Trouble Is Imminent

Hearing this, Xiao Yan's heart trembled slightly, and his expression instantly became incomparably solemn. He tightly held Gu Xun'er's hand and said in a deep voice, "Xun'er, go ahead and tell me. No matter what it is, I'll remember it well!"

Over the past year, he had cultivated day and night, doing everything he could to raise his strength, yet the road ahead remained shrouded in uncertainty, as though he stood within a bottomless abyss with no end in sight.

Only the two beliefs of rescuing his father and teacher, like dim starlight, had supported him as he pressed onward.

Gu Xun'er nodded slightly, her gaze deep as she slowly said, "This begins with a mysterious place called the Heavenly Tomb. The reason my cultivation advanced so rapidly over the past year was precisely because I entered the Heavenly Tomb..."

She then recounted everything in detail, from how she had been taken back by the Gu Clan after they parted ways and entered the Heavenly Tomb to cultivate, to the secrets and conflicts of the Ancient Eight Clans, the mysteries and opportunities of the Heavenly Tomb, the Xiao Clan's past, Xiao Xuan's legendary deeds, and the power and preciousness of the Dou Di Bloodline. She told Xiao Yan everything without holding back.

As Gu Xun'er spoke, Xiao Yan's expression changed repeatedly, from shock to astonishment, then disbelief. In the end, countless emotions intertwined, and his face finally broke into irrepressible delight.

He had never imagined that the utterly fallen Xiao Clan still had an ancestor from a thousand years ago remaining in the world, and that this ancestor, Xiao Xuan, had been one of the peak experts who once dominated the Battle Qi Continent!

If he could enter the Heavenly Tomb, meet Ancestor Xiao Xuan, and gain his approval, he