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  Chapter 339 Xiao Yan's reluctance, Yan Ran's counterattack

  Why, why?

  For the first time, I have someone I like.

  He also got a method to cure his grandfather's branding poison.

  The two joys overlap.

  This double joy brought more and more joy.

  We should have had a dreamlike happy time.

  However, why did it turn out like this?

  The person I had been thinking about for three years ended up liking my teacher.

  It was obviously me who liked him first.

  Reluctance, envy, helplessness, sadness and other emotions flashed through Nalan Yanran's beautiful eyes. Mist blurred her eyes and her eyes were rippling.

  "Yanran, you..." Seeing Nalan Yanran's state, Yun Yun could not help guessing what she was thinking. She sighed and was about to speak when Nalan Yanran's forced smile echoed in the square behind the mountain.

  She shook her head and said, "Teacher, it's okay. You can find your own happiness. Yanran feels very happy and..."

  Nalan Yanran groaned for a moment, and looked deeply at Xiao Se with her beautiful eyes: "Besides, in this world, only someone like Brother Xiao Se is worthy of being a teacher."

  At the end, Nalan Yanran could no longer bear it, and a line of tears quietly dripped from her beautiful face as she uttered

  "Yanran you". Seeing Naran Yanran's appearance, Yun Yun's beautiful face showed a trace of pain.

  Naran Yanran was her disciple and had followed her since she was ten years old. Sometimes, they were not like master and disciple, but more like sisters. Now she saw her sister crying, and the culprit was herself and her beloved man. How could she bear it?

  Xiao Se did not speak the whole time, but just quietly observed Yun Yun and Naran Yanran. Feelings were something that could not be forced. Although he was also a little greedy for Naran Yanran's body, he had fantasized about eating a master-disciple rice bowl more than once.

  But it is obviously not realistic now. He can't balance the relationship between Yun Yun and Naran Yanran, so he can only solve it in the future.

  "I'm sorry, the wind and sand accidentally blew into my eyes." Nalan Yanran turned around and wiped her tears. She took a deep breath and said respectfully without turning her head: "Brother Xiao Huohuo, I'll leave my grandfather's affairs to you. I'll wait for you at the Nalan family."

  As she spoke, Nalan Yanran opened her flying fighting skills, flapped her wings, and left Xiao Se and Yun Yun with a lonely and beautiful figure, gradually disappearing into the sky.

  "Yanran." Yun Yun stretched out her right hand and wanted to open her fighting wings to chase, but her hand was held by Xiao Se. He hugged Yun Yun and said softly: "Yun'er, let her calm down for a while."

  "Yeah." Yun Yun responded softly, and snuggled quietly in Xiao Se's arms. Xiao Se's arms were very warm, and his body smelled good, emitting a faint fragrance of elixir, which made her feel a little intoxicated.

  At the same time, outside the holy city, in a valley.

  As Xiao Yan opened his eyes, his aura suddenly increased. The gray-white flame Dou Qi gauze that was originally lingering on his body gradually condensed and turned into a Dou Qi armor that tightly wrapped his entire body.

  "Is this the Dou Qi armor exclusive to the Great Dou Master?" Xiao Yan looked at the gray-white flame Dou Qi armor on his body, his heart was extremely excited. He clenched his right fist and punched on a huge rock in the cave. With a loud bang, the whole cave shook, and the huge rock broke into pieces, turning into dozens or hundreds of pieces of rubble.

  "Teacher, I succeeded, I succeeded, I finally became a great Dou Shi, and with the effect of the Three-Pattern Qingling Pill, I broke through directly from the peak of Dou Shi to the second-star of the great Dou Shi. This unprecedented powerful feeling, I believe I will not lose to Nalan Yanran," Xiao Yan looked at Yao Lao who was guarding the cave entrance with excitement, "Teacher, you..."

  The voice stopped abruptly, and under his astonished gaze, Yao Lao's soul seemed to become more illusory and transparent than ever before, as if it would dissipate at any time.

  "Ahem." Yao Lao coughed lightly and smiled bitterly, "It's okay, it's just that I have consumed my soul power too frequently during this period. I'm afraid I can't accompany you to Yunlan Sect. I will fall into a deep sleep soon. The next three years will depend on you."

  Without the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire, Yao Lao had been constantly capturing level 3 to 5 monsters for Xiao Yan for nearly a year, seizing the beast fires, which consumed too much soul power. Even with the help of the Rongling Pill, it was just a drop in the bucket. Now, refining the fourth-grade three-pattern Qingling Pill almost exhausted his soul power, and he would soon fall into a deep sleep again.

  "How could this happen? Teacher, then please absorb my fighting spirit as much as you can, as long as you can recover." Xiao Yan looked panicked and uneasy.

  It's not that Xiao Yan did this out of a master-disciple relationship, but he knew that the Yunlan Sect was a dangerous place.

  If the three-year agreement is lost, the Xiao family will lose all its reputation.

  On the contrary, if he wins, he can certainly maintain the reputation of the Xiao family and prove to the people of the entire Jia Ma Empire that he, Xiao Yan, is not a waste.

  But if this happens, the Yunlan Sect will lose face. If the other party ignores their status and bullies the weak, then he may not be able to leave Yunlan Mountain.

  "Don't be so depressed, I just fell into a short sleep, it doesn't mean I will really die." Hearing Xiao Yan asking him to absorb his fighting spirit, Yao Lao showed a relieved smile on his face. It seems that he did not make a mistake in accepting this disciple.

  "Teacher, tell me, how can I save you?" Xiao Yan was unwilling to give in. Yao Lao was the capital that enabled him to dominate the world, and he could not lose this patron saint.

  Yao Lao shook his head, his figure becoming more illusory, and he sighed, "It's hard to find a natural treasure that can restore soul power, and elixirs are even more precious. Even Dou Huang or Dou Zong masters would be tempted if they saw one. Moreover, even if you get a elixir that can restore soul power, with your current alchemy skills and flame ability, it is difficult to refine it into spiritual liquid."

  "Pills? Oh, the Soul-Relieving Pill, teacher. Didn't a mysterious man give you a Soul-Relieving Pill last time in the Monster Mountain Range? Tell me where he is. As long as we find him, he will definitely help you recover." After hearing what Yao Lao said, Xiao Yan automatically ignored the magical item that could restore soul power, but the pill did not have no chance.

  Yao Lao sighed and said, "Do you know who he is?"

  Xiao Yan shook his head, not understanding why.

  Seeing Xiao Yan's ignorant look, Yao Lao felt a little sorry for him, but he also knew that if Xiao Yan hadn't had a chance encounter, he would probably never see this disciple again. Although the Burning Technique had infinite possibilities, Xiao Yan couldn't subdue any kind of strange fire with his current low-level Xuan-level Burning Technique. I'm afraid Xiao Yan's upper limit would be Dou Huang or even Dou Wang. Dou Huang had a limited lifespan, and when he woke up, everything would have changed.

  "Well, now that things have come to this, I will tell you."

  "Teacher, please speak?" Xiao Yan frowned.

  Yao Lao said sternly: "The person who made a deal with my master is Xiao Se."

  "How is it possible? He is a real Douhuang. Xiao Se has only been a Douling for a few years. Even if he has some adventures, he can't be promoted to Douhuang in just two years." Xiao Yan felt very unwilling. Why? He is the first genius of the Xiao family, and Xiao Se is just an insignificant person in the Xiao family. Even if he has some adventures and hooked up with Queen Medusa and Ya Fei, the helmsman of the Miter family, he believes that as long as he is given enough time, it will be no problem for him to surpass the other party in the future.  

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  "No, to be precise, he is now a Dou Zong expert." Yao Lao said with a serious expression.

  As early as when he met Xiao Se again at the Mittel Auction House headquarters, Yao Lao had already sensed that Xiao Se was unusual. Although the latter had a strange secret method to hide his aura, he could not see through the other party's exact cultivation level.

  But the sense of crisis that has been developed over the years is definitely not wrong.

  As for the one who could give him a sense of death crisis, a Douhuang strongman could never do that. In the case of completely exposing himself, even if his soul power was insufficient, as long as he attached himself to Xiao Yan, he would have absolutely no problem escaping. He could even kill some low-level Douhuangs. As for the one who could really give him a sense of death crisis, it was only a Douzong strongman.

  "Dou Zong. Gu." Xiao Yan swallowed hard, his face was ashen, he didn't know whether to cry or laugh. The whole person seemed to be crazy. If Xiao Se was a Dou Ling, with Yao Lao's guidance and the special Burning Decree, he still had great confidence to surpass the other party, but now.

  Seeing Xiao Yan's appearance as if struck by lightning, Yao Lao sighed helplessly. Knowing that his soul power was about to be exhausted, he had no time to sigh, and instructed: "This three-year appointment to go to Yunlan Sect is extremely dangerous. If possible, I hope you don't go, but with your personality, I'm afraid you won't listen. I also know that your self-esteem will not allow you to ask Xiao Se. So you only have one way now."

  "Teacher, please tell me. I will remember it." Xiao Yan's eyes lit up.

  "Go make another deal with Xiao Se." Yao Lao said helplessly.

  "Teacher, he is now a Dou Zong strongman, how could he possibly be interested in my things." Xiao Yan said, "Besides, I once heard my father say that the reason why Xiao Se left the Xiao family was that he seemed to have some resentment towards the family. At the beginning, the Xiao family had an accident and Xiao Se's parents died. But the Xiao family refused to let Xiao Se out when he was three years old. It was not until he was six years old that the elders of the Xiao family took a fancy to Xiao Se's talent and took him back to the Xiao family. That's why Xiao Se is unwilling to contact anyone in the Xiao family. I am the son of the Xiao family's patriarch, and he will not listen to me even more."

  "Oh?! It seems that a lot of things happened to the Xiao family during the time I was asleep! I didn't expect Xiao Se to have such an experience." Hearing Xiao Yan's words, Yao Lao was thoughtful. This life experience was so similar to his, but Xiao Se's parents were luckier than his parents. At least they entered the family ancestral hall. His parents... it's better not to talk about them!

  "You are right. It seems that he doesn't like these things of mine, but there is one thing he can't refuse." Yao Lao said.

  "What is that?" Xiao Yan asked puzzledly.

  "Alchemy." Yao Lao said, "Now Xiao Se's soul power has reached the level of a seventh-grade peak alchemist. But because he has been refining medicine for too short a time and has no one to guide him, he has always been at the level of a seventh-grade peak alchemist. I saw it from the last Rongling Pill. Go and tell him that as long as he keeps you safe during the three-year agreement, I will teach him the art of alchemy before the three-year agreement. I believe he will agree."

  "A seventh-grade peak alchemist?!" Xiao Yan sucked in a breath of cold air, and a hint of self-mockery appeared on his handsome face. No wonder he could conquer Queen Medusa, no wonder a proud concubine like Miter Yafei would rely on him so much, no wonder Xun'er would "change her heart", no wonder Xiao Yu, who had average talent, could break through to the Grand Fighter Master at the age of seventeen. With such strength and talent, it was no wonder...

  However, I, Xiao Yan, will not admit defeat!

  So what if you are temporarily ahead?

  Don't look down on the young and the poor!

  Three years ago, I was humiliated and broke off my engagement, so why would I give up so easily?

  Just wait, Xiao Se, you have only practiced for three years longer than me. I have a Burning Decree that is even more bizarre than the Heavenly Rank, and I will devour the strange fire in the future, so I have a bright future.

  Thinking of this, Xiao Yan felt much better.

  "Teacher, since Xiao Se is a seventh-grade peak alchemist, what grade are you?" Xiao Yan asked curiously.

  Yao Lao hesitated for a moment, then slowly said: "Eighth Rank Peak..."

  "Peak of the eighth rank." Xiao Yan was shocked. When he was horrified at Yao Lao's strength, he said with some worry: "Teacher, if you teach him the art of alchemy, then he will..."

  Xiao Yan didn't finish his words because Yao Lao's figure had begun to dissipate.

  Yao Lao said: "Xiao Yan, don't let jealousy cloud your mind, remember my words..."

  At the end of his speech, Yao Lao's voice became weaker and weaker, and finally his entire figure turned into a ray of dark white light and sank into the black storage ring on Xiao Yan's finger.

  "Disciple, remember this." Xiao Yan murmured. His hand, which was not wearing the ring, clenched tightly, and it made a creaking sound because he was too strong!

  Of course, Yao Lao could not see all this.

  …

  The holy city of Gama, the Nalan family.

  "Miss, you're back! The master is now entertaining Miss Yafei from the Mitre family. I'll take you there right away!" As soon as Nalan Yanran returned home, the housekeeper of the Nalan family came to greet her.

  "No need. Tell my father that the alchemist who possesses the strange fire has been found. It's Brother Xiao Huohuo. He will come to the Nalan family soon. I'm tired and I'm going to rest." Nalan Yanran's eyes were red. She threw the sword to the housekeeper and walked straight into the room.

  Looking at Nalan Yanran's figure going away, the housekeeper was puzzled: "Strange, doesn't the young lady like that Lord Xiao Huohuo very much? Why is the young lady unhappy that Lord Xiao Huohuo is coming to treat the old man!"

  Shaking his head helplessly, the butler turned and walked back in the direction he came from.

  Inside the room, Nalan Yanran was lying on the bed.

  Silent tears quietly slid down her beautiful face.

  "Are we destined to be apart?" Nalan Yanran's nose twitched, and she suddenly recalled Yafei, whom the housekeeper had just mentioned. Her beautiful eyes lit up, and she wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, muttering to herself: "No, the rumors outside that Yafei Mitel and Brother Xiaose have an ambiguous relationship are not groundless. Yafei's cultivation talent is obviously not as good as mine, but her cultivation level is higher than mine, which must be inseparable from the help of Brother Xiaose. And the Mitel family has not clarified the matter. They would not risk offending Brother Xiaose, so there is only one possibility. Brother Xiaose has other women besides the teacher."

  Thinking of this, Nalan Yanran's depression instantly disappeared, and she suddenly felt enlightened. Perhaps she could...

  (End of this chapter)