Xiao Yan's Cheat-Like Growth, Leveling Up Like a Rocket!

Meanwhile, Hun Tiandi, who was confronting Xiao Yan, had long since been left utterly dumbfounded.

What truly shocked him was not the matter between Xiao Yan and Xun Er.

It was that terrifying rate of advancement!

Good heavens, he had gone straight from a two-star Dou Sheng to the early five-star level.

After using a secret technique, he could even touch the threshold of the late five-star level!

Only two short years had passed!

One had to understand, for someone at the Dou Sheng realm, what did two years amount to?

It was merely the flick of a finger, utterly insignificant!

For an ordinary Dou Sheng, improving by 0.3 stars in two years was enough to qualify as a peerless genius.

Yet Xiao Yan had improved by more than ten times that amount!

Hun Tiandi was nearly angered into laughter. He practically wanted to report Xiao Yan for cheating on the spot!

No wonder he had been surpassed by Xiao Yan even after becoming a Dou Di.

To make an enemy of a monster whose cultivation speed was like riding a rocket—

This cheat was far too blatant, far too unreasonable!

The viewers across the Heavens and Myriad Worlds suddenly came to their senses as well.

They finally understood why the earlier image prompt

had said that Xiao Yi Xian had missed a golden opportunity,

and why it had condemned Xuan Kongzi as deserving death a thousand times over!

Thinking it over, each of Xiao Yan's two attempts to subdue Heavenly Flames

had been accompanied by a beautiful woman. From kindred spirits who understood one another, they had gradually become partners whose hearts were in perfect accord.

Good heavens, when one thought about it that way, Xuan Kongzi truly deserved to die a thousand times over!

While the Heavens and Myriad Worlds were still sighing over Xiao Yi Xian's fate, the story within the Light Screen quietly approached its conclusion.

[Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion having reached the five-star Dou Sheng realm, entering the ranks of the world's foremost experts!]

[With the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the might of five fused Heavenly Flames, he was virtually invincible among five-star Dou Shengs.]

[The Soul Hall and the Sky Mansion Alliance agreed to settle matters in three matches, with the first two ending inconclusively.]

[When Xiao Yan took the field, Hun Miesheng, the master of the Soul Hall, was ultimately unable to withstand the might of the Heavenly Flames and suffered a crushing defeat on the spot.]

[Although his remnant soul was ultimately rescued, it could no longer change the Soul Hall's fate of utter defeat.]

Only after this battle did the viewers realize: since the Soul Clan had already captured Xiao Zhan, why had they spared Xiao Yan, who was merely at the peak of the Dou Wang realm?

It turned out that Hun Miesheng had been in seclusion, preparing for a breakthrough!

As the master of the Soul Hall, how could he not understand the principle of eradicating the roots?

But with a breakthrough imminent, he had no choice but to leave matters to his subordinates.

And amid all the layers of buck-passing, Dou Sheng experts disdained to act, while Dou Zun powerhouses considered it a ridiculous overreaction.

In the end, they only sent several Dou Zongs to deal with the matter, and instead unexpectedly captured Yao Lao.

They had assumed that Xiao Yan, without Yao Lao's protection, was nothing more than a paper tiger.

Who could have expected that he would soar to the Dou Zun realm within a few years and even successfully rescue Yao Lao?

By the time the Soul Hall realized the severity of the situation and dispatched a peak Dou Zun expert, Yao Lao had already reached the Half-Saint realm.

When the Soul Hall sent two Half-Saints to act again, Xiao Yan had already broken through to Dou Sheng!

By the time the Soul Hall resolved to wipe him out with all its strength, Xiao Yan had not only become a five-star Dou Sheng, but had also founded the Sky Mansion Alliance.

What a series of oversights, what one blunder after another!

Xiao Yan's rise had become the finest proof of the Soul Hall's dereliction of duty.

Within the Battle Through the Heavens World, Hun Tiandi nearly ground his teeth to pieces.

Yet he had nowhere to vent this bitterness. Could he possibly complain to Xiao Yan?

At that moment, he only wanted to reassemble Hun Miesheng's remnant soul and subject him to a thousand kinds of torture!

Since he knew to eradicate evil completely, why had he not acted personally?

Even if it had been inconvenient for him to make a move himself, what would have been wrong with sending a Dou Zun expert?

Back then, Xiao Yan had only been at the peak of the Dou Wang realm. Even a peak Dou Zong could have easily wiped him out!

There had once been countless opportunities to strangle Xiao Yan in the cradle,

yet they had missed every single one.

If he could do it all over again, he would definitely crush Xiao Yan with his own hands when he was still at the third stage of Dou Qi!

Unfortunately, time could not be reversed. Even as a Dou Di, he could not turn back the river of time and space.

Besides, Xiao Yan, who had already become a Dou Di, was long protected by the laws of space-time.

Within the Douluo World, inside Spirit Hall.

Having just attained the divine position of the Rakshasa God, Bibi Dong sensed the upheaval in heaven and earth the moment she emerged from seclusion.

She came to stand beside Qian Renxue. Though this mother and daughter had temporarily set aside their conflict before their great enemy, they still could not hide the estrangement between them.

"Watching this image reminds me that I should have killed Tang San with one strike back then," Bibi Dong sighed.

Was Spirit Hall's greatest threat not the very person she had personally let go?

Even with Tang Hao obstructing her at the time, given the enormous gap between her level ninety-eight and his level ninety-five,

she could have easily captured Tang San and Xiao Wu.

Qian Renxue's gaze flickered slightly, while deep regret lay hidden beneath her indifferent exterior.

How had she lacked the chance to keep Tang San behind as well?

Having become a god, she and Tang San at level ninety-seven had been as far apart as heaven and earth.

Yet because she had underestimated him for a moment, Tang San had escaped through countless schemes.

That had been her last opportunity.

Tang San and Xiao Yan were such similar chosen sons of destiny!

Their paths of growth, their survival in desperate straits, were practically identical.

[After defeating Hun Miesheng, the Sky Mansion Alliance shook the continent with its might!]

[Although the Eight Ancient Clans still remained, it had openly replaced the Soul Hall as the number one force.]

[Just as Yao Lao had once been hailed as the continent's number one alchemist—the so-called continent had never included those hidden sects.]

[Xiao Yan then found Cailin, who was in seclusion, and casually defeated Huang Tian, patriarch of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.]

[When Zi Yan encountered a crisis, he immediately rushed to Dragon Island to aid her.]

[After defeating the North Dragon King, Zi Yan finally unified the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.]

[Before long, Yao Lao received an invitation from the Yao Clan, and the mystery of his origins was revealed.]

[This continent's number one alchemist was actually an abandoned child of the Yao Clan!]

[This invitation was not only an acknowledgment of Yao Lao's accomplishments, but also a provocation.]

[How could Xiao Yan allow his master to be humiliated? He immediately decided to accompany him.]

[At the Yao Clan's alchemy competition, he overwhelmed all challengers and refined a Ninth-grade Profound Pill!]

[Watching his beloved disciple reclaim his dignity, Yao Lao could not help but shed tears of emotion.]

[The greatest fortune of his life was having accepted such a disciple!]

Xiao Yan's actions earned unanimous praise throughout the Heavens and Myriad Worlds.

When he was young, his master had sheltered him; once he achieved greatness, he stood up for his master—this pair of master and disciple perfectly embodied what it meant to "bring out the best in each other."

Without Yao Lao's meticulous guidance, there would be no Xiao Yan of today; without Xiao Yan's full support, Yao Lao would likewise have struggled to regain a new life.

Most moving of all, even after reaching the five-star Dou Sheng realm and surpassing his master in alchemy, Xiao Yan had always remained deeply respectful toward his benefactor.

Whenever Yao Lao encountered trouble, Xiao Yan was always the first to step forward.

Such loyalty and devotion made viewers across the myriad worlds long for it: if one could become Xiao Yan's close friend or family, then when he ascended to the summit, one would surely share in his glory.

After all, his care for those around him was beyond reproach, and his principles were unmistakably clear—between sentiment and reason, he would always protect his own people first.

With someone like that as a friend, why fear having no one to rely on along the road ahead?

Moreover, there were countless people in the world who abandoned righteousness for profit. Those who could still remember their original intentions after reaching the pinnacle were truly as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.

In the Douluo World, Tang Hao looked at the Light Screen and sighed:

"Even after achieving fame and success, he still remembers his master's kindness. Xiao Yan is quite similar to you in that regard, Xiao San."