Eight Extremes Collapse and Soul Piercing Strike

Perhaps the other party had finally found her conscience and noticed he was injured; the teasing Xiao Yan had expected never came. Instead, the girl thoughtfully stuffed the face cloth into his hand.

Then Hun Ruoruo circulated her Dou Qi and began healing the several long, narrow wounds on his arm.

In mere moments, the pale blue Dou Qi that gave off a faint glow withdrew. Xiao Yan moved his arm slightly and, sure enough, no pain remained.

"Ruoruo, thank you."

"Third Young Master is far too polite." Hun Ruoruo smiled as she glanced at the sack behind Xiao Yan, then cupped her hands around the ring like a little loudspeaker. "Senior Old Man Yao, your disciple went to all this trouble. Aren't you coming out to give him a reward?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the ring in Xiao Yan's hand flashed with white light, and Old Man Yao appeared in the room like a ghost.

He looked at Xiao Yan's somewhat embarrassed expression and said meaningfully, "I was wondering why you brought back so much junk. So this was what you were waiting for."

Seeing that Hun Ruoruo had exposed his intentions, Xiao Yan spread his hands and simply gave up pretending. "Even without knowing a single Dou Technique, your disciple could fight from the fourth stage against the eighth. If I had a suitable Dou Technique, wouldn't fighting above my level become routine?"

"Brat, have you forgotten how miserable your training was before?"

"I don't care about that. You and Ruoruo are far too strong. Your understanding and use of Dou Qi are on a completely different level from mine. What am I supposed to fight with?"

Old Man Yao glanced at Hun Ruoruo, who was watching the show beside him, then shook his head helplessly. "Fine. You did perform quite well today, and you have a bit of my old style. I'll let you taste a little sweetness first."

Xiao Yan's eyes lit up as he rubbed his hands together eagerly, waiting for the other party to produce some suitable Dou Technique.

Not long afterward, under Old Man Yao's guidance, Xiao Yan calmed his mind and focused his spirit, sensing the vast amount of information flooding into his mind.

"Xuan-tier Advanced, Eight Extremes Collapse?"

"That's right. As for this Dou Technique, someone once begged me through tears to accept it. For you, it's barely usable."

Old Man Yao's eyes shifted as he said, "I know what you want to say. Unlike Ruoruo's Dou Techniques, though Eight Extremes Collapse is Xuan-tier Advanced, it is a special Dou Technique that mainly draws upon physical strength as its source. Even with your current cultivation, you can initially wield it."

A Xuan-tier Advanced Dou Technique that could be used with only Dou Qi cultivation!

Xiao Yan was utterly stunned. The introduction to Eight Extremes Collapse even mentioned that, once cultivated to mastery, its power alone would not be inferior to certain Earth-tier Dou Techniques.

As for the value of Earth-tier Dou Techniques, no one in the entire Jia Ma Empire had ever been heard to possess one. They were absolutely priceless treasures.

While Xiao Yan was still lost in thought, Hun Ruoruo swiftly pressed a finger to his brow and transmitted a second stream of Soul Force into his mind.

"Ruoruo, this is?"

"I originally thought you would need to wait until Third Young Master broke through to High-tier Dou Qi before cultivating it. But since you have already defeated a High-tier Dou Qi cultivator, I suppose you can try it now."

Recalling their conversation at the Marketplace, Xiao Yan froze. "Could this be the Dou Technique that can wield Soul Force?"

He had merely fought one battle, yet he had obtained two extraordinarily special Dou Techniques at once. Even pie falling from the sky was no more than this, right?

Hun Ruoruo nodded. "One relies on the body, the other on the soul. If Third Young Master can master the basics of both, perhaps you might even be able to trade blows with your little sister Xun'er."

"Xun'er... now that you mention it."

Hearing Hun Ruoruo bring up Xun'er on her own initiative, Xiao Yan could no longer suppress the doubt in his heart. "I don't think I've ever seen you appear before Xun'er. Could it be that girl has some way to see through your invisibility?"

"Not at all. It's just that Third Young Master has such a wandering heart. You already have me, yet you still get all cozy with your little sister Xun'er. I don't want to watch you two flirt and tease each other!" Hun Ruoruo's eyes reddened as though she were about to cry.

"I..."

Sure enough, under Hun Ruoruo's verbal maneuvering, Xiao Yan had long since thrown his previous question to the back of his mind.

Old Man Yao naturally knew why Hun Ruoruo was unwilling to come into contact with Xun'er. But since she had no intention of saying it outright, he naturally would not overstep and speak on her behalf.

He was even somewhat curious about what expression Xiao Yan would wear when he learned the identities of the two girls by his side.

With a faint, meaningful smile, Old Man Yao did not hesitate in the slightest. He swiftly turned into white mist and slipped into the Storage Ring, vanishing from sight.

"That old man!"

With one less person in the room, Xiao Yan immediately became even more awkward. For a while, he stammered, not knowing what to say.

Fortunately, after Old Man Yao returned to the ring, Hun Ruoruo did not continue her previous line of talk. Instead, rather unexpectedly, she waved her little hand at him and left early.

Her abrupt action made Xiao Yan let out a long breath of relief, leaving him feeling both amused and helpless—

Miss Ruoruo was good in every way, except for that bewitching, strange personality of hers, which he simply could not handle.

Without thinking too much about why she had left, Xiao Yan smacked his lips, sprang onto the bed in a single stride, and began carefully examining the Dou Techniques Hun Ruoruo and the other had given him.

Unlike the Eight Extremes Collapse given by Old Man Yao, the Dou Technique Hun Ruoruo had gifted him was called "Soul Piercing Strike." Its name was exceedingly plain, and it was only Yellow-tier Mid-grade.

Xiao Yan had initially been puzzled. She had claimed she possessed no Yellow-tier Dou Techniques for him to cultivate, yet she had just produced a Yellow-tier Mid-grade Dou Technique as a reward. That was clearly somewhat contradictory.

Although Yellow-tier Mid-grade was considered a decent Dou Technique even within the Xiao Family, compared with the Xuan-tier Advanced Eight Extremes Collapse, it seemed rather shabby. Given Hun Ruoruo's usual generosity, she should not have been so stingy.

But after immersing himself in it and reading carefully for a while, he discovered that things were far less simple than he had imagined.

"Ugh! Blegh!"

The strange waves of swelling pain and tearing pain that came from his soul made Xiao Yan nearly vomit up every drop of acid in his stomach. His little face twisted into a knot, and his eyes filled with extreme shock—

"What the hell is this?!"

How could a mere Yellow-tier Mid-grade Soul Skill contain such obscure and massive amounts of information?

Even his extraordinary Soul Force could barely endure it. If it were an ordinary person, a single glance would likely leave them delirious, smashing their head against the ground.

Only now did he understand that Hun Ruoruo had not been stingy. He would probably struggle even to cultivate this Yellow-tier Mid-grade Soul Dou Technique.

Leaving aside its complicated and obscure circulation routes, many of the terms mentioned within were things Xiao Yan had never even heard of. If he could not understand their meanings, how was he supposed to cultivate it?

Knowing he would likely have to ask Hun Ruoruo about this matter, Xiao Yan only then realized why she had left so abruptly earlier.

"This enchantress..."

Quickly wiping away the saliva spilling from the corner of his mouth, Xiao Yan, having been toyed with for so long and having accumulated so much resentment, gritted his teeth and thought, Damn it, so what if I ask Teacher? He's a Soul Body, after all. It's impossible that he can't understand the terms in this Soul Dou Technique, right?