Battle Through the Heavens: Xiao Yan, who was kidnapped to another world

To suppress his laughter, Lin Dong deliberately shouted out his attack when Xiao Yan reminded him. However, when his eyes fell on the wounds on the Azure Flame Dragon Beast again—

"Pfft, hahahahaha..."

Lin Dong finally couldn't suppress his laughter, and it rang out as the corpse of the Azure Flame Dragon Beast fell into the lake.

"You bastard!" Xiao Yan glared at Lin Dong.

"Cough, cough cough cough..." Under Xiao Yan's gaze, Lin Dong managed to suppress his smile and coughed a few times before saying, "Cough, the corpse of the Azure Flame Dragon Beast has fallen down. Let's dive down and find its nest and corpse first."

After speaking, Lin Dong jumped directly into the lake.

After glancing at the splash Lin Dong made when he entered the water, and then at the Xuanzhong Ruler in his hand, Xiao Yan put it away with a ferocious expression.

"Honestly, I want to change my martial soul..."

After leaving behind a resentful remark, Xiao Yan also jumped into the lake.

As Xiao Yan entered the water, the dark shadow that had previously clung to the two of them quietly disappeared.

Chapter 15 Soul Bone

The lake was about eighty meters deep. After diving for more than ten seconds, Lin Dong and Xiao Yan found the corpse of the Azure Flame Dragon Beast that had fallen into the silt at the bottom of the lake.

"Shall we look for its nest?"

Xiao Yan casually drove away the small soul beasts attracted by the smell of blood while transmitting his voice.

"Hmm, it should be over there. Let's go take a look."

Lin Dong nodded and pointed in a direction. There was a waterway over there, about a meter wide. Judging from the size of the Azure Flame Dragon Beast, its lair should be at the end of that waterway.

"I'll go first." After glancing at the corpse of the Azure Flame Dragon Beast that Lin Dong was holding in his right hand, Xiao Yan, carrying the severed head of the Azure Flame Dragon Beast, swam ahead towards the waterway.

'This is putting a lot of psychological pressure on you...'

Lin Dong looked at the Azure Flame Dragon Beast's forepaw that he was holding in his hand, the corpse hanging behind the forepaw, and the bloodstains spreading behind the corpse, and smiled helplessly.

They descended another ten meters or so along the waterway, and then came to an upward bend. After passing through this bend and rising about sixty or seventy meters, the two finally reached the end of the waterway.

"So many luminous pearls..." The moment Xiao Yan surfaced, he was dazzled by the countless luminous pearls embedded in the rock walls of the cave.

“Indeed…and there are also a lot of jewelry…” After Xiao Yan got ashore, Lin Dong, dragging the corpse of the Azure Flame Dragon Beast, threw the corpse in his hand onto the open ground of the cave.

“Hmm, I used to think that dragons’ love of collecting jewelry was just a figment of my imagination, but I didn’t expect it to be true.” Xiao Yan tossed the dragon head in his hand next to its body, then approached the jewelry piled up in the corner of the cave and picked up a piece at random.

"Dragons like to collect jewels?" Lin Dong paused. "Really?"

“I’m not sure either. Judging from this Azure Flame Dragon Beast, it seems to be true.” Shrugging, Xiao Yan tossed the ring in his hand to Lin Dong. “Here, this is… a storage soul tool. You don’t seem to have one on you, right? Here, take this.”

"A storage soul tool?" Lin Dong took the ring and channeled his mental energy into the soul tool.

"So small."

Then, the next moment, Lin Dong complained when he saw that there was only a 3x3x3 space inside.

“They must have come to hunt this Azure Flame Dragon Beast, but those who failed carried these with them,” Xiao Yan put down the necklace in his hand, “It seems that only the one in your hand is a soul tool, and the others are just ordinary jewelry.”

Xiao Yan was somewhat disappointed. It was his first time encountering such a cave, and he had thought he could find something useful. However, after scanning it with his soul power, he found that there was only one soul tool.

After scanning the other jewels with his mental energy and finding them to be just ordinary yellow and white objects, Lin Dong subconsciously wanted to return the soul tool to Xiao Yan. However, after recalling how Xiao Yan had taken out the seasoning earlier, Lin Dong silently accepted the soul tool, but made a decision in his heart.

"By the way, shouldn't we check if this Azure Flame Dragon Beast dropped any soul bones?"

After putting away his soul tool, Lin Dong glanced at Xiao Yan, who seemed to be heading deeper into the cave, and quickly called out to him to stop.

"...I don't really want to dissect its corpse." Xiao Yan said, his face darkening and somewhat annoyed.

"It's okay, I can handle it."

Seeing Xiao Yan's expression, Lin Dong almost burst out laughing again. He hurriedly took out a dagger and walked towards the corpse that he had thrown into the corner earlier.

After comparing the size of the dagger in his hand with that of the dragon's corpse, Lin Dong's first target was the severed dragon head.

A few seconds later, the good news reached Xiao Yan's ears—

"There really is one, and it's a skull!"

"?"

Xiao Yan stared blankly at the small skull that Lin Dong had taken out. He suddenly thought of a rumor that was not very favorable to his reputation—if a soul beast was tortured before it died, the probability of it dropping a soul bone would increase dramatically.

"Speaking of which, I've heard a rumor before..."

Unfortunately, Lin Dong, who was holding the skull, seemed to have also heard that rumor.

"That rumor is false." Xiao Yan interrupted Lin Dong's attempt to explain without hesitation.

"I didn't mention the details of the rumors."

Lin Dong smiled helplessly, while glancing subtly at the soul bone in his hand.

He had to admit that he had started dissecting the dragon beast not because the dagger he had taken out was too small, but because he had used his mental power to determine that the Yang Qi he needed was located in the dragon beast. However, after the dissection, he realized that what was emitting Yang Qi was actually a soul bone.

Although somewhat unwilling, he still decided to give up on this soul bone. Even though the yang energy it emitted was very strong, as a head soul bone, it would inevitably have the effect of increasing mental strength, and Xiao Yan was currently in a stage where his mental strength was difficult to improve.

"I hope the medicinal herbs in the Blazing Roaring Tiger's lair have a strong Yang energy. I don't need them to be eighth or ninth grade; sixth grade will be fine."

Lin Dong sighed silently.

"Take the soul bone, and pretend you know nothing about what happened before!"

Compared to his own dark past, this soul bone was utterly insignificant, so Xiao Yan made the decision directly regarding its ownership.

Lin Dong was stunned when he didn't expect Xiao Yan to give up ownership of the soul bone. He wanted to refuse, but looking at the Yang Gang Qi in his hand, which was at least level nine, and thinking about the Yang Gang Qi around the Blazing Roaring Tiger, which was at most level six, Lin Dong was finally tempted.

“…Thank you then,” Lin Dong pursed his lips, feeling he might have been a bit too greedy. “But in that case, this soul tool…”

"No need. The soul tool I have is of a much higher level. If you give it to me, I can only exchange it for gold coins at most."

Xiao Yan declined Lin Dong's offer, "Speaking of which... you don't actually want to absorb this soul bone, do you? It is indeed fire-attribute, but its age..."

"Isn't it a bit low?"

After a slight struggle with his choice of words, Xiao Yan changed "too low" to "somewhat low," but he still felt that his choice of words would hurt the pride of the native geniuses of Douluo Continent.

"Absorb? No, I don't intend to absorb it." After a slight hesitation, Lin Dong felt that if he didn't tell the truth at this moment, his conscience would be tormented.

"This soul bone contains Yang energy, which is what I need for cultivation. It is the one with the most concentrated Yang energy that I can find so far. Besides it, there are only the herbs from the Blazing Roaring Tiger."

Although Xiao Yan didn't know the meaning of Yang Gang Qi, he knew about the herbs near the Blazing Roaring Tiger's lair and their approximate grade. Therefore, after a little thought, he understood Lin Dong's meaning. The only problem was—

"You've already told me something this important? That's not very nice, is it? We've only known each other for less than half a day!"

Xiao Yan felt a slight pain in his teeth. Was this native genius really that trusting? They'd only known each other for less than half a day, and he'd already told him what he needed for cultivation? Didn't that make him, Xiao Yan, seem incredibly heartless?!

"We've only known each other for less than half a day, but Xiao Yan, didn't you just hand over this ten-thousand-year soul bone to me?"

Lin Dong smiled brightly. Although they had only known each other for less than half a day, he felt that if Xiao Yan lived on the Tianxuan Continent, the two of them would definitely become sworn brothers.

After all, Xiao Yan could give up a skull that could enhance mental strength, so it seems that he was worried that Lin Dong's mental strength was too weak.

"...You should absorb the spirit ring first. You'll regret it when it dissipates."

The brighter Lin Dong's smile, the more uneasy Xiao Yan felt. To ease his conscience, he decided—

No, in this continent without magic cores, there's really nothing he can do as an alchemist!

Chapter 16 The Fire of the Soul

“A spirit ring takes at least an hour to dissipate,” Lin Dong said with a hint of helplessness. “That’s common sense, isn’t it?”

"Moreover, I... have consumed a lot of soul power and need some time to recover it."

He shrugged. Although the final spatial cut was released using mental power, it was still based on his second soul skill, so Lin Dong's energy consumption was greater than he had imagined.

"The issue of soul power recovery... By the way, Lin Dong, after you absorbed this soul ring, the extra soul skill you gained was flame control, right?" Xiao Yan's eyes lit up; he seemed to know how to respond to Lin Dong's trust.

"It's about controlling the flames I create myself," Lin Dong corrected Xiao Yan. "Currently, my soul skill's ability to control elements is based on the scattered elements in the world. I can't control flames like your Ice Gold Flame."

"That's not the point!" Xiao Yan waved his hand and took out a small white porcelain bottle from his Bone Flame Ring. "Here, try this and see if it works for you."

Xiao Yan presented the porcelain bottle to Lin Dong.

"What is this?" Lin Dong curiously took the porcelain bottle, and after opening it, a faint medicinal fragrance wafted out.

"Can you feel it?" Xiao Yan chuckled.

"What does it feel like?" Lin Dong asked, somewhat confused.

"Soul power, do you feel it becoming more active?"

Xiao Yan explained, "This is a potion for restoring soul power that I barely managed to create after many experiments. Because of the lack of key medicinal ingredients, it evaporates very quickly. What you just inhaled was more like a gaseous soul-restoring liquid!"

Because this continent only has soul beasts and no magical beasts that Xiao Yan is familiar with, all pills that require magic cores are just wishful thinking. Furthermore, because many medicinal herbs are hard to find, Xiao Yan has not yet been able to refine a single complete pill.

However, through countless experiments, Xiao Yan also found a substitute and a lower-grade alternative for the medicinal materials used in the Qi-restoring pill. Although it could not be made into a pill because it lacked a magic core, the medicinal liquid refined from it was surprisingly effective.

In the words of the old medicine master, this medicinal liquid is roughly equivalent to the effect of a grade three Qi-restoring pill. If it contains a magic core and forms a pill, it can be said to have perfectly achieved the effect of a grade four Qi-restoring pill.

"Indeed, the wisp of medicinal fragrance I inhaled just now has significantly increased the speed at which my soul power recovers." Because of Xiao Yan's words, Lin Dong carefully observed the changes in his internal energy, and after a few seconds, he nodded.

"As long as it works, that's good. Hurry up and drink it. After drinking it, restore your soul power as soon as possible, and then absorb the soul ring." After confirming that it was effective, Xiao Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and then urged Lin Dong to drink the Qi-restoring liquid that he had resealed as soon as possible... now called Soul-restoring liquid.

"Okay!" Lin Dong nodded, then cleanly opened the lid, drank it all in one gulp, and sat down cross-legged.

Seeing that Lin Dong was beginning to recover his soul power, Xiao Yan quickly started to do what he needed to do, and then he heard Yao Lao's voice ring out in his heart.

'Are you going to give him the prescription for this elixir of life?'

'Hmm, this Soul-Returning Elixir is only effective here in Douluo Continent. It'll be useless once we get back, right?'

While writing down the medicinal herbs needed for the Soul-Returning Elixir and the steps involved, Xiao Yan replied, "However, this is all I can do for now. I'll see if there are any higher-level medicinal herbs as substitutes later, and then I'll organize the refining techniques."

As things stand, Grade Three Soul-Returning Liquid is effective against Fighting Spirits...

In other words, the effect is very good for Soul Masters below the Soul Saint level, but the effect is greatly reduced for Soul Masters above the Soul Saint level.

Therefore, Xiao Yan decided to develop a fourth-grade Soul-Returning Liquid as soon as possible, at least before he turned fifteen and left this continent.

"I've guessed quite a few medicinal herbs needed for the Grade Four Soul-Returning Elixir. Go try them out later."

Yao Lao was very satisfied with Xiao Yan's decision. After leaving a message, he remained silent. Yao Lao rarely interfered with Xiao Yan's friendships and cultivation.

While Xiao Yan was happily writing the formula for the Soul-Returning Elixir—