BTTH Chapter 17: Kill Them (Patreon)

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

The moment Guhe said this, Nalan Xiao’s heart was also moved. He suddenly realized that talent was talent, there had always been talented people, but the number of people who could successfully become a Dou emperor in the Jiama empire were not many.

It was as mentioned by Guhe, the higher the cultivation, the more resources were required and the importance of talent became lower the higher the cultivation. What did Xiao Yan, who did not have any assistance, depended on to surpass his own daughter!

If his daughter could really defeat Xiao Yan and canceled the engagement according to her wish, who could say that she might not be able to find someone stronger.

After all, powerful people would attract each other.

“I thank grandmaster Guhe for helping me clear things up. If Grandmaster Guhe is willing, please come to the Nalan mansion as a guest. We will definitely give you a great welcome.” Nalan Xiao saluted as he said.

Guhe waved his hand and rejected: “No need, soon, I will have a transaction with a powerful person and so, I need to train my alchemy. I really do not have the time.”

Nalan Xiao quickly said: “Is there anything our Nalan clan can help you with?”

Guhe laughed and said: “I think there is no need, that person is a Dou emperor.”

Hiss! Dou emperor!

To be able to have a transaction with a Dou emperor, pill king Guhe might be the only one in the Jiama empire to have the ability to do so.

At this moment, Xiao Yan, whose protagonist's script was taken away, was standing by a deep pool. With a boom, he immediately reached the bottom of the pool. Xiao Yan was holding onto xuan heavy ruler with both hands and was swinging it continuously. Sweep, slash, thrust, rising slash, the extremely heavy xuan heavy ruler was swung like his own hand.

Weight training!

Xiao Yan had cultivated flame splitting tsunami for more than half a year, he had been able to freely swing the xuan heavy ruler. However, Xiao Yan felt that this was still not enough. So, he used water resistance and pressure to act as weight training!

When he had run out of oxygen, he would keep the xuan heavy ruler and floated up to take a breath before he continued to train.

As Xiao Yan continued to train in the pool, the speed with which he swung the xuan heavy ruler became faster and faster. The pool water even formed a vortex due to Xiao Yan as it fluctuates heavily.

His eyes shrunk as Xiao Yan suddenly compressed the Dou qi in his whole body. The mysterious engraving on the surface of the Xuan heavy ruler was releasing faint red lights. A terrifying heat appeared in the middle of the water, unable to be cooled down as huge air bubbles continued to rise.

“Flame splitting tsunami!”

Xiao Yan swung it towards the sky, a high temperature flaming wave was shot out of the ten meters deep pool. The terrifying temperature continuously ‘swallows’ the water wave!

A huge boom was heard, it was like a torpedo explosion, the pool that was bigger than the football field immediately exploded. The water waves rose to more than tens of meters before falling into a heavy rain.

Xiao Yan took this attack as a chance to put the Xuan heavy ruler on his back and jumped out of the pool.

“Hm? What are you two doing here?” When Xiao Yan jumped out of the pool, he noticed that Xiao Mei and Xiao Yu were beside the pond.

The two unfortunate people were happily chatting, discussing about entering Jianan Academy half a year later. Xiao Yu was explaining an interesting thing in Jianan Academy when suddenly the heavens descended and soaked them wet.

“Xiao Yan! It’s you again!”

Xiao Yan touched his nose as he held back his laughter and said: “I didn’t realize it, Xiao Yu, you are still quite pure.”

Xiao Yu looked down, today both of them were wearing white clothes, being soaked in water, it became transparent! Xiao Yu’s innerwear could be clearly seen. Instead, Xiao Mei, who was younger than Xiao Yu, was more daring, she wore black colored inner wear.

Xiao Mei blushed in shame, but she did not block the view. Xiao Yu screamed as she used her left hand to cover her chest while picking a huge stone, wanting to smack Xiao Yan to death.

When she was picking the stone, Xiao Yan immediately slipped away as if his legs were well lubricated, only leaving behind a sentence ‘this is also an accident’ before disappearing.

After returning to the hidden mountain cave, Xiao Yan changed into a dry cloth and complained: “Truly, enemies meet on narrow roads.”

Xiao Yan touched the storage ring and took out the Bone Chilling Flame. He sat down about half a meter away from the flame and closed his eyes as he started to operate the flame mantra.

It could be clearly seen that a special energy was being slowly absorbed by Xiao Yan and continuously increasing the size of his vortex.

Even when sometimes the unstable heavenly flame burned Xiao Yan, being heated so much that he was drenched in sweat and his skin was burnt, Xiao Yan did not stop cultivating.

If someone asked him, without any master guiding you and no pills assistance, what do you depend on to win? Xiao Yan would decisively answer back: Depend on myself.

After Xiao Yan had completed the daily boring cultivation, he relaxedly went back to the clan. Before Xiao Yan had even stepped into the clan’s main door, he saw the three elders anxiously waiting for him.

“Xiao Yan, you have finally returned!”

“Something big has happened!”

“Quick, quick, quickly go to the clan’s conference hall.”

Xiao Yan was immediately caught and dragged by the second and third elder towards the conference hall without giving Xiao Yan a chance to escape.

After hearing the various things in the hall, Xiao Yan finally understood what had happened. In summary, Jialie clan and Aoba clan had invited a 1st grade alchemist from somewhere and had monopolized in advance all the low-grade medicinal ingredients in the market. After a long preparation, they had finally been refined into two types of 1st grade pill. Most of the business in the market was taken away.

Market monopoly.

“Young patriarch, this is the ‘rejuvenating powder’ and ‘small dou qi pill’.”

Xiao Yan took the bottle labeled rejuvenating powder on the table and poured out a bit of the powder and smelled it before shaking his head and said: “This is called medicinal pills? This is the lowest grade of 1st grade pills. It cannot even speed up wound recovery.”

The third elder smiled wryly and said: “Young patriarch, please stop making trouble. Common mercenary groups can only use this kind of medicine. Furthermore, it is fine as long as it can stop bleeding and pain.”

Xiao Yan then took the bottle labeled small dou qi pill and took out a blue-colored pill from the bottle with the size of a longan. Xiao Yan slightly squashed it and rubbed the powder between his fingers.

“It is slightly better than the rejuvenating powder. It can be considered a middle-grade 1st grade pill. It should be able to let people who had exhausted their Dou qi to use a Huang-middle-grade Dou skill once more.” While speaking, Xiao Yan was also cleaning his hand, as if this medicinal pill was something dirty.

“Yan’er, is there a way to fight against it?” Xiao Zhan immediately pulled Xiao Yan here because more than half a year ago, Xiao Yan had noticed the opponent’s plan. He had even let the clan members prepare early.

Xiao Yan drank a mouth of tea to wet his throat before showing a confident smile: “Of course, there is.”

The great elder quickly asked: “Speak quickly, all of us will support you.”

Xiao Yan waved his hand and said: “There is no need to hurry, it is said that before heaven kills you, it will definitely make you crazy. Let the two clans be happy for a while.”

The second elder doubtfully said: “Then, what should we do?”

Xiao Yan looked at the white-colored powder scattered on the floor and spoke lightly: “Play along with them for a while, do what you need to do. If we immediately solve their pill, it will just make them lose a bit of money. It would not hurt them much.”

“Against our enemy, we should not defeat them, we should kill them.”