Xiao Ding lowered his void said in a very serious manner, "Xiao-Yan-Zi, we have discovered traces of a Heavenly Fme."

  ! ! ! ! ! ! ? ?

  Xiao Yan's eyes instantly widened in shock. It was actually news about a Heavenly Fme?!!

  He looked utterly incredulous, as he had never sidered this possibility. His two brothers were only at the Dou Master realm. Such strength had nothing to do with a Heavenly Fme, not to mention how they could have sought o!

  Xiao Li saw Xiao Yan's puzzled and astonished expression and said, "Have you fotten? Big Brother and I asked you what you wanted as a present on your twelfth birthday. You told us it would be great if you could have a Heavenly Fme."

  A jolt of realization suddenly surged through Xiao Yan's mind. With this reminder, he abruptly recalled the events of that year.

  He was the genius of the . When he was just over eleven years old, he broke the record iire Wu Tan City and became the you Dou Practitioner iy's history.

  One could start cultivating a Qi Method after reag the Dou Practitioner realm. At that time, because he possessed the Bone Chilling Fme, he chose the Fme Mantra from his ste ring.

  The result redictable. The Fme Mantra was merely a Low Huang Css Qi Method. This wasn't because the Fme Mantra without a Heavenly Fme could only reach the Low Huang Css, but rather because the lowest css for a Qi Method was already Low Huang Css. There was simply nothing lower than that!

  His cultivation speed ultimately slowed to a crawl after he started cultivating the Fme Mantra. At that time, Xiao Ding and Xiao Li were determio go out and make a name for themselves, so before leaving, they asked him what he wanted.

  Xiao Yan had blurted out that he wanted a Heavenly Fme.

  He never imagihat his two older brothers would remember this casual remark until now!

  "At first, Big Brother and I didn't know what a Heavenly Fme was. We only found out how incredible it was after making some inquiries. Later, we heard that there was a Heavenly Fme iager Desert, so we decided to establish a merary pany here in Rock Desert City. You brat didn't bee an alchemist at twelve, did you? Is that why you wanted a Heavenly Fme?" Xiao Li took a sip of strong liquor and spoke of past events while heartily eati.

  Even Xiao Yan who had experiewo lifetimes couldn't help but feel his eyes moisten and his urn sour when he heard his Sed Brother's words.

  "Hahaha, Xiao-Yan-Zi, what's wrong with you? Why are your eyes red?" Xiao Li put an arm around his shoulders and teased him.

  "Nonse's just that I drank too mud my eyes are sweating from the heat!" Xiao Yan hurriedly gulped down some wine and replied sheepishly.

  "Hahaha, your eyes are sweating? Looks like you really are drunk!"

  Xiao Ding interrupted their banter and said with a smile, "All right, let's get back to the main topic. Actually, it wasn't the two of us who discovered the traces of the Heavenly Fme, but Qing Lin."

  Xiao Yan turo look at the girl holding the wi with her head lowered, appearing a bit timid. No wonder his Sed Brother had her stay behind.

  "Qing Lin, go inside and bring out a map."

  "Yes, First Leader."

  Xiao Yan stopped her and said, "No need, I already have a map."

  He took out the maps with markers and hat Hai Bodong had given him from his ste ring. After clearing the table, he spread them out and said, "Is it in these locations?"

  Qing Lin nodded and timidly poio one of the maps with a circle around the area east of Rock Desert City. "Here."

  Xiao Yan's heart trembled. Hai Bodong's intelligence was actually accurate?!!

  'Gu He has been to this pce. Did he not find it, or is it no lohere?' Xiao Yan furrowed his brows as his mind began to race with possibilities.

  "Big Brother, have you goo iigate?" he asked.

  Xiao Ding nodded and said, "Half a year ago, Qing Lin said she sensed some unusual activity in the area southeast of Rock Desert City. She felt a scorg heat, and not long after that, aremely powerful aura appeared outside the city. We suspected that Queen Medusa might have desded there. Later, we discovered that the fire attribute energy in that area was highly abnormal."

  Qing Lin imidly and added, "The two pany Leaders said that if we discovered anythied to fire, we must report it immediately."

  Because of a casual remark made by Xiao Yan when he was twelve years old, Xiao Ding and Xiao Li made the search for a Heavenly Fme their top priority. Whehe members of the Desert Metal Merary pa out hunting or on missions, they would pay attention to see if they discovered any pces with unusual fire attribute energy.

  Xiao Li tinued, "Afterward, we secretly sent a few people to carefully iigate that pce several times. In the end, we found that the fire attribute energy underground there was very unusual. We suspected there might be a Heavenly Fme, so we asked you to e over."

  Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes slightly. If the Heavenly Fme was underground in the desert, it ossible that Gu He wouldn't be able to find it. Although Gu He was indeed a powerful alchemist, in such a unique enviro like the desert, it wasn't certain that he could locate the right entrahout some means.

  'The Snake-People Race is cold-blooded by nature. A Heavenly Fme would be like poison to them. Perhaps even Queen Medusa was uo take it away.'

  Xiao Yan looked at his two older brothers and said seriously, "Big Brother, Sed Brother, to be ho, the Heavenly Fme is extremely important to me. No matter what, I have to go take a look."

  Xiao Ding nodded and said, "Don't worry, we've long made preparations. We dig a hole aer the underground to search at any time. But the problem is that the pce is not far from Rock Desert City, and there's another merary pany iy called the Sand Merary pany, whose strength is not inferior to ours. They might e to cause trouble."

  "The Sand Merary pany? How strong are they?" Xiao Yan asked.

  Xiao Li snorted disdainfully and said angrily, "What strength could those guys have? They were just established earlier than us and rely on their leader being a Dou Grandmaster. Damn it, if they really dare to stop you from searg for the Heavenly Fme, even if I lose face, I'll go back to the d ask a few elders to e over and wipe them out in one fell swoop."

  Xiao Yan chuckled and said, "There's o trouble the elders of the . . As it happens, I also broke through to the Dou Grandmaster realm not long ago."

  Pfft!!! Xiao Li spat out the wine in his mouth all over Xiao Ding's face. Xiao Ding didn't even have time to wipe it off as the two of them stared at Xiao Yan in shock.

  "You, you, you... Xiao-Yan-Zi, you're a Dou Grandmaster?!!" Xiao Li's mouth was wide enough to fit a duck egg. He had thought Xiao Yan was at most a high-star Dou Master, perhaps even a 9-star Dou Master. He never imagined he had already bee a Dou Grandmaster!!

  Was breaking through from Dou Master to Dou Grandmaster really that simple?!

  "Since I'm already here, we might as well unify all the merary panies in Rock Desert City." Xiao Yan took a sip of wine and smiled nontly, not putting any merary panies in his eyes at all.

  Dou Grandmaster? His cultivation might be at the Dou Grandmaster level, but his actual strength had already reached the Dou Spirit realm! As long as there were no advanced Dou Spirits, he could walk sideways in Rock Desert City!

  After discussing everything, the three Xiao brothers tio drink for quite a while, chattio the night about the amusis in the over the past three years.

  "Big Brother, Sed Brother, I'm going to head bay room now. See you tomorrow," Xiao Yan said, drunk and swaying slightly.

  "Qing Lihird Brother back to his room," Xiao Ding said with a nod.

  Qing Lin's cheeks instantly turned as red as a ripe apple, even redder than the drunk Xiao Yan! She took Xiao Yan's hand and pced it on her shoulder, not minding at all that his hand brushed against her somerematurely developed chest.

  Xiao Yan shuddered and quickly withdrew his hand, "Uh, Qing Lin, you should have your own thoughts and ideas. You don't o listen to everything my big brother says. Uand?"

  Qing Lin fidgeted with her fingers shyly and replied in a low voice, "It was the pany Leader who saved me and brought me back. My life belongs to the pany Leader, so I should listen to him."

  Xiao Yan looked at the young girl who was only thirteen or fourteen years old in front of him. He didn't have that kind of peculiar taste! Besides, Xun Er was still waiting for him at Jia Nan Academy. How could he possibly do such a thing while outside?

  He directly used the Exploding Steps and practically fled back to his room. As he hurried away, he couldn't help but think that Nan Yanran's determination to pursue romantic freedom, even if it meant defying her family and society's norms, was truly a thousand years ahead of its time on the Dou Qi ti!