Xiao Yang showed up, and before he knew it, he was grabbed by his disciple Zhao Fan and took off running.
The target of this killing spree was none other than Xiao Yang.
No matter if it was Gui Tian or those sneaky guys lurking in the shadows, they could never let Xiao Yang and his disciple escape so easily.
Gui Tian, brandishing the Thunder Extreme Battle Knife, chased after them directly.
Yuanlong City was not that big of a city.
Zhao Fan led Xiao Yang out of Yuanlong City and barreled straight into the North Mountain.
Things were pretty messy up in the North Mountain right now.
The area was riddled with shattered ridges and deep chasms.
Plus, it was home to quite a few vicious beasts.
After the battle for the North Mountain’s mineral veins, the entire Earth Veins in the area had been altered, making it even more treacherous.
Gui Tian had no hesitation and dove straight into the North Mountain.
A defeated foe and a self-destructing waste, he couldn’t care less about Xiao Yang and Zhao Fan.
Those lurking in the shadows were also hot on their heels.
Generally speaking, ordinary martial artists wouldn’t dare enter the North Mountain.
Even though the Earth Veins were ruined, some Earth Veins Spiritual Energy still lingered.
A number of ferocious beasts were holed up here.
Xiao Yang and Zhao Fan took advantage of the North Mountain’s complex terrain to play hide and seek with Gui Tian and the others…
…
At the Heguan Sect’s main hall.
“What’s that guy Xiao Yang up to right now?”
Nie Ruhua—no, she should be Feng Xuan—glanced at Nie Ruyin, who was kneeling on the ground.
“Reporting to the Ancestor, he’s currently being chased.”
Nie Ruyin replied cautiously.
Feng Xuan had been strutting around the Northern territory as Heguan Sect’s head sister.
On the surface, Nie Ruyin was the Sect Leader, but in reality, she was just Feng Xuan’s many generations removed disciple.
Feng Xuan was of the Phoenix Clan from the Yuanwu Continent.
When she fled from the Immortal Gate to the Northern territory, even Chen Taixu was probably playing in the mud somewhere.
She was a millennium-old Fire Phoenix.
Feng Xuan recalled her experiences from a thousand years ago.
That old madman from the Immortal Gate somehow got his hands on a heavenly alchemy recipe and wanted to gather the essences from dragons, phoenixes, and qilins to create a Ascension Pill and soar into the heavens.
Thus, the Immortal Gate began slaughtering dragons and phoenixes, killing qilins.
That was the infamous Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Cataclysm back in the Yuanwu Continent.
Feng Xuan had escaped to the Northern territory and established the Heguan Sect.
She was, in fact, the founding ancestor of the Heguan Sect.
No one would’ve ever guessed that the founding ancestor of the Heguan Sect was a thousand-year-old fire phoenix.
In the Battle of Thunder Marsh, she was injured by the Immortal Lord and fled back to the Heguan Sect.
She initially thought it would take several years to heal and recover her cultivation.
However, to her disbelief, she had unexpectedly healed her injuries and restored her cultivation much faster than she imagined.
And she could sense the changes in herself.
Her absorption of spiritual energy from the heavens and earth had increased several times over.
Even her comprehension had significantly improved.
Many aspects of the cultivation that had been difficult to grasp now seemed clear as day.
It felt like finally seeing the light after parting the clouds.
How could this be?
Feng Xuan really couldn’t wrap her head around it.
She hadn’t eaten any miraculous pills or elixirs recently.
Why had her absorption speed of spiritual energy increased?
Why had her comprehension improved so much?
Could it be because she had a passionate encounter with Xiao Yang?
Was it the power of creation within Xiao Yang that caused these changes?
No one could answer Feng Xuan’s questions.
In any case, not only had her injuries healed, but there were also subtle signs of a breakthrough in her cultivation.
She had a premonition that it wouldn’t be long before she could break through to an even higher realm.
Now, hearing Nie Ruyin mention someone was hunting down Xiao Yang, she couldn’t help but feel a sense of curiosity.
“In this Northern territory, someone actually dares to hunt down Xiao Yang?”
Feng Xuan frowned.
Xiao Yang’s strength was undeniable, and that sword of his was practically heaven-defying.
If he didn’t hunt others, they should be thankful.
Who would dare to go after him?
“Ancestor, Xiao Yang is just a self-destructing waste. Why wouldn’t anyone dare to hunt him?”
Nie Ruyin questioned in confusion.
“Xiao Yang is a waste?”
Feng Xuan paused momentarily upon hearing this.
Then it dawned on her.
Xiao Yang had been hiding his true strength; very few knew his actual cultivation level.
“You…”
Before Feng Xuan could ask further, her expression abruptly changed, and she felt a wave of nausea, unable to hold back her retching.
“Ancestor…”
Nie Ruyin was taken aback at the sight.
Feng Xuan took a few deep breaths, suppressing the nausea.
“What’s going on?”
Feng Xuan suddenly recalled something.
“Don’t tell me, it can’t be, how’s that possible?”
Feng Xuan was stunned by a thought that popped into her mind.
Absolutely impossible.
Without hesitation, she took a look inside herself.
Then she was dumbfounded.
Inside her body, a faint vitality was sprouting forth like tender buds breaking through the earth; had she not deliberately checked, she wouldn’t have even noticed this little life.
“I… I’m pregnant?”
Feng Xuan murmured.
“…”
Nie Ruyin was left flabbergasted upon hearing this.
The ancestor is pregnant?
How could that be?
This was the founding ancestor of the Heguan Sect!
In their eyes, Feng Xuan was an untouchable deity.
But now, this deity in their minds was actually pregnant.
Who was the man?
Who could be worthy of the ancestor?
Nie Ruyin couldn’t fathom the significance of it.
“Go get Xiao Yang back for me.”
Feng Xuan couldn’t believe she’d gotten caught up with Xiao Yang in such a way.
Xiao Yang, oh Xiao Yang, you’re quite something!
Thinking of how the Sect Holy Daughter Jiang Yaoguang was also pregnant with Xiao Yang’s child, she felt even worse.
Now, she had also fallen into the trap.
In fact, the stronger one’s cultivation, the harder it was to leave behind offspring.
Typically, for beings like them, getting pregnant was no easy feat.
Feng Xuan was completely oblivious to the possibility of her being in such a situation because she was aware of this fact.
She could feel that the little life inside her was extraordinary.
Although this little life was still weak, she sensed its tenacity.
Moreover, this little life gave her an indescribable feeling.
Her intuition told her that it was the appearance of this little life that had triggered all these amazing changes in her.
“If Jiang Yaoguang’s child is an innate chaos body, then mine must also be something heavenly!”
At this thought, Feng Xuan couldn’t help but feel elated.
The Phoenix Clan had already dwindled due to that old guy from the Immortal Gate.
Now, with this new life, the Phoenix Clan would gain another member.
“Forget it, just tell me where Xiao Yang is, I’ll go find him myself.”
Feng Xuan was eager to meet the father of her child.
“Xiao Yang?”
Nie Ruyin, clever as she was, could hardly fathom that the one who had knocked up the ancestor was none other than the so-called waste, Xiao Yang.
That was beyond her imagination!
Xiao Yang had self-destructed his dantian at the Great Competition and was considered a waste.
This was public knowledge!
Currently, Xiao Yang had joined the Qingyun Sect and received its protection, enabling him to survive…
What shocked Nie Ruyin was how could this waste Xiao Yang possibly have any connection with their ancestor?
And on top of that, he had gotten the ancestor pregnant!
Nie Ruyin was dying of curiosity.
What on earth had happened?
Actually, Feng Xuan had been ordering people from the Heguan Sect to keep an eye on Qingyun Mountain, tracking Xiao Yang’s movements.
After learning from Nie Ruyin where Xiao Yang was, she left the Heguan Sect directly.
Meanwhile, Xiao Yang had no clue he was about to become a father.
Right now, he was hiding with Zhao Fan in the North Mountain, playing a game of hide and seek with those guys.
“Master, why should we be afraid of them?”
Zhao Fan was puzzled.
With Xiao Yang’s cultivation and battle power, there was no need to hide!
“You’re still too naive. It’s not that I’m afraid of them; I want to draw all the hidden foes here and eliminate them in one fell swoop.”
Xiao Yang shot Zhao Fan a glance.
They were currently in the very valley where he had fought against the Fire Lin Beast and Ice-Bound Profound Python.
Deep inside this valley was a cave.
And they were right in that cave.
“Alright, this here is the Five Elements Blood Washing Pill. Take it, and you can break through to the Blood Exchange Realm!”
Xiao Yang said as he took out a small jade bottle and handed it to Zhao Fan.
Zhao Fan was already half a foot into the Blood Exchange Realm.
He took the small bottle excitedly.
With this Blood Washing Pill, he could vastly strengthen his physical body and fully break into the true Blood Exchange Realm.
The Blood Exchange Realm is a classification of physical cultivators over martial artists based on their physical strength.
Even if Zhao Fan trained to Blood Exchange Realm, his cultivation base would still be in Qi Refining Realm.
Because it was the transformation of the martial body, not a boost in cultivation level.
“Thank you, Master!”
Zhao Fan expressed his gratitude with a bow.
“Let’s begin!”
Xiao Yang didn’t hesitate and urged Zhao Fan to take the Five Elements Blood Washing Pill.
“Understood!”
Zhao Fan wasted no time and activated his body refining technique.
As the powers of the Five Elements Blood Washing Pill began to erupt within him, thunderous sounds started echoing from deep inside Zhao Fan.
Xiao Yang stood guard at the cave entrance.
Zhao Fan needed to seize this opportunity to leap into the Blood Exchange Realm.
Before long, two figures appeared at the cave entrance.
“Xiao Yang, come out and die!”
The arrivals were dressed in black and white, resembling the black and white impermanence of the Smoke Rain Tower.
“Smoke Rain Tower, Black and White Impermanence?”
Seeing these two, Xiao Yang was somewhat surprised.
It was unexpected that the black and white impermanence of the Smoke Rain Tower would target him, a so-called waste.
In the eyes of the world, Xiao Yang was just a self-destructed waste!
And the black and white impermanence were two Half Saints.
Killing a waste like Xiao Yang would be a piece of cake for them.
To the black and white impermanence, Xiao Yang was already a dead man walking.
The bounty on the dark list was almost theirs for the taking.
Such a large sum of bounty made many greedy.
Black and White Impermanence were no exception.
If they could take out Xiao Yang, they wouldn’t have to worry about resources for cultivation ever again.
“Didn’t think you little brat would know about us.”
The Black Impermanence coldly examined Xiao Yang.
“Tch!”
Xiao Yang completely disregarded these two.
“If you don’t want to be beaten to death, you better scram!”
He folded his arms, speaking coldly.