Humans, starting with chat groups, rampage across the heavens.

What are you thinking about?

"This is the precious treasure I'm talking about."

Without further ado, Xu Qi'an took out a small jade mirror and retrieved a long, tubular object from it.

"This is... a musket?"

Upon seeing what Xu Qi'an was holding, Xiao Yan's eyes widened in astonishment.

"Ha ha!"

Xu Qi'an said with a smug look on his face:

"I heard there's going to be a fight, so this is a powerful weapon that I specially commissioned a sorcerer from the Imperial Observatory to forge."

Xiao Yan immediately snatched the musket, examining it excitedly as he said:

"How powerful is this thing?"

Lu Chen also joined in, after all, firearms are a man's romance.

"It should be one shot to kill a Grandmaster, but this musket requires my own true energy to charge. At my current level, one shot will consume most of my true energy."

Xu Qi'an spoke with a slight embarrassment.

"Only one shot?"

Xiao Yan clicked his tongue in disappointment.

"But one shot will do. Taking down a Grandmaster by surprise will make others hesitant to act against him later."

"It's still early, let me show you around Wutan City."

Xiao Yan spoke up.

Lu Chen and his group did not refuse.

Just as I came down from the mountaintop, I was greeted by a beautiful young woman with an elegant demeanor.

The young woman wore a light blue dress, her face was delicate and beautiful, giving her a fresh and refined appearance.

"Brother Xiao Yan!"

"These...are Xiao Yan's friends?"

Xiao Xun'er spoke gently, her gaze sweeping over Lu Chen and the other two. When she saw Huang Rong, she subconsciously frowned slightly, but when she saw Huang Rong always nestled beside Lu Chen, she relaxed.

"It's little sister Xun'er!"

Upon seeing Xiao Xun'er appear, Xiao Yan's face immediately lit up with a smile, and he promptly introduced Lu Chen and the others to each other:

"That's right, these are all my good friends!"

"This is Brother Lu, this is Xu Bai... Xu Qi'an, and this is Huang Rong."

"I'm going to take them to the market."

Having gotten used to addressing him by name, Xiao Yan almost blurted out "Xu the Freeloader".

"Brother Lu, this is Xun'er."

Lu Chen, with a composed and gentlemanly smile, spoke:

"So this girl is the Xun'er you've been longing for all this time? Well done, Huo Huo, you have excellent taste!"

"really!"

"No wonder Brother Huo kept calling out 'Sister Xun'er' when he was drunk last time."

Xu Qi'an winked at Xiao Yan and then spoke up.

"Forehead……"

After hearing Lu Chen's words, Xiao Yan was caught in a dilemma: he couldn't explain or not explain, so he could only stand there scratching his head and grinning foolishly.

Hearing what Lu Chen and Xu Qi'an said, a bright smile bloomed on Xiao Xun'er's face.

"Since Brother Xiao Yan has friends here, I won't disturb him any longer."

Xiao Xun'er spoke sweetly, then stepped aside to stand beside her.

"Okay, then we'll be going now."

Xiao Yan nodded to Xiao Xun'er and led Lu Chen and the other two forward.

Watching the group's departing figures, Xiao Xun'er's expression gradually returned to calm, a hint of doubt flashing in her eyes as she murmured to herself:

"When did Brother Xiao Yan make so many friends?"

"A while ago, Brother Xiao Yan did smell strongly of alcohol, but those people weren't there that day..."

"It seems Brother Xiao Yan also has a secret..."

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"How about it, guys? My taste wasn't bad, was it?"

Xiao Yan said with a smug look on his face.

"She's really not bad. For such a top-tier rich and beautiful woman to actually fall for you, Xiao Huohuo, could she have some kind of problem with her eyesight?"

Xu Qi'an curled his lip and said sourly.

"You're just jealous of me!"

Xiao Yan smiled smugly.

Lu Chen then slowly spoke with a smile on his lips:

"This Xiao Xun'er is indeed quite good, but if your behavior back then were in my previous life, you'd definitely get a beating from electrocution!"

"Um, this..."

Xiao Yan gave an awkward smile, his eyes darting left and right, unsure how to explain.

"Oh?"

"Does that mean there's something else going on here?"

"Could it be that Xiao Huohuo did something perverted to that young girl?"

Xu Qi'an immediately became interested upon seeing this.

"That's really pretty twisted."

Lu Chen chuckled and said:

"When Xiao Xun'er first moved into the Xiao family, she was only three or four years old. This kid dared to sneak into the little girl's room in the middle of the night and, under the pretext of nurturing her meridians, groped her indiscriminately."

"And then he won the heart of that young girl."

"I'm suing for wrongdoing!"

"Xiao Huohuo, you really are a pervert!"

Xu Qi'an looked at Xiao Yan with disdain and said:

"You even prey on such a young girl, you should be given electroconvulsive therapy!"

"I'm innocent!"

"Brother Lu, you've really wronged me on this!"

"I really didn't think that much about it at the time!"

Xiao Yan quickly spoke up to defend himself, saying:

"At that time, I had only recently cultivated my battle qi, and I wanted to find someone to test its effects on. However, all the children in the family were always accompanied by adults, and only my little sister Xun'er lived alone, so... that's why..."

"I swear, I really didn't have any perverted thoughts at the time!"

I don't believe it.

"An explanation is just a cover-up, and a cover-up is the truth!"

Xu Qi'an said with a sidelong glance and a smile.

"No matter what you were thinking back then, you should be grateful that you were just a child, otherwise you would have been dead long ago."

Lu Chen spoke in a calm tone.

"Oh, how so?"

Xu Qi'an immediately pressed for an answer.

Xiao Yan also looked at Lu Chen with surprise.

"You don't really think that a young lady from an ancient clan wouldn't have a single guard by her side, do you?"

"There has always been a Dou Huang secretly following her."

Lu Chen spoke slowly.

"Battle Emperor!"

Xiao Yan was startled upon hearing this, but then he realized that this made sense.

Since Xiao Xun'er is the eldest daughter of an ancient clan, how could the ancient clan possibly leave her alone in the Xiao family?

Thinking of this, Xiao Yan suddenly remembered a problem he had ignored for a long time.

"Brother Lu, Xun'er's status is so noble, why was she sent to the Xiao family, and why has she stayed there for so many years?"

"Furthermore, my Xiao family is merely an insignificant, insignificant family in Wutan City. How could we possibly be involved with ancient clans like the Gu Clan, which stand at the pinnacle of the continent?"

Xiao Yan asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"Regarding this question, let me first tell you which eight families were the eight ancient clans, and then you will understand."

Lu Chen chuckled and said:

"These eight ancient clans are the Soul Clan, the Ancient Clan, the Thunder Clan, the Stone Clan, the Flame Clan, the Medicine Clan, the Spirit Clan, and... the Xiao Clan!"

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