Chapter 153: Old and dishonest
For Yao Yan, the Fallen Heart Flame will be his last stop in the Black Horn Region. After dealing with these things, he will choose to return to the Soul Clan with Hunxuzi. Compared with the cultivation resources in the outside world, the cultivation resources controlled by the major imperial clans are the foundation for Yao Yan to quickly improve his strength. Otherwise, relying solely on the cultivation resources in the outside world, if he wants to cultivate to the level of a Douluo, he will probably have to wait until the ancient Bodhi tree is born, and this is under the condition that everything goes well.

No matter what kind of world it is, the best cultivation resources are always in the hands of the people at the top.

In the Douqi Continent, the ones who control that part of resources are undoubtedly the several major imperial clans, among which the Ancient Clan and the Soul Clan are the most powerful. The Soul Clan is even above the Ancient Clan because the Soul Clan has top forces like the Soul Palace outside, which can gather all cultivation resources. Unlike other clans, they only hide in their own realms and rarely go out.

The number of strange fires that Yao Yan can obtain now is almost the same as Xiao Yan in the original novel. If he wants to get more, he can only rely on the Soul Clan. He is very clear about this.

Yao Lao looked at Yao Yan's calm eyes and couldn't help but remind him, "You'd better not be careless. Han Feng was taught by me. He is not easy to deal with, and he is very likely to have connections with the Soul Palace. If you contact him rashly, it will easily cause yourself some unnecessary trouble."

Geniuses all have their own flaw, which is conceit. They underestimate their opponents and will undoubtedly suffer great losses.

"Don't worry, old man. I have never underestimated him. And not just him, I will never underestimate any opponent. A lion will use all its strength to fight a rabbit, let alone a human. If you fight with others and fail once, you will lose your life!" Yao Yan chuckled, his dark eyes looking at Yao Lao calmly.

"... Never mind. If you want to try, then go ahead. But be careful, especially if you encounter people from the Soul Palace. Those guys are very strange. Don't let them target you."

Yao Lao was silent for a while, then warned in a serious tone. He had dealt with the Soul Palace many times and knew very well how difficult those guys were. They were like a group of jackals, and once they set their eyes on a target, they would keep testing it and then attack. If one did not have enough strength, the final outcome would certainly not be good.

However, according to the special rules of the Black Horn Region, the elders of the Soul Palace should not be killed, and as for the ordinary guardians, he is not too afraid given his current state.

When the critical moment really came, it would not be difficult for him to protect Yao Yan and Cai Lin.

As the former Medicine Master, he still has this confidence.

Yao Yan's face looked a little strange, but he still nodded obediently and accepted Yao Lao's concern. He felt very good about this elder who had some blood relationship with him. At least it was more comfortable than being with Hunxuzi, because Hunxuzi would never show his concern in this way. What the other party valued was always Yao Yan's value.

He had no doubt that once he lost his value, Hunxuzi would refine all of his body essence. With the other party's ability as a master of alchemy, it would be easy for him to do this.

No matter how much he ate from the other party, he would eventually vomit it all out.

"Think these things through yourselves. Well, I'm sorry to bother you two. We meet after a long time, so let's have a good chat~" Yao Lao smiled and winked at Yao Yan, then slowly disappeared, and no one knew where he went to relax.

This old guy... Yao Yan said secretly in his heart, and his eyes involuntarily glanced at Cai Lin, just in time to meet her eyes.

"Does it look good?"

Cai Lin narrowed her eyes slightly, glared at Yao Yan, and said in a cold voice.

Yao Yan smiled upon hearing this, and continued to stare at Cai Lin's oval face, blatantly teasing her, "She is indeed very pretty."

"...Did you trick the colorful butterfly like this back then?"

Cai Lin clenched her fists, narrowed her beautiful eyes, and said in a cold voice with a hint of danger. She had not forgotten the relationship between the other party and Cai Die. Sometimes, she had to admit that the other party was a little greedy. He already had his own sister and two beautiful maids, but he was still not satisfied and came to provoke her. Did he really think she was as easy to fool as her sister?

"I didn't lie to her. I really like her. Maybe it's because of her appearance, or maybe it's because of her personality. Anyway, I like her."

Yao Yan said with a smile. He was not embarrassed at all. As for Cai Lin, he did not give any explanation. There was no need to do so because the two of them had not reached that step yet.

Because of appearance?

Cai Lin and Cai Die are sisters, and their faces are almost exactly the same. She felt that Yao Yan's words were a hint, but she had no evidence. She could only roll her eyes at Yao Yan, then slowly stood up and returned to her room. She didn't want to stay alone in the same room with Yao Yan, as she felt a little uncomfortable, especially when the other person looked at her with almost no concealment.

Yao Yan did not stop the other party from leaving because he had more important things to deal with later.

"Do you like to peep so much?"

He did not leave immediately. Instead, he looked towards the window and said unhappily, "You are so old, and you still play this kind of trick. It would be fine if you did it once, but you actually came back again. You are really a dishonest old thing."

"Cough cough~"

Along with this awkward cough, Yao Lao's figure slowly emerged from the window. The way he concealed his body was obviously a unique soul power technique. However, this method of concealing his body could only be used to block the sight of others. For Yao Yan, who possessed a spiritual soul, it was obviously useless.

Yao Yan had seen through it once before, but he never expected that the old guy would use the same trick again. He was really shameless.

"I just suddenly remembered something. I didn't come back intentionally to spy on you... Besides, there's nothing to see." Yao Lao stroked his beard and said calmly. With his look of a teacher, he was quite deceptive.

"You must have had a lot of trouble with women when you were young, right?" Yao Yan said with a smile as he looked at the pretentious Yao Lao. He knew a lot about Yao Lao's dark history. Regardless of other things, there were several of them described in the original book alone, not to mention his romantic history.

"I was not as timid as you back then. If you like someone, you should pursue him. Don't miss out and regret it later."

Yao Lao gave advice in the tone of a person who had experienced it.

"Don't worry, I won't make those mistakes."

Yao Yan smiled, he was never timid when it came to feelings, now that he had come to such a world, he should fight for what he liked instead of waiting all the time. Thinking of this, he also glanced at Yao Lao, it was easy for the other party to say, but he could never do it. If he remembered correctly, the woman who was one of the three giants of Danta seemed to be Yao Lao's old lover, but he didn't know why Yao Lao had been avoiding her and never responded to this feeling directly.

"I've seen it a long time ago. Tsk tsk, you got two sisters, and they're both Queen Medusa. You're so lucky~"

Yao Lao floated to Yao Yan's side and made a joke. Yao Yan was too lazy to pay attention to this old man and directly changed the subject: "I plan to refine the Ice Heart Pill."

"... Did you find the Earth Core Tempering Milk?"

Yao Lao was stunned when he heard this. He didn't bother to tease Yao Yan. His face became serious and he asked in a deep voice. He didn't expect that Yao Yan went to Canaan College and actually got such a rare treasure. You know, even in Zhongzhou, this thing is extremely rare. Every time it appears, it will attract many alchemists to chase it.

"I'm extremely lucky. I found it in the back mountain of Canaan College, and I seem to be the first person to find it." Yao Yan said as he took out a bottle of Earth Core Tempering Milk from his Bone Inflammation Ring and threw it to Yao Lao.

Yao Lao controlled it with his soul power, and when he opened the bottle cap, a crystal liquid like amber was revealed. A faint chill emanated from it, and this chill brought with it an indescribable feeling of nourishment, which even had a certain effect on soul power.

"You are really lucky, kid." Yao Lao couldn't help but sigh. He had offered a reward for this thing in Zhongzhou in the past, but in the end he only got a few drops. However, in the bottle that Yao Yan had in front of him, there were more than just a few drops. The value of this bottle of Earth Core Tempering Milk alone was enough to be compared to some precious seventh-grade elixirs.

Yao Yan didn't feel anything when he heard this. Family members know their own business. It wasn't luck that enabled him to find this thing, but simply because he was standing from a God's perspective.

The only luck he had in his life was the time when he was refined by Hunxuzi. At that time, he was really helpless and could only gamble his life. It was either life or death, there was absolutely no second option.

"When do you plan to refine it?"

Yao Lao's eyes flickered slightly as he stared at Yao Yan and asked, his tone now showing some emotion. Bing Xin Dan was not comparable to seventh-grade elixirs like Shun Qi Dan. Its difficulty in refining was one of the most difficult even among the seventh-grade elixirs.

Yao Yan said softly: "It's better to do it today than to wait for a day. Let's do it today. I don't have much time."

"sure?"

Yao Lao asked in a deep voice. In his current state, he could only assist from one side, and Yao Yan had to rely on himself to refine the seventh-grade Bing Xin Pill.

Yao Yan nodded and said firmly, "Yes."

Yao Lao asked, "Have you found a location?"

"Just find an uninhabited mountain. Then, please isolate the surrounding space to prevent anyone from approaching. As for the final Dan Lei, leave it to me." Yao Yan's eyes flashed slightly, and there was a little more expectation in his tone. He has now cultivated his Vajra Indestructible Body to the second level, and he doesn't know if Dan Lei can play a role in tempering his body.

Yao Lao frowned slightly and asked, "Are you sure? The lightning of the seventh-grade elixir is no joke."

"Aren't you here to watch from the side?"

Yao Yan asked back with a smile.

Hearing this, Yao Lao said with a smile: "If your life is not in danger, I won't care about you. If you get chopped to pieces, don't complain."

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In a barren mountain hundreds of miles away from Heiyin City, Yao Yan was sitting cross-legged on a platform, while Yao Lao and Cai Lin were standing on one side, watching Yao Yan adjust his state. Alchemy is an extremely quiet process, which does not allow any external disturbances. Any slight mistake will lead to the failure of alchemy.

About half a quarter of an hour later, Yao Yan opened his eyes. Blue flames burned in his pupils, making his handsome face look much more eerie.

He just raised his hand and took out the Black Demon Cauldron from the ring. The huge medicine cauldron, under the control of his soul power, fell lightly in front of him like a weightless feather, without splashing any dust. As the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire in the medicine cauldron emerged, the patterns on the surface of the medicine cauldron instantly glowed red, making this ancient medicine cauldron more magical.

Under Yao Yan's control, the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire inside the medicine cauldron instantly grew to its peak. Streams of scorching air continuously gushed out of it, and the surrounding world seemed to have a more dry and hot feeling as a result.

The fire in the heart of the blue lotus rises.

Yao Yan threw out the herbs from the ring one by one. Wrapped in soul power, they entered the medicine cauldron in an orderly manner. Under the high temperature, they withered quickly. The essence inside was quickly refined out at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into drops of crystal clear gems floating in the flames.

"This kid's alchemy skills... why do they have some of the flavor of Danta? No, it's different..."

As Yao Lao looked at Yao Yan's alchemy skills, his expression became more solemn and he muttered to himself. He felt that he could see many people in Yao Yan. Who was his teacher? How could he know so many alchemy techniques and seem to have simplified them a lot?

Could it be that his teacher is a ninth-grade alchemist? !
An expert knows the ins and outs of things. Yao Lao was originally an alchemist close to the ninth rank, so his eyesight was naturally not bad, and he was naturally familiar with the ninth rank's ways. To reach this level, everyone has their own path. The alchemy skills displayed by Yao Yan in front of him clearly had the marks of an alchemy master.

Thinking of this, Yao Lao's eyes flickered when he looked at Yao Yan, and he became more suspicious of what this kid had said before. If Yao Yan's teacher was really a ninth-grade alchemist, why would the Yao clan drive him out?

Who is his teacher? !
Yao Lao kept thinking in his mind, but it was obvious that with his previous status and identity, he could not get in touch with the big shots within the Medicine Clan. To those people, an eighth-grade peak alchemist was still not qualified, because the eighth grade was still the eighth grade after all. Even if it was only one step away from the ninth grade, that step was like a chasm, enough to divide the sky and the earth.

If what Yao Yan said before was all lies, then... Yao Lao couldn't help but feel agitated inside, feeling that he had been deceived again. That feeling was really uncomfortable, especially since the kid in front of him was a junior whom he was quite optimistic about. He really didn't want to doubt the other party like that.

But after Han Feng's betrayal, he had to think about it more.

But if the other party really deceived him, then what was the other party's purpose...

(End of this chapter)