After Xiao Yan finished refining the War Puppet, he had no choice but to end his seclusion early and leave the Heavenly Tomb.
The anticipated great battle had not truly begun, and the outside world still maintained a somewhat strange calm. Xiao Yi Xian had summoned Xiao Yan because Mu Yaoyin, the Heavenly Luan Clan's ancestor and an old-generation Dou Sheng expert of Origin Return Manor, had reached her final days.
Mu Yaoyin was an immensely important Dou Sheng combatant of Origin Return Manor, as well as the true backbone and spiritual pillar of the Heavenly Luan Clan.
She had been the first Dou Sheng expert Xiao Yan encountered. She had always believed in him without wavering and supported him without reservation. Without Mu Yaoyin, Xiao Yan might never have had the chance to make his mark in the Central Plains.
Xiao Yan had done everything he could to heal her, but Mu Yaoyin's lifespan had truly come to its end. Moreover, because she had used the heaven-defying secret art, the Luan Eye Heaven-Peering Technique, her body's ability to absorb medicinal pills had weakened greatly. After a month of attempts yielded little result, she understood the state of her own body and simply refused Xiao Yan's request to continue.
"Master need not waste any more effort on this old servant."
Mu Yaoyin also instructed Xiao Yan, "Whether it is Origin Return Manor or the Heavenly Luan Clan, everything is now developing for the better. That is enough to prove that I did not misjudge Master."
Xiao Yan could not help recalling the days when he had first arrived in the Central Plains. "Without Senior Mu, it would be hard to say whether I could even be standing here today."
Back then, it was precisely because the Heavenly Luan Clan, led