Battle Through the Heavens: Xiao Yan, I am your second master

Chapter 108 Fate

Hai Bodong stared in astonishment at the young figure below, exclaiming, "Isn't this Old Wang's disciple? How come the aura emanating from him is comparable to Old Xiao's? No, it's even stronger! Could it be?!"

Yunshan nodded: "You're right, this kid has broken through to the Dou Zong realm. You old man have been surpassed by a junior, hahaha."

Hai Bodong sneered: "Old man Yun, don't be so smug. With his talent, it's only a matter of time before he surpasses you."

Hei Ming seized the opportunity, seeing that both sides were off guard, and immediately fled.

But his idea was good, but reality was cruel. Wang Ming stopped Hei Ming in an instant, grabbed him by the neck, and lifted him up.

"I was caught off guard for a moment, and you've been on the run for so long. Did you really think you could escape my grasp?"

With a forceful movement, Wang Ming unleashed a scorching flame that engulfed Hei Ming's entire body, burning him to death in the volcanic fire.

Wang Ming grabbed Hei Ming's storage ring and took it out. He then took out a jade box from the ring and opened it, revealing a green fruit lying quietly inside.

"Mysterious Heaven Azure Spirit Fruit?" Xiao Li came to Wang Ming's side and looked at the fruit in the jade box.

"That's right. The Xuan Tian Qing Ling Fruit is one of the main ingredients for refining the Hunyuan Breakthrough Pill. As you probably know, I'm already at the peak of the Dou Zong realm. Once I refine the Hunyuan Breakthrough Pill, I can start working on breaking through to the Dou Zun realm."

Wang Ming was in high spirits at this moment. Since his Nirvana was completed and he was reborn, his cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds, and he had reached the peak of Dou Zong in a short period of time.

"The Primordial Chaos Breakthrough Pill? No need, I have some here that will greatly increase your chances of breaking through to Dou Zun." Xiao Li said with a faint smile, then looked Wang Ming up and down.

"Teacher, is this what you looked like when you were young? No wonder you made your wife so infatuated."

Wang Ming blushed: "What master's wife? Don't talk nonsense! Wait! Did you see Wan Yin? And those two Dou Zong using the Sound Valley fighting techniques next to you? Did you join the Sound Valley?"

Xiao Li nodded, then invited the Pei sisters, Xiao Ting, Yun Shan, and Hai Bodong to come and sit down.

"Teacher, how come you woke up so quickly? Didn't Elder Bai say that you would need at least three to five years to undergo Nirvana?" Xiao Li asked.

"How would I know? I woke up when I felt I could. Old Xiao told me that I had stayed there for more than a year, and that I had reached the fifth-level Dou Zong level after I woke up." Wang Ming didn't know he would wake up so quickly.

Xiao Li: "Then how did you get the volcanic rock flame?"

Wang Ming shrugged: "Right under the volcano you chose, when I was cultivating, I felt there were treasures down there. After my cultivation reached the Dou Zong level, I could clearly sense the strange fire down there."

Perhaps it's because of the characteristics of my Heavenly Yang Body that I'm particularly sensitive to rare and powerful objects like Strange Flames. By the way, I heard from Lao Xiao that you and the Dean of Canaan Academy went on a trip to the Central Plains? What did you travel there for?

Xiao Li rubbed his nose: "I went to the Pill Gathering. Teacher, why don't you guess how I performed at the Pill Gathering?"

At this moment, Xiao Li's image was exactly that of a child who wanted to be praised.

Wang Ming was shocked: "You went to the Pill Refining Conference? That's the highest hall of alchemists! With your talent, you'd definitely be able to refine a high-grade seventh-rank pill, or even a peak seventh-rank pill. You must have ranked quite well, top five?"

Xiao Li shook his head: "That's not right."

Wang Ming was stunned for a moment: "You didn't get into the top five? That's impossible. With your level, you, a Dou Huang, have already refined a seventh-grade pill, and even a mid-grade seventh-grade Heavenly Yang Blood Dragon Pill."

"Did you underperform? That's impossible. You've always been very meticulous. Once you enter a state of alchemy, everything around you becomes irrelevant. Besides, the alchemy gathering offers plenty of time; you could easily refine two seventh-grade pills."

Xiao Li grinned: "Hehe, to be honest, teacher, I came in second place at this Pill Refining Competition! I successfully refined an eighth-grade pill with four-colored pill lightning!"

"What! Second place in the Pill Competition! An eighth-grade pill with four-colored pill lightning! And it didn't even get first place?" Wang Ming roared, spitting all over Xiao Li's face.

"An eighth-grade pill?!" Yun Shan, Xiao Ting, and Hai Bodong were all stunned. What did they just hear? An eighth-grade pill? Isn't that an eighth-grade alchemist? Such an existence can be said to be legendary.

In their minds, eighth-grade alchemists were even rarer than Dou Zun experts, and they were already considered lucky to have met Wang Ming, a seventh-grade alchemist.

"Hey, Teacher, let me show you. This is the eighth-grade alchemist badge that the Pill Tower awarded me." Xiao Li handed his alchemist badge to Wang Ming.

Wang Ming's hands trembled as he accepted the badge. Flames swirled around the badge, revealing a tower shape. On the tower, eight purple-gold stars emitted dazzling light. The eighth star was slightly dimmer than the previous seven, indicating that Xiao Li himself was a Rank 8 beginner alchemist.

"He really is an eighth-grade alchemist from the Pill Tower! Hahahaha! I, Wang Ming, have trained an eighth-grade alchemist who even won second place at the Pill Gathering! Hahahaha!"

Wang Ming laughed heartily, completely disregarding his image; he had never been so happy as he was today.

Yunshan, Xiaoting, and Haibodong didn't quite understand why Wang Ming was acting this way. In their impression, since teaming up with Wang Ming, they had witnessed many pill lightning strikes. Wang Ming had already successfully refined a mid-grade seventh-rank pill with an extremely high success rate.

However, all of Wang Ming's high-grade seventh-rank pill formulas were in Xiao Li's hands. Although he remembered them roughly, he had never actually refined them before, so he still needed to take another look at the formulas. Therefore, he had not refined any high-grade seventh-rank pills.

However, they learned from Wang Ming's account that his current cultivation level and alchemy skills were sufficient to refine high-grade seventh-rank pills.

To these complete laymen, a high-grade seventh-rank pill shouldn't be that much different from an eighth-rank pill, so why were they so excited?

After laughing for a long time, Wang Ming returned the badge to Xiao Li and patted Xiao Li's head: "Li'er, well done! You are even more capable than your teacher. I will have to learn from you in the future."

Xiao Li shook his head: "If it weren't for my teacher's guidance and the solid foundation laid for me, I wouldn't have been able to achieve such success. You deserve all the credit, teacher."

Wang Ming laughed and said, "Hmph, good lad, you've gotten better and better at talking after going out for a while."

Xiao Li smiled and then asked, "Teacher, why are you in the Black Corner Region with Elder Yun, Elder Hai, and my grandfather?"

Wang Ming stroked his chin: "This is a long story. You've become an eighth-grade alchemist, so your soul must have already broken through to the Spirit Realm, right? Being able to break through to the Spirit Realm means you have quite a bit of luck."

As for me, I also had some great opportunities, as did your grandfather. In less than two years, I went from a five-star Dou Zong to the peak of Dou Zong, while your grandfather went from a six-star Dou Huang to the Dou Zong level.

Your grandfather is currently in the adjustment period of becoming a Dou Zong. Once he gets through this period, he will be a true one-star Dou Zong.

Xiao Li became interested: "Oh? Could you tell me more about it?"

Wang Ming looked around and said, "This is the middle of nowhere. Let's find a better place and then tell you the story in detail."

"good!"

(End of this chapter)