Dou Zun!

It was as if the entire hall had frozen over.

A powerful soul force pressed down directly on them.

"Pfft... You... how is that possible?"

"Just ants, and you dared to rob me?

I merely enjoyed the feeling of crushing people with money until they had nothing to say.

That did not mean I was weak enough to be bullied.

If you truly provoked me, even one of the Imperial Capital's Four Great Families could be wiped out in an instant.

A Bodhi Pill was something even a Peak Dou Zun dreamed of. It was not something a mere Dou Emperor or Dou Zong family could lay their hands on.

Unless you wanted to be annihilated!

Of course, if you could invite a Dou Zun expert to act, then feel free to try."

An old monster. The man before them had to be some old monster who had preserved his looks and cultivated for countless years.

Xiao Xuan watched the few people scramble away in terror and smiled disdainfully.

"Senior?"

Zhuge Jing arrived with several Dou Emperors. They had heard everything that had just happened, every word that had been spoken.

The man before them was undoubtedly an old monster who had come out to experience life.

He even liked crushing people with money? Their lips twitched. Should they feel fortunate that they had been the ones crushed by money today?

"Don't be afraid. If I did not hate trouble so much, I would have been perfectly polite to that fellow.

There are 115 million gold coins in this storage ring. Where are my things?"

"Yes, thank you, Senior. Your items are here."

Zhuge Jing was exceedingly cautious. She would not truly believe his words just because he had said them.

After inspecting everything and finding no problems, Xiao Xuan nodded.

"If you have any good things in the future, I will come again."

With that, Xiao Xuan took a step and had already left the hall, entering the Void.

"Walking through the Void? A Dou Zong?

Sky Cloud Pavilion will always await Senior's honored visit."

When he reached the forest outside the city, a large group of masked men in black cloaks flew in from afar and blocked Xiao Xuan's path.

Whoosh!

A cold arrow suddenly shot out of the dense thicket like lightning.

"Kid, hand over the Bodhi Pill and Ice Spirit Cold Saliva, and we'll leave you an intact corpse."

The leading masked man in black unleashed the full aura of a Dou Zong, clearly determined to win.

"You... should be the Demon Sect's sect master, right?

You failed to obtain them at the auction, so now you intended to use force?

Unfortunately for you, you were out of luck. Earth-Slaying Strike!"

"Kill!"

Low voices rang out from those men as well, carrying traces of ruthlessness and cold brutality.

Xiao Xuan watched the enemies charging toward him and immediately used the Earth Emperor Palm, a mid-level Heaven Tier Dou Technique.

Though it was only the first form, and the weakest one at that, it was still not something an ordinary Dou Zong could withstand.

Bang...

Pfft...

With a single palm strike, everyone below the Dou Emperor level died. Only the Dou Zong suffered relatively light injuries.

"Cough, cough... Dou... Dou Zong?

At your age, that's impossible!"

Xiao Xuan could not be bothered to waste words on him and continued attacking. Within a few moves, the masked man in black died full of resentment.

As for the Dou Emperors, Xiao Xuan killed each of them with a palm strike, then went straight to the Demon Sect and robbed its Scripture Depository.

After returning to Liuyun City, he casually found an inn.

He took out his medicinal cauldron and began refining pills. Though the herbs he had plundered from the Demon Sect were not particularly high-grade, they were enough to refine sixth-grade pills.

Late into the night, Xiao Xuan was still refining pills in the alchemy room of the courtyard. The batch in his hands was a sixth-grade Imperial Pill.

When a batch of glittering golden pills emerged, he was about to clean up and leave when he discovered that his soul force had changed. It seemed stronger than before, and his soul Perception had become sharper as well.

"My soul realm has reached Great Perfection of the Spirit Realm?

Haha, what an unexpected delight. It seems that endlessly refining pills has allowed my soul force to break through.

The next step is a Heaven Tier soul.

These barren places can no longer offer me any real training.

After traveling around and seeing the customs of different places, I should head to the Central Plains."

After making his decision, Xiao Xuan began traveling through the Northern Region, Northwestern Region, Western Regions, Eastern Region, and other places. Time quietly flowed by amid the green mountains and clear waters, and in the blink of an eye, two years had passed.

Deep within the Tianyuan Mountains of the Northwestern Region, a black-clad figure sat cross-legged atop a stone platform. It was Xiao Xuan.

Over the span of ten years, after changing his name and identity, Xiao Xuan brought disaster upon the mercenary groups and bandits of the Northwestern Region, Northern Region, Eastern Region, and other places who committed every conceivable evil.

With Xiao Xuan's Peak Dou Zong strength, he had killed no fewer than eight hundred, if not a thousand, evil men.

Xiao Xuan seemed to have fallen into silence atop the stone platform.

The dust covering the platform and the weeds growing all around bore witness to the passage of time...

Suddenly, mysterious runes flashed across the young man's tightly shut eyes. Green flames curled around his entire body, burning fiercely.

Faintly, they exuded a vibrant sense of life.

He suddenly trembled. "What happened? Did it increase?"

A peerlessly beautiful young woman hurried out of a distant cottage, stumbling so badly that she nearly fell.

"Brother Xiao?"

The green flames enveloping Xiao Xuan's body suddenly swelled at that moment, spreading across the enormous stone platform in an instant.

Green light shot in every direction, forcing the woman to close her eyes. Only after a moment did she open them again, and then she saw the figure on the stone platform slowly emerge as a vast aura spread from his body.

The figure lazily stretched. The skin on his body immediately began to squirm, while his bones produced crisp grinding and clashing sounds, like the intricate machinery of some mechanism being activated.

He lightly clenched his hand and felt the vast, ocean-like Dou Qi within his body. He could not help but become fascinated by it.

This power possessed a temptation capable of driving people mad. Countless people exhausted their entire lives in pursuit of it.

He extended his palm flat, then suddenly clenched it. The space before him violently twisted into a strange depression.

If that grasp landed on a person's body, even a Dou Zong expert would likely be crushed on the spot into a puddle of flesh and blood.

Feeling the vast power capable of distorting space with every gesture, a smile slowly appeared on Xiao Xuan's face.

"Hehe, a Dou Zun, and a five-star one at that?

The seals left behind by those old fellows had finally been broken.

These past dozen years of being sealed had not been in vain. My foundation has become far too solid.

Unfortunately, my soul is still only at the peak of the Spirit Realm, though I can feel that I am one step closer to the Heaven Realm."

"Brother Xiao, you broke through? That aura is terrifying. What realm did you break through to?"

Looking at the worried woman, Xiao Xuan remembered that she was a pitiful person he had saved during his travels.

Her village had been slaughtered by bandits. Had he not arrived in time, she too would have been unable to escape a tragic fate.