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

The old man Tianyin stretched out his right hand, and several jet-black storage rings appeared in his hand.

"Li, look at that!" Yun Yun said, pointing to a spot.

Xiao Li and Elder Tianyin looked in the direction they were looking, and saw that as the smoke and dust dissipated, a strange black lotus appeared in mid-air.

"Black Lotus?"

Xiao Li came to the black lotus and examined it carefully. He could sense that the black lotus was unusual.

"To survive under the Great Annihilation Seal is quite remarkable." Xiao Li touched the black lotus with his index finger, and the black lotus seemed to be stimulated by something, directly attaching itself to Xiao Li's hand and entering his palm.

Then a black lotus mark appeared on Xiao Li's palm.

"what?"

Xiao Li exclaimed in surprise, as did Elder Tianyin and Yun Yun, who thought it was something bad.

"Wait." Xiao Li sensed the presence of the Black Lotus. To be precise, he sensed the Black Lotus's goodwill, which essentially meant, "I'm not harmful, I'm useful, don't send me away."

Xiao Li tilted his head, and with a thought, the black lotus reappeared on his right hand.

"It seems there are no problems. Let's head back and talk about it when we get back," Xiao Li said.

"Ah."

The old man Tianyin then left with Xiao Li and Yun Yun.

As Xiao Li and the others left, the place gradually became quiet, and this silence lasted for more than ten minutes.

Suddenly, a series of whooshing sounds came, and more than a dozen figures flashed over from a distance, finally stopping in mid-air. These people stared in shock at the hills below that had been destroyed beyond recognition; they could hardly be called hills anymore, more like plains.

"What terrifying destructive power! I wonder who fought here and managed to level this place to the ground."

"I don't know. Nothing was left behind, not even a body. They moved too quickly."

A chorus of surprised and doubtful voices echoed across the land, unaware that the "culprit" had already fled thousands of miles away.

. . . . . .

A thousand miles away, in a mountain cave,

The Heavenly Sound Elder and Xiao Li are looking at the Black Lotus Demon Lord's collection.

"Holy crap, a pill beast! An eighth-grade nine-colored pill, is this guy really that rich? Did he rob the Pill Tower?" This was the first time Xiao Li had ever seen an eighth-grade nine-colored pill. He was currently petting a cute little dog, which was a pill beast formed from the eighth-grade nine-colored pill.

Chapter 153 Self-Analysis

"He is indeed wealthy, and he even has a Heaven-rank fighting skill? I didn't expect that the low-level Heaven-rank fighting skill 'Nenluo Ghost Prison Hand' that appeared at the previous trade fair was traded by this guy."

"Bodhi Seed, he has two volumes of Heaven-Rank cultivation techniques, four volumes of Heaven-Rank combat skills, and countless pills. This guy is richer than some Dou Sheng powerhouses!"

Even the Heavenly Sound Elder couldn't help but marvel at the Black Lotus Demon Lord's wealth, which surpassed even that of a high-level semi-saint like himself.

Xiao Li was very curious about what the Black Lotus Demon Lord's Black Lotus was. Xiao Li felt that the level of this Black Lotus should be quite high, at least the Yin Yang Heart Flame, a rare fire of heaven and earth, had no way to deal with this Black Lotus.

"Let's go back to Sound Valley first. This place is still outside, Sound Valley is safer," said the old man Tianyin, stroking his beard.

"Alright, everything we need is here. Now it's time to get down to business. Yun'er, could you please go back to the Northwest Continent and tell my grandfather to take the Ancestor to the Sound Realm?"

"Just let Grandpa and my eldest brother know about this; it's a secret." Xiao Li said to Yun Yun.

"Okay, I understand. Leave it to me," Yun Yun nodded in agreement.

Yun Yun has long been Xiao Li's woman; she is Xiao Li's wife, but the two have not yet held a wedding ceremony. Xiao Kong has naturally met Yun Yun, and Yun Yun is aware of Xiao Kong's existence.

As Xiao Li's wife, Yun Yun knew what Xiao Li had to bear and how glorious the Xiao family had once been. Because of this, Yun Yun cultivated even more diligently. She wanted to protect Xiao Li and did not want anyone to hurt him.

. . . . . .

The Sound Realm, Xiao Li's Secluded Cultivation Ground

"Phew~ I finally finished repairing this scroll of 'Flame Demon Purification Mirror'. As expected of a Heaven-rank technique, its power is really strong. My fire attribute battle qi has become much stronger, and my battle qi reserves are more abundant. Moreover, with just a thought, I can immediately absorb all the energy within a hundred feet radius and use it for my own purposes."

"The Mirror of the Blazing Demon's Purification" and "The Pill of the Blazing Demon's Purification." Could these two have anything in common? The Pill of the Blazing Demon's Purification can summon nine-colored pill lightning, and after consumption, it can enhance cultivation, even benefiting half-saints.

If the user already possesses fire-attribute battle qi, there's a chance it will mutate, thereby enhancing their combat power. I'm really curious, what kind of magical reaction would occur if I took the Flame Demon Purifying Pill?

Now that I possess a Heavenly Rank cultivation technique, and after mastering the "Heavenly Flame Radiant Sun," I should have no weaknesses in attack. Furthermore, there's the amplification secret technique, the Heavenly Fire Three Transformations. Once I complete the "Undying Beast Body," I will gain an extremely powerful physique, invincible among those of the same rank. There's still quite a bit to cultivate; I'll take it slow."

Xiao Li gained a lot this time. Combined with his previous gains, he was confident that his current configuration was no less than that of a direct descendant of the imperial clan's Dou Zun, and might even be stronger.

"Although I don't have a clan mark, the Three Transformations of Heavenly Fire is enough. Although I only have one kind of strange fire, the Yin and Yang Dual Flames are one body with two flames, one fire with two lives, so it can be used as two strange fires."

Although the power of a single Yang Fire and Yin Fire is limited, it is enough for me to support two transformations. After that, I will extract the beast fire absorbed from the Heavenly Burning Flame Demon Body and use the Flame Manipulation Technique as the foundation to create a fake strange fire, the Demon Flame.

With these three flames, I can fully activate the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations. Hehe, I'm truly a genius. With the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations fully activated, I, a five-star Dou Zun, can reach the level of a seven-star Dou Zun. This boost is more than enough.

Moreover, thanks to my training in body-refining combat techniques, I can still handle the violent energy of the Heavenly Fire Three Transformations. Now, I truly lack nothing.

Xiao Li inspected his own equipment and nodded with satisfaction. Then he took out another dark red scroll.

The Undying Beast

The Undying Beast Body is a low-level Heaven-rank combat skill, belonging to the category of body-refining combat skills. This combat skill was created by a powerful figure known as the Beast Saint. If one cultivates it to perfection, one will possess a physical body comparable to that of a magical beast of the same rank, or even stronger than the physical bodies of some magical beasts!

The key to cultivating these combat techniques lies in the essence blood of magical beasts! Take the essence blood of a powerful and bloodline-rich magical beast, and refine it. Use the essence blood of the magical beast to temper the meridians and flesh of your entire body, following the combat technique's pathways.

Furthermore, one can acquire some of the characteristics of the magical beast, and upon reaching mastery, one can transform into a beast. After transformation, all physical abilities will be as powerful as those of the magical beast, and the use of amplification techniques will not be affected after transformation. In other words, amplification techniques can still be used in the transformed state.

The Beast Saint obtained the essence and blood of an ancient dragon-bear. After transforming into a dragon-bear, he often managed to defeat stronger opponents with his powerful physique.

Even the Mad Beast Saint, with his cultivation at the late stage of a three-star Dou Sheng, directly killed a powerful expert at the early stage of a four-star Dou Sheng. This shows just how powerful his fighting technique was.

"Beastification? Then we need to choose our magical beasts carefully. Since the strength of beastification is related to the essence of magical beast blood, and beastification is unique, weak magical beast bloodlines will be devoured by strong magical beast bloodlines, and the weak will become nutrients."

Since that's the case, in World of Warcraft, apart from the Dragon Phoenix, no one can compare to the Ancient Dragon of the Void. We can only ask Zi Yan to make do with this. Fortunately, the amount of essence blood required is not much.

Even a drop of essence blood can be used for cultivation, though the process will be slower, requiring gradual nurturing. Once Zi Yan becomes a dragon-phoenix, she'll take flight! Dragon-phoenix transformation... tsk tsk tsk... I dare not even think about it.

Xiao Li had already figured out how to cultivate the "Undying Beast Body". Then, Xiao Li took out a corpse, which was the corpse of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix that he had purchased. It was still quite fresh.

Xiao Li violently tore off the pair of Heavenly Demon Phoenix wings and placed them aside. Then, Xiao Li began to extract the essence blood of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix and take away its demon core.

"The seventh-tier peak Heavenly Phoenix has considerable energy. It is indeed worthy of being a descendant of the ancient Heavenly Phoenix, one of the three major families of magical beasts."

Xiao Li looked at the bluish-red blood in his hand, then put it into a jade bottle for preservation.

After finishing all this, Xiao Li turned his gaze to the Heavenly Phoenix Wings: "These wings are indeed a good choice for making flying combat techniques. Let's begin."

Xiao Li took out a gray scroll, which contained the best method for creating flying combat techniques, collected by Yin Gu.

Xiao Li began to refine the Heavenly Phoenix Wings into a flying combat technique, following the order recorded in the flying combat technique crafting manual.

Time passed by,

During the refining process, Xiao Li naturally encountered some minor setbacks. The residual aura within the Demon Phoenix Wings resisted Xiao Li's refining efforts, but it was completely useless, as the residual aura was suppressed by Xiao Li.

Ultimately, when the Demon Phoenix Wing was alive, it was a peak Dou Zong. Xiao Li could kill it with a single punch, so what was the mere residual aura?

Finally, Xiao Li refined the pair of demonic phoenix wings into a pair of white jade-colored bone wings. Each bone wing was only the size of a palm, shimmering with a faint jade-like luster, and floated in front of Xiao Li.

"Hmm, not bad. I've refined these bone wings to the eighth level. This mongrel bird didn't reach that level in life, but its wings have reached it after death."

After Xiao Li finished speaking, he lightly bit his tongue and spat out a drop of blood bearing the mark of his soul. A drop of bright red blood fell out and finally landed on the bone wing.

The moment the blood touched the bone wings, the demonic phoenix wings quickly absorbed it, then burst forth with a burst of intense light, before transforming into a beam of light and entering Xiao Li's body.

As the bone wings entered his body, Xiao Li felt discomfort in his shoulders and back. Before long, a pair of orange-red wings fell off Xiao Li's back.

"These are my Crimson Flame Wings? I've been kicked out." Xiao Li gently stroked the pair of orange-red wings. He used them quite a lot before he became a Dou Wang. So many years have passed, Xiao Li had almost forgotten their existence.

Chapter 154 Resurrecting Xiao Kong

As the Demon Phoenix Wings entered Xiao Li's body, Xiao Li's mind stirred, and then with a hissing sound, the wide bone wings, shimmering with the light of jade, suddenly appeared from behind him.

The bone wings fluttered slowly, sensing the wind and thunder energy in the surrounding world that had suddenly become extremely sensitive.

"Huh? This Demon Phoenix Wing is actually wind and thunder attribute. Fusing with this Demon Phoenix Wing has actually given me a trace of wind and thunder attribute battle qi in my body. Since that's the case, then I can also cultivate the Three Thousand Thunder Movement."

Xiao Li felt the changes within himself; he clearly sensed a surge of wind and thunder power entering his body from the Demon Phoenix Wings.

"With these bone wings, our ability to escape has been greatly enhanced, not bad."

Xiao Li was very satisfied with the Demon Phoenix Wings, and then stored them into his body. Next, he picked up the scroll "Undying Beast Body" and prepared to start cultivating.

"Ok?"

Xiao Li suddenly heard a voice transmission telling him to go out; the owner of the voice was none other than Yun Yun.

"It seems Yun'er is back, and the Ancestor has come too." Xiao Li got up, pushed open the stone door, and walked outside.

At this moment, Yun Yun was standing outside the stone gate, with Xiao Kong floating beside her, watching Xiao Li emerge from the stone gate.

"Ancestor," Xiao Li called out with a smile, as he hadn't seen Xiao Kong for a long time.

"Hmm~ Not bad. The last time I saw you, you were only a three-star Dou Zun. Now you're a five-star Dou Zun. Not bad at all. Have you mastered the Great Annihilation Seal and the Three Transformations of Heavenly Fire?"

Xiao Kong stroked his beard and laughed.

Xiao Li nodded: "I have already learned the Great Annihilation Seal and the Three Transformations of Heavenly Fire. However, the Great Annihilation Seal consumes a lot of battle qi. If I cannot kill the enemy in one blow, I will easily fall into a disadvantage. Therefore, I regard the Great Annihilation Seal as my ultimate trump card."

"It's good that you've learned it, but unfortunately I only have a soul now. Re-copying a Heaven-rank cultivation technique or combat skill would consume too much of my soul. Since I don't have a physical body, my soul is consumed too much and I can't recover quickly by absorbing spiritual energy. I can only make up for the consumption of my soul through medicinal herbs and pills."

Xiao Kong sighed. He only had his soul left. Even though his soul had recovered to the Heavenly Realm and could regenerate on its own, copying a Heavenly Rank fighting technique consumed too much of his soul. Xiao Kong would need to recuperate for at least a few years to recover.

In other words, the consumption of imprinting Heaven-Rank techniques and fighting skills is not proportional to the speed at which Xiao Kong recovers his soul, so he is currently unable to imprint more of the Xiao Clan's inherited techniques and fighting skills.

"Ancestor, today I will reshape your physical body," Xiao Li said firmly.

"Oh? You've already collected all the materials? Those things aren't easy to obtain," Xiao Kong said, somewhat surprised.

The first material for resurrection is the Yin-Yang Reversal Pill, an eighth-grade elixir that can summon at least seven-colored pill lightning. To refine it, one must be at least an eighth-grade advanced alchemist.

Secondly, the remains of a Dou Sheng powerhouse. This already exists; Yin Gu sponsored the remains of a Dou Sheng who was a mid-stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng in life.

Thirdly, the blood essence of an eighth-tier magical beast. However, with Xiao Li's strength, obtaining the blood essence of an eighth-tier magical beast is still possible.

"Hmm, I've gathered them all. The materials are pretty good: a Yin-Yang Reversal Pill that has been tempered by eight-colored pill lightning, a skeleton that has reached the mid-stage of the Seven-Star Dou Sheng realm, and a bottle of ninth-tier magical beast essence blood."

Xiao Li took out the pills and essence blood, and the remains were in the Sound Realm, so he could go and inform them.

And so Yun Yun once again took on the role of errand runner, going to invite Elder Tianyin and the others over. After all, since they were going to use the ancestor's body to revive the Xiao family's ancestor, they had to inform them first.

Xiao Li then chatted with Xiao Kong about what had happened over the years.

"Xiao Li, why don't you go to the Heavenly Tomb? Go see the clan leader?" Xiao Kong said anxiously.

"Another Dou Di bloodline? Forget it, let's leave it to a younger person with better talent. I don't want my efforts to be denied because of the Dou Di bloodline." Xiao Li shook his head and said.

Xiao Kong was helpless. He just couldn't understand why Xiao Li was so resistant to the Dou Di bloodline. He kept using the excuse of giving it to better young people, but Xiao Kong really didn't think anyone had better talent than Xiao Li.

Even among the Xiao clan a thousand years ago, Xiao Li's talent was unmatched.

"Ancestor, what was your cultivation level when you were alive? Now that you have been resurrected, how much will your strength be restored?" Xiao Li asked.

Xiao Kong: "When my cultivation was at its peak, I reached the late stage of the Eight-Star Dou Sheng. I was the strongest person in the Xiao Clan besides the clan leader. But I never expected that the Soul Clan would have four Eight-Star Dou Shengs."

Even if I were strong, I couldn't defeat the four of them. Then, the clan leader was furious and severely injured those old ghosts to save me. After that, the clan leader activated a secret technique, and all of our Dou Di bloodline was extracted.

My cultivation level dropped to the early stage of the five-star Dou Sheng. Then there was another great battle. In order to deal with the pursuers from the Soul Clan and other families, I was seriously injured, and my cultivation level dropped to the four-star Dou Sheng.

Then you will find me at the Gate of Life and Death. That was my last battle. In that battle, my physical body was destroyed. At that time, I only had the cultivation of a four-star Dou Sheng in the early stage.

As for what cultivation level I will reach after being resurrected, I don't know. It certainly won't reach my peak, because I won't have the bloodline of a Dou Di after being resurrected. However, I will definitely have the cultivation level of a Dou Sheng, but I don't know what realm it will be.

After listening to Xiao Kong's words, Xiao Li pondered deeply. He didn't know what level of cultivation Xiao Kong would recover to, but having the cultivation of a Dou Sheng would be the best outcome.

Just as Xiao Li was chatting with Xiao Kong, Elder Tianyin, Tianyinzi, Yun Yun, Wang Ming, Su Wanyin, and the Pei sisters all arrived.

"Hmm? You've arrived. Oh, Yuhan, Yurou, you've both advanced to Dou Zun? Not bad, not bad." Xiao Li looked at the people who had come.

Xiao Kong then approached the Pei sisters and looked them up and down, while the Pei sisters were also observing the white-haired, white-bearded old man.

The Pei sisters are descendants of the Sound Saint, while the Heavenly Sound Elder's lineage is the Sound Saint's disciple lineage. The Valley Master of Sound Valley is either a descendant of the Sound Saint, a descendant of the Sound Saint's disciple, or a disciple's disciple.

“You do indeed have the bloodline of the Xiao clan, but unfortunately, the bloodline of the Dou Di is thin. I suppose that girl didn’t pass down the method of how to preserve the bloodline of the Dou Di back then.”

Xiao Kong looked at the Pei sisters and sighed. As the eldest elder of the imperial clan, he valued the bloodline of the Dou Di so much. Otherwise, he would not have agreed to Xiao Xuan's desperate attempt to forcibly advance to the Dou Di level.

"Are you a member of my late grandmother's clan, senior?" Pei Yuhan asked. A few days ago, Elder Tianyin spoke with her and told her about the past of the Yin Sheng lineage. Although the Pei sisters knew that they were descendants of the Yin Sheng Ancestor, they did not know much about the Yin Sheng Ancestor's wife.

All that is known is that the Sound Saint Ancestor had a wife with extremely strong abilities, who was also an alchemist. The Sound Saint Ancestor had snatched her back from outside, but she left after only a few years in the Sound Valley.

Their children hadn't seen their mother much. There was a portrait of the ancestor (Xiao Wanyao) in the Valley of Sound, but it was drawn by the son of the Sound Saint from memory.