Chapter 649: with translation of chapter title

Time flies like a shuttle; in the blink of an eye, more than half a year has passed.

During this roughly seven‑month period, Holy Pill City was especially quiet.

As for Xiao Yan and the others, during this time they never stopped searching for Lin Feng.

Unfortunately, they almost combed through the central region of Zhongzhou Continent and the western region where Lin Feng had stayed the longest.

Even the western wasteland region, they sent people in to search.

But after searching for a long time, they still came up empty‑handed.

And the unwilling Xiao Yan and the three leaders again sent people to search the northern region of Wind Thunder Pavilion.

As expected, they found not a single clue.

After that, several people thought of Feng Qinger, who belongs to the Heavenly Demon Phoenix clan and wields great power in the Beast Realm.

Thus, the three leaders again dispatched people to search the Beast Realm.

But in the end, they still found nothing.

Helpless, Xiao Yan and the three leaders had to give up searching for Lin Feng and turned their focus to improving their own Dou Qi cultivation.

After that previous defeat, Xiao Yan deeply felt the importance of strength.

After all, if his strength had been a bit stronger last time, his teacher's Na Jie and Bone Spirit Cold Fire would not have been snatched away.

And Gu Xun'er, two months after leaving Holy Pill City, returned here once again.

This time, besides her, several Elders of the Ancient Clan accompanied her.

These Ancient Clan Elders, upon seeing Xiao Yan, immediately asked whether he was truly willing to sign this agreement with the Ancient Clan.

Upon receiving his affirmative answer, the Ancient Clan Elders at once produced the agreement for Xiao Yan to sign.

The Ancient Clan Elders also promised that, as long as the other party agreed to sign the agreement, all the conditions previously stated by their young lady would be honored.

After all, compared to the benefits, the Ancient Clan is still willing to provide three different fires.

Of course, before coming, they had also calculated the costs within the clan.

Among the three different fires, only one requires that it be no lower than the Falling Heart Flame.

The other two different fires only need to be ranked within the top twenty on the list.

Although different fires are rare heavenly treasures, those near the twentieth rank on the list still exist on the Dou Qi Continent.

In Zhongzhou, they already know that the Flame Valley possesses the Nine Dragons Thunder Gang Fire.

And a certain secluded family holds a Volcanic Stone Flame.

Although the Flame Valley and that secluded family are powerful, with complicated backing forces, it is inconvenient to use force.

But as long as they are willing to pay the price, they can still obtain them.

Even if it is a Nine‑Grade Treasure Pill, they are equally willing.

Moreover, the Flame Valley's patriarch is severely injured; as long as the Ancient Clan's alchemists are willing to help him heal, plus a top‑quality pill.

They believe the Flame Valley cannot refuse such tempting terms.

As for that secluded family, although they have no injured patriarch, the Ancient Clan's use of pills to open the way surely means they will not refuse either.

Thus, the Ancient Clan only needs to send people to search various continents to obtain one different fire.

Although this is somewhat troublesome, thinking of those things makes them all very willing.

And Xiao Yan, having reached this point, naturally would not regret it; he immediately signed the contract with a resolute expression.

After all, he knows his current strength is like an ant before the Ancient Clan, and he can do nothing.

And by signing this agreement, as long as he can absorb those three different fires, then obtain the three different fires on Lin Feng and the white‑clad woman, plus the Three Thousand Flame Fire of the Pill Tower and the three different fires he already possesses,

With the support of ten different fires, his future accomplishments will surely allow him to dominate a region of Zhongzhou.

Moreover, he himself is also an alchemist.

And he is an alchemist who possesses the Falling Heart Flame, which can refine souls and enhance his own soul power.

By then, he can recover everything the Xiao family previously lost!

And the several Ancient Clan Elders, seeing Xiao Yan sign the agreement, also showed a rich joy on their faces.

Now the Xiao family patriarch has been missing for a long time; Xiao Yan, as the young clan leader of the Xiao family, is undoubtedly the best choice to sign this agreement.

Even if the Xiao family later wants to go back on its word, the Ancient Clan will certainly teach them what credibility means!

After that, the Ancient Clan Elders also left Holy Pill City.

As for Gu Xun'er, urged by the Pill Tower, she kept her promise and publicly handed over the compensation to Xiao Yixian.

The Pill Tower at this time also chose to announce the handling result of this matter to the outside.

However, perhaps out of concern for protecting their disciples, they did not detail the compensation, merely saying a few eight‑grade eight‑colored pills and a volume of technique.

On the contrary, Gu Xun'er openly declared in public that the compensation technique is a heaven‑priced technique, warning everyone not to imitate Xiao Yan, otherwise the compensation would be extremely high and cause heavy losses.

And the former's scheme of killing with a borrowed knife also had a considerable effect.

Since Xiao Yixian received the compensation, the number of strangers loitering outside the Ye Institute suddenly increased severalfold.

Furthermore, this matter spread at an astonishing speed, quickly sweeping across the entire Zhongzhou Continent.

And as the tale spread, it became more and more dubious, eventually turning from a few eight‑grade eight‑colored pills and a volume of low‑level Heavenly Step technique into a full set of Heavenly Step technique combat skills and several Nine‑Grade Treasure Pills.

This also led to Xiao Yixian now being eyed by a staggering number of Dou Zun.

Fortunately, the former has already revived Lei Zunzhe and the close aides of Feng Qinger.

Having such a group of predecessors guarding the Ye Institute also scared off many strong individuals.

After all, Lei Zunzhe, in the forbidden area of Wind Thunder Pavilion, carefully selected and took the remains of the strongest past pavilion master, an eight‑turn Dou Zun powerhouse, for his own use.

Moreover, when he was revived, the pills used by Xiao Yixian also met the seven‑color standard.

Thus, after his resurrection, Lei Zunzhe, just as Lin Feng had guessed, soared all the way up and directly stepped into the Dou Zun transition realm.

As for Feng Qinger's close aides, after their resurrection they respectively reached the levels of six‑star to eight‑star Dou Zun.

After all, their original strength, the lowest was also star Dou Zong, and the strongest few had even already reached the Dou Zong peak.

Thus after resurrection, their strength naturally would be much stronger than the Third Elder.

And Feng Qinger, in order to further enhance their combat power, also had each person learn part of the Earth Gang Inverted Heaven Grand Formation.

Thus, their strength increased greatly once again.

Under their combined effort, even now the Thunder Venerable felt helpless.

And during this period, the strength of Xiao Yixian and Feng Qinger also did not fall behind at all.

With the help of medicinal pills, Feng Qinger directly rose from Mid Dou Zun Level to seven-star Dou Zun.

Its speed among magical beasts can be called terrifying!