Xiao Yan's words sent a series of changes across Yao Ming's face.
Although the man before him was a great enemy of the Nine Netherworld Python Clan, he had also avenged Yao Ming's bitter grudge.
Most importantly, after the First Elder and Yao Xiaotian had joined forces to imprison him in the sunless Nine Nether Yellow Springs, Yao Ming had endured bone-corroding agony day after day solely for the chance to see daylight again.
Now that the chance to see daylight again lay before him, he naturally did not want to die just like that.
Having thought it through, Yao Ming immediately bowed his head.
"Yao Ming is willing to submit!"
Xiao Yan nodded indifferently. Trapped in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs for centuries, Yao Ming had reached the late stage of Two-Star Dou Saint and would make a decent enforcer.
Once subdued, he could be sent to the Northwest Continent to lend Xiao Yan's eldest brother a hand.
Thus, Xiao Yan said calmly, "In that case, open your soul and let me plant my safeguards."
"If you dare harbor any disloyalty, a single thought from me will tear you into ten thousand pieces!"
Hearing this, Yao Ming obediently opened his soul.
Xiao Yan took the opportunity to plant both a Soul Seal and a Fire Lotus Seal within it.
With these two layers of insurance, Yao Ming being merely a late-stage Two-Star Dou Saint was hardly worth mentioning.
Even if he were a Three-Star Dou Sheng, Four-Star Dou Sheng, or even Five-Star Dou Sheng, the detonation of those two seals would still send him straight to the heavens.
"Yao Ming pays his respects to Master!"
Once the seals were planted, Yao Ming immediately changed his form of address.
Xiao Yan then broke his chains and freed him from the