The Xiao family has been living a prosperous life recently.
Although Wutan City is indeed not very safe recently.
A few days ago, a Dou Huang and two Dou Zong fought in the sky above Wutan City. The aftermath almost scared the old and young in Wutan City to death.
There were no casualties or anything like that.
It can only be said to be a blessing in misfortune.
A few days ago, a group of fighting emperors, plus a group of big shots who didn't know what realm they were in. In short, they were a group of very powerful big shots. They came to Wutan City and started fighting with a group of big shots who also didn't know what realm they were in. , the sky is dark and the ground is dark. Through a layer of dark clouds, you can see the appearance of space cracks from time to time. You can imagine how terrifying the battle above the dark clouds is.
What is a space rift?
That's a good question.
In this small place where fighting spirits can shake three times, let alone a fighting sect, even a fighting king deserves the attention of everyone.
certainly.
There are not many fighting kings in the Jia Ma Empire.
On the basis that Dou Huang has the highest combat power, Dou Wang can also be regarded as a high-end combat power. Examples of great Dou Masters like Xiao Zhan being able to become the patriarch of a clan are not seen in any city in the Gama Empire. Considered rare.
The premise is, except Jia Ma Imperial City.
In Gama Imperial City, not to mention that a stone thrown can hit a Dou Wang. Anyway, all the famous family heads are basically Dou Wangs. Otherwise, they are just eight-star or nine-star Dou Ling. The realm of Dou Wang is just one step away.
However, even in Jia Ma Imperial City, it is almost impossible to see such a thing as a spatial rift. Although Dou Huang like Jia Xingtian knows that this is a spatial rift that can only be caused by Dou Zong's full strength, but seeing it with his own eyes , I have never seen it before.
And no one in Jia Ma Imperial City knows...
People living in a small city like Wutan City are even less likely to know!
In addition, in the previous battle, Ling Ying was beaten by the envoy of the Soul Palace, and Lu Yuan pinned and beat the envoy of the Soul Palace. It was basically a crushing victory. Not to mention the spatial rift, even a large-scale soul Before even releasing his skills, the two battles were over.
Besides, it was still dark at the time.
Most people eat at home.
A small number of people are also looking for fun.
By the time these people reacted, it was obviously over.
Even if there are a few smarter people watching from a distance...
To put it bluntly, I felt lonely...
Anyway, in the incident where Ling Ying took action, no one knew the reason. However, in terms of post-mortem analysis, there is still a rough conclusion as to where Ling Ying came from - the Xiao family of Wutan City!
Especially the vague girl who appeared in that incident was called "Miss" by a fighting emperor, and her status was simply unimaginable.
For a time, there were different opinions.
In short, before the facts are found out, all the families in Wutan City do not want to provoke the Xiao family. Even the Jialie family and the Oba family, which have never dealt with the Xiao family, have put away their fangs and prepared to test them. Let’s test again.
Therefore, as the head of the Xiao family, Xiao Zhan, especially since Xiao Zhan knew what was going on, naturally took advantage of this hard-earned opportunity to bite off the Jialie family and the Oba family. He bought a piece of meat and added one-fifth of the original Xiao family's property, including some shops and land.
Naturally, the bigger the cake, the better.
After all, there are many people in the Xiao family.
If the cake is big, there will be no problem of fighting over it.
In addition, because Xiao Yan worshiped a mysterious alchemist as his teacher, although he did not have a good relationship with Nalan Yanran of the Yunlan Sect, with the presence of Lu Yuan, the Xiao family did not have to worry about Nalan Yanran for a while. In retaliation for Lan Yanran, Xiao Yan even took out some first-grade elixirs, including Zhixue Powder, and got in touch with Yafei of the Miter family, and reached a certain degree of business cooperation.
Of course, this kind of business cooperation is not solid.
However, good news never goes unnoticed.
No one can predict what will happen in the future.
However, now, the cooperation with Miter Auction House has indeed expanded the business limit of the Xiao family and given the Xiao family an additional channel to make money.
This money-making channel is not for the Xiao family.
To put it simply, currently only Xiao Yan can use it.
From time to time, Xiao Yan would take the elixirs refined by his alchemist teacher to the auction in exchange for some medicinal materials that no one knew what they were used for. Although the first elder, second elder, and third elder of the Xiao family were very unhappy and even jealous, But under the intimidation of Xiao Zhan and the mysterious alchemist, all the Xiao family members who were jealous of this business could only keep this greed in their hearts quietly.
What's more, they don't want to offend a future alchemist.
After all, Xiao Yan is no longer the third level of Dou Zhi Qi!
Today's Xiao Yan is at the sixth level of Dou Qi!
It is definitely a big step away from a genius like Xiao Ning who is in the first rank, but for a little genius like Xiao Mei, he only needs to develop for a period of time, maybe not even half a month, to surpass Xiao Mei. Charming.
The problem is that……
How long did it take for Xiao Ning to reach the ninth level of fighting spirit?
How long did it take for Xiao Mei to cultivate to the seventh level of Fighting Qi?
Comparing people with others will lead to death, and comparing goods with goods will lead to throwing away.
Even though Xiao Yan is only at the sixth level of Dou Qi, his cultivation of this sixth level was actually achieved in a month!
Although there are reasons why the Xiao family supports them at all costs...
For example, if Xiao Yan needs any medicinal materials, he doesn't need to go out to buy them secretly like in the original work. He only needs to use Yaochen as an alchemist as a cover, and he can sit at home and practice while waiting for the Xiao family to prepare them for him. Required medicinal materials.
However, Xiao Yan's achievements were worthy of the training given to him by the Xiao family. If Yao Chen hadn't insisted on Xiao Yan playing steadily, and even forcibly suppressed his realm to improve his physical fitness, Xiao Yan might not have been able to figure it out now. It’s the ninth level of fighting spirit.
After all, for Xiao Yan, this is just a journey all over again.
Therefore, in today's Xiao family, not only Xiao Zhan has firmly established himself as the patriarch, but also Xiao Yan has become a very popular figure, even more popular than he was three years ago.
Xiao Yan three years ago was just a fighter.
Three years later, Xiao Yan was still an alchemist.
As long as his talent is not reduced, no one would think that Xiao Yan's upper limit will only be a great fighting master. Although few people dare to imagine whether Xiao Yan may grow into a fighting king in the future. After all, their knowledge There are limits to imagination and imagination, but it should be no problem for Xiao Yan to become a fighting spirit.
That's what most people think.
But for Xiao Yan...
But he knows his goal very well...
the student surpasses the master.
He has Yao Lao, a ninth-level Douzun, as his master.
He has a talent that puts Yao Lao to shame. Lu Yuan, a fellow Douzong fellow of the same age as him, is fully supporting him.
If he didn't dare to imagine Dou Sheng, or even the legendary Dou Emperor, how could he be worthy of the training and teachings of the two people above!
However, this was just what Xiao Yan had thought a few days ago.
Ten days have passed since Lu Yuan changed his name to Xiao Yuan and entered the Xiao family under a different disguise. It has also been a month since Nalan Yanran broke off the engagement. If calculated according to the time in the original work, it would not take a month for Xiao Yu to He will return from vacation. In less than two months, Canaan College's admissions team will come to Wutan City, and instructor Ruolin, who resisted Xiao Yan's three years of training alone but did not come to school, will also appear.
This also means that the vastness and changeability of the world have already been revealed to Xiao Yan in Lu Yuan's last conversation with Yao Chen!
so……
What fighting saint?
What Emperor Dou?
I, Xiao Yan, want to be the master of the world!
To become the most powerful person in the world!
I want to cross the galaxy and help the teacher make up for his regrets!
I want to cross time and space and return to my hometown!
although……
Lu Yuan didn't even manage to go home.
It's enough to see how difficult it is to go home.
However, Xiao Yan knows very well that if he does not have the heart to climb to the top for a moment, then no matter how powerful he is, he will just wait to die. And if he wants to climb to the top, it is not enough to have a heart. He must have Tools for climbing to the top.
One tool is patience.
One tool is humility.
A tool is strength.
One tool is courage.
There is only a thin line between success and failure!
Without the above four tools, only the ambition to reach the top will only allow this illusory ambition to bury oneself.
Therefore, for Xiao Yan, he knows very well what he is currently pursuing.
Down-to-earth growth.
That's what he's doing now.
Many people are saying, don’t aim too high.
In a sense, this is true.
However, in another sense, the sentence "Don't be too ambitious" is wrong. Don't be too ambitious. It is correct and complete. After all, if you don't know the true face of Mount Lu, you can only rely on this poem to be in this mountain. , in fact, it is very clear. If you don’t look up, don’t look into the distance, and don’t want to go and see the distance, you will always be trapped on this rugged mountain road at your feet.
But if you see the distance and want to rise to the top...
That's also unrealistic.
Therefore, the “degree” in the middle is actually very important.
Xiao Yan is still very young.
He didn't know if he could grasp it well, but he was really trying hard to grasp it. Fortunately, both Lu Yuan and Yao Chen were helping Xiao Yan to control this speed more or less, although so far I haven't seen any results so far, but I'm trying my best.
Lu Yuan is more casual in everything he does.
Simply put, just do your best.
Of course, this is just his current mentality.
If it were in the past, he would not be as Buddhist as he is now.
Xiao Xun'er also came back a few days ago.
Her identity is no secret.
At least, this is the case for Xiao Zhan and the first elder, second elder, and third elder of the Xiao family.
However, when Xiao Zhan and the first, second, and third elders of the Xiao family teamed up to block the news, Xiao Xun'er's identity was not exposed. Although there were still many suitors surrounding her, it was not the same as before. , no change.
The changes in the Xiao family in the past month are simply greater than the changes in the past ten years.
The first is the joining of Lu Yuan.
Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan are different.
Xiao Zhan has real power in his hands.
Xiao Zhan's skill is enough to awe people.
What Xiao Yan has is value, in other words, the future. Everyone is investing in him, but there are really not many things that he can have the final say at the moment. There are indeed things that can be changed, but once But if the number of people who disagree with him reaches one-third, Xiao Yan's opinions will not be taken seriously by anyone else, except Xiao Zhan.
Of course, if Xiao Yan expresses his opinions under the banner of Yaochen, everyone in the Xiao family will naturally have no objections.
Generally speaking, it is still a question of strength.
Therefore, Xiao Yan has no ability to help Lu Yuan forge identity information, unless he borrows Yao Chen's name, but doing so will obviously make things more troublesome, so he can only ask his father Xiao Zhan to keep this secret , naturally it cannot be guarded.
Fortunately, Xiao Zhan is a very strict clan leader.
The point is that Xiao Zhan has a very good character.
Even though he knew that there must be some secrets hidden in the matter of Lu Yuan leaving Yunlan Sect, out of trust in Xiao Yan, Xiao Zhan did not ask Lu Yuan, or even met Lu Yuan, so he just kept silent. A new identity was arranged for Lu Yuan.
Will Lu Yuan cause trouble?
Xiao Zhan didn't ask.
Will Lu Yuan be harmful to the Xiao family?
Xiao Zhan didn't ask.
What is Lu Yuan's intention?
Xiao Zhan still didn't ask.
Everything comes from his trust in Xiao Yan.
In the eyes of Lu Yuan, who is the Dou Huang, no secret of the Xiao family can be hidden from his eyes, which is why he said that Xiao Zhan has a good character.
If it were another family...
What did the son say?
Will my son not lie to others?
There is far more filth in a family than imagined.
For the sake of the throne, there may even be situations where father and son kill each other. If a 15 or 16-year-old boy deceives his father and leads a wolf into the house, thinking that he can seek skin from a tiger, he and himself will eventually be killed by this person. This situation It’s not absolutely impossible!
Therefore, Xiao Zhan did not ask Xiao Yan, or even asked Lu Yuan, the person involved, which really meant that his trust in Xiao Yan was fully fulfilled.
This can also explain from the side why Xiao Yan, a time traveler, can recognize a stranger as his father, or even recognize a stranger as his father.
In a sense, the processes of Xiao Yan and Tang San's time travel are similar. Both of them retained their own memories and reincarnated, which is different from seizing a body.
However, Tang San was an orphan in his previous life.
Xiao Yan was a modern person in his previous life.
Tang San had no parents in his previous life.
Xiao Yan had parents in his previous life.
For a normal person to recognize a stranger as his father again, what he needs to overcome is not only the gap in his own heart, but also the other party's full trust and patience.
Xiao Zhan did it.
Xiao Yan also did it.
This is why Xiao Zhan has trusted Xiao Yan for three years. Even for Xiao Yan, he was willing to endure the questioning of the three elders of the Xiao family but also misappropriated materials and threw in countless precious medicinal materials for Xiao Yan in an attempt to restore Xiao Yan's inexplicable The fighting spirit disappeared, and Xiao Yan was willing to go to the Yunlan Sect three times for Xiao Zhan and everyone in the Xiao family, and personally destroy the Yunlan Sect, and he did not hesitate to take revenge on the Soul Palace and avenge Xiao Zhan and others.
certainly.
Xiao Zhan in the original work is not dead.
However, this does not diminish the father-son relationship between Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yan.
Secondly, there is the problem of Xiao Xun'er.
Young people are always attracting bees and butterflies without realizing it.
Because Xiao Xun'er admitted her plan, Xiao Yan was stimulated. After confirming that the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade was in Lu Yuan's hands, Xiao Xun'er changed his offensive and placed his main target on Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan didn't dislike this kind of utilitarian behavior.
Everything in the world is for profit.
All the hustle and bustle in the world is for the benefit.
A pure person does not exist.
Just like there are no absolutely sane people in the world.
Moreover, for Xiao Xun'er, Lu Yuan was very sure that the secret in his body was greater than that of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade. If Xiao Xun'er was asked to choose between the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade and him, Xiao Xun'er would most likely choose If you choose him, the Ancient Clan will most likely choose the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade.
Xiao Xun'er is too scheming.
However, this is not to belittle Xiao Xun'er.
Many people like silly girls.
Such a girl is really innocent.
However, many people do not realize that when a simple girl encounters danger, her immature way of handling it, or in other words, her stupid way of handling it, can easily cause her to die earlier than others, even if she There was no one else around, which could easily hasten her death.
Suppose, two girls get into a car accident.
One of them is very scheming.
The other one is the silly and sweet type.
On the basis of equal injuries, the probability of survival of this scheming girl is definitely higher than that of silly Baitian.
Silly Baitian can only cry.
Otherwise, call the emergency phone.
But for a scheming girl, the first time she wakes up, she will first choose to judge the current situation, then judge her own injuries, and finally call the emergency number, or based on the current situation Situation self-help.
After all, many times, crises are brewing in silence. No one knows whether the fuel tank leaked after the car accident. If the car exploded before the ambulance arrived, Silly Baitian, who was still worried about losing too much blood, would undoubtedly be buried in the flames. The scheming girl, at least, got a chance to wait for the next death.
Therefore, Lu Yuan does not hate Xiao Xun'er.
Any otherworldly world is dark.
If you are not despicable, you will die at the hands of despicable people.
This is another explanation for the indispensability of guarding against others.
However, the current situation is that Xiao Xun'er always wants to pester him, and Xiao Ning and others always like to follow Xiao Xun'er, thinking that if Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er break up, they will have a chance to rise to power. Seeing a strange young man from the Xiao family, Lu Yuan was naturally displeased in every way.
The views of Xiao Ning and others are very interesting.
However, it is quite reasonable.
Who in the right mind would still play the trick of pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger?
Moreover, in family-type forces, except for the upper-level patriarchs and elders who are too partial, just like Yao Wangui in the Yao Clan, who forcefully forced Yao Chen, a ninth-grade alchemist, away, otherwise, anyone in the family would be The treatment a person enjoys is linked to his talent and strength!
This also means that geniuses do not need to worry about being strangled by others, unless they go out and face all the forces in the world. As long as they are in their own home, they cannot say that they are absolutely safe, but at least they are guaranteed.
The patriarch and elders of the family will not tolerate the assassination of their own geniuses by their own family members, nor will they tolerate the assassination of their own geniuses by outsiders.
If people's hearts are lost, it will be difficult to lead the team.
And this concept gradually evolved into a hierarchy for dividing one's own family.
Take the Xiao family as an example.
As one of the core members of the younger generation of the Xiao family, Xiao Ning's treatment has always been second only to Xiao Yan. After Xiao Yan's talent disappeared, his treatment even surpassed that of Xiao Yan.
And the small circle he has access to...
In other words, the small circle formed around him...
Basically they are all geniuses.
It's just that he is a genius within the Xiao family.
If Lu Yuan was five or six years old, or under ten years old, Xiao Ning would not despise Lu Yuan. People come from one generation to the next. In their small circle, there is no one too young, and some geniuses cannot show their talent when they are young. It is not uncommon in various families for people to have talent and gradually gain prominence after the age of ten.
However, Lu Yuan is now fifteen years old!
Judging by his face, he is between thirteen and sixteen years old.
After all, Lu Yuan has changed his appearance now.
Therefore, in Xiao Ning's eyes, the stranger Lu Yuan is undoubtedly a nobody with outstanding talents. If Xiao Yan competes with him for Xiao Xun'er, he really doesn't have the courage and confidence to fight against Xiao Yan. However, if it is An unknown person competed with him for Xiao Xun'er. Xiao Ning thought that he still had a huge advantage!
However, Lu Yuan is often invisible.
In other words, they often disappear for no apparent reason and no one can be found.
And when someone can be found, Xiao Xun'er is usually there.
Xiao Ning is not a fool.
He knew very well that using force to make Lu Yuan surrender in front of Xiao Xun'er would only reduce his impression points, but he couldn't find any way or reason to stop Xiao Xun'er from looking for Lu Yuan...
Therefore, although Xiao Ning tried hard to find him, he had never met Lu Yuan in private in the past ten days.
But on the surface, there are many opportunities for the two to meet.
Just like this moment.
Lu Yuan sat on the rockery with a piece of horsetail in his mouth.
He stared at the goldfish blowing bubbles in the pool without saying a word.
Xiao Xun'er stood by the pool, looking at Lu Yuan affectionately, ignoring the jealous looks of Xiao Ning and others, and reminded Lu Yuan softly: "Xiao Yuan, I heard that the enrollment team of Canaan College has arrived. Outside Wutan City, cousin Xiao Yu has also returned, do you need to prepare something to avoid rushing over for testing later?"
"Xiao Yu?"
"The one with long legs?"
Lu Yuan picked off the horsetail and asked casually.
Can't really blame him.
Mainly because the characters in Dou Po are so recognizable.
The long legs that even Xiao Yan could remember were difficult for him not to remember.
However, Xiao Ning is Xiao Yu's biological brother. Hearing Lu Yuan's comments about his sister, he naturally couldn't bear it. He was about to blurt out a loud shout, but was stopped on the spot by Lu Yuan's eyes.
"Do not misunderstand."
Lu Yuan dodged across the pond.
Walking to Xiao Ning, he patted Xiao Ning on the shoulder: "Just like others often praise me for being handsome, some labels are just to distinguish people better, so what if they have long legs? Xiao Yu is not the only one in the world. I don’t want to say more about the truth that if a person has long legs, trouble will come from his mouth. Let’s take this as a warning!”
(End of chapter)
