The person inside the palace, sensing Xiao Jietian's aura, also withdrew from his cultivation and flashed over to open the palace gate.
"Tian Ge, why are you here? Is something the matter?" Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Jietian in confusion.
"What? I can't come if there's nothing wrong?" Xiao Jietian chuckled and cursed lightly.
Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Jietian playfully. "Tian Ge, don't I know you? You'd never stand if you could lie down. If there's nothing wrong, you'd definitely be 'playing dead' in your gazebo."
"Let's go inside and talk." Xiao Jietian didn't sense Nalan Yanran's aura inside, so she must have gone out. He slung his arm over Xiao Yan's shoulder and walked into the palace.
In the front hall of Xiao Yan's palace, the two sat side by side.
"I came here this time to give you two good things," Xiao Jietian said mysteriously.
Xiao Yan's eyes immediately lit up. If Xiao Jietian considered something a "good thing," it must be extraordinary. One had to know that his Tian Ge had very high standards.
Seeing Xiao Yan's money-grubbing look, Xiao Jietian couldn't help but smile. This was the trump card from his former plan.
The plan was called: Transmigration: Making the Flame Emperor Work for Me.
Under Xiao Jietian's continuous benefits, coupled with Nalan Yanran's pillow talk, Xiao Yan had officially taken over as the chief alchemist of the Pill Hall in Boundless Heaven Hall not long ago. Now was the time for the decisive blow—to completely lock him onto Boundless Heaven Hall's chariot.
Xiao Jietian waved his hand, and a jade-white stream of light landed on the ground.
When he clearly saw the item on the ground, Xiao Yan leaped up. "Holy cow! Tian Ge, you actually got your hands on this thing! I thought it had been sucked into the void space created by that Dou Technique!"
"When I found that his remaining consciousness was greatly weakened after he unleashed the Dou Technique, I then moved to erase his remaining consciousness and took it away. That's why the Dou Technique stopped later and didn't continue to spread," Xiao Jietian also told a slight lie.
"Tian Ge is truly righteous. If it hadn't stopped then, who knows how many more people would have died." Xiao Yan continuously examined the jade-like Dou Sheng skeleton in front of him. This was a battle saint—a figure at the apex of the pyramid, capable of wiping out a city with a casual wave of his hand.
"Tian Ge, why did you bring this out?" Xiao Yan couldn't help but ask.
"Of course, it's for you. Hmm, consider it a reward for you, the chief alchemist. The Pill Hall's revenue generation is the highest in the entire hall right now."
"Tian Ge, what are you saying? Boundless Heaven Hall is my home, and you and I are blood brothers. Besides, this is already my duty, so there's no need for any rewards."
"This thing is much more useful to you than it is to me. With this skeleton, it will be of the greatest help to your teacher's resurrection. Perhaps with this opportunity, he can leap to the Dou Saint realm." Seeing that Xiao Yan still wanted to say something, Xiao Jietian hastily interrupted, "Alright, stop being so sentimental. I don't want to carry a skeleton around everywhere. I haven't finished talking about the items yet; there's still a good one."
Xiao Jietian flipped his hand, and a crimson flame appeared in his palm. With a flick of his finger, the flame directly scorched three ribs in the waist and abdomen area of the Dou Sheng skeleton. Many strange characters began to appear on the ribs.
"This? Could it be…?" Xiao Yan recalled what Xiao Jietian had said when he previously asked if there was a Heaven-tier scroll among the ten light clusters, and he had a faint guess in his heart.
"It's exactly as you're thinking. What's recorded on this is the Heaven-tier Dou Skill, Great Heaven Creation Palm." Xiao Jietian withdrew the flame and nodded slightly.
"Then Tian Ge, quickly accept it. This Dou Technique is indeed quite terrifying." Xiao Yan also recalled that halo. Frankly speaking, if he hadn't run fast that time and been sucked in, even with his teacher possessing him, he might have had to pay a huge price to escape.
"I don't want this thing. You take it. This thing can currently only be cultivated by one person because cultivation requires special things inside the ribs as assistance. I also have many Dou Techniques, and your sister-in-law and the others don't need it."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan's eyes were filled with emotion. Tian Ge was as good to him as ever. A Dou Sheng skeleton and a Heaven-tier Dou Skill—these things, if placed outside, would be enough to drive people mad, even causing fathers and sons to turn against each other.
Now, Tian Ge knew he needed this more, and without a second thought, he gave it to him. Tian Ge was truly too good to him; he really wanted to cry himself to death.
He had always cared for and loved him since childhood, and now that he had grown up, he hadn't changed at all; he was still as good as ever, even better. In the future, whoever opposed Tian Ge, he would surely kill their entire family.
"Alright, why are you spacing out? Quickly put the things away," Xiao Jietian patted Xiao Yan's shoulder and said softly.
"Okay." Xiao Yan's eyes were red as he nodded heavily, no longer polite, but resolutely put the items away.
A man does not shed tears easily, only when emotions reach their peak.
Xiao Jietian seemed to recall something. "Oh, right. The cultivation conditions for this Great Heaven Creation Palm are quite special. You can study it then and see if you can pass down this Dou Technique and research the things needed for its cultivation. If possible, it can become a unique skill of Boundless Heaven Hall. Then you will have immeasurable karma."
"I'll try my best." Xiao Yan nodded heavily.
"Then you and your teacher can slowly figure it out. I'll head back first." Xiao Jietian's figure gradually disappeared from the spot.
Creak!
The front hall door was open, and a figure walked in; it was Nalan Yanran.
"Huh, isn't this the skeleton from the secret realm? How is it here? Did you find it?" Nalan Yanran looked at the jade-like skeleton in front of her and asked in surprise.
Xiao Yan briefly explained the origin of the skeleton.
"Master's Husband is so good to you. These two items, if placed outside, are priceless treasures, and he just gave them to you like that," Nalan Yanran sighed, then continued, "Our family owes him too much. We must repay Master's Husband well."
"Hmm, don't worry. I have it in mind." Xiao Yan held Nalan Yanran in his arms, stroking her beautiful hair, and spoke softly.
Three days later, Holy Pill City, Pill Tower.
In a room on the top floor of the Pill Tower, Xuan Yi lay on Xiao Jietian's body with a rosy complexion, drawing circles on him. "You big transforming radish, what's going on with you and Ying'er?"
Xuan Yi even suspected that the last time he wanted her in the office, he was after those intelligence materials. Otherwise, why would he appear so coincidentally when she was looking at all the intelligence?
Xiao Jietian simply recounted what happened in the secret realm before.
"Then why did you provoke me?" Xuan Yi grabbed Xiao Jietian's vital spot, narrowing her eyes as she looked at him. "You already have a pair of sisters; you're not trying to add a 'niece and aunt' pair, are you?"