Xiao Tianbao's thoughts were made somewhat heavy by Han Feng's words.
What their Xiao family was about to face was the number one force from the Central Plains, the Hall of Souls.
Sometimes standing at a high place allows one to see more scenery, but also makes one clearer about their own limits.
Like the Xiao family in Wu Tan City, they hadn't seen Dou Venerates, hadn't seen the vastness of the Hall of Souls, so Xiao Zhan wouldn't have excessive doubts.
Anyway, it's just death. Wanting to confront the Hall of Souls with their own strength, there was actually no difference between a Great Dou Master and a Dou Ancestor.
In the absence of choice, following Han Feng became the only way out.
But the Nanli Xiao family didn't need to be like this. They had their own connections and foundation and wouldn't easily leave with Han Feng.
Han Feng also understood this, so he just offered a reminder.
And there was another point, that is, the Hall of Souls already knew that the main branch of the Xiao family back then was in the Northwest Continent. The Tuo She Ancient God Jade was the main reason they kept a close eye on the Xiao family.
As for the Nanli Xiao family, maybe it was just because they discovered the Xiao Clan's weapon refining skills that they sent people to investigate.
After finishing a pot of tea, Han Feng got up to leave.
"Senior Xiao, I'm going to track down the people from the Hall of Souls."
"Taking action so soon?"
"This matter should not be delayed. I won't stay in the Nanli Empire for too long."
Han Feng walked towards the outside.
"What I said today is just to let Senior Xiao be mentally prepared. In the short term, there's no need to worry too much about this."
Xiao Tianbao nodded.
"This old man understands."
"Next time we meet, Little Friend Han should be famous throughout the Dou Qi Continent, right?"
Xiao Tianbao couldn't help but say.
Han Feng's growth was too rapid, making him, an older generation cultivator, sigh at the strength of the geniuses of the era.
"Ah, maybe."
Han Feng said softly.
When he became famous throughout the continent, the second war with the Hall of Souls would also enter the final countdown.
After bidding farewell to the Xiao Mansion, Han Feng teleported into the room of the rice shop.
This rice shop had another secret room underground.
At this moment, the person from the Hall of Souls walked down from the shop, changed his clothes, and revealed a back engraved with blood horn patterns.
This was a special method of the Hall of Souls to cultivate secret killers. Polishing the body through blood horns not only enhanced strength but also restrained the aura within the body, disguising as an ordinary person without a flaw.
"The situation of the Xiao family has been investigated almost thoroughly. People here simply don't know their origin, and there are no higher-level experts contacting this place."
A bronze mirror floated in mid-air. Behind the mirror surface was the Deputy Hall Master of the Hall of Souls far away in the Central Plains, a Three-Star Dou Saint!
People in the Hall of Souls with blood horn patterns were extremely rare. Each was a Nine-Star Dou Ancestor level expert with extraordinary combat power, often in groups of three, claiming to be able to kill a Dou Venerate if they joined forces.
Only the high-level officials of the Hall of Souls could command them.
"It seems that place is just purely Xiao Clan descendants."
The Deputy Hall Master's hoarse voice echoed in the dark secret room through the bronze mirror.
Originally, he thought that for the Nanli Xiao family to develop to such an extent, there might be Xiao Clan remnants supporting them from behind.
But now it seemed he overthought it.
After the Xiao Clan was exterminated back then, many people still escaped. Among them, some experts were originally outside and didn't return.
The most famous among them was Xiao Xuan's clan cousin, Blood Axe Xiao Chen, a Five-Star Dou Saint level expert.
These people might be hiding in a corner of the continent, secretly accumulating strength, or changed their appearance and supported some forces, seemingly unrelated to the Xiao Clan, but actually confronting the Hall of Souls in secret.
For a thousand years, it wasn't that the Hall of Souls hadn't discovered such forces. Just through the hands of the Deputy Hall Master, no less than five peak Dou Venerates and one Half-Saint from the Xiao Clan remnants were killed.
The Dou Qi Continent was too big, so big that many places were difficult to attend to even if the Hun Clan established the Hall of Souls.
This time, the Nanli Xiao family, if not for its great fame, might also have been ignored by the Hall of Souls.
After all, the strength of this family wasn't actually that strong. A Supreme Elder who barely broke through to Dou Venerate just before dying of old age. The Hall of Souls didn't even need to dispatch Venerable Elders; just three blood pattern killers could carry out a secret ambush.
Leaving them until now was just to lure out the person behind them.
"Find a suitable time to kill that Xiao Tianbao. Remember to bring back the weapon refining inheritance in his hand."
The Deputy Hall Master issued an order.
"Also, don't cause too much commotion. There are also quite a few experts in the Nanli Empire."
"Yes."
The blood pattern killer accepted the order. The light and shadow behind the bronze mirror flickered slightly, cutting off the connection.
The Nanli Xiao family wasn't a big deal for the Hall of Souls, just a force that could be destroyed easily.
The blood pattern killer strolled to a hidden room within the secret chamber. After opening the mechanism, a strong bloody smell hit his face.
Approaching, there was a huge pool in the room filled with churning living blood.
Only this kind of living blood could maintain the power of the blood horn pattern always at full value.
If not replenished for a period, the strength of the blood pattern killer would drop significantly. Although not falling in realm, killing a Dou Venerate would be very difficult.
Secret techniques could improve a cultivator's combat power but would definitely have disadvantages in some aspects.
Brilliant secret techniques would try to reduce disadvantages on unimportant things, but inferior secret techniques often demanded important things from the cultivator, such as life.
Like the blood horn pattern secret technique, maintaining peak value by absorbing external blood was already considered a superior secret technique.
The blood pattern killer walked into the blood pool and began to accumulate the power of the blood pattern.
Next, they were going to execute the assassination of Xiao Tianbao, so they must raise their energy to the extreme.
Xiao Tianbao was not an ordinary Dou Venerate; he must have life-saving items of the Xiao Clan's weapon refining in his hand.
So the assassination operation needed to be upgraded several levels, treating him as a mid-level Dou Venerate.
Tap tap tap.
After entering the secret room, Han Feng's footsteps were no longer restrained.
The blood pattern killer just felt vigilant in his heart when he felt his soul swallowed by a huge suction force, his brain instantly blank.
Han Feng probed the memories in the other party's mind. However, the next instant, a burst of blood qi exploded from the blood pattern killer's body.
It happened too fast. Han Feng quickly suppressed it with his soul, stabilizing the blood pattern power that was about to self-destruct.
This was a common technique in alchemy skills; Han Feng was very familiar with it.
"Indeed strange."
The person from the Hall of Souls in front of him automatically activated the self-destruct program after his soul broke away from control. Just half a second later, he would dissipate along with his soul.
The power generated by the self-destruction was enough to heavily injure a Dou Venerate, quite terrifying.
Han Feng continued to probe the memories in the other party's soul. After browsing quickly, he frowned slightly.
Blood pattern killers didn't know each other's existence and only cooperated when executing tasks.
In this way, he couldn't know the locations of other people from the Hall of Souls.
"Good calculation."
Han Feng said softly.
The opponent this time was obviously more vigilant than those encountered before.
The two were not on the same level.
The Deputy Hall Master of the Hall of Souls was the number two figure in the Hall of Souls. Like the Hall Master Hun Miesheng, he was also an expert from the Hun Clan. The people under his command were mostly Hun Clan descendants. Their execution and cohesion were not comparable to those recruited from outside by branch halls.
Han Feng casually probed the condition inside the body of this blood pattern killer in his hand. The internal organs had completely exploded, turning into a mass of highly lethal blood qi.
Hopeless.
He exerted slight force in his hand, directly pinching out the corpse along with the blood qi energy.
At the same time, a red light flashed in the eyes of the Deputy Hall Master far away in the Central Plains.
"Interesting, so you only appeared waiting for the day of action."
It seemed that behind the Nanli Xiao family, there was also an expert present.
The Deputy Hall Master immediately notified the other two blood pattern killers, asking them to stop the plan and continue to lie dormant.
Inside the secret room.
Han Feng looked at the blood pool in front of him, a crimson flame igniting at his fingertip.
Myriad Beast Flame!
The blood flowed slowly towards the fire seed. Han Feng carefully distinguished which magical beasts' blood was in it.
Through the aura of the blood, he condensed the flame into a compass, sensing the location of the same blood qi.
Dou Saint experts could already trace back to the source.
Even if no clues were obtained from the soul, there were methods to investigate.
The blood qi converged into a hidden line in the air. Han Feng took a step forward, searching along the tracking blood line.
A quarter of an hour later, Han Feng locked onto a pedestrian walking on the road.
The other party looked normal, with a calm face, as if not a Hall of Souls killer at all, still asking street vendors about the prices of some parts.
Han Feng's expression was indifferent. After locking onto the other party with his soul, he ignored him and continued to search for other people from the Hall of Souls.
Another half an hour later, the energy of the tracking blood line in Han Feng's hand was exhausted and slowly dissipated.
He didn't find the location of another blood pattern killer in Scarlet Feather City, only searched a base that was empty.
After asking the neighbors, Han Feng knew the other party had run away.
Han Feng chuckled lightly, stepped forward, and his body arrived at an altitude of ten thousand zhang.
He condensed a long flame arrow in his hand, aiming at the south direction.
Running away is meaningless.
In the eyes of a Dou Saint expert, as long as the aura is locked, one can be chased and killed over ten thousand miles.
Whoosh!
The flame arrow cut through the sky, forming a beautiful tail flame above the cloud layer.
Whoosh!
The speed of the arrow became faster and faster. In a moment, it arrived above the escaping blood pattern killer.
At this time, the blood pattern killer was hiding in the crowd, looking normal.
However, the next second, a spark exploded in the sky. Everyone looked up in surprise and discovered the beautiful flame in the sky.
This arrow of Han Feng didn't carry lethality but was full of ornamental value.
Only that blood pattern killer's eyes shrank slightly, seeming to sense something.
"Found you."
Han Feng smiled gently and returned to the city.
Soon, the news of the death of the second blood pattern killer reached the Deputy Hall Master.
The Deputy Hall Master's face sank slightly, and he immediately contacted the third killer who had left Scarlet Feather City.
"How is the situation on your side?"
"My lord, I've also been discovered."
"What?"
The Deputy Hall Master's face darkened a bit more.
The opponent this time could lock onto three people under such circumstances. Perhaps he was no longer a simple Dou Venerate. Could it be...
Boom!
The third blood pattern killer was bathed in raging fire and died soon after. Han Feng's figure appeared blurred on the contact bronze mirror.
The Deputy Hall Master clenched his fists.
"Who are you?"
There was a trace of anger in his hoarse voice.
The opponent's behavior had already angered him.
Han Feng's body was wrapped in the power of laws; the Deputy Hall Master couldn't spy on his full appearance.
But this also made the Deputy Hall Master sure that the opponent encountered in the Nanli Empire this time was a Dou Saint expert!
"Hun Clan scum, if you have the guts, come personally next time."
"I'll send you on your way personally."
Han Feng's voice, mixed with the sound of burning flames, reached the Deputy Hall Master's ears.
"Good, good, good!"
The Deputy Hall Master laughed in extreme anger.
"You, you just wait for me!"
The bronze mirror shattered, and the Deputy Hall Master took the initiative to cut off the connection.
After venting, the Deputy Hall Master forced himself to calm down. He didn't even realize that a trace of fear had unconsciously mixed into his previous anger.
Xiao Clan...
If really taking action, going himself definitely wouldn't work. What if that Dou Saint was powerful and destroyed him?
The Xiao Clan has a long inheritance. One can mock it for being exterminated, but absolutely cannot underestimate the opponent's strength.
After the Deputy Hall Master calmed down for a long time, reason gradually gained the upper hand.
Anyway, the Tuo She Ancient God Jade wasn't in that Xiao family either. It was better to plan this matter in the long run.
Only lost three blood pattern killers this time; it didn't matter.
Wait until the clan really starts to act. A mere Nanli Empire, this seat will destroy it personally!
Thinking again and again, the Deputy Hall Master decided to focus on the clan's grand plan. Some private feuds could be avenged together in the future.
Although the Xiao family's weapon refining skills were exquisite, under the general trend, they were destined to be powerless to reverse the situation.
Nanli Empire.
After Han Feng cleared the three Hall of Souls killers, he chose to leave a spatial coordinate here.
He was really looking forward to the Hall of Souls Deputy Hall Master coming personally.
Although Han Feng now only had the cultivation of the early stage of Two-Star Dou Saint, he was confident in killing a Three-Star Dou Saint.
As long as Hun Miesheng didn't arrive personally, Han Feng could kill whoever came.
However, with the strength of the Nanli Xiao family, it shouldn't be worth letting Hun Miesheng take action personally.
Even the Deputy Hall Master, Han Feng estimated he wouldn't come either.
The image of a Xiao Clan Dou Saint he deliberately created just now might have scared the other party.
After staying in the city for a while, Han Feng didn't find the aura of the Hall of Souls anymore. He flew into the clouds and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Vermilion Bird City.
Mu Qingluan had been wild outside for another day. Only when the lights outside gradually dimmed did she reluctantly return to the Imperial City.
"Senior Brother, you're back."
Seeing Han Feng sitting in the hall, Mu Qingluan ran towards him with a smile.
"Still smiling; came back even later than me."
Han Feng flicked her forehead.
"Ouch!"
Mu Qingluan held her forehead and pouted.
"Leaving tomorrow anyway; I wanted to see more."
"Wash up early and have a good sleep. Tomorrow we go to the Beast Region. You should be familiar with that place, right?"
"Beast Region!"
Only then did Mu Qingluan know they were going to the Beast Region tomorrow.
"Great!"
"Then can I go back to my old home for a visit?"
These years she had been "cultivating hard" in the Falling Star Pavilion and rarely returned to the Blue Phoenix Clan.
"Sure."
Han Feng laughed.
Mu Qingluan nodded with satisfaction, then asked:
"Senior Brother, what are we going to do in the Beast Region?"
"Revenge."
Mu Qingluan's eyes lit up.
She liked watching the fun the most.
"Who is Senior Brother going to kill?"
"Nine Serene Deep Ground Python."