Yao Lao Appeared, and the Misunderstanding Deepened

By the time Xiao Yan learned of this, Nalan Yanran had already left. Everyone in Wutan City knew about it too. Xiao Yan felt like dying. He had been rejected in marriage, and he only found out after the whole city knew…

Xiao Yan went alone to the back mountain and roared, "Why?! Why is my life so miserable…"

"Heh heh, little one, it seems you need some help?"

At that moment, an old man’s voice sounded beside Xiao Yan’s ear.

Xiao Yan immediately looked around warily. "Who is it?! Come out!"

"Stop looking. I’m inside your ring." Yao Lao’s voice rang out again.

Xiao Yan looked doubtfully at the black ring on his finger. "Are you the one talking?"

"Your composure isn’t bad. You didn’t even get scared enough to jump down." A teasing laugh came from within the ring.

Xiao Yan’s expression turned guarded. "Who are you? Why are you inside my ring? What do you want?"

"Don’t worry about who I am. After all these years, I’ve finally found someone with decent soul strength. Never mind that—for now, I should thank you for your offerings over the past five years." Yao Lao’s smug voice rang out.

Xiao Yan’s face immediately darkened like ink. Recalling his past, he roared, "Fuck your mother! You’re the one who protected Gu Xun Er and Su Yiyi, aren’t you? I’m fighting you to the death today!"

As he spoke, Xiao Yan yanked off the ring, grabbed a brick, and smashed it down on the ring.

Bang!

With one strike, the brick shattered from the inside. Xiao Yan was stunned. This ring was actually so hard? He immediately picked up another brick and began smashing the ring again.

Yao Lao inside the ring was utterly dumbfounded. What the hell was going on? He had only absorbed a little of Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi. It was understandable for him to be angry, but why did this brat look like he wanted to eat him alive?

As Xiao Yan smashed the ring with a brick, he roared, "So you were the one who electrocuted me! The one who absorbed my Dou Qi! It’s all your damn fault! You made me useless down there! You made me the laughingstock of everyone!"

Yao Lao was somewhat confused. He had still been asleep when Xiao Yan was four years old, so he did not know about Xiao Yan being electrocuted. He had also spent these years nurturing his soul and did not know much about Xiao Yan’s circumstances.

"Little one, don’t waste your strength. You can’t smash it open," Yao Lao said helplessly.

Yao Lao had meant it as a kind reminder, but Xiao Yan was completely enraged when he heard it. "Are you mocking me for being weak? If I can’t smash you, I’ll disgust you to death!"

With that, Xiao Yan immediately ran toward the Xiao Family, while Yao Lao remained confused the entire time, wondering what trouble Xiao Yan was about to stir up now.

Before long, Xiao Yan arrived at the latrine clutching the ring. Yao Lao immediately realized something and shouted, "Oh no, little brother, don’t be rash! Don’t be rash! We can talk this out!"

"I have nothing to say to you! Everything I am today is because of you! I became trash—real trash! I even became everyone’s laughingstock! So what if I offend a great power? Today, I’m going to kill you!" Xiao Yan roared, then directly threw Yao Lao into the mixture of filth beneath the latrine.

Yao Lao immediately moved the ring outside the latrine and promptly left it, then began retching. When Xiao Yan saw Yao Lao emerge, his expression changed drastically. He immediately picked up a stone from the ground and hurled it at him.

The stone passed straight through Yao Lao’s body. Despair appeared on Xiao Yan’s face. Seeing this, he knew he definitely could not kill Yao Lao.

Yao Lao was furious inside, but he did not show it. After all, he still needed Xiao Yan’s help to avenge himself.

Yao Lao approached Xiao Yan with a kind expression. Before he could speak, Xiao Yan said dejectedly, "Are you here to gloat? I really can’t kill you, but if you don’t kill me today, sooner or later, I’ll kill you."

Yao Lao: "…"

Yao Lao inwardly cursed. He had only absorbed a little of Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi. Was it necessary to act like they had a life-and-death grudge?

Yao Lao took a deep breath. "Little brother, I think there must be some misunderstanding between us. Although I absorbed your Dou Qi, there’s no need for you to hate me this much, right? Don’t worry. As long as you take me as your master, you can cultivate all that Dou Qi back within a few months!"

Xiao Yan gave a cold laugh. "Heh heh, you want me to acknowledge a thief as my father? Dream on!"

Yao Lao could not hold back any longer and cursed loudly, "I only absorbed a little of your Dou Qi! Why are you such a petty brat? Do you really think I have no temper?!"

Xiao Yan looked at Yao Lao as though he were an idiot, which enraged Yao Lao enough to throw a punch at him.

But Xiao Yan could not hit him, and naturally, he could not hit Xiao Yan either. He was so angry that he wanted to summon the Bone Spirit Cold Fire and burn Xiao Yan to death with one blast. But he also knew that he had absorbed the other’s Dou Qi for so many years, so he was in the wrong. Depressed, Yao Lao returned to the ring.

Three seconds later, the smell of the ring immediately forced Yao Lao back out.

Yao Lao looked utterly dead inside. Who the hell had he offended? He refused to believe he could not find another person with sufficient soul strength.

Yao Lao took out a top-tier cultivation technique and threw it to Xiao Yan. "Since you’re unwilling to take me as your master, I won’t force you. I absorbed your Dou Qi for so long over these five years, so take this top-tier cultivation technique as compensation. From now on, neither of us owes the other anything."

After saying that, Yao Lao immediately controlled the ring and sent it into a stream. Before long, the ring was washed clean.

Xiao Yan took the cultivation technique Yao Lao had given him, did not even look at it, and threw it straight into the latrine pit.

Yao Lao remained inside the ring and sighed. Although he did not know why Xiao Yan was so angry, Yao Lao was not without a temper either. People with sufficient soul strength were rare, but they were not nonexistent.

The ring drifted along in the water. Suddenly, it floated to Su Yiyi and Gu Xun Er, who were washing clothes downstream. Small tasks like laundry could have been left to servants, but neither of them had the habit of ordering servants around, so they handled everything personally. Su Yu very much approved of this, after all—they were not missing their hands and feet.

When Yao Lao saw Su Yiyi from inside the ring, his entire body trembled with excitement. He swallowed and said, "Such powerful soul strength! So powerful that it shouldn’t even exist! No, I must take her as my disciple!"

Yao Lao excitedly rushed out at once, startling Su Yiyi and Gu Xun Er. Su Yiyi asked doubtfully, "Old grandpa, are you dead? Why don’t you have feet?"

Yao Lao coughed. "Ahem, that isn’t the important part. The important part is, little girl, I want to take you as my disciple. Are you willing?"

Su Yiyi thought for a moment. "I need to ask my father about that."

PS: I discovered something really strange. Every day, hardly anyone comments on the first chapter, but the second chapter starts getting lots of comments. What’s going on?

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