Traveling through the heavens from swallowing

Chapter 429: Queen Medusa, the birth of strange fire, stubbornness and will, the transformation of different determinations!

In the scorching desert, everything is steaming. The scorching sand and gravel are picked up by the hot wind and hit the dark and mottled city walls hard, making crackling sounds.

Looking further ahead, a huge and tall black city comes into view, like a stubborn stone in the yellow sand, a rock that will never move.

Team after team of soldiers dressed in black armor patrolled the city walls, with long snake tails trailing behind them.

This is the center of the snake people, the temple belonging to Queen Medusa, and is called the Snake Temple City by the humans of the Gama Empire.

This city has been built a long time ago. It was not built by Queen Medusa of this generation, but was inherited.

But after such a long time, this city has always maintained the style and scale when it was first established. Everyone who sees this city can't help but sigh: What a high level of cultural relics protection!

However, Medusa did not want to protect the cultural relics. She was an ambitious queen who wanted to lead the snake people to leave the desert and occupy better land and build a big snake city, a truly civilized city!
She originally thought that this wish would be realized by herself and the Snake People after she broke through to the Dou Zong level, but the reality always develops beyond expectations. Just a few years after starting to cooperate with the Xiao family, a real Snake People civilization city rose from the ground in the desert.

She had been to that city. The city walls were long and solid, thick and tall, and the high defensive power was visibly visible.

The streets were planned in an orderly manner, the city was beautiful and prosperous, and the ventilation and drainage, things that the snake people had never considered before, were done in a shocking way. Even the city protection formation was not left behind.

This huge city attracted many Snake people from far and wide to gather here. The eight major tribes were the first to announce their move in. All the Snake tribes scattered in the desert basically gathered here. Even if they had to leave again for the desert resources, they still had their own place in the Snake City.

As the only inhabited city of the snake people, this snake city has now accommodated more than 300 million snake people, as well as hundreds of thousands of humans who come for trade, tourism, exploration, etc.

Whether in terms of city size, population size, urban planning, commercial prosperity, cultural construction, military security or even traffic management, this city, which was established only a few years ago, is worthy of being rated as a major imperial city.

But there is only one thing that makes this city, which should have the title of "big city", lose a lot of its luster, that is, there is no absolute leader who can truly command all the tribes.

The City Lord's Mansion had been completed long ago, or it could be said to be the Queen's Palace. This palace complex, which could be called a city within a city, was the most luxurious and precious building in the entire Snake City, but it had been waiting for its owner to move in.

Queen Medusa should have moved from the Temple City on the day the Queen's Palace was completed, but her inner pride prompted her to reject the proposal and stubbornly continue to live in the temple.

There is no doubt that this is an irresponsible behavior, because if the high-ranking officials of the major tribes of the Snake People are not disciplined by the queen for a long time and are corrupted by a comfortable life, it will only take a few years or even decades for their ambitions to grow.

Once ambition arises, greed will sweep across the entire Snake People, and the Snake City that has been built with great difficulty will be dragged into the war, making the results of several years of construction by millions of Snake People come to naught.

Even more devastating disasters may come!

"So, Queen Medusa, it's time to put aside your pride and think about the entire snake people. If you wear the crown, you must bear its weight. Since you are the king of the snake people, you must consider the overall development and survival of the snake people. This is your responsibility as a king." Liu Mang said lightly.

Queen Medusa glanced at him and sneered, "I've also heard a saying, don't bow your head, or the crown will fall off. You told me that."

"Really?" Liu Mang was not flustered at all, and he just wiped his spit in his face, "That's because I said something wrong. If I don't bow my head, how can I put a crown on you? How about this sentence?"

At the same time, Liu Mang quickly recalled when he had said that, but his memory was full of various scenes of refining medicine and equipment, and there was no chat record with Queen Medusa, so he gave up.

Queen Medusa sneered and was indeed amused by Liu Mang.

"Then you can grow taller, so I don't have to bow my head and you can put the crown on me."

Liu Mang glanced at Medusa's upright figure with her snake tail coiled, nearly three meters tall, and fell into deep thought.

He is a standard human, with artistic muscles that are full of male hormones, which makes Luo Shan like him very much. But his height is also standard human, at 1.8 meters, which is considered very tall among humans, but in front of Queen Medusa, he is not even up to her belly button.

If he were in the world of pirates, he could naturally use his standard admiral height of 3.3 meters to mock Queen Medusa for being a dwarf, but in this world, he can only follow the laws of nature.

Liu Mang was immediately unhappy and was about to start scolding.

But thinking that this was one of the nine agents he had booked, he endured it.

When recruiting agents, people must truly agree to it. Otherwise, instead of helping them accept the plug-ins he sends, their luck will backfire on them.

Humph! When you start working, I'll show you how I'll deal with you!
Liu Mang chatted with Queen Medusa every day, trying to persuade her to bow her head and become a snake, accept the teachings of Master Liu Mang, and contribute her beautiful body to the bright future of the snake people.

But Queen Medusa remained unmoved, and even now Liu Mang still didn't know her name.

Liu Mang had never thought of calling Medusa Queen directly. Medusa is the name of a race and Queen is a position. Every generation of snake kings is Medusa and the Queen. Calling her that directly is a bit disrespectful to the ancestors.

Cai Lin in the original novel was a name given to her by Xiao Yan. It was not her real name. She accepted it as a gift from her man out of love, and it also showed her determination to cut off ties with her previous self.

I really don't know what Queen Medusa's name is.

Liu Mang asked as soon as he thought of it, and he wanted to speak directly: "What's your name?"

"Medusa." The queen's cold voice came into his ears, very cold and aloof.

Liu Mang glanced and said, "No, I mean your real name. Medusa is the name of your race. I know that!"

"Medusa," the queen repeated, her voice still cold.

Liu Mang scratched his head. It’s not easy to communicate with you. I haven’t even shown my fighting spirit, so why are you always acting like a queen?
Do you know that as a fighting saint, I am treated as a god by the python clan in the Nine Netherworld? How dare the little Queen Medusa be so arrogant? You are going to make trouble!

He simply endured it. After all, these were the only few people in the world who could carry him back to the heavenly realm. If that was the case, then what was the Nine Netherworld Python clan? They were not as noble as the queen.

Just when Liu Mang wanted to change the topic and continue the awkward conversation, a special wave came from somewhere in the distance, attracting the attention of Liu Mang and Queen Medusa.

"Green Lotus Earth Core Fire?" Liu Mang said, touching his chin.

Queen Medusa immediately lost her breath, rushed down from the throne, lifted Liu Mang's collar and asked, "What did you say?"

Liu Mang was annoyed and slapped away the queen's white and tender but skull-opening hand, repeating: "The Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire, that is the nineteenth-ranked strange fire on the strange fire list, and this fluctuation is emitted by it."

Queen Medusa immediately spread her fighting spirit wings and flew into the air, quickly heading towards the direction where the wave came from.

Liu Mang followed in the air, saying as he walked:
"I know you are anxious, but don't be anxious yet. I know that you need to use strange fire to refine your body to improve your bloodline in order to break through to the Dou Zong stage. But this is too dangerous. Even if the power of this newly born Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire is average, you will still be in danger of death if you use it to refine your body."

"I have many safe ways to improve your bloodline. Why would you risk the one in ten chance of success?"

"If you think I'm trying to force you to give in, that's fine. I can first improve your bloodline, and then slowly talk about joining us. If you don't want to, you can just keep dragging it out."

The queen bit her lower lip gently, feeling a little moved and touched at the same time.

She also knew Liu Mang's status. He had the leisure to take the time to build a relationship with her, and now he promised to get on the bus first and buy the ticket later. His sincerity was enough to move her.

But she still refused.

"I am Medusa, the king of the snake people. I can accept that the snake people can live a good life without relying on me. This is my responsibility. But I cannot accept that I have to rely on others!"

"My journey to becoming a Dou Zong, Medusa, must be completed by myself!"

"At least, I have to get through the Dou Zong level by myself. I don't believe that even becoming a Dou Zong requires help!"

The queen's voice was sonorous and powerful, and the determination in it was clearly conveyed to Liu Mang's ears.

He suddenly felt a little regretful. Perhaps he had put too much pressure on her. The fact that the snake people no longer needed her to take charge allowed her to fight more determinedly.

The queen is the queen after all. She can accept temporary failure, but she must eventually regain her pride from other aspects.

You are too ambitious, Liu Mang sighed.

Liu Mang has taken care of everything for the snake people. Queen Medusa can only find victory from herself. This test of strange fire may be her last stubbornness.

Liu Mang wanted to call her stubborn and stupid, but, it was precisely because of this that she was the queen with all the charm and grace.
In the original novel, when Xiao Yan obtained the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire, it was not long before the three-year agreement was fulfilled, which was when Xiao Yan was about 17 years old or close to 18 years old.

Xiao Yan is just over 16 years old now, and in the original novel, the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire was taken away by Queen Medusa around this time.

Maybe it was even earlier, because of the establishment of the Snake City, Liu Mang set up a large super spirit gathering array in the desert. The higher concentration of energy from heaven and earth may have allowed the Blue Lotus Earth Core Fire to be born ahead of time.

As for whether the Blue Lotus Earth Fire in the original work was newly born, Liu Mang didn't know. Judging from its power, it was almost newly born, and its power was similar to when he first created the "Blue Sky Earth Fire", which was about the Dou Zong level.

Therefore, Liu Mang tends to believe that the Qinglian Earth Core Fire in the original book was also newly born, and then the fluctuations of the birth of the strange fire attracted the attention of Queen Medusa who was not far away, and was directly taken away by her to be used for burning body transformation.

Soon, the two came to the place where the waves were emanating, which happened to be outside the Stone Desert City. Queen Medusa glared with her beautiful eyes, and blasted out with a palm with intense fighting spirit. With a loud bang, a passage was torn in the desert, which seemed to go straight into the ground.

She transformed into a giant snake, dived down, and escaped directly into the desert through the passage.

But it seemed that the passage was not hit accurately. She went in and out repeatedly and changed direction many times before she succeeded and entered a huge underground cave.

The fiery red magma flows slowly in it, and occasionally huge bubbles emerge from the magma. But after a moment, with a slight sound, it explodes with a bang, and the hot magma bursts out from it, as gorgeous as a fiery red firework.

Queen Medusa looked at the endless magma world in front of her and smiled brightly.

"The strange fire is really here!"

She transformed herself into a human body with a snake tail again, feeling the breath of destruction coming from under the lava. Without hesitation, she jumped directly into the lava sea and continued to dive.

The clear glow of fighting spirit turned into a thin layer covering her body, completely isolating her from the high temperature and burning of the lava.

Queen Medusa, who is at the peak of Douhuang level, cannot be hurt by this ordinary magma.

During the dive, a two-headed fire snake appeared and wanted to have a bite. The two people opposite looked tender and must be delicious.

As a result, after being glared at by Queen Medusa, he became dejected and had no integrity at all as a 4th-level monster.

But it is normal. When the two-headed fire snake grows to its peak, it will become a sixth-level magical beast, and Queen Medusa is now a strong man comparable to the peak of the sixth-level magical beast. Moreover, Medusa's bloodline is also extremely high among snake bloodlines. The two-headed fire snake cannot afford to touch it.

In the original novel, it took Xiao Yan 10 to 20 minutes to walk, but Queen Medusa only needed a few minutes to walk. In the depths of the lava sea, a piece of magma filled with green light appeared in front of the two people, and in the center was a green lotus.

The green lotus has eight petals. The eight green leaves are as perfect as the most perfect green jade, and they are crystal clear at first glance, making people feel unable to let it go.

In the lotus, there seems to be a small lotus platform about two or three feet in size. Some holes on the lotus platform emit little glows. They are lotus seeds condensed from the purest fire energy.

Below the green lotus was an extremely slender rhizome that was more than ten meters long. On top of the rhizome, there were densely packed tiny tentacles that swayed and almost greedily absorbed the violent fire attribute energy from the surrounding magma.

In the center of the lotus platform, in a fist-sized hole, a green flame was spinning and trembling like a small ball, emanating endless destruction and violent aura from it.

This thing that has condensed into a small ball is the Blue Lotus Earth Core Fire, ranked 19th on the Strange Fire List!

Queen Medusa looked at the strange blue fire with an unpredictable look in her eyes, showing fear, hesitation, yearning, and bitterness, but eventually turning into determination.

"The blood of snake people is cold and yin, while the strange fire is extremely masculine and hot. Even this newly born strange fire is enough to destroy your body, burn your blood, and even burn your soul." Liu Mang suddenly spoke.

"Use the masculine fire of the strange fire to balance the yin and yang of your own blood to seek mutual assistance, and use the strange fire to violently refine the impurities and harmful deposits in the blood, so as to give birth to a new body in the old body, completely transform the blood to get rid of the shackles of Medusa's blood, and evolve to the ancient blood. From then on, the fish returns to the sea and the dragon enters the sky."

"This is naturally an excellent path. Not only can you evolve your bloodline, but you can also give birth to a new body and live another 500 years. Both your talent and strength will surge, enough to establish you as a fighting saint. But you know how difficult this path is. Even for you, the success rate is less than 1%. Once you fail, you will completely disappear from this world. Even I can't keep your soul. Have you really thought it through?"

Liu Mang explained to her the difficulty and tried to dissuade her from thinking this way.

This road is really dangerous, especially since her fate with Xiao Yan has ended and she no longer has the help of the protagonist's luck. She is also unwilling to accept Liu Mang's help, so her chances of success are slim.

Queen Medusa took down the strange fire and said firmly: "I made the decision before I came here. I am Queen Medusa, and I will never fall behind you!"

Oh, what a damned mood.
After taking down the strange fire, Queen Medusa did not move the lotus platform.

Although natural treasures can be known by those who are destined to do so, it is not advisable to cut them off.

The strange fires other than the top three on the strange fire list are not unique. As long as this lotus platform is here, one day a strange fire will be able to be regenerated.

The snake people are barbaric, but precisely because of their barbarity, they know that natural treasures are hard to come by and that sustainable development is the only way to go. Even a proud person like Queen Medusa will not engage in destructive mining.

In comparison, although human civilization is prosperous and has long known the importance of sustainable development, very few people can actually put it into practice.

Even Xiao Yan in the original novel coveted the lotus platform and only kept a root.

The contrast is somewhat strong. Liu Mang deeply reflected on himself and realized that he is basically a representative of predatory sustainable development. It can be sustainable, but it must be sustained in his own hands. It is better to cut it off at the root than to leave it to others.

However, Liu Mang no longer cares about the Strange Fire Lotus Platform. Since the queen wants to keep it, then he can keep it.

After returning to the Temple City, Queen Medusa immediately arranged for the Snake People to prepare the materials needed for her evolution.

You can't just refine your body with strange fire directly, that would be suicide, you must have the corresponding auxiliary items and methods.

In the original novel, it took the Snake People a full half year to prepare for this, but now the Snake People, who have grown stronger, only took half a day to be ready.

This efficiency was beyond Queen Medusa's expectations, so she overturned her previous plan and upgraded the preparation level, intending to use better conditions to increase the success rate.

In the original novel, it took half a year of preparation before the evolution began because the Snake People only had that ability. However, the Snake People now are different from the original. As the strategic partner of the Xiao family (relying on more advanced Earth Fire nodes to produce Douwang Pills, Douhuang Pills and other high-level pills to supply the Xiao family), the Snake People can do much more than in the original novel.

For a whole month, the Snake People were working hard for the evolution of Queen Medusa. Some were building purification pools, some were building evolution pools, some were collecting treasures, and some were buying elixirs. The entire Snake People seemed to be busy.

There was actually a reason for the establishment of the Temple City. Originally, it was to prevent wind and sand from eroding the central oasis. The original Temple City was built to block the wind and sand on one side of the city. The extremely tall city walls were not used to prevent enemy attacks, but to serve as barriers against wind and sand.

On the other side of the Temple City is the largest oasis in the Tagor Desert. The countless huge rocks surrounding the city were specially moved here to protect this oasis.

In the center of this oasis there is a fairly large lake with a radius of more than two kilometers. In the center of the lake, the snake people have built an island with a large pool filled with collected ice spirit cold springs.

Compared to the small lakes and ponds in the huge temple in the original work, this pond here is even larger than the lake in the original work, and the amount of ice spirit cold spring contained in it is even huge.

In addition to the Ice Spirit Cold Spring, the pool also contains a large amount of high-level natural treasure "Ten Thousand Years of Mysterious Ice Marrow", and uses the technology of the Xiao family's spiritual pool to incorporate countless elixirs that help with transformation, recovery, and life-saving. This pool of spiritual liquid is even better than the Xiao family's spiritual pool that Liu Mang built and used twice.

The lakes on the periphery emit a large amount of water energy, which can weaken the destructiveness and destructiveness of the strange fire, making the evolution a little safer.

At this point, the snake people have done what they can do, and the rest depends on Queen Medusa herself.

The external conditions were already the most generous thing the Snake People could offer, and even this was the result of Liu Mang secretly asking the Xiao family for help.

If it is higher, Liu Mang will have to do it personally, and this is something Queen Medusa is unwilling to accept.

In the center of the cold pool, the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire was bound by an imitation lotus platform, but it was only slightly bound. Once the strange fire was stimulated to explode, the lotus platform would be destroyed in an instant.

Queen Medusa calmly walked into the cold pool, not caring at all that Liu Mang was watching from behind. She slipped off her purple brocade robe, and her jade-white skin was completely exposed to the air. Her slender waist, which seemed like it would break at any time, was incredibly flexible.

She scooped up the pool water and sprinkled it into the air, with a pure smile she had never had before on her face. At this moment, she was no longer a queen, but a little girl happily playing in the water.

"Hello, Patriarch Xiao." Suddenly, Queen Medusa's still clear and cold voice reached Liu Mang's ears. He looked in the direction of the voice and saw the beautiful woman's delicate body.

But he never let his eyes fall on that beautiful body for even a second. He just stared at her eyes, and that gaze seemed real.

Queen Medusa didn't care and lazily displayed her body. Then, she chuckled and said, "I promise you. I hope you can give me a nice name."

After saying that, she transformed into a giant snake and plunged directly into the strange fire.

The blue flames swelled rapidly, and the stimulated Blue Lotus Earth Core Fire wantonly released its own destruction and violence. The lotus platform instantly vaporized, and the water in the cold pool began to evaporate with a hissing sound, and the misty fog completely obscured the cold pool.

But the green flame cast its light out of the thick fog, illuminating the sky and earth with a clear glow. Black shadows were tumbling in the green light. One could imagine how Queen Medusa's more than ten-foot-long snake body would look like, covered in flames.

The shrill screams spread in all directions, bringing Liu Mang back from his daze.

Then he was confused again: What did you promise? Can you explain it more clearly?

You act like you agreed to my proposal, but I really didn't propose to you. Did you misunderstand something?
Liu Mang had the urge to drag her out and interrogate her, but the pair of beautiful eyes that were resolute and yet extremely relaxed were imprinted in his mind, making him completely hesitate.

If alive, we will be together forever; if dead, everything will be gone.

This was the answer those eyes gave him, and it was also the last guarantee that prevented him from taking action.

If you want me, you must watch me complete my transformation. If you interrupt, you will be my enemy from now on!

Queen Medusa's determination was so unshakable that Liu Mang understood that there was only one way to conquer her, and that was to watch her complete her transformation and survive. No other way would work.

Liu Mang is very confused now. He doesn't know when he managed to conquer Queen Medusa. He has been trying to persuade her to be his running dog for the past few years. How did it turn out like this?
Is this the most deadly invisible strategy?

This is fatal. It is really fatal. The chance of death is 99%!
Liu Mang sighed again, what a damn ambition, do you have to walk side by side with me?
You know, I have cheats and you don’t. No matter how hard you try, you can’t catch up with me!
There has never been a moment when Liu Mang felt that he could not give a woman the happiness she wanted.

He has traveled through time so many times and had so many women, and they were all the love of the current world. He watched them enter reincarnation and did not long for meeting them in the next life. His ability only allowed him to give his family happiness in this life, and he has always done so, and this world also intends to do so.

But now, he encountered a problem.

Queen Medusa did not desire a lifetime of companionship. She was very greedy and wanted to be with him forever. She longed to stand beside him instead of behind him and hoped to see his face instead of his back.

But Liu Mang can't do it, and neither can the system.

He couldn't even bring his own body back to the Devouring Star Universe, so how could he bring others there?

System, do you have this function? Please tell me something!

The system is silent, and silence is the answer.

The increasingly shrill and painful roar interrupted Liu Mang's thoughts. He looked at the figure writhing in pain in the green light, with scales flying everywhere, and suddenly felt a little heartbroken.

It's not that I feel sad for the pain she is going through, but that her expectations are ultimately in vain. Her sincerity can only be exchanged for her hypocrisy, which is so unfair to her.

Regardless of success or failure this time, regardless of whether she lives or dies, all she can see is Liu Mang's back.

Even the back is not visible.
The wailing gradually subsided, the snake shadows stopped tumbling, the cold pool had long since evaporated, and the mist gradually dissipated.

The originally purple giant snake was now motionless, and the green flames still wrapped around it and burned it. Its plump and round body became shriveled and mottled, with countless wounds torn open. Its flesh and blood coagulated on the surface, turning into a pitch-black piece.

Scattered scales mixed with burnt flesh and blood covered the entire bottom of the pool, and a meaty aroma wafted into Liu Mang's nose.

He wanted to make a joke and say "You smell so good", but the words were stuck in his throat.

Queen Medusa succeeded, and Liu Mang clearly felt her surging soul power.

This should have been a good thing worth celebrating, but Liu Mang was not in such a mood.

The energy of heaven and earth began to riot. The originally clear sky suddenly became much darker. Groups of dark clouds that came from nowhere slowly covered the sky.

In the dark clouds, there was suddenly a roaring sound of thunder, and silver lightning flashed randomly in it, like long silver snakes.

A huge roar sounded, and in an instant, the sky and the earth were bright, and a huge silver thunderbolt shot down from the clouds and smashed into the ball of green flame.

The entire snake body exploded, and a beautiful, flawless white figure appeared in its place. Silver lightning moved across her body, but could not hurt her at all.

A vast and terrifying aura suddenly burst out and quickly enveloped the city at an astonishing speed.

The Medusa snake guards patrolling everywhere, the eight tribal leaders gathered here waiting for the result, and the four elders deep in the temple, all knelt on the ground facing here involuntarily, shouting "Long live the Queen".

(End of this chapter)