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In the boundless, silent void, Amon was enveloped in a layer of hazy white light.
There was nothing around him. Space, time, temperature, speed… all the most basic rules, the most fundamental concepts, seemed nonexistent.
This feeling was familiar. Before he transmigrated to the world of "Lord of the Mysteries" and the world of "Douluo Dalu", he vaguely had this feeling, but at that time, he had no clear understanding and was ignorant of everything.
But now, it didn't seem to be much better. Apart from being able to think, he couldn't perceive anything. He only vaguely felt that he was moving, but he didn't know how.
Suddenly, a burst of exceptionally intense, exceptionally brilliant, and exceptionally dazzling light erupted. Countless soft rays of light intertwined like silk threads, sometimes bright, sometimes dim, fluctuating constantly.
Amon seemed to see a huge light sphere flashing with all colors, containing countless small light spheres within it.
His consciousness began to fall towards one of the small light spheres. During this process, his consciousness gradually blurred, his body disintegrated, his soul dissipated, and everything merged into the light sphere, transforming himself into a completely informational state.
A realization emerged. This was information from the world, and also a prompt from the "Door of Order".
During the process of entering a new world, everything except one's own will would be dedicated to this new world.
In return, this world would acknowledge Amon's identity and grant him a talent equivalent to his original level of life.
Now, Amon's life level was a God-King in "Douluo Dalu", barely equal to a Sequence 4, incomplete mythical creature, in "Lord of the Mysteries". After he dedicated everything to the world, the world would give him corresponding talent.
If nothing unexpected happened, and he cultivated and grew to adulthood in an orderly manner, he would naturally possess the level equivalent to Sequence 4.
Amidst the floating light and shadows, Amon saw clusters of flames of various colors and with different properties. They were the darlings of the world, the condensed essence of this heaven and earth.
A name suddenly jumped into his mind…
"Battle Through the Heavens!"
...
"Dou Qi, Rank Three!"
Looking at the five large characters shining brightly, even somewhat dazzlingly, on the testing monolith, the boy's immature face was calm, and his clenched palm trembled slightly due to the force.
"Xiao Yan, Dou Qi: Rank Three! Level: Low!" Beside the testing monolith, a middle-aged man glanced at the information displayed on the stone tablet and announced it.
As soon as the middle-aged man's words left his mouth, they unsurprisingly caused a commotion in the crowded square.
"Rank Three? As expected, Young Master Xiao Yan has made progress again!"
"It's truly a blessing from the heavens that our Xiao family has such a genius."
"With Young Master Xiao Yan, given time, our Xiao family will surely be able to contend for a place among the top ten families of the Jia Ma Empire."
"As expected of the patriarch's son, like father, like son!"
The surrounding compliments and praises fell into the ears of the boy standing on the stage, causing his breathing to quicken slightly, and a smile inevitably appeared on his originally calm face.
The boy's dark eyes swept over the peers around him who were offering compliments and praises with flattering smiles, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became more obvious.
He also looked at the middle-aged man sitting in the center of the viewing platform with a rich smile on his face, nodded slightly, and then jumped off the testing platform.
Xiao Yan returned to the last row of the team amidst the stars and moon, giving his place to the clansmen who were going to be tested next.
But even though he was at the end, he was still the focus of Spectator, the center of attention.
He, Xiao Yan, was a well-known genius in Wutan City, Jia Ma Empire, in the northwestern region of the Dou Qi Continent. He started practicing Qi at the age of four, and in just less than two years, he had the strength of Rank Three. Such talent was rare in the entire Jia Ma Empire in the past decade.
Moreover, he had a betrothal agreement with Nalan Yanran, the pearl in the palm of Nalan Jie, one of the top ten powerhouses of the Jia Ma Empire. Such talent and such an opportunity were simply enviable to countless others.
"Congratulations, Patriarch, for having such a prodigious son…" An old man said to the middle-aged man sitting in the center of the viewing platform.
This old man was the Second Elder of the Xiao family. Although he often disagreed with the patriarch, Xiao Zhan, in some family matters, he was surprisingly consistent when it came to Xiao Yan's matter.
After all, this was the hope for their Xiao family's rise. If a powerhouse could emerge from the family, all the clansmen would benefit.
"Haha… My son Xiao Yan has the potential of a Dou Emperor!" Xiao Zhan said spiritedly.
The Great Elder on the other side said, "Patriarch, since Young Master Xiao Yan has such talent, then the resources invested in him in the future should be doubled."
Hearing this, Xiao Zhan was slightly stunned, very tempted, but still said with some hesitation, "This… isn't that good."
The Third Elder also reacted and agreed, "What the Great Elder said is true. Since Young Master Xiao Yan has such talent, then he should naturally be well nurtured. A genius should have the treatment of a genius!"
The elders had their own considerations. How many resources could a little guy who wasn't even a Dou Practitioner consume? Doubling it wouldn't be much, and besides, it was the family's resources, not their own money.
If they could use this to leave a good impression on this genius, it would be a sure profit. As for later, when Xiao Yan's level was higher and he needed more resources… that was a matter for the future.
If Xiao Yan still had his current talent at that time, what harm was there in gritting their teeth and supporting him? Moreover, when it reached the point where the family assets would ache, then his cultivation would probably be close to a Dou Master, and he could give back to the family to a certain extent.
"Since the three elders have all said so, then I won't decline. I thank you all on behalf of Yan'er."
"Next, Xiao Xun'er!"
"Xiao Xun'er, Dou Qi: Rank Two! Level: Low!"
"Xun'er's talent isn't bad either. She's slightly younger than Young Master Xiao Yan, but she's not far behind."
"Yes, I see that the Dou Qi fluctuations on her body are already very close to Rank Three. I'm afraid it won't be long before she breaks through."
The girl's face still had some baby fat. She didn't care about other people's discussions. Her pair of bright eyes looked in the direction of Xiao Yan.
Seeing that her favorite Xiao Yan gege was looking at her, nodding slightly at her, she revealed a happy smile, her eyes narrowed like a crescent moon.
But when she saw Xiao Mei and some other girls from the family also surrounding Xiao Yan, she pouted her little mouth, a little unhappy.
In the high sky, invisible to the naked eye, an ordinary middle-aged man, looking about forty years old, wearing simple linen clothes, with a slight smile on his face:
"This girl… I hope she can be happy. The atmosphere in the clan is too oppressive."
His smile faded slightly, and he instructed the old man standing beside him, "Protect her here, don't let her discover you."
The old man bowed slightly, very respectfully, and said, "Yes, Patriarch."
"Then I'll leave it to you here." The middle-aged man casually tore apart the void, and a space channel filled with silver cracks appeared in the sky.
Suddenly, the middle-aged man paused, his eyebrows twitched, and he looked at the distant mountains.
"What's wrong? Patriarch?"
"No, it's probably just my illusion."
In the void, terrifying space storms were raging, and huge amounts of energy were surging without order, but the middle-aged man walked in without changing his expression.
As he entered, the space storm began to subside, and the surge of energy was forcibly suppressed. He didn't deliberately show his power, but he made the whole world submit!
The old man looked at the place where the middle-aged man disappeared with fear and admiration, and then his figure gradually distorted. When he reappeared, he was already on the ground, merging into the crowd… This was also a powerhouse who could control the power of space!
On a large tree at the edge of the Xiao family's training field, an old man wearing a black robe, his whole body integrated into the shadows, occasionally looked at the girl with a bright smile who was following Xiao Yan.
He muttered in a voice that only he could hear: "Why did the clan only send a useless old guy like me to protect the young lady? Alas, I don't understand, I don't understand…"
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In the Magical Beast Mountain Range, in a dangerous mountain stream, on a protruding platform on a cliff face, lay the corpse of an unknown magical beast.
The corpse had been dead for a long time, but there were still no signs of decay. The corpse of a magical beast was full of energy, so it would rot much slower than the corpse of an ordinary beast, especially the higher the rank.
There was a small hole in the head of this corpse. There were no splashes of blood around the small hole. This was because something had made it after its death and after the blood had coagulated.
In the depths of the hole was the brain of the corpse. Hundreds of crystal insect eggs were densely packed on the white brain.
One of the insect eggs seemed to be different from the others. It had twelve rings and a starlight-like color on its surface.
The insect egg trembled slightly, and the energy in the corpse seemed to be drawn by something, beginning to converge towards the unique insect egg.
The speed of energy convergence became faster and faster, forming a small energy vortex.
Since the energy in the corpse was extracted first, the disturbance to the outside world was minimal.
The originally full and plump corpse quickly withered, as if its essence had been sucked away.
The insect egg changed, and a translucent worm with twelve rings and a starlight-like color crawled out of the insect egg.
The worm distorted its body, looking around, as if it was observing the world. After pausing for a few seconds, it immediately took action.
It separated one transparent and illusory shadow after another from its body. These shadows all had twelve rings and a starlight-like color.
These phantoms silently merged into the surrounding insect eggs and disappeared.
After doing all this, the little worm with twelve rings seemed very tired, as if it had exhausted all its strength.
After resting for a while, it began to drill into other parts of the corpse. It drilled along the blood vessels and entered the heart.
This was one of the few places in the corpse where a little energy remained. It stopped here and went into hibernation.
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