Battle Through the Heavens: Xiao Yan, I am your second master.

"Little sister!" Pei Yuhan immediately activated her battle qi, and Pei Yurou also reacted quickly. The two women held hands, and their battle qi merged together in an amazing way.

Immediately afterwards, the two women sang a special melody.

"Nine Heavenly Laws!"

chant—

The two women instantly unleashed a powerful sonic attack, neutralizing the lava palm.

"Nine Heavenly Laws! You are from the Sound Valley?" The white-haired middle-aged man at the head of the group saw this familiar fighting technique again after many years.

Pei Yuhan and Pei Yurou remained silent, only wanting to continue using stronger attacks. Since they had been recognized, they would all stay.

"Wait, Yuhan, Yurou, it's a misunderstanding. I know the person on the other side!" Xiao Li's voice came, and then he tore off his mask, revealing his young face.

"Grandpa, Elder Yun and Teacher! It's been so long!" Xiao Li shouted to the sky.

"Li'er!" The white-haired middle-aged man at the head of the group was Wang Ming. He hadn't expected to encounter his disciple and the people from Yin Gu here.

"Hmm? How come Li'er is hanging out with the people from Yin Valley?" Wang Ming asked, puzzled.

"Ah? Li'er?" Xiao Ting hadn't expected that such a coincidence would happen.

"Xiao Li? He actually became a Dou Zong?" The white-robed elder on the other side was Yun Shan, the former sect master of Yunlan Sect.

Hei Ming's face immediately darkened. He hadn't expected them to know each other. What a coincidence!

whoosh-

A figure in ice-blue light flew over quickly. It was a middle-aged man with white hair wearing a blue robe, and ice-blue battle aura wings gathered on his back.

"Phew~ I finally caught up with you. You guys are too fast, I really can't keep up." The middle-aged man in blue was panting heavily.

"Hahaha, Hai Bodong, look who's back!" Yunshan pointed to the young man below.

Chapter 108 Fate

Hai Bodong stared in astonishment at the young figure below, exclaiming, "Isn't this Old Wang's disciple? How come the aura emanating from him is comparable to Old Xiao's? No, it's even stronger! Could it be?!"

Yunshan nodded: "You're right, this kid has broken through to the Dou Zong realm. You old man have been surpassed by a junior, hahahaha."

Hai Bodong sneered: "Old man Yun, don't be so smug. With his talent, it's only a matter of time before he surpasses you."

Hei Ming seized the opportunity, seeing the moment when both sides relaxed their vigilance, and immediately fled.

But his idea was good, but reality was cruel. Wang Ming stopped Hei Ming in an instant, grabbed him by the neck, and lifted him up.

"I was caught off guard for a moment, and you've been on the run for so long. Did you really think you could escape my grasp?"

With a forceful movement, Wang Ming unleashed a scorching flame that engulfed Hei Ming's entire body, burning him to death in the volcanic fire.

Wang Ming grabbed Hei Ming's storage ring and took it out. He then took out a jade box from the ring and opened it, revealing a green fruit lying quietly inside.

"Mysterious Heaven Azure Spirit Fruit?" Xiao Li came to Wang Ming's side and looked at the fruit in the jade box.

"That's right. The Xuan Tian Qing Ling Fruit is one of the main ingredients for refining the Hunyuan Breakthrough Pill. As you probably know, I'm already at the peak of the Dou Zong realm. Once I refine the Hunyuan Breakthrough Pill, I can start working on breaking through to the Dou Zun realm."

Wang Ming was in high spirits at this moment. Since he completed his Nirvana and awakened, his cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds, and he had reached the peak of Dou Zong in a short period of time.

"The Primordial Chaos Breakthrough Pill? No need, I have some here that will greatly increase your chances of breaking through to Dou Zun." Xiao Li said with a faint smile, then looked Wang Ming up and down.

"Teacher, is this what you looked like when you were young? No wonder you made your wife so infatuated."

Wang Ming blushed: "What master's wife? Don't talk nonsense! Wait! Did you see Wan Yin? And those two Dou Zong using the Sound Valley fighting techniques next to you? Did you join the Sound Valley?"

Xiao Li nodded, then invited the Pei sisters, Xiao Ting, Yun Shan, and Hai Bodong to come and sit down.

"Teacher, how did you wake up so quickly? Didn't Elder Bai say that you would need at least three to five years to undergo Nirvana?" Xiao Li asked.

"How would I know? I woke up when I felt I could. Old Xiao told me that I had stayed there for more than a year, and that I had reached the fifth-level Dou Zong level after I woke up." Wang Ming didn't know he would wake up so quickly.

Xiao Li: "Then how did you get the volcanic rock flame?"

Wang Ming shrugged: "Right under the volcano you chose, when I was cultivating, I felt there were treasures down there. After my cultivation reached the Dou Zong level, I could clearly sense the strange fire down there."

Perhaps it's because of the characteristics of my Heavenly Yang Body that I'm particularly sensitive to extremely Yang-type rare objects like Strange Fire. By the way, I heard from Lao Xiao that you and the Dean of Canaan Academy went on a trip to the Central Plains? What did you travel there for?

Xiao Li rubbed his nose: "I went to the Pill Gathering. Teacher, why don't you guess how I performed at the Pill Gathering?"

At this moment, Xiao Li's image was exactly that of a child who wanted to be praised.

Wang Ming was shocked: "You went to the Pill Refining Conference? That's the highest hall of alchemists! With your talent, you're sure to be able to refine a high-grade seventh-rank pill, or even a peak seventh-rank pill. You must have done very well, right? Top five?"

Xiao Li shook his head: "That's not right."

Wang Ming was stunned for a moment: "You didn't get into the top five? That's impossible. With your level, you, a Dou Huang, have already refined a seventh-grade pill, and even a mid-grade seventh-grade Heavenly Yang Blood Dragon Pill."

"Did you underperform? That's impossible. You've always been very meticulous. Once you enter a state of alchemy, everything around you becomes irrelevant. Besides, the alchemy gathering offers plenty of time; you could easily refine two seventh-grade pills."

Xiao Li grinned: "Hehe, to be honest, I won second place in this Pill Refining Competition! I successfully refined an eighth-grade pill with four-colored pill lightning!"

"What! Second place in the Pill Gathering! An eighth-grade pill with four-colored pill lightning! And you didn't even get first place?" Wang Ming roared, spitting all over Xiao Li's face.

"An eighth-grade pill?!" Yun Shan, Xiao Ting, and Hai Bodong were all stunned. What had they just heard? An eighth-grade pill? Wasn't that an eighth-grade alchemist? Such an existence could be considered legendary.

In their minds, eighth-grade alchemists were even rarer than Dou Zun experts, and they were already considered lucky to have met Wang Ming, a seventh-grade alchemist.

“Hey, Teacher, let me show you this. It’s the eighth-grade alchemist badge that the Pill Tower awarded me.” Xiao Li handed his alchemist badge to Wang Ming.

Wang Ming's hands trembled as he accepted the badge. Flames swirled around the badge, revealing a tower shape. On the tower, eight purple-gold stars emitted dazzling light. The eighth star was slightly dimmer than the previous seven, indicating that Xiao Li himself was a Rank 8 beginner alchemist.

"He really is an eighth-grade alchemist from the Pill Tower! Hahahaha! I, Wang Ming, have trained an eighth-grade alchemist who even won second place at the Pill Gathering! Hahahaha!"

Wang Ming laughed heartily, completely disregarding his image; he had never been so happy as he was today.

Yunshan, Xiao Ting, and Hai Bodong didn't quite understand why Wang Ming was acting this way. In their impression, since teaming up with Wang Ming, they had witnessed many pill lightning strikes. Wang Ming had already successfully refined a mid-grade seventh-rank pill with an extremely high success rate.

However, all of Wang Ming's high-grade seventh-rank pill formulas were in Xiao Li's hands. Although he remembered them roughly, he had never actually refined them before, so he needed to take another look at the formulas. Therefore, he had not yet refined any high-grade seventh-rank pills.

However, they learned from Wang Ming's account that his current cultivation level and alchemy skills were sufficient to refine high-grade seventh-rank pills.

To these complete laymen, a high-grade seventh-rank pill shouldn't be that much different from an eighth-rank pill, so why were they so excited?

After laughing for a long time, Wang Ming returned the badge to Xiao Li and patted Xiao Li's head: "Li'er, well done! You are even more capable than your teacher. I will have to learn from you in the future."

Xiao Li shook his head: "If it weren't for my teacher's guidance and the solid foundation laid for me, I wouldn't have been able to achieve such success. You deserve all the credit, teacher."

Wang Ming laughed and said, "Hmph, good lad, you've gotten better and better at talking after going out for a while."

Xiao Li smiled and then asked, "Teacher, how come you appeared in the Black Corner Region with Elder Yun, Elder Hai, and my grandfather?"

Wang Ming stroked his chin: "This is a long story. You've become an eighth-grade alchemist, so your soul must have already broken through to the Spirit Realm, right? Being able to break through to the Spirit Realm means you have quite a bit of luck."

As for me, I also had some great opportunities, as did your grandfather. In less than two years, I went from a five-star Dou Zong to the peak of Dou Zong, while your grandfather went from a six-star Dou Huang to the Dou Zong level.

Your grandfather is currently in the adjustment period of becoming a Dou Zong. Once he gets through this period, he will be a true one-star Dou Zong.

Xiao Li became interested: "Oh? Could you tell me more about it?"

Wang Ming looked around and said, "This is the middle of nowhere. Let's find a better place and then tell you the story in detail."

"it is good!"

Chapter 109 The Opportunity of Wang Ming and Others

The group found a city, went to a teahouse, and booked a private room.

Wang Ming took a sip of tea and then began to speak:

"After I woke up, I took Lao Xiao to Yunlan Sect to take a look. We happened to meet Elder Yun, who had just broken through, so I took him along on our travels."

I enjoy traveling. I have been to all the secret realms, big and small, in the Northwest Continent, but I never went deep into them because of my cultivation level. Now that my cultivation has improved, I will try my luck.

As it turned out, I was quite lucky and found a lot of rare and precious natural ingredients that were highly yang in nature, as well as several portions of ingredients for the Zongyuan Pill. So I tried to refine the Zongyuan Pill.

I was incredibly lucky. On my first attempt at refining a seventh-grade pill, I triggered the Pill Soul Realm, and my first seventh-grade pill was successfully made! After that, I took the Zongyuan Pill and reached the six-star Dou Zong level.

The three of us then explored the entire Northwest Continent. While resting in the Tagor Desert, we discovered the Sea Old Man, who was hiding there.

Old Man Hai was defeated by Queen Medusa and was hit by her Serpent Seal Curse, which sealed his cultivation, leaving him only able to use the strength of a Great Dou Master.

Later we learned that Old Man Hai fought Queen Medusa in order to help me find the strange fire to cure the demonic poison spots. In the end, Old Man Hai lost. The reason for this was related to me, so I naturally couldn't just stand by and watch.

So I helped Old Man Hai refine the Calamity-Breaking Pill, and also gave him a Spirit-Restoring Purple Pill to restore his cultivation. And the Imperial Extreme Pill that you promised before, I'll take care of that for you.

Over the years, we have been traveling around. Perhaps due to some fortuitous circumstances, my cultivation has reached the peak of Dou Zong, Old Man Yun has reached the three-star Dou Zong, and your grandfather just broke through to Dou Zong a month ago.

We met Old Man Hai a little later, so he's only an eight-star Dou Huang right now.

Wang Ming recounted the events of the past few years to Xiao Li, mainly about how Elder Wang himself had encountered many fortuitous opportunities. Yun Shan and Hai Bodong's opportunities were all thanks to Elder Wang, as they consumed the pills he had refined.

As for Old Master Xiao Ting, he obtained a special fighting technique in a secret realm. It was a lightning-attribute body-refining fighting technique that allowed him to temper his body by drawing lightning into himself.

Xiao Ting was able to reach the Dou Zong level so quickly because of this Dou Technique.

Xiao Li nodded: "I see. Well then, I also have a chance. Let me tell you about it."

Xiao Li told everyone about his trip to Zhongzhou to attend the Tianyuan Auction, his encounter with Su Wanyin, his participation in the Pill Gathering, and his joining the Yin Valley.

"Is she alright?" Wang Ming asked somewhat awkwardly.

"My master's wife is so kind. Hearing that you were alright, she felt relieved and her cultivation reached the sixth-star Dou Zun level. Moreover, she said that when she has time, she will bring you back and marry you."

Xiao Li said with a grin, and Yun Shan, Hai Bodong, and Xiao Ting all covered their mouths to suppress their laughter.

Wang Ming awkwardly rubbed his nose: "She's still the same temperament. She's already a six-star Dou Zun. That's fast. I've wasted too much time. It'll be difficult to catch up with her."

"It's alright, teacher, here you go." Xiao Li took out a cold jade box.

"What is this?" Wang Ming opened it, and a rich medicinal fragrance wafted out. Pei Yuhan immediately used a spatial barrier to seal the room to prevent the fragrance from being exposed.

"This is an eighth-grade pill! This is the first time I've ever smelled such a rich medicinal fragrance. I even feel my cultivation level has increased slightly," Yunshan exclaimed.

Xiao Ting and Hai Bodong both agreed with Yun Shan's words, and they also felt that their cultivation levels had increased.

At this moment, the spiritual mist on the eighth-grade, four-colored Primordial Breakthrough Pill condensed into a leopard, which lay there.

"It is said that an eighth-grade pill can take shape and become a real life, and it is indeed true!" The crowd gathered around the eighth-grade, four-colored Hunyuan Breakthrough Pill and carefully examined it. It was the first time they had ever seen such a high-level pill.

"Did you refine this at the Pill Gathering? Impressive! Back then, even the eighth-grade pills refined by the Medicine Venerable were probably not as good as this one in terms of quality."

Wang Ming sighed, saying that the Medicine Venerable was his idol. Back then, the Medicine Venerable refined a complete Grade 8 pill at the Pill Gathering, defeating Xuan Kongzi, Hou Guaicai and other geniuses of the Pill Tower, winning the Pill Gathering championship and becoming famous throughout the Central Plains.

Xiao Li smiled faintly and said, "Teacher, with this, are you confident that you can break through to the Dou Zun level this time? Once you break through to the Dou Zun level, your soul power will surely increase significantly, and you should be able to refine eighth-grade pills. If all else fails, I have other ways."

Wang Ming closed the cold jade box. Although he wanted to push the pill back and let Xiao Li keep it for himself later, he thought about it carefully and realized that his disciple had never listened to him in this regard.

Whether it was the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill or the Heavenly Yang Blood Dragon Pill, they were all stuffed into his mouth at once. Now he was indeed at the peak of Dou Zong, only lacking an opportunity. Just as Xiao Li said, Wang Ming felt that he would most likely be able to refine eighth-grade pills after breaking through to Dou Zun.

Moreover, Wang Ming knew that his disciple lacked a certain sense of security, and as his teacher, he should also play a role.

“Alright! I accept it. I will soon go into seclusion to break through to the Dou Zun level,” Wang Ming said firmly.

"Okay, teacher. Once you break through to the Dou Zun level, then I will have a Venerable teacher, which will make it safer for me to stay in Zhongzhou."

Xiao Li chuckled, then transmitted his voice to Elder Wang: "Teacher, I have another Grade 8, Three-Colored Purple-Azure Supreme Pill here. It was obtained through a confiscation. After you successfully break through to Dou Zun, you can directly take the Purple-Azure Supreme Pill to reach the Two-Star Dou Zun level."

Please don't refuse. I'm just a one-star Dou Zong, far from being a Dou Zun. The higher your cultivation level, the more beneficial it will be for me.

Wang Ming nodded after hearing Xiao Li's telepathic message and put the Cold Jade Box into his storage ring.

"Where do you want to go next?" Wang Ming asked.

Xiao Li stroked his chin: "Let's go to Canaan Academy. We received a lot of help from Elder Bai back then, so it's time to fulfill our promise to him."

"Ah."

The group then set off for Canaan Academy.

. . . . .

Canaan College, Inner Court

Grand Elder Su Qian is playing chess with another Dou Zong Elder, Xu.

Because of Xiao Li, the elders of Canaan Academy have made great progress, especially with the addition of a Dou Zong powerhouse, which has made things much easier for Elder Su Qian.

With Elder Xu assisting him in handling academy affairs, Su Qian finally had time to cultivate. With the help of the Zongyuan Pill and Xuepo Pill left behind by Xiao Li, Su Qian had already reached the level of a three-star Dou Zong, approaching four stars.

Elder Xu was a bit less advanced. After taking the Zongyuan Pill, he reached the level of a two-star Dou Zong, but it would take him several more years to break through to three stars.

"Hmm? Old Xu, did you sense that? Several powerful auras of Dou Zong experts are heading towards Canaan Academy." Su Qian suddenly noticed several powerful auras.

"Hmm, I noticed. They just happened to come when the Dean wasn't here. Quickly notify Elder Qianbai." Elder Xu stood up, ready to see who dared to trespass into the inner courtyard.