Dou Emperor? (This Chapter Contains Some Fanon Elements)

After a long and drawn-out battle with Xiao Yan, Hun Tiandi, who was essentially an empty shell, had even used up his last bit of Essence Blood to activate the Emperor Slaying Array.

The Hun Tiandi originally intended to gather the Nihility Devouring Flame and escape first. With his cultivation at the peak of the Emperor Realm Soul Peak Dou Saint realm, it would be easy for him to hide without any ties.

The Nihility Devouring Flame turned against them, Hun Tiandi tried to self-destruct his physical body and escape with his soul, but it was too late.

Under Xiao Xuan's control, Hun Tiandi was unable to escape. Xiao Yan struck him with a palm, splitting his skull open and piercing his back with Gu Yuan's attack, causing his ten-thousand-foot-tall body to explode completely.

In an instant, the area within a radius of ten thousand miles was shrouded in a rain of blood. Xiao Xuan, who was directly subjected to the force of the explosion, was blasted away. His newly Creation Golden Body was stained with shocking scarlet blood, and the original golden light was dimmed, clearly indicating that he had suffered a severe injury.

But this was already a very good result—the composed Gu Yuan grabbed the Hun Tiandi's soul, which was trying to escape.

Xiao Yan looked at the Nihility Devouring Flame standing motionless to the side and asked with some surprise, "You didn't run away?"

Nihility Devouring Flame forced out an ugly smile and said with difficulty, "I have already submitted to Flame Emperor. Since Flame Emperor has not spoken, I will naturally not leave without reason."

Gu Yuan sealed the Hun Tiandi's soul in a mirror, walked up to Xiao Yan and said, "In terms of Soul Power, you should have already surpassed me. You have taken a new step in the realm of Emperor Realm Soul. Perhaps you can obtain relevant information from the Hun Tiandi's soul."

"No need, let's just kill him completely!" Xiao Yan shook his head, reached out and pressed down, and an invisible flame engulfed the mirror.

The Emperor Flame, which could vaguely rival the number one Heavenly Flame Ranking, burned fiercely under Xiao Yan's urging. The twisted, invisible flames shattered the mirror instantly. Even without the seal, the Hun Tiandi was still unable to escape and was firmly confined within the invisible flames.

A series of wails, curses, pleas for mercy, and curses rang out from the flames, but Xiao Yan remained unmoved, his face expressionless, determined to wipe the Hun Tiandi from the world completely.

The Nihility Devouring Flame, standing to the side, pondered for a moment and then requested, "Flame Emperor, I have offered up my Origin Fire Seed, but I still need some Essence Blood to reshape my physical body. Why don't we gather the blood rain formed by the Hun Tiandi's self-destruction now?"

"Although the energy content is low, the quality is extremely high, which saves Flame Emperor a lot of trouble."

The invisible flames were quiet for a moment, and the name of the Nihility Devouring Flame was added to the various curses.

Xiao Yan glanced at the Nihility Devouring Flame, neither refusing nor agreeing.

Gu Yuan and Xiao Xuan, standing to the side, stared intently at the Nihility Devouring Flame, their wariness towards him increasing once again.

Having been rebuffed, Nihility Devouring Flame said no more and quietly waited for Hun Tiandi to die.

The invisible flames burned for more than ten minutes before completely refining the Hun Tiandi's Soul Origin into nothingness.

And at the very moment that the Soul Origin completely dissipated, the soul of the Hun Tiandi also vanished into nothingness.

Xiao Yan did not stop. He gently grasped the space in front of him, and an invisible point of light appeared in his hand.

This is the life imprint of the Hun Tiandi. The current cycle of Reincarnation in the Dou Qi Continent is to allow the soul to return to heaven and earth, and the life imprint to be reincarnated.

Only those whose souls have reached the Emperor Realm can see the existence of this mark. Even Peak Dou Saint is powerless to do anything about it with just their Dou Qi cultivation.

After reincarnation, the life imprint of a strong person is naturally easier to cultivate to a higher realm, and if the Soul Realm breaks through to the Emperor Realm, they may even awaken the memories of their previous life.

Xiao Yan quietly watched the life mark. The invisible flames spun through various colors, finally forming a hazy, chaotic color.

This flame, though only a tiny wisp, was of frighteningly high quality, as if it carried the supreme power of the beginning of heaven and earth. Facing this flame was like facing the entire world.

"Bite..."

A crisp impact rang out, and the Hun Tiandi's life imprint was shattered by Xiao Yan in one fell swoop, breaking into seven fragments that were then summoned into the Reincarnation.

Even incomplete life imprints can be reincarnated, but nine times out of ten they will be reincarnated as something similar to the Soul Hall Protector.

After dealing with the Hun Tiandi, Xiao Yan still ignored the Nihility Devouring Flame, leaving him aside, and began to repair this world.

Although Xiao Yan imprisoned the Hun Tiandi in the Endless Fire Domain at the start of the battle, there were still ten Nine-star Dou Sheng fighting outside.

Battles of this magnitude cause immense destruction to the Dou Qi Continent. Areas spanning hundreds of thousands, even millions of miles are devastated, mountains crumble, rivers flow backward, and countless craters and abysses, thousands of feet deep, are jagged and interlocking, with the very space itself riddled with cracks.

Repairing nature is more difficult than destroying it, but it is only a bit troublesome. Xiao Yan let Xiao Xuan Gu Yuan go into seclusion to recover, while he himself traveled through the void, with the Life Spirit Flame and the Three Thousand Burning Flame burning on his body. As the Space Power surged, the earth was restored to its flat state.

The Nihility Devouring Flame naturally followed closely, its mind filled with Xiao Yan's chaotic flame.

As time went on, the Nihility Devouring Flame also sensed something. In the process of repairing the world, Xiao Yan seemed to have entered a state of oneness with heaven and man, merging with the surrounding space. Even though the Nihility Devouring Flame had now broken through to the Emperor Realm Soul, it was still as powerless as a tender infant in front of Xiao Yan.

The Nihility Devouring Flame was confused and tried to repair it along with Xiao Yan, but to no avail.

It took more than ten days for this battlefield to be cleared. Xiao Yan left the area where the Hun Tiandi had self-destructed, which was filled with rich blood energy and fire-attribute World Energy. Perhaps it would give birth to a new Heavenly Flames.

But that's a long time from now. What we need to do now is refine the Nihility Devouring Flame that's been delivered to our door.

When he noticed Xiao Yan looking at him, the Nihility Devouring Flame, who had been feeling uneasy, suddenly felt much calmer. The long wait was over, and the final judgment was coming. Whether he lived or died depended on this.

However, Nihility Devouring Flame didn't expect was that Xiao Yan stared at him for a long time without saying a word.

Xiao Yan sighed and said softly, "You've enjoyed a lot of the benefits the Soul Clan has brought you over the years, haven't you?"

Nihility Devouring Flame remained silent. The Soul Hall was established for him, and most of the collected Soul Origin entered his body. This is why Nihility Devouring Flame was able to cultivate all the way to the Heavenly Realm Great Perfection.

Furthermore, the Soul Hall prepared an unknown amount of Soul Origin for Nihility Devouring Flame to break through to the Emperor Realm Soul.

"Alright, I can spare your life, but I will also plant a mark on your soul and control your life and death."

"If you are unwilling, you saw where the Hun Tiandi's life imprint went before, right? I can promise that I will not touch your life imprint and will let you enter the Reincarnation."

Nihility Devouring Flame took a deep breath, surprised that he still had to choose.

After a moment's thought, Nihility Devouring Flame could no longer tolerate having its life and death controlled by others, so it was better to gamble on that unknown possibility.

"I choose the latter."

After speaking calmly, Nihility Devouring Flame reached into his chest and pulled out a ball of illusory black flame.

Looking at the resolute expression on Nihility Devouring Flame's face, Xiao Yan took its Origin Fire Seed and sighed, "Didn't you ever think that from now on, the entire Dou Qi Continent would be under my control?"

After saying that, Xiao Yan pushed the Nihility Devouring Flame's soul, whose expression had changed drastically and who was about to say something more, into the Reincarnation, leaving only its enormous energy behind.

For Xiao Yan now, the Nihility Devouring Flame is nothing. The only troublesome thing is the various mottled energies inside: the Dou Di Bloodline Tunling Clan, the bloodline of the Soul Clan, the Yan Clan, the Lei Clan Dou Di Bloodline, etc.

However, the Nihility Devouring Flame separated the origin, allowing Xiao Yan to devour and refine it step by step.

Therefore, Xiao Yan did not prepare Pills and directly swallowed the Nihility Devouring Flame raw.

Unlike other Heavenly Flames, the Nihility Devouring Flame, once it entered the body, suddenly released an extremely powerful Devouring Power, beginning to devour Xiao Yan's Dou Qi, blood, vitality, Soul Power... intending to devour everything about Xiao Yan.

With a thought, Xiao Yan enveloped the strange, pitch-black flame with his Emperor Flame. His Soul Power was allowed to be devoured by the Emperor Flame, and at the same time, Soul Imprint was implanted into it.

Just one day later, the dark flames seemed to have eaten their fill, swelling into a large, round mass, and lay paralyzed in Xiao Yan's meridians, unable to move.

As the Dou Qi surged, the Nihility Devouring Flame was driven into the Flame Mantra Technique's Cultivation Technique Route, powerless to resist Xiao Yan's refining, and merged into the Emperor Flame.

After refining the Nihility Devouring Flame Origin, Xiao Yan swallowed the mottled energy in one gulp. He spent two days refining it and broke through to the Nine-star Dou Sheng Late Stage.

After finishing his business here, Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Tomb again and began to modify the Heavenly Tomb Space.

This time, too many top experts died—a total of nine Nine-star Dou Sheng —to the point that the Reincarnation laws of the Dou Qi Continent have been subtly perfected.

Xiao Yan then expanded the First Layer, making it an extremely vast space, basically equivalent to the Dou Qi Continent, to ensure that all dead beings could enter Reincarnation.

The second layer contains some passageways within the First Layer, and the space is much smaller, responsible for the souls from the Dou Wang to Dou Zun levels.

The third level is for Half-Saint Dou Sheng, and it is even smaller—in the current Dou Qi Continent, there are only a few dozen Dou Sheng in total.

Having done all this, Xiao Yan no longer lingered. He contacted the Plane Embryo through the Emperor Flame and gave it control of the Heavenly Tomb.

"Boom..."

A rumbling sound that only Emperor Realm Soul could hear rang out. In Xiao Yan's eyes, the Heavenly Tomb, which he could enter at any time, gradually disappeared and disappeared. Meanwhile, the cracks on the Plane Embryo was on the verge of shattering had decreased considerably.

Just then, Xiao Yan had a feeling that breaking through to the Dou Emperor was not difficult, and there was no indescribable emptiness; all that was lacking was enough energy.

Furthermore, in terms of combat power, if Xiao Yan were to fight Hun Tiandi, who had reconstructed his Dou Di Physical Body, he might be able to kill him in a dozen or even a few moves!

Breaking through to the Dou Emperor grants one Dou Di Physical Body, causes a mutation in one's own Dou Qi, and allows one to control the World Energy of the entire Dou Qi Continent in an instant. Blood relatives will also receive the Dou Di Bloodline.

The most crucial element in breaking through to the Dou Emperor is obtaining Origin Qi.

So what exactly is this "Origin Qi"?

When the Five Emperors broke through the void, they used the Spiritual Power that Xiao Yan had drawn from the Great Thousand World. However, it would be inappropriate to say that the Origin Qi was the Spiritual Power of the Great Thousand World.

Just look at those good-for-nothing children with the Dou Di Bloodline. In the Dou Qi Continent, these two would at least be at the Peak Dou Saint, and breaking through to Dou Emperor would be a piece of cake for them. In the Great Thousand World, they would at least be at the peak of the Earthly Sovereign. But the reality is...

Therefore, the Origin Qi should be the Dou Qi that combines the power of the Plane Embryo and is closely related to the Plane Embryo. The Dou Di Bloodline is like a "certificate" issued by the Plane Embryo, which is no longer valid outside the Dou Qi Continent.

Spiritual Power is more advanced than Dou Qi. Drawing Spiritual Power from the Great Thousand World is beneficial for the repair of the Plane Embryo, thus giving birth to new Origin Qi.

Xiao Yan's current state is that his physical body has reached the level of Dou Di Physical Body, his Soul Power is enough to compress Dou Qi and make it go even further, and with the Emperor Flame, he can control the World Energy and earth throughout the entire Dou Qi Continent, and can even distort time to a certain extent.

The recognition from the Plane Embryo is sufficient; it is even waiting for Xiao Yan to take that step before it descends and merges into Xiao Yan's body.

"It requires a massive amount of energy... Why do I have such a strong sense of déjà vu?"

Xiao Yan shook his head, pondering whether to forcefully open the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion or explore the Dou Emperor Inheritance beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Spring.

Ascetic training is impossible. After defeating the Hun Tiandi, there's still the Heavenly Evil God to deal with. Where would I find the time for ascetic training?

After much deliberation, Xiao Yan decided to forcefully open the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion. It might be a bit difficult, but the Dou Emperor Inheritance in the Nine Nether Yellow Spring was clearly incompatible with his own attributes. Even if he used the Nine Nether Nether Staff to open it, he might not be able to pass the inheritance test.

This time there was no rush, so Xiao Yan sent a message to Xiao Xuan Gu Yuan, suggesting they explore together after they finished their seclusion.

As for Xiao Yan, he carried Xiao Xiao on his head, Xiao Qingshan in his hand, Zi Yan with him, and Gu He followed behind him, taking the lead in heading to the Northwest Continent.

The Jia Ma Empire was where Xiao Yan rose to power. Not long ago, Xiao Yan was busy collecting Beast Flame, intending to evolve the Flame Mantra as soon as possible. He made a big show of it and even took the little princess of the Jia Ma Imperial Family, Yao Yue, as his disciple.

Back in the Jia Ma Empire, Xiao Yan finally remembered this disciple and tore through space to check on Yao Yue's condition.

Back then, Xiao Yan casually gave away a unique Earth Grade Cultivation Method that no one else in the entire Jia Ma Empire possessed, leaving behind a promise that he would become a full-fledged Sixth Grade Alchemist. After that, he never paid any attention to this cheap disciple again.

It wasn't until Gu He, this laborer, appeared that Yao Yue finally had a decent Alchemist to guide her.

In fact, Yao Yue's talent is not bad. In the original text, her teacher was a mediocre fourth-grade peak level alchemist, but she was still able to become a Third Grade Alchemist when she was almost twenty years old.

Jia Xingtian never forgot Xiao Yan's original request to "become a full member" of the Jia Xing Tian. Over the years, he has concentrated all kinds of cultivation resources on Yao Yue's cultivation and given countless Medicinal Herbs to Yao Yue to refine.

Currently, Yao Yue is also a Dou Huang expert and has barely reached the level of Sixth Grade Alchemist.

Of course, this is based on the cultivation level of Dou Emperor and the extra proficiency in certain Pill Recipe due to long-term alchemy. If the method of the Pill Tower is used to test Soul Power, it is actually still a bit lacking.

Xiao Yan was too lazy to care about such details. He casually counted her as having passed, and then passed on to her the Yao Yue Heavenly Grade Cultivation Method, the Soul Cultivation Method, the Five Wheel Leaving Fire Method, and a large number of Pill Recipe. He also instructed Gu He to teach her cultivation.