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

"I see..." Yun Yun chuckled dryly, then asked softly, "So, why did you save me? My purpose is the same as yours."

These words further convinced Xiao Yan that the current sect leader of the Yunlan Sect was a complete naive and innocent fool. 'Even if I saved you to use you, would I say it outright?!'

“Because you are human,” Xiao Yan said, but he also had his own explanation. “Besides, my master has already obtained the Purple Spirit Crystal, so whether or not he saves you is not a big deal.”

"Speaking of which, my teacher was looking for the Purple Spirit Crystal for his family's descendants. Are you doing the same?" Before Yun Yun could finish her sentence, Xiao Yan looked at her curiously. "But the Jia Ma Empire doesn't seem to have many Dou Huangs, let alone female Dou Huangs. If I remember correctly, there seems to be only the current sect leader of the Yunlan Sect..."

“I am her sister,” Yun Yun interrupted Xiao Yan abruptly, forcing a dry laugh, “but I have never shown my face to outsiders, so although I am a Dou Huang, I am not well-known in the Jia Ma Empire. Speaking of which, what about your master?”

After giving a dry and unhelpful reason, Yunyun quickly changed the subject.

"I don't know. They left me with the words 'I'm going to train hard in the Monster Mountain Range' and then disappeared," Xiao Yan answered Yun Yun's question very cooperatively. "By the way, since you are the sister of that Sect Master Yun, you must have found this Purple Spirit Crystal for the young lady of the Nalan family, right?"

Upon hearing the second half of "Yaoyan's" words, especially after hearing the words "the eldest daughter of the Nalan family" from the mouth of this young master from Zhongzhou, Yunyun suddenly had an ominous premonition.

"Ah, yes, it's for Yan... Nalan Yanran," Yun Yun said with a forced laugh.

"That Nalan Yanran, who is famous throughout the Jia Ma Empire, disliked the man's talent and used the power of the Yunlan Sect to forcibly force him to break off the engagement, has not yet become a Dou Shi?"

Xiao Yan blinked his bright eyes, staring at Yun Yun with "curiosity," and said, "I've been in the Monster Beast Mountain Range for over a year, and I've heard that the man who was rejected is already a Dou Shi, you know?"

'It's because they knew that person was already a Battle Master that they came looking for the Purple Spirit Crystal...'

Yun Yun smiled bitterly. If Nalan Yanran hadn't spoken so confidently, even saying that if she lost, she would become a slave, she, the sect leader of Yunlan Sect, wouldn't have had to come to the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to seek the Purple Spirit Crystal.

“Nalan… didn’t look down on the talent of the third young master of the Xiao family.”

It's uncertain how long Yao Yan, who has a master who is a seventh-grade alchemist, will stay in the Jia Ma Empire. Therefore, Yun Yun thinks it's better not to let Yao Yan develop too much aversion towards Nalan Yanran. Even if Yao Yan and Nalan Yanran will never meet, it's better not to leave any potential hidden dangers.

"As a disciple of the Yunlan Sect's sect leader, Nalan will undoubtedly inherit the sect in the future. From this perspective, her engagement with the third young master of the Xiao family is unlikely to actually happen..."

"But when that third young master of the Xiao family possessed unparalleled talent in the entire Jia Ma Empire, you didn't take Nalan Yanran to dissolve the engagement, did you?"

If Yun Yun hadn't noticed that Yao Yan's face only showed pure curiosity, she would have almost thought that he was deliberately using such a question to humiliate her...

'No, my current identity is merely the sister of the Yunlan Sect Master,' Yun Yun suddenly realized something. 'No matter how you look at it, it couldn't possibly be to humiliate someone as innocent as me, could it?'

“The main reason is that at that time, only the two heads of the Nalan family knew about this engagement,” Yun Yun easily convinced herself after figuring this out. “Whether it was my sister or Nalan Yanran herself, they only found out about Nalan Yanran’s engagement two years ago.”

"But the engagement was dissolved a year and a half ago, right?"

Yao Yan knew all too well when Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan's engagement was dissolved. If he weren't a Great Dou Master, Yun Yun would almost have thought that the person in front of her was actually Xiao Yan.

“Because before Nalan Yanran went to break off the engagement, her grandfather… who was the old patriarch of the Nalan family who had arranged the engagement for her, left the Jia Ma Empire, and her father happened to be transferred to the western part of the Jia Ma Empire,” Yun Yun explained. “Nalan Yanran took the people of the Yunlan Sect to the Xiao family during that gap period.”

"What a coincidence!" Xiao Yan laughed.

“It is indeed a coincidence…” Yun Yun chuckled dryly.

Chapter 146

"However, even without the identity of being a disciple of the Yunlan Sect Master, Nalan Yanran would probably find an opportunity to dissolve the engagement after learning about her engagement with the third young master of the Xiao family."

After a moment of awkward laughter, Yun Yun realized that the situation she described—that both heads of the Nalan family were busy during the time Nalan Yanran went to the Xiao family—was likely orchestrated by the Yunlan Sect. So she quickly added a sentence.

"I see..."

Xiao Yan said casually, completely unconcerned about Nalan Yanran's situation. Right now, he only wanted to give Nalan Yanran, who wasn't yet a Dou Shi, a sense of pressure from a high-level alchemist.

"Did you know that during those three years, Xiao Yan would become a useless person who couldn't store Dou Qi?" Xiao Yan asked softly with a strange smile on his face.

Yun Yun shook her head, somewhat bewildered.

"That's because during those three years, Xiao Yan..."

Xiao Yan smiled and began to speak, but he paused slightly halfway through his sentence, pretending to be someone who had been talking behind someone's back and had been discovered by the relevant personnel. After a few seconds of silence, he continued, "If you don't know, then don't worry about it. Anyway, knowing won't do your Yunlan Sect any good."

After saying that, Xiao Yan placed the roasted meat in his hand next to the fire, and then walked out of the cave without looking back.

Yun Yun was left sitting blankly in the cave, completely bewildered, trying to figure out what he hadn't finished saying.

"Are you sure this will make her connect Xiao Yan with the seventh-grade alchemist from Zhongzhou?"

After leaving the cave, Yao Lao's intrigued voice echoed in Xiao Yan's mind, "You said it yourself, she's the kind of...naive and innocent girl. What if she doesn't even consider what Yao Yan was about to say but suddenly didn't? Wouldn't your whole performance have been for nothing?"

"It's not over yet," Xiao Yan chuckled. "What I said just now was merely planting a seed in her heart. In a few days, I'll have the Lion King put on another show for me... Hehe, teacher, just you wait and see! Not only will I be able to deliver the Purple Spirit Crystal legitimately, but I'll also make that Nalan Yanran cultivate desperately, all so she can become a Dou Ling by the time the three-year agreement is up!"

"Don't mess it up," the old doctor couldn't help but remind him.

'A mishap? No way!' Xiao Yan was full of confidence in the idea he had come up with on the spot.

Over the next few days, Xiao Yan and Yun Yun's relationship gradually became more familiar. It was because of this that Xiao Yan gradually realized that as his Dou Qi was gradually unsealed, Yun Yun was very dissatisfied with the fact that she had not been able to cleanse her body during this period.

'It'll be in the next few days...' Looking at the restless Yun Yun, Xiao Yan revealed a faint smile.

Another day has passed.

As Xiao Yan emerged from the woods and returned to the waterfall, a rustling sound came from the shadows of the trees, and then a pair of blood-red beastly eyes emerged from the shadows.

Xiao Yan, who was about to return to the cave, paused, turned around abruptly, and looked sharply at the shadow.

"Who dares to visit?!" Xiao Yan shouted in a deep voice, and even used his Dou Qi to amplify his voice, fearing that Yun Yun in the cave might not hear him.

"it's me."

The creature slowly emerged from the shadows—a gigantic lion covered in purple fur, with a pair of broad wings on its back and a sharp horn on its head—it was the Amethyst Winged Lion King!

Inside the cave.

Yun Yun, who was dissolving the seal, was suddenly startled. An invisible pressure made her subconsciously open her eyes.

"What's going on?" Yun Yun's expression changed slightly. Because of the seal of the Amethyst Winged Lion King, she could not perceive anything outside her line of sight at the moment. However, no other creature could cause this invisible and powerful pressure except for the Amethyst Winged Lion King!

"Who has come to visit?!"

Just then, Xiao Yan's angry shout reached Yun Yun's ears.

"it's me."

Immediately following was a familiar, heavy voice.

"Damn it...we've been found out?" Yun Yun's pretty face turned deathly pale, and her delicate body trembled slightly involuntarily.

From the moment she embarked on the path of cultivation, she was prepared for death, but the one who happened to be approached by the Amethyst Winged Lion King was Yao Yan! Yao Yan, who had a teacher who was a seventh-grade alchemist!

Yun Yun couldn't imagine how that seventh-grade alchemist would deal with the Yunlan Sect after learning that his beloved disciple had died tragically because he saved the sect leader of the Yunlan Sect!

"What brings the Lion King here to visit?"

Before Yun Yun could come up with a solution, Xiao Yan's voice came from outside again.

“You should have witnessed the battle a few days ago,” the Amethyst Winged Lion King said, reading from a script as if he were reciting a script, just as Xiao Yan had requested. “That woman escaped in this direction… Don’t you have anything to say?”

'The Amethyst Winged Lion King didn't attack directly?' Inside the cave, Yun Yun was startled, but quickly remembered Yao Yan's identity. 'That makes sense, after all, he's a disciple of a seventh-grade alchemist, and they just recently made a deal with the Amethyst Winged Lion King…'

"I haven't seen it," Xiao Yan said, feigning a serious expression. "Are you sure you're not mistaken?"

"Are you sure? My men said they smelled her scent here this morning," the Amethyst Winged Lion King sneered.

"Do you think the odor-masking powder my teacher concocted was of such poor quality that your subordinates could detect something amiss?"

Xiao Yan's confrontation with the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King caused Yun Yun to show a slight embarrassment. This morning, she had left the cave to take a bath, and it seemed that it was because of this that her hiding here was discovered by the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's subordinates.

"Who knows? Anyway, Master doesn't plan to take you back to Zhongzhou..." the Amethyst Winged Lion King snorted coldly.

"Ha, Lion King, have you lost your mind?"

“You know perfectly well what you did a few days ago,” the Amethyst Winged Lion King sneered. “You’re not going to pretend you didn’t know that woman’s identity, are you?”

"...I don't understand what you're saying."

"What a convenient excuse for not understanding..." the Amethyst Winged Lion King sneered. "I advise you to hand over that woman. She and your junior brother have a deep-seated grudge!"

"I don't understand what you're saying. If there's nothing else, please go back!" Xiao Yan replied stiffly.

You'd better really not understand!

After uttering his last words, the Amethyst Winged Lion King raised his head and took a deep look at the cave that Xiao Yan had found. It wasn't until Yun Yun, who was hiding in the cave, panicked and thought she had been seen through, that the Amethyst Winged Lion King flapped its wings and flew away.

'That should be about right,' muttered the departing Amethyst Winged Lion King. 'They said we'd have to gaze at it for at least ten seconds... a little longer shouldn't be a problem, right?'

"Medicine Rock..."

Not long after the Amethyst Winged Lion King left, Xiao Yan returned to the cave. At this time, Yun Yun walked to Xiao Yan's side with some hesitation.

"You went out during the day?" Xiao Yan forced a smile and asked.

"I'm sorry... I went out to take a shower today..." Upon hearing this, Yun Yun's pretty face flushed with apology, and she said shyly in a low voice.

"You went out to take a shower..." Xiao Yan murmured. "That means your Dou Qi has recovered somewhat. In that case, you heard the conversation just now, right?"

"I heard that..."

Yun Yun never expected Yao Yan to bring up the conversation so directly, and almost instinctively agreed.

"As expected..." Xiao Yan exhaled and sat down weakly on the ground, looking completely exhausted.

Do you know who my junior brother is?

Under Yun Yun's worried gaze, Xiao Yan pretended for a while before suddenly speaking.

Yun Yun gently shook her head. She didn't believe that the Amethyst Winged Lion King, who had been guarding the Monster Mountain Range, would know her identity. Therefore, Yun Yun knew even less about Yao Yan's junior brother, whom the Amethyst Winged Lion King mentioned and with whom she had a deep-seated hatred.

"...Xiao Yan, your disciple's former fiancée."

!

Upon hearing Xiao Yan's words, Yun Yun's pupils dilated instantly—

"You know who I am?!" However, more than Yao Yan's junior brother's name, Yun Yun cared more about the fact that Yao Yan knew her identity.

"You...are you really hiding your identity?" Xiao Yan looked at Yun Yun in surprise. "A female Dou Huang with wind attribute, and from the Jia Ma Empire...if you changed your name, that would be one thing, but Yun Zhi...do you really think you've hidden it well?"

"Haha..." Yun Yun chuckled dryly, "By the way, you said your junior brother is Xiao Yan?"

“He has a seventh-grade alchemist behind him. No wonder he was able to go from the third stage of Dou Qi to Dou Shi in just a year and a half.” Yun Yun changed the subject and nodded thoughtfully.

"And within a year, he went from a complete novice with no prior experience in alchemy to a third-grade alchemist..."

Xiao Yan quietly delivered the news that completely stunned Yun Yun.

"So, compared to me, who only recently managed to refine a third-grade pill, my teacher pays much more attention to Xiao Yan," Xiao Yan lied through his teeth, "whether it's cultivation techniques, pills, or even his personal guidance..."

'The cultivation techniques and pills provided by the seventh-grade alchemist...' Yun Yun's pupils shrank slightly. She couldn't imagine what level Xiao Yan would reach a year and a half later under these conditions. Even if he relied solely on the strength built up by the pills, would Nalan Yanran really have any room to resist in a situation of complete crushing?

Especially now that the Purple Spirit Crystal is completely impossible to obtain...