Rebirth of Xiao Xuan

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(If the performance is supported, I would like to write about the magical beast clans and dark races of the northern and southern continents, as well as the combat style of Beast Soul Fusion.)

"Oh no, Xiao Xuan is out clearing the field again!!!!!"

"That damned jinx! Didn't he just come out three months ago? The ten-year cycle hasn't even arrived yet, so why is he out again?!!"

"Who knows? Stop yapping and run for your lives!"

"It must just be a clone! Or else..."

"Is your head full of shit? Even if it's just a clone, it's not something you or I... no, even if all of us combined, we wouldn't be his match!!"

"I meant we should beg for mercy!"

Dou Qi Continent.

Ancient Realm, inside the Heavenly Tomb.

Countless energy bodies scattered and fled as if they had seen a ghost.

Among them were many peak Dou Zun and even Half-Saint level soul bodies, all scurrying with their heads in their hands.

They feared that if they lagged even a step behind, they would be slaughtered by that jinx!

Some, in order to survive, did not hesitate to ambush and injure their own companions to create a sliver of opportunity for themselves!

However, in the face of absolute strength, these actions were all in vain!

Visible a thousand zhang behind them was a figure in pale green robes, his silhouette slightly translucent, his expression as calm as if he were out for a stroll.

With every step he took, his figure would appear a hundred zhang away the next second like a ghost!

In the blink of an eye, he had caught up to those fleeing souls!

The man in green smiled faintly.

"Heh, living like this—neither human nor ghost—clinging to life, you might as well become my nourishment and lend me a hand!"

One of them knelt in mid-air and begged loudly, "Lord Xiao Xuan, we are willing to live forever in this state, we don't want to die. Please, just let us go like a fart."

Xiao Xuan's gaze locked onto one of them, and he frowned. "Why is there such a disgusting stench on you? What is your name?"

"Lord Xiao Xuan, I... I am called Diao... Diao Hun, yes, Diao Hun," the man replied, stammering.

"Diao Hun?"

Xiao Xuan frowned, then sneered, "Why not call yourself Diao Mao?"

"As long as Your Lordship likes it, I... I am Diao Mao. Diao Tou works too," the man said with a flattering smile.

"Heh, if Hun Tiandi knew that his clansman was so shameless just to stay alive, I wonder what kind of expression he would have."

Xiao Xuan shook his head.

Seeing that his cover was blown, Hun Diao knew that given the feud between the Hun Clan and the Xiao Clan, he would not escape death today.

He simply stopped pretending.

"That's right, I am from the Hun Clan! Xiao Xuan! Don't be too smug. When the Heavenly Tomb opens next time, I will definitely have someone tell our Clan Chief to come and wipe you out completely!"

"Is that so? I'm afraid you won't live to see that day!"

As he spoke, a wisp of Dou Qi flickered from Xiao Xuan's fingertip, transforming into a red cage that trapped Hun Diao's soul body inside!

"Xiao Xuan, you will die a horrible death!" Hun Diao was merely a one-star Dou Sheng energy body; he used every ounce of his strength, but could not break the cage.

In the end, he transformed into an energy crystal, which Xiao Xuan absorbed into his palm.

The other energy bodies, seeing that begging the Hun Clan member had been useless, abandoned the thought of pleading and continued to flee frantically.

"Heh, if I let you escape from my hands, wouldn't that be a laughingstock!"

Xiao Xuan held his left hand behind his back with a faint smile, then gently clenched his right palm.

"Gather!"

Following the word that escaped his lips:

In an instant!

The space for a thousand miles around.

Froze solid!

Countless energy bodies in the vicinity were imprisoned in mid-air, as if time itself had stopped!

Then, a massive black vortex appeared, sucking all the nearby energy bodies into its depths!

The black vortex expanded rapidly from the size of a palm to several dozen zhang wide!

As Xiao Xuan inhaled, the black vortex transformed into a ball of light and darted into his mouth!

[Ding, detected that the host has swallowed a large amount of soul energy. Converting and repairing the host's own soul...]

Meanwhile.

Inside the Heavenly Tomb, dense energy surged wildly, converging toward Xiao Xuan.

A massive white cocoon of energy formed around him.

As time passed, the white energy cocoon gradually faded and dissipated until it vanished entirely.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully refining the energy entity. Ten percent of your soul has been restored; ninety percent remains.]

Xiao Xuan opened his eyes and discovered that his originally ethereal soul body had become much more solid!

"At this rate, even with the system, I'm afraid it will take at least several more years of this constant devouring and refining to fully restore my soul."

Xiao Xuan clenched his fists and let out a long sigh.

A strange look flickered in his eyes.

In truth, he was not a person of this world; he had arrived here by accident three years ago.

It was only after merging with the current soul body that he realized he had transmigrated into the Dou Qi Continent.

And he had become Xiao Xuan!

Yes, the very same man who, in two thousand years, had come closest to becoming a Dou Di.

The original Xiao Xuan possessed extraordinary talent and, relying on his formidable strength, had forcibly subdued multiple Heavenly Flames for his own use.

Even the arrogant and indomitable Hun Clan feared him.

However, after his failed attempt to break through to the rank of Dou Di, Hun Tiandi led experts to launch a sneak attack, causing the injured and weakened Xiao Xuan to fall, which led to the decline of the Xiao Clan.

Before he fell, Xiao Xuan "entrusted his kin" to Gu Yuan, hoping he would help look after the Xiao Clan.

He hoped the Xiao Clan's bloodline would continue, and that one day, a clansman would rise to lead the Xiao Clan back to the pinnacle of the continent!

To preserve the power of the Dou Di bloodline, Xiao Xuan kept a sliver of his remnant soul and survived by entering this Heavenly Tomb.

Even now, as a remnant soul, he still possessed the strength of a five or six-star Dou Sheng.

However, due to the restrictions of the Heavenly Tomb's rules, he could only remain in the deepest part of the third level.

He could only leave the depths of the third level to move about other parts of the tomb once every ten years.

"It's a good thing, a very good thing that I have the system. Otherwise, even after transmigrating, I would have died of frustration. This system is truly something—it doesn't even help me restore my physical body directly, forcing me to find my own way. It really is a title without the substance."

Xiao Xuan felt both fortunate and helpless.

His system was called the Devour System, and as the name suggested, he needed to devour in order to grow stronger.

Even restoring his soul body required him to devour enough energy entities and utilize the soul-repairing methods provided by the system.

Fortunately, with the system's help, he could walk freely within the Heavenly Tomb, though he still could not leave it entirely.

Xiao Xuan's figure flashed as he continued on to collect more energy entities, determined to restore his soul as soon as possible and walk out of this Heavenly Tomb!

Then, he would restore his physical body, annihilate the Hun Clan, become a Dou Di, and dominate the Great Thousand World!

In the blink of an eye, three years passed in an instant!

In the deepest part of the third level of the Heavenly Tomb.

Xiao Xuan sat cross-legged above his tomb chamber, absorbing the surrounding energy entities.

This had been his state for the past half year.

As Xiao Xuan exhaled a breath of turbid air, his soul was more than ninety percent restored, lacking only a tiny bit more.

"The energy entities in the Heavenly Tomb have all been devoured by me, yet it still wasn't enough to fully repair my soul. It seems I have no choice but to take action against it."