"My hard-earned Dou Qi is disappearing again. I... damn it..."
Focusing inward to sense his body, the young man's face suddenly twisted with anger as he cursed in a shrill voice.
Swish, swish, swish.
"Yan'er, I knew you would be here."
A middle-aged man approached at an unhurried pace.
"Father!"
"Are you worrying over what happened today again? Sigh, it is all because your father is useless. It has been two years, yet I still have no solution to your problem.
Your eldest and second brothers have also searched everywhere for methods, but unfortunately..."
Xiao Yan felt even more guilty upon hearing this. During these years of declining Dou Qi, he had endured the scorn and ridicule of others. Only his father and two brothers had treated him as they always had.
They had worried over him constantly, but there was still no clue as to why his Dou Qi was vanishing for no reason.
Of course, there were also some people who had treated him the same whether he had been at his peak or in decline. They were neither especially close nor deliberately distant.
"I heard those people have been doing exceptionally well?
Why did I never notice how outstanding they were within the clan before?
They must have disdained making a grand display in tiny Wutan City.
No wonder those few had always advised me..."
Speaking of those people, even Xiao Zhan could not help but admire them. How had he failed to notice their talent within the clan before?
Could it be that cultivation outside truly provided such great benefits?
According to the news they had received, some of those who were already relatively old had even become Dou Lings.
One had to know that he, the Patriarch, was still only a Da Dou Shi.
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