and in the Dou Qi Continent, there was a saying of: “If one day you fall off a cliff and into a cave, don’t be afraid. Walk two steps forward, maybe, you would become an expert!”
These words were true. In the past thousand years, there were countless people that became experts because of these lucky encounters.
The result of these stories made a lot of people wait beside cliffs and jump down them with the dream of finding a legendary Qi Method. Of course, these people mostly came back with broken arms or legs.
All in all, this was a continent full of miracles and miracles to discover!
Of course, in order to practice a Qi Method, one had to become a true Dou Zhe. However, the Xiao Yan now was quite far from this goal…
“Pei.” Spitting out the grass blade in his mouth, Xiao Yan jumped up. His face was full of emotion as he roared at the sky: “Screw you! Did you transport me over to become a cripple? Dammit!”
In his previous life, Xiao Yan was a normal person among masses of people. Money and pretty women ran in two parallel with him, never crossing his path. However, when he came to the Dou Qi Continent, Xiao Yan surprisingly found that his soul was stronger than normal due to having the experiences of two lives!
It must be known that on the Dou Qi Continent, one’s soul was innate. It might increase with age but there were no Qi Methods that could separate train one’s soul. Even if it was a Tian Qi Method, it will still impossible! This was common knowledge of the Dou Qi Continent.
The strong soul caused Xiao Yan’s talent in training and at the same time, gave him the title of a genius.
When a normal person understood that he had the cards to become a famous person, without the right amount of caution, that person would lose himself. Obviously, Xiao Yan who was just a normal person didn’t have this caution about him so when he started training Dou Zhi Qi, he decided to go the path of the acclaimed genius rather than growing in peace.
If nothing wrong happened, Xiao Yan might have grown older while bearing the title of genius. However, unfortunately, at the age of eleven, the genius name was suddenly taken from him. And his genius became a cripple name that everyone could laugh at!
…..
After yelling a couple times, Xiao Yan’s emotion calmed down. His face returned to his normal. At this point, no matter how mad her got, he couldn’t return the Dou Qi Vortex that he had trained hard for.
After bitterly shaking his head, Xiao Yan felt a little frustrated. After all, he was not sure what happened to his body. His daily checks of his body didn’t discover anything. His soul became stronger and stronger as he grew older and the absorption rate of the Dou Zhi Qi was also stronger than his peak. These conditions showed that his talent hadn’t weakened. However, the Dou Qi after entering his body would strangely disappear without incident. The strange condition made Xiao Yan quite sad.
After tiredly sighing, Xiao Yan raised his hand. On his finger was a black ring. The style of the ring was quite ancient, made of some kind of unknown material. In addition, there were some vague lines on the ring. However, this was his mother’s final gift to him before she died. From the age of four, he had been wearing it. It had been over ten years and Xiao Yan had a lingering attachment to this final item that she left. Xiao Yan gave a bitter smile: “These few years have really let down mother.”
Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yan suddenly turned his head and looked at the pitch black forest behind him: “Father, you’re here?”
Although Xiao Yan’s Dou Zhi Qi was only at the third stage, Xiao Yan’s spiritual sense was much sharper than even a five-star Dou Zhe. Before, when he mentioned his mother, he felt a hint of movement in the forest.
“Ha ha, Yan Er, it’s quite late. Why are you still up here?” Inside the forest, after pausing for a second, a man’s voice rang out.
After branches shuffled, a middle aged man jumped out. His face was with a smile as he stared at his son under the moonlight.
The middle aged man wore a luxurious grey clothing and emitted a faint pressure in his steps. The thick brows on his face also gave him a sense of dignity. He was the current head of the Xiao Clan, the five star Dou Shi, Xiao Zhan!
“Father, you also haven’t rested either right?” Looking at the middle aged man, the smile on Xiao Yan’s face became deeper. Although Xiao Yan had his previous life’s experience, his father had not given up on him even when he fell from being a genius. This was why Xiao Yan willingly called him “father”.
“Yan Er, are you still thinking about the test this afternoon?” Walking up, Xiao Zhan said.
“Haha, what is there to think about. It was within predictions.” Xiao Yan seriously shook his head while his smile was quite stale.
“Aiii…” Looking at Xiao Yan’s still young face, Xiao Zhan gave a sigh. After pausing for a second, he suddenly said: “Yan Er, you are fifteen years old right?”
“Yes, father.”
“In another year, you will have your adulthood ceremony.” Xiao Zhan gave a bitter smile.
“Yes, father, one more year!” Xiao Yan calmly responded as his hand tightened. He knew what the adulthood ceremony meant. Once he passed the adulthood ceremony, the him who had no training talent would not be given the opportunity to go within the Dou Qi Hall to find a Qi Method. Instead, he would be placed to a clan’s business and working on normal matters for the clan. This was the rule of the clan and even if his father was the clan head, it couldn’t be changed!
After all, if one didn’t become a Dou Zhe before twenty-five, he wouldn’t be recognized by the clan!
“Sorry, Yan Er, if one year later, your Dou Zhi Qi doesn’t get to the seventh stage, then I will have to send you to a business of the clan. After all, this clan’s decisions aren’t solely by me. The old fellows are always waiting on me making a mistake.” Looking at the calm Xiao Yan, Xiao Zhan said with some remorse.
“Father, I will try my best. One year later, I will definitely get to the seventh stage of Dou Zhi Qi!” Xiao Yan said with a slight smile.
“One year, four stages? Haha, if it was in the past, there might be the chance. However, now, there is no chance.” Although Xiao Yan was comforting his father, Xiao Yan smiled self-deprecatingly in his heart.
Knowing Xiao Yan’s situation, Xiao Zhan could only respond with a sigh. He knew how difficult it was to advance four stages in just one year. He patted Xiao Yan’s head and suddenly smiled: “It’s not early anymore, go back and sleep. Tomorrow, we will have some important guests. Don’t lose your manners.”
“Guests? Who are they?” Xiao Yan said with curiosity.
“You’ll know tomorrow.” Squinting his eyes at Xiao Yan, Xiao Zhan left with large strides.
“Relax father. I will try my best!” Touching the black ring on his finger, Xiao Yan raised his head and muttered.
When Xiao Yan raised his head, the black ring in his hand suddenly flashed weakly. The flash disappeared within the blink of an eye, so not one was able to observe it.
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