"I won't be cultivating today. I'm planning to make a trip to Rock Desert City in the Tager Desert of the Eastern Province." Xiao Ting did not hide anything from Xun Er and directly stated his plans.
"Rock Desert City?" Xun Er took out a handkerchief to wipe the corner of her mouth. "Are you going to see Big Brother Xiao Ding and Second Brother Xiao Li?"
"Mhm." Xiao Ting nodded slightly. "Back then, Big Brother and Second Brother went out to train because they wanted to find a way to restore Third Brother's talent. If that failed, they planned to build a force that could shelter him. When Third Brother was sent out according to family rules, he could choose to join the mercenary group they built."
"Now that Third Brother's cultivation talent has recovered and the Xiao Clan is about to enter a period of rapid development, they shouldn't continue wasting time outside. I'm going to call them back."
"While I'm at it, I'll see if there are any talented people in the mercenary group they established and bring them back to the clan."
"They really should return to the clan to develop. It's better than building a mercenary group in Rock Desert City." Xun Er nodded in strong agreement, then smiled and blinked. "I've never been far from home. Brother Xiao Ting, can you take me to Rock Desert City?"
"If you want to go, of course you can." Xiao Ting agreed without hesitation and smiled. "Little Fairy Doctor, do you want to come along?"
"Wouldn't that ruin your time alone together?"
The Little Fairy Doctor's tone carried a hint of teasing.
"That's true." Xiao Ting nodded as if enlightened, then changed his tune. "Then you don't have to go. Let Xiao Lan accompany us instead."
"Good idea." Xun Er immediately chimed in. "Flying there ourselves would be tiring and take less time. Having Xiao Lan take us lets us take it slow."
"Does my Xiao Lan not get tired then?"
The Little Fairy Doctor said with mock annoyance.
It was quite the scene of the wife singing and the husband following along.
"Xiao Lan." Xiao Ting called gently and took out a second-grade medicinal pill.
"Roar~"
A blue figure immediately flew over from the roof of a nearby courtyard building and landed beside Xiao Ting in moments.
"Would you be willing to take Xun Er and me on a long trip?" Xiao Ting fed the pill to Xiao Lan and reached out to stroke its head as it nuzzled closer. "Pills and magic cores—there'll be plenty when the time comes."
"Roar~" Xiao Lan's intelligence wasn't high, but it understood this part clearly and nodded immediately.
"Plenty" meant it could eat its fill. Eating its fill meant gaining lots of energy. Lots of energy meant it could become stronger.
So when Xiao Ting said there would be plenty of pills and magic cores, it meant he was helping it grow stronger quickly.
"You heartless little thing." The Little Fairy Doctor was both amused and annoyed by Xiao Lan's reaction and poked it.
"Roar~" Xiao Lan put on a wronged expression.
It just wanted enough energy and to reduce pressure on the Little Fairy Doctor.
"It's Sister Little Fairy Doctor who doesn't want to come along herself." Xun Er smiled with her eyes.
"So not wanting to disturb you two has become my fault?" The Little Fairy Doctor crossed her arms and turned her head away in pretended anger. "Fine, I'll go. Just don't get upset."
"I have no objections." Xun Er looked at Xiao Ting. "Brother Xiao Ting, hurry and persuade Sister Little Fairy Doctor. I don't know what she's angry about."
"Let's all go together." Xiao Ting smiled and persuaded her. "It's a rare chance to see the desert scenery."
With things said to this point, the Little Fairy Doctor—who had originally not planned to go—could only agree, or else she would seem overly pretentious.
[Little Fairy Doctor]: Then I'll be playing the third wheel.
[Xun Er]: The Battle Qi Continent doesn't have light bulbs.
[Little Fairy Doctor]: A double entendre, little sister.
[Xun Er]: It's a rare opportunity. Let's go together.
"You two get ready. I'll go tell Big Brother Yan and Senior Yao Lao."
After chatting a bit more, Xiao Ting got up to find Xiao Yan.
As soon as he stepped into the courtyard, his powerful soul force sensitively detected a breakthrough aura.
"Two-star Dou Practitioner." Xiao Ting stood with his hands behind his back, a smile in his eyes.
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[Big Brother Yan has successfully broken through to two-star Dou Practitioner. Judging from the energy fluctuations, he is cultivating a Huang-class mid-level technique. That means he is practicing the Flame Mantra and has successfully devoured the Amethyst Winged Lion's purple fire.]
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Hmm?
Seeing this casually noted sentence, the women's eyes flashed with surprise.
Xiao Yan had taken Yao Lao as his teacher. Even if the foundational technique wasn't Earth-class low-level, it should at least be Xuan-class high-level.
How could it be Huang-class—and only low-level at that?
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[The Flame Mantra is a mysterious technique of unknown origin. I personally suspect it is related to the five shattered primordial divine bodies among the ten original ones.]
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The women: ???
What were primordial divine bodies?
But clearly, Xiao Ting did not know about their confusion and would not explain it to them.
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[The Flame Mantra starts as only Huang-class low-level, but it has the ability to devour all the fires of the world and evolve.]
[The higher the rank, the greater the energy required for evolution. Advancing from Huang-class low-level to mid-level requires the beast fire of a sixth-rank magical beast.]
[After devouring the Green Lotus Core Flame, it can evolve from Huang-class mid-level to Xuan-class mid-level.]
[This is the secret behind Big Brother Yan mastering multiple Heavenly Flames in the future while having them coexist peacefully.]
[The previous practitioner of this technique was the Tou She Ancient God. He was originally just a weak Heavenly Flame born in lava—most likely the Fallen Heart Flame, or possibly the Green Lotus Core Flame or the Mysterious Yellow Flame. After devouring all the Heavenly Flames, including the Pure Lotus Demon Flame and the Nihility Devouring Flame, he became the number one on the Heavenly Flame Ranking—the Emperor Flame.]
[In a sense, Big Brother Yan can be considered the junior brother of the Tou She Ancient God.]
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The Journal entry ended there. Clearly, Xiao Ting had simply written it on a whim.
But the impact of this content was enormous and lingered for a long time.
"Hiss!"
All the women who possessed the Journal contributed to warming the Battle Qi Continent at this moment.
Whether it was the noble-born and knowledgeable Xun Er, Queen Medusa, the arrogant Feng Qing Er, Yun Yun, Cao Ying, or the others—they were all deeply shocked.
An evolutive technique, a technique that allowed Heavenly Flames to coexist peacefully, the technique practiced by the Tou She Ancient God.
Any one of these labels was enough to make Dou Saints fight over it once they learned of it.
"So this is the Son of Destiny, the protagonist of the story."
At this moment, the women finally gained a direct sense of Xiao Yan's heaven-defying luck as the Son of Destiny.
Born in a small place like the Jia Ma Empire in the northwest continent, he had encountered Yao Chen—the continent's number one alchemist at the peak of Dou Venerate—as his teacher and received the technique that the Tou She Ancient God had once practiced.
In a sense, Xiao Yan had received the inheritance of the Tou She Ancient God.
"So the Tou She Ancient God was actually the Emperor Flame ranked first on the Heavenly Flame Ranking—an Emperor formed from a Heavenly Flame." Xun Er was hearing this information for the first time.
Amid her shock, many realizations rose in her heart.
No wonder, after tens of thousands of years without a new Dou God on the Battle Qi Continent, the Tou She Ancient God had suddenly appeared.
After the Xiao Clan's bloodline was exhausted, another Dou God had appeared in this generation.
It turned out to be because of the Flame Mantra.
"Can I cultivate the Flame Mantra?"
The thought suddenly popped into Xun Er's mind.
The Tou She Ancient God, whose original body was a Heavenly Flame, could do it. Xiao Yan could do it.
There was no reason why she, Gu Xun Er, could not, right?
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