Battle Through the Heavens: I Am the Righteous Path

"Xiao Yan?"

Yao Ye looked at Xiao Yan's profile, his pupils filled with disbelief, and he couldn't wrap his mind around it for a long time. Perhaps it was because of his serious injury, or perhaps it was because he instinctively felt at ease after seeing Xiao Yan, which made Yao Ye's tense nerves relax involuntarily. His consciousness began to blur, and he passed out as his eyes went black, and his body fell heavily downwards.

Xiao Yan's expression froze, and when he was about to move forward to catch Yao Ye, another black shadow flashed by faster than him and held Yao Ye steadily in his arms.

It was none other than Gu Qinghan who came with Xiao Yan. He looked at Xiao Yan and spoke softly.

"Xiao Yan, you do your job, I'll protect her."

"Ah."

Xiao Yan nodded slightly and looked at Shi Tian in front of him without thinking too much. Gu Qinghan lowered his head slightly and looked at the unconscious Yao Ye, his brows tightly furrowed.

We must not let Xiao Yan do anything he shouldn’t do, even though Gu Qinghan’s intuition told her that this level of obstruction was useless.

When the soldiers on the city wall at the rear saw Yao Ye being rescued, they finally felt relieved and looked at Xiao Yan's back in confusion, with the same question popping up in their minds.

Who is this man? I haven't seen him in the Black Horn Region. Could he be someone that Leader Yaoye knows in the Jiama Empire?
Originally, this group of soldiers were almost all newly recruited by Yao Ye after he took over the Evil Prison. In addition, Xiao Yan had been away from the Black Horn Region for several years, and his image had changed a lot as he grew up. It would be difficult for ordinary people to recognize him even if they met him on the street.

The same was true for Shi Tian. He frowned as he looked at Xiao Yan who suddenly appeared in front of him. After thinking about it in his memory, he did not find any similar person in the Black Horn Region.

However, Xiao Yan's sudden appearance and actions just now made Shi Tian nervous and he dared not relax at all.

He saw with his own eyes that the phantom of the Lion King, which contained his fighting spirit, was dissipated into nothingness by Xiao Yan's light wave. Although he only used 30% of his strength in this attack, Xiao Yan was able to block it so easily, so his strength must not be underestimated.

"who are you?"

Shi Tian stared at Xiao Yan and questioned in a deep voice. Xiao Yan did not answer immediately, but glanced at the bandits from the Lion Nether Sect who were gathered outside the border of the Black Horn Region. According to the original plan, as long as Shi Tian killed Yao Ye, they would immediately march straight in and invade the Black Horn Region.

After a long silence, Xiao Yan slowly spoke.

"If you are willing to surrender, I can ask Chief Yaoye to spare your lives. After you have received the punishment you deserve, Black Horn Region sincerely hopes that you will stay here for a long time."

Although Xiao Yan's voice was soft, it contained supreme majesty. The small voice was clearly transmitted to everyone's ears through the fighting spirit.

There was a brief silence immediately followed by a roar of laughter.

"Hahaha! Who is this guy?"

"You're still using this excuse now. Do you really not know how to write the word death?"

"He doesn't think that he is qualified to negotiate terms just because he blocked Boss Shitian's attack, does he?"

The laughter of the Lion Nether Sect members was so rampant that they did not take Xiao Yan seriously at all.

What is Shi Tian's strength? Nine-star Dou Zun peak! He is the only one in the entire Northwest Continent! Even the Eagle Mountain Elder, who is recognized as the strongest in the Northwest Continent, is only an eight-star Dou Zun. Who is Xiao Yan?
However, although the people of the Lion Nether Sect were laughing so proudly, Shi Tian himself had a growing bad premonition in his heart.

Xiao Yan in front of him did not show much change in expression after hearing the laughter from his men. He just slowly raised one hand, with indifference and ruthlessness revealed in his black eyes.

"In that case, Xiao doesn't have to be polite."

boom! ! !
The next moment, there was a sudden and extremely terrifying vibration at the border of the Black Horn Region. Even Shi Tian, ​​who was at the peak of the Nine-Star Dou Zun level, was affected, and his mind became dazed.

He looked at Xiao Yan in front of him again, only to find that he was still standing there, as if he had not moved at all.

But Shi Tian was indeed very perceptive and noticed something was wrong.

The wanton laughter from his men just now disappeared.

Shouldn't it be.
An extremely terrifying guess arose in Shi Tian's heart. He turned his head slowly in horror and looked down at the place where his subordinates were originally. Then his pupils suddenly contracted.

The ground was littered with corpses and blood. All the people from the Lion Nether Sect had horror in their eyes and grim faces, as if they had no idea how they died.

Fighting spirit pressure!

This word immediately popped up in Shi Tian's mind, and then he suddenly looked at Xiao Yan, who raised his hand to him, clasped his fists, and introduced himself slowly.

"Nice to meet you, Sect Master Shi Tian." Xiao Yan looked at Shi Tian, ​​his tone neither happy nor sad, "I am Xiao Yan, please give me your guidance."

Xiao Yan? Is he the Xiao Yan in the rumors? The first leader of the Evil Prison who unified the Black Horn Region?!

When Shi Tian was terrified, Xiao Yan spoke again.

“Originally, I was expecting that these people were forced to attack the Black Horn Region due to the tyranny of the Lion Sky Sect Master. After all, I have heard about the situation in the Northwest Continent. I can understand that they would go to extremes to survive.” Xiao Yan said this, his eyes suddenly turned cold, “But, I am worrying too much.”

"Their wanton laughter just now has fully proved that they are the same kind of people as you. They are all extremely evil people who rely on their power to do evil and have no conscience in their hearts."

"In this case, Xiao doesn't need to show mercy."

As he spoke, Xiao Yan slowly raised his hand again in front of Shi Tian's horrified gaze, and a strange-colored flame ignited in his palm, causing Shi Tian's soul to tremble with fear.

"Then Master Shitian, as their leader, you should also go and accompany them."

Looking at Xiao Yan's raised hand, Shi Tian had never felt death so close to him.

The person who gave him the power clearly said that he was unrivaled in the entire Northwest Continent and could annex everything in the Northwest Continent, but where did Xiao Yan come from? !

Shi Tian's thoughts were in a mess, but out of his instinct for survival he immediately raised his hand and wanted to beg Xiao Yan.

"Wait, let's talk."

"No wait."

The ruthless response echoed by Shi Tian's ears, and the next moment his body suddenly burned up without any resistance. He didn't even have time to scream, and in an instant both his body and soul were burned to ashes.

Shi Tian fell here.

In the Black Horn Region, Black Seal City, in a relatively remote small tea shop, old man Yingshan, who is known as the strongest man in the Black Horn Region, is sitting in the shop, slowly arranging the various kinds of tea placed in front of them with another old man.

The old man opposite the old man from Eagle Mountain also had a connection with Xiao Yan. It was Lu Yi who had sold the Glacier Valley fighting skills to Xiao Yan and later listened to Xiao Yan's advice and came to live in the Black Horn Region.

"Master Ying, all the tea leaves have been packaged."

Lu Yi put the tea in his hand on the corner of the table. Old Man Yingshan nodded slightly and stopped what he was doing.

"We two old men have been busy all morning, let's take a break."

After saying that, old man Yingshan stood up to pour tea. Lu Yi turned around and looked at the people coming and going on the street, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

As an ordinary person who was down and out, he made many wrong decisions in his life, and following Xiao Yan's advice to come to the Black Horn Region was the most correct choice Lu Yi had ever made, he sighed softly. "Until now I still can't believe that this is really the rumored Black Horn Region."

"Don't even mention you. I've been here longer than you, and even I still can't believe that this is the Black Horn Region."

Old Man Yingshan came over with two cups of tea, smiling, and handed one of them to Lu Yi. Lu Yi took a sip from the cup and looked at Old Man Yingshan in confusion.

"Old Eagle, you have such strength, but you are willing to stay in this small tea shop. Don't you feel suffocated?"

When he first came to the tea shop, Lu Yi didn't know the identity and strength of Old Man Yingshan. He just treated him as an old man of the same age as himself. But when he found out later, Lu Yi was so scared that he almost had a heart attack.

Old Man Yingshan, the strongest in the Black Horn Region, a hidden guardian with the strength of an eight-star Dou Zun!

Lu Yi, who had worked as a handyman in the Glacier Valley for almost his entire life, could never have imagined that one day he would be treated so equally by such a powerful man.

"Haha~ No matter how strong I am, what does it matter? After all, I am just an old man who is about to die." The old man Yingshan waved his hand lightly, sat down slowly, and enjoyed the fragrant tea in his hand. "I have been busy running around to improve my strength for most of my life. In the end, it is better to stay in this small tea shop for a few years to relax and enjoy it."

"Not having to be dragged down, doing what you like safely and steadily, this is what life is all about. In comparison, the first few decades of my life seem to have been wasted."

"And all this is thanks to Xiao Yan."

The tone of old man Yingshan was full of admiration. It was very strange that he used to pursue strength madly, but the growth was so slow. However, when he really let go of the pursuit of power and started to live an ordinary life, his strength began to grow continuously, and he reached the level of Eight-Star Dou Zun, a realm that he had never dared to think about before.

But even if he had such strength... no, it was precisely because of such strength that Old Man Yingshan knew more clearly that the only person who could make changes in the Black Horn Region was Xiao Yan, and no one else, no matter how strong, could do it.

This can only be accomplished if you have the motivation to work hard, the determination to fight for it, and the true empathy for the weak. At least, Old Man Yingshan believes that he cannot do it.

Hearing Xiao Yan's name, Lu Yi's eyes revealed gratitude.

If it weren't for Xiao Yan, even if he took the money, he would just live the rest of his miserable life in loneliness in a small city in a remote corner of Zhongzhou. He would never be able to watch the people coming and going on the street and chat with the old man from Yingshan as peacefully as he is now. This made Lu Yi sincerely look forward to it.

How wonderful it would be if the whole world could be like Blackhorn.

At this moment, the old man Yingshan's expression changed. He suddenly looked in the direction of the Black Horn border with his brows tightly furrowed.

Is there a scent of battle over there?

But it was over in a moment. Old Man Yingshan also knew that Yuan Yi and Yao Ye had been guarding the border recently, so it should be just a small fight like before.

"Grandpa Lu Yi! Grandpa Yingshan!"

At this time, a group of children happily ran into the tea shop. Lu Yi's eyes suddenly showed kindness, and he looked at these innocent children with a smile.

"You all came to see Grandpa?"

"Yes! Sister Xiao Mei and Brother Xiao Ning are taking us out to play today!"

The children waved their hands happily. These children were all adopted from the Black Horn Orphanage and often came to the tea shop to help. Old man Lu Yi and Yingshan, who had no children all their lives, loved them very much and often gave them some money as wages for their help to express their gratitude.

It’s not that Lu Yi and Old Man Yingshan are stingy and don’t want to give more, but these children have been taught to be very sensible and only take what they deserve, and they don’t want anything more.

Old Man Yingshan raised his head and looked at the three people who walked in from outside the tea shop. They were Xiao Ning, Xiao Mei and Lin Wu who had made an appointment to go shopping together today. As for the inviter, it was naturally Lin Wu.

Xiao Ning and Xiao Mei were surprised when they received Lin Wu's invitation, but they accepted it without hesitation. They also wanted to have more contact with Lin Wu, this woman who made them feel inexplicably friendly.

"Senior Yingshan, Grandpa Lu Yi, we are here to disturb you with our children~"

Xiao Mei greeted him in her usual playful way, but Old Man Yingshan just waved his hand helplessly.

"Don't say that next time. We two old men are bored running this tea shop. We wish you could come here every day."

Then Old Man Yingshan turned his gaze to Lin Wu, who also nodded and smiled in greeting, while a hint of wariness was revealed in Old Man Yingshan's deep eyes.

As the most popular restaurant on this street, of course he knew Lin Wu, the fourth of four sisters.

It was precisely because of this acquaintance that the old man from Yingshan became alert. He always felt that he had seen Lin Wu somewhere, but after searching carefully in his memory, he could not find this person.

The same goes for Lin Wu’s three sisters. They all look like ordinary women who run a restaurant, but old man Yingshan’s instinct from surviving years of fighting tells him that those three women are very dangerous.

Therefore, ever since the three sisters Lin Wu opened a restaurant on this street, Old Man Yingshan has been watching them secretly, but he never found anything unusual, as if these four people were just ordinary women who opened a restaurant honestly.

Just as Old Man Yingshan was lost in thought, two more people came into the tea shop. Xiao Mei and Xiao Ning turned around and were suddenly stunned.

"Senior Han Yue?"

That's right, the people who came were Han Yue and Han Xue who had parted with Xiao Yan at the auction house earlier. The two sisters were wandering on the street with nothing to do. When they passed by a tea shop, they remembered that this tea was quite famous, so they wanted to bring some tea back for Han Chi to taste.

"Xiao Mei, Xiao Ning, long time no see." Han Yue was slightly stunned, then came back to her senses and greeted with a smile: "It's quite a coincidence to run into you here."

"Xiao Mei! Long time no see!"

Han Xue was not as serious as Han Yue. She walked up to Xiao Mei, clasped their fingers together and smiled happily. Xiao Mei's joy was also visibly evident. The two of them were of similar age and had a lot in common. The two of them became familiar with each other after Han Yue brought her to meet Xiao Mei for the first time.

At this time, Han Yue turned his gaze to Lin Wu, his expression slightly stunned.

This familiar feeling. I seem to have seen her somewhere?

Before Han Yue could think deeply, Xiao Ning asked with his arms crossed.

"Senior Han Yue, when did you arrive?"

"We just arrived today. By the way, Xiao Yan also came with us."

Han Yue just remembered and said this, which made Xiao Ning and Xiao Mei stunned, and then ecstasy appeared in their eyes.

"Xiao Yan is back?!"

"Cousin Xiao Yan is back?!"

When Lu Yi and Old Man Yingshan heard the news that Xiao Yan had returned, they couldn't help but smile. Lu Yi spoke.

"I, an old man, must thank him very much this time."

"I haven't seen that boy for a long time."

Lu Yi and Old Man Yingshan spoke one by one, while Lin Wu on the side also frowned tightly and murmured softly.

"Xiao Yan." (End of this chapter)