Seven-Star Fighting King

Chapter 9

Xun'er shrugged cutely, then suddenly tilted her head slightly and teased, "Brother Xiao Yan, it seems you're in trouble this time."

Xiao Yan's mouth twitched. Rubbing his aching forehead, he cursed under his breath:

"That Vixen is a complete pain in the ass. Damn it, back then I only accidentally wandered into the hot spring where she was bathing in the back mountain, then unintentionally touched her thigh. In the end, that crazy woman chased me down for half a year."

"Hehe, how could a girl's body be touched so casually?"

Hearing that, Xun'er covered her mouth and laughed sweetly. She suddenly remembered how this fellow had once touched her all over when they were children, and a faint blush rose on her delicate face.

Xiao Yan curled his lips and sneered:

"That woman is also Xiao Ning's biological elder sister. Neither of them is any good. That bastard was so hostile toward me back then largely because of her. Things have improved now that the old man gave the order."

"Hmph, Xiao Yan, I never expected you to have a day when you could turn things around. What a surprise."

Sure enough, Xiao Yan's premonition had been right. Xiao Yu's very first words were barbed and dripping with mockery.

Xiao Yan immediately wanted to snap back, but recalling the old man's instructions, he could only snort coldly and remain silent. Instead, his gaze swept over Xiao Yu's snow-white thighs and the badge on her chest.

Three Gold Stars were displayed there, indicating that Xiao Yu's current strength had reached that of a Three-Star Fighter.

"Where do you think your dog eyes are looking?!"

Sensing Xiao Yan's gaze, Xiao Yu's face turned livid. She suddenly drew the longsword at her waist and slashed straight at him.

Xiao Yan had not expected her to attack the moment she drew her sword. He hurriedly flashed aside, fully revealing the strength of the Eighth Stage of Dou Qi.

Though he was still far inferior to Xiao Yu, compared to the waste who had only been at the Third Stage of Dou Qi half a year ago, his improvement had been astonishingly rapid.

Xiao Yu's eyes flickered. She was clearly shocked by the strength Xiao Yan had displayed. In just half a year, he had risen by five whole stages!

This bastard's talent has returned... Xiao Yu's sword did not slow as she prepared to slash down, when several figures approached from afar.

"Hmph, you got lucky." Xiao Yu sheathed her sword. She did not want the Xiao Family to lose face in front of outsiders.

A woman in a red dress drew closer and closer, a seductive smile hanging at the corner of her lips. She was Ya Fei, the Chief Auctioneer of the Miter Auction House.

"The old man sent me to handle the handover for this batch of goods. Breaking through five stages in half a year—this little genius of the Xiao Family looks like she's about to shock Jia Nan Academy."

Ya Fei parted her red lips and smiled gently.

"It was only luck. Sister Ya Fei flatters me." Xiao Yan replied with a calm smile.

If an ordinary person had said that, Xiao Yu would certainly have mocked them. But she knew that the woman before her was no ordinary person. She was the renowned Ya Fei.

Yet Ya Fei had spoken of some cooperation with the Xiao Family? Xiao Yu was becoming more and more confused...

Deep within the Xiao Family compound, inside Xiao Lin's room, Xiao Lin's face was ruddy and his complexion excellent as the incomparably powerful fluctuations of Dou Qi around him slowly receded.

He knew that a Dou Emperor expert from the Gu Clan was by Xiao Xun'er's side, so aside from his breakthrough to Two-Star Fighting King, he had concealed all his later breakthroughs.

After all, his rate of advancement was even more outrageous than Xiao Yan's. One had broken through five stages from the Dou Qi level within half a year. That was genius-level talent, something people could understand.

But the other had repeatedly broken through from the Two-Star Fighting King realm within half a year. That simply defied all common sense!

This could no longer be called outrageous. It was monstrous beyond monsters. There had to be a Supreme Treasure involved! This was completely abnormal!

"System!"

Xiao Lin summoned the system.

...

Name: Xiao Lin

Cultivation: Seven-Star Fighting King

Cultivation Techniques: Raging Lion's Fury, Earth Water Fire Wind (System Reward)

Identity: Xiao Family Old Ancestor, Former Patriarch

Xiao Family Members: Two Hundred and Nine

Selected Clan Member: Xiao Yan

Cultivation Feedback: When clan members cultivate, the host will receive bonuses.

Cultivation Breakthrough: Seven-Star Fighting King (Eighty-Nine Percent)

...

After looting the Oba Family and the Gale Family in Wutan City, Xiao Lin had spent Massive Gold Coins and resources to finally build the Xiao Family's current foundation.

Compared to half a year ago, the Xiao Family was now more than ten times stronger. Every Xiao Family member had broken through at least one minor stage, and the feedback Xiao Lin received had grown stronger as well.

"It takes ten years to grow trees and a Hundred Years to cultivate people. The greatest benefit to me should come after this group has fully grown..."

Still, Xiao Lin was already very satisfied with his current rate of progress. In another two months or so, he would become a Dou Emperor expert!

How many Dou Emperors were there in the entire Jia Ma Empire? Once he reached that point, he could travel elsewhere, gather some resources, and bring them back to nourish the Xiao Family.

Wutan City could no longer contribute much to the Xiao Family's growth. One day, the Xiao Family would completely absorb Wutan City. If it wanted to continue growing, it could only seek a wider world.

"But for now, I'll first send a batch of Xiao Family disciples to Jia Nan Academy."

Over the past two or three months, he had been negotiating with Jia Nan Academy. In the end, they reached an agreement: the Xiao Family would provide pills and resources, while Jia Nan Academy would accept some additional Xiao Family disciples.

Wutan City had been peaceful for a long time. The last disturbance had been when the Xiao Family became a Dou Wang Family and utterly crushed the Gale Family and the Oba Family.

This time, however, it was because Jia Nan Academy was recruiting students.

As one of the renowned advanced academies of the Dou Qi Continent, Jia Nan Academy was practically a Sacred Land in the hearts of all young people. So long as one graduated from the academy after further study, one's future would be nearly smooth sailing. Not only could one return home in glory, but one would also become highly sought-after by all major factions.

Jia Nan Academy was located at the junction of the Jia Ma Empire and two nearby great empires. In that ungoverned region, Jia Nan Academy had practically become a small nation of its own.

By all reason, none of the three great empires should have ignored a neutral force situated between them. After all, there was no telling when that force might be recruited by an opponent, thereby posing a major threat to an empire's border defenses.

Of course, that was only true on the premise that the force between them was weak. If that force's strength had risen enough to rival the three great empires—

—the three great empires would instead quietly abandon all such thoughts. In the end, they could only allow Jia Nan Academy to crouch upon their borders like a giant dragon, with no one daring to provoke it lightly.

After many years of development, Jia Nan Academy had not only become a renowned advanced academy of the Dou Qi Continent, but its covert cooperation with the royal families of the three great empires had also caused its reputation and prestige among their people to grow ever stronger.

The three great empires, which were so incompatible that they could scarcely tolerate one another, had managed to maintain peace for nearly a Hundred Years. A large part of the reason was Jia Nan Academy's secret restraint and mediation.

All these factors made Jia Nan Academy's prestige within the three great empires grow ever greater. Every year, Jia Nan Academy dispatched a large number of instructors into the three empires to recruit students with outstanding cultivation talent.

And now, only a few days remained before Jia Nan Academy's recruitment instructors arrived in Wutan City.