The higher you stand, the harder you fall. This time, after the fall, there might never be another chance to get back up.

"Next, Emily Bennett!"

Amidst the noisy crowd, the tester's voice rang out once again.

As this rather elegant name was called, the crowd suddenly quieted down, and all eyes instantly shifted.

Where everyone's gaze converged, a young girl in a purple dress stood gracefully, her calm and delicate face unchanged in the slightest by the attention of the crowd.

The girl's cool and indifferent aura was like a lotus just beginning to bloom. Though still young, she already possessed an extraordinary temperament. It was hard to imagine how stunning she would become when she grew up...

In terms of beauty and bearing, this girl in the purple dress was undoubtedly even more outstanding than Grace Bennett from before. No wonder everyone present reacted this way.

With gentle steps, the girl named Emily Bennett walked up to the Magic Stone Monument. She reached out her small hand, the purple sleeve embroidered with black-gold thread sliding down to reveal a section of fair, delicate wrist, and then lightly touched the monument...

After a brief silence, a dazzling light once again burst forth from the monument.

"Dou Qi: Ninth Stage! Level: Advanced!"

Staring at the words on the monument, the hall fell into silence.

"...She actually reached the ninth stage, that's incredible! Among the younger generation of the family, I'm afraid no one but Miss Emily deserves to be called number one." After the silence, the surrounding youths couldn't help but swallow, their eyes filled with awe...

Dou Qi—the path every Dou Practitioner must take. The basic Dou Qi is divided into ten stages. When the Dou Qi within one's body reaches the tenth stage, one can condense a Dou Qi vortex and become a respected Dou Practitioner!

In the crowd, Grace Bennett frowned slightly as she stared at the girl in the purple dress before the monument, a flash of jealousy crossing her face...

Looking at the information on the monument, even the usually indifferent face of the middle-aged tester beside her showed a rare hint of a smile. He addressed the girl with a slightly respectful tone: "Miss Emily, in half a year, you should be able to condense your Dou Qi vortex. If you succeed, then at the age of fourteen, you will become a true Dou Practitioner—the second person in the The Bennett Family in a hundred years!"

Yes, the second person. The first was Adam Bennett, who had lost his aura of genius.

"Thank you." The girl nodded slightly, her calm face showing no joy at his praise. She quietly turned around and, under the burning gaze of the crowd, slowly walked to the back of the crowd, stopping in front of that dispirited young man...

"Adam Bennett gege." As she passed by the young man, the girl paused, bowed respectfully to Adam Bennett, and on her beautiful face appeared a gentle and elegant smile that made the surrounding girls jealous.

"Do I still have the right to be called that by you now?" Looking at the brightest jewel of the family standing before him, Adam Bennett said bitterly. After his fall from grace, she was one of the very few who still treated him with respect.

"Adam Bennett gege, you once told Emily that only by letting go can you pick up again. To be able to let go and take up freely is to be a free person!" Emily Bennett said softly with a smile, her slightly childish voice warm and comforting.

"Heh, a free person? I only know how to say it. Look at me now—do I look like a free person? Besides... this world was never meant for me." Adam Bennett laughed at himself, his tone listless.

Facing Adam Bennett's dejection, Emily Bennett's slender brows furrowed slightly as she said seriously, "Adam Bennett gege, I don't know exactly what happened to you, but Emily believes you will stand up again and reclaim your honor and dignity..." At this point, she paused, and for the first time, a faint blush appeared on her fair and pretty face. "Back then, Adam Bennett gege was truly very attractive..."

"Heh..." Faced with the girl's frank words, the young man gave an awkward laugh but said nothing more. Youth is meant to be carefree, but in his current state, he had neither the right nor the mood. He turned away in loneliness and slowly walked out of the square...

Standing in place, watching the boy's lonely figure as if isolated from the world, Emily Bennett hesitated for a moment, then, amid a chorus of jealous howls behind her, quickly caught up and walked side by side with him...

Main Text Chapter 2: The Dou Qi Continent

The moon was like a silver plate, and the sky was filled with stars.

At the top of a cliff, Adam Bennett lay slantwise on the grass, a blade of grass between his lips, chewing gently, letting the faint bitterness spread in his mouth...

He raised his somewhat fair palm to block his eyes, gazing through his fingers at the huge silver moon in the sky.

"Sigh..." Thinking of the afternoon's test, Adam Bennett let out a soft sigh, lazily withdrawing his hand, resting both hands behind his head, his eyes a little dazed...

"Fifteen years already..." A low murmur suddenly slipped from the boy's lips.

In Adam Bennett's heart, there was a secret only he knew: he was not a person of this world. Or rather, Adam Bennett's soul did not belong to this world. He came from a blue planet called Earth. As for why he came here, such a bizarre experience, he couldn't explain it either. But after living here for a while, he gradually came to realize: he had transmigrated!