Battle Through the Heavens: Reborn into the Xiao Clan, Starting with Xiao Xuan's Inheritance

Xiao Yi spoke coldly. Though his voice was not harsh, to Xiao Ning, it was as terrifying as a ghost.

Then Xiao Yi gathered the Dou Qi within his body into his right palm and suddenly struck out.

With Xiao Ning's weak strength, there was no way he could withstand it.

He was sent flying straight to the edge of the training ground.

He crashed heavily onto the ground, blood even trickling from the corner of his mouth.

Yet even so, Xiao Yi had no intention of letting Xiao Ning off just like that.

After all, this brat had been far too arrogant and overbearing in the past. Today, he had to be taught a lesson.

Watching Xiao Yi slowly approach him, Xiao Ning completely panicked.

"Xiao Yi, how dare you! My grandfather is the First Elder! If you truly anger me, you'll pay for it!"

Xiao Ning invoked his grandfather, hoping to use him to intimidate Xiao Yi.

However, Xiao Yi did not stop. He continued walking slowly toward Xiao Ning.

"I already said it. Do you think the Xiao Clan would choose someone who relied on pills to reach the eighth stage of Dou Qi, or a young two-star Dou Practitioner?"

"Such a simple question hardly needs explaining, does it?"

As Xiao Yi finished speaking, a wisp of red Dou Qi floated around his raised right foot.

"Ah! Xiao Yi, no matter what, I'm still your cousin..."

Amid Xiao Ning's scream, Xiao Yi's right foot, wrapped in Dou Qi, came crashing down.

A sharp crack of shattering bone rang out, and Xiao Yi finally stopped.

"It is precisely because we are clansmen that I will spare your life today. But since I said I would cripple you, I naturally have to keep my word..."

Xiao Yi spoke coldly, then led Xiao Yan and Xun'er away without looking back.

"Brother Yi, Xiao Ning..."

Although Xiao Yan's expression barely changed, the excitement in his eyes was impossible to conceal.

After all, what Xiao Yi had just done was something Xiao Yan had wanted to do for a long time.

The feeling was simply incredible!

Xiao Yi merely said calmly, "Don't worry. I only crippled one of his legs. It won't damage his foundation..."

Xiao Yan asked, "Will it affect his cultivation?"

Xiao Yi slightly turned his head toward Xiao Yan. "With Xiao Ning's talent, without pills, he probably wouldn't even have reached the eighth stage of Dou Qi by now. What cultivation is there to speak of? He can just stay in the Xiao Clan and retire in peace..."

"But Brother Xiao Yi, aren't you afraid the First Elder will blame you? After all, he dotes on Xiao Ning greatly..."

Xun'er blinked her large, bright eyes at Xiao Yi and spoke softly.

Xiao Yi still only smiled faintly. "Before, I might indeed have been worried..."

"But now, with my status as a two-star Dou Practitioner, I doubt he can do anything to me..."

Xiao Yi's expression remained calm, without the slightest trace of concern.

Because Xiao Yi knew very well that on this continent, the strong had always been respected.

In the current Xiao Clan, he was the most gifted person. In the eyes of those elders, they could not wait to treasure him like a priceless gem.

Why would they come looking for trouble with him?

Xiao Yan nodded in strong agreement upon hearing this.

Because Xiao Yan felt it deeply as well. During the past three years, ever since he and Xiao Yi had lost their Dou Qi, they had endured countless cold remarks and mockery.

Many clansmen had even clamored to drive both him and Xiao Yi out of the Xiao Clan, believing that the two of them had disgraced the clan.

And the root cause of it all was their lack of strength.

Now that Xiao Yi had returned to the Dou Practitioner realm, there was no need to think about it. Those clansmen who had once mocked them would soon come crawling back.

I need to work harder and catch up to Brother Yi!

Xiao Yan silently thought to himself, encouraging himself.

After all, with two Supremes in the Xiao Clan, he could not drag Xiao Yi down.

Night fell.

As usual, Xiao Yi slipped out of the Xiao Clan under the cover of darkness and went alone to cultivate in the back mountains of Wutan City.

Under the moonlight, Xiao Yi sat cross-legged in the cave as he always did, circulating the Dou Qi within his body.

At that moment, a glimmer of light flashed from the pitch-black storage ring, and Xiao Xuan slowly appeared.

"Kid, you handled things quite cleanly today..."

Xiao Xuan looked at Xiao Yi and spoke softly.

Xiao Yi merely smiled. "I've been putting up with that brat for quite some time. Since he happened to deliver himself to my door today, I couldn't hold back and hit a little harder..."

Xiao Xuan said nothing. He simply examined the circulation of Dou Qi within Xiao Yi's body.

After a moment, Xiao Xuan finally said in a low voice,

"Kid, isn't your cultivation speed a little too slow..."

"It has been so long, yet your Dou Qi has not improved in the slightest..."

"At this rate, when will you ever advance to the Dou King realm!"

Hearing Xiao Xuan's words, Xiao Yi scratched his head somewhat awkwardly.

"Ancestor, you can't blame me for this. I don't have any pills to help me right now, and you haven't given me any high-level cultivation methods. Being able to cultivate this quickly already proves that my talent is pretty good..."

After speaking, Xiao Yi looked at Xiao Xuan with a mischievous grin.

Xiao Xuan understood immediately. The brat had made himself so clear—he just wanted a cultivation method.

Xiao Xuan waved his hand, and a beam of light slowly appeared before Xiao Yi.

"Here. The flame Dou Qi in your body is quite compatible with this set of [Scarlet Sun Heaven-Burning Art]..."

"For now, make do with it..."

Xiao Yi took the red-glowing scroll before him and slowly opened it. Five large words were written upon it: [Scarlet Sun Heaven-Burning Art].

This Scarlet Sun Heaven-Burning Art had been gifted to Xiao Xuan by a friend named the Fire-Refining Sage when Xiao Xuan had traveled the continent in his younger days.

At the time, Xiao Xuan had had no need for such a "low-level" cultivation method, so he had gradually forgotten about it.

It was only when Xiao Yi asked for one that he remembered it.

[Those who cultivate this art may use tyrannical flames to temper their own Dou Qi, refining it and increasing cultivation speed. When this art is mastered, one may draw upon the power of the Scarlet Sun between heaven and earth, allowing the cultivator to burn all things like a true sun descending upon the world. Thus, it is named the Burning Heaven Formula!]

[The Burning Heaven Formula has three realms: the Flame-Drawing Realm, the Meridian-Melting Realm, and the Heaven-Burning Realm!]

[Flame-Drawing Realm: The flame seed within the dantian resonates with the fire spirits of heaven and earth. Scarlet fire patterns appear across the body, and an undying flame may be condensed within the palm.]

[Meridian-Melting Realm: Dou Qi boils like magma, and scarlet crystals seep from the cultivator's skin. The cultivator must endure three days of burning flames to reshape the meridians.]

[Heaven-Burning Realm: A phantom Scarlet Sun follows every gesture. When Dou Skills are used, a blazing fiery sun appears in the sky, its burning range extending for a hundred li.]

Reading the introduction to the cultivation method, Xiao Yi nodded.

"Ancestor, this cultivation method looks extremely domineering. What rank is it..."

Xiao Xuan rolled his eyes at Xiao Yi. "Brat, you're so young, yet already so obsessed with gain. Whether it's a Dou Skill or a cultivation method, how can you ask about its rank the moment you see it!"

Xiao Yi said, "I'm just curious."

Xiao Xuan paused before finally saying, "Low Earth rank..."

Xiao Yi was slightly stunned upon hearing that. As expected of the supreme expert from a thousand years ago—he casually tossed out an Earth-rank cultivation method.

Yet Xiao Yi did not look very excited. He turned to Xiao Xuan again and said,

"Ancestor, although this Earth-rank cultivation method is indeed domineering, it's only low rank. This..."

Xiao Xuan's face darkened. "Kid, aren't you being a little too greedy..."

"An Earth-rank cultivation method is already far from low!"

However, Xiao Yi said nothing and merely looked at Xiao Xuan meaningfully.

Because Xiao Yi knew that for an expert of Xiao Xuan's level, Earth-rank cultivation methods were probably the most insignificant ones he possessed.

Besides, Xiao Xuan also had his self-created, super Heaven-rank cultivation method, the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame!

Now that Xiao Xuan had become his ancestor and had awakened by absorbing his Dou Qi, Xiao Yi naturally wanted some good cultivation methods.

Strictly speaking, did this count as living off the old man...

Xiao Xuan became somewhat uncomfortable under Xiao Yi's stare and finally relented.

"I do indeed have a self-created Heaven-rank cultivation method. Strictly speaking, it should be considered a secret art. It is called the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame!"

Xiao Yi's eyes immediately lit up. "Then what is Ancestor still hesitating for? This cultivation method already sounds far more powerful than the Burning Heaven Formula!"