Xiao Yan was moved, Xiao Xun'er visited Hun Cang!

Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river—do not mock a young man for being poor...

One gaze after another turned toward Hun Cang.

Clearly, no one had expected this Dou Huang to say such words.

As the person involved, Xiao Yan's eyes trembled.

Big Brother actually thought so highly of me!

For the past three years, ever since his Dou Qi had vanished, what he had received most within the family had been cold stares and ridicule.

If Xiao Yan had still felt somewhat reluctant when he acknowledged Hun Cang as his big brother at the auction house just to cling to someone powerful...

Then at this moment, he had completely accepted it.

Nalan Yanran fell silent for two seconds, her gaze shifting between Xiao Yan and Hun Cang. "Fine. Three years from now, I'll wait for him at the Misty Cloud Sect!"

"It's a deal. In three years, I will definitely go to the Misty Cloud Sect. Today's humiliation, I will repay it!" Xiao Yan said, forcefully suppressing the catch in his voice, his tone resolute.

"Elder Ge, let's go!" Nalan Yanran ignored them no longer and left with a cold expression.

Ge Ye respectfully bowed to Hun Cang. His feet seemed to ride on the wind, and he did not want to remain in the Xiao Family for even another moment.

"Wait!"

Just as he was about to reach the door, Hun Cang's voice suddenly sounded.

Ge Ye's heart skipped a beat. At a loss, he turned around and saw a black shadow flying toward him. He instinctively raised his hand and caught it.

It was a box.

Hun Cang said indifferently, "My Second Brother doesn't need your things."

"Yes, yes." Ge Ye obediently put it away. After waiting for a moment and seeing that Hun Cang had no further orders, he dragged the young man beside him and fled from the Xiao Family.

Nalan Yanran had already boarded the carriage. Ge Ye climbed aboard as well, while the young man was still responsible for driving.

However, the arrogance he had worn upon arriving was gone from his face, replaced by pallor and fear.

"I truly didn't expect Xiao Yan to have a Dou Huang-level big brother..." Through the carriage window, Ge Ye looked at the Xiao Family gradually blurring from view, his tone full of complicated emotion.

"It's actually true..."

"A Dou Huang big brother—Xiao Yan is going to soar from now on!"

"I really don't understand what kind of shit Xiao Yan stepped in to have such good luck."

"Keep your voice down. From now on, you should call him Young Patriarch."

Xiao Zhan drove the Xiao Family members out of the hall, shattering their hopes of showing themselves off before Hun Cang.

As they whispered among themselves, they kept looking back inside. Whenever their gazes swept over Xiao Yan, the envy and jealousy in their eyes were especially intense.

If I hadn't changed my attitude toward Brother Xiao Yan, could I have become like Sister Xun Er too...?

Within the crowd, Xiao Mei watched Xiao Yan introduce Xiao Xun'er to Hun Cang. She watched the young Dou Huang affectionately rub Xiao Xun'er's head.

For a moment, her mood sank to the depths, and even her steps seemed to grow heavier.

Before long, only Xiao Zhan, the three elders, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Xun'er remained in the hall.

At Xiao Zhan's invitation, Hun Cang sat in the seat of honor, with Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er seated beside him.

After exchanging pleasantries, they grew somewhat more familiar with one another through the topic of Xiao Yan's broken engagement.

"Big Brother, I've disgraced you." Xiao Yan lowered his head dejectedly.

Ever since he had transmigrated, he had believed himself to be the protagonist, convinced that a vast and wonderful future awaited his exploration and flight.

The successive blows had left Xiao Yan somewhat ashamed.

Especially after meeting Hun Cang, he felt even more unable to show his face.

First was their strength. Hun Cang had already become a Dou Huang, a powerhouse within the Jia Ma Empire.

Meanwhile, he himself was only at the Third Stage of Dou Qi.

Most importantly, they were clearly not that far apart in age.

Comparing people really could make one furious!

Then there was Nalan Yanran's broken engagement today, something Xiao Yan himself had never expected.

What he had expected even less was that when Nalan Yanran invoked the Misty Cloud Sect and pressed him relentlessly, it was still his big brother who had stepped in to help him out.

This was such Social Death...

Hun Cang wanted to laugh, but he did not want to ruin his image as a good big brother, so he held it in. "A real man falls where he falls, then gets back up from there. Three years from now, just defeat her."

Xiao Yan nodded, then shook his head. "It's not that simple, Big Brother. I'll cultivate, but she'll improve too. I already wasted three years. How could it be so easy to catch up?"

His face was full of discouragement. Thinking of that cursed ring again, he could not help gritting his teeth!

"It's fine. With Big Brother here, just focus on cultivating. Leave everything else to me!" Hun Cang said calmly.

Xiao Zhan chimed in, "That's right, Yan'er. Your father will help too. Just devote yourself to cultivating properly."

"That's right, Young Patriarch. The entire family supports you. Whatever you need, just ask us old fellows," the First Elder said.

The Second Elder and Third Elder nodded as well.

"You..." Xiao Yan looked at Hun Cang's serious expression, his voice choking up. "Big Brother, don't worry. I'll definitely cultivate diligently and won't let you down."

After chatting for a while, Xiao Zhan and the three elders took their leave, voluntarily leaving the children space to talk.

Xiao Xun'er studied Hun Cang for several seconds before also taking her leave.

This was only the second time Xiao Yan and Hun Cang had met, and Xiao Yan felt somewhat awkward and nervous alone with him. Yet Hun Cang slung an arm around his shoulders as though they were true brothers and spoke of life in his previous world.

The distance between the two quickly closed.

After eating at the Xiao Family, Hun Cang did not stand on ceremony when Xiao Zhan invited him to stay and simply took up residence there.

Over the next few days, he had Xiao Yan buy medicinal ingredients and asked Yao Chen to refine them, then passed them on to Xiao Yan. Rewards came flooding in, and he harvested the system's benefits like mad.

"Kid, you've gone too far. This old man painstakingly refined them, yet you took all the credit." After Xiao Yan happily left with cultivation supplies once again, Yao Chen could not help emerging from the ring.

After spending several days together, he had discovered that although Hun Cang was a member of the Hun Clan, he was unlike those sinister fellows. Yao Chen had grown bolder and even began making jokes.

Hun Cang put away the pills rewarded by the system and looked at him with a smile. "If you hadn't secretly siphoned my Second Brother's Dou Qi, how could he have been bullied like this? Now that you're refining medicine to compensate him, isn't that only right?"

"..." Yao Chen was speechless. How could those be the same thing?

My circumstances were special back then. I had no choice but to absorb it. Once I revive in the future, I'll definitely compensate him.

Now, whenever Xiao Yan came over, he had to complain about him a couple of times.

After glaring at Hun Cang twice, Yao Chen sensed movement and retreated into the ring.

"Brother Hun Cang, may I come in?" The next second, a clear voice came from outside the door.

"Come in."

The moment Hun Cang spoke, the door was pushed open. A young girl in a pale green dress entered, possessing a temperament like a green lotus.

"Sister Xun Er, what brings you here?" Hun Cang asked calmly upon seeing the visitor.

Ever since the day Nalan Yanran broke off the engagement, Hun Cang had sensed Xiao Xun'er's gaze lingering on him.

"Brother Hun Cang, why are you so good to Brother Xiao Yan?" Xiao Xun'er asked slowly, her expression blank. Golden flames could faintly be seen flickering in her eyes.

Others might not know, but that did not mean she was unaware of Hun Cang's origins.