Without any surprises, Xiao Heng won the championship of this grand competition.
He did not stay long. After obtaining the Third Grade Alchemist Badge, he bid farewell to the Alchemist Guild and continued on his journey of training.
He kept the three-year agreement firmly in mind. He had to obtain Heaven and Earth Fire as soon as possible and raise his cultivation.
Little did he know that disaster had already befallen the Xiao Clan.
A group of men clad entirely in black robes, their faces hidden behind masks and blood energy radiating from their bodies, suddenly descended upon the Xiao Clan.
They demanded that the Xiao Clan hand over its ancestral treasure, the Blazing Emperor Jade Fragment.
When the Xiao Clan refused, a fierce battle broke out. Bloodshed filled the grounds, and corpses lay everywhere.
The black-robed men slaughtered the entire Xiao Clan, while the Xiao Family Head was bound and taken away.
This group of black-robed men was far stronger than the Xiao Clan. Their leader was a Dou Huang, while the Xiao Family Head was merely at the peak of Da Dou Shi. Naturally, he was no match for them.
They searched the entire Xiao Clan estate but found no trace of the Blazing Emperor Jade Fragment. Thus, they took the Xiao Family Head away, intending to force the answer out of him through special means.
Xiao Heng, far away in another land, knew nothing of this. After leaving the Alchemist Guild, he followed the guidance of the Phantom Old Man in his mind and arrived at a valley.
That valley was precisely where Liu Yun had once obtained the Three-Colored Flame.
Xiao Heng made his way underground without obstruction. The surroundings were utterly silent and permeated with the aura of death.
"Old Man, is there really Heaven