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

"I didn't expect Lin Dong to be so cunning despite his seemingly honest appearance," Xiao Yan joked, scratching his chin. "This way, no one will dare to try your flames anymore, or they might get tricked by you at any time."

"No one would dare to directly touch the flames in your hand, would they?" Lin Dong retorted, unperturbed. "Ice can inflict mental damage, but who would have thought flames could have such an effect?"

"That's because I was born to be loved by the flames!" Xiao Yan said proudly.

"Speaking of which... Xiao Yan, are you from the Star Luo Empire? Your accent sounds a bit like someone from there." Lin Dong suddenly brought up a somewhat sensitive topic.

“…That’s not quite right,” Xiao Yan said after a moment of silence. It wasn’t until Lin Dong brought it up that he realized this local genius seemed to be from the Heaven Dou Empire.

"I lived in the Star Luo Empire for eight years before coming to the Star Dou Great Forest. I have no lingering attachment to the Star Luo Empire."

The person Xiao Yan should have cared about is now dead. As an outsider, Xiao Yan has absolutely no interest in the national conflicts on this continent.

"I've always lived here in the Heaven Dou Empire..." Lin Dong, who was still considering whether to persuade the old people in the village to move if Xiao Yan was from the Star Luo Empire, breathed a sigh of relief.

"Wait, you've been living in the Star Dou Great Forest since you were eight years old?"

"Yeah, is there a problem?" Xiao Yan blinked. "If I hadn't lived here for more than two years, how would I know there's a ten-thousand-year-old Azure Flame Dragon Beast here?"

“No, that’s not what I meant,” Lin Dong shook his head. “You’ve lived in the Star Dou Great Forest since you were eight years old… which means you never attended a Soul Master Academy?”

“I did attend a junior soul master academy, although I didn’t graduate…” Xiao Yan’s tone weakened as he retorted softly.

"What's the difference between not graduating and never attending school?" Lin Dong said, somewhat speechless. "But now that you're already level thirty-one, even if a primary or intermediate Soul Master academy were willing to accept you as a student, you wouldn't be interested in going..."

Because the teachers at the primary and intermediate Soul Master academies Lin Dong attended were all very good, Lin Dong had a positive impression of the Soul Master academies on this continent.

"I'm planning to go to Canghui Soul Master Academy later. Would you be interested in coming with me?" Lin Dong invited Xiao Yan. "If you're interested, I can ask the principal to write you a letter of introduction."

"Canghui Soul Master Academy... Why do you want to go to that academy?" Xiao Yan asked curiously.

“There’s a teacher over there whose martial soul seems to be of the mental type. I think he could help me develop my martial soul,” Lin Dong replied. “Even if he doesn’t help, that Soul Master Academy is quite interesting in terms of developing mental martial souls. I want to go and take a look.”

"A spirit-type martial soul..." Xiao Yan thought for a moment, "Does the Heaven Dou Empire have any academies that research fire-attribute martial souls?"

Today's experience has only intensified Xiao Yan's interest in the subject of 'flames'.

“Yes, Blazing Fire Academy. All the students and teachers at that academy have fire-attribute martial souls,” Lin Dong nodded. “That’s all I know about that academy… If you’re interested, I can ask the principal to write you a letter of introduction, although it might not be very useful…”

The principal of the intermediate soul master academy Lin Dong attended was only a Soul King. Because he graduated from Canghui Academy, his recommendation letter was only somewhat effective for Canghui Academy. Academies like Chihuo Academy would probably not even consider his principal's recommendation letter.

"It's alright. With my talent, I can easily get into Blazing Fire Academy if I want to!"

Xiao Yan didn't care about this. Could Blazing Fire Academy really refuse a genius like him?

Chapter 19 Refining Fire Talisman Seals (Part 1)

There's something I feel I need to remind you of.

On the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, just before parting ways, Lin Dong suddenly remembered something.

"Xiao Yan's name and his heavy sword martial soul have been on the Spirit Hall's wanted list for a long time. If you want to join Blazing Fire Academy, Xiao Yan, you'd better change your name or go to the Spirit Hall to prove yourself first."

"Prove it myself... what can I use to prove it myself?" With a helpless sigh, Xiao Yan also regretted not using Yao Lao's power to directly eliminate that city lord back then.

"Ten years old and thirty-one levels of soul power?"

"How much innate soul power do you have?" Lin Dong asked curiously, hearing the bitterness in Xiao Yan's words.

Level 5.

"Level 5..."

Lin Dong's expression was somewhat strange. Level 5 innate soul power. Should he say that Xiao Yan was unlucky before and did not absorb the energy of heaven and earth, or should he say that Xiao Yan's talent was too amazing, and that he could become a Soul Venerable at the age of ten under such conditions?

"Speaking of which, how much innate soul power did you have?"

Now that he had decided to use a pseudonym, Xiao Yan planned to copy Lin Dong's innate conditions as well.

"Innate full soul power".

In reality, he was only at the sixth level of Body Tempering at that time. In order to better conceal the change in his strength, he specially asked Little Marten to make it look fake for him.

“Okay, then I’ll say from now on that I, Yan Xiao, have innate full soul power,” Xiao Yan nodded. “As for my martial soul…”

"Let's use fire."

"The Xuanzhong Ruler can just be used as a back ornament. Anyway, people won't usually pay special attention to this kind of weapon," Xiao Yan muttered to himself.

"Okay, I'll come to find you at Chihuo Academy after I've settled down at Canghui Academy."

Lin Dong nodded. "See you next time."

After speaking, he turned and left.

"Okay, see you next time."

Xiao Yan responded and turned to walk in the direction of Blazing Fire Academy, as Lin Dong had indicated.

"Oh, right, Xiao Yan, this is for you!"

After walking a few steps, Xiao Yan suddenly heard Lin Dong's shouts.

"what?"

Turning around, he saw several books rushing towards him.

Fire Refining Talisman Seal, Soul Cleansing Chapter...

By the time Lin Dong caught the book, read the title, and looked up, he had already disappeared from Xiao Yan's sight.

"At this point, using soul power to sense his location shows a lack of understanding of human nature."

Before Xiao Yan could use his soul power to sense Lin Dong's whereabouts, Yao Lao's leisurely voice echoed in Xiao Yan's mind, "I suppose he was afraid you would refuse, so he gave it to you at this time."

"That's precisely why I want to find him and return this to him!"

As he spoke, Xiao Yan's mental power had expanded to its limit, but Lin Dong's figure was not present in his mental perception, indicating that he had disappeared from this area.

"Tsk...looks like he teleported away," Xiao Yan said, a toothache in his eyes. "I was wondering why he didn't tell me the address of Canghui Academy. Was he afraid I'd just go there and block the gate?"

When Lin Dong told him the address of Blazing Fire Academy, Xiao Yan also asked him about the location of Azure Radiance Academy, but Lin Dong brushed him off.

At the time, Lin Dong also said something like, "I will definitely get into the academy without any problem. Instead of worrying about me, you should think about how you will get into the Blazing Fire Academy."

Now it seems that this was all premeditated!

"If you want to go to Canghui Academy, you can just ask anyone in the nearest town for directions, so are you going to ask?"

The old doctor watched Xiao Yan, who was grinning and grimacing, with great interest.

"Go where?!" Xiao Yan said with a displeased expression, flipping open the top book on fire refining talismans. "If Lin Dong dares to give me his family's secret manual, do you think I wouldn't dare to learn it? Are you kidding me!"

The method of refining fire talismans and solidifying seals.

The opening two short sentences made Xiao Yan's brow twitch violently; suddenly, he had a bad premonition—

The so-called method of condensing seals is the most important and essential path to becoming a talisman master, because only when one's spiritual power is truly condensed into a natal talisman seal can one...

Before he could finish reading the next sentence, Xiao Yan abruptly slammed the obviously handwritten book shut.

"Teacher, can I take back what I said before?" Xiao Yan's voice was a little hoarse.

"what happened?"

The old doctor found it strange. Xiao Yan didn't seem like a cowardly person, so why did he chicken out before even finishing a single page of the book?

"The first book teaches people how to condense their natal talisman," Xiao Yan said, licking his slightly chapped lips. "I don't even want to think about what the following books are like..."

Before yesterday, Xiao Yan had never heard of the concept of a natal talisman. However, after meeting Lin Dong yesterday, Xiao Yan learned that it was Lin Dong's 'Martial Soul,' although Lin Dong habitually referred to it as the 'Ancient Whirlpool Talisman.'

I thought it was just a special martial soul, but today, the first sentence of the book Lin Dong threw at me was about how to condense a natal talisman...

If Xiao Yan were a little less timid, he might have gone straight to ask for the address of Canghui Academy and then blocked the entrance!

“A natal talisman, hiss…” After hearing Xiao Yan’s words, Yao Lao also gasped, “Your friend… is quite generous.”

Judging from Lin Dong's situation, his martial soul is the Ancient Vortex Talisman, his 'natal talisman'. However, based on the information in this book, Lin Dong's so-called martial soul seems to be "man-made" like Xiao Yan's Xuan Heavy Ruler.

If Lin Dong's expression hadn't been so natural when he learned that Xiao Yan could refine the Soul-Returning Liquid, without the slightest surprise, and if Yao Lao hadn't never heard of such a thing as a Natal Talisman, Xiao Yan would almost have thought that Lin Dong, like him, was an outsider to this continent.

Do you want to cultivate?

After a brief silence, Yao Lao asked Xiao Yan this question.

“I want to try,” Xiao Yan said after closing his eyes and pondering for a long time, “If it’s the Ancient Vortex Seal, I definitely won’t open it again, but…”

If it were the Ancient Whirlpool Talisman, then Xiao Yan could tell himself that Lin Dong had simply taken the wrong thing, and that what he was actually meant to give him was not this.

Xiao Yan opened his eyes, opened the book, "Fire Refining Talisman Seal, Fire Refining... Since Lin Dong has specially found this seal-forming method that suits me, it would be a real shame not to cultivate it."

Once the natal talisman is successfully condensed, it will not only greatly increase one's control over mental power, but also allow one to refine mental power, making it more solid.

The first few lines resolved most of Xiao Yan's doubts about the "natal talisman". The following lines explain the method for condensing the "fire refining talisman", which is classified as a natal spirit talisman.

"call……"

After learning the entire process of the Seal Condensation Method in detail, Xiao Yan closed the book and let out a long sigh. "Teacher, I'll have to trouble you to protect me during the process."

"Should we try it now?"

"Well, this place is relatively remote. If we wait until we get to the city to try it, it will inevitably seem too conspicuous."

After Yao Lao released his soul power, Xiao Yan slowly closed his eyes and began to mobilize his spiritual power according to the instructions in the book on condensing seals.

Chapter 20 Refining Fire Talisman Seals (Part 2)

According to the "Fire Refining Talisman Seal," Xiao Yan's Fire Refining Talisman Seal needs to be condensed in the initial stage, requiring his spiritual power to rise and burn like a flame.

Xiao Yan's expression was solemn. Although the opening sentences of the Fire Refining Talisman Condensation Method were too abstract, the subsequent descriptions were quite clear. What he needed to do was control his own mental power, simulate the burning of flames, and maintain it.

"Puff puff..."

Gradually, as Xiao Yan's mental energy was depleted, the flames that should have been burning quietly began to emit faint sounds, as if a ball of flame had actually appeared in Xiao Yan's Niwan Palace.

When the sound of the flames grew to resemble a fire, Xiao Yan knew that the condensation of the Fire Refining Talisman had reached its most crucial moment.

The burning flames began to spread wildly, as if a real fire had broken out in Xiao Yan's Niwan Palace. The ubiquitous flames burned and devoured everything without any pattern.

Of course, the so-called disordered burning is just an observation. This endless flame actually follows a special law. When this special law appears, it means that Xiao Yan's Fire Refining Talisman has almost reached its final moment.

Suddenly, Xiao Yan could vaguely perceive the distortion of space amidst the burning flames, and a faint heat emanated from his Niwan Palace.

"Congeal!"