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Over the past three years of training with Xun Er, this was the phrase Xiao Yan had heard most often.

Whenever Xun Er said it, it was like Doraemon pulling a gadget out of his Fourth-Dimensional Pocket—if she said it, something would definitely appear. Pill formulas, medicinal ingredients, pills, Dou Techniques, cultivation methods, secret arts—in Xun Er's words, all of them were assets of the Xiao Clan.

Although Xiao Yan had gradually come to understand just what a colossal force the Xiao Clan had once been over the past three years, that was all in the past. The Xiao Clan of old no longer existed. These things could not simply be obtained with the words "Xiao Clan assets."

Xiao Yan knew perfectly well that this was all thanks to Xun Er.

Xiao Yan had come to the imperial capital of the Jia Ma Empire for one purpose only: to settle the issue left behind by the previous generation. He would definitely defeat Nalan Yanran, and then he would cancel the engagement, because someone already lived in his heart.

So he truly had little interest in the Jia Ma Empire's Alchemist Grand Meeting. Once he finished the fight, he would leave. Then he would continue training with Xun Er, following the places his ancestor Xiao Xuan had once traveled and gathering any Xiao Clan inheritance that might have been left somewhere on the continent.

Hearing that, Xun Er chuckled. "But, Xiao Yan-gege, since you did not participate in this Alchemist Grand Meeting, I heard the final champion was won by an alchemist from the Izumo Empire. The Jia Ma Empire royal family's genius alchemist and Gu He's genius disciple both lost to the Izumo Empire's genius alchemist."

"Oh? Then it really was a pity that I did not go watch. I