A Fifteen-Year-Old Dou Master Exposed! Medicine Elder Marveled: This Kid Had Hidden Himself Too Deeply!

In the blink of an eye, it was the following morning.

Sunlight streamed through the window lattice onto the soft bed. An Yi groggily opened his eyes and stretched lazily.

A familiar, intoxicating fragrance lingered beneath his nose—this was Ya Fei's room, and he was sleeping in her bed.

The space beside him was empty. Ya Fei had evidently risen early and gone to the front hall to work.

An Yi yawned, rolled out of bed, and made his way to the washstand with practiced ease.

Since he had been dropping by the auction house every few days over the past few years, Ya Fei had simply prepared a personal set of toiletries for him here.

After this ambiguous little detail spread throughout the auction house, it directly confirmed a shocking piece of gossip:

That good-for-nothing white-haired young master from the Xiao Household was a pretty boy secretly kept by their chief auctioneer, Ya Fei!

Not only did An Yi have no intention of explaining such rumors, he gladly accepted them and was even proud of them.

Come on! Being kept by a rich woman was incredibly cool, okay?!

He had worked himself to death in his previous life. In this life, his greatest dream was to experience the joy of being kept!

Unfortunately, with his current appetite, Ya Fei's little stash of money genuinely could not support him yet.

After washing up, An Yi strolled out of the back courtyard and into the front hall.

In the main hall, Ya Fei was calmly directing her subordinates as they prepared for the auction that would soon begin.

When she saw An Yi emerge with his white hair slightly tousled from sleep, she paused her work and beckoned to him.

An Yi walked over with a grin.

"Did you rest well?" Ya Fei looked him over.

"Exceptionally well." An Yi nodded solemnly. "I sleep much more soundly at your place, Sis. Back at the Xiao Household, I'm always on edge, afraid someone will bag me in the middle of the night and toss me into a latrine."

Ya Fei rolled her eyes at him. "If you could restrain that mouth of yours even a little, would you need to worry all day?"

"Restrain myself? What did I do?"

Spreading his hands, An Yi began listing his "crimes" with an innocent expression.

"Wasn't I just a little unmotivated? Didn't I just have slightly better luck with women? Wasn't I just too cute as a child, so pretty older sisters liked me a little too much? What, is being handsome a crime?"

The moment he finished speaking, the staff carrying auction items throughout the hall all turned toward him in unison. Countless sets of gritted-teeth gazes stabbed into An Yi like tangible blades.

Those looks seemed to be roaring: You fucking deserve to die!!

An Yi's eye twitched slightly as he discreetly edged closer to Ya Fei. "Ahem. Looks like your auction house isn't all that safe anymore either, Sis."

Ya Fei could not help laughing helplessly at his behavior. "Enough with the nonsense. I'm about to get busy here, so hurry back. The Xiao Household just received an honored guest yesterday, and you, its nominal young master, stayed out all night. What would people say if word got out?"

"Tch, what do the Xiao Household's guests have to do with me? It's not like they pay me a single coin." An Yi curled his lip.

"Be good. Go back now," Ya Fei urged softly.

"Yes, yes, I'll listen to my rich big sister."

An Yi answered perfunctorily. Just as he turned to leave, he suddenly leaned in without warning, his handsome face rapidly filling Ya Fei's vision.

"Smack."

An Yi accurately gave Ya Fei's luscious red lips a light peck, like a dragonfly touching the water.

Then, without giving Ya Fei any time to react, he greased his heels and fled in a blur!

Boom—!

In an instant, the air throughout the auction house hall seemed to plunge below freezing. Countless murderous gazes fixed themselves on that fleeing figure.

If looks could kill, An Yi would probably have been sliced into a thousand pieces by now.

Ya Fei stood there blankly, subconsciously raising a hand to gently touch her warm red lips with her slender fingers.

Her usually alluring and composed face flushed a captivating red at a visible rate, gradually growing hot.

"You little hooligan..." Ya Fei looked toward the doorway, where he had long since vanished, and could not help spitting lightly. "You're getting bolder and bolder."

An Yi sprinted away without looking back, running so fast he left an afterimage, terrified that if he slowed for even a step, the red-eyed crowd at the auction house would collectively bag him.

The moment he stepped through the Xiao Household's gates, he ran straight into Xiao Yan, who was preparing to head out.

An Yi stopped and swept his gaze over Xiao Yan, surprise flashing in his eyes.

Today, his little brother Yan's bearing and spirit looked completely different.

The gloom of dejection, frustration, and self-mockery from the past few years had vanished without a trace. In its place was the sharpness and confidence that once belonged to a genius.

It seemed that although that little pink-haired Nalan Yanran had not dared to make a grand spectacle of breaking off the engagement, that old Medicine Elder had still awakened right on schedule.

Seeing An Yi return after staying out all night, his face glowing with happiness, Xiao Yan was also taken aback. Frowning, he asked, "Where did you run off to last night?"

"The Mittel Auction House. Where else could I have gone?" An Yi replied righteously.

Xiao Yan's eye twitched, and his tone held a touch of helplessness and disdain. "You... went to see Ya Fei again?"

"What? Jealous?" An Yi raised his brows and flicked his white hair. "What a shame. My ability to live off women is something you'll never be able to envy in this lifetime."

"Enough, I'm not wasting time talking to you. After exercising all morning, I still haven't eaten breakfast. I'm off!"

With that, An Yi whistled and swaggered toward the kitchens with an utterly arrogant gait.

Watching An Yi's grinning, utterly unrepentant back, Xiao Yan was speechless. How could this guy always be so carefree?

"Little Yan, if you truly think he is carefree, then you are gravely mistaken."

Just then, an ancient, profound voice suddenly echoed through Xiao Yan's mind.

Xiao Yan was startled. "Teacher? What do you mean by that? Isn't he just a useless bum who only knows how to loaf around?"

Medicine Elder sneered from within the ring. "Useless? Why don't you guess what his true cultivation level is right now? Once I tell you, your jaw will drop."

Xiao Yan swallowed and cautiously guessed, "Could it be... he has been hiding it from everyone, and he has actually already broken through to the Dou Practitioner realm?"

"A Dou Practitioner? You underestimate him too much." Medicine Elder's voice carried a rare gravity. "A few days ago, he was indeed at the peak of the Dou Practitioner realm. But yesterday, he became a genuine Dou Master!"

"What?!"

Xiao Yan's expression instantly froze. He stood there stunned, crying out in disbelief within his heart, Teacher, are you joking with me?! A Dou Master?!

A fifteen-year-old Dou Master?!

When he had formed his Dou Qi Vortex at eleven, people had already considered him a prodigy beyond compare.

This guy was the same age as him, yet he had silently broken through to become a Dou Master?!

Medicine Elder said gravely, "The cultivation technique he practices is extremely strange. Its suppression of Dou Qi is nearly perfect; even a Dou Emperor might not be able to see through it. But I am, after all, an alchemist. My soul perception far surpasses that of ordinary people. Just now, when the two of you passed each other, I clearly sensed the qualitative transformation of his Dou Qi after it liquefied. There can be no mistake."

Xiao Yan stood dumbly for a long while, his fists clenched tight enough that his nails nearly dug into his flesh.

However, possessing the steadfast temperament of someone who had lived two lives, he soon took a deep breath and regained his confidence.

If he had not regressed over the past three years because his teacher had been absorbing his Dou Qi, he might not have been unable to make a push for the Dou Master realm by now!