Battle Through the Heavens: Xiao Yan, who was kidnapped to another world

The moment Xiao Yu uttered the name "Xiao Yan," Xue Ni exclaimed in surprise.

"Ah..." Xiao Yu's lips twitched, and she pinched the girl with the big mouth next to her hard, then glared at Xiao Yan, "What are you looking at? It's just that she heard me talking in my sleep once!"

Xiao Yan rolled his eyes. He was almost immune to Xiao Yu's habit of teasing him every now and then.

After giving the girl a brief introduction to Xiao Yan and his companions, Xiao Yu and Xue Ni led them toward the cloak. Soon after, some of Xiao Yu's girlfriends came running over, showing that Xiao Yu was indeed quite popular at Canaan Academy.

Just as Xiao Yu was about to tell her girlfriends that she would take Xiao Yan to ask her mentor for leave, she suddenly saw a figure.

Before Xiao Yan, who was chatting with Xun'er, could react, Xiao Yu pulled him over and, under everyone's bewildered gaze, began to straighten his clothes like a doting wife.

"Xiao Yu, long time no see!" A man's voice suddenly rang out.

In that instant, Xiao Yan realized that his "good cousin" was using him as a shield!

"How dare you use me as a shield?" After Xiao Yu coldly responded to the man who came to greet him, Xiao Yan lowered his head and said irritably.

"Give me a hand, this guy's like a leech, he's incredibly annoying," Xiao Yu said in a low voice.

"Aren't you almost a Dou Shi yourself? Why not just cut off his arms and legs?" Xiao Yan said viciously.

"Stop joking, I'm not that kind of person!"

At this point, Xiao Yu suddenly felt something was strange. Normally, even if she said a word to another boy, Luo Bu would immediately and rudely interrupt her. But today, she was so close to Xiao Yan, and Luo Bu didn't react at all.

"Let's go, don't waste time, I still have things to do," Xiao Yan said calmly, pulling his arm out of Xiao Yu's embrace. "By the way, senior, you must be pretty sleepy too, why don't you take a nap?"

After Xiao Yan uttered these seemingly nonsensical words, the usually aggressive Luo Bu actually nodded obediently, and then, under everyone's astonished gaze, fell asleep immediately.

What did you just do?

On the way to find her mentor, Xiao Yu finally couldn't help but turn around and ask a question.

Of course, Rob, a four-star Dou Zhe, was no match for Xiao Yan. But Xiao Yan and Rob didn't even have a normal conversation, let alone fight. Rob seemed to be under control, which made Xiao Yu a little flustered.

“Soul power,” Xiao Yan snorted twice, then said in a feigned indifference, “If you don’t want to lose face in front of your clansmen in the future, then don’t yell and shout in front of me.”

"If you dare to treat me like this in front of Xun'er, then so be it!" Hearing Xiao Yan's teasing words, Xiao Yu gritted her teeth in extreme displeasure and glared fiercely at Xiao Yan.

“Uh…” Xiao Yan slightly shifted his gaze.

Lately, he and Xun'er have indeed become too intimate. The older generation is happy to see their relationship and will not make fun of it in front of them. The younger generation is afraid of Xiao Yan's strength and status and dares not say much. But there is Xiao Yu who is not afraid of Xiao Yan at all. In fact, he can be said to be the only person in the entire Xiao family who dares to "hunt down" Xiao Yan.

Therefore, Xiao Yan was slightly embarrassed after being exposed by Xiao Yu.

"Yu'er?"

Before Xiao Yan could recover and continue his banter with Xiao Yu, a gentle female voice came from not far away—

In the shadow of the tent, a woman in green was looking over with some curiosity. A gentle smile graced her pretty face. The woman appeared to be a little older than Xiao Yu, and her full and shapely figure exuded a mature charm.

"Instructor Ruolin, Yu'er missed you so much!" Upon seeing the woman in green, Xiao Yu's face lit up with joy. She ran a few steps and threw herself into the woman's arms, hugging the latter's voluptuous waist with a grin.

"Hehe, Yu'er, you had a great holiday, didn't you?" The woman called Ruolin said with a smile, holding Xiao Yu in her arms. "You're about to become a Dou Shi, and you were only a three-star Dou Zhe when you asked for leave, right?"

“The family has distributed a lot of pills and resources during this period,” Xiao Yu said softly, “and the strength of the family members has improved considerably.”

"Including the young lover you brought along..." Ruolin asked with a smile.

"Teacher Ruolin, this is my cousin, Xiao Yan. He has something he wants to tell you today!"

Xiao Yu, who could completely guess what her mentor was going to say, hurriedly interrupted her, and at the same time quickly got up from Ruolin's arms, pulled Xiao Yan over, and said, but the blush on her cheeks was not very convincing.

"Hmm?" Satisfied with the blush on Xiao Yu's face, Ruolin shifted her gaze to Xiao Yan. "Xiao Yan? You're the genius cousin Yu'er mentioned when she asked me how to break the curse, the one who suffered from an unknown curse? It seems... the curse has been cured?"

Ruolin was only a five-star Great Dou Master, so naturally she couldn't see through Xiao Yan's true strength. But just looking at Xiao Yan's spirit and energy at this moment, he didn't seem like someone whose strength was stuck at the third level of Dou Qi and had no chance of making any progress.

"The injury has healed completely, so there's no need for you to worry, mentor."

Xiao Yan was quite surprised that Xiao Yu would actually ask a Canaan Academy instructor for advice.

Sensing Xiao Yan's gaze, Xiao Yu, whose cheeks were still flushed, glared at him fiercely. "Instructor Ruolin, I'll head back now. I still have a few of my little cousins ​​outside." With that, under Ruolin's teasing gaze, Xiao Yu turned around in a panic and ran outside.

"Alright, now that Yu'er isn't here anymore, feel free to ask whatever you want." After Xiao Yu disappeared from sight, Ruolin lazily looked at Xiao Yan, signaling him to quickly ask what he wanted to know.

"Will all the students recruited in Wutan City eventually be assigned to Instructor Ruolin's class?" After thinking for a moment, Xiao Yan didn't immediately ask for leave, but instead asked this question.

“Although this recruitment is being held in Wutan City, young men and women from various cities near Wutan City will also come. Even if only one in ten thousand are selected, we can still recruit a hundred or so students. I am just a Yellow-rank instructor, how could I possibly teach so many students?” Ruolin rolled her eyes in annoyance.

“However, as the person in charge of admissions, I have the unconditional right to assign ten students to my class. If you want to be in the same class as Yu’er, you can just say so.” But then, Ruolin, who felt she had seen through Xiao Yan’s little scheme, said these words.

“Ahem, let’s put all the clansmen, including myself, who were brought in by Xiao Yu through connections, into your class, Instructor,” Xiao Yan coughed lightly, not refuting Ruolin’s words. “There are seven of us in total, all above the fifth level of Dou Zhe. We certainly won’t disappoint you, Instructor.”

"They're all above the fifth level of Dou Zhe?" Ruolin smiled. "Hmm, it seems I haven't been treating Yu'er so well all this time for nothing!" Hearing Xiao Yan's words, Ruolin felt very happy and had already started to imagine what it would be like to be promoted to a Xuan-rank instructor next year.

Xiao Yan also breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't have a bad impression of Canaan Academy, but after all, he would be staying at Canaan Academy for quite a while in a year and a half. If he wasn't in the same class as Xun'er, it would be a bit difficult.

"But you must want more than just this from me, right?" After a moment of joy, Ruolin came to her senses and realized that if Xiao Yan wasn't lying, she would have assigned the seven members of the Xiao family to her class even if he hadn't come to her. "Do you want to share a dorm with Yu'er? Yu'er probably won't have much of an objection, but you'll have to persuade Xue Ni and the others yourself."

Therefore, Ruolin naturally assumed that Xiao Yan wanted to apply to share a dormitory with Xiao Yu.

"No, no," Xiao Yan waved his hand, "I just wanted to ask you... is there any rumor about a different kind of flame at Canaan Academy?" Over the past ten days, Xiao Yan had thought about it for a long time and finally decided to first confirm with the instructors at Canaan Academy whether the Fallen Heart Flame was still there.

"Strange fire? Why are you asking that?"

Ruolin found it strange, and then she saw Xiao Yan take out a third-grade alchemist badge from his Awakening Flame Ring and casually pin it to his chest.

“…Alright, you really are a prodigy,” Ruolin sighed helplessly, her lips twitching slightly. “There are indeed rumors of strange fires in the academy, but they have always just been rumors. After all, if strange fires really existed, the Fire Elder of the Outer Court wouldn’t have been using ordinary beast fires all this time.”

Xiao Yan had heard Xiao Yu mention the title "Elder Huo" before. It was said that he was a fifth-grade alchemist at the peak of the Dou Huang realm. It seemed that his talent was limited to that level, and Elder Huo had been stuck at the fifth-grade alchemist position for nearly ten years.

"What are the rumors about the strange fire?" Xiao Yan asked.

"In the inner courtyard there is a Heavenly Flame Refining Tower. Cultivating inside it can draw out a kind of inner fire, which can refine one's battle qi and accelerate its cultivation..."

Under the guidance of Xiao Yan's soul power, Ruolin casually revealed the news about the inner courtyard.

'Heartfire? It seems the Fallen Heartflame is indeed still there!'

After hearing the words "Heart Flame," Xiao Yan was almost certain that the Fallen Heart Flame was still at Canaan Academy. Moreover, the fact that almost anyone could draw out the Heart Flame through cultivation was practically telling Xiao Yan that this Fallen Heart Flame was still unclaimed!

'The problem now is... what can I do to get Canaan Academy to give up on this Fallen Heartflame?'

Receiving news of the Fallen Heart Flame was a cause for celebration, but from Ruolin's subsequent descriptions, Xiao Yan also confirmed the Fallen Heart Flame's importance to Canaan Academy. It could even be said that the inner courtyard of Canaan Academy was entirely built upon this Fallen Heart Flame!

'I wonder if I can fool them into consuming the Fallen Heart Flame first, and then giving them seventh-grade pills as compensation...' Xiao Yan chuckled to himself.

Chapter 140 Little Fairy Doctor

"I've told you about the rumors of the Strange Flame. Is there anything else you'd like to ask?" After telling Xiao Yan everything about the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower, Ruolin smiled and looked at him.

"There's one more thing, and this is the last thing..." Xiao Yan suddenly chuckled.

"I would like to ask for a leave of absence."

"A request for leave?" Ruolin asked, somewhat puzzled. "The academy's admissions team will be staying in Wutan City for seven days. If there are any matters that haven't been resolved, they can certainly take care of them within these seven days, right? Is it really necessary to request leave?"

"That's the problem... Seven days really isn't enough," Xiao Yan said with a dry laugh.

"How long do you want to take leave?" Ruolin sensed the guilt in Xiao Yan's words and her heart sank as she asked, "If it's not too long, with the authority of a Yellow-Rank teacher, I should be able to get it for you."

"About a year and a half, I guess," Xiao Yan said with a dry laugh.

“A year and a half…that’s almost half of your study time already. I can’t make that decision for you,” Ruolin sighed. “Are you sure you want to study at Canaan Academy?”

"After all, it was my teacher's request," Xiao Yan sighed, feigning helplessness. "Being able to become a third-grade alchemist at this age is entirely thanks to my teacher's help. If possible, I don't want to run around like this."

“…In that case, you can finish the tasks assigned by your teacher before enrolling in Canaan Academy,” Ruolin paused for a moment and advised.

"But it's impossible to be assigned to your class, mentor, that way, right?" Xiao Yan smiled.

"You really want to live in the same dormitory as Yu'er?" Ruolin was stunned.

"No... okay, that's it."

After all, Xun'er and Xiao Yu were not by his side, so Xiao Yan had to tell a little lie in order to get this year and a half vacation.

"You..." Looking at Xiao Yan nodding, Ruolin was speechless for a moment.

In the end, Ruolin was persuaded by Xiao Yan. Of course, mainly after confirming Xiao Yan's Dou Qi Gauze Robe, Ruolin understood that the outer academy's teaching was actually meaningless for Xiao Yan, and the only one who could teach Xiao Yan, Elder Huo, happened to be the same alchemist level as Xiao Yan's teacher.

"A year and a half, a total of eighteen months of vacation, not a single day more, understand?"

As Xiao Yan left with the leave slip, Ruolin gave him a special reminder.

"Know!"

*

Seven days later, the outer perimeter of the Monster Mountain Range.

Watching Xiao Mei, Xiao Ning, and the other three leave together, Xiao Yan, who was hiding in the treetops somewhere, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In just seven days, five young people who knew nothing about the Monster Mountain Range rushed in almost recklessly. If it weren't for Xiao Yan protecting them, they might have been dead by now.

'Alright, now that your people have all left, isn't it time to go check out that cave?'

After confirming that all five had safely arrived at Qingshan Town on the outskirts of the Monster Mountain Range and reunited with the Xiao family guards who were staying in Qingshan Town, Yao Lao's voice also rang in Xiao Yan's heart at the right time.

“Indeed, we should go and see if there’s anything interesting there.” Xiao Yan nodded, glanced at the five people who left Qingshan Town with the Xiao family guards, and then disappeared from the treetops in a flash.

Ever since he heard from the Amethyst Winged Lion King that there might be a Dou Huang's cave on the outskirts of the Monster Mountain Range, Xiao Yan, while ensuring that his five clansmen would not die on the outskirts of the Monster Mountain Range, also used his soul power to almost sweep through every corner of the outskirts of the Monster Mountain Range.

Then, quite by chance, a cave was discovered on a cliff face.

"Ginkgo?"

After spending some time avoiding the herb-gathering teams and mercenary groups on the mountainside, Xiao Yan finally reached the top of the mountain. The first thing he saw was a white plant on the edge of a cliff. "Perhaps, the white orchid fruit can be considered my lucky medicinal material?" He squatted down and gently touched the already ripe white orchid fruit.

As he muttered to himself, Xiao Yan glanced at a large tree behind him out of the corner of his eye. Even without using his soul power to investigate, Xiao Yan could notice that someone was hiding behind that tree.

'Never mind, she's just a little girl who's not even a fighter.'

Soon, Xiao Yan withdrew his gaze. As he picked the white orchid fruit, a little medicinal liquid dripped from his fingertips onto the white plant. This was a medicinal liquid he had once refined to accelerate plant growth, albeit a low-grade version.

Standing up, Xiao Yan took a step forward, his gaze falling on a section of the mountain wall obscured by a horizontal log—

"Um... do you want to jump?"

Before Xiao Yan could continue forward, a soft, weak voice sounded from behind him.

Xiao Yan paused slightly, slowly turning his head to look at the girl who had spoken those words behind him, the one who had been hiding behind a large tree.

The girl was dressed in a white dress. Although she wasn't a stunning beauty, she was still a rare sight. She exuded a fresh and ethereal aura. Even though she had a sorrowful expression on her face, she didn't seem like someone who would appear in the Monster Mountain Range.

Xiao Yan's gaze swept over the girl's slender waist, a hint of amazement flashing in his eyes. He had to admit that the girl's waist was the most delicate and slender among all the women he knew.