Xiao Xuan: What Do You Mean, You Raised a Descendant of My Xiao Clan into a Dou Di?

Hun Tiandi's figure flashed as he arrived at the deepest part of the Heavenly Tomb.

The next second, an immensely powerful pressure erupted.

"Who dares trespass into my Tomb Mansion?!"

A middle-aged man in black robes abruptly appeared before Hun Tiandi.

But when he saw the face of the man before him, he froze.

"Hun... Hun Tiandi?!"

"Xiao Xuan, it's been a long time," Hun Tiandi said with a smile.

Faced with the chief culprit behind the Xiao Clan's destruction, Xiao Xuan instinctively wanted to attack and keep him there.

But he soon noticed that something was different about Hun Tiandi.

After pondering for a moment, Xiao Xuan suddenly realized what might have happened.

His lips trembled slightly. "You've succeeded in taking that step!"

After all, the Heavenly Tomb had been placed within the Gu Clan's realm after his fall.

The fact that Hun Tiandi could appear here already spoke volumes.

If he had not become a Dou Di, Gu Yuan would never have let him in.

Of course, that also meant his good brother Gu Yuan had likely fallen at Hun Tiandi's hands.

At that thought, Xiao Xuan's gaze dimmed somewhat. His voice was indifferent as he said, "Since you've succeeded, what have you come to the Heavenly Tomb for?"

Hun Tiandi smiled. "I came to take care of something. Then I suddenly remembered you were still here, so I thought I'd settle the karma between my Soul Clan and your Xiao Clan once and for all."

"Heh, every last member of my Xiao Clan has fallen victim to your Soul Clan. I don't even count as a wandering soul or a stray ghost, so what karma is left for you to settle?"

"Who said your Xiao Clan was wiped out? If not for me, your Xiao Clan really would have vanished completely."

Xiao Xuan frowned, not quite understanding what Hun Tiandi meant.

"What do you mean?"

Hun Tiandi walked forward a few steps with his hands behind his back. "Isn't there a mansion in this ancient tomb of yours? Why don't we go inside and talk?"

With that, he entered Xiao Xuan's Tomb Mansion ahead of him.

Xiao Xuan followed, unsure what was going on.

After the two sat down, Hun Tiandi waved his hand, and an image appeared before Xiao Xuan.

The young man in the image was none other than Xiao Yan.

"Can you tell anything?"

Xiao Xuan narrowed his eyes and studied Xiao Yan carefully. After a long while, his eyes suddenly widened.

"Is that... a Dou Di?"

Then something even more inconceivable appeared before Xiao Xuan.

He could actually sense the power of the Xiao Clan Bloodline in Xiao Yan.

What was more, it was the power of the Xiao Clan Bloodline with its Dou Di Bloodline activated.

"He's a descendant of my Xiao Clan?"

"His name is Xiao Yan. As for which generation of your Xiao Clan he belongs to, I don't know."

Hun Tiandi looked at Xiao Xuan and suddenly teased, "Xiao Xuan, let me tell you something even more interesting."

Xiao Xuan said nothing, waiting for Hun Tiandi to continue.

Hun Tiandi then began to recount the story. "If I'm not mistaken, after your fall, you must have entrusted Gu Yuan with looking after the remaining bloodline of the Xiao Clan."

"I have to say, Gu Yuan really is a decent man. He took such good care of them that your Xiao Clan was forced to leave the Central Plains and go to a small place called the Jia Ma Empire on the Northwest Continent."

"As the power of the Xiao Clan's bloodline withered away completely, the Xiao Clan ceased to exist, replaced by an incomparably weak Xiao Clan."

"So weak that even its clan head was only a Da Dou Shi."

"Xiao Xuan, don't you find that interesting too?"

Hearing Hun Tiandi's words, Xiao Xuan's expression darkened.

From what he knew of Hun Tiandi, the man would not stoop to making up lies to deceive him.

But if that were true...

Xiao Xuan remembered how Gu Yuan had sworn solemnly to him that he would take good care of the Xiao Clan.

Heh! He really did take good care of them!

After a while, Xiao Xuan suppressed the anger in his heart. "Then what's the story with this descendant named Xiao Yan?"

"Since my Xiao Clan had fallen so low, how could it have produced a Dou Di expert?"

"Well..."

Hun Tiandi smiled faintly. "Xiao Yan calls me Master."

Xiao Xuan: ???

He almost thought his eyes had gone deaf and his ears blind, and that he had misheard.

"Xiao Yan is your disciple?"

"Is it that surprising?"

Xiao Xuan said in disbelief, "You mean to say that you, the mighty patriarch of the Soul Clan, traveled countless miles to the Northwest Continent, took an enemy's descendant as your disciple, and even raised him into a Dou Di expert?"

"Why couldn't I?"

"What do you get out of it?"

Xiao Xuan felt that either he had gone mad or Hun Tiandi had!

"What business is it of yours what I get out of it?"

Hun Tiandi looked thoughtful, then said, "By that reckoning, Xiao Xuan, don't you owe me an enormous favor?"

"After all, he's a Dou Di."

"Now you should know what I came to settle."

The corner of Xiao Xuan's mouth twitched slightly.

He had considered that Hun Tiandi might have come to make his old enemy disappear completely, or that Hun Tiandi had succeeded and simply wanted to come here to humiliate him.

But he had never imagined it would turn out like this.

What do you mean, my clan's great revival depends on funding from its mortal enemy?

Xiao Xuan felt as though he had spent the past several thousand years dead for nothing.

Hun Tiandi had destroyed his Xiao Clan, then given him back an even stronger Xiao Clan. So when all was said and done, he had to thank Hun Tiandi?

Seeing Xiao Xuan looking as though he was about to suffer internal injuries from holding it all in, Hun Tiandi could barely contain himself.

Xiao Xuan was silent for a long time before finally speaking. "What do you want me to do?"

Hun Tiandi shook his head. "What can someone who doesn't even count as a wandering soul or a stray ghost do?"

Xiao Xuan: ...

"However, there is one thing you might actually be able to do."

As he spoke, Hun Tiandi took out the Law of Samsara.

Xiao Xuan's gaze fell on the gray ring, and he immediately felt a shiver run through him.

That tiny thing made him feel like a mayfly gazing upon the vast sea.

"What is that?"

"The Law of Samsara."

Hun Tiandi explained the concept of samsara to Xiao Xuan.

When Xiao Xuan heard that Hun Tiandi intended to create a true samsara for all living beings, the shock in his eyes was hard to conceal.

He looked at Hun Tiandi in disbelief. After a long while, he finally asked a question.

"Who exactly are you?"

"What? Are you surprised I'd do something like this?"

Xiao Xuan chuckled and shook his head. "Heh, haven't you heard the saying?"

"The person who knows you best is often your opponent."

"How proud I was back then, yet even I have to admit that Hun Tiandi was indeed one of the few opponents who could rival me."

"What sort of man was Hun Tiandi? How could someone so selfish and self-serving do something as absurd as benefiting all living beings?"

Hun Tiandi looked at Xiao Xuan in some surprise, then slowly said, "What am I supposed to say to you?"

Xiao Xuan let out a long sigh. "But whether you're really Hun Tiandi doesn't matter to me anymore."

"Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

Hun Tiandi wasted no words and got straight to the point. "I'm going to establish samsara here. Once it has just been formed, I'll need to test whether it's stable."

"You want me to enter samsara?"

"Exactly."

"Of course, if you're unwilling, I can erase you and cast you into samsara all the same."

"There's no need to go to all that trouble."

"I can enter your samsara."

After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Xuan made a request of Hun Tiandi.

"Before that, may I meet this extraordinarily gifted descendant of my Xiao Clan in person?"