Dou Po: Throw in the Ancient Times and Start with the Origin of Emperor Yan

[Everything Deployed From Past Lives Manifests in Reality] + [Multiple Heroines] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Half Invincible, Half Leveling Up] He transmigrates into Battle Through the Heavens as Xiao Ce, the third brother Xiao Yan never had. He plans to make a great career for himself, but his cultivation talent turns out to be abysmal. After more than a decade of grueling cultivation, he has only just reached the fifth stage of Dou Qi. His fiancée, Nalan Yanran, even publicly calls off their engagement. Fortunately, the [Deployment System] awakens, allowing him to deploy himself into past timelines. First deployment: A Heavenly Flame gains sentience, devours other Heavenly Flames to grow, and competes with Tou She Ancient God. It falls just short, but before being devoured, it fights desperately to seize a sliver of his essence. Choose two of three rewards: a sliver of Emperor Flame essence, the super-Heaven-tier cultivation technique Spirit Refining Art, and all the Dou Techniques learned. Second deployment: A prodigy in alchemy becomes a kindred spirit to the Pill Tower Ancestor. Together, they establish the Pill Tower. Later, he forcibly refines a Ninth Grade Golden Pill, then dies from exhaustion of mind and spirit. Choose two of three rewards: Ninth Grade Golden Pill (eight-star Dou Saint cultivation), Soul Source Fruit, and the art of controlling fire. Third deployment: An ancient Dragon-Phoenix battles a Dou Emperor head-on... Future deployments: The Soul Clan's ancestor, the Soul Emperor himself... An ancient Poison Emperor, the Woeful Poison Body... An ancient artifact refiner, master of the Heavenly Cauldron...