Battle Through the Heavens: The Inner Struggle of Cultivation Brings Xiao Yan to Tears

He's improving his proficiency at an exceptionally fast pace.

In reality, even if you rely on the system's proficiency tasks to slowly improve your proficiency by practicing hundreds or thousands of times, that would be considered quite good.

Especially for high-level combat techniques, this kind of training can improve proficiency, making it very cost-effective.

You should know that many people can't even get to the basics!

The higher the level of a fighting technique, the harder it is to master.

With Xiao Yang's initial comprehension, which was so poor that he couldn't even improve his Yellow-Rank Fighting Skill proficiency after hundreds of attempts, he was still lacking.

Let alone entry-level Heavenly Rank combat skills.

Even if it's a low-level combat skill, he himself might not be able to understand it.

But now, he can master a Heavenly Rank combat technique after just one look.

Watch it several times, reflect on it carefully, and you might even improve your proficiency by a few points.

His comprehension had long since reached an incredibly advanced level.

The same applies to elixirs.

It took several attempts to finally succeed.

But now, Xiao Yang rarely fails when refining pills.

He can refine more than a dozen Rank 6 pills at the same time without a single failure!

Moreover, what is refined is at least of superior quality.

Among them are many pills of perfect quality.

Even the legendary alchemist Yao Lao, who was once known as the number one alchemist on the continent, could not match Xiao Yang's growth rate.

Now, Xiao Yang can even start trying to refine eighth-grade pills!

After breaking through to the Dou Zong level, Xiao Yang's cultivation was sufficient to support him in attempting to refine eighth-grade pills.

He plans to try it out during this period to see if he can refine it.

Xiao Yang already had a target in mind before this.

That is the Zongying Pill, a three-colored pill among the eighth-grade pills.

The Zongying Pill's function is very simple: it increases one's cultivation level as a Dou Zong (斗宗) at the first star level.

This is also the only pill that Xiao Yang knows of that can improve the cultivation level of a Dou Zong.

Even in the original novel, this kind of elixir never appeared.

He had never heard of it before.

He guessed that this must have been created by an alchemist and not passed on to others.

Or perhaps it's an ancient, lost elixir formula.

Because he had previously asked Elder Yao if there were any pills that could improve the cultivation level of a Dou Zong.

He received a negative answer at the time.

This was exactly what Xiao Yang had expected.

Because, in the original novel, Xiao Yan did not take any pills to enhance his cultivation level during his Dou Zong period.

Therefore, Xiao Yang guessed that Yao Lao probably didn't know about the pills that could enhance the cultivation level of a Dou Zong.

Judging from Xiao Yan's situation in the original novel.

Before Yao Lao was captured, he should have already handed over most of the pill formulas he knew to Xiao Yan.

Even with the treasures of the old master, there was no such elixir.

I've never even heard of it.

This is enough to show that the Zongyingdan technique is very likely lost.

After all, Elder Yao came from the ancient imperial clan known for its alchemy—the Yao Clan.

Even if Elder Yao was expelled, it's not like he had never heard of the clan's elixirs.

Therefore, Zongying Dan should be a lost elixir.

If this formula becomes known to the outside world, Xiao Yang will face considerable trouble.

Dou Zong is considered a mainstay in various forces.

If they knew the effects of Zong Ying Dan, many forces would definitely want to take action against Xiao Yang.

Chapter 321 Zong Ying Dan

Basically, all the major forces in Zhongzhou have quite a few Dou Zong.

The eight ancient clans also possessed a large number of Dou Zong powerhouses.

After reaching the Dou Zong level, it becomes extremely difficult to advance even one star.

Even if it can be improved, it will take a lot of time.

The Dou Qi of a Dou Zong is too powerful; a great deal of accumulation is required between each star.

Moreover, after reaching the Dou Zong level, apart from a few top geniuses, most people are already quite old.

In the path of cultivation, the speed of cultivation gradually decreases with age.

The golden period for cultivation is before the age of thirty.

Only top geniuses can break through to the Dou Zong level within this period of time.

Such geniuses are extremely rare, even in the Central Plains where geniuses abound.

In fact, anyone who can break through to the Dou Zong level can be considered a genius.

In some cities of the Central Plains, the strongest might be a Dou Zong (斗宗).

Even a Dou Zong (a high-ranking martial arts master) can become a local tyrant in some small places, living a carefree life.

Even in some cities in Zhongzhou, Dou Zong is considered a patriarch-level figure.

After all, there are only a handful of people in Zhongzhou who openly possess strength above the Dou Zong level.

They are a pagoda, a hall, two temples, three valleys, and four pavilions.

Few people know about the eight ancient tribes.

After all, the eight ancient clans basically lived in their own little worlds.

Moreover, the Xiao clan has now fallen to the Gama Empire in the Northwest Continent, becoming a small family in Wutan City.

If it weren't for Xiao Yan's rise to power, how could the Xiao clan still be called an ancient imperial clan?

While other ancient imperial clans had numerous Dou Sheng (Battle Saints), the Xiao clan, or rather the Xiao family, had only one Great Dou Shi (Grand Master) as their strongest member: Xiao Zhan.

Under such circumstances, how could anyone possibly believe that the Xiao family could be ranked alongside other imperial families?

These seven ancient imperial clans usually live in the small world created by their ancestor, the Dou Di, and rarely come to the outside world.

Therefore, relatively few people know about Zhongzhou.

Even the ancient imperial clans were not as famous as this so-called "One Tower, One Hall, Two Sects, Three Valleys, and Four Pavilions".

One Tower, One Hall, Two Sects, Three Valleys, and Four Pavilions are the abbreviations for the eleven largest forces in Zhongzhou on the surface.

The tower and the hall represent the two most powerful forces on the surface: the Pill Tower and the Soul Hall.

Both of these forces have Dou Sheng (Battle Saint) members!

The two sects are the Heavenly Nether Sect and the Flower Sect. These two forces are second only to the Pill Tower and the Soul Palace, and both possess the strength of a half-saint.

Next are the three valleys: Sound Valley, Burning Flame Valley, and Glacier Valley.

What's particularly special about Burning Flame Valley is that it has a Supreme Elder—Fire Cloud Ancestor.

The opponent is also a Dou Sheng!

As for Yin Valley and Binghe Valley, the strongest among them is only a Dou Zun.

The four pavilions are the Yellow Springs Pavilion, the Myriad Swords Pavilion, the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, and the Starfall Pavilion.

The strongest among the four factions are all merely Dou Zun.

Therefore, the number of Dou Zun (a high-ranking official) in Zhongzhou is very small.

Even a Dou Zong can become an elder of a first-rate power.

If we could obtain the Zongying Pill, these powerful individuals could save several years of cultivation time!

Moreover, it is very likely that this one pill will give them a greater chance of breaking through to the Dou Zun level.

Therefore, if information about Zong Yingdan were to become known, powerful individuals would surely come looking for Xiao Yang's whereabouts.

He's alright with those things.

Xiao Yang was afraid that the Soul Palace would also come knocking on his door.

Although he no longer has the same fear of the Soul Palace.

He was even confident that, given enough time, he would eventually kill the Soul Emperor.

However, he is not yet ready to withstand the Soul Palace's torment.

In the original story, it seems that the Soul Palace was dealing with Xiao Yan, but it was all just like the Calabash Brothers saving their grandfather.

However, in reality, based on Xiao Yan's original intelligence, the Soul Palace basically sent out strong individuals capable of overwhelming their opponents.

However, Xiao Yan's improvement speed was too fast, and he also had the help of benefactors.

If it were anyone else, they would be dead by now.

The Soul Palace is considered one of the more intelligent villainous forces in Battle Through the Heavens.

Xiao Yang didn't want to face off against the other party so soon.

Therefore, after he refined the Zongying Pill, he only gave it to the people around him.

As for selling it, or giving it to other members of the Xiao family, other elders of the snake-people clan, etc., that's impossible.