After easily crushing Ling Quan, who had come looking for trouble, Xiao Yan followed the main group to the Ancient Realm.
With his strength as a Nine Star Dou Zun, he stood at the pinnacle even among the Ancient Clan's younger generation. Although many people could tell that something was wrong with his condition, unable to defeat him meant they simply could not defeat him. They could only watch as he defeated Gu Yao, who had come to provoke him, before heading to the Heavenly Tomb with Gu Xun'er.
After entering the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Yan followed members of the Ancient Clan familiar with its terrain and quickly reached the second level. However, once there, the elite disciples of the Ancient Races did not hurry deeper inside. Instead, they began hunting the energy bodies here to improve their cultivation. Xiao Yan's strength had just surged, so he did not dare refine the energy crystals within those energy bodies. He merely shattered any energy bodies blocking his path, extracted their energy cores, and hurried nonstop toward the depths.
After learning that the ancestor of the Xiao Clan was deep within the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Yan wanted to go there. With the peak Dou Saint strength of his ancestor Xiao Xuan, he could probably easily resolve the problems in Xiao Yan's body. Even if he could not, he could at least point him toward a general solution. Thus, Xiao Yan desperately wanted to reach Xiao Xuan's tomb.
As Gu Xun'er stood with Xiao Yan through thick and thin, she naturally abandoned the other members of the Ancient Clan and followed Xiao Yan toward the deepest reaches of the Heavenly Tomb.
With Gu Xun'er by his side, Xiao Yan's condition stabilized considerably.
The path deeper inside was filled with dangers, but the two