Reaching the pinnacle from Doupo

Chapter 392: Temporary Farewell, Unexpected Martial Arts
The next day, the sun was blazing, hanging high in the blue sky like a golden plate, illuminating the earth with its splendor.

Outside the city of Shengdan, a towering mountain stands tall, surrounded by clouds and mist, like a fairyland. At a certain moment, three figures flashed in like flowing light and landed lightly on the top of the mountain, with their clothes fluttering, like immortals.

"Qing'er, Little Medical Fairy, please be careful and cautious on this trip."

Lin Yuan flicked his finger lightly, and two jade slips shot out from the ring, one red and one purple. As they flashed, subtle spatial fluctuations were created.

The space jade slips for summoning powerful people are now useful.

Lin Yuan said in a deep voice: "Keep these two jade slips. The red one is the space jade slip of Patriarch Huoyun of Fenyan Valley; the purple one is the space jade slip of Elder Qiyou of Longdao. If you encounter an emergency during your trip to the East Region, remember to use the jade slips decisively..."

"After you use up the space jade slip, don't be obsessed with this mission. Either go back to Dan Tower or follow Elder Qi You to Dragon Island."

"I will be heading to Dragon Island soon. You can wait for me there..."

After a pause, his tone became unusually serious: "Remember, no matter what you gain, it is not as important to me as your safety."

After saying that, Lin Yuan stretched out his hand and solemnly handed the jade slip to them.

Hearing this, Qing Lin felt a surge of warmth in his heart, his eyes curved into crescent shapes, and he responded obediently: "Yes, sir! Qing'er will remember..."

Lin Yuan nodded slightly, and took out an extremely delicate warship "model", and handed it to the curious Qing Lin: "Take the shuttle boat with you as well. This way, you won't have to sleep in the open air during the journey, and you'll be safer."

Upon seeing this, Little Medical Fairy gently stroked her forehead with a helpless smile on her face - with such thorough preparations, how could it look like she was going on a mission?
However, those eyes, as soft as rippling water, sparkled with a gentle light.

She took a step forward, stretched out her hand to smooth the wrinkles on Lin Yuan's collar, and said softly: "Don't worry, my strength and intelligence, you don't know? This trip to the East Region, I will protect Xiao Qinglin, you don't have to worry..."

Hearing this, Lin Yuan nodded slightly, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he explained the last thing.

"If you need it, you can take my soul jade slip and go to Gu Yue Shan Shui in Yongning City to seek help. Gu Yong, the master of Gu Yue Shan Shui, is one of my partners in the Gu Clan and a local boss in the East Region. He should be able to provide some help."

"Yeah!" The little medical fairy nodded, then took two steps back and smiled gently at Lin Yuan. That smile was like a spring breeze, warm and bright.

"I've got it all written down. Let's go now!"

He and Qinglin looked at each other, and the two women stepped into the air. Their figures flashed, and their figures drew a graceful arc in the sunlight, flying towards the distant sky.

After watching the two girls disappear from his sight, Lin Yuan withdrew his gaze and turned to fly towards Shengdan City.
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When Lin Yuan returned to his house, an unexpected but reasonable visitor appeared before him.

"Senior Yao, didn't you change your cultivation method?"

Lin Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly, then made an invitation gesture with his right hand and led Yao Lao into the reception hall.

“Haha, the Fire Saint Yuanjian you gave to Xiao Yanzi is indeed tempting, but I still have some things I want to confirm, so I won’t start my retreat so soon.” Yao Lao smiled slightly, with a hint of deep meaning in his eyes, and walked slowly into the house.

"I see!" After Lin Yuan asked Yao Lao to sit down, he personally poured him a cup of fragrant tea and chuckled, "Since you are looking for me to confirm, is it about Han Feng's matter?"

"Sure enough, Han Feng's disappearance is related to you!"

Hearing Lin Yuan's undisguised words, Yao Lao was slightly stunned, then quickly came to his senses, looked at him deeply, and said in a deep voice.

After being resurrected, he naturally would not give up on revenge, and he had three enemies: first, Han Feng, who plotted against his commander personally; second, old man Mu Gu, who instigated Han Feng; third, the Soul Palace that cooperated with them and hunted down his own.

Among these three enemies, the one that Yao Lao hated the most was his evil disciple, Han Feng, who conspired with others to kill his master for a mere volume of martial arts.

In fact, he started sending people to investigate a few months ago, trying to find Han Feng's whereabouts.

The information that was finally found was that Han Feng had stayed in the Black Horn Region for a long time, earned the title of Medicine King, and seemed to have tamed a blue strange fire.

However, more than three years ago, Han Feng suddenly disappeared completely, and there has been no news of him since then.

I thought the clues were gone, but what Xiao Yan said yesterday finally allowed Yao Lao to connect everything together - the ice-blue synthetic fire, the secret method of fusing the sub-fires of the fire, the time when Han Feng disappeared, the time when Lin Yuan left Canaan College...

Many clues come together to form a reasonable and self-consistent explanation: Han Feng’s disappearance is most likely related to Lin Yuan.

Yao Lao came here today, intending to get some information, but he did not expect Lin Yuan to be so frank and not hide the fact that Han Feng's disappearance was related to him.

This is good. The feud with that evil disciple can finally be settled completely.

He took a deep breath, a cold aura permeated his body, and his voice was chilling: "Lin boy, where is that evil beast Han Feng now?"

"That wicked and heartless thing actually colluded with the old ghost Mu Gu to murder me just for a scroll of martial arts. If I hadn't been born, I would have died in the hands of that evil disciple. I will never be at peace until I have avenged this!"

"Dead!" Lin Yuan took a sip of tea, looked directly at Yao Lao, and told him honestly.

"More than three years ago, I broke through to the Dou Queen level and left the academy to travel."

"When we were passing through the Black Horn Region, that idiot set his eyes on my Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire. Seeing that I had just entered the Douhuang realm, he wanted to kill people and take the fire. So I gave him a suitable ending - an ending that matched that of a weak bandit."

"By the way, when he was dying, he wanted to use the name of a senior to intimidate me and wanted me to spare his life. Haha, of course I turned over and crushed him to death."

"And his many collections naturally became my trophies."

"Han Feng's strange fire, skills, alchemy skills, prescriptions, and medicinal materials have become my nourishment and have been of great help to me..."

Apart from the fact that Han Feng was lured by his design, Lin Yuan generously told Yao Lao about the rest of the things.

Finally, he waved his sleeves lightly, and a frozen corpse flew out of the ring, and fell to the ground in the center of the hall with a "pa".

"I still have Han Feng's body. Since you have a grudge against him, I'll give it to you!"

Although he had some premonitions in his heart before coming, when he actually saw Han Feng's body, Yao Lao couldn't help but be stunned. On his face, resentment, joy, sighs, disappointment... intertwined into an indescribable picture.

Taking a deep breath, he slowly stood up and walked slowly to the side of the corpse, his eyes lingering on Han Feng's face. Looking at this familiar yet hateful face, Yao Lao's expression changed, the energy in his body also fluctuated, and the space around him also continued to vibrate and distort.

At a certain moment, his eyes sharpened and he clenched his right fist tightly, then as if he remembered something, he slowly loosened his clenched fist.

Hold, release, hold, release... repeat this process over and over again.

Yao Lao has extremely complicated feelings towards Han Feng, the man he raised but who turned against him. He feels mixed emotions.

After a long while, he finally loosened his fist. Instead of clenching it again, he shook his head and sighed deeply: "Evil beast, is this your choice? Is this your ending? To die for someone else's strange fire... How ironic!"

"Well, this kind of retribution and death is very suitable for your ridiculous and absurd life... Your life was completely ruined by that scroll of skills."

"Well, as a teacher, I taught you skills but didn't teach you morals. That's the price I'll pay."

Lin Yuan didn't say much, just watched Yao Lao's reaction quietly, without much ripples in his heart - to this day, no matter what Yao Lao thought about the matter, it couldn't shake him at all, so it didn't hurt to tell him most of the truth.

After venting his anger, Yao Lao retracted his gaze and looked at Lin Yuan meaningfully: "Lin boy, thank you for helping me settle this grudge."

There was a hint of ease and relief in his voice, as if he had untied some knot in his heart.
Lin Yuan waved his hand and chuckled, "Senior, don't worry about it. I killed Han Feng for my own sake, not to help you settle your grudge... I can only say that it happened by chance!"

"No matter what, a favor is a favor!" Yao Lao shook his head slightly and said solemnly.

“Admittedly, most of the transactions between you and me are transactions, but the assistance you have provided to me objectively is innumerable. You have protected the Soul Battle Hall, refined my body, killed that old ghost Mu Gu, killed that evil disciple Han Feng, protected my reputation in the Thunder Realm, and you also used the Heaven-level technique, the Fire Saint Yuanjian…”

As he counted, Yao Lao couldn't help but smile, with a hint of gentleness in his eyes - without realizing it, Lin Yuan had helped him so much?
Thinking about it carefully, if Lin Yuan had not taken action, not only would he not be able to return to the peak, but he might even have fallen into the hands of the Soul Palace instead of having the hope of breaking through the Saint Realm.

Thinking of this, the hesitation in his mind became firm.

“Lin, I’ve taken advantage of you quite a bit in the deal regarding the Demon Fire Remnant Map!” Yao Lao pondered, his face becoming more serious. “Since that’s the case, I’ll give you something as a token of my gratitude and to make up for the difference in the deal…”

Hearing this, Lin Yuan did not make any pretentious excuses and said directly: "Since Senior Yao is interested, I will not refuse."

"Hmm!" Yao Lao nodded, and after thinking for a moment, he said seriously: "After thinking about it, I think you have everything you need. The only thing I can give you is the one that best suits your personality and your talent..."

At this point, he glanced at Han Feng's body mockingly, and thought to himself: "Evil beast, remember, my things... I give them to whoever I want!"

Retracting his gaze, he took out a black scroll and threw it to Lin Yuan.

After Lin Yuan took the scroll, a stream of information instantly flooded into his mind, causing his eyes to shrink slightly: "This is... the Burning Decree? The complete version of the Burning Decree?"

"Haha, it's the Burning Decree!" Yao Lao nodded and chuckled.

"Although your skills are already at the Heavenly Level, the special nature of the Burning Technique should be able to bring you some help."

"If my guess is correct, you have obtained half of Han Feng's Burning Technique, and your secret method of creating strange fire with seed fire should have referred to half of the Burning Technique! Perhaps, this complete version of the Burning Technique can help you further improve the secret method."

Since Xiao Yan decided to give up the Path of the Burning Technique and Lin Yuan also obtained a part of this technique, Yao Lao simply did him a favor.

Lin Yuan put away the scroll and clasped his fists towards Yao Lao: "Thank you for the gift, Senior. Lin Yuan will remember it in my heart! This special technique, the Burning Decision, can really help me a lot..."

"Haha, mutual. Fire Saint Yuanjian can also help me a lot!"

Yao Lao smiled and asked with interest: "Come to think of it, you seem to have quite a few strange fires in your hands. Do you plan to switch to the Burning Technique?"

"There is no such plan at the moment." Lin Yuan shook his head slightly, denying Yao Lao's guess.

"The process of switching from a mid-level Heaven-level technique to a low-level Yellow-level technique will definitely cause a great loss in my cultivation. Although the effect of this technique is quite strange, it is not enough for me to pay such a price to switch to it, but..."

He changed the subject and spoke with more pride: "The concept of this technique is very good. When I create my own technique in the future, I should absorb and learn from it."

"You created your own martial arts technique? What a great ambition!" Yao Lao praised.

Absorb and learn from the concepts of the Burning Decree to create a new technique... If such arrogant words were spoken by anyone else, Yao Lao would probably sneer at them. However, when these words came from Lin Yuan's mouth, Yao Lao felt that it was reasonable to do so.

After all, even if Lin Yuan died now, his amazing talent would be enough to leave a mark in the history of Douqi Continent.

Thinking of this, Yao Lao sighed with emotion and looked at Han Feng's body again.

On the other side, Lin Yuan unexpectedly obtained the complete version of the Burning Decree, and was quite happy. However, he did not forget another important thing. He turned his head to look at Yao Lao who was helping Han Feng collect the body.

After a moment of hesitation, he asked Yao Lao directly: "Senior Yao, I have something I want to ask you. Do you know about the Space Trade Fair?"

"Are you talking about the space trade fair that takes place once every ten years?" After hearing Lin Yuan's words, Yao Lao turned his head in surprise.

"Yeah!" Lin Yuan nodded.

Hearing this, Yao Lao shook his head slightly and said, "If it is that... it's a pity that it was only held last year, and it will be more than eight years before the next one."

"I know this!" Lin Yuan didn't mind at all and continued, "Senior, do you know where the headquarters of the three sects of the trade fair are? How can I contact them directly? I have some things I want to investigate and I want to talk to them directly."

Hearing this, Yao Lao stroked his beard and said with a smile: "If that's all, then I still have some ways to help you."

"That's great, thank you very much, senior." Lin Yuan bowed and said gratefully.

Afterwards, the two discussed the details in detail, and then exchanged their views on alchemy. Then Yao Lao took the initiative to say goodbye and leave.

Lin Yuan took out the "Burning Decree" scroll again and read it carefully.

Lin Yuan took out the scroll of the Burning Decree and read it again: "Haha, I got the complete version of the Burning Decree. It's really a blessing in disguise..."

(End of this chapter)