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

"Alright, I'll go find her first. I'll check your wounds later," Xiao Yan patted Huo Yun's shoulder and stood up. "If you're recovering well, maybe we can change the medicine to help you recover faster."

It's not fair to blame Xiao Yan for being stingy; the main problem is that he hadn't prepared any medicine for treating penetrating injuries beforehand. However, he has collected some suitable medicines in the past few days, and if he refines them into pills, he should be able to recover completely within a day.

"Then forget it. This exchange meeting will last for more than ten days. If things go too fast, won't we have to go on stage? I refuse!" Huo Yun decisively rejected Xiao Yan's offer.

"Okay...so it is." Xiao Yan smiled helplessly and walked towards the front row of the Blazing Fire Academy.

Are you worried about Huo Wushuang?

After walking to the front row, Xiao Yan noticed that Huo Wu was frowning as she watched Huo Wushuang's fight against another person on stage, so he asked her a question out of curiosity.

To be honest, the battle between these two on stage... or rather, the one-sided attack and defense, was a bit too outrageous. The previous battle between Huo Wushuang and Lei Tian, ​​who didn't have much soul power, was much more interesting than this farcical scene of attacking without defending and defending without attacking.

"Worried? How could I be?"

Huo Wu rolled her eyes in annoyance, and casually tossed aside Huo Wushuang's school uniform, which belonged to her, gesturing for Xiao Yan to sit there.

"It's just plain disdain. I suspect he throws his brain aside every time he goes on stage, or he just doesn't bring it up at all," Huo Wu said, now that someone was chatting with her, she couldn't be bothered to watch the farcical scene between Feng Xiaotian and Huo Wushuang on stage anymore. "I clearly told him that Feng Xiaotian, that slippery eel, couldn't possibly fight him head-on. If he really couldn't catch him, he should just forfeit. But..."

Huo Wu's lips twitched; Huo Wushuang's "impotent rage" on stage was really giving her a headache.

On stage

"Hey, Huo Wushuang, who's sitting next to Huo Wu? Do you know her?"

Feng Xiaotian noticed Xiao Yan sitting next to Huo Wu immediately, and while dodging Huo Wushuang's soul skills, he asked "quietly".

Huo Wushuang wasn't particularly short-tempered, but Feng Xiaotian's constant avoidance of battle, while muttering about not letting his brother-in-law get hurt, really infuriated him, as if he were completely looked down upon. After glancing at the audience and noticing that Feng Xiaotian cared about Xiao Yan, Huo Wushuang spoke quite bluntly.

"Beat me and I'll tell you!"

"Referee, I concede!"

However, even if Huo Wushuang racked his brains, he never expected that Feng Xiaotian would actually do something like raising his hands to surrender. For a moment, Huo Wushuang was so angry that he almost laughed. Completely losing interest, he simply raised his hands to admit defeat before the students from Tianshui Academy went on stage.

This act of raising his hand to admit defeat before even going on stage infuriated the girl from Tianshui College who was about to go on stage.

"Fire Dance Sister, who is he?"

After surrendering, Feng Xiaotian had no intention of returning to his own academy's team. Instead, he went straight to the front row of Blazing Fire Academy, looking at Huo Wu with a fawning expression. The fervor in his eyes was completely undisguised. However, while speaking, he glanced at Xiao Yan next to Huo Wu.

"Come on, my dad is over there in the teaching building. I'll take you to him."

Having promised to let Xiao Yan go to the library of Blazing Fire Academy, Huo Wu completely ignored Feng Xiaotian. After saying a word to Xiao Yan with a smile, she got up and led Xiao Yan toward the principal of Blazing Fire Academy.

"Wait for me……"

Perhaps he was used to being ignored, but Feng Xiaotian followed closely behind, seemingly prepared to pester him a little longer.

"Your principal is there too, are you sure you want to go and embarrass yourself?" Then, Huo Wushuang, who was following Feng Xiaotian back to his own academy, scared Feng Xiaotian back with a single sentence.

Feng Xiaotian's pursuit of Huo Wu was already well-known throughout the Five Elements Academy. His principal had a good temper, but only if Feng Xiaotian didn't make a fool of himself in front of him. Although Feng Xiaotian didn't know what "making a fool of himself" meant, he knew that if he went over there at this time, he would definitely get a pointless beating. After all, Huo Wu would definitely not look at him. So Feng Xiaotian stopped in his tracks and watched Huo Wushuang catch up with Huo Wu and Xiao Yan.

"Phew, it's good that you came to us, Xiao Yan, otherwise this Feng Xiaotian could have stuck to me like a leech all day."

After leaving the building, Huo Wu breathed a sigh of relief. Feng Xiaotian was good-looking and his strength was not bad, but his clingy manner... she really disliked it.

"Haha..." Xiao Yan chuckled dryly. Regardless of whether Huo Wu was telling the truth or not, he felt it was inappropriate to get involved. "By the way, I heard Huo Yun and Huo Yu say that your Five Elements Academy holds an exchange every few months, supposedly to motivate your cultivation and to give prizes to outstanding students from several academies?"

It was a very obvious attempt to change the subject, but Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang didn't intend to say much, since Huo Wu was just making a few sarcastic remarks.

"It's about half and half. In most cases, the exchanges between the Five Elements Academies are simply to inspire enthusiasm for cultivation," Huo Wushuang said. "But now, isn't the Soul Master Competition about a year away? So the main goal of the exchange meetings has become to find out about the participating students from each academy."

“My brother and I decided to participate in this year’s Soul Master Competition a long time ago, but the information about the other five people hasn’t been released yet, so they will try their best to guess which students are participating,” Huo Wu added. “Even if they can’t be sure, they will try their best to learn about the soul skills of the students worth paying attention to in each academy.”

"It's just a Soul Master Competition, is it really necessary to start scheming so early?"

Xiao Yan was speechless. Besides, could this kind of Soul Master Competition really offer any good prizes?

"Everyone's used to it. Anyway, only a few academies from the Tiandou region can advance. This kind of exchange is pretty much a small elimination tournament," Huo Wushuang shrugged, and he could hear the speechlessness in Xiao Yan's words, but what could he do?

"Ah, speaking of which, why don't you go and have a go?" Huo Wushuang suddenly had a good idea. "Maybe you can even get a reward."

Although Xiao Yan's strength is unclear, the fact that he is in his thirties at the age of ten is still quite a bombshell, and it might even divert the attention of other academies.

"I'm not even a student of your academy, so it's not very convenient, is it?"

"Why not give it a try? Nobody knows you anyway. We can just say you're a prospective student from our college, right?"

Huo Wu's eyes lit up; she was quite interested in Xiao Yan's strength, who was already a Soul Master at the age of ten.

"Exactly, we can just treat it as a warm-up. Besides, if we can achieve a sixteen-game winning streak, we can also get a special prize from each academy!" After realizing that Huo Wu had agreed to his suggestion, Huo Wushuang introduced it even more enthusiastically.

"You should know that Elephant Armor Academy really went all out this time, offering a soul bone as a reward for fifteen consecutive victories!"

"Soul bones? Aren't they afraid of losing?" Although he wasn't particularly interested in soul bones, Xiao Yan knew how enthusiastic soul masters were about them. He was a little stunned when he heard that Elephant Armor Academy was offering a soul bone as a reward for an academy exchange meeting.

"How could they not be afraid? The Elephant Armor Academy finally obtained the soul bone, and Hu Yanzhen couldn't wait to use it up. He even looked heartbroken when he took it out to show it off." Huo Wushuang grinned.

Hu Yanzhen, the sect leader of the Elephant Armor Sect and the principal of the Elephant Armor Academy, is a Soul Douluo of level eighty-something. His martial soul is the Diamond Mammoth, a martial soul with extremely high defensive power. Xiao Yan had learned about this in the Zhu family's library.

"Then why did they offer it as a reward?"

Xiao Yan couldn't quite understand Hu Yanzhen's thoughts.

Chapter 78 Gathering Spirits?

"Just showing off, huh?" Huo Wu pouted, not in a good mood.

"Recently, the Elephant Armor Sect has been getting closer to the Spirit Hall. I guess this soul bone is what the Spirit Hall is using to win them over."

Perhaps fearing that Xiao Yan wouldn't understand, Huo Wushuang kindly explained, "Displaying this soul bone at the academy exchange meeting is partly to show off, and partly to tell us the benefits of our academies moving closer to the Spirit Hall."

Huo Wushuang's explanation was very clear, but for Xiao Yan, the only problem was—

"Thunder Academy was supported by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, so it's normal for them to dislike the Spirit Hall. But what about the other four academies..." After a pause, Xiao Yan asked with a puzzled look, "You don't have any reason to dislike the Spirit Hall, do you?"

In Xiao Yan's view, the Spirit Hall, which helps commoners awaken their martial souls and provides gold soul coins as subsidies for commoner soul masters below level 40, is much better than the two great empires no matter how you look at it. Especially after learning that the Star Luo Empire had something like the Netherworld Pool, which was used to refine people into puppets, Xiao Yan's feelings towards the two great empires became even worse.

That's why Xiao Yan really couldn't understand why Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang would show such disgust towards the Spirit Hall.

"It's not that I hate it..." Huo Wushuang smiled bitterly.

"How should I put it..."

Huo Wushuang was somewhat conflicted. Having received Xiao Yan's life-saving grace, they naturally owed Xiao Yan a life in return, but he really couldn't directly bring up a topic related to the future of the academy.

"Since Elephant Armor Academy dares to offer a soul bone as a prize, they must be confident that they won't let other academies take it away, right?" Xiao Yan, who was good at reading people, changed the subject. "Is it because the students they brought are the strongest?"

The students of Elephant Armor Academy are very easy to identify, perhaps because their martial souls are all Diamond Mammoths. The average height of the students at Elephant Armor Academy is over two meters, with the taller ones being around two and a half meters. Each student occupies two or three seats. Although there are not many of them, they look like walls when they sit in the arena of Blazing Fire Academy, which is very spectacular.

"I wouldn't dare say they're the strongest, but it's certain that their average age is the highest," Huo Wu chuckled, then explained.

"Each academy will offer a treasure as the grand prize at this exchange event. The only condition for winning this grand prize is to achieve a sixteen-game winning streak in the gauntlet battle. If you are representing Blazing Academy, you need to defeat the other four academies in succession, for a total of sixteen students."

"Because of the limitations of soul power, I remember that in the past hundred years, only two people have achieved a sixteen-game winning streak," Huo Wushuang added. "The first one was a senior from Tianshui Academy. It was from that time that Chihuo Academy took the lead and set the rule that a sixteen-game winning streak would win the top prize from all five academies."

"The second to achieve this is Thunder Academy, or rather, Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, after all, that person was the strongest direct disciple of their generation..."

"It was just bad luck; he died in the Soul Beast Forest the year after achieving a sixteen-game winning streak."

Huo Wushuang didn't reveal the "secret," but Huo Wu directly revealed it.

"I understand now. That's why Elephant Armor Academy sent out those older students. Their goal was to prevent a possible sixteen-game winning streak?" Xiao Yan suddenly realized.

While not always the case, older people will at least have a higher level of soul power than younger people. The gauntlet battle is a great test of a soul master's control over their soul skills and soul power. If an opponent with higher soul power comes along midway, it will be easy to break the winning streak.

"That's right, I was about to get ten consecutive wins, but then Elephant Armor Academy sent out a level 47 Soul Master, which stopped my winning streak at nine. I don't know how a 25-year-old could have the nerve to interfere in the battles of students under 20!"

It was clear that Huo Wu was very dissatisfied with the Elephant Armor Sect student who had ended her winning streak.

"Little sister, you only achieved nine consecutive wins because you obtained your fourth spirit ring earlier than Shui Bing'er and Yu Tianxin," Huo Wushuang bluntly exposed. "If they hadn't wanted to know your fourth spirit skill, do you really think you could have achieved nine consecutive wins?"

"But they didn't see it, did they?"

"So after your nine-game winning streak, Elephant Armor Academy sent Hu Yanluo. If you had used your fourth soul skill, they might have allowed you to continue your winning streak for a few more games," Huo Wushuang complained.

"Huo Wushuang!" Huo Wu roared in fury.

"Alright, we've arrived at the dean's office. Let's go in!" Huo Wushuang pushed open the door to the dean's office at Blazing Fire Academy the moment Huo Wu roared his name.

This series of actions forced Huo Wu to take back what she was about to say.

As expected, with the recommendations of Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang, Xiao Yan easily obtained the qualification to read the library. However, just as Xiao Yan finished thanking them and was about to leave, the dean of Blazing Fire Academy suddenly called him back.

"Want to try your luck at our Blazing Academy's arena?"

One sentence made Xiao Yan stop awkwardly, "Um, I just came from over there..."

“I know, those two have been in the arena since early this morning,” the dean of Blazing Fire Academy glanced at his children and said, “I just wanted to ask you if you’d be interested in going up for a few matches.”

“But I have no intention of joining Blazing Fire Academy…” Xiao Yan chuckled dryly.

"I'll just tell those old guys that you're an outside helper for our academy," Huo Hao said casually with a smile. "Anyway, aren't you going to participate in the Soul Master Competition? Let's just say this is how we get to know your soul skills."

"Moreover, the problem you mentioned about the 'instability of the Flame Martial Soul' might be solved by the top prize offered by our Blazing Fire Academy this time," Huo Hao said earnestly.

"Ok?"

Xiao Yan was somewhat surprised. Although he said that the Flame Martial Soul was unstable, his specific description was that "the Flame Martial Soul affected his body." After all, what he wanted to solve was the problem of the Beast Fire affecting his attempt to fuse the Profound Heavy Ruler and the Fire Refining Talisman. Therefore, Xiao Yan was very surprised that Huo Hao, the top prize winner of the Blazing Fire Academy, could solve this problem.

"The grand prize offered by Blazing Fire Academy this time is a special... ore," Huo Hao explained readily after noticing that Xiao Yan seemed interested.

"I found this ore in the body of a soul beast when I was young. At the time, I thought it was a soul bone that the soul beast had dropped, and I was happy for a long time," Huo Hao smiled helplessly. "Later I found out that it was just a stone. The only special thing about this stone is that it can absorb flames infinitely."

"I've had it for decades now, and I habitually add some flames to it every day. It still shows no sign of being full... You can try it."

Later, seemingly worried that his words weren't convincing enough, Huo Hao took a smooth stone from his soul tool and gestured for Xiao Yan to try it.

Upon seeing the smooth, round stone, Xiao Yan knew its true identity—

Naling is a material that can only be found in the highest-grade Naling stones. It is used to make high-grade storage rings and is also a special item that can open up a special space in the human body to store strange fire.

However, the problem is that Naling should not have the ability to store energy before it is absorbed.

"This Soul-Gathering Piece might even be of a higher grade than the one your teacher has," Yao Lao's voice echoed in Xiao Yan's mind as he tested its effects. "If the one I have is grade eight, then this one is at least grade nine. I just don't know why it was able to be absorbed by that Soul Tool."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan was deeply moved. Even if he couldn't solve the problem of the beast fire, a piece of the Spirit Gathering Stone, which Yao Lao had rated as a ninth-grade item, was definitely worth fighting a few times for.

"If I can achieve a sixteen-game winning streak, can I choose only this stone?"

When Xiao Yan handed the spirit-gathering object to Huo Hao, he asked with a smile.

"That won't do. Winning sixteen consecutive wins and taking home five top prizes is a tradition that has been passed down to this day. Getting you into the Five Elements Academy's exchange meeting is already an exception," Huo Hao laughed as he put away the Naling. "Come on, let's go to the arena. I'll talk to those old guys and let you go first!"

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