In the main hall, everyone was silent. The three clan elders were shocked by Ge Ye's words but soon afterwards, the elders glanced at Xiao Zhan with plain glee and ridicule.
"Hehe, how will you respond to this?" The three elders thought sinisterly.
A couple of the younger kids didn't know about the set marriage between Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran, but after asking their parents about it, their faces brightened! Their glances towards Xiao Yan were full of ridicule and distaste...
Looking at Xiao Zhan's dark face, Nalan Yanran lowered her head and squeezed her fingers together.
"Leader Xiao, I know that this request is a little over the top, but because faction leader requested it, please cancel the marriage..." Helplessly letting out a breath, Ge Ye lightly whispered to Xiao Zhan.
Xiao Zhan's hands curled into fists. A faint green Dou Qi slowly creeped over his body and finally, it formed a illusory lion's head in front of Xiao Zhan's face.
Xiao Clan's secret Qi Method: Furious Lion's Rage! Level: Middle Xuan!
Looking at Xiao Zhan's reaction, Ge Ye's face became serious. He moved to place Yanran behind him and within his eagle claw like hands a green Dou Qi gathered. The Dou Qi released small but sharp illusory swords.
Faction of Misty Cloud's Qi Method: Green Wood Sword! Level: Low Xuan!
With the release of Dou Qi, the weaker youngsters within the main hall became pale and felt their chests tighten.
When Xiao Zhan's breathing became more intense, the three elders yelled out! Their voices were like lightning that swept through the hall: "Xiao Zhan, STOP! Don't forget, you're the clan leader of Xiao Clan!"
Xiao Zhan stiffened and the Dou Qi on his body disappeared slowly...
Xiao Zhan fell back into his chair and emotionlessly watched the lowered head of Yanran. Finally, he said is a raspy tone: "Nalan, you have some guts. With such a daughter, I'm really envious of Nalan Su."
Nalan Yanran twitched: "Uncle Xiao..."
"No! Call me Clan Leader Xiao from now on. I don't deserve to be called Uncle; you're the future faction leader of the Faction of Misty Clouds. In the future, you'll probably one of the most important people in Dou Qi mainland. My Xiao Yan only has modest talent, he doesn't deserve you..."
"Thank you Clan Leader Xiao." Hearing Xiao Zhan's words, Ge Ye's face brightened. Apologizing, he says: "Clan Leader Xiao, faction leader understands that today's request is quite disrespectful. Therefore, she asked me to bring something, please accept it as an apology from our faction leader."
Ge Ye touched a ring on his hand and suddenly a completely pan-green jade box appeared in his hand...
Carefully opening the box, a fragrance swept through the entire main hall. Anyone who smelled it felt relaxed.
The three elders' curiosity got the better of them and they poked their head to see the contents of the box: "Qi Gathering Powder?"
Within the jade box, a green pill, about the size of a Dragon's eye, laid quietly. The refreshing scent that had spread throughout the entire hall was emanating from the pill!
[In Dou Qi Mainland, to become a Dou Zhe, one needs to be able to compress the Qi within one's own body to a Qi cyclone. But the process of compressing Qi to become a Qi cyclone has an extremely high failure rate. After failing, one's 9 Duan Qi would fall back to 8 Duan. Some unlucky people need to compress their Qi 10 or more times before they are successful in doing so. But by wasting so much time on the compression of Qi, one would lose the best time to practice Qi and thus destroy their future.
Qi Gathering Power, its use was to allow someone with 9 Duan Qi to have a 100% percent success rate when trying to compress one's Qi!
This effect makes many people red-eyed. After all, anyone thats not a Dou Zhe is treated extremely badly.
But Qi Gathering Power isn't something made by nature, rather it was made by someone: Alchemist!
In Dou Qi Mainland, the sole profession that's more desirable than a Dou Zhe are Alchemists.
Like the name suggests, alchemists are able to create special pills that raise one's strengths. Every free-agent alchemist is sought after by many forces.
The reason as to why alchemists have such a high position is because of how rare alchemists are and how strict the requirements to become an alchemist are.
First of all, one must be of the fire attribute. And then, within the fire attribute, one must have a tiny sliver of the wood attribute to act as a catalysis in pill-refining.
In the Dou Qi Mainland, a person's attribute is determined by their soul. A soul since birth will only have one, sole attribute and reject any other attribute. So its impossible for a person to have two attributes.
Of course, nothing is impossible. Within a million people, there will always be someone who has a mutated soul. Within these people that have mutated souls, some have the potential to become Alchemists!
However, a person that has the fire and wood attributes is not enough to become an Alchemist. That's because one must also have a strong Soul Perception or Soul Moulding!
In the refinement of pills, the three most important requirements are: The material, the flame and one's soul perception.
The Material. They would have to be natural treasures. After all, even the best alchemists can't create a god-tier pill from trash material. Therefore, good base materials are very important for good pills.
The flame. Or the fire that's required when refining pills. The fire used in refining pills can't be normal flames but rather, they must be Dou Qi flames created though Dou Qi with a fire attribute. Of course, there are some extremely strong mutated flames in nature. Some strong alchemists would take these flames and use them to refine pills instead of their own Dou Qi flame. Not only do these mutated flames boost the success rate of the refinement, they also increase the effectiveness of the pills!
Because refining pills is a gruesome task, extended periods of refinement requires a lot of Dou Qi, and because of that, every brilliant alchemist is also a strong fire-type Dou Zhe.
The final requirement is Soul Perception.
When refining a pill, the intensity of the flame needs to be controlled with ridiculous precision. If the flame is slightly too hot, the pill within the furnace would be burned to ashes, wasting the time and effort of the alchemist. Therefore, controlling the intensity of the flame is a prerequisite to becoming an alchemist. But in order to have a control over the flames, one must have an incredible Soul Perception; without Soul Perception, even if one meets or even exceeds the first two requirements, it would be pointless to try to refine pills.
Under these strict conditions, the ones who have the qualifications to become an alchemist are few and rare. Because there aren't that many alchemists, the magical pills that they refine are also few and sparse. Since rare things are valuable and pills can definitely be defined as rare, alchemists all have a honorable, to an exaggerated extent, position.]
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Within the main hall, with the gasps of the three elders, the younger generation all stare at the Jade box in Ge Ye's hands.
Next to her father, Xiao Mei licks her red lips with her soft tongue and stares at the box, without blinking...
"Hehe, this was refined by our honorable elder Gu He. I think that everyone here has heard of his name right?" Looking at the embarrassing appearance of the three elders, Ge Ye started becoming arrogant.
"This pill was refined by the Pill King Gu He?" Hearing Ge Ye's words, the three elders once again embarrassed themselves.
Pill King Gu He, an extremely influential alchemist within the Jia Ma Empire. His alchemy is mysterious and unpredictable, causing countless different forces to try to fawn upon him.
Not only does Gu He have extraordinary talent in alchemy, his own strength is at the level of a Dou Wang and he's one of the top ten Dou Zhes in Jia Ma Empire.
Refined by his hands, the Qi Gathering Powder's value is probably exponentially higher than other normal Qi Gathering Power.
The three elders smile at the Qi Gathering Powder within the Jade box. If the Xiao Clan gets this Qi Gathering Powder, then the Xiao Clan can probably develop another young Dou Zhe.
Right when the three elders were thinking about how to get the pill for their own grandsons.
"The Yun Lan Sect's logo carries a lot of courage and arrogance, comparing a mere Qi Gathering Powder to the Xiao family!"
A young man's voice echoed in everyone's ears. Hearing this, everyone turned toward the source of the sound, where a young boy sat. He looked to be about 19 years old, wearing red and black clothes. This was none other than Lou King.
Lou King stood up slowly, walked over to Xiao Zhan, and said, "As a member of the Xiao family's younger generation and being Xiao Yu's fiancé-which makes me Xiao Yan's brother-in-law-I wish to ask Miss Nalan Yanran a few questions. Do I have the right to do so?"
Hearing Lou King's words, everyone was stunned and stared at him intently.
Xiao Zhan looked toward the other elders; it was clear from their faces that they wanted to refuse. However, Xiao Zhan also knew that these people were happy to see him in this difficult situation and wanted to remove him from his position as Head. After thinking for a moment, he looked at Lou King and gave him permission with a nod.
The elders were not happy, but there was nothing they could do. Lou King cupped his hands in a respectful greeting and began walking toward Nalan Yanran.
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