Yao Yan politely responded to everyone's comfort, his face still showing dejection, and slowly walked towards home, seemingly very disappointed.
Seeing this, everyone did not go forward to continue comforting him, because they saw such a scene every year.
Not everyone is a favored child of heaven.
There are many cities within the Medicine Clan's ancestral land, and each city has a population of hundreds of thousands. Each has a school, and all Medicine Clan Disciples can enroll. From a young age, they can access Alchemy, which is difficult for ordinary people in the outside world to access. This is the foundation of an ancient clan.
It is hard to imagine how difficult it is to stand out from them.
What's more, there are also core clan members. Compared to those prodigies, these people can truly only be considered ordinary people.
As he left the square, the look of dejection on Yao Yan's face lessened considerably. In fact, he wasn't dejected at all, and was even unsurprised by this result, because his deceased parents in this life were merely a Dou Wang and a Dou Ling, and his father didn't even have the Medicine Clan Bloodline. He had long anticipated this outcome.
He even found the three-grade Bloodline a bit surprising. It was higher than expected.
After all, in the world of Battle Through the Heavens, for Dou Di families, Bloodline inheritance is a certainty. If the parents' Bloodline concentration isn't high enough, the difficulty for their descendants to produce powerful Bloodline offspring is akin to a gacha game, completely relying on a mutation.
How strong could the Bloodline Power of ordinary Medicine Clan Disciples be, without powerful Bloodlines and without being nourished by heavenly treasures from a young age?
Yao Yan never thought he was an exception, even though he had transmigrated.
He transmigrated in his mother's womb. Not long after he transmigrated, his father died in the Shen Nong Mountain Range, reportedly at the hands of a group of fourth-tier magical beasts. His mother also passed away shortly after, leaving him a lonely young child, as if to confirm the saying: transmigrators' parents are a high-risk profession.
For this, Yao Yan felt very sorry.
He didn't know if it was a coincidence or something else.
At that time, Yao Yan even wondered if he was the so-called protagonist, with a System by his side. He ultimately found that he wasn't. His only advantages were perhaps his Soul Strength, which was much stronger than his peers, and his familiarity with the plot. This allowed him to quickly grasp new knowledge from a young age, which also contributed to his excellent Alchemy talent.
After several years of effort, at the age of twelve, he was already a two-grade Alchemist, capable of refining dozens of one- and two-grade Medicinal Pills.
Yes, it was that exaggerated.
In the outside world, this would be an almost Heaven-Defying existence, but in the Medicine Clan, it could only be considered good, far from being called a Genius or a Prodigy.
For Medicine Clan Disciples, refining low-grade Medicinal Pills was truly not difficult. They had ample medicinal ingredients from a young age for practice, and Alchemists taught them hand-in-hand. Therefore, most Medicine Clan members were basically three- or four-grade Alchemists by adulthood, even the guards.
For them, the difficulty lay in breaking through to six-grade and above.
"It's fine if the Bloodline concentration is ordinary, at least it won't attract attention."
Yao Yan comforted himself inwardly. He was actually a bit worried that his Bloodline concentration would be too high, leading to him being specially nurtured by the Medicine Clan. If that happened, he would truly be finished; he wouldn't be able to escape, and might even be targeted by the Soul Clan.
Yes, in recent years, he had already started planning his escape.
Because staying in the Medicine Clan truly had no future, and the future was even bleaker.
In the original work.
The entire Medicine Clan, except for a few individuals, was refined by the Void Swallowing Flame, including tens of millions of branch clan members, all turned into resources for Soul Emperor to advance to Dou Di. The textual description was incomparably tragic; if not for Xiao Yan, the original protagonist, being present, it is estimated that not a single person would have escaped.
In fact, when Yao Yan learned that he had transmigrated to this world, he began to consider his future path.
As for changing all of this… without Dou Di strength, what could he use to fight the Soul Clan?
The Soul Clan, that was the Peak power on the entire Dou Qi Continent.
Especially Soul Emperor, that ruthless character, who plotted for a thousand years to break through to Dou Di, and at the end directly sacrificed half of Central Plains and several ancient clans, slaughtering trillions of lives. If not for the appearance of Xiao Yan, the original protagonist, he would have been the ultimate victor.
Compared to him, the patriarchs of the other ancient clans were undoubtedly unremarkable, all content to muddle along in their comfort zones.
This might also be why Soul Emperor only held Xiao Xuan in high regard; at least Xiao Xuan dared to take a gamble, to risk the strength of his entire clan.
Thinking of this.
Yao Yan couldn't help but think of the Burning Flame Skill.
Having transmigrated to the Battle Through the Heavens world, how could he not have thoughts about the Burning Flame Skill? Even if the risk of cultivating it was no different from shooting oneself, it was the only cheat in Battle Through the Heavens. Although the risk was extremely high in the early stages of cultivation, the returns in the later stages were ridiculously high, a path directly to Dou Di.
As for the path of the emperor pill… if you don't have the strength of a Nine-Star Dou Sheng Peak, you don't even have the right to glance at it.
Therefore, a few years ago, Yao Yan had inquired about Yao Chen, partly because of the Burning Flame Skill, and partly to determine the timeline.
The name Yao Chen was quite taboo in the Medicine Clan, because he was a discarded son of the Medicine Clan, and in his youth, he had even clashed with Yao Wan Gui, the Elder of the Medicine Clan's Disciplinary Hall. Yet, he had made a great name for himself in the outside world, not only winning the championship of the Dan Tower's grand assembly but also establishing a power like Starfall Pavilion.
His own strength had even reached Dou Zun, and he was known as Venerable Yao.
This series of events was quite stimulating for ordinary Medicine Clan members; everyone likes to hear gossip, let alone gossip related to an Elder.
So Yao Yan easily obtained information about him.
About a dozen years ago, Yao Chen suffered a backlash from Alchemy and died…
Yes, he died.
Evidently, Yao Chen's 'good Disciple' Han Feng had already betrayed him, backstabbing the teacher who treated him like his own son. The gears of the plot were rolling forward.
As for Xiao Yan, he had not yet appeared.
Unfortunately, Yao Yan couldn't obtain an accurate timeline from this. To determine it, he either needed to find out how old Gu Xun'er was now, or travel to the Gama Empire. Both of these things were impossible for him at the moment.
"Thinking so much is meaningless."
Yao Yan sighed softly. For him at present, accumulating strength in the Medicine Clan was the right path. With strength, he would have the qualifications to plan for the future.
After all, in the world of Battle Through the Heavens, strength determines everything