Highway Robbery, Six Stars in a Thought

Galeo Nu.

The Second Elder of the Gale Family, a Three Star Da Dou Shi specifically assigned to guard the medicinal ingredients, and also the person in charge of their business with the Teran Family.

The medicinal ingredients they had obtained this time were a huge, mixed assortment of varying quality. Although the bulk of them were First Grade raw materials, half the expense had gone into the "tributes" for Second and Third Grade goods.

Although they had That Lord's prestige behind them, and the Teran Family had even given them a twenty-percent discount, gathering this cartload of medicinal ingredients had still nearly emptied out the Gale Family.

And to escort this pile of things, the Gale Family had truly used its hidden reserves, stuffing a full eight Dou Shi in to guard it.

"Alchemists..."

Galeo Nu let out a long sigh.

All he could say was that their horizons had limited their imagination. The Teran Family was a hegemon of Teran City, even more dominant than the Xiao Clan currently was in Wutan City. Rumor had it that their old clan head had advanced to Dou Ling long ago.

Yet he had only revealed Mister's name, and they had bent over with grinning faces like obedient grandsons.

Only then did he gain some sense of just how vast the influence of a Fourth Grade Alchemist was.

Aside from the few great imperial cities, wherever they went, they were the blue sky overhead. A casual word or two from them could stir up shifting winds and clouds.

"Clatter..."

The carriage suddenly jolted several times. Galeo Nu, sitting inside, seemed fixed in place, his body not swaying in the slightest. He only took it as the carriage hitting a bump.

After being shaken around for the past two days, he had long since grown used to it. A few more jolts would not bother him.

But soon, something felt off.

For some reason, though no one had spoken up to request instructions and there had only been a couple of muddled, noisy sounds, the carriage he was in suddenly stopped.

"Hm?"

Galeo Nu's brows twisted into a knot.

And...

All the auras around him had vanished! An alarm blared in his soul.

Galeo Nu's gaze sharpened. At that exact moment, a black shadow shot rapidly in through the window. His tense body sprang up instantly.

Bang!

Dou Qi circulated, and the side of the carriage was blasted open by his palm. The black shadow, along with splinters, exploded several yards away.

Galeo Nu leapt out through the breach and fixed his eyes on the black shadow. "Who's there!"

With one sweep of his gaze, his expression changed abruptly.

It was a Dou Shi of the Gale Family. On that ashen face, the pupils had long since gone slack. Clearly, he had already lost his life before taking Galeo Nu's palm.

"Mm... mm!"

A few low, stifled groans came over.

He looked up and saw a young man standing casually with one hand resting on the Black Ruler, his other hand clamped over another Dou Shi's face, letting him struggle powerlessly as his life faded away.

He let go.

Thud. No more movement.

"You dare..."

Galeo Nu flew into a rage, but his words were drowned out by a sudden sharp sound. The youth's figure shot forward like an arrow leaving the string, arriving before him in the blink of an eye.

He only had time for his pupils to shrink before the other party's palm was already pressed over his face.

A strange suction force erupted chillingly.

Suction Palm!

In that instant, his breathing was forcefully severed by the suction, and the Dou Qi throughout his body stagnated.

Galeo Nu immediately raised a hand, wanting to knock Xiao Yan's arm away, but it was as if he had struck an iron-cast beam; it did not move even half an inch.

Boom!

At the moment of crisis, he changed moves instantly and struck the other party's chest with all his strength.

It was like hitting a wall of steel. Galeo Nu's shoulder jerked, and his entire body was flung backward by the rebound, smashing into the carriage.

"Cough, cough! Ha... ha..."

Freed from that strange suction, Galeo Nu clutched his chest and gasped desperately. His dazzling, blurred vision locked onto Xiao Yan. "You... you're that kid from the Xiao Clan?"

That Black Ruler was far too conspicuous, so much so that it had already become his signature weapon.

"Wait... you're..."

"A Dou Shi!"

Galeo Nu's eyes nearly split with rage as he stared fixedly at the dense liquid Dou Qi around Xiao Yan's chest. The shock and fury in his eyes almost condensed into something tangible and poured out.

No matter what, he could never have imagined that the Xiao Clan's third son, the one everyone talked about, would actually be a Seven Star Dou Shi.

And his realm was extremely abnormal. The heaviness of his Dou Qi even crushed Galeo Nu, a Da Dou Shi, and the fluctuations he gave off once made Galeo Nu feel as if he were facing that old ghost of the Teran Family.

What kind of heaven-defying talent was this!

"Heh..."

Xiao Yan answered with a soft laugh, the Dou Qi before his chest breaking apart into a murky current that flowed over the surface of his body.

This three-star Da Dou Shi's attack... is a little weak, isn't it? His Dou Qi is surging and rising, as if it was lifted in an instant. No, it's more like it broke free from suppression. Just what kind of monster is this!

Galeo Nu stared at Xiao Yan. He had actually noticed a few clues, and the viciousness in his eyes grew even stronger.

Forget it.

Such a genius cannot be allowed to live! I'll strike while I have the chance—even if I die, I'll drag him down with me!

If he had not yet offended Xiao Yan, then right now he would immediately kowtow three times and nine times over, begging for his life. If he could further fight for a chance to serve at his side, then he would soar to meteoric success.

But now, the two clans had already reached this point...

It could only end with one side dead!

"Clang—"

Galeo Nu reached out and pulled a dark-blue long spear from the carriage. As the spearhead trembled, radiance spilled from it, dotting the air with splashes of water as strands of Dou Qi coiled around it. One look was enough to tell it was no ordinary item.

It was likely an energy weapon embedded with a Magic Core, and at a rough glance, it was around the low second tier.

"Xiao Clan brat, so what if your talent is terrifying! You only just broke through, yet you dare block this old man's path..."

The long spear swept like a wandering dragon before finally pointing at Xiao Yan, rings of Dou Qi winding and climbing around it. "Today, you must die!"

Galeo Nu believed he had cultivated for many years, and whether in experience or technique, there was no way he could lose to this wet-behind-the-ears brat.

And how strong could those Huang Class fire-element Dou Techniques and Qi Methods of the Xiao Clan possibly be?

As for Dou Qi quality...

"Crack! Crack!"

Dense, deep-blue Dou Qi adhered to both his arms, spreading to his shoulders and condensing into armor.

With Dou Qi Armor covering him, wouldn't capturing a mere Dou Shi be as easy as reaching out his hand? Galeo Nu stomped the ground and turned into a streaking arrow as he charged over. The long spear in his hand released wave-like patterns of light, and waves of metallic ringing overlapped. The moment he attacked, it was his signature killing move.

Xuan Class—Overlapping Waves! "Die!"

Galeo Nu grinned savagely.

The number of Dou Shi who had fallen beneath this move had long since exceeded the fingers on both hands. Today, he would add another.

Wind pressure spilled in every direction, and the deep-blue light illuminated Xiao Yan's face.

Facing the full-power attack rushing straight for his face, he seemed to have gone rigid, making no defensive move at all.

"Good chance!"

Seeing that the other party remained unmoved, Galeo Nu sneered even more in his heart. It would be best if this kid relied on his Dou Qi Gauze to forcibly withstand the attack.

A Dou Shi's gauze was merely a matter of controlling liquid Dou Qi to hold off an attack. It consumed a great deal, and its effect was only enough to block a Dou Zhe once. In battles between Dou Shi, it was very easy to pierce through, and people whose Dou Qi was not dense enough simply could not afford to use it.

Although this kid's Dou Qi was abnormal...

No matter what, in a Da Dou Shi fighting a Dou Shi, the advantage was his! Thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning, but the attack in his hands grew even sharper, the spear light seeming as if it meant to run Xiao Yan straight through.

"Sigh~"

Who would have thought that when Xiao Yan saw this display, disappointment appeared in his eyes. With a twist of his wrist, he reversed his grip on the ruler and swept it out.

You've truly disappointed me, Galeo Nu.

Bang!

The majestic light wave actually collapsed the instant it touched, shattered before it could even release the slightest bit of its power. Even the rings of Dou Qi coiled around the man and spear were smashed apart.

Overwhelming strength.

Galeo Nu was swept away in an instant, man and spear flying several zhang backward.

His legs plowed through the ground for a long while before he barely managed to land and steady himself. Like air leaking out of him, he spoke in a duck-like voice, his face and eyes filled with panic. "You, you—!"

How was that possible?

How could this be possible! How could a Dou Shi possess such strength? Could it be that his entire cultivation was fake, for him to actually be swatted away like a fly by a Dou Shi?

"Whoosh..."

Xiao Yan did not answer. The heavy Black Ruler whistled out and followed close behind, not giving him the slightest chance to catch his breath.

"Clang!"

Galeo Nu hurriedly raised his spear to block it. With only a single collision, his legs went weak and he stumbled back several steps, both hands blasted into numb, dull pain and trembling nonstop.

They were on completely different levels...

He looked at the long spear in his hands, its light dimming, and his mind was somewhat unsettled.

"Bang!"

Xiao Yan leapt up, seized the Black Ruler spinning through the air, and chopped down at his head.

The air itself was cleaved open, a trail of emptiness pushing aside the wind pressure. A mountain-crushing aura pressed down on Galeo Nu, causing the latter to subconsciously raise his spear to block.

Block it? There was no blocking it!

The instant they touched, the spear was smashed down, unable to hinder it in the slightest. The Xuan Heavy Ruler cleaved straight into the Dou Qi Armor, driving Galeo Nu deep into the ground.

The earth within a three-zhang radius shattered and heaved up from the force, sending ocher dust swirling through the air.

"Guh... cough..."

Galeo Nu, who had taken that descending cleave head-on, spat out a mouthful of blood. Though his armor had blocked the attack, the tremendous force still rushed straight into his body, churning his organs into chaos.

The battle was over.

Absolute suppression.

"So weak."

Xiao Yan looked with some disdain at the Da Dou Shi he had chopped half to death in just a few moves, feeling as if the man's cultivation had simply been handed to him.

"What else did you expect? You think everyone's a freak like you?" Yao Lao shook his head and sighed from within the Naring.

Dou Qi that had been forcefully suppressed and continuously tempered for years.

Qi and Blood Power that could be called dense and heavy.

That strange golden energy...

By comparison, even a soul a few degrees stronger than a Dou Ling's no longer stood out much.

With Xiao Yan's current state, he could rely purely on his fleshly body to fight a Da Dou Shi barehanded, let alone with Dou Qi augmenting him. If he truly went all out, even if Galeo Bi were here, Xiao Yan could tear him apart on the spot.

"But don't get proud, either."

Yao Lao gave him a neither-light-nor-heavy warning. "This world is enormous. Your stage should be in Central State. There, geniuses and monsters are everywhere."

"Mm."

Xiao Yan answered along with his meaning. "This disciple understands."

As for what level those geniuses in Central State were at, how could he not know? He did not dare speak of anything else, but in terms of how much information they had, he knew far more than Yao Lao.

This was where the value of having the entire plot spoiled came in.

In the original work, before the Emperor Clan forces appeared, the strongest talents in Central State were no more than You Quan, who only showed his face briefly, Yi Chen of the Tianming Sect, and the like.

To put it harshly, Xiao Yan had a hundred ways to surpass them.

But comforting an old man, well—Yao Lao had no ability to foresee the future. He had only seen Xiao Yan's early cultivation progress. How could he know whether Xiao Yan's potential might run dry later and come to an abrupt halt?

Giving him a preventive warning in advance was also for his own good. He just had to obediently accept the teaching.

There was never anything wrong with listening to good advice.

"Xiao... Yan...!"

Galeo Nu, pinned beneath the Xuan Heavy Ruler, spat out blood, the corners of his mouth rising into a savage grin smeared with crimson.

"Heh heh... I suppose I've fallen into your hands today. But don't think you'll have an easy time either!"

"Once you go up against That Lord, even if you're a heaven-sent genius, you'll still die! You, and the entire Xiao Clan, will all be buried with me!"

"I'll be waiting for you underground..."

Galeo Nu laughed coldly and grimly, as if he had already seen the sight of the Xiao Clan being slaughtered.

How noble and powerful was a Fourth Grade Alchemist? Dealing with a mere Da Dou Shi clan would be as easy as turning over his hand. Perhaps he could annihilate them with a flip of his palm.

"Galeo Nu."

Xiao Yan let out a long sigh, put away the Black Ruler, and reached out to place his hand on Galeo Nu's shoulder. "There's a saying that suits you very well..."

In that chilling instant, flames rose around him and lit up his Dou Qi. Blazing golden energy gathered, and Xiao Yan's entire outstretched palm shone with an energetic glow.

The Dou Qi that had already been stirring broke through as naturally as water flowing into a channel, smashing open the gate of the Da Dou Shi in one stroke.

"It's called..."

The Fen Jue circulated, driving his body-tempering art along with it. Yellow Dou Qi and crimson blood energy spilled out, flowing through his limbs and bones. A fullness of strength unlike anything before coursed through his entire body.

Magma-like berserk energy brewed in his hand as he slowly increased the pressure. Along with it, his realm also climbed step by step.

Two-star... four-star...

"A frog at the bottom of a well knows nothing of the vastness of the sky."

...six-star! Boom!

The layers of accumulated power erupted with a thunderous roar. A violent current swallowed half of Galeo Nu's body, and the flesh and blood it blasted apart evaporated in an instant, burned into flying ash.

The already-ravaged pit looked as if it had been struck by a meteor. The surrounding soil rippled outward like water, then was shattered further by the follow-up impact. Bits of debris that burst out carried molten, fiery specks, scorching charred marks into the ground where they fell.

At the very center of the layered impact.

Galeo Nu's life was already like a candle guttering in the wind, yet he still used his final strength to widen his eyes. "You..."

Xiao Yan answered with a faint smile.

The Dou Qi Armor clenched tightly in his hand struggled bitterly amid the roar, covered in cracks before it shattered inch by inch.

Bang!

The armor vanished, along with the last of Galeo Nu's life force.

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