How Could He Allow That?

Nalan Yanran shuddered.

Such intimate contact with Xiao Yan sent a surge of secret delight through her heart.

So what if he was the Flame Emperor?

Right now, he still had to call her Senior Sister.

He even had to beg her for help.

A hint of girlish coyness crept into Nalan Yanran's voice without her even noticing.

"What do you need Teacher for?"

"It's urgent."

"Then come with me."

Nalan Yanran lifted her snow-white chin and headed toward the door.

To Xiao Yan's delight, the maid guarding the door really did not stop Nalan Yanran. Following her, he easily made his way inside.

There, he saw his newly acquired teacher, Yun Yun, opening her eyes with a helpless expression.

"Yanran, why are you back? Where's your Dou Zong teacher?" A trace of bitterness tinged Yun Yun's voice.

The sweet disciple she had raised for several years had been taken away so easily.

Of course she felt unreconciled.

But there was nothing she could do. Even with all her strength, she could not defeat a Dou Zong.

"Sister Yun, Yanran has something important to discuss with you," Nalan Yanran said coyly as she stepped forward and hugged Yun Yun's arm.

With her wits, she naturally knew Yun Yun felt unreconciled.

But becoming a Dou Zong's disciple was not something she could decide for herself. Aside from her Dou Zong teacher's ability to easily subdue the Misty Cloud Sect, he had healed her grandfather's injuries, and she had to repay that kindness.

The Misty Cloud Sect had no way to treat her grandfather for free.

"All right, we'll discuss your business in a moment." Yun Yun stroked Nalan Yanran's head affectionately.

Then she turned her gaze toward the anxious-looking Xiao Yan.

"What is it this time? Speak."

Seeing this, Xiao Yan hurriedly said, "Teacher, I have an urgent matter and need to go home..."

"No!"

Before Xiao Yan could finish, Yun Yun flatly refused.

"Teacher!" Xiao Yan grew frantic.

If she would not let him return home, wasn't she forcing him to watch helplessly as the Xiao Clan was exterminated?

He hurriedly pleaded with her again and again.

Watching the persistent Xiao Yan, Yun Yun frowned and said irritably, "You've only been here a few days, and you already want to go back. You'd better give me a satisfactory reason, or I'll punish you severely."

"Well, um..."

Xiao Yan rubbed his nose.

How was he supposed to explain?

Was he supposed to say he had seen in the Answering Space that the Xiao Clan would be exterminated?

And that he would become the illustrious Flame Emperor?

If he said that aloud and his newly acquired teacher did not give him a beating, even Xiao Yan would think something was wrong.

But if he said nothing, his teacher would not readily let him leave the mountain.

Make up a reason on the spot?

That was too hard!

Xiao Yan lowered his head and racked his brains, beads of sweat forming on his forehead in his anxiety.

Come on, you stupid brain! Think!

"Heh."

Yun Yun sneered.

She had known a male disciple would be mischievous and flighty.

He could come up with anything to avoid cultivating.

How could he compare to a sweet, soft, obedient female disciple?

Just then, Nalan Yanran spoke.

"Sister Yun, just let Junior Brother Xiao Yan go home. He might really have something important to do."

Hearing this, Xiao Yan looked up in delight.

Yun Yun knitted her delicate brows. "Yanran, why are you joining in his nonsense?"

"How am I?"

Nalan Yanran leaned her head over and nuzzled Yun Yun's shoulder.

"Look, Junior Brother Xiao Yan is sweating with anxiety. He most likely really does have something urgent to do."

"Yes, Teacher, I really do have an urgent matter at home," Xiao Yan hurriedly chimed in, giving Nalan Yanran a grateful look.

This sent a surge of secret delight through Nalan Yanran's heart.

The more grateful Xiao Yan felt toward her, the greater her chances of becoming his empress.

Xiao Xun'er, just you wait.

As long as she could become his empress, she could let Xiao Yan touch her too.

It wasn't as if she didn't have a body.

High in the sky.

Gu Yuan's brows were furrowed into three deep lines.

He had come to the Misty Cloud Sect to give the Ninth-Rank Marrow-Cleansing Pill to that soul, so Xiao Yan could take it and improve his constitution, adding another stroke toward his becoming the Flame Emperor.

But he had never imagined this.

For some reason, the female disciple he had only recently taken on had become interested in Xiao Yan again.

Had it even been a month since she went to his home to break off their engagement?

How could he allow that?

The Answering Space's prophecy that Xiao Yan would become the Flame Emperor was set in stone, so his being a little lecher certainly could not be false either.

Whenever he thought of what he had seen in that space-this little brat sneaking into his daughter's room to do that sort of thing from such a young age-

Gu Yuan ground his teeth in anger.

If not for his future title of Flame Emperor, he would have long since...

Gu Yuan took a deep breath.

For his daughter's future.

The Flame Emperor only needed one empress.

As for his newly acquired female disciple, it was time she went into seclusion and stopped wandering about until she broke through to Dou Shi.

Having made up his mind,

Gu Yuan waited patiently until a Da Dou Shi escorted Xiao Yan out of the Misty Cloud Sect.

He followed them, stepped straight out of the void, and used his Dou Sheng-level strength to knock both Xiao Yan and the Da Dou Shi unconscious.

The next second,

an illusory figure floated tremblingly out of the black Storage Ring Xiao Yan wore.

"Yao Chen greets Senior."

Gu Yuan wasted no words on him and went straight to the point. "A brat from the Yao Clan? Feed him this pill. As for the reason, think of one yourself."

Leaving those words behind, Gu Yuan waved a hand, tore open space, and vanished.

"He really was a Dou Sheng?"

Yao Chen let out a long breath, a wry smile appearing on his face.

He had never met an expert like that while alive, yet he had encountered one so easily after his death.

Looking at the jade bottle the Dou Sheng Expert had casually tossed him, he gently opened it and sniffed, his face instantly filling with shock.

"This is? A Marrow-Cleansing Pill above the eighth tier!!!"

A month passed in the blink of an eye.

Many things happened during that month.

First, Xiao Yan, the new male disciple of Yun Yun, Sect Master of the Misty Cloud Sect, actually wanted to practice a Low Yellow Tier Qi Method of unknown origin after becoming a Dou Zhe, despite his teacher's objections. This infuriated Yun Yun.

Yet, for some unknown reason, she ultimately held her nose and agreed to let Xiao Yan practice this Low Yellow Tier Qi Method.

For this, she even posted a bounty: anyone who knew anything about Heavenly Flames would receive a reward once the information was verified.

The rewards were so lavish that even Da Dou Shi experts could not resist their lure.

Second, half a month after taking in a male disciple, Sect Master Yun Yun actually accepted another girl from the Xiao Clan, named Xiao Xun'er, as her disciple. This truly gave the Xiao Clan, a family that had fled the imperial capital in disgrace decades ago, a hefty surge of attention.

Overshadowed by these two major pieces of news, the relocation of the entire Xiao Clan from Wutan City to a small town at the foot of Misty Cloud Mountain seemed rather unremarkable.

On Misty Cloud Mountain.

Inside Xiao Xun'er's courtyard.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er stared unblinkingly as a soul refined medicinal liquid.

On a chair apart from the three of them, Gu Yuan held a black scroll, his brows furrowed as he rested with his eyes closed.

That scroll was naturally the Flame Mantra.

This situation had come about because of Xiao Yan's reunion with Xiao Xun'er.

When Xiao Yan hurried home, his expression grew somewhat uneasy the moment he saw Xiao Xun'er.

The delighted gaze Xiao Xun'er directed at Xiao Yan also held anxiety.

Though young, both were shrewd.

After sounding each other out, they discovered that both had entered the Answering Space.