Six Months Later

It had been six months since Hao Shen named his Sword, he was currently cultivating at the waterfall, it had been more than two years since he last came here so he decided to make it his cultivation place during his stay at home.

Hao Shen was now a 6-star Dou Shi realm practitioner, his cultivation speed had gone up thanks to the Starlight Eruption Sword, it was a currently a Peak Rank 3 Weapon so the Fire Dou Qi attracted was a lot purer, before if he attracted the Fire Dou Qi around him for an hour, it would become 10 times purer than the natural one and the maximum he could reach was fifty time purity, this was of course doubled if he was in a fire-oriented environment like the Lava Lake, but now with an hour he was able to attract a lot more of Fire Dou Qi, he could reach a twenty-five time purity and the maximum was a hundred time the purity of natural Dou Qi, and this was once more doubled if he stood in a fire-oriented place.

Thanks to that, Hao Shen was able to cultivate a lot faster, even if he reached a bottleneck, he was able to use the Fire Dou Qi Drop to breakthrough quickly.

Hao Shen had, of course, gifted some Fire Dou Qi Drops to the clan, thanks to that his big sister was currently a 7-star Dou Zhe, Hao Li, and Hao Wei were at the 2-star and 1-star Dou Zhe realm respectively, and a lot of the younger generation had been able to reach the late stage of the Dou Zhi Qi realm.

This generation of the Hao Clan could be considered an extremely good one, no one in the clan younger generation could be considered as extreme trash, the lowest leveled disciple of Hao Shen's generation was a 6-star Dou Zhi Qi realm at the age of thirteen, it would be difficult for him to reach the Dou Wang realm but Hao Shen wasn't worried, if he wanted, he would be able to make everyone in the Hao Clan reach at least the Dou Huang realm when he became a Rank 9 Alchemist.

Hao Shen had just had his breakthrough in the 6-star Dou Shi realm so he was stabilizing his cultivation, during the time he came back to the clan, he spared with every one of his generations, these sparing were the idea of his Second Uncle who had told him that it would help the weaker disciple to become stronger in the long term, of course, Hao Shen suppressed his cultivation to the same level as his opponents, he didn't want to suppress it under their cultivation level because he didn't like to humiliate others.

Obviously Hao Shen didn't lose a single spar, among the whole generation, the most talented after Hao Shen and Hao JinJing was clearly Hao Wei, but because of Hao Li lucky encounter he had surpassed him, what's more Hao Li was a martial fanatic so he possessed more battle power than Hao Wei but this fact didn't discourage Hao Wei, he had begun to practice a lot more seriously since Hao Wei had surpassed him and he was close to catching up.

During these six months, Xiao Hei had also reached the Rank 2 Mid Level Peak, and he was nearing a breakthrough to the Rank 2 High Level, his cultivation was even faster than Hao Shen's because most of his meals were constituted of Fire Dou Qi Drop, to human practitioner the huge burst of energy caused when one ate a Fire Dou Qi Drop could help them breakthrough but to Magical Beast it seemed to be different, that could help their cultivation, most likely this fact was because their meridians and body were a lot stronger than those of humans.

Hao Shen had also reached the very peak as a Rank 3 Alchemist and he should be able to have a breakthrough in the next four months.

A Rank 4 Alchemist in the Jia Ma Empire was considered as a rare existence, that was the level of the Alchemist Guild's Branch's Heads, in the whole Jia Ma Empire there were only three or four of them so Hao Shen could be considered quite fast in his progress, in the original plot, Cao Ying could be considered as the most talented alchemist on the whole Dou Qi Continent since she became a Rank 7 Alchemist at only 20 years old, even though Xiao Yan easily surpassed her later, but Hao Shen was confident that he could become a Rank 7 Alchemist when he became eighteen years old, what's more Hao Shen became an Alchemist at eleven years old, but Cao Ying became an Alchemist at seven years old, so Hao Shen would only take seven years while she took thirteen.

'Sigh, I finally finished to stabilize my cultivation, it's already lunchtime so it means that I have cultivated for more than three hours since I had my breakthrough.' Hao Shen knew that the time needed to stabilize one cultivation increased as they became stronger.

'Now I should make some plan for my training, I have completely mastered the second move of the Tyrannical Cloud Splitting Wave but I still can't train the third because I don't have enough Dou Qi in my body, I have multiple choices, one I can go to the Clan's Library and borrow the Di Class Palm Skill, or I could try to learn some useful Xuan Class Dou Qi Skill, but from what I remember the Clan don't have any Xuan Class Dou Qi Skill stronger than mine, maybe I'll go ask grandfather for a Body Strengthening Dou Qi Skill since the Body External Reforging is pretty useless now that I am a Dou Shi realm practitioner.' Hao Shen liked the Body Strengthening skills since it allowed him to fight with opponents of higher level easily, the sole problem was that it was pretty long to cultivate, but if he cultivated a body strengthening skill to the peak, no one in the same level would be his match, that was of course if the opponent didn't cultivate a body strengthening skill on his own.

Hao Shen started to walk toward his grandfather house, he arrived there after a little more than ten minutes, and the moment he arrived the doors opened on their own, Hao Shen knew that it was his grandfather who was training his control of the space element, he went in the courtyard and saw his grandfather seated in meditation above the little lake.

Hao Shen didn't want to disturb his grandfather so he also sat down and began to cultivate, time passed and soon Hao Shen had been cultivating for an hour, at that moment he felt a light tap on his shoulder, he opened his eyes and saw his grandfather looking at him with a smile.

"So Shen'er, do you need something from grandfather?" Hao Lei asked.

"Yes Grandfather, I was thinking about cultivating another Body Strengthening skill now since I can't make any more progress in my current Dou Qi Skill, but the only Body Strengthening skill that I like in the library is the Body External Refining that I already cultivated to the peak, so I came to see you, to ask if you had one for me." Hao Shen replied, in reality, he knew that his grandfather possessed a Body Strengthening Dou Qi Skill that he cultivated.

"Hmm, alright, grandfather will give you my own Body Strengthening Dou Qi Skill, but you have to be careful while you train in it, it could cause hidden injuries if it's not well cultivated."

"Yes Grandfather, don't worry I'll be careful."

"Good, the name of this skill is the Soaring Sky Scripture, it has nine stages and the strength of the practitioner increase a lot when one breakthrough one of those stages, but it's not the only thing it does, other than the strength of the practitioner, the agility is also increased, I'm currently only at the fifth stage but the power of the skill is already comparable to a Xuan Class Dou Qi Skill, I don't know what power it will reach when one reaches the ninth stage but I dare to say that it will not be inferior to any Di Class Mid Level Dou Qi Skill., that's why you can't pass this Dou Qi Skill to anyone before you reach at least the Dou Zong realm." Hao Lei warned Hao Shen as he transferred the pieces of information about the skill directly to his head.

"Alright, I promise you grandfather."

"Good, you can go and start to train in it." Hao Lei then returned to his previous position above the lake and resumed his cultivation, seeing this Hao Shen took his leave after saying hello to his grandmother.