306: Chapter 306 The Yan Clan Wants to Find a Son-in-Law? Fire Spirit Fairy: I'm Not Going for Young Grass!

"I don't think much of it!"

A serious voice of a middle-aged man sounded from behind the young girl.

"Dad?"

The young girl turned her head and found that her father had appeared at some point, looking at her with a serious face.

"Daddy, I rarely leave Burning Flame Valley, just let me go out and play,"

The young girl playfully stuck out her tongue and began to beg in a soft, pleading voice: "The Pavilion Master of Starfall Pavilion, Venerable Yao, is a Grade 8 Alchemist and also possesses the Bone Chilling Flame; perhaps he can help me."

The latter half of her sentence moved the middle-aged man. After a moment of thought, he said, "You may go, but your aunt must accompany you, and you must listen to her."

The young girl pouted unhappily: "Dad, I'm already this grown up, and I've successfully reached the Dou Zong level. Would I really be bullied if I went out alone?"

"Tang Huo'er, are you looking down on your aunt?"

A woman with a graceful figure and full of charm walked in from outside, a playful smile on her delicate face: "You really have grown up. Before, you were the one who clung to me the most, not even allowing me to find a Dao Companion, saying you wanted to stay with me forever. Now that I'm older..."

"No, no, no!" Tang Huo'er immediately crossed her hands, showing a guilty expression: "Aunt, I was just thinking that you are in seclusion to achieve a Breakthrough to Dou Zun, which is very important for our Burning Flame Valley, so I didn't want to trouble you."

"How could protecting you, little girl, be a trouble?" Tang Huo'er's aunt, Tang Yue, smiled: "I've been in seclusion for over a year, yet I still can't break through that Bottleneck. I always feel like something is missing, so I might as well go out for a walk."

"That Snow Sword Young Master stepped into the six-star Peak Dou Zun level before the age of twenty, and his strength is even greater than your father's. I heard from the Flower Sect Grand Elder that he also has a nickname, Young Master Tianji, known as someone who knows everything. It's perfect; I'll go ask him how to step into the Dou Zun level."

"How could anyone know such things?" Tang Huo'er felt the rumors must be exaggerated.

For example, Gu Han's appearance—even his image on the scroll made her heart flutter, but the real person surely couldn't be that handsome.

Otherwise, wouldn't he be an Immortal Master descending to the mortal world?

"Then I leave Huo'er to you." Valley Master Tang Zhen nodded to Tang Yue: "Whether it's the issue of the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame or your Breakthrough to Dou Zun, if Snow Sword Young Master really has a solution, Burning Flame Valley will agree to whatever price is required."

"Alright." Tang Yue nodded slightly, a look of hope flashing in her eyes.

Meanwhile, in a Secret Realm filled with flames.

A red fire lotus bloomed in the Void Realm, devouring the surrounding black power.

A terrifying aura suddenly appeared, sweeping across several miles, causing the flames to explode.

A red lotus flame with an eerie color appeared, its petals fully opening to reveal the perfect body of a woman inside.

The flames came to her body, transforming into a red long dress. The woman slowly opened her eyes, and a focused gaze caused the space in front of her to distort.

"Clap, clap, clap!"

Countless flames appeared, condensing into the form of a woman with a voluptuous figure—one could even say explosive—who raised her hands to applaud.

"Little Zhi'er, congratulations on your Breakthrough to Dou Zun."

"Compared to you, Aunt, my path of Cultivation has only just begun." The exquisitely beautiful woman smiled sweetly, and flames transformed into a red veil on her stunning face.

"However, with my current strength, it shouldn't be considered too weak among the seven Ancient Clans, right?"

The flames of ambition flickered in the woman's eyes.

She was Huo Zhi, the biological daughter of the Yan Clan Chief.

No one would believe that as the daughter of an Eight Star Late Stage Dou Sheng, the Dou Di Bloodline flowing in her body was a pitiful Grade 4, not even reaching the Grade 6 threshold required to be bestowed a clan tattoo by the Yan Clan's Legacy flame.

If not for her aunt, Fairy Huoling, who was the number one female powerhouse on the Fighting Qi Continent with Seven Star Late Stage Dou Sheng cultivation, and who doted on her to the point of being overprotective, she might have heard many rumors and gossip.

Fortunately, the misfortune didn't last long; although her Dou Di Bloodline grade was not high, she possessed a special Physique and gained the recognition of the Red Lotus Karma Fire, the eighth on the strange fire ranking list, which helped her activate the Red Lotus Karma Physique.

Calculating everything, her speed of Cultivation would not be slower than some possessors of Grade 8 Dou Di Bloodline, and she also possessed the abilities of the strange fire.

"How you rank among the Ancient Clans will be known naturally when you go to the Ancient Clan nine years later to enter the Ancient Tomb and meet the Prodigies of each clan," the fire figure condensed from Fairy Huoling's Soul Power said.

"However, a wild Prodigy with peerless talent has emerged in the Central Plains. After your father and I discussed it, we decided to let you go see him; it would be best if you could recruit him into our Yan Clan."

"If absolutely necessary, marrying him for an alliance is also fine; of course, that depends on you."

Huo Zhi: ?

"An alliance marriage?" Huo Zhi did not expect to hear these words from Fairy Huoling.

As the number one female powerhouse on the continent, Fairy Huoling had never thought of relying on a man. A thousand years ago, she had only looked highly upon Xiao Xuan, the number one person of the Xiao Clan, but that was all.

As the second strongest of the Yan Clan, no one in the Yan Clan wanted Huo Zhi to marry out. As for the idea of recruiting a son-in-law, no one dared to mention it, otherwise, Fairy Huoling would issue a Soul-searching question: "Do you think this lady is too old?"

Huo Zhi admired this aunt the most and had never thought about getting married in the future, unless fate arrived and couldn't be stopped.

But she didn't expect this aunt to actually tell her to go for an alliance marriage, and it wasn't about recruiting a son-in-law, nor was it said to be marrying down.

"Don't be surprised, it's not that you must go for an alliance marriage," Fairy Huoling's voice, filled with laughter, came: "I'm just letting you go make contact; only if you are interested will you take this step. The decision is in your hands."

"The reason your father and I have this idea is because this young man is truly excessively outstanding."

"If he is so outstanding, Aunt, why don't you go for the alliance marriage yourself?" Huo Zhi said with a bit of pettiness. She felt her father and aunt somewhat looked down on her.

Otherwise, at least they would have said to recruit a son-in-law, right?

"You think your aunt doesn't want to?" The flame phantom made a motion of brushing her hair: "Your aunt, after all, has lived for over a thousand years. If word got out that I actively married down to a young man under nineteen, wouldn't I be mocked by those old guys, saying that I am an old cow eating tender grass?"

Upon hearing this, Huo Zhi's beautiful eyes widened: "Aunt, you're not joking, right?"

"Who would joke with you about this?" Fairy Huoling let out a burst of laughter: "You know Xiao Xuan, right?"

"Xiao Xuan!?" Huo Zhi's breathing hitched, and she said in disbelief: "Could this Gu Han be comparable to Xiao Xuan?"

Xiao Xuan was the peerless genius of the Xiao Clan, the strongest manifestation of a Divine Grade Dou Di Bloodline possessor, who only spent a few hundred years reaching the Nine-Star Dou Sheng Late Stage, and later broke through to Half-Step Dou Di, relying entirely on his own powerful strength to forcibly control three types of strange fire and create the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations.

The Yan Clan's ancient records have detailed accounts that the Xiao Clan's Dou Di Bloodline was about to dry up, and after the clansmen discussed with Xiao Xuan, they voluntarily offered their Bloodlines to help Xiao Xuan charge towards the Dou Di level.

Unfortunately, Xiao Xuan failed and also suffered a backlash.

Failing to condense a Qi vortex at the ninth stage of Dou Zhi Qi would result in cultivation regression.

Dou Huang breaking through to Dou Zong, nine-star Dou Zun breaking through to Peak Dou Zun, Peak Dou Zun breaking through to Half-Saint—every time is a hurdle. Failure in Breakthrough results in, at best, cultivation regression, and at worst, severe injuries, making it difficult to advance an inch for the rest of one's life.

Therefore, the backlash suffered from failing to break through to Dou Di is absolutely beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Yet after Xiao Xuan failed to break through to Dou Di and suffered the backlash, he was still able to severely injure the Hun Clan Chief, the Nine-Star Dou Sheng Late Stage Hun Tiandi, who has been recovering from his injuries for a thousand years and has yet to fully recover.

In addition to that, he killed four Eight Star Dou Sheng of the Hun Clan.

If Gu Han truly possessed the bearing of Xiao Xuan, then she would be willing to marry. It would indeed be an alliance marriage, not marrying down, and certainly not recruiting a son-in-law!