At that moment, Xuan Tengying lurked in the shadows, keeping Xiao Xuan, who sat beside Xiao Zhan, under constant watch.
He had taken Oba Pa's deposit, so naturally, he had come to kill Xiao Xuan.
In fact, he had arrived in Wutan City two days earlier. With his Dou Wang strength, slipping into the Xiao Clan had been effortless.
However, Xiao Xuan had been in secluded cultivation then, and Xuan Tengying had failed to find him even after searching the entire Xiao Clan estate.
With some members of the Xiao Clan absent, Xuan Tengying naturally hadn't struck rashly.
He feared that if he attacked prematurely, Xiao Xuan would catch wind of it and flee. Then he would be unable to complete Oba Pa's assignment.
Xuan Tengying had professional standards, after all. If he couldn't wipe out the entire Xiao Clan, how could he have the face to collect the rest of Oba Pa's payment?
That was why he had waited in Wutan City until today. And today, Xiao Xuan had finally emerged from seclusion.
Xuan Tengying stared fixedly at Xiao Xuan, a cruel smile spreading across his face.
Today, everyone in the Xiao Clan was finally here!
That made his job easy.
Xuan Tengying could finally make his move.
On the Xiao Clan's Dou Qi Square, Xiao Yan, who had not only regained his talent but also broken through to the Three-Star Dou Zhe stage, once again found himself surrounded by a crowd.
Countless younger members of the Xiao Clan gathered around Xiao Yan, asking whether his talent had returned.
They wanted to know how he had broken through to Three-Star Dou Zhe in such a short time.
Even Xiao Mei couldn't resist joining them after a moment's hesitation.
"Brother Xiao Yan, you're... really amazing." Xiao Mei was deeply shaken as well and couldn't help voicing her admiration.
Xiao Yan glanced at Xiao Mei without saying much.
Over the past three years, Xiao Mei's attitude had shown him the girl's true nature.
She was merely another person who flocked to power and influence.
Faced with his peers from the Xiao Clan crowding around him again, their eyes burning with admiration,
the Xiao Yan of three years ago might have enjoyed the feeling.
But after enduring three years of setbacks, Xiao Yan no longer felt that way.
He suddenly felt that Yao Chen draining his Dou Qi for three years might not have been entirely a bad thing. At least those three years had let him see many things-and many people-for what they truly were.
His character had been tempered as well, leaving him far more mature.
Xiao Yan gave a few perfunctory answers to their questions, then broke free of the crowd and went to chat with Xun'er.
Without explicit permission from Ancestor Xiao Xuan, Xiao Yan could not reveal the secret behind his breakthrough, nor would it be appropriate to do so.
Throughout Dou Qi Square, the younger generation discussed Xiao Yan while the Xiao Clan elders chatted about their own affairs.
The Dou Qi test was just about to end.
Just then, an invisible, foreign aura suddenly erupted from a corner of the Xiao Clan's Dou Qi Square.
This foreign Dou Qi was overwhelmingly powerful, surging forward with ferocious speed and momentum.
The Xiao Clan elders had low cultivation levels, only at the Da Dou Shi stage. Although they had switched to the Xiao Clan Inherited Technique that Xiao Xuan had given them over the past three days, their strength had not increased as dramatically as Xiao Yan's. Naturally, they couldn't react in time.
Before they could respond, the sudden attack was already right in their faces.
Xiao Zhan, the strongest among them, was the first to react.
"This is bad!" Xiao Zhan cried out.
But by the time he reacted, it was already too late. The Dou Wang-level attack was right upon them.
The Dou Wang expert Xuan Tengying had struck.
How terrifyingly swift was a Dou Wang-level attack-especially a surprise attack?
Under normal circumstances, even another Dou Wang of the same level would struggle to withstand such an ambush, let alone the Xiao Clan's handful of mere Da Dou Shi.
Fortunately, Xuan Tengying's first target was Xiao Xuan. He would certainly eliminate the strongest member of the Xiao Clan first.
According to the information Oba Pa had provided, Xiao Xuan should have been at the Dou Ling stage.
Although Xuan Tengying thought nothing of a mere Dou Ling, he still struck with all his strength. After all, even a lion used its full strength to hunt a rabbit.
Xuan Tengying revealed himself and sneered. "Xiao Xuan, hahahaha! Die!"
"Dying at the hands of me, the Dou Wang Xuan Tengying, is an honor for you."
Xuan Tengying fully emerged, his loud, unrestrained laughter filling the Xiao Clan's entire Dou Qi training grounds.
Along with those vicious words, Xuan Tengying's lethal Dou Wang-level Dou Technique had already reached Xiao Xuan's face.
This move was the Dou Technique Xuan Tengying took the greatest pride in-King-Slaying Slash!
At the Dou Wang stage, it could supposedly cut down anyone.
It was powerful enough to slaughter any enemy he set his sights on. Even a Dou Wang would surely die if they took it head-on!
In an instant, Dou Sheng Xiao Xuan was in peril!
"Ancestor!" Seeing Dou Wang Xuan Tengying's Dou Technique already upon Xiao Xuan, Xiao Zhan's eyes nearly split with anguish, and he instinctively shouted.
Xiao Zhan couldn't help being wracked with grief.
The Xiao Clan had languished for a thousand years. Now, Heaven had finally shown them favor and allowed their ancestor Xiao Xuan to return. Under his leadership, the Xiao Clan was poised to rise again.
Who could have imagined that a Dou Wang expert would target them? With such a terrifying Dou Technique ambushing Ancestor Xiao Xuan, his life was in danger!
Was Heaven determined to destroy our Xiao Clan?
"Ancestor! Anc-"
"Huh? Wait, isn't our ancestor a Nine-Star Dou Sheng?"
Seeing Ancestor Xiao Xuan ambushed, Xiao Zhan had instinctively assumed he was in danger and couldn't help shouting.
But a second later, he seemed to come to his senses.
Xiao Zhan suddenly remembered something. Wasn't Xiao Xuan a Dou Sheng?
Would a Dou Sheng Expert fear an ambush from a Dou Wang?
Would a Trisolaran droplet fear an earthling paramecium's all-out strike?
Xiao Zhan, who had just risen to his feet, sat back down.
He told the other Xiao Clan elders beside him to sit back down as well.
"Sit down, everyone, sit down. It's fine. That Dou Wang has had too much to drink."
One moment, Xuan Tengying was reveling in the joy of having killed Xiao Xuan. The next, he saw all the Xiao Clan elders sit back down.
Xuan Tengying was puzzled.
What was going on?
They had been perfectly terrified just now. Why had they suddenly stopped fearing him?
Then, to his horror, Xuan Tengying discovered that after Xiao Xuan merely glanced at his Dou Technique, his King-Slaying Slash dispersed into the wind a full meter away from him, without even touching a single hair.
It looked as though he had never attacked Xiao Xuan at all.
Had Xiao Xuan deleted his Dou Technique?
That bizarre sensation filled Xuan Tengying with extreme unease.
"What happened? Where's my Dou Technique? This is impossible!"
Xuan Tengying looked as though he had seen a ghost.
His Dou Technique was so powerful that his surprise assassinations had been all but undefeated. He had never failed.
Why was today so damned strange? How was Xiao Xuan unharmed?
Xuan Tengying stood dumbfounded. Just then, Xiao Xuan turned his gaze toward him.
With one glance from Xiao Xuan, Xuan Tengying felt as though an indescribable, supremely terrifying being had fixed its eyes on him.
That presence was majestic and dreadful as a prison, exerting an indescribable, crushing pressure.
Xuan Tengying felt all the strength drain from his body. Just one glance from Xiao Xuan had frightened him into wetting himself. He had genuinely pissed himself-his trousers were soaked.
At that moment, Xuan Tengying had only one thought.
They weren't remotely on the same level!
Xiao Xuan wasn't remotely on the same level as him!
A Dou Emperor? No, he couldn't be that weak.
A Dou Zong? A Dou Zun?
He couldn't put it into words. He even felt that Xiao Xuan might be beyond a Dou Zun.
Xuan Tengying was frightened to tears.
Fuck, was there actually a Dou Sheng in Wutan City's Xiao Clan?
Oba Pa, are you even fucking human?
You lied through your teeth and called a Dou Sheng a Dou Ling?
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