Xiao Yu (Please Bookmark, Recommend, Invest)

Host: Xiao Chen

Gender: Male

Current Realm: Mid-Phase Eight-Star Dou Saint, Heaven Realm Great Perfection

Physique: Dragon Phoenix Physique

Main Quest: Within ten years, return the Xiao Family to the Eight Ancient Clans and destroy the Soul Clan.

Quest Reward: One portion of Dou Di Origin, one peerless sacred artifact.

Side Quest: Before the Three Year Pact arrives, make the Xiao Family a first-rate power in the Jia Ma Empire.

Quest Reward: Three drops of Nine-Star Dou Saint Essence

Minor Side Quest: Seal the Sea Heart Flame within Xiao Yu's body. Use Dou Saint Essence and the eighth-grade medicinal pill, the First Origin Pill, to transform her physique and give her the foundation to become a Saint.

Evaluation: A long-legged beauty. This Ancestor quite likes... Pah! This system greatly appreciates her.

Reward: Appearance and charm increased by 100%.

Jia Nan Academy was an ancient academy located at the heart of the continent. Over the centuries, every peak expert who had emerged from there had possessed a formidable reputation and shaken an entire region.

The most terrifying thing about an academy was not the strength of its teachers, but the countless powerful experts who had come from it. If Jia Nan Academy ever faced a crisis of destruction and summoned all those experts back, it was difficult to imagine just how terrifying that force would be. Although there were nearly countless academies across the continent, Jia Nan Academy's reputation had never been surpassed. From this alone, one could see just how profound the foundations of this academy steeped in ancient air truly were.

Regardless of race, countless people across the continent took pride in being able to enter this ancient academy. Unfortunately, its nearly harsh admission requirements left many of them sighing helplessly.

This was an elegant and secluded pavilion residence in Jia Nan Academy's outer academy.

Outside the residence stood a woman in green, smiling sweetly. A gentle smile rested on her lovely face, while endless tenderness flowed through her eyes.

She appeared to be in her twenties. Her full and exquisite figure exuded a mature charm refined by time, a natural allure far beyond what Jia Nan Academy's female students could compare to.

The reason she was standing here was to guard the student inside as she made her breakthrough.

Inside the room, a delicate figure resembling a flower bud about to bloom sat cross-legged, her hands forming seals.

She was a fair-skinned, beautiful, long-legged young woman. Her pretty face carried a resolute expression.

The calm air suddenly rippled violently. Threads of faintly green Dou Qi seeped out from the air, then continuously burrowed into the young woman's body. As the Dou Qi poured in...

It was clear that the young woman was attempting to break through to the Dou Zhe realm.

This delicate figure was none other than Xiao Yu.

After entering Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Yu had taken only one year to advance from Dou Qi to the point where she was now on the verge of breaking through to Dou Zhe.

Her talent could not be called anything but exceptional.

In the Xiao Family, only Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er possessed greater talent than Xiao Yu.

Otherwise, Xiao Yu would not have been able to enter Jia Nan Academy.

Night had fallen. The stars shone brilliantly, and moonlight flowed like water. It was a rare, wonderful night for chatting about life with a beautiful woman.

"Yu'er, you broke through?"

Creak. As the door opened, Ruo Lin turned around and looked smilingly at Xiao Yu, whose face was filled with delight inside the quiet room.

"Of course, Instructor Ruo Lin." Seeing the gentle woman who had guarded her for an entire day, Xiao Yu cried out in delight, then pounced forward and happily wrapped her arms around the other's seemingly plump yet not at all fat waist.

"This is a low-level Xuan-class cultivation technique, the Wind Profound Art. Consider it your instructor's gift for your breakthrough."

As she spoke, the woman took out the cultivation technique she had prepared long ago from her Storage Ring and placed it in Xiao Yu's arms.

Even a low-level Xuan-class cultivation technique was worth more than one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins.

For a Huang-class instructor like Ruo Lin at Jia Nan Academy, that was already quite a lavish gift.

This showed just how much Ruo Lin cherished Xiao Yu.

"Instructor Ruo Lin, this... is too precious. I truly cannot accept it."

As she spoke, Xiao Yu reached into the soft mound on her chest and took out the cultivation technique.

Even in the Xiao Family, her father had gone to great lengths just to obtain a high-level Huang-class wind-attribute cultivation technique from the three elders.

As for low-level Xuan-class cultivation techniques, even with the Xiao Family's foundations, they possessed only two or three.

Only core family members who had reached five-star Dou Shi or above were qualified to cultivate them.

"Just take it! You know how beneficial a high-level cultivation technique is for someone who has just broken through to Dou Zhe. Don't tell me you don't. I just covered it in class the other day."

Instructor Ruo Lin waved her snow-white jade fist at Xiao Yu and chuckled.

"Mm! Then thank you, Instructor."

Xiao Yu grinned and did not continue refusing.

Peace Town

To the left of the town gate stood a large tree.

The tree was pitch-black, its crown spreading out in all directions like claws and fangs. Beneath the lingering glow of the setting sun, it gave off a faint chill. Corpses were impaled and hung directly among its branches. Whenever a light breeze blew, they swayed back and forth, producing creaking sounds that made one's scalp tingle.

Although it was not her first time seeing Peace Town's infamous Undead Tree, Xiao Yu's delicate body still could not help trembling when she saw it.

The eerie aura emanating from that strange Undead Tree sent chills into the bones of everyone stopped at the entrance to the town.

In the Black Corner Region, the Undead Tree's reputation had nearly reached the point where its name alone made people tremble in fear.

Many people who had spent years in the Black Corner Region would never forget that desperate, life-and-death battle between the Black Corner Region and the Southern Academy.

The precise cause of that bloody battle had long since ceased to interest many people. The only thing anyone knew was that after the battle...

The corpses of two Dou Wangs and one Dou Emperor had been hung upon this Undead Tree through methods that were nearly cruel. From then on, the area around the Southern Academy had sunk into a strange tranquility utterly at odds with the outside world.

No expert from the Black Corner Region dared to charge into these towns with murderous looks anymore. Even when occasional disturbances arose, those responsible would become corpses impaled upon the dead tree in less than an hour.

Over the years, the Undead Tree's evil reputation had spread throughout nearly the entire Black Corner Region. Thus, even those vicious, lawless criminals rarely dared come here. To them, this place was a graveyard.

"Then why did you make me bring you here?"

Instructor Ruo Lin said irritably.

Under normal circumstances, no Jia Nan Academy student was willing to enter Peace Town.

After all, even with law enforcement squads present, encountering those madmen from the Black Corner Region could still put one's life in danger.

If Xiao Yu had not broken through today, putting Ruo Lin in such a good mood, and if Ruo Lin had not been unable to refuse her, she would never have brought her to Peace Town.

"Instructor Ruo Lin, the academy will be on break soon, right? When you go to the Jia Ma Empire to recruit students, you must come to Wutan City to see me."

"All right, don't worry!"

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