Looking at the young man in front of him, Liu Xi, for some unknown reason, inexplicably shivered.
However, very quickly, the humiliation from the daytime and the confidence brought by his two-star Dou Zhe strength caused anger to rise in his heart, and a ferocious and cruel smile appeared on his lips.
"Little bastard, I didn't expect you to dare to appear in front of me. Since you're actively seeking death, you can't blame me. I will break your limbs and then throw you into the river to drown, to avenge the shame I suffered during the day."
As his voice fell, the Dou Qi in his body circulated, transforming into a white shadow that shot towards Xiao Yan.
"I'm afraid you won't have this chance."
Looking at the approaching Liu Xi, Xiao Yan didn't plan to use his own strength to deal with this guy. This place wasn't far from the crowd. If this guy let out a couple of screams, it would attract others' attention.
"Teacher, lend me some fire."
Silently communicating with Yao Lao in his heart, a pale flame suddenly rose from Xiao Yan's palm.
It was clearly a flame, yet it caused the surrounding temperature to drop骤降 (zhòujiàng - sharply), and frost even appeared on the ground.
"This is, an异火 (yìhuǒ - Heavenly Flame/Strange Flame)!"
Looking at that pale flame, Liu Xi's pupils shrank. Most of his drunkenness was instantly scared away. Before he could react, a wisp of that pale flame flew out from Xiao Yan's hand.
The flame streaked across, leaving a pale trace, and had already landed on Liu Xi.
"You—"
Liu Xi was just about to let out a terrified cry when he felt an extreme burning pain in his body. Fortunately, this pain lasted only an instant before he lost consciousness.
"Peng!"
Following a low, muffled sound, his figure directly turned into countless specks of dust on the spot, falling to the ground, and then gradually dissipated into the heavens and earth with the evening breeze.
The brothels in the distance were still scenes of song and dance, with occasional lewd an d flirtatious voices drifting over. No one noticed that the arrogant, prospective first-grade alchemist from the daytime had now turned into a pile of ashes.
"Sigh, my current strength is indeed pitifully weak. I can't even control the power of the Bone Chilling Flame properly. I actually burned his three Dou Qi Pills to ashes. These three Dou Qi Pills are also worth over a hundred thousand gold coins."
Xiao Yan's face was slightly pale. The act of mobilizing the Bone Chilling Flame to attack Liu Xi just now was personally operated by his soul power, not by Yao Lao.
"Come on, you're only at the Dou Qi stage now, yet you can already mobilize the Bone Chilling Flame. Even if it's just this wisp, it's still incredibly astonishing."
Yao Lao's shocked voice echoed in Xiao Yan's mind.
A young man who hadn't even cultivated Dou Qi could actually mobilize the Bone Chilling Flame with his soul power to kill someone. This was as incredible as an ant moving a drop of magma.
Seeing this scene, Yao Lao believed Xiao Yan's words even more.
"Just now, both that little girl and this brat said that this fellow has a third-grade alchemist behind him. Although this old man doesn't care, how do you plan to deal with that guy?"
The evening breeze blew, bringing a refreshing coolness. Xiao Yan leisurely walked back towards the Xiao family, Yao Lao's voice sounding in his ears.
"A third-grade alchemist?"
A smile appeared on Xiao Yan's lips. In his previous life, that third-grade alchemist had caused considerable trouble for the Xiao family later on and was eventually killed by Cailin.
However, in this life, Xiao Yan didn't want to be so wasteful for the time being.
"Even if I rise quickly, I won't have much energy to spare to take care of the Xiao family in these two years. If this old fellow comes knocking, it'll be just right to add a medicine slave to my Xiao family."
Xiao Yan smiled faintly and returned to the Xiao family's residence with the evening breeze.
Everyone thought that this young master of the Xiao family had just gone out for a walk, but no one expected that in the time Xiao Yan went out for a stroll, a living person had already disappeared from this world.
After killing Liu Xi, Xiao Yan's life once again entered a state of arduous cultivation day after day. Apart from spending some time with Xun'er, he focused almost all his thoughts on cultivation.
He knew clearly in his heart that the enemies who truly posed a threat to him were still in that distant Central Plains.
In his current state, if the Soul Hall casually sent a protector over, they could probably kill him easily. So he had to improve his strength as quickly as possible.
After all, having been reborn, if his father and teacher were captured by the Soul Hall again, then his previous life would have been lived in vain.
Time passed day by day, and Xiao Yan's strength also grew stronger day by day. In the blink of an eye, the hot summer had passed, revealing the golden yellow hues all over the back mountain of the Xiao family.
Less than half a month after killing Liu Xi, Xiao Yan had already broken through to the sixth Duan of Dou Qi with unstoppable momentum. His physical body was even stronger than before, and he could execute the Eight Extremes Collapse with great ease.
It was on this day, at the beginning of autumn, that Ya Fei personally sent a whole cart of snacks and preserved fruits to the Xiao family again.
Such a scene made many people in the Xiao family feel somewhat puzzled. However, only after seeing Ya Fei send a full half-cart of wooden boxes to Xiao Yan did they understand that Ya Fei had taken a fancy to their Xiao family's young master's talent.
But since when did Xiao Yan like snacks so much? Fortunately, this action didn't arouse too much suspicion from the Xiao family. Even the several elders of the Xiao family just chuckled inwardly.
This woman looks so smart, how could she think that these things that little children like would win over that little brat Xiao Yan's heart.
If you wait until he's a bit older, using your beauty might have some possibility.
Compared to the strange thoughts of the adults, the children were all very happy. The snacks Ya Fei sent were all high-grade goods in Wutan City. Even though they were children of the Xiao family, they couldn't eat them many times a year.
Thanks to Xiao Yan, they had eaten heartily during this period. The only one who felt somewhat worried was probably Xun'er.
"Damn vixen, always coming over to seduce my Brother Xiao Yan!"
Looking at Ya Fei's alluring and graceful figure, Xun'er felt an inexplicable sense of crisis.
No matter how devastatingly beautiful she was, she was ultimately just a girl under twelve. Compared to Ya Fei's figure that drove men crazy, she still needed a few more years of development.
Fortunately, Xiao Yan was observant of everything. Whenever he sensed something was wrong, he would quickly coax her with a few words, making the little girl utterly infatuated.
And it was behind these hidden scenes that, after the first month of autumn, Ya Fei once again walked out from a visit to the Xiao family.
Only this time, her high bosom was slightly heaving, indicating the unrest in her heart.
In the exquisite storage ring on her slender jade-like finger, sixteen bottles of Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid lay quietly.
"Last time, two bottles of Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid fetched a price of one hundred thousand gold coins. This time, these sixteen bottles of Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid, what kind of sky-high price will they fetch?"
(End of this chapter)