"What are you planning to do next? Head straight back to Wutan City? After running around all day, I'm honestly dizzy."
Yao Lao was still a little unused to Xiao Yan suddenly perking up like this. "What got into you? Why have you suddenly become so proactive these past two days?"
After cultivating for so long before, he had never seen him get moving like this.
"Nothing."
Xiao Yan looked back at the Imperial Capital from afar. "I just figured some things out..."
"Figured what out?" Yao Lao was rather curious. Just what could have changed this little fellow so much?
"I figured out—"
Xiao Yan's voice drifted faintly.
In the original work, at what age did that Xiao Yan advance to Dou Di?
Thirty-seven, right? Counting by outside time, it was only that much. Even by bone age, it absolutely would not have exceeded forty-four.
With only twenty or thirty years of growth, he had reached the end of cultivation.
At fifteen, he had still been at the third stage of Dou Qi. At eighteen, only with the help of the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill did he reach Da Dou Shi, and then go on to face Nalan Yanran.
Then, thinking it through carefully, what had been the most important thing on his journey? Opportunities.
Flame Emperor's opportunities along the way had all been linked together, each one appearing at the most correct time, with the most correct effect, to break through a realm for him or raise his strength. Every time, it saved him a huge stretch of time.
Take the most extreme example.
The Bodhi Ancient Tree. The Bodhi Heart.
If he had transmigrated over as a Nine Star Dou Zun, could he have advanced to Dou Di one step faster than in the original work?
Obviously