"And have him send a Three-Star Dou Zun named Mu Gu to the Hun Clan for me."
He wanted to ask this Mu Gu just how he had killed a Peak Dou Zun as a Three-Star Dou Zun.
"Yes, Clan Leader!"
Hun Tiandi's longstanding authority weighed so heavily on the Hun Clan's Dou Sheng that he did not dare ask any questions.
The Gu Clan.
The moment Gu Yuan emerged from the space, he rushed out in a frantic hurry.
He had to take advantage of Hun Tiandi's cultivation falling to mid-stage eight-star, leaving him afraid to venture out of the Soul Realm, to hurry to the Jia Ma Empire and personally take charge, getting that woman named Nalan Yanran to break off her engagement as soon as possible.
Along the way, he would protect his future Dou Di son-in-law, lest Hun Tiandi find him and ruthlessly crush the flower.
The Xiao Clan.
In the square.
Xiao Han had withdrawn from the Answering Space.
Without pausing for a moment, he hurried outside.
He could no longer stay in Wutan City.
That old fellow Gu Yuan had answered the very first question correctly, so he had clearly thought of something.
If he suddenly came to the Xiao Clan and discovered what Xiao Han looked like, Xiao Han knew what would happen without even thinking.
He had answered four questions correctly and held three points.
Gu Yuan, whose cultivation had fallen to Early-Stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng, would have to be a ghost not to be tempted.
"What do you mean, find a woman named Nalan Yanran and stop her from breaking off her engagement?" Inside the Soul Hall, the illustrious Soul Hall Master, Hun Miesheng, stared blankly at the Soul Demon Elder who had come to deliver the message.
"Who am I supposed to ask?" The Soul Demon Elder rolled his eyes.
Who dared ask questions about an order from the clan leader?
He had torn through space and rushed over the moment he received the message, afraid that any delay would earn him punishment from the clan leader.
"Well..." Hun Miesheng rubbed his head. "Did the clan leader say where this woman is?"
"No. Just hurry up and find her. If you delay the clan leader's important business, you won't be able to bear the consequences." The Soul Demon Elder's mouth twitched as he urged Hun Miesheng on.
"Where am I supposed to look?"
"That's none of my business. I've delivered the message, so figure it out yourself." The Soul Demon Elder washed his hands of the matter completely.
"You..."
Hun Miesheng nearly choked. He stared at the Soul Demon Elder with a dark gaze.
"What good does getting angry with me do? Take it up with the clan leader if you've got the nerve." The Soul Demon Elder sneered and rose. "All right, I've notified you. I still have to take Mu Gu back to the clan, so hurry up and find her."
With that, he brushed off his backside, tore open space, and stepped inside.
Only Hun Miesheng remained, panting like an ox.
"You tell me nothing, so how the hell am I supposed to find her?!" With a bang, Hun Miesheng smashed his chair to pieces.
Angry as he was, the task still had to be done.
He flew out of the great hall with a dark expression and shouted before the personnel of the Soul Hall headquarters:
"Someone, notify the Heaven, Earth, and Human Halls, every branch hall, Heavenly Venerate, Venerable Elder, Protector, and Soul Envoy! Have them find a woman named Nalan Yanran at any cost and stop her from breaking off her engagement!"
The Jia Ma Empire.
Jia Ma Holy City.
Within the Nalan Family, one of the empire's three great families, everyone was in high spirits.
A passing Dou Zong expert had taken a liking to the Nalan Family's Nalan Yanran and wanted to accept her as his disciple.
This was joyous news as great as the heavens.
Although Nalan Jie repeatedly explained that Yanran already had a teacher, the Dou Zong expert did not care and insisted on taking Nalan Yanran as his disciple.
Moreover, as a show of sincerity, this Dou Zong expert had produced a precious pill and cured the stubborn ailment that had plagued Nalan Jie for years in one stroke.
"How could I possibly accept all this?" Taking one thing after another left even Nalan Jie embarrassed.
"It's fine. As long as Yanran takes me as her master, these are all trivial matters."
Gu Yuan, who had changed his appearance, smiled faintly. A mere Sixth-Grade Pill was nothing to him.
As long as he could bring about Nalan Yanran's broken engagement sooner, he could produce seventh- or eighth-grade pills, let alone sixth-grade ones.
It was simply that a lowly Dou Wang could not withstand them.
How could Nalan Jie let such a generous Dou Zong slip away? He immediately thumped his chest and said, "In that case, this junior will accompany you to the Misty Cloud Sect, Senior, and persuade my daughter to take you as her master."
"There's no time to lose. Let's go." Those were exactly the words Gu Yuan had been waiting for. He immediately lifted Nalan Jie with one hand and flew toward the nearby Misty Cloud Sect.
Meanwhile.
Xiao Han had already traveled far from Wutan City.
In a nearby town, he picked an inn at random and sank his consciousness into the space.
With three points in his possession, he could hardly wait to grow stronger.
Inside the space.
There was everything one could want: Heaven-Tier Dou Techniques, Heaven-Tier Cultivation Methods, secret treasures, pills, Heavenly Flames, Strange Lightning, ancient magical beast bloodlines, Dou Di bloodlines, and more.
Xiao Han immediately turned his attention to the Dou Di bloodline.
Dou Di bloodline, ranks one through six: 1 point Dou Di bloodline, ranks seven through eight: 2 points Dou Di bloodline, rank nine: 5 points
"A bloodline that only lets me cultivate to Dou Emperor actually costs one point, and I'll most likely still have to cultivate it myself. Isn't that way too expensive?" Xiao Han frowned and muttered a few complaints.
Still, he obediently spent one point to exchange for a rank-one-through-six Dou Di bloodline.
He had no choice, because his talent was simply too poor.
He was already twenty-five, yet only a Three-Star Dou Zhe.
An utter waste of space.
With the bloodline exchanged and a fallback secured, he needed to exchange for a cultivation method too.
Xiao Han currently cultivated the Flame Manipulation Art. Its name sounded decent, but it was actually only a mid-level Yellow Tier cultivation method. The amount of Dou Qi it could hold was pitifully small; a couple of casual uses would drain it dry.
So he turned his attention to the Heaven-Tier Cultivation Methods.
After a single glance, he promptly switched to the Earth Tier section.
Heaven Tier was too expensive. Even low-level Heaven Tier methods started at three points, and he only had three points in total.
He swiftly spent one point on a high-level Earth Tier Dou Qi cultivation method, the Lightning-Control Art.
Although its name was nothing special, it allowed him to devour and harness natural Strange Lightning ranked below fifteenth on the Strange Lightning Ranking without suffering harm, and it also had a subsequent Heaven-Tier Cultivation Method.
Xiao Han took a liking to it at first glance.
As it happened, his final remaining point could be exchanged for the last type of natural Strange Lightning, Xuanhuang Lightning.
With his points spent, Xiao Han, who was merely a Three-Star Dou Zhe, immediately experienced the wonders of the Dou Di bloodline.
With every breath, Dou Qi poured ceaselessly into his body.
In an instant, he broke through the bottleneck that had plagued him for years and became a four-star Dou Zhe!
"This is way too powerful!" Xiao Han's face lit up with joy.
At that moment, he finally understood why the people of the Ancient Seven Clans in the original story looked down on everyone outside their clans.
With a Dou Di bloodline, cultivation really was fast.
He immediately stopped hesitating.
He closed his eyes and immersed himself in cultivation.
He would cultivate here until he reached the Da Dou Shi realm, then go to Qingshan Town to find Xiao Yi Xian.
If anyone failed to recognize what was good for them and stood in his way then, they could not blame him, a dignified Da Dou Shi, for showing no mercy.
A night passed.
Xiao Han was still cultivating.
But several dozen li away, several uninvited guests arrived at the Xiao Clan's gates.
Nalan Yanran stepped down from the carriage with an arrogant expression, a trace of pride appearing as she looked at the Xiao Clan's main gate.
Because, as of last night, she, Nalan Yanran, had been forcibly accepted as a Dou Zong expert's disciple.
That was a Dou Zong expert!
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