Fighting Energy Test

Chu Yang naturally refused. He had come to refine pills himself, but he could ask them to lend a hand with other matters. After all, he was new here and unfamiliar with the place, so he did need someone to help handle daily affairs.

When Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder personally prepared the Medicinal Ingredients, they also asked Chu Yang, "Will this many people be enough? If you need more, we can transfer some over."

Chu Yang immediately told them, "It's enough. If it isn't, I'll let you know."

As long as those two girls were not too lazy, it would do. Chu Yang did not like having a messy crowd of people around him.

To be honest, he had never used servants before transmigrating. Even his clothes had always been washed by himself.

But now, he understood that he was already an honored guest of the Xiao family. He had to learn how to live like a young master being waited upon.

After Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder had prepared the Medicinal Ingredients Chu Yang needed, they even had someone push over an entire cartful.

The Strength Advancement Pill itself was one of the simplest pills in the Medicine Emperor's Secret Canon. The Medicinal Ingredients it required were ordinary and simple, and Chu Yang believed the Xiao family's medicine storehouse would definitely have them. As expected, that was indeed the case.

However, the day after Chu Yang moved into the Xiao family residence was the Fighting Energy test assembly for the younger generation of the Xiao family. He did not intend to immediately begin tirelessly refining Strength Advancement Pills for them. He wanted to watch the excitement and, while he was at it, get to know Xiao Yan.

Though Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder were anxious, they did not dare rush him.

Chu Yang himself was also worried that if he produced the Strength Advancement Pills too quickly, he might frighten Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder into thinking that refining pills was easier for him than eating. He did not like that either.

So Chu Yang planned to drag things out a little in the Xiao family. After completing the system mission in the Xiao family, if he could not obtain any more missions that rewarded Lucky Draws and cards, he could simply stay in the Xiao family for a while. There was food and drink provided here, and the Xiao family treated him with the utmost respect, practically like an old master. Why not enjoy it?

Ever since transmigrating, Chu Yang had never imagined that life could be this good.

After Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder delivered the Medicinal Ingredients, Chu Yang had no desire to chat with them any further. One was a rough middle-aged man, the other a miserable old man—what could possibly be so pleasant to discuss with them?

Chu Yang said that he needed to focus on refining the Strength Advancement Pills, then sent them both away.

As for the two young girls, Keke and Yanyan, Chu Yang did not intend to have them assist with pill refinement for the time being. After all, they had been arranged by the Xiao family.

Chu Yang would handle the pill refinement himself and take it slowly. In any case, he had no need to pursue speed.

The chores around the residence could be left to the two of them.

At first, Keke and Yanyan had flirted and posed coquettishly. Perhaps Xiao Zhan or the Great Elder had instructed them to do so, or perhaps they had simply wanted to seduce Chu Yang of their own accord. But after Chu Yang gave them a stern and righteous lecture, they finally lowered their heads in shame.

Chu Yang said that he was a man of principles, not some casual, cheap, shameless man!

He could accept women throwing themselves at him, but he could not take the initiative to pounce on them!

Keke and Yanyan obediently admitted their mistakes. From then on, they regarded Chu Yang even more highly in their hearts. This man was not only capable, becoming an alchemist at such a young age, but he was also upright and noble!

Though the two of them possessed some beauty, they felt that before Chu Yang, they were nothing but dust. They could only love him wholeheartedly and do their utmost to serve him.

That night, Chu Yang did not refine any pills. He went to bed early and slept soundly, all so that he could properly enjoy the Xiao family juniors' Fighting Energy test the next day and witness Xiao Yan's style.

After Keke and Yanyan finished tidying the residence, they assumed Chu Yang was meditating and contemplating how to refine the Strength Advancement Pills, so they did not dare disturb him. When Chu Yang never called for them, they rested while remaining on standby.

Early the next morning, Chu Yang got up before dawn.

Then, after breakfast under Keke and Yanyan's attentive service, he headed early to the Xiao family's Fighting Energy test grounds.

However, the Xiao family disciples had arrived even earlier than he had. The young men and women were both excited and nervous. Seeing their expressions, Chu Yang felt that they probably had not slept much the night before.

Chu Yang quietly blended into the crowd. He had only been in the Xiao family for a short time and had not yet been formally introduced as some high-ranking guest, so many members of the Xiao family still did not know him.

Which one is Xiao Yan? Chu Yang wondered. At the moment, Xiao Yan was the only one who interested him.

Yet he seemed unable to pick Xiao Yan out from his memories of Battle Through the Heavens. He recalled the descriptions: Xiao Yan often wore black robes and carried a Heavy Xuan Ruler on his back. But the current Xiao Yan had yet to encounter the Heavy Xuan Ruler that would become his favored weapon.

For the moment, Chu Yang could not tell which one was Xiao Yan.

But soon, Xiao Yan appeared.

If Chu Yang did not interfere with the plot, this scene would unfold exactly as it had in Battle Through the Heavens.

At present, Chu Yang naturally would not interfere, nor could he prevent Xiao Yan from suffering the tragedy of his opening appearance.

"Xiao Yan, Fighting Energy: three stages. Grade: low."

Following the indifferent voice of the young male examiner, Xiao Yan, as expected, once again became a fallen-winged bird, receiving a barrage of mockery and contemptuous gazes.

Before transmigrating, after gaining a deeper understanding of Battle Through the Heavens, Chu Yang had somewhat disliked Xiao Yan. He felt Xiao Yan was despicable to the bone and had often wanted to torment him, but at the time, they had been separated by two worlds.

Now that he had suddenly come to the Dou Qi Continent, Chu Yang was actually rather excited. What he wanted no longer seemed so far away.

Yet when he saw Xiao Yan suffer that blow, the stubbornness still hidden within him made Chu Yang feel a little sorry for him in that instant.

Chu Yang did not know where this inexplicable feeling had come from. Suddenly, he no longer wanted to torment Xiao Yan. Instead, he began considering making Xiao Yan his little brother in the years to come.

He did not necessarily have to torment him. Making him his little brother was not bad either! Chu Yang felt that this idea was quite good.

For a time, Chu Yang seemed to be quietly lost in thought, and he no longer paid much attention to the rest of the Xiao family juniors' Fighting Energy tests.

It was not until Xiao Mei's Fighting Energy test and Xun'er's Fighting Energy test had brought the assembly to its climax that he seemed to wake from a dream.

There was not much left of the assembly after that.

Chu Yang watched as the girl in the purple dress, Xun'er, went to comfort Xiao Yan, and he suddenly remembered that Xiao Yan still had this protective umbrella behind him.

Xun'er was not someone easy to provoke. Moreover, in the current Xiao family of Wutan City, a terrifying figure was secretly protecting her.

Chu Yang felt that plotting against Xiao Yan would not be so easy right now. And besides—Old Yao, the wisp of ghostly soul behind Xiao Yan, was about to appear as well!