77: Chapter 77 Reunion with Qinglin

Yet for Xiao Yan, it was effortless.

However, this was only a part of Xiao Yan's strength. The Fighting Qi Continent has many cultivation systems. The most common is naturally the cultivation of Fighting Qi, but besides that, there are other ways to Cultivate.

First, there is the Body Cultivator. Some experts, upon reaching the Dou Huang stage, abandon the Opportunity to resonate with the energy of the world and instead continuously strengthen their physical bodies. Once the physical body is cultivated to the Transcendent Realm, every punch releases force that cracks the earth and shatters space, much like Xiao Yan, who, upon just entering the Dou Huang Realm, could tear space apart with a wave of his hand.

Its destructive power is in no way inferior to controlling the energy of the world, and in fact, it often exceeds such broad energy control. However, this form of cultivation is much more difficult than cultivating Fighting Qi, and the pain produced during the process is something those with weak wills find truly hard to endure.

The second cultivation system is Spirit Cultivation, which can of course also be called Soul Cultivation. Like the Soul Hall Protector, they are all Soul entities, yet the strength of these Soul entities is in no way inferior to ordinary Fighting Qi cultivators.

In fact, because Soul entities are harder to injure with Fighting Qi, they are often stronger than ordinary Fighting Qi cultivators. However, this method of cultivation is extremely rare nowadays, and even the Soul techniques used to Cultivate the Soul have been lost to the point of near extinction.

The levels of Soul strength are also divided: Mortal Realm, Spirit Realm, Heavenly Realm, and Emperor Realm!

The vast majority of Alchemists remain in the Mortal Realm. The Spirit Realm is a level that only a Grade 8 Alchemist can reach. At this point, the Alchemist can possess an effect known as Spirit Imbuing, which imparts a sense of spirituality to Medicinal Pills.

This is precisely why most Eighth Grade Pills possess extraordinary spirituality.

With Xiao Yan's current Soul strength, he is far beyond the Spirit Realm, just one step away from breaking through to the Heavenly Realm. However, this is only because he forced a Breakthrough relying on his ridiculously powerful Soul power; ordinary people usually require guidance from Soul cultivation mantras to break through.

Therefore, forcing a Breakthrough to the Heavenly Realm will still require some time.

The intelligence of a Ninth Grade Pill is no different from that of an ordinary human. This is equivalent to creating a living being, and this living being must also possess the energy of the world. To achieve this, one must reach the heaven-defying Heavenly Realm.

Within the Heavenly Realm, Heavenly Realm Perfection is the pinnacle, but those at Heavenly Realm Perfection are few and far between on the Fighting Qi Continent.

As for the final Emperor Realm, it is related to the refining of Emperor Grade Pills. Any Realm associated with the word "Emperor" is undoubtedly synonymous with power. In the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode, there exists an embryo of an Emperor Grade Pill.

That Emperor Grade Pill embryo has long since transformed into human form, possesses extremely high intelligence, and can even confront four Nine-Star Dou Sheng experts head-on!

However, this Emperor Realm Soul is temporarily irrelevant to Xiao Yan. Even the Xiao Yan of the original plot only reached this Realm by relying on Old Ancestor Xiao Xuan burning his Soul and allowing Xiao Yan to absorb the countless Souls within the Heavenly Tomb.

Although this is irrelevant to the current Xiao Yan, it does not change the fact that Xiao Yan's current strength is ridiculously high.

Fighting Qi, physical body, and Soul—any one of these three, if chosen, would allow one to sweep through and be invincible at the same cultivation level. Yet, at this moment, they are all concentrated in Xiao Yan.

This combination is undoubtedly terrifying. With such perfect, flawless strength, as long as a Dou Sheng does not suddenly appear to crush Xiao Yan, even a Ban Sheng would absolutely not be able to gain any advantage over Xiao Yan.

However, such a crushing situation will not occur. Given Xiao Yan's current cultivation speed, he will likely touch the Bottleneck of Dou Zong and approach the level of Dou Zun just after finishing his affairs in the Northwest Continent. By the time he reaches the Central Plains, he might become a terrifying, unprecedentedly powerful Dou Zun on the Fighting Qi Continent.

However, this will still take some time. What needs to be focused on now is still the Heavenly Serpent Mansion where he currently resides, and Qing Lin, who has become the Saintess of the Heavenly Serpent Mansion.

Xiao Yan exchanged a few words with Lü Man before finding a random seat and sitting down.

Seeing Xiao Yan sit down, Lü Man looked helplessly at the young man in white who was currently squatting on the ground, carefully inspecting medicinal ingredients.

"Mr. Xiao Yan, please do not mind him. This is our Mansion Master's eldest son, named Ye Quan, who has recently been preparing to advance to the Dou Wang Realm..." Lü Man said with a wry smile. Although these medicinal ingredients were precious, they were not worth behaving so unseemly in front of this expert who had caused a sensation across the Northwest Continent; it was truly a disgrace to the Heavenly Serpent Mansion.

However, Ye Quan did not care about this at all. After all, these medicinal ingredients concerned his own advancement. It would not be difficult for the Heavenly Serpent Mansion to collect another set, but he felt incredibly uncomfortable for every day that was delayed.

After carefully inspecting all the medicinal ingredients, he bowed slightly to Xiao Yan, though he found it hard to muster any awe when facing Xiao Yan, whose appearance was even younger than his own.

Moreover, he did not understand Xiao Yan's recent actions. As an expert, spending so much effort to help some insignificant weaklings without any reason, toiling without reward—wasn't that just plain crazy?

However, he did not dare to show this in front of Xiao Yan. At this moment, he only spoke with some restraint: "Mr. Xiao Yan, I am Ye Quan. I have admired you for a long time. Your recent actions have truly made me feel ashamed. We are similar in age, yet you are already able to roam the Northwest Continent freely."

Ye Quan's tone was filled with emotion, and his eyes revealed a hint of yearning. This sentence was indeed heartfelt; even if an expert has a strange temper or peculiar hobbies, they are still worthy of respect. Only those idiots with holes in their brains would casually offend an expert.

"Hehe." Xiao Yan smiled and nodded in response. He could see the perfunctoriness in Ye Quan's bow, but he could understand it; young people are arrogant, it's quite normal.

He did not wait long in his seat before a petite green figure appeared at the doorway, followed closely by a middle-aged woman dressed in green.

As soon as the petite girl entered the room, she saw Xiao Yan sitting in his seat. Her eyes lit up, and she excitedly shouted: "Young Master Xiao Yan!"

Although the girl had not yet fully matured, she was already showing signs of being a beauty, with a delicate oval face and a slender waist that moved with a sexiness and allure that belied her age.

This girl in the green dress was Qing Lin, whom Xiao Yan had not seen for half a year.

Seeing the middle-aged woman behind Qing Lin, Lü Man stood up and bowed slightly, saying: "Master Qing."

The middle-aged woman wore a rather tight green trench coat, which fully displayed her voluptuous figure, yet she moved with an Aura of decisiveness.

"Hehe, Lü Man, Quan'er..." The middle-aged woman watched as Qing Lin walked toward Xiao Yan and chuckled.

Xiao Yan also stood up at this moment. Looking at Qing Lin walking toward him, he couldn't help but reveal a smile. Since coming to the Heavenly Serpent Mansion, this little girl with a tragic background had become confident and cheerful.

"Qing Lin, long time no see. How have you been staying at the Heavenly Serpent Mansion during this time?" Seeing Qing Lin stop in front of him and lift her little oval face to look at him, Xiao Yan asked.