A Melee Is About to Begin

In the days that followed, Ancient Dragon Island seemed shrouded in a thin veil of tranquility, and Xiao Ling enjoyed a rare period of peaceful stability there.

Aside from cultivating diligently each day to improve himself, he would occasionally refine a few pills in quiet concentration or spar and exchange insights with Mang Tianchi, listening to this well-traveled senior and Thunder Clan elder recount anecdotes and secrets concerning the Eight Ancient Clans.

Mang Tianchi's experience was indeed extraordinary. Much intelligence about the Eight Ancient Clans that Xiao Ling had never heard before gradually came together through these casual conversations.

He had even learned from Mang Tianchi that the Gu Clan's Heavenly Curtain would soon open.

Xiao Ling was not entirely unfamiliar with this news; he was merely hazy on the exact timing.

He remembered the matter and vaguely sensed that, given the bond between Xun Er and himself, she would certainly send someone to invite him before the Heavenly Curtain Opening.

When the time came, he would naturally accept the invitation and head to that mysterious Heavenly Curtain.

After all, the Heavenly Curtain was not merely a treasured place capable of helping one improve one's cultivation.

Xiao Ling also knew that in its deepest reaches resided the residual soul Energy Body of Xiao Xuan, the legendary ancestor of the Xiao Family who had once shaken the entire Dou Qi Continent.

Naturally, Xiao Ling wished to meet this ancestor whom he had never seen, yet with whom he shared the same bloodline.

Back then, Xiao Xuan had been a genuine peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng, only a single step away from becoming a Dou Di.

Unfortunately, the Dou Qi Continent's source qi had been exhausted at the time. He ultimately failed to take that final step and regretfully stopped at the Half-Emperor