As Huang Yan received the cultivation techniques from Xiao Yan, he gave them to Li Feifei and Yi Yun just after the lesson was over.
Then he started doing the missions of the Cultivation Hall just like Gu Yan and Long Yan.
From then on, he would spend his days doing missions and his nights with his three women.
He didn't plan to have more and was really satisfied with the three.
When he learned that they were pregnant at the same time, he proposed them to get married and to live in Li Feifei's family.
They accepted since they were now like sisters and didn't care where they lived as long as they were together.
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It was a little wedding with only their friends and their closest family.
Huang Yan didn't need to ponder over a plan and the Patriarch of the Ashen Flames Family came accompanied with the elders to propose him to become an elder.
To their surprise, he accepted and went living there.
But those who expected to save their Spiritual Stones by having him in their clan soon understood that he wouldn't work for free, at least not for them.
Still, they couldn't say anything as his master was one of the Martial Ancestors of the sect.
The only ones who got a free breakthrough were Huang Yu, his friend Nanmen Tianhai and other close relatives of his wives.
Since Huang Yu was Huang Ying's grandfather, he couldn't possibly let him pay, same for the others.
It wasn't like he absolutely needed Spiritual Stones, and these few people were nothing compared to the huge number of people who had to pay him.
For them, Huang Yan even added a cultivation technique that would let them reach the Deity Rank if they had enough cultivation resources.
He also quickly became a good friend of Li Xingyun.
To help him in becoming the next Patriarch, he lent him five million Spiritual Stones.
He knew of his deals with Xiao Yan and that he would able to rapidly give back everything.
Just as he thought, the latter gave him back six million Spiritual Stones two weeks later.
After that, Huang Yan started to exchange his Spiritual Stones for Gold Spiritual Stone Essences.
He gave one to his wives but told them to stop at the peak of the Heavenly Axis Realm.
As his friend's force was growing, he gave him a powerful cultivation technique for each possible attribute to share with his underlings.
Li Xingyun never fought with Li Yufeng over Deity Lakes.
Generally, the force controlling a Deity Lake would disband and then join him.
Once he had enough underlings, he also took Deity Lakes from the bullies of the sect and soon, his Heavenly Path League became as strong as Long Tianming's Celestial Dragon Guards.
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A few months later, Huang Yan was a peak Stage-9 Martial Ancestor.
There were no longer missions about breakthrough and the others about illnesses were getting less and less.
He spent some of his free time training Li Xingyun, who already received a Mutated God Level Growth Rate Dragon Bloodline demon spirit from Xiao Yan.
Just like Gu Bei, he was waiting for the yearly assemble of the six sects to defeat his hated enemy in front of everyone.
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When Li Yufeng got beaten by Li Xingyun in front of the six sects, the family held an important meeting with the Patriarch and all of the elders.
Most of them tried to punish Li Xingyun for merging with a powerful demon spirit instead of giving it to the clan.
The Patriarch turned to Huang Yan, who didn't say anything until now, "What does elder Huang Yan think?"
His position within the clan was really important.
Not to mention his sworn brother Gu Yan who was married to Hierarch Gu Lan or Long Yan who was the son-in-law of Hierarch Long Shuyun, he was also one of Hierarch Ming Fei's disciple!
If they offended him now and needed his help in the future, they might very well end up like Gu Yu.
Just look at the latter.
He was a powerful Stage-9 Dao of Dragon expert who needed the help of the newcomers from the Tiny World.
Because his disciple offended them months ago, he suffered so much pain that he had to commit suicide.
Nobody doubted that they could have saved him since they managed to cure everyone else.
Yet, nobody dared to badmouth them.
What a joke! They helped the Divine Feathers Sect into having thousands of new Dao of Dragon Realm experts.
If anything, the people blamed the old man for raising such an arrogant disciple.
By looking at their achievements, did Gu Heng really think they would become his underlings?
Even if they weren't so talented, does he need to suppress anyone who refuses to join him?
Huang Yan chuckled and said, "Li Xingyun is stronger, has stronger subordinates and has a better character than Li Yufeng. The real question is, what do you want for the future of the family? Do you want a weak Ashen Flames Family led by Li Yufeng, or a stronger than ever Ashen Flames Family led by Li Xingyun? I understand that a lot of you worked behind the scenes to push him into the successor position, but you have to face the truth: he isn't worthy.
Regardless of your decision, Li Xingyun has the full support of the Tiny World, so if you decide to suppress him, we'll have to step in"
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In the end, they had no choice but to appoint Li Xingyun as the first-in-line successor of the Ashen Flames Family.
Huang Yan knew that some of them still hoped that Li Yufeng would make a comeback.
He shook his head, the poor fools would learn it the hard way when the bastard would get crushed by Xiao Yan.
Huang Yan gave sixty thousand of his new demon spirits to Li Xingyun.
Soon, all of his underlings integrated with those much more powerful demon spirits.
He didn't think Li Xingyun's underlings would ever betray the latter, but if they did, he was already prepared to put a soul seal on them.
As for himself, he was waiting for the birth of his children to let his wives become Martial Ancestors.