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

Jia Xingtian knew that Xiao Yan was an alchemist, and he also knew that most alchemists on the Dou Qi Continent improved their cultivation through pills, but he had never heard of any pill that could raise a Dou Ling to Dou Zong in less than a year!

'Could it be that he's overdrawn his potential...' Even though he thought it was unlikely, Jia Xingtian couldn't help but think about it as he felt Xiao Yan's dazzling strength as a one-star Dou Zong.

"Don't worry, my strength is not a problem," Xiao Yan knew what Jia Xingtian was thinking. He smiled casually and then looked at Shi Rui, who was daydreaming. "However, let's deal with these things after we've dealt with them..."

A huge black ruler appeared in Xiao Yan's hand.

"First, let's say hello..."

A dazzling light appeared on the Xuan Heavy Ruler, which was the change that would occur when Xiao Yan used the Flame Dividing Wave Ruler, the first Earth-rank Dou Technique he had mastered.

*

"He's got a lot of ideas, but as for his abilities..."

As Shi Rui was envisioning the future, a calm voice drifted over from afar.

"Vulnerable."

The moment the voice fell, a crescent moon beam, hundreds of feet long, appeared in the sky, enveloping Shi Rui, the three elders of Mulan, and Yan Luotian.

"Go all out if you don't want to die!"

The intense heat brought Shi Rui back to his senses. Without hesitation, he roared and simultaneously condensed his poisonous fighting spirit into a giant venomous insect, which he then slammed into the crescent moon beam that was slashing straight down at him.

'When did such a powerful figure appear in the Gama Empire?'

These words flashed through the minds of Yan Luotian, Mu Lan, and the other two elders. The next moment, the fighting spirit in their hands surged wildly. Under the terrifying pressure of the Flame Dividing Wave Ruler, all four of them used their trump cards.

boom!

A huge explosion resounded across the sky.

As the hundred-foot-long crescent-shaped beam of light detached from the giant ruler in Xiao Yan's hand and slashed towards the five people opposite, Jia Xingtian's expression froze. Now he believed that Xiao Yan had not overdrawn his potential, or rather, even if Xiao Yan had, the power of this fighting technique alone was far beyond what Jia Xingtian could match.

"Could they have died from this attack?" Jia Xingtian suddenly asked before the firestorm from the explosion disappeared.

"That's not the case. I didn't use my full strength. I should be able to save my life... probably."

Xiao Yan, who had initially answered with great confidence, suddenly realized that in recent days, whether facing Mo Tianxing or the Earth Demon Old Ghost, he had not used any fighting techniques, and the amount of fighting energy he had mobilized was not as great as this time...

Therefore, it was obvious to the naked eye that Xiao Yan's face showed an uncertain expression, and his words were no longer so certain.

However, Xiao Yan quickly relaxed because he sensed that Shi Rui and the others were still alive, even though more than 90% of their skin was severely burned and their fighting spirit was almost exhausted.

"They're in your hands now," Xiao Yan said casually, having left the crisis behind, before flying towards Black Mountain Fortress. "As for the Three Kingdoms Alliance... there's no need to let them go back."

According to what Protector Xuan said that day, the Luoyan Empire and the Mulan Empire also had Soul Hall Protectors, and both of them were involved in the Xiao family tragedy...

There must be some "innocent" people in the allied forces of the three empires who know nothing, but the Poison Sect, Golden Goose Sect, and Mulan Valley, which have Dou Zong members, must know about the existence of the Soul Hall Protectors. Perhaps many of them have even made deals with those protectors. However, it would be too time-consuming and laborious to identify the people from the three major sects one by one. Moreover, if such behavior were to spread, it might allow those two protectors to escape first.

Since that's the case, just to be on the safe side, let's leave all the allied forces of these three empires behind. After all, as the invaders, they were prepared to die or surrender.

Upon hearing this, Jia Xingtian instinctively looked at Lionheart—he wasn't sure what Xiao Yan meant by those words.

Noticing Jia Xingtian's gaze, Lionheart shrugged helplessly. He threw out the Purple Spirit Crystal to seal Shi Rui and the other four who were falling from the sky, and after repelling the Dou Huang who wanted to rescue them, he shouted loudly: "Surrender, or die!"

Under the lion's roar, large numbers of people fell like wheat. Among them were many Battle Kings and even Battle Emperors who wanted to escape or fight back, but under absolute power, everything they did was in vain.

With the war over, the joyous news spread like wildfire throughout the entire Gama Empire. In an instant, the despair and gloom of the past were swept away everywhere. Being able to stay in one's own country was naturally the wish of many people. No one wanted to experience a life of wandering and displacement for no reason.

Compared to the excitement across the Gama Empire, the Black Mountain Fortress was quite exhausted. After all, dealing with the surrendered soldiers from the three-empire coalition and burying the bodies of those stubborn individuals who refused to surrender was quite time-consuming and laborious.

Having finally found some peace and quiet, Hai Bodong knocked on the door of the room where Xiao Yan was.

"Come in, it's just me." Sensing the conflicted expression on Hai Bodong's face and knowing Hai Bodong's fear of Medusa, Xiao Yan smiled helplessly and said.

"Are you alone?" Hai Bodong pushed open the door and, finding that Xiao Yan wasn't lying, plopped down opposite him. "Did they all go back?"

“Cai Lin has been away from the Snake-People Clan for more than two years and needs to go back to take care of some things. Zi Yan was also deceived by her, who said that the Snake-People Clan has a lot of medicinal herbs,” Xiao Yan said casually. “Little Fairy Doctor also has things to do.”

"...Cai Lin?" Hai Bodong looked at Xiao Yan with some curiosity after hearing the name he said.

"Medusa's name..." Xiao Yan paused, then continued, "...I named her."

"Hiss!" Upon hearing this, Hai Bodong gasped instantly. "She admitted it?"

“She doesn’t object, and she’ll respond when you call her.” Xiao Yan shrugged.

"It has to be you..." Hai Bodong nodded with admiration, but he didn't think too much about it. He just thought that Xiao Yan had bribed Medusa with pills to get closer to her.

Chapter 360 The Serpent People

"This was obtained from Yan Luotian. It should be considered a closely guarded secret of the Golden Goose Sect. If you successfully cultivate it, it will greatly benefit you."

After making a remark, Hai Bodong took out a yellow scroll from his storage ring and casually tossed it to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan took the scroll with some surprise, then slowly unfolded it, revealing several large, golden characters: Nine Wings of the Heavenly Goose.

"Flying combat skills?" Upon seeing these words, Xiao Yan was taken aback. He looked up at Hai Bodong and asked in surprise.

Now he is a powerful Dou Zong, and ordinary flying techniques cannot even match the speed of his Dou Qi Wings. This is without even considering his use of spatial power. For him, flying techniques are no longer of much use.

“This is not an ordinary flight combat technique. Remember Yan Luotian’s giant wings that were almost tangible? It’s because he practiced this technique that the Golden Goose Sect is most skilled in speed. If that guy really wanted to escape, even a high-level Dou Zong might not be able to catch him,” Hai Bodong shrugged. “Anyway, that’s what he said. Moreover, rather than calling it a flight combat technique… it’s more like a method for creating a flight combat technique.”

"The method of making flying combat techniques?" Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan's eyes flashed with surprise. Flying combat techniques were quite rare on the Dou Qi Continent, and their methods of making were mostly lost. He did not expect that the Golden Goose Sect would still have some of them preserved.

"If it's a method for creating flying combat techniques, then it might be somewhat useful to me." Xiao Yan nodded and put the scroll into his storage ring. He hadn't used the wings of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix he had obtained earlier, but now it seemed he could use them to test the effects of the Heavenly Goose Nine Flight Wings.

"Remember to use high-grade materials," Hai Bodong reminded him. "Yan Luotian's own was made from the wings of a seventh-tier magical beast. If it were a sixth-tier material, it would only be useful to a Dou Huang."

"No need to worry about that, I have plenty of good stuff on hand." Xiao Yan smiled casually.

“That doesn’t surprise me…” Hai Bodong’s lips twitched, then he changed the subject, “Speaking of which, Xiao Yan, were you interested in the Chuyun Empire before?” he asked seemingly indifferently.

"Did Yao Ye send you to ask this?" Xiao Yan rolled his eyes, directly seeing through Hai Bodong's meaning, "She wants to become the first female emperor of the Jia Ma Empire, and then directly send troops to Chuyun?"

"Ahem," Hai Bodong coughed twice, "It also has that old man Xing Tian's intention... After all, the Chuyun Empire still has the Wanxie Sect, and that guy Xie Biyan has already become a six-star Dou Zong. If he wants to attack us, we can't stop him."

“That is a problem,” Xiao Yan nodded, “but… isn’t it too cautious to only target the Chuyun Empire?”

"Uh, you mean..." Hai Bodong was slightly taken aback. Why did he suddenly feel that Xiao Yan had been waiting for him and Jia Xingtian to ask him about this?

"The Luoyan Empire, the Mulan Empire, the Mingshi Empire, and the Muze Empire—why not try making them targets as well?" Xiao Yan smiled as he named four empires, all of which were adjacent to the Jia Ma Empire and were also the empires for which the Soul Hall Protector who attacked the Xiao family that day was responsible.

"Four?" Hai Bodong finally understood. Xiao Yan was really waiting for him or Jia Xingtian to ask this kind of question!

“The strongest members of the most powerful sects in the Luoyan Empire and the Mulan Empire are already dead,” Xiao Yan said with a smile as he analyzed for Hai Bodong. “The Mingshi Empire and the Muze Empire each only have one Dou Zong, and they are elderly low-star Dou Zongs… Wouldn’t it be better to devour them all while I’m still in the Northwest?”

“It’s not a matter of whether to eat or not,” Hai Bodong said with a helpless smile. “The empire doesn’t have enough strong people.”

"Even including the Snake People and the Heavenly Snake Palace isn't enough?" Xiao Yan asked.

"Snakes..." Hai Bodong's expression froze for a moment. "The Snake Clan and the Heavenly Snake Palace? You convinced them?"

The Snake People have a connection with Queen Medusa, so Hai Bodong reluctantly believes that Xiao Yan can handle it. But the Heavenly Snake Mansion... if Hai Bodong remembers correctly, more than a year ago, Green Barbarian and White Fang of the Heavenly Snake Mansion were Xiao Yan's prisoners, right?

“Qinglin went to the Heavenly Serpent Mansion,” Xiao Yan said with a smile. “She said she was unwilling to be defeated by those people from the Soul Palace… In order to prevent Qinglin from being bullied in the Heavenly Serpent Mansion, I plan to go there in a while and reason with the people of the Heavenly Serpent Mansion.”

Let's talk about reason?

Hai Bodong's lips twitched slightly. Putting aside the strength that Xiao Yan had admitted in the past two days, his alchemy skills alone were enough for the people of the Heavenly Serpent Mansion to treat him well. In addition, there was Qing Lin, who the Heavenly Serpent Mansion had been searching for with all its might and seemed to be qualified to become the future master of the Heavenly Serpent Mansion...

“I need to talk to that old guy Jia Xingtian,” Hai Bodong thought after realizing that everything seemed within reach. The development of the Mittel family, which was based on a merchant guild, was closely related to the Jia Ma Empire. If the territory of the Jia Ma Empire could expand, the future of the Mittel family would naturally be better.

Not to mention they even got involved with Xiao Yan...

"By the way, most of the remaining members of your Xiao family are at the Mittel Auction House. Do you want to go see them?" Before leaving, Hai Bodong also thought of this matter, turned around and asked.

"...Did they cultivate seriously?" After a moment's hesitation, Xiao Yan slowly asked.

“You’re taking this too seriously,” Hai Bodong chuckled helplessly. “You’re even insisting on paying for the medicinal herbs that aid cultivation just to avoid owing favors… If this continues, the Xiao family’s gold coins won’t last much longer.”

“Then let them continue cultivating,” Xiao Yan said with a smile. “As for medicinal herbs… once the family’s gold coins are used up, those who are willing can go to the Black Corner Region. It just so happens that my eldest brother and second brother are short of manpower. Those who are unwilling can be treated as ordinary people.”

"So heartless?"

“Those who wanted revenge were given directions, and those who didn’t dare were given a way out,” Xiao Yan said with a helpless smile. “What else can we do? The Soul Palace… that’s not something just anyone can mess with.”

“That’s true.” Hai Bodong nodded.

In the year or so that he learned some information about the Soul Palace, he also knew that the number of Dou Zun in the Soul Palace might be more than the number of Dou Wang in the Jia Ma Empire. Therefore, he agreed with Xiao Yan's second half of the statement.

"Oh, by the way, I need to go to the Snake People's Tribe first, it will probably take a few days."

When Hai Bodong walked out of the house, he heard Xiao Yan say something again, but when he turned around, he didn't see Xiao Yan's figure in the house, as if he had already left.

"Did they wait until I, on behalf of Yao Ye and Jia Xingtian, said that we should take action against the Chuyun Empire before leaving?"

Hai Bodong shook his head helplessly, closed the door, and walked towards where Yao Yue and Jia Xingtian were.

It can't be said that Hai Bodong wronged Xiao Yan. After all, Xiao Yan received Medusa's message just over ten minutes ago. If it weren't for waiting for him, Yao Ye, and Jia Xingtian who were discussing something, Xiao Yan would have already left for the Snake People's Clan.

However, nothing serious happened. It was just that after Medusa returned from being away for more than a year, the elders of the snake people detected something was wrong and learned that she had lost her virginity.

If it were a case of mutual affection, Xiao Yan wouldn't be too flustered. But the situation at the time was one-sided, with Xiao Yan forcing Xiao Yan, which made things extremely awkward.

However, Xiao Yan knew that he couldn't escape this situation, so after persuading Hai Bodong, he headed directly towards the location of the Snake-People's Holy City. Although he didn't have any high-grade pills, Xiao Yan felt that with his status as an eighth-grade alchemist, it wouldn't be a problem to use this opportunity as a marriage proposal...

'So, you were really only affected by the Dragon-Phoenix Demonic Flame back then?'

On the way, Yao Lao, who had just learned from Medusa's letter that Xiao Yan had received earlier what happened when Xiao Yan absorbed the Fallen Heart Flame and the Sea Heart Flame, couldn't help but ask, "You really didn't have any subjective thoughts about it?"

The old doctor simply couldn't understand: how could such a bizarre thing happen when he was just properly absorbing the strange fire?

If Xiao Yan's soul power wasn't strong enough, he might have encountered various problems after absorbing the strange fire. However, Xiao Yan's soul power is precisely his strongest asset, and he is now at the point where he could potentially advance to the Heavenly Realm at any time. How could he possibly experience side effects from absorbing the strange fire?

"Either it's the Dragon-Phoenix Demon Flame, or it's because of those dragon-phoenix horns and the bloodline connection I made with Zi Yan that made me closer to a demon beast than a human..." Xiao Yan said with a bitter face. He didn't understand why such a thing had happened!

"However, this will only happen once, and it will never happen again!"

"If it happens again, then it can only mean that, just like this time, you did it on purpose," the old apothecary said irritably.

"Ha ha……"

After chuckling, Xiao Yan, with the permission of Yue Mei, the snake woman, landed on the city wall of the Snake-People's Holy City.

The moment Xiao Yan's foot touched the ground, a huge shadow, accompanied by a fierce gust of wind, slammed down on him.

"Mobas!" Noticing the suddenly appearing figure, Yue Mei shouted angrily, "He is the Queen's guest!"

However, as if he hadn't heard what Yue Mei said, the figure's movements didn't stop at all.

Sensing the sudden attack, Xiao Yan frowned slightly. After realizing that the figure still showed no sign of stopping despite Yue Mei's reminder, he snorted coldly, clenched his fist, and unleashed a burst of crimson battle qi, blasting it back at the attacker without any hesitation.

Bang!