"Extraterritorial Evil Race bastards, just wait for me… I'll be back soon. This time, if I don't wipe you out to the last, then I'm not worthy of the title 'Wrathful Demon Saint!'" Xiao Yan's pitch-black eyes glinted with a biting chill as he looked around at the vaguely familiar surroundings.
This journey to the territory of the Extraterritorial Evil Race had been the most perilous ordeal since his rebirth. If not for his earlier preparations, he might have truly perished there. Even so, it had taken him tens of thousands of years to awaken again. Had he not stumbled into a spatial-temporal turbulence and traveled back into the past, who knew what the world might have turned into by the time he recovered.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yan felt a stroke of fortune. The reason he had managed to survive was because, in the instant before his consciousness faded completely, he used the power of the Dragon-Phoenix Art to transform his body into a Flame Body and left behind a seed of his Heavenly Flame, which he stored in the Heavenly Tomb.
To a Heavenly Flame, as long as its source wasn't destroyed, there remained a chance for rebirth. That flame seed had essentially become the embodiment of his source. Before separating it from himself, he had infused it with the power of the Time Ancestral Symbol and set it to activate at the exact moment the seal was broken. It was this unique power that reversed time, restoring his body to its peak state.
Of course, this sort of manipulation was only possible in a lower plane like the Dou Qi Continent. In the Great Thousand World, his Time Ancestral Symbol was severely restricted. Only in a place like this could its power rewind tens of thousands of years.
Though he had been tormented nearly to death by demonic energy, enduring it brought unimaginable benefits. The most direct result was his spiritual energy cultivation soaring into the Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign realm.
After all, he had devoured the corpses of several late-stage Saint Heavenly Demon Emperors. Later, in the past timeline of the Great Thousand World, he subconsciously absorbed many more beings under the influence of his Devouring Power. While their energies were chaotic and impure, after being repeatedly refined and purified by Emperor Flame over millennia, they had condensed significantly.
Moreover, having absorbed so much demonic and blood fiend energy, his Eternal Void Demon Body had advanced by leaps and bounds, which was why his physical body also reached the Saint-grade. With this alone, even without using any divine abilities, his combat strength now rivaled the late-stage Saint Heavenly Sovereigns.
As for the remaining demonic energy in his body, he channeled it into his Sovereign Soul clone. However, this caused the clone's spiritual energy to be completely corrupted by the Extraterritorial Evil Race's aura. From aura alone, it was indistinguishable from a true Heavenly Demon Emperor. Fortunately, it remained under Xiao Yan's control, making it one of his hidden trump cards.
After his recovery, Xiao Yan also poured his power into the divine artifacts within him. During the spatial storm, they had exhausted their energy protecting him and had been dormant ever since. Having been sealed for tens of thousands of years, they had no way to absorb external power to recover and thus knew little of what had transpired. Xiao Yan didn't explain much—he only told them he had returned to the Dou Qi Continent.
Now that he had reached the Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign level—the highest tier of spiritual cultivation—he could do what the ancestor of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan once did: relocate the Dou Qi Continent into the protection of the Endless Fire Domain. With his current strength, even the entire Tianluo Continent could be moved if he wished. Since he had returned to the Dou Qi Continent, it was time to take care of this task.
But before that, he naturally wanted to reunite with his friends, family, and soulmates. Truthfully, it had been so long since he'd seen them, and he missed the days spent on the Dou Qi Continent.
After his ascension to the Great Thousand World, the newly reestablished Xiao Clan had become the number one faction on the Dou Qi Continent. Not to mention that Xiao Xuan had already reached the Dou Di level—just the benefit of the latest Dou Di bloodline and their marriage alliance with the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe made them unrivaled.
Of course, if the Gu Clan were willing, they might have been able to contend with the Xiao Clan in the future. After all, ever since Xiao Yan tore open the planar channel, Origin Qi was no longer scarce. Gu Yuan only needed a few more decades of effort to break through to Dou Di. However, Gu Yuan never had much ambition for supremacy—especially now that his daughter lived with the Xiao Clan and was essentially half a Xiao Clan member. He naturally had no intention of competing.
When Xiao Yan returned to the Starfall Pavilion, he found the environment unfamiliar. The reason was simple—the current Starfall Pavilion had changed too much. Previously, it had occupied a standalone spatial region about the size of a city. But now, the scale of the Star Realm rivaled that of the Ancient Gu Realm.
This was clearly Xiao Xuan's doing. With his strength as a Dou Di, expanding a space like this was trivial. It was only natural—after all, the Xiao Clan had risen in prominence and needed a domain befitting its status as an imperial clan. Anything less would be far too modest.
Although Xiao Yan had opened the planar channel and brought in abundant Origin Qi, for now the Dou Qi Continent still only had two Dou Dis: Xiao Xuan and Zhu Kun. Gu Yuan remained in seclusion, striving for that final step. He had neither Xiao Yan's inheritance nor an embryonic Emperor Pill and could only rely on traditional cultivation to advance.
As for Xun Er and the others, in hopes of ascending to the Great Thousand World to reunite with Xiao Yan, they had been diligently cultivating. With their exceptional talent and the abundant resources Xiao Yan left behind before his departure, many of them had already advanced to the Dou Saint level.
If not for the lack of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid and the limited resources of a lower plane, these girls might have already stepped into the Dou Di realm as a group.
This thought filled Xiao Yan with warmth. Though Dou Saint strength meant little to him now, their rapid progress showed how hard they'd worked. They had grown strong enough to stand on their own.
(End of Chapter)
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