The Xiao Clan of Wutan City (1 / 2)

Cruel? Ferocity was exactly what Chen Yang was all about.

Without being ferocious, how could he strike fear into anyone?

An outstanding alchemist never limited his pill-refining ingredients to medicinal herbs that grew naturally.

Their ingredients covered a broad range, and people with powerful cultivation made the finest materials for refining pills.

The bodies of powerful cultivators not only held vast amounts of energy but also possessed all manner of elemental attributes. Their effectiveness in pill refinement rivaled any aged heavenly treasure.

However, such pill-refining methods had been strictly forbidden because they were far too evil.

They had also been lost long ago.

Chen Yang had become an Emperor-Grade Alchemist through the system's modifications, and upon receiving that rank, an enormous amount of pill-refining knowledge and techniques had been forcibly poured into his mind.

Yun Shan trembled inwardly at what he heard, as though he really had become a walking medicinal ingredient in Chen Yang's eyes.

Still, if he wasn't allowed to show himself again, then he wouldn't. Did they really think he was so desperate to stay?

Once he broke through to Dou Zong, anything would become possible. In this vast Heaven and Earth, where could he, Yun Shan, not go?

Besides, an unfilial daughter like Yun Yun was better discarded.

He would simply consider all those years of raising her kindness wasted on a dog.

As far as Yun Shan was concerned, even raising a dog would have been more worthwhile than raising Yun Yun.

"You don't have to tell me. If I'd known I'd raise an unfilial daughter like this, I should have let her starve to death in the mountains."

After accepting the Sect Breaking Pill, Yun Shan gave a cold snort, his face dark. Then he formed wings of Dou Qi and left.

Had he known that this would come back to bite him, Yun Shan would never have brought her home and painstakingly nurtured her.

He admitted that part of the reason he had brought her back to the Misty Cloud Sect was that her talent had caught his eye.

Unfortunately, she was a white-eyed wolf that would never become loyal, no matter how well he raised her.

"I never imagined that my teacher, who once looked so kind and benevolent, would one day become like this."

Watching Yun Shan's retreating back, without the slightest sign of repentance from him, Yun Yun felt a bitter tangle of emotions.

She admitted that when she had heard her teacher acknowledge his mistakes earlier, her heart had leaped with joy.

But no one had expected that his admission was merely a retreat designed to advance. He had wanted to bind her with the debt of having raised her, make Chen Yang find him a Sect Breaking Pill, and then exploit her compassion to secure her forgiveness.

His apology had been steeped in calculation.

Although she was foolish and blindly favored family ties, she could still distinguish right from wrong when it mattered.

If Yun Shan had sincerely repented, he would still have been worth forgiving.

But that was not the case.

"Ah!"

Yun Yun suddenly cried out in surprise as her body became weightless.

She had been scooped up around the waist yet again.

It was that rascal Chen Yang again.

Meeting Chen Yang's burning gaze, Yun Yun felt rather speechless.

She was no longer an inexperienced girl. Naturally, she understood what such a heated look meant.

"Don't dwell on it. He isn't worth it, and you've already repaid everything you owed him!" Holding Yun Yun, Chen Yang turned and teleported up to Sect Master Peak.

With Yun Yun in his arms, he became a streak of light and returned to their bridal chamber. A flick of his hand sent the door closing on its own.

Chen Yang tossed Yun Yun onto the soft couch, took various styles of erotic lingerie out of his Storage Ring, and laid them before her one by one.

Sitting on the couch, he raised his eyebrows and asked her very earnestly, "If you're upset, let's play something that makes it easy to forget your troubles—something pleasant and fun."

Yun Yun: "...!"

Actually, she really wanted to tell him that making her happy did not have to involve this.

She was very easy to cheer up.

But when she thought about how Chen Yang was doing this to comfort her, and how it came from good intentions, she could not bear to refuse.

Besides, after enjoying it twice, she was not averse to doing it with Chen Yang.

The mountain behind the Xiao Clan estate, Wutan City.

As usual, Xiao Yan came to the summit behind the estate early in the morning, sat cross-legged, and absorbed the essence of the sun and moon to temper his body.

Using the Basic Breathing Technique, he breathed in the Dou Qi of Heaven and Earth, refined it into his own, then used it to nourish his muscles and bones and strengthen his physique.

After the Dou Qi completed a full circuit through his body, Xiao Yan could clearly feel himself gradually growing stronger under its nourishment.

Yet in an instant, this newly formed Dou Qi inexplicably vanished from his Dantian.

Xiao Yan: "???!"

It had happened again. Every time Dou Qi formed inside him, it vanished in the next instant.

His body was like a funnel, completely unable to retain Dou Qi. Every so often, it would leak out of him.

Over the past six months, this inexplicable periodic loss of Dou Qi had caused his cultivation to fall from Dou Zhe to the eighth stage of Dou Qi, and it was still dropping.

If he had not cultivated diligently every day, frantically refining the Dou Qi of Heaven and Earth into his own, his cultivation might have fallen even lower than the eighth stage of Dou Qi by now.

This could not go on.

If he could not discover why his Dou Qi kept mysteriously leaking away and find a solution, then one day, all of it would vanish, reducing him to an ordinary person.

But his father and the clan elders had all examined him.

None of them had found the reason his Dou Qi drained away at regular intervals.

Xiao Yan rubbed between his brows in frustration.

A genius had become a wastrel, a true dragon had become a cursed dragon, and endless insults had followed.

When a wall began to fall, everyone pushed. During this time, he had endured far, far too much undeserved abuse.

If his ten-year-old body had not housed the mature soul of someone in his twenties or thirties, he probably would have buckled under all those insults and taken his own life.

Xiao Yan stopped cultivating and began watching the sunrise.

"Brother Xiao Yan, I knew you'd be here!"

Just then, a lovely voice, clear as a tinkling bell, drifted up from below.

A little girl dressed in plain green robes nimbly bounded through the mountains. Within a few blinks, she reached the summit and found a spot beside Xiao Yan to sit.

Then she gazed at Xiao Yan, her eyes brimming with the tenderness of first love.

Seeing his tightly furrowed brows, she propped her cheek on her delicate hand, curious.

"Brother Xiao Yan, did something happen, or did someone upset you again?

Tell me, and your Xun'er will pound him." Xiao Xun'er adorably clenched her little fists, looking ready to beat someone up.

Xiao Xun'er had a great secret that everyone except Xiao Yan knew: she had fallen in love at a tender age.

The object of her young love was Xiao Yan.

Was it that obvious? Even Xun'er had noticed!

At her words, Xiao Yan frowned.

Today, he indeed had an unpleasant feeling he could neither describe nor understand.

It was as though, somewhere beyond his perception, something that belonged to him had been taken away.

"You're so observant, Xun'er. You even noticed that."

Xiao Yan patted Xiao Xun'er's little head and answered honestly, "I really do have a strange feeling I can't explain, as though something suddenly disappeared. It leaves me feeling empty inside.

But then, I also feel as though that thing never belonged to me in the first place."

"Now that I've said it aloud, I feel much better."

Xiao Xun'er soothed him in turn, her lively eyes charming. "Brother Xiao Yan, since that thing never belonged to you in the first place, why get yourself all tangled up over it and make things difficult for yourself?"

"All we need to do is look ahead and stay happy."

Smiling, Xiao Xun'er buried her head against Xiao Yan's chest.

Ahhh!

She was resting on Brother Xiao Yan's chest muscles! They were very, very small, but she really was resting on them! She was so happy!

Xiao Xun'er cheered inwardly, her heart dancing with joy.