Chapter 401: Breakthrough to Dou Grandmaster!

  Despite the excruciating pain caused by the tinuous tearing and repairing of his meridians, whiearly made Xiao Yan's vision go bck, he could feel his meridians being wider and tougher. This enced him to persevere, as he k would bring immense bes. Ohese tiny meridians were fully opened, his ability to trol dou energy would undoubtedly improve, greatly increasing his speed. In bat, being able to direct his energy as smoothly as moving an arm would give him a siderable advantage.

  As this energy surged forward, breaking through each small meridian, faint popping sounds could be heard. Small jets of energy suddenly burst out from the pores on Xiao Yan's skin, making him resemble a leaky kettle with numerous holes.

  This eruption sted only a few seds before pletely stopping. Afterward, blood seeped slowly from the pores that had expelled the energy, dreng half of Xiao Yan’s body.

  As these pradually returo normal, Xiao Yan could clearly sehat whenever he ged his hand seals to the cultivation form, these pores, now ected to his meridians, acted like wind tunnels, voraciously abs energy from the outside world at a rate more thaimes faster than before.

  This energy circuted rapidly through his meridians. Each cycle pleted would i a rge amount of refined, pure energy into his energy vortex, and each time, the vortex would grow noticeably rger.

  inally, the vortex was filled with only three-quarters liquid energy, but now, the liquid had filled over 90% of the vortex’s capacity, approag the threshold of a fully plete Dou Master stage.

  As time passed, a faint glow gradually enveloped Xiao Yan's body, f a yer resembling a dou energy garment.

  In a er of the room, the st pill refined by Yao Lao had just been pleted. Watg Xiao Yan, Yao Lao murmured to himself, "Luckily, Xiao Yan, your foundation is solid. Otherwise, ing pills in quick succession to increase your strength would have made your dou energy unstable, affeg your foundational abilities... Now, it’s all up to your own efforts!"

  At this moment, Xiao Yan was oblivious to his surroundings, his entire focus on the nearly overflowing energy vortex within him.

  Inside his body, the vortex rotated slowly, with the liquid energy i resembling a reservoir about to overflow, as though it could spill out from the vortex at any moment.

  Xiao Yan dared not rex for a sed, watg the overflowing vortex carefully. The medie power from the peak-grade pill he had just ied was about 70-80% refined, but the remaining 20-30% still held a signifit amount of energy.

  However, the vortex could no longer aodate even a trace of additional energy. Its capacity had reached the absolute limit, and if he tinued f energy into it, the vortex might burst, with sequences unimaginable. Xiao Yan was left with only one choice: to avoid this oute.

  When approag a breakthrough, every Dou Master instinctively made the most optimal choice, a method proven successful tless times by predecessors. It was a simple cept—pression.

  Gaseous energy could be pressed into high-grade liquid energy, and liquid energy could, in turn, be pressed into an even higher grade of solid energy. This solid energy was the secret behind a Dou Grandmaster's ability to summon dou energy armor with tangible presence.

  As Xiao Yan ged his hand seals, his inner vortex fell into a moment of stillness. Moments ter, ripples appeared on its surface, growing more inteil it resembled boiling water. Waves of liquid energy spshed in the vortex's ter, tinuously seeping out. When these energy ripples began to uhe previously calm vortex started accelerating subtly. The acceleration sted only for about ten seds, and the onguid vortex transformed into a spiraling, rapidly rotating vortex.

  Due to this high-speed rotatis of circur ared around the vortex. The whooshing sound geed by the spinning echoed through his body, carrying a mystical rhythm that passed through his meridians, bones, and cells before reag his skin, where it resonated within the dou energy garment that ed around Xiao Yan’s body.

  After the sound resonated within the dou energy garment, its writhing motion gradually subsided. In an instant, the dou energy began to fuse rapidly, merging and coalesg. Finally, a somewhat blurry armor, with a mysterious rune imprinted on its chest, appeared faintly on the surface of Xiao Yan’s body. Though this armor was only in its early stages, the fai mighty surge of energy it emitted made it clear that it was leagues beyond the previous yer of dou energy garment.

  Of course, as this embryonic dou energy armradually took shape, Xiao Yan was unaware, as he was experieng an interansformation within his body.

  Since his mind was focused on trolling the vortex’s rotatioo prevent it from exceeding a certain limit and causing damage to his body, Xiao Yan had to tend to it carefully, without the slightest rexation.

  As time passed, the liquid energy within the rapidly spinning vortex in his body was visibly depleting at an unusual pace. Although the energy within the vortex was diminishing, Xiao Yan could distinctly feel that deep within the vortex, a substah immense energy was slowly taking shape.

  “It’s close!”

  Sensing the rapidly f substance, Xiao Yan’s tense mind rexed slightly. Before long, the vortex that had been spinning with a frenzied whooshing sound was nearly drained of its liquid energy. Suddenly, under Xiao Yan’s focused gaze, a diamond-shaped crystal, only the size of a thumb, began to float gently at the vortex’s ter.

  With the appearance of this crystal, Xiao Ya a profound sense of fort emanating from deep within his soul.

  This small object, known as a Dou Crystal, has the ability to tain all of a person's dou energy within it and is the hallmark of being a Dou Grandmaster.

  “Teacher, I did it!”

  Slowly opening his eyes from his cultivation state, Xiao Yan turned his head, his face beaming, as he looked at Yao Lao’s spirit in the room.

  (End of Chapter)v