Douluo: Son of the Stars

Chapter 209: Difficulty in Cultivating Dou Qi

"Axing, haven't you learned how to fight yet?"

Because Tong Rui had lost his memory, Xiao Yan didn't know how to address him.

But seeing Tong Rui looking up at the starry sky involuntarily every night, I will temporarily call Tong Rui "Axing".

Tong Rui didn't have any idea about this. He could feel that his name was not like this. However, he couldn't remember his name anymore, so it was not bad to use this one.

"Yes, I can sense the fighting spirit of various attributes around me, but I can't absorb it."

"Even if I absorb them, they will still overflow after going through my body."

Then, Tong Rui demonstrated it to Xiao Yan. A huge amount of Dou Qi poured in from the surroundings, but after entering Tong Rui's body, the Dou Qi directly overflowed from Tong Rui's body.

"Well, we really are brothers in distress." Xiao Yan smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Brother Xiao Yan, Xun'er believes in you. Sooner or later, you will stand up again and take back the glory and dignity that belong to you!"

"Haha. I hope so." Faced with the girl's frank words without any concealment, the boy laughed awkwardly.

Suddenly, an old voice came from outside the courtyard: "Third Young Master, Miss Xun'er, the clan leader invites you to the hall!"

"Oh." Xiao Yan responded casually and looked at Tong Rui.

"Axing, just take a good rest first. I will try my best to help you find a solution."

Tong Rui nodded, watched Xiao Yan and Xun'er leave, and returned to the room to sit down.

My mind is blank, my eyes are dull, and I don’t know what to do.

He really wanted to know who he was. He always felt that he had something unfinished and someone was waiting for him.

Suddenly, Tong Rui felt that something seemed to have happened in the direction of the hall, so he stood up and planned to go and check it out.

However, when Tong Rui walked to the door, the fluctuation of fighting spirit seemed to disappear.

Then he smelled a strange fragrance. Although the fragrance made Tong Rui feel a little more energetic, he could also vaguely feel that the elixir seemed to be of no use to him.

Then, Tong Rui heard Xiao Yan, Xun'er and others arguing about something in the house.

Tong Rui was still wondering whether he could go in and take a look when he saw an old man grabbing a young girl and a young man and running out of the hall as if they were escaping for their lives.

Then Tong Rui saw people from the Xiao family leaving the hall one after another, some with mocking expressions, and some with pity on their faces.

At the end, seeing Xiao Yan walking out of the hall with an indifferent expression, Tong Rui was about to step forward and ask what happened, but he saw Xiao Yan leaving quickly in a distracted manner.

"Let Brother Xiao Yan be alone for a while." Xun'er's clear voice rang in Tong Rui's ears.

Tong Rui looked at Xun'er with some confusion and asked, "What happened? Is there anything I can do to help?"

Xun'er looked at Xiao Yan's back with a worried look on her face. After he disappeared, she looked at Tong Rui and said, "Ah Xing, haven't you seen anything familiar recently?"

These days, Xiao Yan and Xun'er also took Tong Rui to the market for a stroll, but no matter what Tong Rui saw, he was curious as if he saw it for the first time.

Tong Rui shook his head after hearing this: "But I feel particularly comfortable when I bask in the sun recently. It's as if I need the sunshine."

"Need sunlight?" Xun'er showed a curious look in her eyes after hearing this, but after thinking about it, she still couldn't think of any family related to the sun.

Then he said to Tong Rui: "Then I will help you find out something related to the sun. Don't bother Brother Xiao Yan recently. He is not in a good mood."

Tong Rui nodded, watched Xun'er leave, and walked back into the yard.

Just like that, Tong Rui didn't see Xiao Yan for more than half a month after that day.

But he didn't know what to do. Xiao Yan seemed to have forgotten to give instructions, and no one came to deliver food to Tong Rui for more than half a month. But unexpectedly, Tong Rui himself didn't feel hungry at all, so he simply didn't go to find Xiao Yan.

In this way, Tong Rui still maintained the absorption of fighting spirit every day. Although none of it was stored in Tong Rui's body, it was better than doing nothing.

Two days later, Xiao Yan came to Tong Rui's yard.

"Axing, how have you been these past two days?"

But secretly he asked the soul in the ring: "Yao Lao, can you see the problem with Ah Xing?"

Tong Rui shook his head and said, "I have been practicing for the past half month, but my fighting spirit has not remained."

Suddenly, Tong Rui felt something was looking at him. He looked around, scanned the room, and finally looked at the ring in Xiao Yan's hand.

Seeing Tong Rui staring at his hands, Xiao Yan was also a little surprised and asked quickly: "A Xing, what are you looking at?"

"Your hand, no, it's the ring, there seems to be something inside. Just now I felt something inside looking at me?"

Tong Rui answered truthfully, but Xiao Yan was so shocked that he laughed out loud: "Ahahaha, is there? This ring..."

Before he could finish his words, a soul floated out of the ring: "Okay, Xiao Yanzi, don't hide anymore, his soul is more powerful than mine."

"Who are you?" Tong Rui tilted his head and poked the soul floating in front of him.

"You can just call me Yao Lao. Strange, I can feel your soul, it is a little higher than mine in its heyday, and your body is also very hard, just like a monster."

"But the fighting spirit in your body seems to have no home, just like your body is like air to them."

Yao Lao walked around Tong Rui and exclaimed in amazement. "Then Yao Lao, do you have a solution for Ah Xing's physique?" Xiao Yan asked hurriedly.

"Well, the meridians in your body are all intact, and there are no breaks or blockages. Instead, they are very smooth. Under such circumstances, you should be a genius, no, a monster. But now it seems that your body is rejecting the fighting spirit and not letting them enter your body."

"Reject Dou Qi? How to solve it?" Xiao Yan asked curiously.

"There are two ideas, but I'm not sure whether they will work. One is to use a pill to fill the body with Dou Qi from the inside out, breaking it and then standing up again, forcing the body to adapt to the existence of Dou Qi."

"Second, you need to continue to train your body through fighting spirit and strengthen it. But according to my observation, your body is no weaker than that of ordinary high-level monsters, so it is difficult to improve it. And with your strong soul, except for the inability to fly, ordinary Douhuang may not be your opponent."

"Even Dou Huang is not his opponent. Oh my God, Ah Xing's body is so strong? Doesn't that mean there is no one in Wutan City who can defeat Ah Xing?"

Xiao Yan was extremely surprised after hearing Yao Lao's comments. You know, the most powerful person in Wutan City is the Great Dou Shi, and even if he reaches the Dou Ling level, he can only glide for a short time.

In other words, Tong Rui can fight anyone below the level of Dou Wang. If someone can help Tong Rui fly into the air, then no one in the Gamma Empire can beat Tong Rui.

"What do you think, Ah Xing?" Xiao Yan asked Tong Rui after hearing the solution proposed by Yao Lao.

Tong Rui thought for a moment and said, "I still want to practice normally. I want to experience fighting spirit."

"Well, okay. Yao Lao, if I want to adapt to fighting spirit, what kind of elixir do I need?"

"First, refine a relatively low-level Qi Gathering Powder for him to see how efficient it is in absorption. This first one may require a long time to polish. Have you thought it through, kid?"

"I've thought about it. I promised to help Ah Xing regain her memory. Maybe when Ah Xing becomes stronger, her memory will come back on its own." Xiao Yan said with a smile.

"Well, if it costs a lot of money, I can go out and earn it. Didn't he say that I can beat Dou Huang? If that doesn't work, I can rob Dou Huang."

Tong Rui looked at Xiao Yan and had an indescribable feeling in his heart, but he also knew that long-term polishing would definitely be very expensive, and if it really didn't work, he would go robbing to earn some money.

"Yes, if we have Ah Xing, we can go directly to the Monster Mountain Range to hunt monsters! Monsters below the Dou Wang level can't hurt Ah Xing anyway, and we can also get some rare herbs to make money."

"Then you can handle it yourselves. I will only be responsible for refining. I will rest first." Seeing that the two had made up their minds, Yao Lao planned to return to the ring to recuperate.

After hearing this, Xiao Yan's face was filled with a wry smile. Thinking about how much money Ah Xing would have to spend in the future, he felt miserable in his heart.

I don't have time to accompany Ah Xing to the Warcraft Mountains to make money, but I'm also worried about Ah Xing wandering around alone in this strange world.

I didn't expect that money would force me into this state. I stretched out my fingers and calculated bit by bit.

There are still more than 900 gold coins left from the last purchase of materials. It is obviously not enough to use this money to buy materials of the same level as last time.

After holding his chin up and thinking for a while, Xiao Yan rolled his eyes and suddenly asked, "Teacher, can we use purple-leafed orchid grass or bone-washing flower with a younger age?"

"Yes, but the medicinal power will be weak. The foundation-building spiritual liquid I prepared for you was carefully refined according to the most appropriate combination." The voice of Yao Lao was heard from the ring.

Blinking his eyes, Xiao Yan chuckled and said, "It doesn't matter, let's use the worst materials this time."

"The worst? Then the effect will be much worse. In that case, it may take you half a year to break through to the next level of fighting spirit." There was a hint of dissatisfaction in Yao Lao's voice, and he must have frowned at this time.

"Not enough money? Go find that little girl. With her background, it's no big deal to give you tens of thousands of gold coins. If that doesn't work, ask your father for more. Why reduce the potency of the medicine and delay your own cultivation..."

Listening to Yao Lao's advice, Xiao Yan shook his head helplessly: "Just think that it's my boring self-esteem that's playing tricks on me. How can I go to a girl to borrow money again and again? Forget about my father. I've been hiding from him for two months. And if I ask him for money, he will ask about it thoroughly. Wouldn't that reveal you, the teacher, to others?"

"Teacher, can anyone else make this foundation-building spiritual liquid?" Xiao Yan suddenly frowned and asked, as if he remembered something.

"Hehe, little guy, there are countless medicinal materials on the Douqi Continent. If you want to prepare pills with different effects, you must select the medicinal materials that can neutralize the violent energy in the magic crystal you need to refine from these countless materials. Only in this way can you successfully refine the pill you need. If you piece them together randomly, the furnace will be destroyed and the pill will be damaged, which is a small matter. What if there is a backlash? Hehe."

At this point, Yao Lao chuckled sinisterly, and then continued: "This foundation-building spirit liquid is a recipe that I have been experimenting with for several years. Of course, maybe someone else could come up with this recipe by accident, but the chance is really too small."

"Also, during the refining process, the degree of integration and amount of the three materials, as well as the concentration of the flame, all require countless experiments and superb soul perception to grasp. Otherwise, why do you think every alchemist needs a teacher to teach them step by step?"

"It is basically impossible to become a powerful alchemist without the guidance of a famous teacher. Otherwise, those experimental prescriptions alone will take up your entire life."

"So, I dare not say anything about the entire Douqi Continent, but I can guarantee that in this Jia Ma Empire, no one should be able to refine the same foundation-building spiritual liquid as me!" When he said this, there was a hint of pride in Yao Lao's words.

Somewhat shocked at the complexity of this foundation-building spiritual liquid, Xiao Yan licked his lips subconsciously. When he first watched Yao Lao refining it, it seemed very simple. It was not until now that he realized that refining pills involves much more than what he saw on the surface.

The world of alchemists is indeed vast and unpredictable. No wonder it has become the noblest profession in the Douqi Continent.

After being shocked, Xiao Yan felt a little happy. He pursed his lips and chuckled, "Teacher, I am not going to use the worst foundation-building spirit liquid to practice. I am planning to sell it at an auction. I am not well-off now. When I get the money, we will buy better materials. Anyway, refining the foundation-building spirit liquid is just a piece of cake for you. What do you think?"

"It's up to you then. It's not uncommon for alchemists to auction their own pills. Besides, the foundation-building spiritual liquid is just the lowest-level cultivation medicine. It's okay to sell it." After a brief silence, Yao Lao said indifferently.

Hearing Yao Lao nod in agreement, Xiao Yan chuckled, packed up his things, told Tong Rui to wait in peace, and then rushed out of the room in a hurry.

Since they didn't need very good herbs this time, Xiao Yan just randomly picked the youngest purple-leaf orchid and bone-washing flower from the herb store. As for the wood-attribute magic crystal, he bought the cheapest green wood rat magic crystal after several checks.

After buying the necessary materials, Xiao Yan found an inn, hid inside and asked Yao Lao to refine the foundation-building spiritual liquid.

The medicinal strength of this foundation-building spiritual liquid is not only much weaker than the last time, but even its color has changed from crystal clear emerald to mottled green...

After putting the ball of foundation-building spiritual liquid, which was half the size of Xiao Yan's fist, into the small white jade bottle he had bought earlier, Xiao Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

Putting the jade bottle close to his body, Xiao Yan left the inn and walked briskly towards the largest auction in Wutan City.

As for Tong Rui, he was still slowly absorbing the Dou Qi in the room. After all, Yao Lao said that he should force his body to adapt to the Dou Qi, so he should let more Dou Qi circulate in his body.

(End of this chapter)