Chapter 9 Thirty Years East of the River…

Da Feng Little Constable: "Uh!"

Da Feng Little Constable: "Brother Xiao, you shouldn't have been very old before your Transmigration, right?"

Da Feng Little Constable: "That tone of yours exudes a thick, chunibyo vibe of a passionate youth."

Da Feng Little Constable: "Brother Lu, in Brother Xiao's novel, is he always this chunibyo?"

Lu Chen: "Pretty much."

Lu Chen: "I remember in the novel, Brother Huohuo also had a classic line: Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, do not bully a young man into poverty!"

Da Feng Little Constable: "Haha! It really is both epic and chunibyo!"

Battle Through the Heavens World.

Over in the Battle Through the Heavens World, after finishing the phrase "My fate is up to me, not the heavens," Xiao Yan felt a surge of passion in his heart. Just as he was about to say something more, he saw the teasing remarks sent by Xu Qian and Lu Chen, and he instantly lost his composure.

However, Xu Qian did hit the nail on the head about one thing: his age in his past life indeed wasn't very old.

Seeing that the two of them were still chatting away, and worrying that Lu Chen might expose other embarrassing stories about him, Xiao Yan immediately changed the subject.

Third Young Master of Wutan City: "@Group Leader, since Brother Lu has read my novel, could you tell me what exactly caused my cultivation to plummet? Is there something wrong with my body?"

Lu Chen: "There is nothing wrong with your body. The reason your cultivation plummeted is because the Battle Qi in your body was absorbed by someone else."

Third Young Master of Wutan City: "What? Absorbed by someone?"

Battle Through the Heavens World.

Having already left his room and arrived at the back mountain, Xiao Yan turned red with anger upon seeing Lu Chen's message.

Third Young Master of Wutan City: "Who is it? Exactly who is harming me from the shadows?"

Lu Chen: "It's not really that someone is harming you; that person could also be considered as having no other choice."

Lu Chen: "You're still wearing the ring left to you by your mother on your hand, right?"

Lu Chen: "Inside this ring of yours, the Soul body of a powerful expert is hidden. This person is named Yao Chen, and during his lifetime, he was an expert at the Peak of Dou Zun, as well as a Grade 8 Alchemist."

Lu Chen: "This Yao Chen was betrayed by his own disciple and died during his lifetime. Fortunately, his Soul was formidable, allowing him to hide inside his storage ring and escape a catastrophe."

Lu Chen: "This storage ring later passed through various hands and fell into your mother's possession, after which she gave it to you, her son."

Lu Chen: "And during this process, Yao Chen's Soul fell into a slumber due to weakness. As for absorbing the Battle Qi inside your body, it was merely an instinct after his Soul went to sleep."

Battle Through the Heavens World.

Looking at the message sent by Lu Chen, Xiao Yan immediately cast his gaze toward the ancient, black ring on his right hand.

Yet no matter how carefully Xiao Yan looked at it, he couldn't see any special features about this ring at all.

Thinking that all his experiences over the past three years were because of this ring, Xiao Yan couldn't help but want to throw it away.

But then remembering that this was a keepsake left behind by his mother, he felt a bit reluctant to part with it.

Third Young Master of Wutan City: "Brother Lu, what should I do now?"

Lu Chen: "What else can you do? Of course, it's to kneel and take him as your Master."

Lu Chen: "This Soul body of Yao Chen has absorbed your Battle Qi for three years, and it should wake up in these past few days. By then, you can directly leverage this favor to demand repayment, kneel on the spot, and take him as your Master."

Lu Chen: "After all, this is a golden thigh that can help you reach the Peak of your life."

Lu Chen: "In the original work, it was precisely with the help of this Yao Chen that you stepped onto the Peak of martial arts step by step, ultimately achieving a Breakthrough to Dou Di and earning the title of 'Flame Emperor'."

Da Feng Little Constable: "Flame Emperor? Was Brother Xiao originally this badass in the future?"

Da Feng Little Constable: "When you achieve wealth and honor, do not forget each other, @Third Young Master of Wutan City!"

Xiao Yan over here also reacted at this moment.

This was an expert at the Dou Zun level!

And furthermore, he was a Grade 8 Alchemist!

Just how formidable a Grade 8 Alchemist was, Xiao Yan was completely unable to imagine.

He only knew that their Xiao Family was one of the three major families of Wutan City, but relying on the financial resources of the Xiao Family, they couldn't even afford to hire a Grade 1 Alchemist.

If it were under normal circumstances, he would have no way of intersecting with such an expert no matter what.

Therefore, this matter was truly a heaven-sent Opportunity for him.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yan couldn't wait to take him as his Master immediately.

Third Young Master of Wutan City: "Brother Lu, when exactly will this big shot Yao Chen wake up?"

Da Feng Little Constable: "Haha, it looks like Brother Xiao is already dying of impatience to take him as a Master."

Lu Chen: "In my impression, the time of Yao Chen's awakening should be roughly after your engagement is annulled."

Third Young Master of Wutan City: "Engagement annulment?"

Da Feng Little Constable: "Engagement annulment?"

Little Princess of Peach Blossom Island: "Engagement annulment?"

Da Feng Little Constable: "There's such an exciting plotline? Brother Lu, hurry up and elaborate!"

Lu Chen: "Judging by Brother Huohuo's reaction, he probably hasn't experienced the engagement annulment plot yet, but judging by the timeline, it should be soon."

Lying on the grass of the back mountain, Xiao Yan was puzzled for a moment upon seeing Lu Chen's message, then tried hard to think for a bit before remembering that he indeed seemed to have a nominal fiancée.

The time when this betrothal was set back then was when Xiao Yan had just been born not long ago. Later, following the accidental death of Xiao Yan's grandfather, the declining Xiao Family moved from the imperial capital of the Jia Ma Empire to this remote Wutan City.

Ever since then, the Xiao Family and the Nalan Family had no further intersections whatsoever.

Therefore, if Lu Chen hadn't brought it up today, Xiao Yan wouldn't have remembered it at all.

Third Young Master of Wutan City: "Is Brother Lu speaking of Nalan Yanran?"

Lu Chen: "Because of her decent talent, Nalan Yanran has now entered the sect under the Sect Master of the Cloud Mist Sect. Upon hearing that Nalan Yanran still had an engagement on her, and with someone from a small Family in such a small place as Wutan City at that, the Cloud Mist Sect naturally didn't want this engagement to delay Nalan Yanran's martial arts future."

Third Young Master of Wutan City: "Cloud Mist Sect, no wonder. This Cloud Mist Sect is the number one large sect of our Jia Ma Empire, and it is said that the Sect Master is a Peak expert at the Dou Huang level."

If the Cloud Mist Sect had been mentioned previously, Xiao Yan might have been moved a bit, but right at this moment, Xiao Yan only felt his inner heart completely devoid of ripples.

Not to mention that he now possessed the cheat that was the Chat Group and would soon have a Master at the Dou Zun level, naturally he wouldn't care about a mere Dou Huang.

Lu Chen: "In the original work, Nalan Yanran came to annul the engagement, and the matter ended up becoming rather unpleasant. Brother Huohuo angrily made a three-year agreement with Nalan Yanran and blurted out that classic line: Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, do not bully a young man into poverty!"

Lu Chen: "When I watched this segment back then, I felt it was truly epic and passionate. But thinking about it later, I feel that Brother Huohuo's way of handling this matter was slightly inappropriate."

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