Starting from Douluo to Capture Goddesses

Xiao Yan suddenly fell to his knees, his gaze vacant.

He knew that no matter what, he couldn't escape this time.

Xu Ran wouldn't let him go. If he took the initiative, maybe he could suffer a little less.

"Xu Ran, I hate you. My whole reason for living, Xiao Yan, is to kill you," Xiao Yan glared with bloodshot eyes, his murderous intent biting cold. He had thought that falling from a peerless genius and being abandoned by friends and family was the most painful thing in his life. But he had never anticipated the real pain that was yet to come.

That demon Xu Ran had caused him to be deserted by everyone.

His father had given up on him, the family didn't want him anymore, Xun Er had been taken by Xu Ran, and so had Xiao Mei and Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu had once been close to him, while Xiao Mei had been especially affectionate, following him around like a shadow, but now these people had all become Xu Ran's women.

"What else? Just kneeling won't be enough," Xu Ran looked down from his lofty position, observing the utterly despairing Xiao Yan, without a trace of sympathy.

This time, it wasn't him looking for trouble on purpose. Xiao Yan's cleverness had backfired, and he had no idea how powerful Xiao Yi Xian had become.

Once Xiao Yi Xian fully comprehends the knowledge Xu Ran taught her, she will become one of the strongest Alchemists of the age, even Yao Lao wouldn't be able to match her.

"Grandpa..." Xiao Yan kneeled and kept kowtowing, his hair disheveled, completely devoid of his former arrogance.

If he had known he would lose eventually, he would never have made such a big deal out of the bet with Xiao Yi Xian, showing off like that. And now his kneeling before Xu Ran would be known along with this assessment.

His life was truly and utterly ruined.

And the initiator of all this was Xu Ran.

"You call me 'Grandfather', and I won't let you lose out. Take this Elixir as a reward from me, your grandfather. This pill will boost your strength and breaking through to Dou Shi won't be a problem. Consider it a gift from me," Xu Ran said mockingly.

He casually tossed an Elixir onto the ground, curious to see what choice Xiao Yan would make.

Would he choose to accept, or...

"You!"

The pill rolled in front of Xiao Yan, who desperately wanted to crush it. But his own cultivation was too slow, and this elixir could send him directly breaking through to Dou Shi. Such a temptation was significant for Xiao Yan.

"This is what you owe me. It's only right that I take it," Xiao Yan carefully picked up the Elixir and then turned to leave.

"Xiao Yan, if you acknowledge me as your father, I can directly make you a Douhuang," Xu Ran saw Xiao Yan pick up the Elixir and continued to tempt him.

He loved to play with people's emotions.

Especially seeing someone slowly fall from grace, completely different from before, was a very satisfying achievement.

"Even if you killed me, I wouldn't be without dignity!"

Xiao Yan was first startled, imagining himself as a Douhuang, but then his face reddened with anger. For a man, dignity is the most important thing. He had accepted the bet this time, but he definitely wouldn't give Xu Ran such an opportunity again.

Even if he were to die, Xiao Yan would die charging forward.

He, Xiao Yan, was a man of backbone!

Even if he had the chance to become a Douhuang laid before him, he would not even blink an eyelid.

"Suit yourself," Xu Ran shrugged, watching as Xiao Yan, with his head bowed and hair covering his face, staggered towards the outside, the Alchemist Badge on his face something he no longer had any desire to look at.

"Yao Chen, your actions just now were against the rules," Xu Ran said, his gaze flickering as a formidable Soul Power crushed down on Yao Lao.

The intensity of that Soul Power was a hundred, even a thousand times stronger than Yao Lao's at his peak.

"Who are you? How do you recognize me?"

Yao Lao asked in alarm.

Xu Ran's Soul Power was so oppressive, he struggled to breathe.

Such a presence, surely not even a Ninth Grade Alchemist could match, right?

Even at his peak, he had never been this powerful!

He knew Xu Ran was strong, but he hadn't expected Xu Ran to have become so powerful. He was certain that Xu Ran's strength would rank him among the top five across the entire Continent.

From what Xu Ran made him feel, all the strong individuals he had encountered before couldn't evoke such a suffocating pressure.

"Yao Chen, the unrivaled genius of the Yao Clan..." Xu Ran spoke in detail about all of Yao Lao's matters, and Yao Lao looked at Xu Ran as if he were looking at a demon.

Some things, even he had almost forgotten, yet Xu Ran knew them. How could Xu Ran know so much? Could it be that Xu Ran had been tracking him all along?

"Yao Chen, you helped Xiao Yan cheat, breaking the rules; I don't plan to make it hard for you. Hand over the Burning Decision, and I will leave you alone," Xu Ran stated.

For him, the most precious and valuable thing on this Continent was the Burning Decision.

The Burning Decision was a Cultivation Technique given to Xiao Yan by Yao Lao, originally obtained in an Ancient Cave Mansion, starting at a low Huang Rank but capable of evolving by absorbing and merging more Strange Fires. Beast Fire could also be used, but only useful during the technique's early ranks. Once the technique advanced to high levels, consuming Beast Fire became ineffective. It is arguably the only Cultivation Technique on the Fighting Spirit Continent that could evolve. Eventually, it evolved into a Sky Rank Technique. Han Feng killed Yao Lao to obtain a complete Burning Decision. As a Soul Body seeking a new physical form, Yao Lao bestowed the Burning Decision to Xiao Yan.

It could be said that Xiao Yan's true rise to power was due to the Burning Decision, the most unique Technique on the entire Continent.

Otherwise, even with Yao Lao's guidance, Xiao Yan would, at most, be able to cultivate to a Dou Sheng in his lifetime, unable to reach any stronger.

Particularly with Cultivation Techniques, once practiced, they could not be easily altered. Without the Burning Decision, even if Xiao Yan practiced the Technique that Yao Lao cultivated, in this life, at most he could become a Dou Sheng.

A Cultivation Technique like the Burning Decision meant that Xiao Yan had the potential to cultivate to the highest peak from the very beginning.

Moreover, the theory and applicability of the Burning Decision allowed Xiao Yan to leave the Fighting Spirit Continent, come to the Great Thousand World, absorb and fuse with other stronger Flames, and eventually become the true Flame Emperor of the Endless Fire Territory.

Such a level of Cultivation Technique, even Xu Ran could not ignore.

"You want the Burning Decision?" Yao Lao looked at Xu Ran with immense wariness.

It wasn't Xu Ran's strength that he feared, but rather Xu Ran's eyes that seemed to know everything about him. That feeling made him sense that all his secrets were completely seen through by Xu Ran.

The Burning Decision was a Cultivation Technique he had once found in an Ancient Cave Mansion, theoretically capable of endless evolution, as long as one continuously consumed Strange Fire to grow stronger. Generally, for a person to consume one type of Strange Fire was already rare, not to mention a second type. The Burning Decision, however, made the impossible possible. One could only imagine how powerful it would become if many types of Strange Fire were consumed in the future.