At that moment, his Dou Qi had become a nearly boundless ocean. His terrifying aura swept across the entire Xiao Realm, making every living creature within it feel that dreadful pressure.
Many with lower cultivation levels could not help falling to their knees, looking toward the Heavenly Flames Valley with expressions of fear and excitement.
These creatures might not have known whether the aura belonged to an Eight-Star Dou Saint or a Nine-Star Dou Sheng, but they all understood one thing: another peerless expert had emerged in the Xiao Clan.
An aura like this had not appeared for a very long time.
After all, only a handful of experts in the entire Xiao Clan were stronger than Seven-Star Dou Saints.
Yet, unlike these weaker, ordinary Xiao Clan members, the clan's Dou Sheng experts all rose to their feet, shock spreading across their faces.
"It's the aura of a Nine-Star Dou Sheng! Its source is... the Emperor's Son, Xiao Yan!"
Disbelief appeared on every expert's face.
When Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan a year ago, he had only just become an Eight-Star Dou Saint. Yet in the short span of a year, he had raised his cultivation level by another star, reaching Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
With Xiao Xuan and the five Peak Dou Shengs absent from the clan, Xiao Yan's current cultivation level already placed him first in the Xiao Clan.
At that thought, all the Dou Sheng experts fell silent.
The Eight-Star Dou Saints and Seven-Star Dou Saints were especially quiet, for they had witnessed Xiao Yan continuously turning the clan's resources into his own strength over the past year.
That was precisely why they fell into this rare silence. They knew that even if those resources were placed before them, crossing the threshold into Nine-Star Dou Sheng