Atop the Sunset Mountains in the Central Plains, a strange pattern floated in the air. It was a Taiji Diagram of yin and yang, formed entirely from black and white flames.
At its center sat a refined figure in white robes, his legs crossed.
The terrifying energy fluctuations around him destabilized the surrounding space, as though it might collapse at any moment.
A long while later, the white-robed figure opened his eyes. Black and white light flickered within them before fading, and the Taiji Diagram vanished as well.
"Heh, after hundreds of years of nurturing, the Yin-Yang Twin Flame's ranking may no longer do it justice. It should be strong enough to enter the top ten of the Heavenly Flame Ranking."
This man was Wu Xuantian. No, he now had a new name as well, one that belonged to a fresh and lengthy lifetime.
A new name, a new life, new responsibilities, and new people to protect.
His name suited him: refined and dressed in white, he was called Xiao Wen, a name as ordinary as could be.
He still remembered being among the first infants born after a mysterious man settled in the Northwestern Region.
That mysterious man's surname was Xiao. As Xiao Wen grew up after his birth,
the mysterious man—his father—told him of his origins.
His father had come from the Xiao Clan, an Ancient Emperor Clan that had already been destroyed.
His father had little talent and only reached Dou Zong in his lifetime. Because of his injuries, he passed away when Xiao Wen was thirty.
The position of clan head should have gone to Xiao Wen, but he refused it and passed it to his only younger brother, Xiao Yi.
According to their father, the brothers' Dou Emperor Bloodline was exceedingly thin. He did not