Xiao Yi Xian

How could Gu Yuan, who was hiding in space to sneak a look at his daughter, endure hearing those words?

He sprang out on the spot.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er both jumped in fright. Then, under Gu Yuan's questioning, he learned that the two had seen everything starting from the second Answering Space session.

There was no hiding it anymore.

To keep the future Flame Emperor from growing arrogant, Gu Yuan used Xiao Yan's sneaking into his daughter's room to make mischief as an excuse to give him a thorough beating.

Caught red-handed by her own father, Xiao Yan could only suffer in silence and obediently take his beating.

Feeling thoroughly refreshed after beating Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan had intended to take the two straight back to the Gu Clan.

But when he remembered that the Hun Clan and Soul Hall had already turned the Central Plains upside down, he immediately changed his mind.

The future Dou Di was still very weak right now.

Once the Hun Clan discovered him, they would undoubtedly kill Xiao Yan at any cost.

Xiao Yan, who was not even a Dou Zhe yet, really could die from a single careless mistake.

For the sake of having a Dou Di son-in-law in the future, and his own opportunity to become a Dou Di,

Gu Yuan came up with a way to get the best of both worlds.

They would not go to the Central Plains.

He would first raise Xiao Yan to Dou Zun on the Northwest Continent.

The Gu Clan had resources in abundance.

The only thing he could not figure out was how Xiao Yan became a Dou Di.

But that question became clear once Yao Chen took out the "Flame Mantra."

Even the Gu Clan had never seen a Qi Method that advanced by absorbing Heavenly Flames.

No wonder Xiao Yan could become the Flame Emperor in the future.

Right now, the only obstacle on Xiao Yan's path to becoming a Dou Di was that he still only had Three-Stage Dou Qi.

As for Heavenly Flames, after ten thousand years of inheritance, the Gu Clan still had some inherited Heavenly Flames within the clan.

Failing that, didn't the nearby Jia Nan Academy have Heavenly Flames too?

Once Xiao Yan advanced to Dou Shi, Gu Yuan could fetch them for him in no time.

Besides that, there was also the Answering Space.

The Heavenly Flames there were incredibly cheap.

Even the Gu Clan's inherited Heavenly Flame, the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, only cost four points.

Qingshan Town.

The noise outside the window made Xiao Han slowly open his eyes as he refined the Strange Lightning's power.

Over an entire month, he had refined ninety-nine percent of the Ten Thousand Beasts Spirit Lightning.

His strength had also swelled like an inflating balloon, rising from his previous One-Star Great Dou Master level to One-Star Peak Dou Ling.

Xiao Han stretched, his body giving off a series of firecracker-like cracks and pops.

"Low-ranked Strange Lightning really is lousy."

"I swallowed both Black Yellow and Ten Thousand Beasts Strange Lightning, and I only reached one-star Dou Ling. Good thing I didn't exchange for the two-point Strange Lightning before."

Xiao Han shook his head with a sigh.

He promptly got out of bed and opened the window.

On the street beside the inn, he saw a crowd of burly Dou Zhe mercenaries shouting as they surged in a certain direction.

"Hurry up! Myriad Medicine Pavilion is heading into the mountains to gather herbs again! I've got to get a guard spot this time!"

"Haha, run, brothers! If we're late, we won't get to see Xiao Yi Xian!"

The whole crowd of mercenaries ran along shouting as though they had spotted an idol.

They were afraid that if they arrived late, they would fail to grab a spot.

Xiao Han rubbed his chin.

"Are they finally heading into the mountains again?"

"Come to think of it, has Xiao Yi Xian discovered that cave dwelling yet?"

"Whatever. Whether she's found it or not, both she and the cave dwelling will be mine in the end."

Xiao Han chuckled.

During that fleeting, breathtaking glimpse a month ago, he had taken in Xiao Yi Xian's waist. Beneath that slender willow waist, too narrow to fill a hand, her pert bottom had already begun to take shape. It was simply superb.

And this was not even Xiao Yi Xian at her peak.

At the entrance to Qingshan Town.

As soon as the late-arriving Xiao Han reached the entrance, he saw frenzied mercenaries fighting over the final spot.

"Me, me, me! I'm a Two-Star Dou Zhe, and I only want 450 gold coins!"

"I'm a Peak Two-Star Dou Zhe, and I only want 450 gold coins too!"

"I'm a Three-Star Dou Zhe, and I only want 400 gold coins!"

Watching the frenzied mercenaries lower their prices just to join Myriad Medicine Pavilion's party, the middle-aged steward in charge of recruitment smiled so broadly that his face nearly blossomed.

The best decision he had ever made in his life was hiring Xiao Yi Xian, that half-trained physician.

As long as Xiao Yi Xian was there, Myriad Medicine Pavilion could save at least several thousand gold coins every time it went into the mountains to gather herbs.

"What the fuck are you undercutting each other for?"

Just then, a calm voice at odds with the scene drifted from behind the crowd.

The mercenaries frantically fighting over the last spot instantly fell silent.

Then they all turned to glare at the speaker.

They saw an unremarkable-looking young man in blue-green clothes, with short hair, watching them calmly with his arms folded.

The speaker was naturally Xiao Han.

In his previous life, others had driven the wages for his factory work ever lower through relentless undercutting, so he naturally loathed people like this.

But in his previous life, he had obeyed the law and would not curse those kings of cutthroat competition to their faces, lest a fight cost him money.

But now that he had been reborn in the Battle Through the Heavens World and encountered this scene again, he had no misgivings as Qingshan Town's strongest expert and naturally voiced his displeasure to vent.

"Where did this brat come from? Talking so big-I'll beat the shit out of you!"

"Arrogant brat! You've angered everyone here. Even if you get on your knees and beg, I won't spare you!"

Seeing that the person who had insulted all their mothers was actually an unremarkable young man, the mercenaries, who spent their lives licking blood from knife edges, all revealed bloodthirsty smiles.

Some of the more hotheaded ones had already raised their fists and charged.

"Brat, today I'll teach you who you can mess with and who you can't!"

Xiao Han chuckled at the burly Three-Star Dou Zhe charging toward him, paying no heed to his wild-boar-like rush.

Only when the fellow reached him and swung his arm wide to slap him across the face did Xiao Han casually raise his faintly glowing left hand to block him. Tiny arcs of electricity flickered through the glow as it collided heavily with the burly man's swinging hand.

The next second.

The burly man's fist, carrying a fierce force, struck as though it had hit solid stone.

Crack.

As the crisp sound rang out, the formerly menacing man clutched his arm, his forehead drenched in sweat from the pain, before the crowd's horrified eyes.

"Can we talk now?"

Raising an eyebrow, Xiao Han smiled at the dumbstruck mercenaries.

"A D-Dou Shi expert..."

The mercenaries who had been shouting about teaching Xiao Han a lesson a second earlier no longer dared even breathe loudly.

A Dou Shi was an uncrowned king in Qingshan Town.

"Haha, young brother, you're truly powerful! To think you're a Dou Shi expert. It seems I failed to recognize your worth." A pleasantly surprised voice came from the steward. The middle-aged man's face nearly blossomed with smiles as he hurriedly said, "Young brother, the last spot is yours. Your mercenary pay will be f-five thousand gold coins."

"Mm." Xiao Han nodded indifferently, unconcerned by the steward's increase in price.

Five thousand or fifty thousand made little difference to him. Gold coins could not buy high-grade materials on the Dou Qi Continent; he was only joining the party because Xiao Yi Xian would be coming.

With the final spot taken by an unknown Dou Shi expert, the mercenaries who had failed to secure a place immediately scattered. Those who had threatened to teach Xiao Han a lesson ran even faster than rabbits.

Naturally, Xiao Han did not care.

But news that an unfamiliar young Dou Shi expert had entered Qingshan Town had already begun spreading with the departing mercenaries.