Battle Through the Heavens: The Beginning of the Dou Sheng Inheritance

Chapter 52 Ice King

After walking at a leisurely pace for a while, a map shop called "Gu Tu" came into Xiao Jue's sight.

Xiao Jue entered the shop. The shop was not very spacious, but the faint light from the two moonstones made the shop quite bright.

My gaze swept across the shop; there weren't many people buying maps, and it was rather deserted.

As Xiao Jue slowly walked into the shop, his gaze swept around and finally settled on an elderly man behind the counter who was carefully making a map with his head down.

The old man was clearly quite old, but although his hair was completely white, his withered hands holding the drawing pen were still steady and strong.

Xiao Jue's gaze swept over the large number of maps on the counter, and he slowly walked to a rustic wooden shelf in the corner of the shop.

This wooden frame is clearly quite old, covered with holes from decayed wood. On it, some yellowed maps are casually piled up. Judging from the tattered marks on the surface of these maps, they seem to be failed products from the time they were made.

Xiao Jue casually flipped through the yellowed maps, a faint musty smell wafting out. He frowned slightly, picked up a stack of failed works, and his hand trembled slightly. Suddenly, a tattered picture, no bigger than a palm, fell out of the stack of failed works.

Holding the tattered picture, which looked as if it would crumble to dust at the slightest touch, with trembling hands, Xiao Jue looked at the mysterious routes on the yellowed picture and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

He has no intention of devouring the Pure Lotus Demon Flame himself in the future; it's too dangerous. One wrong move and he could face certain death, even if the remnant soul of the Pure Lotus Demon Saint could erase the consciousness of the Pure Lotus Demon Flame.

However, by collecting the complete map of the Pure Lotus Demon Flame and using the remnant soul of the Pure Lotus Demon Saint within it as a condition, Xiao Jue could obtain all the sub-flames of Xiao Yan's strange flames from him, including the Pure Lotus Demon Flame that he had successfully devoured.

Even if Xiao Yan obtains the inheritance of the Ancient Emperor Tuoshe and breaks through to the Dou Di realm in the future, Xiao Jue can allow the Yin-Yang Twin Flames within his body to devour the sub-flames of the Emperor Flame, thereby transforming into a powerful strange flame comparable to the Void Devouring Flame and the Pure Lotus Demon Flame.

Meanwhile, the white-haired old man in the shop finally finished his work, but he still didn't look up. His aged voice echoed calmly in the room.

"You want to buy a map of the Tagor Desert, right?"

"More or less." Xiao Jue nodded, looked at him, and smiled, "Ice Emperor Hai Bodong, do you want to unseal the battle qi sealed by Queen Medusa?"

"Snap!" The ink brush, which had been moving slowly in her hand, suddenly struck something and broke with a crisp sound.

The old man stared intently at the large black mark on the map, and after a long while, he raised his head and gazed at Xiao Jue. A faint chill gradually lingered in his cloudy eyes.

"Who exactly are you?"

The old man tapped a spot on the table with his palm, and the open door slammed shut with a bang. The old man stared sharply at Xiao Jue, and a cold and domineering aura emanated from his body.

"My relationship with the Mittel family is quite good," Xiao Jue said with a light laugh. "I even refined a Dou Ling Pill for Mittel Tengshan, so we are not enemies."

Xiao Jue waved the fragment of the Pure Lotus Demon Flame map in his hand and said, "I have a secret technique here that can break the seal, but in exchange, I want the other half of the map you have, as well as the map you drew to find the strange flame."

"You know that good-for-nothing Tengshan?" Hai Bodong frowned slightly and said, "But that's not enough to make me trust you."

"This is a low-level Earth-rank secret technique that can break through most seals. I can even refine a fifth-grade pill, the Purple Spirit Pill, for you to restore your strength before you were sealed."

Xiao Jue held a scroll in his hand and threw it directly at Hai Bodong, not worried that Hai Bodong would attack him after getting the scroll.

Xiao Jue recently learned two secret techniques left behind by the Yin-Yang Saint, both of which were low-level Earth-rank techniques. Combined with the mid-level Earth-rank Dou Technique Void Annihilation, he was able to fight against a Dou Huang.

"One Hundred Seals Unsealed!"

Hai Bodong caught the scroll Xiao Jue tossed to him, his eyes lighting up. He asked in a deep voice, "How did you know I had two fragments of that map? You... have seen fragments of this map before? And how did you know I was searching for a strange fire?"

"These are outside the scope of the deal," Xiao Jue said with a smile. "After all, all you want is to restore your former cultivation level."

"If this fighting technique is real, I owe you a favor." Hai Bodong nodded slowly. "After I break the seal within my body, I can give you the remaining fragment of the map and a map that records the possible locations of different flames."

"But the Purple Restoration Elixir you mentioned..."

"A fifth-grade pill that, once ingested, can completely restore strength lost due to sealing or internal injuries."

"You're a fifth-grade alchemist?" Hai Bodong raised an eyebrow and said, "You're so young, you don't seem like someone who can refine fifth-grade pills."

"Is this enough?" Xiao Jue took out the badge of a sixth-grade alchemist from the Pill Tower and said, "But I won't refine the Rejuvenating Purple Spirit Pill for you now. I will go to the capital in six months. When I arrive at the Mittel family, I will refine the Rejuvenating Purple Spirit Pill for you."

Hai Bodong slowly nodded. "I need to verify the authenticity of this secret technique. If it is indeed a genuine Earth-rank secret technique, I can give you what you want."

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Xiao Jue nodded and said, "Go ahead and look, but you have to return the scroll to me."

Hai Bodong held the scroll and used his spiritual power to read the text on it. After a moment, a look of joy appeared on his face, and he said, "Young brother, may I ask your honorable name?"

"Xiao Jue".

"Xiao Jue, your secret technique is flawless." Hai Bodong nodded excitedly. "It's enough to help me break the seal left by Queen Medusa. This is the location of the strange fire you need."

After returning the scroll to Xiao Jue, Hai Bodong gently rummaged in his pocket and finally pulled out a thin piece of parchment, handing it to Xiao Jue and saying with a smile, "In my exploration, there are three places in the Tagor Desert that are most likely to contain strange fire."

Taking the parchment, Xiao Jue carefully unfolded it and discovered that it was an extremely detailed map of the Tagor Desert, a map that was incomparable to the ones on the counter earlier.

It not only accurately marks the locations of water sources in the desert, but also carefully marks the snake-people tribes scattered throughout the desert.

"See those three flame symbols on the map?" Hai Bodong reminded him with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Jue glanced at the map and indeed found that there was a very conspicuous flame symbol in the east, west, and north directions.

(End of this chapter)