) Hearing this, Ye Zhong could only nodded with a wry smile and said, "Grandmaster Xiao Yan is willing to save me Ye Family, I Ye Family is extremely grateful. Although Yang Fire Ancient Altar cannot be borrowed according to family rules, now that Ye Family has reached this point, if it sticks to the old rules, it will probably lead to death."
Seeing this Ye Zhong didn't find any excuses, Xiao Yan nodded lightly.
Pill Gathering will start in half a year, and it will probably take a while for Ice River Valley to receive the news. Xiao Yan doesn't have much time to waste now.
Although he successfully refined Heaven Flame Spirit Pill, his cultivation speed increased twice as fast again, and he reached Five Stars Dou Zong when he exited.
But Five Stars Dou Zong is simply not enough. If he can win Pill Gathering Champion, according to Hun Xuzi, then Xiao Yan will be eligible to participate in Coming-of-Age Ceremony of the Hun Clan.
Xiao Yan wants to bring Cultivation Level one step closer to Coming-of-Age Ceremony of the Hun Clan! Hun Clan's Coming-of-Age Ceremony will activate Clan Mark for the tribe, and give Soul Hall some venerables who have made great achievements, Tianzun will give Cultivation Methods and Combat Skills and other rewards, which is a major event for the Hun Clan.
Xiao Yan has now collected a lot of Dou God Bloodline, and he plans to get Hun Clan's Clan Mark on this Coming-of-Age Ceremony!! Then he can start to cultivate Emperor Soul Art, and strive to have Soul Power reach Heaven Realm and Ninth Grade Alchemist as soon as possible. Only then will he have more confidence to go to the Gu Realm and welcome Xun'er.
Even if Hun Xuzi didn't go into details, according to Coming-of-Age Ceremony preserved by the Xiao Clan, Xiao Yan probably guessed that Coming-of-Age Ceremony couldn't be calm, and he wasn't calm back then.
After Ye Zhong ordered the clansmen to clean up the hall, he personally led Xiao Yan and his group towards the depths of the Ye Family. About ten minutes later, an extremely remote gravel square appeared in front of them. In the center of the square, there was an altar that looked slightly ancient. The huge stones used to build the altar were all covered with traces of time. Obviously, the altar had existed for a long time.
Yang Fire Ancient Altar is a place where Ye Family practices Sacred Land. With an altar there, Ye Family's alchemist can collect Yang Fire to Alchemy.
Although this Yang Fire does not have the special abilities of Heavenly Flames, its power is equivalent to Transformation Fire.
Xiao Yan approached the altar, only to find that the light here was exceptionally bright, and as he got closer to the altar, the energy between the surrounding heaven and earth became more fiery and pure. Light beams of light pouring down from the sky, and finally after being reflected by the smooth stone wall, they all converged on a piece of paint Black Stone Stele in the center of the altar.
"As expected of the Ye Family's secret realm. The fire attribute energy of Ancient Altar is very rich and very suitable for practice." Xiao Yan nodded secretly. As expected, every major force will have a secret realm of its own.
"Under the stone monument, there is a Earth Eye that leads deep into the ground. When the stone monument is removed, some fire from the center of the earth will burst out, igniting the sunlight gathered here, thus forming Yang Fire. Of course, this is only the situation before." Looking at the ancient altar, Ye Zhong sighed softly and smiled bitterly.
Hearing this, Xiao Yan frowned slightly and asked, "Before? What happened now?"
"Alas." Ye Zhong sighed heavily, with a touch of bitterness on his face, and said, "As early as ten years ago, for some reason Ancient Altar rarely had the fire from the center of the earth follow Earth Eye came out and used other flames, but it could not ignite the sun and form Yang Fire. This also caused the slow improvement of my Ye Family and Alchemy Techniques, which only made matters worse, leading to today's situation."
Xiao Yan nodded slightly and didn't mind. His trip was not to use Yang Fire, he just wanted to use the pure energy of heaven and earth to practice.
"Qing Lin, while I am practicing, you and Xin Lan go to Ye City's medicinal store to see if there are any Eighth Grade medicinal materials or some Natural Treasures suitable for Magical Beast. You can buy some back." Xiao Yan took out some Medicinal Pill of the sixth grade Seventh Grade and handed it to Qing Lin.
It is rare to come to Ye City, Xiao Yan plans to buy as many Rank 8 Medicinal Ingredients as possible. After all, Pill Gathering Alchemy must prepare its own medicinal materials.
At Pill Domain, there's nothing like Medicinal Pill.
"Qing Lin understands." Qing Lin nodded lightly and took the Medicinal Pill from Xiao Yan.
"Grandmaster Xiao Yan, if you need medicinal materials, I, Ye Family, still have some reserves." Ye Zhong gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice.
Xiao Yan, however, waved his hand, shook his head and said, "Mr. Ye Zhong, you Ye Family can't protect yourself now. If you have suitable medicinal materials, I can exchange Medicinal Pill with you. I, Xiao Yan, don't accept other people's things in vain."
Hearing Xiao Yan's words, Ye Zhong sighed inwardly. It is not easy to make a Eighth Grade Alchemist owe a favor. Xiao Yan also knows an old saying: free things are the most expensive.
According to what Ye Zhong said, Xiao Yan successfully arrived at an ancient altar. Light beams of light poured down from the sky and poured into the altar like a substance, bringing waves of warm feeling.
"The fire attribute energy is very abundant. Although it is not as good as Flame Valley from Burning Flame Valley, it is not far behind. Moreover, this fire attribute energy is gentler than Flame Valley." Xiao Yan took a deep breath, and the gentle power of Yang Flame was absorbed by it.
"But it's strange. Logically speaking, this Ancient Altar has such a rich fire attribute energy, so Earth Eye shouldn't be unable to produce Yang Fire." Xiao Yan's moving eyes paused at the bottomless Earth Eye in the center of the altar.
Blinking his eyes, Xiao Yan hesitated for a moment, and then moved his body carefully to the side of Earth Eye. He glanced inside, but all he saw was endless darkness. Where this Earth Eye leads to, except for its maker, I am afraid no one can know.
"You can feel quite a lot of energy down here. There should be an earth vein."
Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes, something must be wrong if something goes wrong.
"I want to see what kind of monster you Ancient Altar are." Xiao Yan waved his sleeves, and an invisible Fire Python was entrenched in the palm of Xiao Yan's hand.
Fallen Heart Flame has become a spirit, possessing a strong spiritual intelligence. Seeing being summoned by Xiao Yan, the transparent Fire Python spit out snake letters affectionately.
"Good boy, go and see what happened to the earth veins under this Ancient Altar." Xiao Yan smiled. What are the earth veins? Fallen Heart Flame was originally born in the earth vein magma. Even Under the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.'s Magma World can survive freely. This little Ancient Altar is nothing to mention.
Hiss! Following Xiao Yan's command, Fallen Heart Flame transformed into a small snake only as thick as a finger, and slithered in from Earth Eye.
Even Spirit Realm Soul Power dare not enter the depths of Earth Eye easily, as he will be burned by Yang Fire, but for Heavely Flame Spirit, this is as comfortable as soaking in a hot spring.
Xiao Yan is not in a hurry, Fallen Heart Flame is smart and will handle it on its own. So he sat cross-legged in Ancient Altar and started to run Flame Mantra crazy to absorb the Yang Fire power gathered from the surrounding Ancient Altar.
I don't know how long I have been practicing, and as time passes by, Xiao Yan's Dou Qi are slowly increasing.
"Huh?" Xiao Yan suddenly opened his eyes, narrowed his eyes, and looked at Earth Eye.
Sudden! Ancient Altar vibrated slightly, and after a while, a small, colorless and transparent snake with a blood-red bead in its mouth rushed out of Earth Eye.
"Earth's Core Pearl?!"
Earth's Core Pearl, also commonly known as Earth Core Fire Pearl, is an energy bead that is condensed from the essence of energy deep in the earth after countless years. This bead contains extremely majestic energy.
And its biggest function is that it can replace Magic Core, because Earth's Core Pearl originally contains huge energy, and can replace Magic Core needed by Eighth Grade or even Ninth Grade Pill.
Especially Medicinal Pill for refining Ninth Grade, generally speaking Magic Core will not be used, because there are too few Rank 9 Magical Beast! Even Ancient Void Dragon Clan, Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Magical Beast that reach Rank 9 are all old monsters with extremely long lifespans and are difficult to die.
And even if you die, you will die of old age. The body is stored in the cemetery, and no one dares to dig it up.
Therefore, when refining Ninth Grade Pill, special energy crystals such as Earth's Core Pearl are used instead of Magic Core.
When Xiao Yan saw this Earth's Core Pearl, his heart couldn't help but beat faster. He also understood how rare this Earth's Core Pearl was.
"Well done!"
Xiao Yan also never expected that he could get such a treasure just for practicing! This is extremely unpleasant! Not long after Fallen Heart Flame flew out with the little snake biting Earth's Core Pearl, with a bang, terrifying energy spurted out from Earth Eye, and Xiao Yan hurriedly retreated.
When the sun shines on Ancient Altar again, wisps of Yang Fire rise from Earth Eye.
Seeing these rising Yang Fire, and the little Fallen Heart Flame snake biting Earth's Core Pearl on the palm of his hand, Xiao Yan immediately understood.
"No wonder this Earth Eye didn't appear Yang Fire again. It turned out that it was this Earth's Core Pearl that blocked Earth Eye after it was formed." Xiao Yan smiled slightly, and this Earth's Core Pearl was regarded as his expense to clear Earth Eye.
Fallen Heart Flame spit out Earth's Core Pearl obediently. Xiao Yan picked it up and observed it. He couldn't help but said in surprise, "What a fierce energy. This Earth's Core Pearl is probably comparable to the energy of Rank 9 Magic Core. Tsk, tsk, tsk, I really made a lot of money this time."
Xiao Yan As a rough estimate, it shouldn't be a problem to replace this Earth's Core Pearl with Two-Colored Pill Lightning's Tier 8 Medicinal Pill.
Inexplicably, I picked up a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill for free. Even if it was a Xiao Yan, I was overjoyed. No one could hide their happiness.
After all, Xiao Yan's goal is not just Eighth Grade. If he wants to move towards Ninth Grade, these Ninth Grade Pill materials are indispensable. Although he has not yet finished ten strokes, he at least has the same material.
"After unblocking Earth Eye, the energy has become more intense. If I can practice here for half a year, I can raise another star!" Xiao Yan was overjoyed, put away Earth's Core Pearl, and continued to practice.
However, God only gave Xiao Yan seven days of this pleasant cultivation time.
At noon on the seventh day, Xiao Yan slowly opened his eyes and looked at the slowly falling white snow from the sky. The spectacle of flying frost in June did not surprise Xiao Yan at all, because he knew who was coming.
Hoo ho ho!! In an instant, Zi Yan, Qing Lin and Venerable Tian Huo all appeared next to Xiao Yan. Immediately, Ye Zhong also came to Ancient Altar, looking at the sky with a pale face, looking at the strange frost in June.
"Ye Zhong Great Elder, this matter has nothing to do with you Ye Family. You should hide as much as possible, or leave Ye Family Residence." Xiao Yan said in a deep voice with his hands behind his back.
"I, I, I understand, Grandmaster Xiao Yan you must triumph." Ye Zhong nodded and ordered everyone in the Ye Family to leave Ye Family Residence immediately.
No matter what the outcome of this battle is, I am afraid it will affect and shock the entire Pill Domain and even Middle Continent!
Almost at the same time, the space in the sky was distorted, and figures in white clothes quickly surrounded the entire Ye Family Residence.
On the chests of these figures, they all wore the same badge, a delicate snowflake that was cold to the bone.
Ice River Valley! The crowd in Ye City who didn't know what was going on looked at the falling snowflakes and were all confused.
"Are these people from Ice River Valley?"
"What are they doing here Ye City? To have such a terrifying battle?"
"Is this also for the Ye Family?"
"How is it possible? Ice River Valley's status is far more powerful than Ye Family, and is not even weaker than Dan Family and Cao Family. How can it be possible that it covets Ye Family Ye City?"
"Then you said that they are so mobilized, are they here to visit Ye City?"
Among the Ye City, the Ice River Valley army was suddenly suppressed from outside the city, and they were all caught in a commotion. They all did not understand who could actually make Ice River Valley, one of the three major valleys, mobilize such an army.
The Cold Qi outside the city was like a shield of heaven and earth, causing the temperature of the entire Ye City to drop sharply. When it spread to a hundred meters around Ye City, it slowly stopped and then spread out, completely covering the city. With these Cold Qi barriers, Ye City was completely surrounded and could not enter or exit! "Xiao Yan, hand over Woeful Poison Immortal, otherwise, today will be your death anniversary!"
An old voice spread throughout Ye City, and for a moment, the Ye City crowd realized that it was Xiao Yan who was here! "Ah? Then Flame Alliance Xiao Yan is here Ye Family?"
"No wonder Ice River Valley mobilized so many troops. It turned out to be to get rid of Woeful Poison Immortal."
"This Ice River Valley is really a hero who eliminates harm for the people. If this Woeful Poison Body breaks out, the entire Ye City will be a place of death!"
Xiao Yan looked up and saw two people with the strongest momentum among the countless white figures.
Venerable Tian Huo said, "The people on the left are Tian She and Half-Step Dou Zun. The people on the right are Ice River Valley Great Elder One-Star Dou Venerable. Ice Venerable is not here."
Xiao Yan nodded but did not speak. Instead, Venerable Tian Huo waved his hand directly. The Yang Fire on Ancient Altar was collected in the palm of his hand. He struck out with a palm, and an extremely high temperature rose into the sky. In an instant, all the surrounding white snow melted, breaking the formation arranged by Ice River Valley disciples.
"Tian Shuangzi, just because you are not qualified to scream here, let Ice Venerable come out, otherwise you may have to stay here today!" Venerable Tian Huo stood at the front, and Three-Star Peak Dou Zun's momentum was like a roaring river rushing towards the crowd of Ice River Valley.
The terrifying momentum made disciple Ice River Valley unable to stand firmly and his legs felt weak.
Feeling the terrible pressure from Venerable Tian Huo, Tian Shuangzi sneered and said in an old voice, "Skyfire, your fire control skills are indeed very powerful, but you Flame Alliance have offended too many forces. This time I am not the only one Ice River Valley."
Suddenly, the space was distorted, a gray-black poisonous gas surged out from Space Wormhole, and a figure emerged from the wormhole.
The old man glanced at Xiao Yan and the others, then his eyes narrowed, staring at Qing Lin next to Xiao Yan, and said in a deep voice, "It is really Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils."
"Three-Star Dou Venerable! You are Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe!!"
Xiao Yan also didn't expect that this Ice Venerable would actually win over Dou Zun expert from the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe! Tian Shuangzi said in a deep voice, "Smoke Serpent Venerable, let's stop talking nonsense. This kid is Eighth Grade Alchemist, and this is Pill Domain. If we attract a strong person like Pill Tower, we will be in trouble."
The Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe named Smoke Serpent Venerable nodded, staring at Qing Lin. No matter what, they Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe could not let Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils grow.
If she waits until she grows to Dou Zun, I'm afraid only the clan leader in the entire Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe can resist her control. It must be nipped in the cradle! It turns out that the strong man from the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe didn't come to Pill Domain so quickly. It is a branch of the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Tribe. Smoke Serpent Tribe, who rules a mountain range outside Pill Domain, learned from Ice River Valley that he came to catch Qing Lin with the intention of committing a meritorious service.
Venerable Tian Huo's eyes were solemn and he asked via voice transmission, "Xiao Yan, what should we do now? If Ice Venerable doesn't show up, I can cover your departure."
"Then Ice Venerable is probably nearby. That guy is very cautious." Xiao Yan immediately smiled coldly and said, "But I am not without help."
"Go and catch that Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and that kid, and leave this Three-Star Dou Venerable to me." As soon as Smoke Serpent Venerable finished speaking, he turned into a black shadow and rushed towards Venerable Tian Huo.
Tian Shuangzi nodded to Tian She beside him, and the two of them rushed towards Xiao Yan and Qing Lin, one on the left and the other on the right.
Seeing Dou Zun and Half-Step Dou Zun being arrested, Xiao Yan didn't panic at all. He smiled slightly and said, "Don't think that you are the only ones who can find Dou Zun to help."
Suddenly, an overwhelming wave of Black Mist poured out from all around Ye Family Residence. This Black Mist instantly isolated the heaven and earth, blocked the space, and submerged the large formation of Ice River Valley's disciples.
"Jie Jie Jie, Tian Shuangzi, I haven't seen you for so long, your strength has not improved much." A big hand grabbed Tian Shuangzi's hand instantly, and the power of Dou Zun directly knocked Tian She of Half-Step Dou Zun away.
Seeing the appearance of the person coming, Tian Shuangzi's eyes widened and he exclaimed, "You are Qing Hai!!!"
Just when Xiao Yan and Ice River Valley were fighting, at a Space Wormhole far away from the edge of Pill Domain, there was a wave of fluctuations in the space. That is, silhouettes of people burst out of the sky, and then stood neatly in the square. Powerful and murderous auras erupted like volcanoes, causing the square to become silent for an instant. Everyone stared at these black figures in stunned silence.
Some people with stronger eyesight even had their hearts beating violently at this moment, because they discovered that among these black shadows, the weakest ones were at least at the Dou Zong level! Especially when the two old men in black at the head of the figure stood casually, even the twisted space of the world became quiet. The vast aura that vaguely filled the air made many people who considered themselves strong tremble.
That's Dou Zun!
With a snap, in addition to the two Dou Zuns, the strong Dou Zongs all knelt down on one knee, and the two Dou Zuns also bent down to salute. A beautiful shadow fell gently on the square.
"Xiao Yan Gege, as long as Xun'er is here, I will kill anyone who touches you!"