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"Xiao Yan was fourteen this year, which meant there was still one year until Yao Lao awakened. Then I..." After returning home, Xiao Xie sorted through his memories of the world of Battle Through the Heavens. He realized that the greatest turning point in Xiao Yan's life had been the day Yao Lao awakened. After that, Xiao Yan cultivated the Flame Mantra and eventually became the Flame Emperor.

As long as he took the ring from Xiao Yan's hand, Xiao Yan would never become the Flame Emperor. At present, Xiao Yan was merely a useless waste at Dou Zhi Qi Level 3. Xiao Xie could easily obtain the ring from him, but he needed to think it over. He could not simply snatch it by force.

Leaving aside the fact that Xiao Xun'er had a Dou Emperor protecting her from the shadows, if Xiao Xie took Xiao Yan's things, Xiao Xun'er would definitely teach him how to behave in no time. Xiao Yan was also the Xiao Clan's Third Young Master, so Xiao Xie could not do anything to him. Xiao Xie himself was only a Dou Qi Level 6 weakling right now. It was better to behave for the time being.

"Yao Lao will be mine!" A cold gleam flashed through Xiao Xie's eyes. He straightened his clothes and headed for Xiao Yan's room.

"You're Xiao Xie? What are you doing here?" Xiao Yan looked at the visitor in confusion. Ever since his strength had fallen to Dou Zhi Qi Level 3, he had become the laughingstock of the Xiao Clan. Those who had once flattered him now took pleasure in mocking him. Other than Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Zhan, no one came to see him.

Xiao Xie looked at the fourteen-year-old boy before him. Who could have imagined that he would one day become the renowned Flame Emperor? But after today, there would no longer be a Flame Emperor Xiao Yan. There could only be a Flame Emperor Xiao Xie.

Xiao Xie's gaze fell upon the ring on Xiao Yan's right hand. Within that ancient, black ring slept Yao Lao's soul. Xiao Xie stared at it with shining eyes, making no effort to conceal his greed for the ring.

Xiao Xie stared intently at Xiao Yan and said calmly, "Do you want to regain your talent?"

Xiao Yan, who had been studying Xiao Xie all along, finally changed expression upon hearing those words. As a transmigrator, Xiao Yan's soul did not belong to this world. He came from an azure planet called Earth. As for why he had arrived here, even he could not explain such a bizarre experience.

After transmigrating here, Xiao Yan had adapted to his new surroundings. He had not disgraced his status as a transmigrator either. He began Qi Refining at four, possessed nine levels of Dou Zhi Qi at ten, broke through to ten levels of Dou Zhi Qi at eleven, successfully condensed a Dou Zhi Qi Cyclone, and became the youngest Dou Zhe in the clan's century-long history in one leap!

But everything changed when he was twelve. Two years ago, this genius youth, whose fame had reached its peak, suddenly suffered the cruelest blow of his life. Not only did the Dou Zhi Qi Cyclone he had painstakingly cultivated for more than a decade vanish overnight, but the Dou Zhi Qi within his body also began to diminish strangely with the passage of time.

The direct consequence of his disappearing Dou Zhi Qi was that his strength continued to decline.

He fell overnight from the altar of genius to a state worse than that of an ordinary person. If he had been useless from the start, it would have been one thing, but going from a genius to a waste dealt Xiao Yan such a devastating blow that he became utterly despondent. The title of genius was gradually replaced by contempt and ridicule.

"What do you mean?!" Xiao Yan tried his best to control himself, but his entire body still trembled with agitation.

"I can restore your talent!" Xiao Xie declared, enunciating every word with absolute certainty.

Hearing Xiao Xie's words, Xiao Yan's body immediately relaxed. He released his palm, which he had clenched hard enough to draw blood, and stared into Xiao Xie's eyes. "What do you want?"

Seeing Xiao Yan regain his composure so quickly, Xiao Xie could not help inwardly sighing. As expected of a transmigrator, his ability to accept things was remarkable. Although Xiao Yan had also transmigrated from Earth, it was obvious that the Earth from Xiao Yan's previous life was not the same Earth Xiao Xie knew. At the very least, there had been no novel called Battle Through the Heavens on Xiao Yan's Earth. The two Earths probably belonged to different worlds—parallel worlds, perhaps.

"I want that!" Xiao Xie pointed at the ring on Xiao Yan's right hand.

Xiao Yan looked at the ring in his hand. The ring itself was not particularly special, but it had been left behind by his mother, which was why he always kept it with him. Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Xie and asked, "Can you tell me why you want this ring?"

"I can only tell you that this ring will aid my cultivation." After speaking, Xiao Xie took a bottle from his robe and said to Xiao Yan, "The pill inside can restore your talent. Now tell me your decision. Do we have a deal?"

With a calm expression, Xiao Yan removed the ring from his hand and handed it to Xiao Xie, taking the bottle from Xiao Xie in exchange.

"Pleasure doing business." After putting away the ring, Xiao Xie turned and left.

After Xiao Xie left, Xiao Yan closed the door, no longer maintaining his previous calm. His face was filled with excitement and fear. He was excited at the prospect of recovering his talent, but he was also afraid that the medicine in the bottle would not work. From Xiao Xie's undisguised expression, Xiao Yan knew that the ring had to be extremely important to him. Yet Xiao Xie had been certain that Xiao Yan would make the trade, because as long as there was even the slightest hope of recovery, Xiao Yan would never give up.

Xiao Yan poured out the medicine from the bottle. Looking at the pill in his palm, he impatiently tossed it into his mouth. So spicy! A scorching flavor filled Xiao Yan's mouth, choking him until tears streamed down his face. Ten minutes later, the spicy taste gradually faded.

"Damn! What kind of medicine is this? It's so spicy!" Xiao Yan said with lingering fear. "I hope you didn't lie to me, Xiao Xie..."

Xiao Yan sat cross-legged on his bed and began cultivating. As he sensed his Dou Qi steadily increasing, ten minutes passed, then half an hour, yet his Dou Qi still had not diminished. Xiao Yan shouted excitedly, "I'm cured! I'm cured!"

Only after losing something and regaining it did one cherish it even more. Having recovered his talent, Xiao Yan thought of those opportunistic petty people and said coldly, "Just wait. I, Xiao Yan, am back!"

"I finally have you, Yao Lao!" After returning to his room, Xiao Xie smiled as he looked at the ring in his hand. The reason Xiao Yan's Dou Qi had kept disappearing was because it had been absorbed by the sleeping Yao Lao.

Now that Xiao Xie had taken the ring, Xiao Yan's Dou Qi naturally would no longer disappear. As for the so-called pill, it was actually a strange-flavored candy Xiao Xie had won from a previous lottery draw. These candies came in all sorts of bizarre flavors. One could get beef flavor or chili flavor, and supposedly there was even booger flavor. Xiao Xie had not dared to eat them himself, so he gave one to Xiao Yan as a pill instead. He had completely gotten something for nothing.

"Xiao Xiao, can you help me extract Yao Lao's memories of alchemy experience, his memories of Dou Techniques and cultivation methods, as well as the Bone Chilling Flame?" Xiao Xie asked Xiao Xiao.

"Yes, Master. It will only cost three thousand Points to extract them," Xiao Xiao said as she flew in front of Xiao Xie.

"Aren't Points used for enhancement?"

"NO! NO! NO!" Xiao Xiao shook a finger. "Master, the Worship System is only Level 1 right now, so it has only unlocked the enhancement function. But that does not mean Points can only be used for enhancement. Points can be used for many things."

Xiao Xie checked his Points. He had just over three thousand one hundred, exactly enough. This made him wonder whether it had been calculated to use up all his Points.

"Master, you aren't thinking something bad, are you?" Xiao Xiao looked at Xiao Xie curiously.

"Nothing. Xiao Xiao, help me extract them!" Xiao Xie waved his hand.

"Understood!" Xiao Xiao waved both hands, and a ray of white light shot onto the ring, drawing three white spheres out of it. Xiao Xie was left with only one hundred and twenty-three Points.

Xiao Xie took the three white spheres. They resembled the memory sphere he had received before. He first set aside the white sphere containing the Bone Chilling Flame. The Bone Chilling Flame ranked eleventh on the Heavenly Flame Ranking. This Heavenly Flame could only be encountered in places of extreme cold and extreme yin at the moment when the sun and moon alternated once every hundred years. Thus, this flame was exceptionally cold and yin in nature. Though it felt freezing from its appearance and could even form ice, its actual temperature was extremely high, and its power was immense. With his current strength, even if he cultivated the Flame Mantra, he could not devour the Bone Chilling Flame. The backlash would kill him outright.

Xiao Xie crushed the other two white spheres, and two masses of white mist immediately entered between his brows. It took half an hour before he fully absorbed the memories. Yao Lao's memories were still too vast for Xiao Xie, and his head remained somewhat swollen. If he had not extracted Yao Lao's memories but instead absorbed everything in one go, he would have been directly affected by Yao Lao's memories. He might even have become another Yao Lao, one who possessed Yao Lao's memories.