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

When they came knocking, he yielded, and then, on their way back to their respective cities from the Tagor Desert, he arrived near Stone Desert City under the most difficult circumstances to contact them in time, and took away the Strange Fire.

Without this action, perhaps half a month ago, when someone from the Sand Mercenary Group in Stone Desert City was petrified, the city lord of Stone Desert City would have urgently summoned all the city lords he could to defend Stone Desert City together.

Even if the city lords become complacent and leave Stone Desert City due to the lack of unexpected events for a long time, that might be a long time from now.

Similarly, in order to "welcome" these city lords who have ventured deep into the Tagor Desert, the fighting kings of the Snake People will surely gather in the Snake People's Holy City.

"Alright, Your Majesty, you must have gone to great lengths to subdue this Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame, right?" Looking at the silent Medusa Queen, Xiao Yan chuckled, "After all, you are the pillar of the Snake-People race. For your safety, please hand over the strange flame in your hands."

"Your goal is the Strange Fire?" Queen Medusa scoffed upon hearing Xiao Yan's words. "Then why don't you take it from me yourself?"

Its pale purple snake eyes stared intently at Xiao Yan, a strange light flashing for a moment.

"There's no need to resort to such petty tricks, is there?"

As the eerie light flashed in Queen Medusa's serpentine eyes, a layer of grayish-white rock appeared beneath Xiao Yan's feet. But soon, a surge of power emanated from Xiao Yan's hand, shattering the rock that had not yet spread into powder.

"...I said, if you want the strange fire, take it from me yourself!" Queen Medusa's eyes flickered slightly. Although the black-robed man opposite her unleashed extremely powerful energy, she felt, perhaps it was just her imagination, that his battle qi level wasn't very high...

"Ah, then I shall respectfully comply."

Under Queen Medusa's gaze, Xiao Yan chuckled lightly, and then, in the next instant, without Queen Medusa even blinking, the lotus throne on her palm suddenly appeared on Xiao Yan's palm.

"Spatial displacement? You're a Dou Zun?!" Upon seeing this bizarre scene, Queen Medusa instinctively uttered a question, but quickly denied her guess, "No... no, you can't be a Dou Zun!"

If the Snake-People race were at its peak, a Dou Zun might be wary of them. But everyone knows that the strongest Snake-People in the Northwest Continent is only at the peak of Dou Huang. If it weren't for the Snake-People race serving as a buffer between the two great empires, they might have been destroyed long ago. If the black-robed man on the other side is really a Dou Zun, why would he speak to her so politely?

"If not space... then time?" Queen Medusa's eyes flashed with a strange light. The next moment, she clenched her jade hand, and a purple energy snake sword appeared. "Hand over the strange fire and your method of controlling time!" The sword tip pointed directly at Xiao Yan, her tone icy.

"Do you think this is possible?" Xiao Yan smiled brightly, and the Flame Profound Talisman shaped like a long sword appeared in his right hand.

"Oh."

With a cold laugh, Queen Medusa tapped her toes, transforming into a thin line that shot straight at Xiao Yan.

Facing the approaching Queen Medusa, Xiao Yan swung his longsword, and deep purple flames surged rapidly. In the blink of an eye, a small fire snake condensed and rushed towards Queen Medusa.

Feeling the heat emanating from the rapidly approaching fiery serpent, Queen Medusa's expression changed slightly. Her left hand formed a mudra, and purple energy condensed in front of her, eventually transforming into a giant energy serpent seven or eight zhang long. The giant energy serpent opened its massive mouth and swallowed the fiery serpent whole.

The moment the small fire snake was swallowed, it exploded, and under the erosion of both sides, the small fire snake and the giant energy snake were annihilated simultaneously after a few moments.

As the small fire snake and the giant energy snake annihilated each other, Queen Medusa appeared beside Xiao Yan, her snake sword flashing with a sharp wind as it shot straight at Xiao Yan's throat.

With a slight shift in his steps, Xiao Yan skillfully dodged Queen Medusa's attack, and the next moment, his longsword pierced towards Queen Medusa's right eye.

Clang!

The two swords flashed past like lightning, blurring the figures as they flew by, leaving sword marks spreading across the silvery-white sand dunes.

Perhaps fearing Xiao Yan's time-stopping ability, Queen Medusa's attacks, though fierce, failed to subdue Xiao Yan for a long time. With such a powerful opponent sparring with him, Xiao Yan was even less willing to use his soul power, relying instead on the increased fighting spirit brought about by the fusion of the Xuan Heavy Ruler, the Refining Fire Talisman, and the Twin Dragon Extreme Ice and Fire to maintain a stalemate with Queen Medusa.

Under the silver moonlight, yet another sand dune suddenly collapsed.

Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa leaped up simultaneously, heading towards another sand dune. Their figures shifted rapidly, with purple energy and deep purple flames surging and colliding everywhere, producing a series of low, muffled sounds.

The two swords clashed again, sparks flying, and Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa were both forced back several steps.

"It seems that Her Majesty is completely unable to defeat me in her current state," Xiao Yan chuckled. Although his surging battle qi was gradually subsiding, he was certain that Queen Medusa had not fully recovered the battle qi she had consumed in her struggle against the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame. "How about we each take a step back?"

Queen Medusa's eyes gleamed. She could sense that the fighting spirit within the black-robed man opposite her was gradually decreasing, but similarly, the fighting spirit within her was also insufficient to support her in a prolonged battle.

"Hand over the strange fire, and I'll leave immediately!" Queen Medusa said coldly, letting out a long breath.

"Your Majesty, why do you do this?" Xiao Yan sighed. "This strange fire is no different from poison to the snake people. Why do you want to fight me to the death for such a poison?" The long sword in his hand slowly transformed, finally turning into a flame talisman less than two fingers wide.

Staring at the flame talisman in Xiao Yan's palm, Queen Medusa's eyes flashed with horror. On that flame talisman, which was less than two fingers wide, she could smell the scent of death!

However, it would be too naive to think that she would give up the possibility of evolution based solely on this fire seal.

"...Hand over the strange fire, and I'll leave immediately!" Queen Medusa repeated these words, but the way she gripped the longsword with increasing force, and the strange, seven-colored light emanating from the sword, indicated her unwavering resolve.

"I see."

Xiao Yan sighed helplessly, "Then we'll have to settle this with our skills... Go, Flame Profound Talisman."

As the voice faded, the deep purple rune flew out of her hand, transforming into a streak of light that shot towards Queen Medusa like a meteor.

"Devourer of Heaven!"

Faced with the talisman flying towards her like a meteor, Queen Medusa gritted her teeth, swung her longsword fiercely, and a seven-colored streak met the oncoming talisman head-on.

Under their watchful eyes, the two streaks of light collided violently, like meteorites colliding.

"boom!"

A tremendous roar echoed through the night of the Tagor Desert.

After the deafening roar, a collision of energy, as powerful as a volcanic eruption, ensued. The two incredibly fierce energies made brief contact in mid-air and unleashed their terrifying hidden power. Instantly, a gust of wind appeared out of nowhere above the desert, howling past. At the point of contact, even the illusory space itself was blurred and distorted by the powerful energy collision.

A fierce wind howled past, and the energy shockwave that erupted from the sand dunes swept towards the location of Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa as if heavenly fire had descended.

With a somewhat solemn expression, Xiao Yan swallowed hard as he watched the energy shockwave strike like lightning. His back trembled slightly, and his more than one-meter-long Purple Cloud Wings shot out. He lightly touched the sand with his toes and glided backward as if he were flying.

On the other side, Queen Medusa's wings also popped out from her back, and she retreated rapidly. However, compared to Xiao Yan, her Dou Qi was already somewhat depleted, and she was quickly caught up by the energy shockwave...

The place where Xiao Yan fought Queen Medusa was far from Stone Desert City; it would take an average person about three days to walk there.

Even so, the light generated by the collision of the two energies, as well as the thunderous roar, still reached Stone Desert City. For a moment, the residents, awakened by the intense light, even thought it was dawn.

"Is it Xiao Yanzi's master and Queen Medusa?"

After the loud noise subsided, Xiao Ding swallowed hard and looked at Xiao Li, who was also awake beside him.

“Perhaps…” Xiao Li stared at the still-bright light, “Little Yanzi’s master… should also be a Dou Huang level expert, right? Maybe even a Dou Zong…”

Everyone in the Gama Empire knows how powerful Queen Medusa is. In Xiao Li's opinion, a strong person who can go head-to-head with such a powerful Queen Medusa, and who is also an alchemist, must be at least on the same level as Queen Medusa, or even a Dou Zong who has not appeared in the Gama Empire for nearly a hundred years!

"Is that Young Master Xiao Yan over there?"

In the room reserved for Xiao Yan by the Mo Tie Mercenary Group, Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin were also awake. Watching the bright light gradually dim, Qing Lin asked softly.

"I think so..."

Little Fairy Doctor looked somewhat dazed. Ironically, she had once thought Xiao Yan was a poor boy who had ventured alone to the Monster Beast Mountain Range for training, but now it seemed...

He was clearly a rich young man on an outing to the Monster Mountain Range under the protection of powerful figures!

Chapter 156 The Strange Flame is in Hand, and the Person...

The firestorm under the silvery moonlight gradually dissipated.

Having retreated a hundred meters away, Xiao Yan's gaze fell upon the center of the firestorm. On the charred sand dunes, a giant serpent, its entire body blackened, lay motionless, its massive body seemingly devoid of warmth.

The power of the explosion caused by the Flame Profound Talisman driven by the spiritual soul power and Queen Medusa's final counterattack was indeed exaggerated. Xiao Yan even had reason to believe that if he were in the center of the explosion, even with the protection of his soul power, he would be in grave danger. In this light, it seems not impossible that Queen Medusa, whose fighting spirit was already exhausted, died in the explosion.

However, within that charred snake body, there was a faint trace of soul power, though it was as faint as a candle flickering in the wind, it was still undeniably present.

"You're planning to save her?" Yao Lao saw through Xiao Yan's thoughts and asked with some surprise, "You haven't fallen for her, have you?"

“Not necessarily,” Xiao Yan licked his dry lips and flew toward the remains of Queen Medusa. “However, as you said, Master, Queen Medusa could never have absorbed a different kind of fire.”

"So?" The old apothecary blinked.

"It's clearly impossible for her to absorb the strange fire, but even after I got my hands on the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame and her battle qi was already very thin, she still chose to fight me to the death. That means this strange fire was definitely not a tool traded with some alchemist."

Of course, it's also possible that an alchemist threatened Queen Medusa with her race or relatives, demanding that she take down this strange flame, but Xiao Yan didn't intend to take that possibility into account at the moment.

"It's not a tool for trading, nor can it be absorbed. So, Queen Medusa's desire to obtain this strange fire is either for herself or because her race needs it. Whatever the reason, she won't give up her search for strange fire after I take the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame away..."

After landing beside the charred snake's body, Xiao Yan looked at the enormous snake and said in a low voice.

“And you happen to have a map that proves there might be a second strange fire in the Tagor Desert,” Yao Lao realized what Xiao Yan was about to do when Xiao Yan was halfway through his sentence. “Although we can’t stay in the Tagor Desert for too long, Queen Medusa is, after all, the queen of the snake people. She has enough time to search for the possible Wind Fury Dragon Flame in the no-man’s land and the snake people’s territory.”

"If she's found, I can take advantage of her when she returns from the Izumo Empire." Xiao Yan revealed a bright smile.

"If we don't find it, it's just a waste of two pills," the old medicine master nodded.

That's what they say, but only Xiao Yan would "waste" two Rank 5 healing pills just to save time searching for a different kind of fire.

"So, it's still related to Queen Medusa herself, right?"

As Xiao Yan dissolved a fifth-grade healing pill in the Ice Spirit Spring and poured it onto Queen Medusa's slightly charred snake body, Yao Lao suddenly said something.

With a tremor in his hand, Xiao Yan accidentally spilled too much medicine. He quickly raised his left hand, covered his mouth and nose, and coughed in a mock manner.

"Well... I don't deny that there's a reason for that." Because of his subconscious reaction, Xiao Yan, who had no reason to deny it, readily admitted... probably.

"However, even if I'm not facing Queen Medusa, I'll still do the treatment if there's a chance to get someone else to do the work for me for free!"

In the end, Xiao Yan added a sentence that only served to cover up his misunderstanding.

Yao Lao, who understood the thoughts of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy like Xiao Yan very well, smiled and did not continue the topic. "The combination of the internal Restoration Pill and the Cold Spirit Liquid is even more effective. There is residual fire poison in her meridians, and the Cold Spirit Liquid can suppress the fire poison in her meridians immediately."

"it is good!"

After hearing Yao Lao's teachings, Xiao Yan understood that the previous topic was over. He breathed a sigh of relief and took out medicinal herbs from his Awakening Flame Ring to refine a Cold Spirit Liquid on the spot.

When Xiao Yan made a copy of the map he had obtained from Hai Bodong and placed it next to Queen Medusa, whose aura was gradually recovering, he finally remembered that Hai Bodong needed a certain medicinal herb that only grew in the heart of the snake-people's territory.

However, after carefully examining the storage ring in Queen Medusa's hand, Xiao Yan did not find the Sand Mandala. However, he unexpectedly learned the reason why Queen Medusa was searching for the Strange Flame—

"Evolution? Queen Medusa actually wants to evolve through a different kind of fire and break through the limits of the Dou Huang realm?" Yao Lao looked at the giant snake, whose charred color had completely faded and whose scales were gradually returning to purple under the effect of the medicinal liquid, with some surprise.

"Devour the Heavens... Hiss, could it be that Queen Medusa is thinking of evolving her soul, breaking free from her original body, and using her soul power to condense a new body?" Recalling the name of Queen Medusa's desperate counterattack move and the beautiful seven-colored ribbon, Yao Lao completely understood Queen Medusa's purpose.

"Teacher, do you know the direction Queen Medusa wants to evolve in?" Xiao Yan looked at Yao Lao with some surprise after copying a prescription he had never heard of before from Queen Medusa's storage ring and storing it in his Awakening Flame Ring.

"Well, if nothing unexpected happens..." Yao Lao nodded, then continued, "The companion soul of Queen Medusa will most likely be the Purple Nether Flame Serpent. It is said that the Purple Nether Flame Serpent has the bloodline of an ancient beast flowing in its body. If the opportunity is right, the Purple Nether Flame Serpent can activate the bloodline in its body and evolve into the ancient ancestor, namely the Seven-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python."

"So, Queen Medusa's goal is to become the Seven-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python?" Xiao Yan blinked, looking at the snake beside him with some surprise. "What are the chances of success?"

"If that were the case, the Seven-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python of the Dou Qi Continent wouldn't just be a legend, having not appeared for thousands of years," Yao Lao said irritably.

"That's perfect, anyway, she's unlikely to give up on finding the Strange Flame, and she's unlikely to succeed..." Xiao Yan muttered to himself, "After failing to evolve, the Wind Fury Dragon Flame won't appear only during the hottest time of day like it did when it was completely wild..."

Xiao Yan felt that he had already seen the moment when he would successfully defeat the Wind Fury Dragon Flame!

"Alright, that's only if she can find the Wind Fury Dragon Flame," Yao Lao interrupted Xiao Yan's delusions. "Let's leave first." He glanced at the snake's body on the ground.

"Okay, let's leave first." After glancing at the snake's body and confirming that the previously flickering soul had gradually grown stronger and would perhaps fully awaken in a few minutes, Xiao Yan nodded, put on his hood, and disappeared into the sandstorm.

Shortly after Xiao Yan disappeared, Queen Medusa opened her eyes with some difficulty.

'I'm not dead?'

The moment she opened her eyes, three words echoed in Queen Medusa's mind, and then she sat up abruptly.