Breaking the Masked Man

Unfortunately, Yao Yan couldn't get an accurate timeline from it. To make a judgment, he either needed to figure out how old Gu Xun'er was or go to the Jia Ma Empire, neither of which was possible for him at the moment.

"Thinking so much is pointless."

Yao Yan sighed softly. For him at present, accumulating strength within the Yao Clan was the right path. Only with strength could he be qualified to plan for the future.

After all, in the world of Doupo, strength determines everything.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 2 Hehe

Yao Yan's home is located south of Dan Ding City.

It was a courtyard of moderate size, complete with all the necessary facilities, including an alchemy room. If needed, several beautiful maids could be provided to serve at any time. In fact, a direct descendant like Yao Yan, who possessed the bloodline of the Medicine Clan's Dou Di, was quite popular among the branches of the Medicine Clan.

Even if you're not talented, being a stud is still an option. Even if your parents don't have a high bloodline, what if one of your offspring becomes a genius?

in other words.

Yao Yan said he would never lack beautiful wives in the future, as his family would arrange their marriages.

Of course, this is all predicated on the fact that the Medicine Clan can still exist.

It's a pity that the Soul Clan is too ruthless and the Soul Emperor is too fierce, otherwise Yao Yan would really like to shout, "I will never coexist with the Soul Clan!"

……

Yao Yan pushed open the door, looked at the quiet courtyard, paused for a moment, and then walked towards the alchemy room. Since his mother passed away, he had been living alone. During this time, some people wanted to adopt him, but he refused because he could no longer bring himself to call them parents.

In comparison, it's more comfortable to live alone, especially since he has fighting spirit by his side. As an adult, he doesn't need anyone else to take care of him.

The alchemy room was completely empty.

In the center was a medicine cauldron as tall as a person, its body a dark yellow color, and next to it was a futon.

This is where Yao Yan usually spends the most time.

In the twelve years since he transmigrated, he has either been cultivating or engrossed in alchemy. He rarely interacts with his peers in the clan school. Compared to playing in the mud with those children, cultivation and alchemy are obviously more interesting, which is why he ranks among the top students in the clan school.

Hard work will eventually pay off.

Yao Yan flipped his palm, and as his battle qi surged in, a flash of light appeared on the storage ring on his index finger, revealing two bottles of pills in his hand: a second-grade Qi-strengthening pill and a first-grade heart-clearing pill. The former strengthens the body and nourishes the Qi, and can be used in conjunction with the Yao Clan's inherited technique, the Three Flowers Gathering Fire Technique, to build a foundation for the body.

According to the elders of the Medicine Clan, in the path of Dou Qi, those below Dou Wang are all in the Foundation Establishment stage, and only those above Dou Wang can truly embark on the path of becoming a strong person.

The strength of your foundation will also determine your future path.

Some people are too eager to succeed in the early stages and barely break through to the Dou Wang level, exhausting their potential and stopping there. They need to rely on external things to break through, such as pills, but they still can't make any progress. Reaching the Dou Huang level is the limit. As for Dou Zong and Dou Zun, they can only look up to them. This shows the importance of Foundation Establishment.

Rumor has it that the core members of the clan will remain at the Battle Qi stage for a long time, constantly using rare and precious materials to deepen their potential until they reach the perfect level of their talent and potential.

In the early stages, I didn't care at all about how fast I could advance.

Of course, this is the way of the direct descendants, and Yao Yan is naturally not qualified to do so. However, the Yao clan's inherited cultivation techniques also have similar effects, among which the Three Flowers Gathering Fire Technique is the best. Its cultivation speed and early power are not as good as the other two open cultivation techniques, but it has an unparalleled advantage in foundation building.

It is said that this was also caused by medicinal dust.

The Medicine Clan has three major open-ended foundation-building techniques, all of which have been passed down through generations: Fire Condensation Technique, Wildfire Spreading Technique, and Three Flowers Gathering Fire Technique.

The first two techniques are easy to cultivate into powerful alchemy fire energy, but the Three Flowers Gathering Fire Technique is different. Every step of cultivation is extremely difficult. Some clansmen and disciples who practice this technique are stuck at a certain level for several years without making any progress. Therefore, they are excluded by most people until Yao Chen appeared out of nowhere a hundred years ago, which brought about a change.

Although this technique is slow to cultivate and the energy generated from alchemy is not strong, it is stable. It does not require the nourishment of rare and precious materials to achieve a perfect foundation. Moreover, once mastered, it far surpasses the previous two techniques in terms of the richness of battle qi, physical strength, and soul power.

Yao Yan was initially skeptical, but after mastering the technique, he discovered its unique nature and even suspected that it was related to the Medicine Emperor of the Yao Clan.

This technique is only at the low level of the Yellow Rank, but in the process of cultivating it, it can absorb the scarce spiritual energy between heaven and earth to nourish the body's essence, energy and spirit. It even has the effect of a soul technique. However, unlike soul techniques that can only nourish the soul, the Three Flowers Gathering Fire Technique can nourish the body's essence, energy and spirit at the same time.

Spiritual power is different from the natural energy of the Dou Qi Continent.

The Dou Qi cultivated in the Doupo world is formed by absorbing and converting the energy of heaven and earth, while spiritual power is a higher-level power that belongs to the Great Thousand World above Doupo.

This is something that no one in the entire Battle Through the Heavens knows, nor does anyone know the special nature of spiritual power.

Yao Yan discovered this by chance, thanks to his soul power far exceeding that of his peers, and perhaps also related to the fact that his soul had traveled through time. In any case, he could sense the subtle changes in energy around him, and with the information he knew, he was able to deduce these things.

Perhaps this technique was left behind by the Medicine Emperor after he went to the Great Thousand World.

Unfortunately, it was ultimately just a foundational Yellow-rank cultivation technique. Reaching the Dou Ling level was the limit, and it was unknown how long it would take to complete. It was only because Yao Yan was a member of the Yao Clan, lived in the Shennong Mountains where the energy of heaven and earth was abundant, and had access to a large number of pills...

If it were outside the country, such as the Gama Empire, you simply couldn't afford to play this game.

Cultivation is inherently a struggle against heaven, earth, and time; no one has the patience to slowly cultivate a low-level Yellow Rank cultivation technique.

This is why, even after the incident involving Yao Chen, not many members of the Medicine Clan chose the Three Flowers Gathering Fire Technique.

After swallowing the two pills, Yao Yan quickly entered a state of cultivation as his internal fighting spirit circulated. With each breath, the spiritual energy that filled the world surged into his body, along with the rich energy of heaven and earth, covering his body as if he were bathing in white mist.

Time flies, and soon it got dark.

When Yao Yan opened her eyes, the sky outside was filled with stars, and the crescent moon hung like a hook.

"After reaching the sixth-star Dou Zhe level, the cultivation speed becomes slower and slower."

Yao Yan couldn't help but frown. Even though he knew this cultivation method was special and belonged to the category of gradual accumulation, the snail-like speed was still unbearable. Which young person wasn't full of energy? Who would like this kind of slow cultivation method, crawling slowly like a little tortoise and watching their peers surpass them one by one?

The contrast between others who have already broken through to the level of Dou Shi and Da Dou Shi, while I am still crawling at the Dou Zhe level, is unimaginable.

Most critical.

You have no idea how long you need to grind through this stage.

"It would be great if there was a progress bar..."

Yao Yan shook his head helplessly. He was not an old man after all. His young body naturally brought him the mentality of a young man. Everyone has a competitive spirit, and he could not be emotionless and indifferent to everything.

"Perhaps we should try to find some rare and precious materials."

Yao Yan hesitated. Although he was a member of the Yao Clan and had no shortage of low-grade medicinal herbs and pills, he could not obtain the kind of natural treasures that could nourish the body. This was because such things were always priceless and unavailable, especially in a place like the Yao Clan, where the direct descendants of the Yao Clan had almost monopolized all the slightly higher-grade natural treasures.

If you search at the level of Dou Zong or even Dou Zun, how much scraps will be left?

Unless it's somewhere much farther away, but the danger there is beyond what Yao Yan's small arms can handle, and he has no one to help him search for such rare and precious materials.

For a moment, Yao Yan was conflicted.

"Hehehe, little guy, aren't you very unwilling?"

Just then, a strange laugh reached Yao Yan's ears. The bizarre laugh instantly froze Yao Yan's expression, and he almost blurted out "Holy crap!"

How the hell is this possible?!

This is the heartland of the Medicine Clan!!

How dare they?!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 3 Please teach me, Master.

Okay, there's nothing the Soul Clan wouldn't dare to do.

Yao Yan couldn't help but mutter to himself that he hadn't expected his first encounter with the Soul Clan to be like this. As for whether the other party was actually a member of the Soul Clan or not, judging from their laughter and their unbridled audacity, there was no one more arrogant than them in the entire Dou Qi Continent.

Anyone with even a slight understanding of the Medicine Clan would dare to barge in like this. If the Medicine Clan were to discover them, they would face a devastating blow.

Do you really think the medicine clan has a good temper?

The Medicine Clan ranks among the top in strength among the eight ancient families. There are very few forces on the entire Dou Qi Continent that they dare not provoke.

Add to that laughter... there's absolutely no doubt about the other person's identity.

Sure enough, the Soul Clan had already infiltrated, and the Medicine Clan was rotten inside... Yao Yan cursed inwardly again. He knew the Medicine Clan was not safe. Based on the strength shown by the Medicine Clan in the original work, if their home hadn't been attacked, they wouldn't have been defeated so quickly and so miserably.

The Soul Clan's scheme had already begun long ago.

"Who...who are you? Where are you? Show yourself!"

Yao Yan asked the question knowingly, his handsome face showing surprise and anger as he cautiously looked around.

He didn't think the other party had any 'malicious intent' in coming here. With his current strength as a six-star Dou Zhe, it would be no different for the other party to crush him than to crush an ant. If they really wanted to do something to him, they wouldn't need to waste words; they would just have to attack. Whether he agreed or not was not important.

The world of Doupo has always been this cruel; strength determines everything.

Go if you want.

If I had to make a comparison: I don't eat beef!

“I’ve been observing you all these years from within your storage ring, little one, you’re quite remarkable.” The middle-aged man’s voice came from within the ring, tinged with a hint of appreciation.

I'll fuck you!

Yao Yan was almost scared to death by this bastard. What did he do to deserve being noticed by a big shot from the Soul Clan? He was really screwed. He felt that he had never experienced more stimulation in the past ten years than he had experienced at this moment. He frantically recalled all his actions over the years.

A moment later, he was incredibly grateful that he didn't have the bad habit of talking to himself and that he always thought things through in his mind.

Seemingly sensing that Yao Yan was frightened, the storage ring on his index finger emitted a faint glow, shrouded in a jet-black mist. A moment later, a figure composed of black mist appeared before him. The figure was enveloped in black flames, which were extremely peculiar, seemingly devouring even light, with no trace of its aura leaking out.

Yao Yan couldn't even sense the other party's soul fluctuations. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't even have been able to determine whether there was anything in front of him.

Void Devouring Flames!

Ranked second on the list of strange flames, it is born from nothingness, formless and intangible, a truly peculiar existence. Known as the one that devours heaven and earth, it possesses the ability to devour all things. Only a handful of living beings in the world can withstand that devouring power.

What the hell do I deserve... Yao Yan was completely exposed at this moment. He was just a weakling with only six-star Dou Zhe skills. He hadn't even left the newbie village yet, and he had already encountered such a powerful figure. How could he possibly withstand it?