135: Meet your father-in-law

Xiao Yan was dumbfounded; they actually wanted his ancient jade!

However, Xiao Zhan was still within the Hun Clan, and this ancient jade was his only bargaining chip to ensure Xiao Zhan wouldn't be killed by the Hun Clan.

If he gave it to the Ancient Clan, what if the Hun Clan, enraged, directly killed Xiao Zhan?

Thinking of this, Xiao Yan immediately said with a serious tone, "Gu Yuan concerns my father's life and death. I will never trade him for my happiness with Xun'er. As for the doubts, once I possess enough power, I will personally shatter them!"

"Alas!"

"Youth is truly wonderful!"

Gu Yuan sighed deeply, his thoughts drifting, as if he had returned to his own youth, when he too was so ambitious.

With the current turbulent times and this era of great struggle, there was no time for Xiao Yan to Cultivate in peace.

Given the Hun Clan's temperament, if the Ancient Clan lost, there would inevitably be a major purge. At that time, everything would be over, and what good would it be to prove himself then... "I'm not asking you to hand over the ancient jade, but for the Ancient Clan to temporarily keep it for you. After all, the Ancient Clan is currently the strongest force apart from the Hun Clan, making it the safest place.

"Think about it, you are currently only a Dou Zun, and your teacher is only a One-Star Dou Sheng in Cultivation. The Hun Clan only needs to send an Intermediate Dou Sheng to annihilate Starfall Pavilion and take the ancient jade. At that time, wouldn't your father still lose his value?"

"If you leave the ancient jade with the Ancient Clan, the Hun Clan will have some reservations and naturally won't kill Xiao Zhan. How about it?"

"As long as you are willing to temporarily leave the ancient jade with the Ancient Clan, I will help you suppress all the Elder's objections within the Clan."

As things stood, with the situation so tense, Gu Yuan could no longer hesitate. He also needed to demonstrate some leadership within the Clan.

Xiao Yan hesitated... Meanwhile, in the Soul Realm, Hun Xuzi was trembling as he knelt before Hun Tiandi.

The Stone Clan had actually broken through the Void Swallowing Flame's barrier at a critical moment and sent out several people from Hun Xuzi and three Demonic Saints.

And Hun Xuzi and the others had searched the Stone Realm but couldn't find the ancient jade.

Undoubtedly, the ancient jade was on these few people!

And the Stone Clan's actions this time had undoubtedly declared their failure.

Hun Xuzi and the three Demonic Saints all knelt on the ground, not daring to look up at Hun Tiandi's expression, with only Void Swallowing Flame standing nonchalantly beside Hun Tiandi.

As for Soul Demon, his hands were torn, and he was currently recovering with the help of Void Swallowing Flame.

"A bunch of good-for-nothings!"

Hun Tiandi was furious, and the four's heads bowed even lower, their bodies trembling uncontrollably, fearing that Hun Tiandi would melt them down and remold them.

It was then that Void Swallowing Flame stepped forward to dissuade Hun Tiandi, saying, "This matter isn't the fault of these four. The Stone Clan's strength was actually stronger than what the intelligence indicated. Shi Zhen, at some unknown point, had actually achieved a Breakthrough to Seven-Star Dou Sheng, and the strength of the other Stone Clan members had also inexplicably increased a level."

"When we were massacring the Stone Clan, all of the Stone Clan's Elder's actually self-destructed simultaneously, and Shi Zhen, relying on a rune left behind in the Clan to empower himself, managed to hold back two Demonic Saints."

"This isn't even the most crucial part; there was actually a twelve-colored Fire Lotus within the Stone Clan, possessing world-destroying power, which immediately broke through my barrier."

"Although the time was extremely short, I am certain that it should have been formed by the Fusion of twelve different flames, and on the continent, only one person can achieve that."

Although the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus was powerful, it was extremely unstable, so it was usually used immediately after Fusion. However, the Stone Clan possessed a method to reduce the violent nature of the different flames.

Using this method, Xiao Lei left a twelve-colored Fire Lotus of different flames within the Stone Clan.

Besides the Mysterious Yellow Flame, Xiao Lei even used the sub-flames of the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame.

"Xiao Lei!"

Hun Tiandi softly called out Xiao Lei's name, his killing intent boiling, but he quickly suppressed it.

Sensing Hun Tiandi's killing intent, Void Swallowing Flame immediately spoke, "Should we attack the Purple Thunder Pavilion?"

Seeing this, Hun Xuzi and the four immediately spoke up, "Clan Chief, we are willing to go to the Purple Thunder Pavilion to kill Xiao Lei for you!"

Hun Tiandi didn't hesitate at all and directly rejected this idea.

"You four? Can you four defeat the Purple Thunder Pavilion, which has two Eight-Star Dou Sheng? Hmph!"

"If you had that kind of combat power, the Stone Clan incident wouldn't have failed. If it weren't for the tense situation, you all should have been sent back to be remade!"

Cultivating Demonic Saint-level combat power was not something that could be achieved overnight. If three Demonic Saints were killed at once, the Ancient Clan would probably be the happiest, and Hun Xuzi possessed superb Alchemy and Seven-Star Dou Sheng strength. Cultivating him was equally difficult, and he was crucial to Hun Tiandi's future plans, so he could not be abandoned.

"Everyone, now immediately go back and Cultivate. Void, use that method on them."

Hearing this, the four breathed a slight sigh of relief, but their hearts were also filled with extreme fear, because the method Hun Tiandi spoke of was extremely cruel: to rapidly Cultivate by having Void Swallowing Flame burn their Bloodline.

The process was naturally excruciating, but compared to being remade, it was already a great improvement... In the Northern Region of Central Plains, Purple Thunder Pavilion, Xiao Lei and a few others successfully returned to their territory.

Xiao Lei had long anticipated the checks and balances of various forces, so he wasn't worried about his own safety.

After a brief stop in the Pavilion, he met Yun Yun, checked her current condition, and left some Medicinal Pills to help her absorb the Dou Qi in her body, before Xiao Lei prepared to leave again with Zi Yan.

In the Void Realm, Zi Yan, who was equally sensitive to space, immediately sensed the direction they were heading.

"Xiao Lei, are you taking me back to the Northwest Continent?"

"By the way, that old man Su Qian is still in the Northwest. I wonder how shocked that old man will be when he sees me now?"

Zi Yan was full of joy and extremely excited.

Xiao Lei, on the other hand, was somewhat serious, his expression grave.

He intentionally brought Zi Yan and the others to appear in the Ancient Clan, and deliberately displayed his strength, all to make both the Ancient Clan and the Hun Clan believe in his strength, and then... "Xiao Lei, what's wrong with you?"

At this moment, Xiao Lei finally snapped out of it, then spoke with some hesitation, "Zi Yan, have you ever thought about your parents?"

Hearing this, Zi Yan was stunned for a long time, her eyes blank.

She remembered growing up in the mountains of Jia Nan Academy, fighting Demonic Beasts, competing for medicinal ingredients, constantly facing life and death situations.

Eventually, she was discovered by Su Qian and brought back to the inner academy.

After finding her own race, Zi Yan finally learned that she was the daughter of the previous Dragon Emperor. As for her parents... Zi Yan's heart was very complicated!

They gave birth to her but left her to grow up alone in the mountains. Could such parents be considered true parents?

Zi Yan had no answer.

"When I was a Dou Zun, I once Cultivated in the underground magma of Jia Nan Academy for a period. At that time, I felt an extremely powerful Qi deep in the magma, very similar to the Void Ancient Dragon. I wanted to go deeper to search, but then I encountered a Dou Zun-level Lizardman and stopped."

"This Void Ancient Dragon Qi appearing so coincidentally in Jia Nan Academy, I suspect it might be related to you."

By now, it was time for Xiao Lei to meet his father-in-law.

The other party's temper was quite volatile. In the original work, Xiao Yan, with his Seven-Star Dou Sheng and Emperor Realm Soul, was almost killed by the other party without even saying two sentences. It was only after gaining his current Cultivation and the strength not to be instantly killed by the other party that Xiao Lei chose to meet him...