Xiao Yan's Gift

The clan hall was especially lively today.

After Elder Wan Huo calculated the timing, he summoned the Dou Saint elders who were not currently occupied with important duties. Young Miss and her husband had returned safely; even without making a big fuss, it was still something worth celebrating.

What was more, it was not merely that Young Miss had returned safely with her husband. The Yao Clan had now produced two young Dou Saints who were both under thirty.

They were not yet thirty years old, yet they had already broken through to the Dou Saint realm.

Even for the Yao Clan, one of the ancient Eight Clans, becoming a Dou Saint before the age of thirty was exceedingly rare throughout the clan's tens of thousands of years of history.

Even inheritors of Ninth Grade Bloodlines, or even Divine Grade Bloodlines—so rare they could be counted on one hand throughout the Yao Clan's entire history—would not necessarily dare claim complete confidence in breaking through to Dou Saint before turning thirty.

In the distant past, so long ago that its date could no longer be verified, the bloodline of one of the Eight Clans had declined. Yet, like a final flash before death, it produced an inheritor of a Divine Grade Bloodline in an attempt to turn the tide. In the end, however, that person could not halt the decline of their entire clan's bloodline alone.

That inheritor of the Divine Grade Bloodline had only broken through to the Dou Saint realm at the age of forty.

After all, once one reached the Dou Saint realm, there was no such thing as forcibly accelerating one's cultivation. Those who had their growth artificially forced could not possibly break through to Dou Saint in the first place. Even with a supreme treasure like