CHAPTER 294: CHAPTER 294: LIFE DEVOURING PILL

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As if afraid Wei Yang might regret it in the future, Xiao Yan hurriedly called out in his heart:

"Master, you heard the agreement I made with Wei Yang just now, right? You have to be our witness!"

At the same time, this call, Xiao Yan deliberately let out a soul fluctuation, so that Wei Yang could hear it as well.

Upon hearing this, Wei Yang raised an eyebrow but did not say anything.

"Hehe, I heard it, I heard it."

Yao Lao’s chuckling voice rang simultaneously in both Wei Yang and Xiao Yan’s ears, carrying a bit of a teasing tone as well as a hint of gratification:

"I’ll be your witness. From now on, neither of you can go back on your word."

"In the future, whether it’s Brat Wei or Xiao Yan, as long as either of you has a son or a daughter, you will betroth them to each other as childhood sweethearts."

Yao Lao repeated the agreement once again.

"Brother Wei, did you hear that?"

Xiao Yan looked at Wei Yang with a smug grin.

"Hmph, don’t get cocky, gambling on luck? My luck has always been good." Wei Yang snorted.

"Hehe, unlucky for you, my luck has always been good too." Xiao Yan laughed.

As for Yao Lao, at this moment, he was seated cross-legged within the storage ring, his mood particularly good, smiling broadly as he watched this scene.

After all, he was the elder here.

No matter whether it was Wei Yang or Xiao Yan, whichever one had a son or a daughter, they would all be his grand-disciples.

As the saying goes, flesh from the left hand or the right hand, it’s all the same — all grand-disciples, he was winning either way.

Meanwhile, Wei Yang and Xiao Yan looked at each other, then both chuckled.

Each of them had their own little calculations going on inside.

They both felt they hadn’t lost anything and in fact stood to gain quite a lot.

The others around them were all smiling at this scene as well, especially Lin Yan and the others, who couldn’t help but feel a bit envious of Xiao Yan.

After all, being able to become in-laws with someone like Wei Yang, even if they had to marry off a daughter, was absolutely climbing up the social ladder in a big way.

Even Zi Yan, who was happily chewing her medicinal pills, had her attention drawn away. She immediately stood up and shouted,

"Hey, Wei Yang, Xiao Yan, don’t forget me! I want to be the kids’ aunt!"

Hearing that, everyone present couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

"What are you laughing at? Looking for a beating, huh?" Zi Yan immediately raised her willow-like brows, clutching her little fist, glaring around fiercely.

Lin Yan and the others quickly forced their laughter to a stop.

"Xiao Yan?" Zi Yan turned to look at Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan laughed and nodded, "I have no problem, you can ask Brother Wei."

Anyway, this was something with no definite outcome yet, so it was no problem to talk big for now.

Zi Yan then turned to look at Wei Yang, "Hey, Wei Yang, do you agree or not?"

In response, Wei Yang had no objection and said, "Sure."

The Emperor of the Ancient Void Dragons, as the future aunt of his children — definitely qualified enough.

"That’s more like it." Zi Yan nodded in satisfaction, proudly lifting her little chin. She quickly poured out another medicinal pill, threw it in her mouth, and chewed happily, her pale purple eyes narrowing with delight.

Only Queen Medusa, at this moment, slightly furrowed her brows. In her heart, an extremely strange, inexplicable sense of unease suddenly arose.

This feeling came without warning, eerily so.

It made Medusa feel a kind of inexplicable irritation.

Almost as if... something extremely important to her had suddenly been taken away.

After this interlude was over, Wei Yang and Xiao Yan looked at each other again, and suddenly felt a lot more cordial and familiar.

Future in-laws, after all.

At this time, however, Wei Yang’s gaze unexpectedly shifted to Xiao Li, who stood a short distance away.

That faint aura of death coiling between his brows was, in Wei Yang’s soul-perception — which was extremely sharp — absolutely clear.

From the look of that deathly aura, at this moment, Xiao Li was basically no different from a dying man.

"Brother Xiao Li, what’s going on with you?" Wei Yang asked, though he actually already understood in his heart.

Xiao Yan also turned his gaze to Xiao Li, a trace of sadness surfacing on his face.

Originally, Xiao Li had been standing off to the side, smiling as he quietly watched Xiao Yan and Wei Yang set up their agreement. But now, hearing Wei Yang’s sudden question, his expression froze, the smile gradually fading, and he fell silent.

As Xiao Li’s silence stretched on, the originally rather cheerful atmosphere also grew quiet bit by bit.

Xiao Yan’s facial muscles twitched slightly, and his nose couldn’t help but ache with a sour feeling.

After a long moment of silence—

"It’s the Life Devouring Pill." Xiao Li’s face once again regained a faint smile, as he softly spoke to Wei Yang.

"Life Devouring Pill..." Wei Yang repeated quietly.

On his face, too, there appeared a trace of shock, and he gently exhaled.

In his mind, countless memories churned rapidly, and very quickly, he found the relevant information about the Life Devouring Pill.

The Life Devouring Pill — a kind of miraculous pill that had shocked the entire continent many years ago.

Its grade could basically be classified as peak Tier 7.

And the creator of this pill was a highly renowned peak Tier 7 alchemist.

The terrifying aspect of this pill was that it could mass-produce Dou Wang–class experts!

Dou Wang!

Mass production!

Just think — when others had to go through countless trials and tribulations to climb to that height, yet a mere tiny pill could allow someone to make up the difference. One could easily imagine the sort of frenzy and unwillingness this would stir in people’s hearts.

Of course, this kind of pill also had strict limitations and frightening aftereffects, but that still could not stop people’s madness.

Because this was, without a doubt, a thing that broke the balance of the world.

Although this kind of power was temporarily borrowed at the price of burning away one’s life force, in truth — among a hundred, or even a thousand people — how many could truly cultivate all the way to the Dou Wang level?

Those who could reach Dou Wang through orthodox cultivation, without exception, were all geniuses among men, dragons among men.

And that sort of talent — how could it be something possessed by everyone?

Therefore, once this pill was introduced to the world, it immediately triggered a mad frenzy.

Even some first-rate factions in Central Plains held an enormous, covetous desire for it.

Because whoever obtained it would, in essence, have the ability to mass-produce Dou Wang–class powerhouses!

Think about it: if a single faction possessed thousands of Dou Wang–level soldiers, who in the world could still stand against them?

However, perhaps Heaven was envious of such things, and this madness did not last long before it gradually fell into silence.

That was because the alchemist who created the Life Devouring Pill, in a single night, vanished without a trace along with the pill formula.

And for a while afterward, there were still people unwilling to give up, searching far and wide.

But as time passed, the world-shaking craze slowly subsided.

That so-called Life Devouring Pill also gradually disappeared into the river of time.

So much so that even many alchemists nowadays were rather unfamiliar with it.

Many of the younger generation of alchemists didn’t even know that, long ago, the world of alchemy had ever given birth to such a pill — and such a hidden history.

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More than two years ago, after Xiao Yan had chased Fallen Heart Flame deep into the magma and then went missing, even though Wei Yang had more or less intentionally hinted to Xiao Li that Xiao Yan should be fine—

At that time, Xiao Li had nonetheless nearly fallen into complete despair.

Because in his heart, he had already judged that Xiao Yan had probably perished, his bones turned to ash.

Before Xiao Li came to the Black-Corner Region, his elder brother Xiao Ding had once told him:

Xiao Li could die, any member of the Xiao Clan could die — but Xiao Yan could not.

Xiao Yan was the one and only hope for the Xiao Clan’s revival!

In his despair, Xiao Li had suffered in torment for about two months, but still received no news of Xiao Yan.

At that time, the kind of desperation and crazed helplessness he felt was unimaginable.

In the end, Xiao Li forcibly pulled himself together, left the area around Qingshan City, and began to fight and kill within the Black-Corner Region all on his own.

Since Xiao Yan was gone, then this burden — he, Xiao Li, would have to carry it.

But he was very clear: with his own cultivation talent, to think of reaching the heights needed to take revenge on Yun Lan Sect, to revive the Xiao Clan, to rescue his father — that was nothing but a pipe dream.

Yet perhaps Heaven does not seal off all roads, or maybe it was a kind of cruel joke by fate.

Several months later, during one hunt in which he was being pursued and fled into a remote mountain range, by pure chance he obtained the Life Devouring Pill.

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