Battle Through the Heavens: The Soul Emperor's Only Daughter, I Am the Young Master of the Soul

Chapter 20 Leaving the Xiao Family, the Sixth-Rank Alchemist's Soul Frozen

The back mountain of the Xiao family.

Hun Qing sat cross-legged on the mountaintop, surrounded by the medicinal herbs she had bought that day.

As she lightly touched the medicinal herbs, a puff of white smoke appeared, and medicinal dust rose from the ring. She sighed softly, "Alas, I never imagined there were such secrets between the Soul Clan and the Xiao Family!"

Hun Qinghao didn't even lift his eyelids, and said in a flat voice, "The eight ancient clans have existed since ancient times. How could they not have some grudges against each other? What's so strange about that?"

"You just told Xiao Yan about something that happened a thousand years ago? Aren't you afraid he'll betray you?"

Yao Chen really didn't know what the little girl was thinking; how could she just say something like that?

Hun Qinghao paused, his voice chilling: "He wouldn't dare!"

She looked up at Yao Chen, and after a long while, she revealed a bright yet somewhat cruel smile.

"You and Father both treat me like a child, thinking I'm naive and innocent, but I'm Father's daughter..."

"Even if I'm stupid, I know the importance of being cautious. If Xiao Yan really dares to be my enemy, he'll be burned to ashes by the World-Destroying Black Flame Seed I left in his soul tablet!"

Yao Chen looked surprised. "So you had a backup plan all along."

Then he thought of himself, a chill ran down his spine, and he couldn't help but ask tentatively, "What about me? You wouldn't have done anything to me, would you?"

Hun Qing simply smiled mysteriously, "Guess?"

Yao Chen was taken aback, then comforted himself, "There shouldn't be any, after all, I'm just a soul, I don't have anything from the Soul Palace on me."

Hun Qing smiled but remained silent.

That's not necessarily true!

After all, those are just external things, while the most dangerous thing is her soul power!

"Alright, you promised me you'd use these herbs to make medicine for me. I've bought the herbs, the rest is yours."

Hun Qinghao put all the counted medicinal herbs into a storage ring, then threw it to Yao Chen, urging him to quickly refine them into pills.

She herself was lying on a rock nearby, preparing to take a nap.

In her boring days, all she had left to do was take medicine, sleep, and read storybooks.

……

Hun Qinghao stayed at the Xiao family for another half month. The Xiao family was very peaceful, and the other families in Wutan City were also unusually quiet.

In particular, the Jia Lie family, despite the deaths of the two alchemists they had hired, did not take any action against the Xiao family. Instead, they returned all the Xiao family's markets that they had annexed.

As long as Hun Qing remains in the Xiao family, the Jia Lie family, fearing the power behind her, will never dare to target the Xiao family.

Xiao Yan was thus given half a month to develop in peace. He not only successfully refined the Lesser Void Devouring Flame by cultivating the Burning Technique, but also became an alchemist.

"What? Junior sister, you're leaving?"

Xiao Yan's surprised voice rang out in the forest on the mountaintop, startling a flock of birds.

"Yes, I've been staying at the Xiao family for half a year now, and life is getting more and more boring. I want to go somewhere else to see what it's like," Hun Qinghao said lazily, sitting on a rock and propping her face up with her hand.

"Then the teacher will have to go with you, what am I going to do?" Xiao Yan blinked, on the verge of tears. At this moment, he deeply regretted giving the ring to Hun Qinghao.

He's only just become an alchemist, and his teacher is leaving. Does that mean he'll have to figure everything out on his own from now on?

"Of course he has to come with me, otherwise who will make the medicine?"

Hun Qing looked completely at ease.

"As for you..." She looked Xiao Yan up and down, his eyes filled with sorrow, and patted his shoulder, saying, "Don't worry, I've made all the preparations. It won't interfere with your cultivation."

"Oh, what are your plans, Xiao Qing'er?" Yao Chen suddenly asked.

Hun Qing smiled gently, then placed her hands in front of her chest and drew intricate runes, using a secret technique of the Hun Clan to send a message.

Xiao Yan watched curiously from the side, wanting to learn as well, but Hun Qinghao's hand seals were too fast, dazzling him, and he finally had no choice but to give up.

"Just wait, they'll be here soon." After delivering the message, Hun Qinghao looked at the two pairs of curious eyes in front of him and smiled mysteriously.

Xiao Yan: "Who is it?"

"You'll find out soon enough," Hun Qinghao said, keeping everyone in suspense and not revealing the details.

Xiao Yan gave an "oh" and waited obediently.

Not long after, the space behind Hun Qinghao cracked open, and a handsome young man in black robes walked out of the void.

Seeing the black-robed youth move through the air as if it were flat ground, Yao Chen looked surprised, "He's actually a Dou Zong..."

"A Dou Zong level expert!" Xiao Yan swallowed hard, cold sweat already forming on his back.

Only Hun Qinghao calmly turned around and smiled at the black-robed youth.

"Greetings, Young Master!"

Upon seeing Hun Qinghao, the young man in black robes knelt on one knee before her and respectfully greeted her.

The address of "Young Master" put Yao Chen and Xiao Yan at ease. It turned out to be someone from the Soul Palace. As long as they weren't enemies, that was good.

"Get up." Hun Qing helped the black-robed youth to his feet, then, noticing the black lotus pattern on his clothes, asked with interest, "You're from the Black Lotus Guard, what's your name?"

"Young Master, my name is Hun Dan," the young man replied neither humbly nor arrogantly. Although his name might invite ridicule, he spoke with composure, seemingly unconcerned about how others viewed him.

"Pfft~"

Hun Qing found the name pleasing and immediately laughed, "Hehehe, who would give themselves such a name? Are you even your parents' biological child?"

Yao Chen and Xiao Yan were both behind Hun Qinghao, and their expressions showed that they were trying hard to suppress their laughter.

"Uh... Young Master, I really was picked up by my parents." The idiot knew his name would make the young master laugh, so he said helplessly.

"Young Master, I am an orphan. After being taken in by my parents, they gave me this name with malice. Fortunately, when I was ten years old, I was found to have a bloodline second only to the divine grade, which allowed me to get rid of them."

After hearing this, Hun Qing expressed sympathy for Hun Dan's childhood experiences, and then asked, "I've never been in the Black Lotus Guard before. Did you join recently?"

She only asked the Seven Heavenly Venerables to find an alchemist from their clan, but unexpectedly, it was the Black Lotus Guards who came.

"Not long after Young Master left the Soul Realm, I broke through to the Dou Zong level and joined the Black Lotus Guard. Don't worry, Young Master, I am a sixth-grade alchemist, which meets your requirements."

"A sixth-grade alchemist!" Xiao Yan exclaimed in surprise.

This person looked to be only in his early twenties. Not only was he a Dou Zong, but he was also a sixth-grade alchemist.

At this moment, Hun Qing recalled the rumors he had heard in the Soul Realm and asked doubtfully, "I heard that our Soul Clan has a prodigy whose talent is no less than that of Hun Ya and Hun Li, and whose talent as an alchemist is particularly outstanding. He has become a disciple of Elder Dan. Could that person be you?"

Hun smiled faintly, "Young Master has discerning eyes; that is me!"

The girl's eyes crinkled into crescents, and her voice was light and melodious. "Then you're really something, becoming Soul Void's junior brother and becoming his peer."

Upon hearing this, Hun Dan smiled modestly, "Hun Dan's light is but a firefly's glow, how can it compare to Young Master's radiance like the bright moon? Young Master, you are truly the most dazzling pearl of our Soul Clan!"

(End of this chapter)