Battle Through the Heavens: I Am Han Feng, Respect the Teacher and Value the Dao

Battle Through the Heavens: I Am Han Feng, Respect the Teacher and Value the Dao

Author: Taqing Shu

Synopsis:

[What if Han Feng had not stabbed Yao Chen in the back, but had instead chosen to follow him, growing all the way into the revered "Profound Yellow Sage" and a Ninth-grade Profound Pill alchemist?]

[What if, one day, Han Feng, who respected the Teacher and valued the Dao, transmigrated into the body of the Han Feng who had betrayed his teacher and destroyed his ancestors, after the great mistake had already been made? What would he do?]

[Please enjoy the story of another "villain" protagonist from Battle Through the Heavens—Han Feng.]

[The protagonist had an exceptionally upright moral compass and was a genuinely good person.]

[But how did this good man accidentally walk Xiao Yan's path and leave him nowhere to go?]

[Han Feng: I don't know either!]

[Transmigration timeline: Han Feng was the Medicine Emperor of the Black Corner Region, while Xiao Yan was three years old.]

Parallel World

Northwest Continent, Black Corner Region, Maple City.

Inside an alchemy room, Han Feng abruptly opened his eyes. The violent surge of emotion made the pill he had been refining with ease tremble fiercely before him.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

Unstable energy raged within the pill cauldron, on the verge of causing it to explode.

With a casual lift of his hand, Han Feng calmed the pill and returned it to its proper course.

"I am..."

Han Feng looked around in alarm and uncertainty. Then, the memories of this body began to surface.

He was also Han Feng, but at the age of sixteen, this Han Feng had chosen to betray Yao Chen, joining forces with Mu Gu to kill his benefactor and teacher.

Yet in the memories of Han Feng's previous life, the Mu Gu incident had been nothing more than the smallest ripple in his path of cultivation.

After telling Yao Chen what Mu Gu had used to tempt him, Yao Chen quickly dealt with the matter. Afterward, he had merely given Han Feng a beating and warned him that if something like this happened again, he was to tell him immediately.

Han Feng could fully understand why Yao Chen had beaten him back then, because he had nearly been tempted by Mu Gu into cultivating a technique that squeezed out his potential for rapid advancement.

Once he cultivated it, the foundation Yao Chen had spent ten years building for him would have been ruined.

On the Dou Qi Continent, any family with even a little foundation knew how important establishing one's foundation was.

The foundation-building conditions Han Feng had enjoyed could rival those of the Eight Ancient Dou Di Families. Yao Chen had given him the very best of everything, even better than what he himself had received as a child.

Part of the reason Han Feng had been able to advance to Dou Saint at such a young age later on was thanks to Yao Chen's Root-Bone Tempering Method. It showed just how much painstaking effort Yao Chen had put into him.

So when Han Feng had been spanked, he had not made a sound. At most, he had shed a few tears, since it had been the first time Yao Chen had ever hit him.

Memories of the past surged forth like a tide, then receded.

Han Feng sat there blankly, as though his soul had left his body.

"I... killed Teacher..."

He stared at his right hand in despair, his entire body trembling uncontrollably.

Although this was not a crime committed by the current "him," but by another Han Feng.

After transmigrating into this body, though, there was no point in dwelling on that distinction.

The irreversible mistake had already been made.

Han Feng had murdered his teacher. In this world, it was an undeniable fact that could never be undone.

Even though he had been the "Profound Yellow Sage" in his previous life, and had even experienced the power of a Dou God before his death, he could not change it.

In his daze, Han Feng recalled the scene before his death in his previous life.

He had been captured by Hun Tiandi and forced to refine an Emperor Pill together with Yao Chen and a group of Alchemy Grandmasters.

After everyone had risked their lives to refine the pill, the surviving Han Feng swallowed the Emperor Pill and gained the power of a Dou God. He killed Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame in return, but in the end, he could not withstand the Emperor Pill's energy and exploded to death.

Though he did not know why he had transmigrated here, there was no doubt that this rebirth carried a mission.

This world was mostly the same as his previous life. Apart from the different choices made by a few individuals, the Eight Ancient Dou Di Families still existed.

Xiao, Gu, Hun, Yan, Lei, Yao, Shi, Ling.

That meant the Soul Clan would still carry out the scheme Hun Tiandi had plotted for a thousand years.

If he did nothing to change it, his close friends and elders would all die at the hands of the Soul Clan.

For those who were still alive, I cannot fall here!

Han Feng slowly rose to his feet, and light gradually returned to his eyes.

After changing into a blue robe, Han Feng walked out of the alchemy room without hesitation.

"My lord."

The personal guard outside the door cupped his fists.

Han Feng did not respond and simply walked onward.

He felt no joy at having been reborn. Instead, his mind was in turmoil. Even though he had already decided to keep living, this was his first time living in a world without Yao Chen.

The teacher and elder he could rely on without reservation was gone.

Simply put, Han Feng no longer had a home.

He felt more like a lonely stranger who had arrived in a Dou Qi Continent that was at once incomparably familiar and incomparably strange.

Bamboo Forest, Maple City.

Han Feng spent an entire afternoon erecting a tombstone deep in the bamboo forest. It was the first thing he did after his rebirth.

Kneeling before the tombstone, Han Feng murmured, "Teacher, Feng'er is still alive."

"But why are you no longer here?"

A breeze swept through the bamboo forest, making the stalks rustle.

It seemed to speak of Han Feng's grief and helplessness at that moment.

He was not speaking to the Yao Chen of this world, but confiding the bitterness in his heart to the teacher from his previous life.

"Three days from now, Feng'er will go fulfill his mission."

"For now, let Feng'er rest for a while."

Time eased sorrow, and over those three days, Han Feng's emotions gradually settled.

He was slowly adapting to this world while considering what he should do next.

He was now nearing fifty years old, a Six-star Dou Huang, and his Alchemy Art had reached the sixth grade.

In the Black Corner Region, he was respectfully called the "Medicine Emperor" and was an object of flattery for many powerful figures.

No matter how one looked at it, he was an extremely successful middle-aged man.

But that was only how outsiders saw him.

In Han Feng's current eyes, this body was utterly terrible.

It had cultivated a secret technique in its youth that drained potential, leaving its originally outstanding talent riddled with flaws.

It was truly a case of pulling up seedlings to help them grow, putting the cart before the horse.

In his previous life, Han Feng had already been the renowned "Profound Yellow Venerable" of the Central Plains by the age of forty.

Yet this body had not even broken through to Dou Zong.

By his calculations, Han Feng had only thirty or forty years left in which he could make a difference.

Fortunately, Han Feng already had a plan.

The reason the Soul Clan had succeeded in his previous life was because they had chosen to defeat the Eight Great Clans one by one.

Before they moved against the Gu Clan, the other Ancient Clans had all been wiped out by the Soul Clan.

The Gu Clan had lost its best chance to enter the fray. In the end, they stood alone and outmatched. Even though Gu Yuan had turned the tide, he still could not escape the fate of clan extermination.

But in truth, the Gu Clan had had a chance to survive.

Even if the other clans had all been destroyed, the Gu Clan would still have had an opportunity.

Because Han Feng later learned that—

After Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame opened the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, they discovered within it another Peak Expert at the level of a Nine-star Dou Saint.

That was the former Ancient Void Dragon King!

This Dragon Emperor had also been a legend. His combat strength was unparalleled, and he could rival Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi. Unfortunately, he was alone. In the end, he was still killed by Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame working together, unable to change the outcome.

But if they had known earlier that such an expert was hidden within the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, perhaps Gu Yuan would not have guarded the ancient jade to the death, only to be "forced" into handing it over after Hun Tiandi killed him.

If Gu Yuan and the Ancient Void Dragon King joined forces, they might have had a chance to stop Hun Tiandi.

Of course, in this life, the Soul Clan's plan had not yet fully unfolded. Han Feng had many opportunities to interfere.

For now, the most urgent matter was still strength.

At the very least, he needed to advance to Dou Saint before he could barely qualify to speak with the Ancient Clans.

And for the current Han Feng, that was no simple task.

First, he had already fallen far behind his previous life, and more than half of his potential had been exhausted.

Even with the opportunities and resources of his previous life, it would be difficult to replicate that glorious path of advancement.

However, compared to those facts, Han Feng was more concerned about something else.

This body had actually cultivated an incomplete Flame Mantra!

Before sacrificing himself in his previous life, Teacher had told him that the Flame Mantra had been crucial in turning the tide at the end. It had allowed them to gain the help of Tou She Ancient God, trap Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame, and let Han Feng successfully obtain the Emperor Pill.

"Perhaps this is my true opportunity."

Han Feng recalled the circulation route of the complete Flame Mantra. A strange blue flame rose from his palm.

Innate Pill

Sea Heart Flame.

A Heavenly Flame ranked fifteenth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, possessing the power to control seawater.

The nature of this Heavenly Flame was extremely gentle and delicate, yet it also possessed the overwhelming power to destroy the world.

Its delicate aspect could cleanse its wielder's body while enhancing the holder's perception, allowing them to discover details ordinary people could not detect.

Its world-destroying might could summon waves of flame like a tsunami, blotting out the sky and covering the earth. Its momentum was immense and impossible to evade.

Han Feng observed the Heavenly Flame and thought to himself that this beast who had betrayed his teacher and destroyed his ancestors had truly been lucky.

In his previous life, he had spent no small amount of effort to capture the Profound Yellow Flame, ranked twenty-third.

At that time, he had just broken through to the Dou Venerate realm, while the Profound Yellow Flame he captured was also at the Dou Venerate level, so it had not been easy.

This Sea Heart Flame, though ranked fifteenth, was only around the Dou Huang to Dou Zong level in overall strength. Han Feng had captured it through a trick, gaining a huge advantage.

This Heavenly Flame likely had not taken form long ago. By the usual standards of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects, which evolved in centuries, humanity's rate of progress was absurdly fast.

The Sea Heart Flame danced joyfully in Han Feng's hand. Perhaps it was an illusion, but it seemed to find its master before it increasingly familiar.

"Let's deal with this body's problems first."

Han Feng sat cross-legged. The Sea Heart Flame ignited in his Dantian and flowed through his entire body alongside strands of Dou Qi.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Flames like ocean waves crashed through the air. Hand seals formed in Han Feng's hands, and his spiritual power suddenly surged.

"Just as I thought!"