"Why are you here?" When Xiao Yan saw Qing Yanjing, he was visibly surprised. It had been quite some time since they last met. Although Xiao Yan had returned to the Great Thousand World for a while now, Qing Yanjing had already gone back to the Ancient Buddha Clan when he set out for the Sacred Abyss Continent. He had originally planned to visit the clan once things settled down, but he didn't expect her to come looking for him instead.
As for how Qing Yanjing knew he was here, Xiao Yan wasn't too surprised. After all, his recent battle with the Flame Spirit Ancestor had caused quite a stir throughout the Great Thousand World. It wasn't hard for her to deduce that he was alive and follow the trail back to this place.
"So it really is you..." Despite having her suspicions, Qing Yanjing couldn't hide her shock upon confirming Xiao Yan's identity. After returning from the Extraterritorial Evil Race's territory, she had waited for an entire month on the Sacred Abyss Continent without finding any trace of him. At one point, she truly believed that he had fallen in battle.
But then, news broke about a mysterious figure calling himself the Flame Emperor engaging the Flame Spirit Ancestor in battle. This mysterious Flame Emperor matched Xiao Yan in many ways—young appearance, black robes, mastery over flame. Moreover, nobody in the Great Thousand World had ever heard of this Flame Emperor before. These clues were more than enough for Qing Yanjing to believe that this was Xiao Yan, prompting her to rush over immediately.
"What? Are you disappointed I didn't die over there?" Xiao Yan smiled faintly. "Didn't I tell you? I have a tough life. I don't die that easily."
"Just proves the old saying right—'good people don't live long, but troublemakers last a thousand years'..." Qing Yanjing muttered. Then her expression shifted as she recalled her true purpose. "I came here to give you an important warning. Lately, you need to be very cautious of the Maha Ancient Clan."
"The Maha Ancient Clan?" Xiao Yan raised an eyebrow. Having been in the Great Thousand World for a while, he naturally knew about them. The Maha Ancient Clan was one of the five great ancient clans, equally as renowned as the Ancient Buddha Clan. Their foundations were deep and their power vast. But Xiao Yan couldn't think of any reason why they would be targeting him. He hadn't interacted with them at all.
"When I returned to the clan, a secret technique was used to verify my purity... and it was revealed that I wasn't... well, untouched. At the time, I thought you had died, so I gave them your name. The elders were furious and initially planned to imprison me. But after hearing about your fight with the Flame Spirit Ancestor, they changed their minds and proposed we get married..."
"And what does this have to do with the Maha Ancient Clan?" Xiao Yan asked, puzzled.
"Patience. I'm getting to that..." Qing Yanjing sighed. "It turns out that before all of this, the patriarch of the Maha Ancient Clan, Maha Tian, had tried to propose marriage. Our Great Elder initially agreed, but after your sudden rise, he declined Maha Tian's proposal. Now, Maha Tian is not someone who takes rejection lightly. If he finds out it was because of you that the marriage was rejected, what do you think he'll do?"
"...So I get dragged into this mess for no reason at all." Xiao Yan rubbed his forehead. This was truly a disaster from out of nowhere. He didn't even know this Maha Tian guy, yet he might already be on the man's hit list. Apparently, his trouble-magnet nature hadn't changed a bit since coming to the Great Thousand World.
Now that he thought about it, Qing Yanjing also seemed like a walking source of calamity. Every time he ran into her, misfortune followed. Last time, he got dragged into the Extraterritorial Evil Race's territory. Now it was the Maha Ancient Clan. At this rate, if things escalated further, he might end up having to challenge the likes of Sukuna...
"Fine. If they want to come, let them come. It's just the Maha Ancient Clan. The Flame Spirit Clan couldn't do anything to me. What makes them think they can?" Xiao Yan said coldly.
"You mustn't underestimate the Maha Ancient Clan," Qing Yanjing said seriously. "The Flame Spirit Clan you fought before pales in comparison. Though both are powerful clans, the Maha Ancient Clan is arguably the strongest among the five great clans."
She continued, "Take their patriarch Maha Tian, for example. Though he's young, his talent is monstrous. Like me, he possesses Eight Divine Meridians. After succeeding the clan leadership, he received several clan inheritances and has already stepped into the Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign realm..."
Qing Yanjing stopped abruptly, her voice trailing off. Because she suddenly remembered—Xiao Yan was even more of a monster.
Maha Tian's so-called youth was relative to ordinary cultivators. He was already well over a hundred years old. But Xiao Yan? Even after counting every year since his birth, he had just reached his twenties. And as for Eight Divine Meridians? That might be rare to others, but the person standing before her had Ten Divine Meridians—unheard of in all history.
Moreover, although she wasn't aware that Xiao Yan had already broken through to Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign, she knew he had fought his way in and out of the Extraterritorial Evil Race's territory, killing even the later-stage Saint-level Heaven Demon Emperor. Compared to that, Maha Tian might not be all that intimidating.
"Why'd you stop?" Xiao Yan asked. "Don't tell me Maha Tian's the only Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign in their clan. If that's the case, they don't sound any scarier than the Flame Spirit Clan."
"Of course not," Qing Yanjing replied. "That old ancestor from the Flame Spirit Clan was barely at the early Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign level. Maha Tian, on the other hand, is already mid-stage. And there are two more Supreme Elders in the Maha Ancient Clan who are also Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereigns. From what I know, both of them are even stronger than Maha Tian."
"And there's more. The Maha Ancient Clan possesses a peerless divine ability that's renowned throughout the Great Thousand World. It's ranked among the Thirty-Six Peerless Divine Abilities—on par with my own Eightfold Buddha Pagoda."
"I see." Xiao Yan nodded lightly. He was well aware of the power behind the Eightfold Buddha Pagoda. Any technique ranked among the Thirty-Six Peerless Divine Abilities would not be weak. Still, he wasn't overly concerned. The Maha Ancient Clan might be powerful, but his own strength had grown immensely since arriving in the Great Thousand World.
If it really came down to a fight, even without relying on Sky Ascension, he was confident he could defeat all three of them.
(End of Chapter)
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