Battle Through the Heavens: Emperor's Son Xiao Yan

Chapter 19: Training the Teacher into a Battle Saint

"Hehe, young friend, this 'Burning Technique' you're talking about, I don't think I've ever heard of it before."

Faced with Xiao Yan's question, Yao Chen quickly regained his composure, acting as if he had never heard of it.

"Hehe, you're quite the actor." Xiao Yan glanced at Yao Chen with a playful look, then at Han Feng, whose expression had also changed drastically.

"You can hide it, but your apprentice can't."

"The Burning Technique is a mysterious cultivation method that can evolve by devouring different flames. When you first start practicing it, it is only at the low level of the Yellow Rank, but it will continue to evolve as it devours different flames until it becomes a Heaven Rank cultivation method."

Xiao Yan smiled as he looked at Yao Chen, whose expression had changed again, and said, "Am I right?"

"How do you know so much detail?" Yao Chen's expression changed again.

"Heh, there are countless individuals in my clan possessing great supernatural powers. Is it so difficult to know something like this?"

Xiao Yan sneered and said, "I also know that this disciple of yours named Han Feng has been eyeing the Burning Technique in your hand for a long time."

Because you have refused to pass on the Burning Technique to him, he has secretly harbored resentment towards you.

If he ever enters a weakened state, he will transform into a venomous snake and devour his master.

"You're talking nonsense!" Han Feng roared, his face flushed red. "My teacher treats me like his own child, and I treat him like my father. How could I possibly think that way!"

"Hehe." Xiao Yan didn't care about Han Feng's desperate act. Instead, he turned to Yao Chen and said, "Old man, I'll ask you one question today: will you accept this disciple or not?"

If you don't accept it, hehehe!

Xiao Yan grinned mischievously, and the two sages behind him, Wenwu and Yisheng, simultaneously unleashed terrifying auras, causing Yao Lao to look solemn. As for Han Feng beside him, his face was already pale.

Although he wouldn't do something like Xiao Jiande, who transferred his anger to a group of weak ethnic minorities, he would still stop at nothing to achieve his goals.

Whether in your past life or this life, people will only care about how powerful you are now and what impact you will have on them; they will never care where your power comes from.

Even if they care, they can't change anything.

The essence of the world is the survival of the fittest. Because the Yi people are weak, they will be retaliated against by Xiao Jiande. Because Xiao Jiande is weak, he will be crippled by Xiao Yan.

Similarly, if the Starfall Pavilion is weak, it only has one path left: to hand over the Burning Technique. The only difference is whether it's done in a dignified or dishonorable way.

If one day Xiao Yan encounters someone stronger than himself, he will only be at the mercy of that person. Xiao Yan has long been aware of this.

"Sigh." In the sky, Yao Chen glanced at Han Feng with complicated eyes, then at Xiao Yan, and said, "It's not that I'm unwilling to pass on the Burning Technique, it's just that practicing this technique is far too dangerous."

Each evolution of the Burning Technique requires devouring a strange fire. A single strange fire is enough to kill someone. And for the Burning Technique to evolve to the Heavenly Rank, it is unknown how many strange fires it will need to devour. Each evolution is like dancing on the edge of life and death.

Although I don't know how noble your status is in the Xiao Clan, having two half-saints as your protectors is enough to show how powerful your background is.

"With the Xiao clan's strength, acquiring a few suitable Heaven-rank cultivation techniques shouldn't be difficult. Why bother cultivating a dangerous technique that no one has ever attempted before?"

"Because only by cultivating the Burning Technique can one obtain the Dou Di's inheritance!!!" Xiao Yan thought to himself, but his face showed a different expression.

"Danger? What danger could there be? When I devour some low-level strange fires, I can have a half-saint level expert protecting me. In the future, when I become stronger, I can devour some high-level strange fires and even have a Dou Sheng level expert protecting me."

Tell me, what does danger mean?

What the hell do you mean by "dangerous"?!

Medicine Dust: "."

Feng Xian: "."

Han Feng: "."

Looking at Xiao Yan's confident and handsome face, Yao Chen finally agreed to Xiao Yan's request after letting out a helpless sigh.

Within the astral realm, the atmosphere is peaceful and self-contained.

This is a small world constructed by meteorite star power. Although it is insignificant compared to the vast Xiao Realm, it is still roughly the size of a city and can easily accommodate tens of thousands of people.

In a pavilion somewhere in the center of the Star Realm, Xiao Yan sat in a chair, idly looking at the sky above the Star Realm.

"With your talent in martial arts, you are more than qualified to be my disciple, but if you want me to teach you alchemy, I need to see your talent in alchemy first."

Yao Chen looked at Xiao Yan, who was sitting there like an old man, and a hint of helplessness appeared on his face.

It's hard to say whether bringing this gentleman to the Starfall Pavilion was the right or wrong decision.

"Alchemy? No problem." Xiao Yan glanced at Yao Chen and said with a grin, "Teacher, what grade of pill do you want me to refine?"

"Just do whatever you want with the refining." Yao Chen felt a hint of dissatisfaction flash through his mind as he looked at Xiao Yan's indifferent attitude.

The most important thing to avoid in alchemy is to be careless. If you can't be focused and serious, it will be difficult to achieve anything in alchemy, no matter how talented you are.

"Hehe, then I'll make a fool of myself."

Xiao Yan chuckled, then stood up, his frivolous expression vanishing as he became serious.

With a wave of his hand, a medicine cauldron appeared on the open ground outside the pavilion.

Although this medicine cauldron did not reach the level of the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking, Yao Chen could tell at a glance that it should have no problem refining eighth-grade pills.

With a flick of his finger, Xiao Yan sent a wisp of azure flame into the medicine cauldron.

"Boom!" In the next moment, under the stimulation of Xiao Yan's Dou Qi, the cyan flames filled the entire medicine cauldron.

"Whoosh!" With a wave of his hand, Xiao Yan released a yellowish-brown magic core, a jet-black Ganoderma lucidum, a green herb, and many other medicinal ingredients that floated directly into the medicine cauldron.

The magic core of an earth-attribute dragon-type magical beast, a hundred-year-old black lingzhi mushroom, and a heart-clearing herb.

"This is to refine a fifth-grade pill, the Earth Dragon Pill!" Yao Chen raised an eyebrow, his gaze towards Xiao Yan becoming serious.

If this pill is successfully refined, it means that this young man has the level of a fifth-grade alchemist. A fifth-grade alchemist at the age of fifteen, his talent is simply terrifying!

Azure beast fire roared out, enveloping all the medicinal herbs, and then transformed into azure fireballs that were simultaneously refined.

"This soul power!" Yao Chen's expression changed again.

The soul power of this young man is already comparable to that of an ordinary seventh-grade alchemist.

At fifteen years old, he possessed the soul power of a nine-star Dou Huang and a seventh-grade alchemist, but he did not yet have a different kind of fire.

Yao Chen's eyes, which had been relatively calm, suddenly turned fiery.

"With this child's talent, as long as I train him for a year, he can definitely become a seventh-grade alchemist."

A 16-year-old seventh-grade alchemist! Even with Yao Chen's experience of having seen countless geniuses, he couldn't help but feel his heart burning with excitement at the thought.

"With such extraordinary talent, it's no wonder that he is so highly regarded even by an ancient race like the Xiao Clan."

He naturally didn't know that the real reason Xiao Yan was valued was because of Xiao Xuan, but such terrifying talent alone was enough to tempt him.

A day and a night passed, and a yellowish-brown pill the size of a longan finally slowly took shape in the medicine cauldron.

"Collect!" Xiao Yan unleashed a suction force from his hand, drawing in the earthy-yellow pill that emitted a rich medicinal fragrance, and then enveloped it with his Dou Qi.

"Teacher, what do you think of this pill?" Xiao Yan handed the Earth Dragon Pill to Yao Chen.

"Good, good!" Yao Chen knew at a glance that the pill was of good quality, and he looked at Xiao Yan as if he were looking at a beautiful woman who had just come out of the bath.

"My dear disciple, I am very satisfied with your talent. Do you have any requests for me?" As he spoke, his old face smiled like a chrysanthemum.

"I don't have any special requests, I just hope that you can become a Dou Sheng soon, and then a ninth-grade alchemist."

Xiao Yan laughed at Yao Chen's bewildered gaze, "If you don't become a Dou Sheng soon, I'll be embarrassed if I mention your name when I go out in the future."

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I, along with many other beautiful ladies including Xiao Xun'er, Cai Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Nalan Yanran, Yun Yun, Qing Lin, Zi Yan, Ya Fei, Dan Chen, Cao Ying, Yao Ye, Yao Yue, Han Yue, Han Xue, Tang Huo'er, and many more, wish everyone a Happy New Year.

(End of this chapter)