The story split into two threads...!
On Xiao Yan's side, the Sixth Heavenly Venerable was an Eight Star Dou Zun, though close to the peak, while the Fifth Heavenly Venerable was a Nine Star Dou Zun, though only around the middle stage and not yet at the peak.
Xiao Yan himself was at the peak of Eight Star Dou Zun. Yet with this cultivation method, Dou Technique, and the power of Heavenly Flames, his strength was no weaker than that of a Nine Star Dou Zun. If he activated his Bloodline Power, he could even fight a Nine Star Dou Zun of one or two transformations.
After drawing the two men some distance away from Xiao Heng, Xiao Yan came to a halt. He looked at the two Soul Hall Venerable Elders, killing intent surging in his eyes.
His grudge against the Soul Hall had long since gone beyond the enmity left behind by his ancestors. The Soul Hall had tried to kill him many times and taken away his teacher. Even now, the father who had always given him warmth in his childhood and supported him when he had nothing was still of unknown fate, neither confirmed alive nor dead.
Xiao Heng was different. Although he too had been pursued by the Soul Hall, unlike Xiao Yan, he had never directly clashed with them. However, if one examined it closely, Xiao Heng—no, he should be called Bai Heng here—the catastrophe the Bai Clan had suffered thousands of years ago was likely connected to the Soul Clan as well. The clan elders had never explicitly told him so, but other than the Soul Clan, who else would expend such immense strength to launch an attack on a powerful Ancient Race? And it had been a war of extermination.
Even for