BTTH Chapter 16: The hardworking Nalan Yanran! (Patreon)

Yunlan sect, as the strongest sect in the Jiama Empire, was located around 10 km away from the capital, in a majestic mountain and thanks to Yunlan sect’s fame, the mountain was called Yunlan mountain.

Around 2 km away from the leg of the mountain, the kingdom’s armoured cavalry was stationed. Although it was said to be protecting the capital, everyone could see that it was an attempt by the kingdom’s ruler to protect against the ferocious tiger located nearby.

The plants in the Yunlan sect flourished and thrived into a forest covering the whole undulating mountains. You can even hear the sound of waterfalls in the distance, surrounded by lush greenery. This place was filled with incomparable vitality.

A girl wearing a silver-moon coloured dress was cultivating with her hands forming a cultivation seal and her eyes closed. A perfect cycle was formed along with her rhythmic breathing.

The cultivating girl was the one who wanted to cancel her engagement with Xiao Yan, Nalan Yanran.

After the last green coloured thread was breathed in by the girl, she slowly opened her eyes. Vague green coloured light flashed through her eyes as her green silk shawl fluttered even though there was no wind.

“What a tyrannical pill, I actually needed a month to completely digest it.”

As Nalan Yanran stood beside the cliff, the mountainous wind blew towards her, causing her dress to stick onto her beautiful curving figure. It had to be said, Nalan Yanran’s beauty and figure was worthy of the word beautiful.

“Senior sister Nalan, old man Nalan Xiao, had arrived in the Yunlan sect. He asked you to meet him.” A servant girl who was specially assigned to attend to Nalan Yanran spoke softly.

Nalan Yanran took out her sword and Dou qi immediately covered the sword as she started to train her Dou skill.

“I’m not meeting him!”

A year has passed. Nalan Yanran knew that her previous failure was due to her insufficient training in Dou skill. That was why Nalan Yanran had been cultivating her Dou skill heavily. She had even entered the ferocious beast mountain to train herself alone. Hoping to improve her Dou skill through blood battle.

Nalan Yanran’s simple rejection of not meeting depressed the servant girl. However, she did not dare to refute Nalan Yanran’s decision and could only pass along her words.

In the hall within Yunlan sect, after hearing that her own daughter had rejected to meet him, Nalan Xiao’s expression was bad as he slapped the table angrily and said: “This kid is becoming more and more rebellious!”

He never thought that after merely leading the troop to the western side of the empire for a year, her pampered daughter would actually dare to cancel the engagement that his father arranged by herself.

As for the engagement, actually the one who cared the most about the engagement was Nalan Xiao. This was because he liked Xiao Yan’s talent very much. So much so that he even wanted to wait until both of them were married and then used the Nalan clan’s resources to cultivate Xiao Yan.

Nalan Yanran, who entered the Yunlan sect and cultivated with Yun Yun, would definitely become a Dou emperor. As long as Xiao Yan also became a Dou emperor, then the Nalan clan would have two Dou emperors and would not need to depend on the Yunlan sect!

If that truly happened, Nalan Xiao dared to let the Jiama empire have a new sky and changed the name of Jiama empire into Nalan empire!

When he returned and heard that her own daughter was defeated in one move by Xiao Yan, and that he already had a terrifying cultivation of a 6-star Dou practitioner during the coming-of-age ceremony a few days ago, he, Nalan Xiao, was so angry that his head almost exploded.

Xiao Yan’s talent was much higher than his daughter’s talent. He might not become a mere low-grade (1-star or 2-star) Dou emperor, he had the chance to become a middle-grade or even a high-grade Dou emperor!

If he truly became a high-grade Dou emperor, he had the confidence to be able to unify three empires and pacify the whole north-western region!

“This kid is becoming more and more daring! Even this father is no longer in her eyes, is it!” Nalan Xiao was so angry that his beard rose as he immediately went towards the cultivation area.

“Old man Nalan! That is the Yunlan sect cultivation ground, you cannot go in!”

But how could a small servant girl be able to block Nalan Xiao, this great general of the Jiama empire.

Although Nalan Yanran’s soul power was not as strong as Xiao Yan, what she cultivated was a wind-attributed technique, as such she had a very keen sense towards the air.

Nalan Yanran also felt that her father had angrily rushed into the cultivation mountain. However, she did not care about it. She continued to cultivate the new Dou skill that Yun Yun had given her.

“Nalan Yanran! Do you not place your father in your eyes!” Nalan Xiao saw that her own daughter was still cultivating and did not pay any attention to her father and his anger surged. Just when he wanted to rush there and ask for an explanation, a middle-aged man suddenly appeared and blocked in front of Nalan Xiao.

Seeing the person, even the angry Nalan Xiao would retract his anger and ask: “Grandmaster Guhe, it’s been a while.”

The middle-aged man was the number one alchemist of the Jiama empire, with the title pill king, the 6th grade alchemist Guhe.

Not to mention Nalan Xiao, even the emperor of the Jiama empire was respectful towards Guhe. This was because a 6th grade alchemist was able to refine pills of Dou emperor, which also meant that Guhe was able to move Dou emperors!

Guhe gave a salute and said: “General Nalan, please come here, Yanran is still cultivating and cannot be disturbed.”

Nalan Xiao nodded his head, since Guhe had appeared, Nalan Xiao had no more method.

On the stone table, Guhe brewed a pot of tea and poured one for Nalan Xiao and got straight to the point: “The reason general Nalan came should be about Yanran’s arbitrary engagement cancellation, right?”

Speaking of the engagement cancellation, Nalan Xiao angrily drank the tea and said: “That kid is still young, she still does not know that by doing this, how big the damage is done to the Nalan clan’s reputation. Fortunately, this matter was not known by other people. Otherwise, the Nalan clan would no longer be able to stand firm in the capital.”

The previous purpose of the engagement was to repay Xiao Yan’s grandfather for the life-saving gratitude. The engagement was used to protect the Xiao clan, whose clan patriarch had greatly lost their cultivation.

The implications for breaking the engagement were too big.

And most importantly, Nalan Xiao wanted to have a talented son-in-law!

Guhe was an insightful person. With a glance, he had seen the reason for his anger and said while tasting the tea: “I have also heard about that young man, Xiao Yan. He seemed to have been tested to be a 6-star Dou practitioner during his coming-of-age ceremony. An achievement of three stars in a year. His talent is indeed not less than Yanran.”

Hearing Guhe’s words, Nalan Xiao’s expression was as bitter as bitter gourd.

“However.” Guhe’s tone suddenly changed as he turned to look at the bitterly cultivating Nalan Yanran and said: “Cultivating does not depend on only talent. No matter how high the talent, if there is not strong technique, no master to guide, no assistance from pills. It would be like how a good woman would not be able to cook without rice.”

“Although being able to reach 6-star in a year is very fast, there is still a distance when compared to Yanran.”

When Nalan Xiao heard Guhe’s words, he immediately sensed something.

“9-star Dou practitioner?!!!”

Guhe comforted while nodding his head: “Yanran suffers a lot this year. The 4th grade wind-attributed pill I gave her, although it can help to advance wind-attributed Dou skill, but she would sometimes feel pain caused by astral wind, yet Yanran did not voice any complaint.”

“Furthermore, half a year ago, sect master Yun Yun had taken Yanran as a personal disciple and had given Yunlan sect’s earth-grade technique - Misty cloud mantra, to Yanran.”

“The terrible defeat a year ago is not something bad to Yanran, after letting go of all appearances, Yanran had let go of her arrogance and fully focused on cultivation.”

“As long as Yunyun collected the ingredients, I can help Yanran refine a few 5th grade pills. Two years later, Yanran’s cultivation would definitely exceed everyone’s expectations.”

“With no master’s guidance, no assistance from pills, what can Xiao Yan depend on to surpass Yanran?”