Chapter 471 Breakthrough Failed
Hun Diao wanted to do it himself at this time, but Xun'er obviously would not give him this opportunity. He could only count on Hun Li now.

Hun Li also knew the seriousness of the situation. A hint of cruelty flashed in his eyes, and then he quickly formed seals with his hands, and the clan pattern between his eyebrows began to emit light.

As the clan emblem was activated, Hun Li's aura also rose steadily.

The eight ancient families all have secret methods that can improve their strength, and the Soul Clan naturally has one too. After using the secret method, not only did Hun Li's strength improve, but his body also became extremely tall. The only bad thing is that he looks too ugly, like a monster.

After Hun Li's strength increased, the Sky Demon Puppet at the entrance of the cave was obviously no match for him. After rushing into the cave with great force, he saw Xiao Yan who was sitting cross-legged and practicing.

"Hehehe! Want to break through to the Douluo Saint level? That's just wishful thinking!" A ferocious smile appeared on Hun Li's lips, and then he flicked his sleeves. A black iron chain shot out from his cuffs and flew towards Xiao Yan.

"Dang!" There was a sound of metal intertwining. The black iron chain could no longer move forward after it was three feet away from Xiao Yan, as if it was blocked by something.

“I didn’t expect there was still defense, but my goal is to prevent you from breaking through. As long as you fail to break through to the Dou Sheng level and get backlashed… hehe.” A sneer appeared on Hun Li’s lips, and he looked at Xiao Yan and said, “You can rest assured here. Miss Xun’er burned her own blood for you. If you don’t take action, her blood level will return to the ninth rank or even lower. Once this result occurs, you know what the Ancient Clan will do to her. She will become the sinner of the entire Ancient Clan.”

Hun Li's words were like a sharp sword, piercing Xiao Yan's heart. Although she knew there was a fight outside, she didn't know that it was Xun'er who was burning her blood.

Xiao Yan's heart was in turmoil, and his aura began to become extremely disordered.

Seeing that what he said had worked, Hun Li's smile of success immediately appeared on his face. He knew that Xiao Yan's breakthrough to the Douluo level had completely failed this time.

"Puff!" Xiao Yan suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. The failure to break through caused damage to his meridians. His whole body felt painful as if he was pierced by millions of needles.

"How do you want to die!" Xiao Yan suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked at Hun Li with murderous intent in his eyes.

Hearing this, Hun Li laughed loudly and said, "Haha! As long as I can stop you from becoming a Dou Sheng, my life will be worth it."

Hun Li also knew that he was doomed to die. After all, even if Xiao Yan failed to break through, he was still a Dou Sheng. He was no match for him.

"Die!" Xiao Yan clenched his hands suddenly, and a long sword appeared in his hand. He held the hilt with both hands and directly used the move of splitting Huashan and slashed towards Hun Li.

The terrifying sword energy directly condensed into a thousand-foot-long sword, which fell on Hun Li. Hun Li had no power to fight back at all and was directly chopped to pieces.

After Xiao Yan killed Hun Li, he flashed out of the cave. When he saw Xun'er being beaten back by an old man from the Soul Palace, he became furious.

Hun Diao sensed someone behind him, and after some investigation, he found that Xiao Yan had not broken through to Dou Sheng, and his aura was a little disordered, which obviously meant that he had failed to break through. He was relieved immediately. If Xiao Yan had really succeeded in breaking through, they would probably have become the souls under Xiao Yan's knife. "Brother Xiao Yan!" Xun'er saw that Xiao Yan was forced to come out of retreat, and it was obvious that he had failed to break through, and she immediately blamed herself.

Seeing blood constantly flowing out of Xun'er's mouth, her aura fluctuating, and her divine bloodline becoming somewhat unstable, Xiao Yan felt distressed. He then looked at Hun Diao and asked in a cold voice, "Did you beat her like this?"

“So what? If you could break through to the Douluo Saint level, I would still be afraid of you. But now you are just a Half-Saint with disordered aura who failed to break through.” Hun Diao naturally would not take Xiao Yan, who was at the Half-Saint level, seriously. But he didn’t know that Xiao Yan’s physical body was the most terrifying.

"Killing you is enough." Xiao Yan was too lazy to talk nonsense. He raised the big knife in his hands with both hands and chopped towards Hun Diao with a move of splitting Huashan. The terrifying sword energy swept out, about a thousand feet long, and chopped straight towards Hun Diao.

Hun Diao was shocked to see that Xiao Yan was still so powerful even though he failed to break through. Looking at the big knife that was about to fall, he blasted his hands upwards, and terrifying black air suddenly gushed out and swept towards the big knife.

"Dang!" The black mist condensed into a huge shield in the air. A nearly thousand-foot-long sword fell on the shield, making a crisp sound. However, after only a moment of stalemate, tiny cracks appeared on the shield.

"Hah!" Xiao Yan shouted loudly and slashed at the shield again. A terrifying blade light swept out.

"Bang!" After the big knife fell on the shield, the shield was directly split into two halves. The nearly thousand-foot-long blade light directly hit Hun Diao, splitting him into two halves.

Until his death, Hun Diao never figured out why he died so casually. Xiao Yan only used two moves and he was gone.

Xiao Yan naturally didn't care about Hun Diao's dying thoughts. He hurried to Xun'er's side and asked worriedly, "How is it? Is the injury serious?"

"Brother Xiao Yan, I didn't protect you well, so you failed to break through. I... I'm not as good as Medusa! She would give her life for you..." Xun'er said self-blamingly when she saw Xiao Yan failed to break through.

"Silly girl, what are you talking about! It's just a failed breakthrough, it's not a big deal. Besides, I was not prepared for this unexpected breakthrough at all. Failure is failure, it's nothing. On the contrary, you, silly girl, how can you even burn your blood? Do you know that this thing is very important to you?" Xiao Yan hurriedly comforted her.

"But Medusa still burned her soul essence for you, and then she was almost beaten to death when you were in seclusion. I'm really useless... and I made you fail to break through." Xun'er said with a look of self-blame.

Seeing that Xun'er couldn't stop talking about Medusa and that she was obviously very concerned about this failure, Xiao Yan also sighed.

Xun'er and Medusa are both very strong-willed women. Not to mention them, Xiao Yixian is also a strong-willed woman, but she just deliberately hides it in front of Xiao Yan.

"In fact, I could have made a breakthrough, but I gave up later because it was not a good thing for me to break through to the Dou Sheng so quickly. My strength has increased too fast along the way, to the point that my foundation is unstable. I also told you that the main purpose of coming to this Tianmu this time is to calm myself down. It doesn't matter to me whether my strength improves or not. The previous breakthrough made me unable to resist the temptation. After all, the Dou Sheng is too tempting, but I also know that once this breakthrough is successful, it will be difficult to improve in the future. My ultimate goal is to become the Dou Di. So after hearing that you were injured, I gave up directly. After all, I didn't want to break through, but I just couldn't find a reason." Xiao Yan saw that Xun'er was blaming herself. He knew that if this continued, Xun'er would form a nightmare in her heart. Once this happened, her strength would stagnate.

(End of this chapter)