While Han Feng was conversing with Zi Yan, an elderly figure walked out from the vast island ahead.
"You must be the Han Feng that Zi Yan talks about."
Zhu Li spoke slowly, his eyes gleaming with a smile.
"This is the Third Elder of the East Dragon Island, Old Man Zhu Li."
Zi Yan introduced casually.
Hearing Zi Yan's words, the corner of Zhu Li's eye twitched slightly.
"Zi Yan, show respect to your seniors."
Han Feng gently rubbed Zi Yan's head.
"Got it."
Zi Yan responded.
Seeing this scene, Zhu Li's narrowed eyes widened slightly.
What's the situation? Is this still the lawless Zi Yan from before?
So she knows how to be obedient?
Before, to get Zi Yan to take the clan's secret cultivation medicine, the beard he had painstakingly grown was plucked tuft by tuft.
"Senior Zhu Li."
Han Feng cupped his hands and bowed to the elderly man.
"I came this time to take Zi Yan back for a visit. Will the East Dragon Island allow it?"
"Of course! Does he dare not to?"
Zi Yan put her hands on her hips and glared at Zhu Li with her big purple-gold eyes, as if she would pluck his beard if he disagreed.
Zhu Li sighed in his heart.
Sure enough, Zi Yan being obedient was always a false proposition.
"Little friend Han Feng came personally to pick her up; how could I be ignorant of etiquette?"
Zhu Li said.
"I haven't thanked Little friend Han Feng for taking care of Zi Yan before. If there's anything you need from the East Dragon Island in the future, just ask."
"In that case, Han Feng will visit often to disturb you in the future."
"Very good, very good."
A smile returned to Zhu Li's face.
The hidden meaning in Han Feng's words was that he allowed Zi Yan to cultivate on the East Dragon Island in the future.
This was also what Zhu Li hoped for.
Although the current Zi Yan was weak, as long as she was cultivated well, the future Zi Yan would eventually become strong. She would be the greatest opportunity for the reintegration of the Ancient Void Dragons.
"Count yourself sensible!"
Zi Yan nodded with satisfaction.
Zhu Li laughed heartily.
"This old man won't be an eyesore here. Little friend Han Feng, see you later."
Zhu Li's figure flashed and disappeared from the spot.
Hei Qing stood aside blankly, seemingly wanting to stay a little longer leisurely. But the next second, a giant claw reaching from the sky extended from the void and grabbed him directly into its palm.
"Ah!"
Zhu Li left with Hei Qing.
Han Feng smiled gently and looked at Zi Yan.
"Shall we go too?"
"Mm!"
Zi Yan nodded cheerfully.
Han Feng left the East Dragon Island with Zi Yan.
However, he didn't return directly to the Northwest Continent but wandered around the boundless void.
In the boundless void, some celestial bodies twinkled. Those were worlds wandering outside the Dou Qi Continent.
"Have you ever come here to play?"
Han Feng asked Zi Yan.
Based on his understanding of Zi Yan, this girl wasn't a peaceful one.
Zi Yan nodded.
"I have, but there's nothing fun. Many celestial bodies are uninhabited."
The East Dragon Island actually counted as a massive celestial body. Before splitting, the area of the Ancient Dragon Island was comparable to the entire Central Plains.
Even after splitting, the area of one Dragon Island was not smaller than a region of the Central Plains.
Han Feng looked at the boundless deep void. For humans, that was an unexplored domain.
He suddenly remembered the starry sky map he had obtained from the Jia Ma Imperial Family before. With a thought, he took it out.
The dense bright spots on it represented celestial bodies one by one.
Looking at it before, he didn't think much of it, but now being in the boundless void, he could feel that the distance between these celestial bodies was incredibly far.
"What is this?"
Zi Yan leaned over curiously.
"A treasure map, but not of land, of the starry sky."
As the power of a Dou Saint surged, the surrounding star power was condensed by Han Feng and injected into the map scroll.
The starlight on it brightened visibly to the naked eye. Many routes that hadn't been shown before were now displayed openly.
"Wow!"
Zi Yan opened her mouth wide in surprise.
For her, who naturally liked collecting treasures, this treasure map was tantamount to an inexhaustible bottle of pills.
"Han Feng, let me help you find treasures!"
"How about the old rules, fifty-fifty!"
Zi Yan volunteered.
Han Feng shook his head.
"You haven't even reached Dou Venerate yet; your speed is too slow."
"Then just fly with me!"
Zi Yan pulled Han Feng's arm.
"Please!"
"I don't buy that."
Han Feng's expression remained unchanged.
Zi Yan pouted. Suddenly, purple light flashed on her body, and she transformed back into her little lolita form.
"What are you doing?"
Han Feng was stunned.
"This way, you can hold me with one hand, and I definitely won't drag you down!"
Zi Yan thought Han Feng disliked her previous mature form for being too burdensome.
"You win."
Han Feng flicked Zi Yan's forehead.
"Cultivate honestly first. I'll notify you when I go later."
"Yay!"
Zi Yan jumped up happily.
"Don't be happy too soon. If your strength doesn't meet my requirements by then, I can't take you."
Han Feng added.
"Okay! Just wait, I'll definitely work hard on speed!"
Zi Yan said confidently.
In the inheritance of the Ancient Void Dragon, there were advanced movement Dou Skills.
Especially in the void, even without breaking through to Dou Venerate, she wouldn't be worse than a Dou Venerate!
Han Feng held the starry sky map, checked the orientation, then took out the Black Tortoise shell and compared the starry sky coordinates on it.
"Quite far."
"But there really is a celestial body there. Color grade: Black, Forbidden Zone level."
On the starry sky map, different colors represented different danger levels.
When he first opened the map, there were only three colors: cyan, silver, and purple.
But now that Han Feng had reached Dou Saint, three more colors appeared: gold, red, and black.
Gold represented celestial bodies with the highest value, where danger and opportunity coexisted. Cultivators might obtain miraculous opportunities to change their fate against the heavens, or they might be killed directly and fall silently.
Red represented unexplored celestial bodies with unknown grades and unknown dangers.
Black represented high-risk forbidden zones, warning against descending.
The starry sky coordinates on the Black Tortoise shell corresponded exactly to black.
"Interesting."
Han Feng put away both items.
He didn't plan to explore anytime soon.
Due to the experience in the Hidden Dragon Cave, Han Feng had learned to be cautious.
The four divine beasts that descended in ancient times were all existences with terrifying strength.
Among the three he had met so far, the Vermilion Bird had the friendliest attitude towards him.
The other party even actively made it onto the list to lend him a hand.
Next was the Black Tortoise. He obtained the inheritance without much effort (although the Black Tortoise was already dead).
Finally, the Azure Dragon. Han Feng fought his way through and used all his means to gain the other party's recognition.
It was also from the Azure Dragon that Han Feng truly witnessed the power of ancient divine beasts.
According to the Azure Dragon, the White Tiger's strength was not inferior to his.
Although both the Azure Dragon and the Vermilion Bird said he was a benevolent beast, Han Feng had seen with his own eyes that the White Tiger killed the Black Tortoise, a fellow divine beast.
Han Feng dared not provoke such a fierce and violent existence now.
Better wait a few years for further improvement in strength before checking it out.
Han Feng waved his big hand, and a crack opened in the void before him.
He took Zi Yan and jumped inside, disappearing into the endless void.
Northwest Continent, Heavenly Serpent Empire.
Heavenly Serpent Mansion.
Inside the inheritance ancestral land, a cyan light burst out, piercing through the clouds.
Qing Lin opened a pair of dazzling kaleidoscopic pupils, and a cyan snake phantom soared behind her back.
"Finally succeeded."
After three months of arduous cultivation, she unlocked the pupil technique inherited from the previous owner of the Triple-Jade-Flower Snake Eyes.
Kaleidoscope.
The pupil power of just three flower petals could no longer satisfy the exploration of the peak.
The Kaleidoscope Pupil was a secret technique that stimulated the soul with a special method to burst out super-strong pupil power in a short time.
Qing Lin slowly calmed the aura in her body.
During the three-month period, her cultivation soared from newly entered Dou King to the peak of Nine-Star Dou King.
If she cultivated step by step, it would naturally be impossible to be this fast.
But this was the power of inheritance left by predecessors. As long as one was the owner of the Triple-Jade-Flower Snake Eyes, one was qualified to refine it.
Currently, Qing Lin had only refined a small part of it.
Most of the pure energy was stored by her in the pupil technique space.
That cyan snake phantom just now was the manifestation of this energy.
Qing Lin got up slowly.
She glanced at the sky. At this time, a passage to go out had appeared in the inheritance space.
Qing Lin turned around, bowed to a stone statue of a woman, then spread her Dou Qi wings and flew towards the passage.
At this time, outside the ancestral land, Gong Yuan waited there with Lin Xian'er and the others.
Ye Qingyun stared unblinkingly in the direction where the cyan light shone.
"Don't worry, here she comes."
Gong Yuan smiled slightly.
Just as the voice fell, a figure flew out from the stone statue and hovered in mid-air.
"It's really Dou Qi wings, and this aura has actually reached Nine-Star Dou King!"
Lin Xian'er exclaimed in shock.
Wait, how did everyone suddenly improve so fast?
Will she be surpassed by Qing Lin in a few months?
You know, Qing Lin is only fifteen years old now.
Put on Xiao Yan, at that time he was still hovering at the third stage of Dou Disciple.
A fifteen-year-old Nine-Star Dou King.
Simply terrifying!
Qing Lin looked around, her eyesight instantly penetrating the long sky, seeing the crowd standing outside the ancestral land.
"Mother..."
Qing Lin's pupils lost focus slightly.
The next second, she sped with her wings, drawing a cyan arc in the air, and landed in front of Ye Qingyun.
"Mother, it's really you!"
Ye Qingyun gently placed her palm on Qing Lin's cheek, a look of affection in her eyes.
"Qing Lin."
A thousand words converged into this one sentence.
Ye Qingyun didn't know how to express it.
But she truly loved her daughter to the extreme.
Qing Lin smiled sweetly, closing her eyes to feel the warmth in her mother's palm.
Seeing this heartwarming scene, everyone smiled.
Just then, a rift opened in the sky, and Han Feng arrived at the Heavenly Serpent Mansion with Zi Yan.
"Already out of seclusion?"
Han Feng looked at Qing Lin and Ye Qingyun.
"Uncle Han is here!"
Qing Lin sensed the fluctuation immediately.
The Triple-Jade-Flower Snake Eyes were top-notch in terms of perception and insight.
"Everyone is here!"
Zi Yan waved her hand with a smile.
"Zi Yan!"
Lin Xian'er and the others looked at the other party in surprise and gestured with their hands.
"You've grown taller!"
"Hehe!"
Zi Yan put her hands on her hips and said proudly, "This young lady is an adult now too!"
If there was anyone who hadn't fully developed yet, it was only Qing Lin.
Han Feng walked to Qing Lin's side.
With the physique of a fifteen-year-old, she actually didn't look like a little girl anymore.
Especially those demon-like dual pupils added a lot of charm to her.
Looking at this mother and daughter now, they were simply two different people from back in Mo City.
Han Feng smiled and nodded.
"Peak Dou King, almost catching up with your mother."
"Suffered a lot, right?"
Han Feng touched Qing Lin's head.
"Uncle Han, Qing Lin isn't bitter."
Qing Lin shook her head and said with a smile.
"Qing Lin, I see your efforts."
Gong Yuan walked over at this time.
"Now that you have successfully accepted the inheritance of the ancestors and broken the record of the Heavenly Serpent Mansion for hundreds of years, your future is destined to be limitless."
Qing Lin bowed deeply to Gong Yuan.
"Teacher, thank you for your previous guidance. Without your painstaking efforts, your disciple couldn't have passed smoothly in the ancestral land."
Gong Yuan smiled slightly.
"This is my responsibility as a teacher. It's your own credit for striving."
"Go back and gather with your family. As for the Heavenly Serpent Mansion, come back whenever you want."
Qing Lin nodded heavily.
She knew very well that relying solely on herself, wanting to have such progress in over a year was wishful thinking.
It was the Heavenly Serpent Mansion, it was Gong Yuan, who gave her the opportunity to advance by leaps and bounds.
If she had always chosen a comfortable life, perhaps Qing Lin would never have such an opportunity in her lifetime.
This was why Han Feng asked her to apprentice and learn skills.
Everyone has their own path to walk. Striving upward when it's time to struggle will not let down the prime of youth.
Han Feng smiled slightly at Gong Yuan and said, "Thank you, Mansion Master Gong, for cultivating Qing Lin. Although you are Qing Lin's teacher, as an uncle, seeing Qing Lin grow like this, I am very gratified. Please don't refuse this small token of appreciation."
Han Feng took out a jade bottle containing a pill useful for Dou Venerates to break through realms.
Gong Yuan didn't know what was in the jade bottle yet, but seeing Han Feng being so polite, she was embarrassed to refuse.
"Thank you, Mr. Han."
"I heard from Qing Lin that you are a very formidable alchemist. My Heavenly Serpent Mansion doesn't have much else, but we have cultivated quite a few precious snake-attribute medicinal herbs."
Gong Yuan raised her hand and beckoned. A ray of light flew from the main hall inside the Heavenly Serpent Mansion.
Dou Venerate experts can penetrate the void and fetch items from a distance.
Gong Yuan handed the storage ring she retrieved to Han Feng, "Most of these medicinal herbs are unique to my Heavenly Serpent Mansion. If Mr. Han doesn't disdain them, please take some and see if they can be used for medicine."
"In that case, Han will accept them."
Courtesy demands reciprocity. Some things are just like this, and Han Feng couldn't refuse.
"We still have matters to attend to in the Black-Corner Region, so we won't stay long in your noble mansion."
Gong Yuan saw Han Feng and the others off all the way to the mountain gate.
"Speaking of which, my Heavenly Serpent Mansion also has some business in the Black-Corner Region. We can keep in touch often in the future."
Han Feng took out the spirit boat and looked back at Gong Yuan.
She should have found out his identity before.