It's been a thousand years. Do you know how I spent these thousand years?
Above the night sky, Void Devour Flame stood in midair, eyes empty. Pitch-black flames surged from within him, forming a fireball a thousand zhang in diameter, illuminating the dark night of the Xiao Xiao Realm.
A thousand years of nights, every day was just standing guard, and standing guard again.
"Soul Emperor, I miss you so much, I really miss those days when we ruled over the Soul Clan,"Void Devour Flame thought, two drops of black flames unconsciously sliding down his numb face.
The two drops of flames naturally fell, but just before hitting the ground, Void Devour Flame sucked them back up.
"Heh, now I don't even dare to destroy flowers or grass,"Void Devour Flame showed a trace of sadness on his face.
Having left the Strange Fire Valley, Xiao Yan naturally didn't know what Void Devour Flame was feeling right now. If he did, one day, on a whim, he might write him a few biographies.
For example, "A Thousand Years of Being the Xiao Clan's Beast of Burden""The Untold Story of Void Devour Flame and Pure Lotus Demon Fire"
Of course, what he wanted most now was to quickly train the Crimson Fiery Demon Body to a minor success, then go out to find beauties—no, find strange fires.
On a giant rock in the back mountain, Xiao Yan was shirtless, strands of cyan flames weaving in and out of his body, constantly tempering his flesh and bones.
Since he obtained this advanced Dou Technique, he had been silently cultivating for a week.
This was the personality forged by his rich social experience in his previous life: Xiao Yan looked lazy and idle, but once he decided to do something, he strived for perfection.
Either don't do it or do it completely—clear, sharp, no dragging.
Just a few mountain peaks away from the Xiao Lin branch, Xiao Jiande sat grim-faced on a chair.
It had been nearly ten days since Xiao Yan broke his leg.
Thanks to medicinal recovery, Xiao Jiande's injury was healed long ago, but he still couldn't forget the condescending look from that youth and the pain he caused.
"Xiao Yan." Just thinking of the name made Xiao Jiande grind his teeth until they almost shattered.
In the past few days, after some inquiry, he learned that this Xiao Yan was not only the direct grandson of the neighboring Xiao Lin branch's leader but also a peerless genius.
A fifteen-year-old nine-star Dou Emperor—no exaggeration calling him head and shoulders above his peers—and worse, he even had a Dou Saint grandfather.
News of Xiao Yan becoming an Imperial Son was mostly known only to Dou Saints.
While the lower ranks of the Xiao clan knew a new Imperial Son was established, they didn't know who he was.
Most guessed, by tradition, it would be a brilliant Dou Saint.
Xiao Jiande once sought a few clan brothers who had become Dou Zong to take revenge, but as soon as they heard Xiao Yan's name, they shook their heads.
What a joke—risk offending a genius with a profound background just for a spoiled brat?
Anyone with a brain knew what to do.
Compared to the pain inflicted by Xiao Yan, Xiao Jiande's jealousy fueled his hatred even more.
"Xiao Yan! You're right, I don't dare to directly take revenge on you. I don't even dare to retaliate directly against Xiao Yu, but don't you have friends?"
"Heh, if I can't get back at you, then I'll get your friends—get those lowly descendants! If I can't beat you, at least I can disgust you!"
"Fine, I'll just hide at home and not come out. Even if your grandfather is a Dou Saint, he can't break clan rules to force revenge on me,"Xiao Jiande's face twisted into a grim, sick smile.
Days passed, the sun and moon alternated. Nobody knew if Void Devour Flame and Pure Lotus Demon Fire were still fighting recently. On the giant rock, Xiao Yan's eyes remained tightly shut.
Suddenly, his eyes snapped open, and in his jet-black pupils flickered a cyan flame forming a roaring lion.
"Almost at the final step."Xiao Yan lightly swiped his fingers on the ring, and two jade bottles appeared before him.
He first opened a small bottle, pouring the fiery red liquid directly into his mouth.
It was a treasure called Stone Flame Body Tempering Elixir, symbiotic to the strange fire "Volcanic Stone Flame." One small bottle was worth no less than a seventh-grade high-level pill.
Next, Xiao Yan took the deep cyan liquid from the other jade bottle and applied it all over his body.
It was a body-tempering spirit liquid his mother, Yao Xian, refined using the essence blood of an eighth-rank magical beast, the Blue-Winged Sky Demon Lion, mixed with various herbs—a seventh-grade pill level.
To obtain the old lion's essence blood, Xiao Yan nearly wore out his lips begging, finally trading three drops with the condition of borrowing the Pure Lotus Demon Saint's Romantic Chronicles.
With the Stone Flame Body Tempering Elixir entering his body, a burning heat rose from within Xiao Yan. Then he felt terrifying fire-type energy spreading through his body.
This energy quickly entered his bloodstream, flowing through his limbs and bones.
"So hot!"
Xiao Yan felt his entire body burning fiercely, a terrifying heat reddening his skin, as if he were a steamed giant prawn.
But that wasn't all. The deep cyan liquid on his skin slowly penetrated through his pores into his body.
Gurgle gurgle—cyan energy and fiery red energy quickly met, condensing into streaks of blue-red energy.
These energies seemed ordinary but once fused into Xiao Yan's flesh and bones, they began a terrifying tempering.
"Holy sh*t!"Xiao Yan's calm state instantly broke. His body turned blue-red, veins that were usually faint looked ready to burst.
From his throat came a beast-like low growl. He summoned his primal beast fire—the Blue Lion Demon Flame—and carefully refined the energies into his body.
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Accompanied by the Blue Lion Demon Flame's tempering, the burning pain worsened.
"I can't take it. The burning hell described in Buddhist scriptures can't be worse than this."
Xiao Yan's forehead veins bulged, but his expression turned grim, his gaze filled with moving cruelty.
"If I can't endure this pain, how can I talk about devouring strange fire!"
"Heh, in my previous life, I built a realm from scratch. In this life, with such good resources, wasting them would be a betrayal to myself!"
Suddenly, Xiao Yan smiled grimly and intensified the flames.
The terrifying tempering lasted nearly an hour. Except for occasional low growls from his throat, he made no other sounds.
Only his gums, squeezed to bleeding, revealed the suffering he endured.
Others thought this new genius of the Xiao clan was just lazy and gifted.
What they saw was his playful, sneaky side, but few ever witnessed Xiao Yan's seriousness and madness while cultivating privately.
This madness was forged over ten years of scraping by in society in his previous life—merciless to others, even harsher on himself.
Anyone who climbed from the bottom usually bore decisive and ruthless traits.
Finally, the cyan flames gradually shrank, retreating back to Xiao Yan's skin, leaving a cyan lion tattoo on his back.
To master the Crimson Fiery Demon Body fully, one needs to temper the body with nine types of flames. Each successful tempering leaves a flame-shaped tattoo.
When nine flame tattoos are refined, it is considered perfected.
The higher the flame quality, the stronger the tempered body. Theoretically, if all nine are strange fires, a perfected body could rival a Dou Saint.
But this is just theory—after all, even the creator, the Flame Demon Sovereign, never attempted it.
"Phew!"Xiao Yan exhaled heavily, feeling the terrifying power inside. It seemed a single punch could blow up the entire back mountain beneath him.
But he didn't try, after all, it was his own mountain. Breaking it would hurt, and he'd get scolded.
Feeling the immense power on him, Xiao Yan stretched, surprised to see Xiao Yu flying towards him.
"Little Yan, something's wrong!"Xiao Yu's pretty face was icy cold, her eyes burning with uncontrollable anger.
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