After properly "compensating" his women, Xiao Yan finally set his sights on his next goal—heading to the Gu Clan to retrieve the soul of his long-deceased ancestor, Xiao Xuan, before going to deal with Hun Dai'er.
Back when Xiao Xuan failed in his attempt to reach the Dou Di Realm, his soul had been cast into the Heavenly Tomb, lingering in the world in a different form. The Heavenly Tomb only opened once every twenty years, and each time the number of people allowed to enter was extremely limited.
Of course, such limitations meant nothing to the current Xiao Yan. Although it wasn't the designated time for the Heavenly Tomb to open, there were other methods to forcibly tear open a passage. If even someone like Gu Yuan, who was only at peak Dou Sheng, could manage it, then Xiao Yan—now a genuine Dou Di—could accomplish it with ease.
With his current strength as a Dou Di, paired with the power of the Dragon Phoenix and the abilities of the Spatial Ancestral Symbol, not only could he tear open an entrance to the Heavenly Tomb, he could easily bring in tens of thousands of people for a group expedition if he wanted. After all, the creator of the Heavenly Tomb had only been an ordinary Dou Di—far from Xiao Yan's current level.
Before heading to the Gu Clan, Xiao Yan took the precaution of shielding himself from Hun Dai'er's surveillance. After her last spying session left her utterly mentally devastated, she had tossed the crystal aside and entered closed-door cultivation to recover. It could be said that both of them were now "mutually ghosting" each other in their own ways.
Xiao Yan's main objectives for this trip to the Gu Clan were twofold: to resurrect his ancestor Xiao Xuan, and to devour the spirit of the Heavenly Tomb. In the reincarnation path he experienced in the Tianxuan Continent, he had absorbed the soul essence of the Heavenly Tomb Spirit, which allowed his soul realm to break through into the Emperor Rank.
Although he was already at the Emperor Rank in this life, such soul essence would still provide a significant boost. If he could devour the Heavenly Tomb Spirit again, his soul realm would undoubtedly rise further. For Xiao Yan, this soul feast was one he wouldn't miss.
Additionally, refining the Heavenly Tomb Spirit would grant him control over the tomb itself. The unique temporal flow of the Heavenly Tomb was valuable even to a Dou Di. Not only could it help with cultivation, but it would also save Xiao Yan considerable time in handling other affairs.
While he could construct a similar space with his own strength, using something already created was far more efficient—especially one that could also strengthen his soul.
In the previous life's reincarnation path, Xiao Xuan had to burn his own soul to destroy the Heavenly Tomb Spirit. But for Xiao Yan, it was as easy as flipping a hand—he turned it directly into pure soul essence. That kind of essence could elevate a peak Heaven Rank soul directly into the Emperor Rank. For soul cultivation, it was the perfect nourishment.
But refining the essence was only the first step. After absorbing the final strand of it, Xiao Yan used his time-space powers to reverse the flow of time in the surroundings. The previously vanquished Heavenly Tomb Spirit reformed again. Before it could react, the Tower of Soul Refinement descended once more.
This time, Xiao Yan even infused it with a trace of time power. As soon as the spirit was refined again, the tower would automatically trigger and reverse time once more, reviving the spirit endlessly. In this way, Xiao Yan now had an essentially infinite source of pure soul essence—an unceasing stream of the purest nourishment for his soul.
If the Sky Demon Phoenix clan ever discovered how the Heavenly Tomb Spirit was being treated, they would surely burst into tears and cry, "We suffer the same fate!"
As for the other energy bodies originally residing in the Heavenly Tomb? Xiao Yan didn't let them slack off. He directly moved the entire Sky Demon Phoenix Slaughterhouse into the tomb. Some were assigned to butcher the phoenixes, others to refine the bodies. Their once-chaotic existence of mutual slaughter had been replaced by factory-line labor. These energy bodies, once thrilled at the thought of no longer having to devour each other, now found themselves reduced to miserable workers under Xiao Yan's command.
Had they been strong enough, they would've long since rebelled. Unfortunately, they weren't.
If this situation were placed on Earth, there was no doubt Xiao Yan would be strung up on a lamppost by now.
Yet despite all his preparations, Xiao Yan ran into an unexpected hurdle while trying to resurrect Xiao Xuan. He had thought that with his current strength, reviving a dead person would be trivial. But when he personally attempted it, he discovered a serious problem.
Reviving the dead wasn't difficult for someone of his level. The issue lay in the fact that Xiao Xuan had been dead for over a thousand years, and his soul was severely fragmented—barely even a remnant. Most critically, he had already been transformed by the rules of the Heavenly Tomb into a unique energy form.
That transformation had preserved him for a millennium, but unless Xiao Yan could convert him back into a pure soul form, there was no way to revive him. Even a fragment of a soul would've sufficed—Xiao Yan could easily rebuild it using the vast reserves of soul essence he had extracted from the Heavenly Tomb Spirit.
But turning Xiao Xuan back into a soul form was the most difficult step, and not even the memories Xiao Yan gained from the reincarnation path offered a clear solution.
Xiao Xuan, on the other hand, was quite calm about the matter. He had long accepted his death. Learning that Hun Tiandi—the greatest enemy of the Xiao Clan—had been killed by Xiao Yan, and that the clan had risen again with a descendant becoming a Dou Di, was more than enough for him.
But Xiao Yan refused to let it end like that. In both his previous life and the reincarnation path, this ancestor had helped him greatly. He couldn't accept repaying all that with mere words.
After deep thought, he finally devised a solution: use time power to reverse Xiao Xuan's state of existence.
He didn't need to fully reverse him back to a complete soul form—just to a point in time where Xiao Xuan still was a soul. From there, Xiao Yan could stabilize and rebuild him. Although he'd reversed brief moments before, this would be the first time attempting such an extended temporal reversal.
What made it more difficult was that Xiao Xuan had been dead for a thousand years in the outside world—and time flowed differently in the Heavenly Tomb. Xiao Yan estimated that even reversing five thousand years might not return him to the necessary state.
But it was the only method he could think of.
And so, he would try.
(End of Chapter)
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