. Su Yun remembered a detail.
He couldn't recall most details, but this one, appearing in the first three chapters, left a deep impression on him, so he remembered it.
A little more here, a little more there, just as the story began, Xiao Yan was fifteen years old.
"Nine years left," Su Yun thought.
No wonder he calculated the time so tightly.
He was a humble commoner with no support and only an outdated system. If he wanted to rise to prominence and thrive in this Dou Qi Continent, intercepting the protagonist's opportunity was the surest way. If
one doesn't work for oneself, he will be punished by heaven and earth!
......…
Cultivation doesn't count years, and in the blink of an eye, a year and a half had already passed.
"Huh…
This foundation-building spirit fluid is depleting so quickly."
Su Yun sighed, his eyes darkening as he gazed at the basin of water, which was once again clear.
This foundation-building spirit fluid only allowed him to cultivate for two months at a time, and every two months, he would have to visit the stalls in the market.
Thinking about it, he felt a little guilty.
He stood up, dressed, and headed towards the market again.
Thanks to the support of the stall owners, his cultivation results were impressive. After
a year and a half of diligent practice, he had just broken through to the seventh stage of Dou Qi seven days ago.
While this wasn't as good as Xiao Yan's, it wasn't slow either.
Xiao Yan had spent three years stagnating to build a solid foundation, and thanks to his renewed cultivation, he was able to advance from the third stage of Dou Qi to the fourth stage, reaching the seventh stage, in just one year.
He hadn't wasted three years, having advanced from the fourth stage to the seventh stage in a year and a half. To have achieved this level of cultivation before the age of eight was a very satisfying achievement.
In the original novel, even Xiao Yan's fiancée, Nalan Yanran, was only at the eighth stage of Dou Qi at the age of twelve. Even the young master of the Yunlan Sect was no better, let alone the other so-called talented young men of the Jia Ma Empire.
Su Yun's cultivation was already miles ahead of his peers.
......
This time, the market he visited wasn't the one Xiao's family had visited. He had only achieved a small amount of success, and caution remained his number one priority.
Every two months, he collected the ingredients for the Foundation-Building Spiritual Fluid, rotating through the Wutan City market. This was done to be cautious. While collecting from a distance of one meter made detection nearly impossible, it was never a bad idea to be cautious.
The Foundation-Building Spiritual Fluid consumed quickly, and with his frequent collections, he became quite adept at the process. Upon arriving at the market, it took him only a few moments to complete his collection.
"I'm just missing one first-level magic core from the last Bone-Cleansing Flower..." Su Yun thought to himself.
"Here's one," Su Yun's eyes lit up. The stall owner was yawning, so Su Yun took advantage of this moment to activate the scanning and recycling function, pocketing the flower.
After securing it, Su Yun walked past the stall as if nothing had happened.
"Hey, I remember there was a Bone-Cleansing Flower here just now. How come it's gone?"
Hearing the voice behind him, Su Yun remained silent. He
had encountered a similar situation before.
But he was walking peacefully through the aisle, not touching anything on the stall, so naturally, he didn't arouse any suspicion.
Looking back at the stall owner, scratching his head anxiously, searching everywhere, Su Yun sighed and silently muttered, "Sin, sin, sin!"
After muttering this inwardly, Su Yun put his sin behind him, no longer defending himself.
He searched the market for his last ingredient.
"Hmm..." Su Yun's mind stirred.
Suddenly, three men approached directly in front of him. The man in the middle was dressed elegantly, and the other two walked on either side, occupying positions further back.
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Clearly, he was a young man from an unknown family.
"Hmm, this jewelry is nice. I'll take it." The elegantly dressed young man glanced left and right, then casually picked up a bracelet from the stall and stuffed it into his pocket.
"Zhang Yu, pay."
One of the guards pulled a gold coin from his pocket and tossed it onto the stall, then the three of them walked away.
Su Yun raised an eyebrow. The bracelet was inlaid with a first-level water magic core.
Jewelry and weapons inlaid with magic cores like this, even if it was a first-level magic core in the Dou Qi Continent, would cost a thousand gold coins.
"This, ah..."
The stall owner's face was grim, but he didn't dare say anything.
Passersby also pretended not to see.
Su Yun looked at the man and silently said to himself: Scan.
Name: Galeo
Gender: Male
Cultivation: Dou Qi Stage 6
Cultivation Method: None
Fighting Skill: None
"Galeo? Is he the extra in the original novel who coveted Xiao Xun'er?" Su Yun thought.
He had a passing impression of Galeo, a minor villain who played a minor role in the early stages and had little screen time.
"What poor talent! He looks thirteen or fourteen, and only has the sixth level of Dou Qi," Su Yun silently scorned.
If anyone knew his thoughts, they'd probably vomit three liters of blood.
Galeo's talent wasn't low at all. In the original novel, at the very beginning of the story, Galeo reached the level of a one-star Dou Zhe at the age of twenty-two or twenty-three, which was considered above average for a small place like Wutan City.
Su Yun constantly compared himself to prodigies like Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er, unconsciously overlooking the average level of the Jia Ma Empire.
The Dou Qi Continent was a place where the strong preyed on the weak. Galeo, hailing from one of the three major families, was in his own market, leaving the stall owner to suffer a loss.
Seeing this, Su Yun's desire for power intensified, and he observed a three-second silence for the stall owner.
Without interfering, Su Yun wandered around the market for a while, collected a first-level Wood Magic Core through the system, and left. After returning home, Su Yun sat cross-legged on the ground, but didn't begin his cultivation immediately.
He was already at the seventh stage of Dou Qi. At my cultivation speed, reaching the ninth stage would only take a year or two. Su Yun was contemplating the condensation of Dou Qi. In this Dou Qi Continent, becoming a master Dou Qi practitioner requires condensing a Dou Qi cyclone within one's body. However, condensing Dou Qi cyclones has a high failure rate. Upon failure, the ninth stage of Dou Qi reverts to the eighth stage. Some unlucky individuals have failed to condense Dou Qi more than ten times. "Forget about the Qi Gathering Powder," Su Yun sighed. While he had the system and Yao Lao's lifelong memories, resource constraints were a major concern. Even the herbs and magic cores for the Foundation Establishment Spirit Fluid were obtained (or stolen) by him using the system, a method with obvious drawbacks. Magic cores above the third stage and the herbs required to refine the third stage were practically unavailable in this market. As for emulating Xiao Yan and going to the auction house, it wasn't out of the question. But the Miter Auction House in Wutan City didn't have any Qi Gathering Powder... Su Yun didn't dwell on this for long. He had the Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid, so even if he failed a few times, it would be easy to start over. After fusing the Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid, Su Yun once again plunged into arduous cultivation. (End of this chapter)