Visitors from the Eight Clans

Several months passed in the blink of an eye, and it was soon time for the Eight Clans Young Generation Exchange Meeting hosted by the Flame Clan.

This Eight Clans Young Generation Exchange Meeting was meant to display the strength of one's clan, so the champion had to belong to the host. Since this gathering was being held by the Flame Clan, the title naturally had to remain with the Flame Clan and could not be taken by anyone from the other clans.

Five years ago, Lei Ying, the Lei Clan Chief, had also hosted an Eight Clans Young Generation Exchange Meeting. Huo Xuan had attended that event, but the championship had ultimately not remained with the Lei Clan—it had been taken by Huo Xuan instead. That gathering became the Lei Clan's laughingstock, and the other clans mocked them for an entire year.

At the entrance to the Yan World, Huo Xuan waited for the people from the other clans to arrive. Before long, a group of people with strange markings on their foreheads was the first to enter the Yan World.

Huo Xuan's gaze settled on the marks upon their foreheads. He had seen the people of the other clans before, so these must be members of the Spirit Clan.

Among the Ancient Eight Clans, the Spirit Clan was the weakest aside from the Xiao Clan, which Huo Xuan had already destroyed.

The Spirit Clan was now facing the same situation the Xiao Clan had faced back then. Strictly speaking, the Spirit Clan was even worse off than the Xiao Clan had been. At least the Xiao Clan had possessed Xiao Xuan, a peak Dou Sheng expert, whereas the current Spirit Clan Chief's strength had only barely reached around that of a Six Star Dou Sheng.

It was precisely because the Spirit Clan was the weakest of the seven clans that the Hun Clan would be the first to destroy them. Of course, Huo Xuan had no intention of warning the Spirit Clan.

On one hand, even if Huo Xuan went to tell the Spirit Clan Chief that the Hun Clan was going to wipe out the Spirit Clan, they probably would not believe him at all.

On the other hand, Huo Xuan needed the Hun Clan to gather all eight pieces of the Ancient Jade and open the Ancient God Cave Abode. After all, he did not have the ability to obtain every piece of the Ancient Jade himself.

Soon after, the Medicine Clan also arrived. An old man led a young man and woman over, and Huo Xuan had met that young man before. He was Yao Xingji.

Yao Xingji was a member of the Medicine Clan among the eight clans. Known as the "Human Pill Master," he possessed the Medicine Clan's inherited Strange Fire, the Nine Nether Wind Flame.

Yao Xingji had some dealings with Huo Xuan and could barely be considered half a friend of his.

When Yao Xingji spotted Huo Xuan, he did not step forward to greet him. He merely glared at him viciously.

"Huo Xuan, Brother, it seems Yao Xingji is still holding a grudge over what happened five years ago!" Huo Zhi said from the side with a mischievous grin.

"Who told him to flaunt the Seventh Grade Pill he had worked so hard to obtain before me five years ago? Still, it was his own fault for not being capable enough. Otherwise, that pill would never have ended up in my hands." Recalling that amusing incident, Huo Xuan spoke with undisguised glee.

Five years ago, at the young generation exchange meeting hosted by the Lei Clan, the Medicine Clan had sent Yao Tian and Yao Xingji to participate. Bored out of his mind, Yao Xingji had actually shown off his pill in front of Huo Xuan. Huo Xuan could not stand the sight of it, so he proposed a high-stakes wager, with a Seventh Grade Pill as the stake. Confident in his own strength, Yao Xingji accepted Huo Xuan's challenge. In the end, the gap between them was simply too great. Yao Xingji was no match for Huo Xuan and could only reluctantly hand the pill over to him.

"Brother Xingji, you've finally arrived." Huo Xuan took the initiative to step forward and greet Yao Xingji.

"Huo Xuan, what are you trying to do now?" The moment Yao Xingji saw Huo Xuan approach him, he became wary.

"Brother Xingji, it has been five years since we last met. Can't two brothers like us exchange a greeting without you reacting like this?"

"Reacting like this? Huo Xuan, at that gathering five years ago, you got close to me and then tricked a Seventh Grade Pill out of my hands. Are you setting your sights on the pills in my possession again this time?" Yao Xingji said irritably.

"Brother Xingji, you can't put it that way. Back then, we willingly entered into a wager. I won that Seventh Grade Pill fair and square—how could that be considered tricking you?"

"Where is Yao Tian? Why hasn't he come?" Huo Xuan deliberately asked.

Yao Tian and Yao Xingji were both geniuses of the Medicine Clan, but Yao Tian surpassed Yao Xingji in both talent and strength. Since Yao Xingji was always overshadowed by Yao Tian, he hated it most when others mentioned Yao Tian in front of him. Huo Xuan had said it solely to provoke him.

Sure enough, the moment he heard Yao Tian's name, Yao Xingji's face immediately darkened.

"My brother is in Secluded Cultivation and has no time," the woman beside Yao Xingji spoke up.

"This is Yao Tian's younger sister, Yao Ling," Yao Xingji said, his tone carrying a hint of hostility.

Yao Ling—Huo Xuan still had some impression of her. She was Yao Tian's younger sister. Although her strength did not compare to her brother Yao Tian's, her soul was extraordinary. The Medicine Clan considered her the person most likely to cultivate her soul to the Emperor Realm.

At this moment, the Gu Clan also arrived. An old man led over a man dressed in a green robe and another in a fitted black outfit.

Huo Xuan had met these people as well. The old man was the Gu Clan's Tongxuan Elder, while the man in green beside him was Gu Qingyang, the Grand Commander and one of the Black Annihilation Army's Four Great Commanders. The black-clad man was also one of the Black Annihilation Army's Four Great Commanders—the Asura Commander, Gu Yao.