Spoiled by Favor?

"A Pill Formula you created yourself?"

Yao Lao murmured subconsciously. He had no doubts about it.

Because this Girl had unquestionably already met every condition needed to develop a Pill Formula on her own and refine it.

She had even produced more than a dozen such pills in a single Open the Furnace.

With talent like this, even Yao Lao could not help but sigh that the younger generation was truly to be feared.

This Girl lacked nothing, and she had an entire clan supporting her from behind. It could be said that, with everything she had currently displayed, surpassing him was only a matter of time.

"In my view, this pill can be considered a Rank 6 Pill... Since it is a pill the Girl made herself, what is it called?"

Yao Lao asked.

"I never thought about naming it..."

Yao Wan shook her head. "But since it came up today, let's call it the Clear Spirit Pill."

"Clear Spirit Pill? Truly a good name."

Yao Lao praised it, though he could not help sighing inwardly.

Then Xiao Yan suddenly noticed his teacher glance at him.

"Teacher?"

"No, it's nothing."

Yao Lao was slightly startled, then shook his head, with no intention of saying anything.

How should he put it? After all, he could not blame Xiao Yan for this. It depended on who he was being compared to.

"Mm, right. Three days ago, I sensed some rather strange auras nearby. Did something happen?"

Yao Wan recalled the abnormality from three days earlier and could not help asking.

"Mm, nothing much. Just a gang of bandits who were taking whatever they could get. They saw Wan Guniang refining pills and got wicked ideas."

Yao Wan raised her brows, thinking to herself that it was truly unlucky. She had only just sat down to refine pills, yet she had still run into this kind of nonsense.

"How was it resolved afterward? Xiao Yan, did you kill them all?"

Yao Wan asked, with a hint of curiosity.

"Ah, they had one Da Dou Shi, three Dou Shi, and over a dozen Dou Zhe. That group was almost comparable to half the Xiao Clan. What was I supposed to fight them with?"

Xiao Yan shook his head, folded his arms, and sighed.

"Then could it be that Yao Lao made a move?"

"Heh heh, I did not make a move this time. This time, it was Xiao Yan's own wisdom that successfully drove back the enemy."

"Oh?"

Hearing Yao Lao say this, Yao Wan grew even more curious.

Only then did Xiao Yan clearly explain to Yao Wan how he had used the Empty City Stratagem to repel the enemy.

"...I see."

Yao Wan nodded. The Empty City Stratagem was truly clever, but unfortunately, it was just a little dangerous.

"Hah..."

Yao Wan then breathed out a mouthful of Stale Air, her beautiful eyes beneath the Bamboo Hat Black Gauze calm as water.

"Speaking of which, did Xiao Yan notice which way that gang of bandits went?"

Xiao Yan was stunned. In the instant their gazes met, he truly did sense killing intent from Wan Guniang.

This was the first time he had seen her like this in the year since they met.

"I didn't notice... I think they probably aren't on this side either... Wan Guniang, you...?"

Xiao Yan hesitated, wanting to speak but stopping himself.

Yao Wan naturally knew what he wanted to ask. It just so happened that the guess he had kept pressed down in his heart without saying was correct.

"What do you think? Of course I want to pull them up by the roots."

When Yao Wan said this, her tone was so matter-of-fact.

"The moment the other side revealed killing intent toward me, they could no longer live in this world."

This was probably the first time in all the time they had known each other that Yao Wan had revealed her own views to Xiao Yan.

As for those words themselves, Xiao Yan did, for the time being, agree with them.

It was just that since nothing had happened, Xiao Yan naturally would not go looking for trouble with the other party again—especially when he currently had neither the ability nor the opportunity to take revenge.

"I feel there's no need for that, right?"

Xiao Yan considered his words, then looked toward Yao Wan's eyes—though because of the black gauze blocking them, he had no way to see clearly.

"After all, our current priority is to search for the Heavenly Flame, right? If that gang of bandits has hidden their lair very deeply, who knows how much time we'd waste trying to find them."

"...That does make sense."

Yao Wan nodded, expressing her agreement with Xiao Yan's view.

"Then let's see whether those rats show themselves when we come back."

As she spoke, Yao Wan put away the bronze square cauldron.

"All right, the Clear Spirit Pill is refined as well, so I'll leave it with you for now, Xiao Yan. Prepare to set off for the Chu Yun Empire. The journey may be very dangerous, so it won't be suitable to continue training."

"Yao Lao, do you have any objections?"

"The Girl is right. The Chu Yun Empire is indeed much more dangerous than the Gama Empire. On this journey, it is best to avoid unnecessary trouble as much as possible."

Yao Lao nodded slightly. He had no objections to Yao Wan's decision.

After all, compared to the Gama Empire, the Chu Yun Empire was chaotic and dangerous. Those Poison Masters who soaked themselves in poison vats all day were not quite right in the head either, and every one of them was extremely insidious. Xiao Yan was only a Dou Zhe, after all. Lingering in the Chu Yun Empire would inevitably be too dangerous, even with Yao Wan, a Dou Wang expert, protecting him.

"All right, let's go, Xiao Yan."

As she spoke, Yao Wan once again tossed Xiao Yan a bottle of pills.

"What is this?"

Xiao Yan poured out one of the pills, but it looked entirely ordinary.

"This is...?"

Yao Lao was also somewhat curious. From this Girl, Yao Wan, he had instead found, time and again, a kind of fresh new understanding of pills.

"A pill I refined back when I was a Da Dou Shi. It's called the Flying Feather Pill."

"Flying Feather Pill? Could it be?"

At Yao Wan's hand signal, Xiao Yan swallowed a Flying Feather Pill. Soon after, he felt his body become light and nimble, and Dou Qi Wings that should only be able to unfold at the Dou Wang realm actually spread open behind him.

"You guessed right. Its use is to allow a person, for a certain period of time, to form Dou Qi Wings like a Dou Wang or Dou Emperor."

Under Xiao Yan's pleasantly surprised gaze, Yao Wan's tone also carried a few traces of laughter.

"What a clever Girl... To think she can even refine a pill like this."

Yao Lao shook his head, but the corners of his mouth rose slightly. This Girl truly brought him more and more surprises.

If an old antique like him had refined such a novel pill, Yao Lao absolutely would not have been this pleasantly surprised and shocked. Yet all of this was merely the work of a Young Girl in the prime of youth.

No wonder this Girl seemed to carry a little treasury with her. Even Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures like Heavenly Heart Glazed Dew, which even he was interested in, were things she could take out whenever she said so.

Most likely, within the clan, aside from the Clan Leader, whatever she said went.