After finishing everything that needed to be done on the Tianxuan Continent, Xiao Yan finally prepared to return to the Dou Qi Continent. By his estimation, it had already been nearly half a year since he was forcefully brought to the Tianxuan Continent. Having been absent from the Dou Qi Continent for so long, he imagined that Zi Yan and the others must be very anxious by now.
There were still many matters waiting for him back on the Dou Qi Continent—for instance, unlocking the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion to obtain the Origin Qi within. Then there was the issue of settling things with the Hun Clan. He also needed to take a trip to the Heavenly Tomb to revive and bring out his ancestor, Xiao Xuan. Come to think of it, didn't he still have that three-year agreement with Nalan Yanran? 'Might as well deal with that too while I'm at it.'
Before leaving, Xiao Yan naturally looted the Tianxuan Continent thoroughly. He even emptied out the major bases set up by the Yimo on this continent. Although many of the items no longer caught his eye given his current strength, they were still valuable relics from another world, and some might be useful even in the Great Thousand World. Especially some of the items from the Yimo, which originated from his own world—those definitely had value.
Qing Tan had long since known about Xiao Yan's plan to leave, so she had spent the last few days tying up loose ends. However, Lin Jing was still clueless. She only realized the truth when Xiao Yan took her along into the dimensional passage—that her teacher was taking her to his homeland. Unlike Qing Tan's reluctance and sorrow, Lin Jing felt only excitement. At her age, the desire for novelty was strong.
She was also very happy that her teacher hadn't forgotten her and was even willing to take her home. What she didn't know was that, in Xiao Yan's eyes, she was just a bonus. The real deal was Qing Tan, who had effectively sold Lin Jing to Xiao Yan as part of the package...
As the master of a plane, Xiao Yan now possessed the ability to open dimensional passages. However, this required a plane coordinate to accurately locate the destination. What the Plane Spirit had done before was just a case of a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse—that's the only reason they managed to reach the Dou Qi Continent.
That said, Xiao Yan didn't need a coordinate to return. He was originally from the Dou Qi Continent, meaning he himself was a living coordinate. The only issue was that the Tianxuan Continent and the Dou Qi Continent had a temporal difference of about sixty to seventy years. To return, he would need to cross the chaotic flow of time once more.
That chaotic flow of time was immensely dangerous. Last time, he was nearly torn apart by it. Qing Tan was fine—after all, she had already reached the Triple Reincarnation Realm. Although it would still be a life-threatening experience, she had a chance to survive. But Lin Jing was only at the Creation Realm; under normal circumstances, the chaotic time stream would shred her into nothingness.
Previously, Xiao Yan was caught off guard and injured severely. But now, with preparations in place, there was no way he'd let himself be harmed again. After all, he had already reached the Dou Di level, and with the protection of the eight Ancestral Symbols, the nine Divine Objects, and the power of the plane itself, escorting the two women through safely was not difficult.
This time, as he crossed the chaotic time stream, Xiao Yan deliberately slowed down, carefully absorbing some of its energy to replenish the time essence he had stored within his body.
Back during his first encounter with the time turbulence, he had inadvertently absorbed a portion of time energy, which had played a pivotal role in his battle against the Yimo Emperor. Since then, he had been eyeing that power. Now that he had a second chance, he wouldn't let it slip by.
Of course, time energy was no trivial matter—even a Dou Di wouldn't dare to meddle with it lightly. Once Xiao Yan sensed that the time essence within his body had expanded severalfold and reached the limit of what he could safely contain, he ceased absorbing and led Qing Tan and Lin Jing out of the chaotic stream.
The moment they returned to the Dou Qi Continent, both Qing Tan and Lin Jing felt an intense shift in pressure. The gravity here was more than ten times stronger than that of the Tianxuan Continent. Qing Tan managed fine, but Lin Jing nearly collapsed under the sudden weight. It took her quite a while to adjust before she could move properly.
At that exact moment, somewhere on the continent, Xiao Chen suddenly sensed something. His Dou Di bloodline had rapidly grown purer, and his cultivation, which had been stuck at the mid-Five-Star level, surged and broke through to the Six-Star level—and even began pushing toward Seven-Star.
This was the terrifying ability of a Dou Di: they could alter the entire bloodline of their clan. Once someone became a Dou Di, the bloodlines of all direct descendants in their family would transform into Dou Di bloodlines, causing their strength to skyrocket in an extremely short span of time—often by hundreds or even thousands of times.
Normally, the activation of the Dou Di bloodline should've occurred the moment Xiao Yan broke through. However, since his breakthrough happened in another plane that existed decades apart in time, the effect was delayed. The Xiao Family had already experienced the benefits of the bloodline once before, so it didn't take hold until Xiao Yan returned to the same timeline as the Dou Qi Continent.
Xiao Chen's improvement of a single star was already notable—especially considering his own strength was quite high and his bloodline link to Xiao Yan was distant. But Xiao Zhan, on the other hand, had a much closer connection to Xiao Yan's bloodline and thus received the greatest benefits.
Originally, Xiao Zhan had average talent. Under normal circumstances, he might never have broken through to the Dou Wang stage. Even with all the pills provided by Starfall Pavilion, he had only just reached Dou Huang. But now, under the influence of the Dou Di bloodline, he instantly stepped into the Dou Sheng realm—and a high level at that.
This phenomenon repeated itself throughout the entire Xiao Family. Within just a few breaths, a once-obscure clan—barely even boasting a single Dou Zong outside of Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen—had suddenly risen to rival even the Gu and Hun Clans in apparent strength.
Of course, that was only in terms of surface-level cultivation. In a real battle—discounting Xiao Yan—the Xiao Family was still little more than a nouveau riche clan. They lacked the profound Dou Techniques and cultivation arts passed down for millennia by the truly ancient races.
"To think he actually managed to take that final step… something even big brother Xiao Xuan failed to accomplish back then..." In Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Chen could sense the surging power of Xiao Zhan and the others. Naturally, he guessed that Xiao Yan had broken through to the Dou Di level. His feelings were a mix of pride and complex emotions. "The waves behind truly push the waves before..."
At the same time, Nalan Yanran had also broken through to the Seven-Star Dou Shi level and was steadily making her way toward Eight-Star.
(End of Chapter)
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