Battle Through the Heavens: Emperor's Son Xiao Yan

Chapter 85 If you can't beat them, join them

A hush fell over the room; no one answered the question. ¤ (¯´☆✭.¸_)¤ ❻❾𝕤Ħᵘא.ⒸⓄ𝐦 ¤(_¸.✭☆´¯) ¤

Xiao Yan seemed to have expected this. He played with the emerald green pill the size of a longan in his hand and said with a smile, "This pill in my hand is called Qi Gathering Powder. You must have heard of it."

Upon hearing this, everyone paused almost imperceptibly in their breathing.

The effects of the Qi Gathering Powder were well understood by both the patriarchs of the three major families and ordinary people.

This is a treasure that can directly transform a ninth-level Dou Qi cultivator into a Dou Zhe.

Such miraculous pills could fetch incredibly high prices, a fact that Ya Fei knew all too well.

After all, the Qi Gathering Pill is ranked fourth grade, and the price of one pill is between 100,000 and 300,000 gold coins.

This price is close to the annual net profit of the three major families.

"An elder in my family owed a favor to an old man surnamed Hun many years ago. Today, I have been sent to repay that favor. If I can find the old man's descendants, I will give him something else in addition to this Qi Gathering Powder."

Xiao Yan looked at the group of people in front of him and smiled, "Well, now you all know that I didn't come here with malicious intent, right?"

The group of people had bloodshot eyes. The strongest among them was only a five-star Dou Zhe, who was considered a nobody in Wutan City.

One Qi Gathering Powder is enough to make any one of them rise to the top in one step.

"I, my name is Hunyan. My grandfather once saved a young man, and that man said that many years later his descendants would come to repay the favor. I never expected that you would actually come."

A frail old man walked out of the crowd with a kind smile on his face, as if Xiao Yan were his grandson whom he had not seen for many years.

Xiao Yan's face darkened. "They're trying to scam me?"

"Men, break this old man's legs and throw him out."

He kicked the old man to the ground.

Respecting the elderly and caring for the young is not feasible for Xiao Yan. In his previous life, he always punched the old folks' home in Nanshan and kicked the kindergarten in Beihai.

At his command, two burly men from the Jialie family stepped forward, grinning maliciously, and dragged the old man out of the arena by his leg.

"The person I'm going to repay should be no older than twenty. Think carefully before you speak. I'm a good person, not a fool."

Xiao Yan looked intently at the members of the Soul Clan, his smile amiable, but in their eyes he was like a devil.

This young man is truly unethical; he even hits elderly people.

After that, no one dared to pretend anymore, fearing that instead of getting the Qi Gathering Powder, they would get a beating.

"Line up, one by one, and report your information." Xiao Yan waved his hand, and a group of people lined up in front of him, reporting their information.

Xiao Yan would also personally use his soul power to check their bodies for anything unusual, whether they were wearing any strange ornaments, or whether some old immortal was hiding inside.

While he was checking, the two sages of literature and martial arts, hidden in the space behind him, would check again, and even the remnant soul of the Battle Saint would be exposed.

However, after an hour, no one who had experienced such a miraculous encounter was found.

However, the names of a few people caught Xiao Yan's attention.

Xiao Yan kept all three—Huo Ya Dan, Hun Sen, and Hun Yao—behind them, and they stood separately to the side.

Finally, Xiao Yan looked at the little girl in front of him who was munching on a lollipop.

This is the last one. The girl looks about four or five years old. Besides the one she was almost finished eating, she also had two lollipops on her waist.

Seeing how happily she was eating, Xiao Yan, who hadn't come, had a wicked thought.

"It's bad for a child's teeth to eat so much candy, here you go!" Xiao Yan snatched the two lollipops from the little girl's waist and tore one open, putting it in his mouth.

"Wah!" The little girl's previously happy face suddenly contorted into a grimace as she burst into tears.

"Hehehe." The smile disappeared from her face, but it moved to Xiao Yan's face.

"You just wait! When I, Hun Xin, grow up, I will definitely avenge this!" Her childish voice was filled with hatred, and her cute big eyes stared at Xiao Yan with tears of grievance.

"Little brat, you want revenge?" Xiao Yan flicked her forehead, knocking her to the ground.

"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river," the little girl recited while crying, but Xiao Yan suddenly turned around, his eyes flashing with a sharp light.

Stared at by his terrifying gaze, the little girl suddenly stopped crying.

"Can't I just give you the lollipop?" she said weakly.

"When you said those words, you were in deep trouble." Xiao Yan reached out and placed her in the observation area as if he were picking up a little bean.

"Xinxin, Xinxin!" The little girl's parents immediately panicked.

"I won't hurt them." Xiao Yan glanced at the group in front of him and said calmly, "Tomorrow morning, each of you will come to the Mittel Auction House to collect one thousand gold coins. These four will stay for now, the rest of you can go."

Upon hearing this, Ya Fei's face stiffened.

"What are you going to do to our child?" Hun Xin's parents stared at Xiao Yan.

A thousand gold coins is a huge sum for them, but this is their child, and they are relatively responsible parents.

"This child is the one I want to repay a debt of gratitude to. I want to take her as my disciple. Do you have any objections?" Xiao Yan glanced at the two of them.

The two of them fell silent.

After everyone had left, Xiao Yan took a closer look at the four people in front of him.

"Damn it" is a young man who looks like a scoundrel, similar to Xiao Yan. However, he is almost thirty years old and has not yet become a Dou Zhe, so he is probably not the protagonist.

Hun Sen and Hun Yao are brothers, but they are already middle-aged and are only two-star Dou Zhe. They are too old and probably won't amount to much.

On the contrary, it was that little baby.

Xiao Yan glanced at Hun Xin; she had finished her lollipop and was staring at the one in Xiao Yan's mouth, drooling.

Xiao Yan, a little foodie, grabbed the girl's wrist and began to examine her pulse. After a moment, he looked at Hun Xin with horror in his eyes.

The little girl in front of me has quite good aptitude. Even without any special encounters during normal cultivation, she could at least reach the level of Dou Ling or even Dou Wang.

Such talent is already considered top-tier in the Gama Empire.

The key point is that such a young child can actually utter phrases like "thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river."

Xiao Yan looked at the little girl with a complex expression of thought.

He really wouldn't want to kill such a young child unless absolutely necessary.

Moreover, if this is truly the chosen one, I might not be able to kill him.

Xiao Xuan was able to become a Dou Di because of a jade book that fell from the sky. If this kid had the protagonist's halo, would I be killed by a potato falling from the sky the moment I made my move?

"If you can't defeat your enemies, join them." A sentence popped into Xiao Yan's mind.

He smiled and handed the last lollipop back to Hun Xin, saying with a grin, "Little girl, would you like to become my apprentice?"

The little girl shook her head, looking at Xiao Yan with a resentful expression.

"How dare you! You're courting death!"

While thinking to himself, Xiao Yan smiled gently and tempted, "If I become your teacher, you can have an endless supply of lollipops and swim in a sea of ​​snacks every day."

The little girl's eyes lit up, and tears involuntarily streamed from the corners of her mouth.

(End of this chapter)