"Teacher, I..." Xiao Yan looked at Yao Chen with a guilty conscience. He had originally thought that since Yao Chen had fallen into the Hall of Souls, he would undoubtedly die. Who would have thought that the Hall Master of the Soul Hall would value him so much and keep him alive.
"Bah, don't call me Teacher. I don't have a Rebellious Disciple like you who is unfilial, disloyal, and accepts a thief as a father." Yao Chen weakly spat, spraying Xiao Yan's entire face.
Xiao Yan wiped the saliva from his face. While feeling depressed that a Soul body could even spit, he couldn't help but feel a bit angry, a large tick mark appearing on his forehead.
To be honest, he didn't want things to develop to this point either.
In all fairness, throughout this journey, although he hadn't found a Heavenly Flame and had suffered quite a bit, Yao Chen had indeed treated him well. Not only did he save him from trouble countless times, but at critical moments, like when facing the Peak Dou Zun level Mu Gu Old Man, he was willing to sacrifice himself to save him and fight for a glimmer of hope. Xiao Yan had seen all of this.
Unfortunately, Yao Chen simply couldn't give him what he wanted.
If he hadn't been forced into a corner, he wouldn't have wanted to make such an ungrateful move.
Before the Three-Year Agreement ended, he asked himself if he had maintained high respect for his mysterious and powerful Teacher, Yao Chen.
But he didn't know when his heart began to change.
At the wedding of Xiao Se and Medusa in the Tagor Desert, at the Snake-People Tribe, he witnessed that Xiao Se was already a Dou Huang and was marrying Queen Medusa. Furthermore, he learned from Yao Chen that the Heavenly Flame had been intercepted by Xiao Se. At that time, all he felt in his heart was jealousy and resentment toward Xiao Se.
On the eve of the Three-Year Agreement, Yao Chen helped him refine the Three-Pattern Clear Spirit Pill. Added to the frequent use of his spirit power earlier, his Soul power was nearing exhaustion and he was about to fall into a deep slumber. Xiao Yan only felt moved, with no resentment at all toward Yao Chen.
Then, when he entered the Mittel Auction House to make a deal with Xiao Se, even when Xiao Se threw him out of the Mittel Auction House like trash, he never resented Yao Chen in the slightest.
It wasn't until he lost the Three-Year Agreement, and even while being possessed by Yao Chen, he was still brutally beaten by Protector Wu of the Hall of Souls. Finally, Xiao Se came to the rescue and forcefully killed Protector Wu of the Hall of Souls. That was when his heart began to waver.
Returning home to see the Xiao Family destroyed and his father abducted, he was on the verge of collapse, and his faith in Yao Chen gradually crumbled.
Later, in the Sea Alliance, he witnessed many famous big shots of the Jia Ma Empire submitting to Xiao Se, and Yao Chen would occasionally sigh in admiration at Xiao Se's talent in his ear.
Until finally, his lower parts were ruined, and without a Medicinal Pill of the seventh grade or higher, he could not be saved. Becoming a cripple was the final straw that broke his heart.
Without comparison, there is no pain.
Only then did he recall how perfect his life would have been if Yao Chen had never appeared.
Practicing Qi at four, possessing the ninth stage of Dou Zhi Qi at ten, breaking through to the tenth stage of Dou Zhi Qi at eleven, condensing the Dou Qi Whirlwind, and becoming a Dou Practitioner.
It was the textbook start of a legendary protagonist.
Following this momentum, the future outlook was excellent.
He would not be ridiculed by the world; Nalan Yanran would not come to break off the engagement; Xiao Xun Er, Xiao Mei, and other girls would still revolve around him; he would even go out to train before Xiao Se, snatch away the Opportunities that should have belonged to Xiao Se, and achieve greater accomplishments than he had now. Finally, he would trample Xiao Se, this abandoned son of the Xiao Family, under his feet.
Why would he have ended up like this, becoming the eunuch he hated most in his previous life?
He hated. He blamed all the suffering he had endured on Yao Chen.
He had gone to great lengths to steal the Fallen Heart Flame from Jia Nan Academy, which reignited hope in Xiao Yan's heart, but this hope was extinguished again before long.
The Heavenly Flame he had risked his life to subdue had been taken away by someone using a special method before he could even fuse it with the Flame Mantra. Even the fused Beast Fire he had worked so hard to accumulate was not left behind.
His hatred for Yao Chen deepened; he hated that Yao Chen hadn't protected the hard-won Heavenly Flame for him.
Then, even worse luck came. Not many days later, by some coincidence, he encountered the Hall of Souls Dou Zun, Mu Gu Old Man.
Yao Chen sacrificed himself to save him, fighting for a glimmer of hope for him, which made Xiao Yan feel a brief moment of being moved.
But soon, Xiao Yan discarded this thought.
Even if he escaped, what could he do? With his cultivation as a mere Great Dou Master, how could he subdue a Heavenly Flame? How could he become stronger? How could he wash away his shame? How could he trample Xiao Se under his feet? How could he save his father?
And that was assuming he could escape.
What if he didn't escape and was caught by Mu Gu Old Man again?
After thinking it over, he remembered Han Feng. Since Han Feng could backstab Yao Chen and defect to the Hall of Souls, why couldn't he? Moreover, he learned from Mu Gu Old Man that he held a bargaining chip that the Hall of Souls coveted—the ancient jade.
Relying on this ancient jade, he could completely obtain resources from the Hall of Souls, rapidly improve his cultivation, and perhaps there was even hope of repairing his lower parts.
Just as Xiao Yan's mind was racing with thoughts, within the pitch-black great hall, a sinister and eerie mocking laughter suddenly echoed: "Heh heh, what a touching scene between teacher and disciple. Yao Chen, you really have a good eye. It wasn't enough to take that precious disciple Han Feng, you actually took another one, and this one is even more outstanding than Han Feng."
A space tore open in the Void Realm above and behind Xiao Yan, and a mysterious person in black robes walked out from the void.
The appearance of the black-robed mysterious person was without warning. If Xiao Yan and Yao Chen hadn't heard the laughter, they wouldn't have known someone had appeared in the sky above their heads.
But this person merely standing there made the two of them feel a chill down their spines, far beyond what the Dou Zun Mu Gu Old Man could compare to.
"It's you, Hall Master of the Soul Hall." Yao Chen's eyes were hollow, speaking word by word. Even with his usual composure, a trace of fear couldn't help but flash in his eyes at this moment. The Hall Master of the Soul Hall, Soul Mie Sheng, was a genuine Dou Sheng.
Xiao Yan swallowed his saliva and turned his head with difficulty. He wanted to turn around, but found that due to his body's instincts, he was so frightened that he was frozen in place and unable to move. The remaining pipe was even frightened into automatically opening the floodgates. Suddenly, the smell of urine permeated the entire void.
Is this the Hall Master of the Soul Hall? An existence that even Yao Chen, who was once a Peak Dou Zun, feared.
"Yao Chen, why must you be like this?" Soul Mie Sheng glanced at Xiao Yan's wet crotch, a playful smirk lifting the corner of his mouth, and then continued: "If you defect to my Hall of Souls, I can hand this brat who was scared into wetting his pants by me over to you to deal with. Anyway, that guy Mu Gu is almost about to get his hands on the Xiao Family's ancient jade, so keeping this trash is not of much use."
"Kill this Rebellious Disciple for me, and I will agree to you." Yao Chen glared at Soul Mie Sheng. Asking him to defect to the Hall of Souls was certainly impossible. At this moment, he already had thoughts of death, but before he died, he wanted to drag Xiao Yan down with him.
He hated so much. He knew that Xiao Yan's Heart-Nature had problems, but he hadn't listened to what Xiao Se said and abandoned Xiao Yan.
He arrogantly thought he could correct him, or at worst, the other party couldn't possibly not recognize him as his teacher. Who would have thought that Xiao Yan would still follow in Han Feng's footsteps.
(End of Chapter)
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