Time passed like a fleeting white colt, rushing by in an instant.
It did not linger for any person or any event, merely carrying on with what it was meant to do.
Five years—neither particularly long nor particularly short. It had already been five years since Xun'er came to the Xiao Family.
After successfully devouring the Bone Chilling Flame, Xun'er's strength surged, and she returned the ring to Xiao Yan.
The latter seemed extremely curious about why she had borrowed the ring and kept questioning her. Fortunately, he lacked persistence; otherwise, Xun'er might not have been able to stop herself from telling him.
Their quiet, ordinary life continued like this, repeating day after day.
Perhaps because there was no independently created Dou Di space like that in the Ancient World, her cultivation progressed rather slowly. After five years, she had only reached the level of a Nine Star Dou Shi.
Xun'er was helpless about this as well. After all, Heavenly Flames were no ordinary things and could not be encountered so easily.
As for the Dou Qi Test, Xun'er had found all sorts of excuses to avoid it.
It was not because she feared revealing her strength. She was simply worried that those fellow students at the Dou Zhe level would begin to doubt their own abilities upon seeing her power.
Over these past few years, one event worth mentioning was that the old man inside Xiao Yan's ring had awakened a year ago.
The old man called himself Yao Lao and was supposedly an alchemist, though even he could not clearly remember what rank he was.
However, with his help, Xiao Yan's strength advanced by leaps and bounds. In just five years, he had reached the level of a Two Star Dou Shi, becoming one of the foremost geniuses