First to the Flame? A Snake Person?

After arranging cultivation methods and pills for Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Qing Lin, Xiao Yan did not linger.

Fifth-grade pills were already more than they could handle. To refine anything stronger, he lacked the ingredients and needed to do more research. More importantly, the effects would be too potent for them to take safely.

Xiao Yan planned to put together a separate cultivation system for each of his two older brothers. According to the old man, there was a sect in the Central Plains that specialized in lightning. He could visit someday, ask for its core method, and make a few changes.

The wood element was easier. The old man still had several wood-element methods from the Yao Clan. Xiao Yan modified one to focus on vitality and endurance, then gave it to Xiao Ding to practice for now. Later, he would see whether he could find anything relevant in Shrouding the Heavens.

As for his father, Xiao Yan figured he should let him rest. The man was getting on in years and still made a fuss over everything.

"How are those methods for restoring the soul, teacher? Have you looked at them?"

He asked Yao Lao, who had just emerged from deep contemplation. Xiao Yan flickered across the sky, leaving fiery afterimages and the faintest trace of spatial power as he sped toward the Heavenly Flame he sensed in the distance.

In the Yang God World, Xiao Yan had made it halfway through the last four Thunder Tribulations. That put him at roughly three and a half tribulations as a Ghost Immortal.

But his was no ordinary half-step realm. Most people at that stage could fight at the next realm's level without possessing its unique traits.

He was different. His transformation was complete, but his power had yet