Dou Zun!

In an instant, it was as though the entire hall had frozen solid.

A powerful soul force pressed directly down upon them.

"Pfft, you... how is that possible?"

"Just ants, and you dare try to rob me?

I simply liked the feeling of throwing money at people until they had nothing left to say.

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

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

A Bodhi Pill was something even peak Dou Zuns dreamed of. It was not something a mere Dou Emperor or Dou Zong family could covet.

Unless you wanted to be destroyed!

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

An old monster. The person before them had to be an old monster who had preserved his youthful appearance and cultivated for who knew how many years.

Xiao Xuan looked at the people scrambling away on their hands and knees and smiled disdainfully.

"Senior?"

Zhuge Jing had brought several Dou Emperors with her. They had heard everything that had just happened and everything he had said.

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

He even liked the feeling of throwing money at people? The corners of their mouths twitched. Should they count themselves fortunate that they had been the ones hit by money today?

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

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

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

Zhuge Jing was extremely cautious. She would not truly believe him just because he had said so.

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

"If you have any good things in the future, I'll 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 await Senior's honored visit at any time."

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

Whoosh!

A cold arrow suddenly shot out from the dense undergrowth, swift as lightning.

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

The leading masked man in black unleashed the aura of a Dou Zong without reservation. He was determined to succeed.

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

Since you failed to win at the auction, you decided to use force instead.

But you're unlucky. Earth-Slaying Strike!"

"Kill!"

Low voices rang out from those men as well, carrying a trace of ruthlessness and coldness.

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

Though it was merely the first stance, 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 realm died. Only the Dou Zong suffered the lightest injuries.

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

At your age, that's impossible!"

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

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

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

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

Night had deepened, yet Xiao Xuan was still refining pills in the alchemy room of the inn's alchemy courtyard. The pill he was currently refining was the sixth-grade Imperial Pill.

When a batch of glittering golden pills emerged, he was preparing to clean up and leave when he discovered fluctuations in his soul force. It seemed even more robust than before, and his soul perception had become sharper as well.

"My soul realm has reached the peak of the Spirit Realm?

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

The next step is a Heaven Tier soul.

These impoverished places can no longer provide me with any meaningful training.

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

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

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

Over ten years, having changed his name and identity, he had brought disaster upon the mercenary groups and bandits committing every conceivable evil throughout the Northwestern Region, Northern Region, Eastern Region, and beyond.

With Xiao Xuan's peak Dou Zong strength, he had slain no fewer than eight hundred, if not a thousand, evildoers.

Xiao Xuan on the stone platform seemed to have sunk into stillness.

Dust on the platform and weeds growing thickly around it bore witness to the passage of time...

Suddenly, mysterious runes flashed across the young man's tightly shut eyes, and his entire body became wrapped in green flames. The flames blazed fiercely.

Faintly, they even gave off a feeling of vigorous vitality.

His body suddenly trembled. "What's wrong? Did something happen? Has it increased?"

In the distance, a peerlessly beautiful young woman rushed anxiously out of a small house. Her steps were unsteady, and she nearly fell.

"Brother Xiao?"

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

Green light burst 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 emerging as a vast aura spread from his body.

The figure lazily stretched, and the skin of his body began to squirm. The bones within him also produced crisp rubbing and colliding sounds, like the intricate mechanisms of a machine being activated.

He lightly clenched his hand, sensing the vast Dou Qi within his body, as boundless as the sea. He could not help but become entranced. This kind of power possessed a maddening allure; countless people had 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 bizarre concave shape.

If that grip had landed on a person's body, even a Dou Zong expert would likely have been crushed on the spot into a pool of flesh and blood.

Feeling that vast power capable of twisting space with every movement, a smile slowly appeared on Xiao Xuan's face.

"Hehe, a Dou Zun, and even Five-Star?

I've finally broken through those old fellows' seals.

These past ten-odd years of being sealed were not in vain. My foundation has become far, far more solid.

Unfortunately, my soul is still at the peak of the Spirit Realm, though I can feel that I'm another step closer to the Heaven Realm."

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

Looking at the worried woman, Xiao Xuan recalled that she was a pitiable person he had saved during his travels. Her village had been massacred by bandits. If he had not arrived in time, she would not have escaped that tragic fate either.