My Son Xiao Yan Has the Pill King's Posture!

"Xiao Yanzi, when it's time to be arrogant, you have to be arrogant. You've got some of my old flair!"

An aged laugh, audible only to Xiao Yan, quietly rang out. "A mere Misty Cloud Sect can only throw its weight around in the Jia Ma Empire. Even when their old sect master Yun Potian was around, they were no more than a Third-Rate Force! If they can't afford to lose and dare lay a hand on the younger generation, lend this old man your body.

If the Misty Cloud Sect sends one, I'll destroy one. If they send two, I'll destroy them both!"

Just as Yao Lao was flexing his muscles, Nalan Yanran let out an incredulous cry.

"That's impossible!"

Even Pill King Gu He, who had always pursued her master, could not refine a pill of such quality at Xiao Yan's age!

The Moon Robe Youth sneered. "Clan Leader Xiao, I thought you were a respectable man. I never expected you to raise such a son who spouted nonsense without restraint."

"Is there any place for you to speak here?"

Xiao Yan cast him a cold glance, making the Five Star Dou Zhe youth shudder for no reason.

I was frightened by him?

The Moon Robe Youth flew into a rage from embarrassment and was about to draw his sword when Xiao Yan spoke indifferently. "Steward Mo, please go to the storeroom and fetch one stalk each of Ningxin Grass, Dixue Flower, and Shuanghua Dew. Their age doesn't matter!"

"What a joke!"

The Moon Robe Youth smiled mockingly. "Everyone knows that alchemists treat pill formulas as their lives. How could they display them so casually? If you really are an alchemist, then it is my junior sister who is unworthy of you!"

Nalan Yanran merely gave a noncommittal snort.

The requirements for becoming an alchemist were incredibly harsh. If Xiao Yan could become a Second Grade Alchemist at such an age, even the Royal Family would seek to win him over.

Besides.

An alchemist needed immense Dou Qi to refine pills. How could Xiao Yan, with only three stages of Dou Qi, refine medicine? "Yan'er, don't make a fool of yourself over something like this!" Xiao Zhan grew anxious and tried to give Xiao Yan a way out.

Ge Ye smiled instead. "Clan Leader Xiao, I don't think your son is an impetuous person. Since he wishes to prove himself, let him do so. If he can truly refine a second-grade pill, I will personally declare the engagement annulled!"

Nalan Yanran's eyes remained calm, but the corners of her lips curled slightly.

The blows of the past three years had probably been too much for Xiao Yan, leaving him mentally unstable and babbling nonsense.

Become a Second Grade Alchemist in three years? Bullshit!

Whoosh!

Under everyone's solemn gaze, Xiao Yan flicked his left hand, and scorching Mysterious Yellow Flame rose up.

"This flame is quite strange!" Ge Ye's expression shifted slightly.

He repeated the steps from last night.

Refining.

Removing impurities.

Condensing the pill.

"There's something wrong with this kid!" Ge Ye swallowed with difficulty.

When the finished pill appeared in Xiao Yan's hand, Ge Ye and the others stared wide-eyed in shock, unable to recover for a long while.

Xiao Yan had actually refined a Heart Stabilizing Pill!

And he had used his hand as a cauldron!

"Y-you really are an alchemist?" Nalan Yanran's expression turned ugly as her Jade Hand clenched tightly.

She knew better than anyone what such a young Second Grade Alchemist signified!

"Yan'er, when did you learn pill refinement?" Xiao Zhan was overjoyed, while several Elders were moved to tears.

The Xiao Family had produced a Pill Master?!

Rubbing his nose, Xiao Yan casually made up a story. "Three years ago, a Pill Refining Grandmaster passed through the Xiao Family. He casually gave me a few pointers and left behind several pill formulas. I kept practicing, and somehow I became one!"

"You have a master?" Ge Ye's mind exploded! Quick-witted as he was, he thought of something terrifying even before Xiao Zhan did.

A few casual pointers had allowed Xiao Yan to become a Second Grade Alchemist within three years. Just how terrifying must that person be? Hahaha!

Xiao Zhan threw back his head and laughed, tears spilling from his eyes. "My son Xiao Yan has the Pill King's Posture! Nalan Niece, since you wish to annul the engagement, then please do as you please. Go back and convey my regards to your father!"

Overwhelmed with emotion, Xiao Zhan directly ordered them to leave.

Annul the engagement? Fine!

Since you were young and arrogant, refusing to leave the Xiao Family even a shred of dignity, then you could suffer the consequences yourself.

"I..." Nalan Yanran bit her lips hard.

She did not believe she was wrong to annul the engagement, but she had come so publicly because she wanted the entire Jia Ma Empire to know that Nalan Yanran was unafraid of convention and had the courage to annul an engagement.

But if Xiao Yan was a Second Grade Alchemist, it would be different!

Once word spread.

Many would likely think it was not she who had annulled the engagement with Xiao Yan, but that Xiao Yan had found her beneath him!

"You did this on purpose?"

Nalan Yanran glared furiously at Xiao Yan. "You deliberately waited until I annulled the engagement just to humiliate me, didn't you?!"

Xiao Yan looked at Nalan Yanran speechlessly.

You came to annul the engagement.

And somehow it became my fault?

"A fifteen-year-old Second Grade Alchemist, a fifteen-year-old Second Grade Alchemist..."

Nalan Yanran's lips trembled, tears welling in her eyes. "If you participate in the Pill Refining Competition in the future and become the center of attention, wouldn't the entire Jia Ma Empire mock and humiliate my Nalan Family then? Where would I put my dignity? Where would my father put his dignity? Where would the Nalan Family put its dignity?! And the Misty Cloud Sect..."

Ge Ye pressed his lips tightly together, while the hand hidden within his sleeve began to tremble slightly.

"If this kid remained a cripple in the future, that would be one thing. But now he has become an alchemist, and a Second Grade Alchemist at that. In the end, was Yanran annulling the engagement with him, or was he annulling the engagement with Yanran?"

Ge Ye regretted it beyond measure. Coming so brazenly to the Xiao Family without proper consideration had indeed been rash! What was even more rash was that it would have been one thing if only he and Nalan Yanran had come, yet they had also brought Nalan Yanran's senior brother.

What did that mean? It meant that he and Nalan Yanran wanted the Xiao Family's domestic disgrace to be witnessed by an outsider!

"So you know it hurts when the needle pierces your own flesh. Then why did you act this way in the first place?"

Xiao Yan sighed helplessly. "I have thick skin, so it doesn't matter much to me. But my father! He is the head of a clan. If he had truly agreed to your request today, how could he lead the Xiao Family in the future? How could he keep his footing in Wutan City? Forget it, forget it.

I know what you hate is not me, but a life controlled by others. I forgive what you have done.

I agree to annul the engagement. From this day forward, all grievances between us are settled!"

Swish!

Nalan Yanran choked back a sob as she drew her sharp sword and fiercely stabbed at Xiao Yan. "I will never allow the Nalan Family's reputation to be damaged! Xiao Yan, after I kill you, I'll kill myself! A Three Star Dou Zhe like me being buried alongside someone with three stages of Dou Qi like you is no injustice to you!"

"Yan'er!" Xiao Zhan's face changed drastically as he frantically activated Furious Lion Aura.

But.

Nalan Yanran was too close to Xiao Yan. Even as a Da Dou Shi, he could not stop her in time.

"Cousin Xiao Yan!" Xiao Mei's little face turned pale.

Xun Er narrowed her eyes slightly. "Brother Xiao Yan seems even stronger today than he was yesterday..."

Crack!

Just as everyone believed Xiao Yan would be stabbed through the heart, the sound of something hard breaking suddenly rang out.

Xiao Yan twisted the longsword into a spiral. Once the sword reached its limit, it shattered with a crisp crack.

"Sigh!"

Xiao Yan's right hand gently landed on Nalan Yanran's chest. "What happened today was merely the rashness of the older generation. Our marriage should never have existed in the first place. The engagement is gone, and we are both free..."

Nalan Yanran staggered back several steps before Ge Ye caught her in panic.

"A Dou Zhe?"

Even Xiao Zhan, who had charged halfway over, stood frozen in place.

Nalan Yanran was a Three Star Dou Zhe.

How could Xiao Yan...

Boom!

Xiao Yan's powerful Dou Qi erupted without restraint! Nine Star Dou Zhe!