In the instant that everyone was stunned, Xiao Yan explosively shot out from the crowded hall and flew in the dire of the shattered ice wall.

  'A Dou King? No, that's a rare flying-type Dou Teique.' Nan Yanran looked deeply at Xiao Yan as he flew away, her fingers ched so tightly that they had turned white.

  At this moment, where Hai Bodong was located, a figure in green exged a palm strike with him. Hai Bodong was forced to take several steps back, while the figure swiftly extended his arms and scooped up the stunned Qing Lin into their embrace.

  Hai Bodong's expression turned grave as he stared at the green figure not far away. Since when had another elite Dou Emperor appeared in the Jia Ma Empire?!!

  The green figure grabbed Qing Lin and, with a light push off the ground, a pair of green wings sprouted as they attempted to make a rapid escape.

  "Trying to leave?"

  A sh out. Hai Bodong's hands rapidly formed seals. Instantly, a chilling aura surged as huge ice coffins desded from the sky oer another, smashing ferociously toward the green figure.

  The green figure's wings fluttered as they dodged left and right but couldn't pletely avoid them all. Somewhat helplessly, they shot backwards, defleg one ice coffin with a palm strike before nimbly leaping onto a nearby rooftop.

  It was only when the figure stood still that her appearance became clear. It turned out to be a woman dressed in green. Though a green veil cealed her face, the exquisite curves beh her clothing hihat her looks might not be g.

  The woman in green g Hai Bodong standing on the ground and giggled, "Oh my, I really didn't expect a Dou Emperor to appear here. But I'm quite ied in this little girl. I'm afraid I 't give her to you."

  "Let me go!" Qing Lin struggled tinuously, but with only the strength of a Dou Practitioner, how could she possibly break free from the grasp of a Dou Emperor?

  "Be good. I have no iion of harming you. Your talent only truly blossom in our Sky Serpent Mansion."

  The mysterious woman in greely flicked her delicate hand against Qing Lin's forehead. Immediately, the struggling girl fell unscious.

  "Release Qing Lin!!" A gust of wind surged as Xiao Yan tightly gripped the Heavy Xuan Ruler. The Fme Splitting Tsunami was chopped down viciously.

  The woman in green merely smiled faintly as she saw Xiao Yan's full-power Fme Splitting Tsunami attaing down. With a single-handed seal, a green energy shield materialized and effortlessly blocked his attack.

  The woman in green smiled softly and looked up at Hai Bodong as she gently stroked Qing Lin's small face. As for Xiao Yan, who was only a Dou Grandmaster, she pletely ignored him.

  Smiling, she said, "Had I known a Dou Emperor would show up, I would have acted soohat so-called transpntation teique of the Mo isn't as miraculous as I thought. I secretly learned a bit of it, and it turns out it wasn't worth the effort."

  "Who are you? Why are y to abduct Qing Lin?" Xiao Yan stared at the green-an's as, his eyes narrowing as he coldly demanded.

  He couldn't have imagihat this situation would take so many twists and turns. First Nan Yanran appeared, and now a Dou Emperor showed up.

  Moreover, this woman's strength seemed to be eveer than that of the retly recovered Hai Bodong.

  "Oh, so this little one is called Qing Lin? Hehe, quite a niame. These Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils would only be wasted in your Jia Ma Empire." The woman in green chuckled.

  Xiao Yan frowned. He had just heard through his Spiritual Strength that this woman came from the Sky Serpent Mansion.

  He had read about the Sky Serpent Mansion in the books in his ste ring. On the vast Dou Qi ti, where numerous powers existed, the Sky Serpent Mansion was sidered a first-tier fa. It was much strohan sed-tier fas like the Misty Cloud Sect, which didn't even have a Dou Aor.

  This Sky Serpent Mansion was an anization formed by sype magical beasts. Simir to the Pill Tower, it gathered many sype magical beasts from all over the Dou Qi ti and was sidered a holy nd for them.

  Xiao Yan said with a sharp look in his eyes, "I don't care where you e from. Qing Lin is one of my people, and I won't let you take her away from me. If you insist, don't bme us for using force."

  "Hehe, this little girl is extremely important to me. It is impossible for me to hand her over to you," the woman in green ughed and shook her head. Her gaze swept over Hai Bodong as she chuckled, "Besides, with only a 1-star Dou Emperor, you won't be able to stop me."

  "Is that so? The's see." A fierce light fshed in Hai Bodong's eyes. To think that in his first battle after regaining his Dou Emperor strength, he would be looked down upon like this.

  His hands rapidly formed seals to gather energy as he moved with lightning-like speed. In an instant, the cold air in front of him densed into over a dozen sharp ice spikes as thick as stone pilrs. The spiral patterns at the tips of the ice spikes made them look even more lethal.

  The dozen massive ice spikes shot out with a wave of his sleeve, almost blotting out the sky and pletely c any space the woman in green might use to dodge.

  "Vinewood Thorn Whip!" The woman in green shouted as she extended her right hand. Five emerald-green energy whips, resembling thorny vines, shed out from her fingers, defleg the ining ice spikes.

  Ice shards scattered in all dires as ice wings appeared behind Hai Bodong, propelling him toward her.

  Just as the woman was about to unleash another Dou Teique, a strange burst of Spiritual Strength struck her. Her vision suddenly whited out, and a searing pain shot through her head!

  "Soul Skill?!" Her expression ged drastically as she looked in shock at Xiao Yan standing not far away, his face als pale.

  Hai Bodong had already closed the distan that fleeting moment. His right hand densed icy Dou Qi as he struck a palm toward her.

  The woman in green hurriedly tered with her own palm, but caught off guard, Hai Bodong naturally gaihe upper hand. A burst of cold energy seeped into her body and slowed her Dou Qi flow.

  Borrowing the force to propel herself away, the green-clothed woman stared at Xiao Yan with a solemn look in her beautiful eyes and said in a deep voice, "A Soul Skill? How is it possible for you to know a Soul Skill!"

  She naturally khat Soul Skills had long been lost on the Dou Qi ti. Although the Dou Qi ti once had Soul Skills, they were ter taken back by an immensely powerful anization.

  This resulted in the plete absence of Soul Skills across the entire Dou Qi ti. Moreover, if that anization discovered anyone possessing a Soul Skill, it could even bring about a deadly camity.

  "Guess."

  The woman in green's face alternated between dark and uled expressions. She bit her too activate a secret teique. In an instant, she uedly traversed a segment of the empty spad appeared a hundred meters away, breaking through their encirclement. Then she spread her wings and rapidly soared toward the horizon.

  "A Spatial Secret Teique?! After her!"

  Xiao Yan immediately spread out his wings like a great rod soared into the sky in pursuit of the green figure.

  Meanwhile, Nan Yanran who was still in the hall had her eyes fixed on Xiao Yan flying into the dista this moment, who knew what she was thinking in her heart.

  "Yanran... why don't we just fet about that three-year agreement? We find another way to deal with the marriage arra," Ge Ye tried to persuade as he walked over to her side.

  Although Xiao Yan's cultivation was only at the 3-star Dou Grandmaster stage, the same as Nan Yanran's, and the 5th-tier Purple Crystal Pill provided by Gu He could allow her to cultivate twice as effectively within a year…

  But this wasn't just a matter of cultivation level!

  Xiao Yan was a plete cultivation deceiver! His actual strength definitely reached the high-star Dou Spirit stage, and the Dou Teiques he cultivated were ridiculously powerful!

  "I have spent these past three years training with my Master, delving into a secret realm, venturing aloo the Magic Beast Mountain Rao temper myself, following my grandfather to the borders to fight and kill enemies... all for the sake of defeating him after three years." Nan Yanran spoke in a ft tone, as if these experiences beloo someone else.

  Ge Ye fell silent for a moment. Nan Yanran's progress over the past three years was not merely due to the medial pills that enhanced her strength; she had also put in a tremendous amount of effort herself. Moreover, her talent was inally high to begin with.

  Although Mo Li had cimed that his strength was on par with Nan Yanran's, that was just him fttering himself because their cultivation levels were the same. Their actual bat power was not even in the same league.

  Looking at where Xiao Yan had disappeared into the distanan Yanran made a decision beyond anyone's imagination.

  "Uncle Ge, I want to ehe Gate of Life ah."

  It recisely this decision by Nan Yanran that caused the world lio deviate once again.

  No one could have predicted at this moment that the secrets of the Misty Cloud Sect would ter lead to a major turning point in Xiao Yan's life!