Chapter 776: Envious Zi Yan

Afterwards Xiao Yan bent his knees, his legs heavily kneeling on the stone platform, his voice carrying a hint of heartbreaking hoarseness.

"Master, disciple has come to take you back."

As Xiao Yan's voice slowly spread across the square, Yao Chen's eyes within the light cluster also twitched at this moment, then slowly opened.

His cloudy eyes gazed at the youth before him and at his blood-red eyes.

After a moment of dazedness, Yao Chen's face gradually showed a weak relieved smile, and he spoke in his hoarse voice: "One-star Dou Zun, little brat, you've finally grown up!"

Back when they parted, Xiao Yan was merely a teenager with Dou Qi cultivation at the Dou Wang level.

Yet in just a few short years, the former Dou Wang has now grown to this extent.

Such progress—let alone Xiao Yan being just an ordinary person without background.

Even placed among the Yao clan, he would be considered quite outstanding.

"Sigh, hearing those oldsters in the clan say, our father's soul jade pendant didn't crack, it should still exist in the world, why hasn't he come to find me?"

Gazing at the scene below, Zi Yan, who was secretly harvesting souls on one side of the square, paused her hand movements, her tone slightly dejected as she spoke.

Although she disliked Xiao Yan below intensely.

Yet the relationship between him and Yao Chen made her feel extremely envious.

Others, for a teacher, could travel ten thousand li from the Northwest Continent to the Zhongzhou Continent.

They could also risk their lives to storm the Soul Hall branch hall to rescue their teacher.

But her parents, after giving birth to her, vanished without a trace.

"Hmph, forget it, anyway I have Lin Feng, whether they come or not makes no difference!"

Immediately after, Zi Yan let out a light hum, suppressed her emotions, and continued to reach out, taking the soul trapped on the iron chains before her, which had no power to resist, into the Soul Sack.

And Yao Chen's words below also made Xiao Yan's heart ache to the utmost.

However, thinking that we are still inside the Soul Hall now, we cannot delay too long.

Thus Xiao Yan slowly rose to his feet, preparing to continue speaking with his teacher after smoothly leaving the Netherworld Mountain Range.

At this thought, his gaze swept over the light cluster surrounding Yao Chen's body, then he extended his palm and pressed it onto the light cluster.

At the same time, the vast soul power at his brow surged forth like a tide, striking the light cluster.

Under the impact of his formidable soul power, the light cluster immediately rippled with invisible waves.

"This soul power does have a hint of the Spiritual Realm's flavor."

Although Yao Chen is now extremely weak, his hundreds of years of experience are still intact.

Now as soon as Xiao Yan displays soul power, he immediately senses a trace unlike ordinary mortal soul.

While he was astonished, a flash of relief crossed his eyes.

Dou Zun strength, Spiritual Realm soul—Xiao Yan's achievements now far exceed his expectations.

Since he was captured back then, his only worry has been that Xiao Yan lacks guidance, causing his alchemy skill and strength to progress slowly or even stagnate.

Now it seems he underestimated Xiao Yan.

Break!

Gazing at the increasingly dense invisible ripples on the light cluster, Xiao Yan's eyes flashed with a cold glint, then he shouted in a deep voice.

"Bang!"

As his words fell, the light cluster trapping Yao Chen trembled instantly, then like a water bubble, it burst with a pop.

"Master, are you alright?"

After breaking the obstruction blocking him, Xiao Yan hurried onto the stone platform and helped Yao Chen up from the ground.

"Clatter clatter"

However, at the moment he was helped up, a series of sharp, grating sounds of metal scraping against the floor suddenly rang out in this hall.

Upon hearing the sound, Xiao Yan instinctively glanced toward its source.

The next second, he saw four black chains as thick as giant pythons extending from the surrounding stone pillars, respectively binding his teacher's hands and feet.

Seeing this, Xiao Yan's fists clenched involuntarily, his killing intent toward the Soul Hall's people intensifying...

"These are soul-locking chains, specially used by the Soul Hall to imprison soul bodies, extremely hard; wanting to destroy them is not easy."

Yao Chen gazed at the chains entwined around his limbs, then self-mockingly said: "These fellows really think highly of this old man, actually using four chains on me directly."

"Master, let me handle these things."

Hearing that, Xiao Yan grabbed the iron chain; a brown strange fire dragon erupted from his palm.

Then he burned the black iron chains binding Yao Chen, causing them to emit wisps of white smoke.

"This is the Blazing Flame Valley's Nine Dragons Thunderfire?"

Gazing at the brown flame in Xiao Yan's palm that gave a sense of familiarity, Yao Lao was first slightly startled, then retrieved some information from deep within his memory, astonished.

Afterwards, a hint of joy appeared in his eyes, and he softly said: "Little brat, have you swallowed another strange fire behind?"

"Yes, after some events, my Flame Technique swallowed the Falling Heart Flame, Mysterious Yellow Flame, Volcanic Stone Flame, and Nine Dragons Thunderfire, and my alchemy skill has also reached low eighth-grade, already possessing the conditions to resurrect you."

Hearing that, Xiao Yan replied with a smile.

"Looks like the years I was taken away, your experiences have also been extraordinary."

Hearing the string of strange fire names spill from his mouth, Yao Lao immediately sighed.

Strange fire—ordinary alchemists spend their whole lives seeing maybe one kind.

I never expected Xiao Yan to obtain so many in just five or six short years.

"But the things I lost, I don't know how to tell you about them!"

Thinking of the Bone Spirit Cold Fire and Bone Flame Ring snatched by Lin Feng, Xiao Yan's face instantly gained a hint of bitterness.

Immediately after, the purple-brown flame on his palm suddenly flared up.

The terrifying high temperature directly burned the iron chains binding Yao Chen to ashes.

Xiao Yan saw that the Strange Fire unexpectedly restrained these iron chains so, and his heart also felt joy.

Then he hurriedly followed suit, using the Strange Fire to roast and break the other three giant python-like chains, one by one.

And after losing these strange iron chains, the weakness in Yao Chen's brow actually eased slightly.

Although his body remained illusory, compared to just now it was much better.

Having regained long-lost freedom, Yao Chen immediately couldn't wait to lightly move his body.

Afterward, Yao Chen glanced around, and his intuition told him that something here seemed off.

So he urged Xiao Yan: "Let's go, the Soul Hall is unfathomably strange; it's best to leave first."

"Alright, then let's head out now; Wind Elder is still leading the other eight Fighting Sovereigns outside, holding off the Soul Hall experts guarding this place."

Hearing that, Xiao Yan nodded slightly and also informed his teacher of the outside situation.