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

Although someone in this plane inherited the legacy of the Dark Holy Tiger, judging from Zhu Zhuqing's fighting style and the extent of her power as seen by the Ghost King before he left, it is clear that the person who cleared the alien demonic energy from this planet was not the lucky one.

"So... is it someone from another plane?" The Ghost King slowly narrowed his eyes, his dark pupils gazing at the distant horizon, where a dark figure was rapidly flying towards its location.

However, as the dark figure drew closer, a look of surprise gradually appeared on the Ghost King's face.

"I remember... your alias is Yan Xiao?" After Xiao Yan stopped not far ahead, the Ghost King opened his mouth and asked.

"You actually remember me?" Xiao Yan raised an eyebrow slightly. "So, back then, you called yourself the Ghost General in order to get information from me?"

"A clone that has forgotten who it is and a clone that clearly remembers everything—neither of them could allow the latter to escape from prison, right?" Ghost King calmly answered Xiao Yan's question. "You killed Tang San and those two demon generals, didn't you?"

"Probably." Xiao Yan wasn't surprised that the Ghost King knew this, but he wasn't in the mood to answer the question right now, so he replied in a somewhat flippant tone.

Compared to Xiao Yan's casual answer, the Ghost King was more concerned about the gradually strengthening aura within Xiao Yan's body, and the power that seemed somewhat familiar—

'Spiritual power?' The word flashed through his mind subconsciously, but the Ghost King immediately dismissed the possibility. Leaving aside the fact that spiritual energy didn't exist in this low-level plane, the level of power Xiao Yan emitted was far inferior to spiritual power. 'A special, temporary method to boost strength?'

After defining Xiao Yan's current state, Ghost King seemed to have thought of something and said, "When you killed those three, you didn't use this secret technique, did you?"

Xiao Yan, whose aura had reached its peak, showed a puzzled expression—what did using this move have to do with the upcoming battle?

"Although Tang San's strength was temporarily boosted, he was probably similar to the Dark Sacred Tiger inheritor a few years ago—possessing strength but unable to utilize it perfectly," Ghost King said unhurriedly. "The other two, though weaker, are undeniably 'immortal.' Unless I personally intervene, even a Reincarnation Realm expert would need about a second to kill them... But, in my perception, all three of them, including the backup plan that could revive them, vanished at the same time..."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan's expression remained unchanged. He changed the hand seals, and two towering formations appeared above the sky and the earth.

“Normally speaking, someone who could destroy all three of them at the same time should at least have the strength of the Reincarnation Realm, or rather…” As if he hadn’t noticed the two huge fire arrays, the Ghost King stared straight at Xiao Yan, “You have mastered the power of time!”

"Flame Divides and Devours Waves!"

The Ghost King's resolute statement was met with a massive, hundred-foot-long bolt of flame. As this bolt of flame shot out from the top of the giant ruler in Xiao Yan's hand, Xiao Yan's figure vanished instantly.

Facing the massive, fiery torrent, the Ghost King remained unmoved. He clenched his fist, and dark demonic energy surged forth from his body, instantly transforming his right arm into a gigantic demonic claw.

boom!

With a swing of its demonic claws, the fiery ribbon was shattered, turning into scattered sparks that vanished into the world.

"I can take this as your tacit agreement..."

After shattering the fiery ribbon, the Ghost King was about to continue speaking when he saw countless brightly colored fire lotuses rapidly forming from the shattered sparks. Despite their vibrant colors, the destructive aura they contained did not diminish in the slightest.

"burst!"

The moment the Ghost King saw the fire lotuses, a soft shout came from all directions. With this shout, the countless fire lotuses expanded at a speed that was imperceptible to the naked eye. Immediately afterwards, countless terrifying fire storms swept across the world.

boom!

As the firestorm swept through, Xiao Yan's figure appeared in the eye of the Refining Heaven Ancient Array. After casually glancing at the still raging firestorm in the sky, he changed his hand seals and five flames of different colors appeared in front of him.

"Azure Dragon!"

After a brief pause, a sharp shout came from Xiao Yan's mouth, and the purplish-black flame floating in front of him instantly began to writhe, and a dragon-shaped fire spirit appeared beside Xiao Yan.

"Vermilion Bird!"

"Black Tortoise!"

"White Tiger!"

After condensing four types of fire spirits in one go, the fire storm in the sky gradually dissipated, and the spherical demonic energy barrier became faintly visible. Immediately, Xiao Yan changed his hand seals and shouted, "Qilin!"

As the shout fell, the last flame began to wriggle rapidly, and in an instant, a Qilin-shaped fire spirit the size of a mountain appeared beside Xiao Yan.

"Five Elements Fire Formation!"

Five enormous fire spirits formed a strange array in the sky, and Xiao Yan was at the core of the array. This was the Five Elements Fire Array, which was derived from the Five Elements Fire Separation Technique taught by Venerable Heavenly Fire and modified by Xiao Yan's personal insights and Dou Qi attributes.

'If it weren't for improving it, I would have even forgotten that I possess several battle aura attributes...'

As Xiao Yan muttered to himself, the spherical demonic energy barrier in the sky came into full view. Then, a crack appeared on the barrier, followed by countless cracks covering it. Finally, with a bang, the demonic energy barrier shattered, revealing the unharmed Ghost King inside.

Xiao Yan's location wasn't hard to find, but when Xiao Yan was found, the array formed by the five fire spirits also came into the Ghost King's field of vision. After his pupils contracted briefly, the Ghost King said in a low voice, "Sure enough, what happened before was just an appetizer."

The power of those countless fire lotuses was not weak. If the Ghost King hadn't possessed the strongest defensive ability besides the Demon Emperor Armor, which only a True King could possibly have, there was a very high probability that he would have been injured, or even seriously injured, in the explosion of those countless fire lotuses.

However, the countless fire lotuses were insignificant compared to this formation. After all, the Ghost King had to take the energy contained within the formation seriously.

"It would be best if you could die from that appetizer earlier," Xiao Yan said, a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth as he looked at the Ghost King emanating a terrifying aura in the air.

Clearly, Zhu Zhuqing's intelligence was flawed. At least Xiao Yan can now clearly perceive the Ghost King's current strength level—the late stage of a five-star Dou Sheng, capable of crushing an ordinary three-star Dou Sheng with a wave of his hand.

"That would be underestimating me too much. After all, I have already stepped into the threshold of the True King."

The Ghost King said calmly, if one ignored the overwhelming black light that surged from its body and formed a massive, thousand-foot-tall, pitch-black sun-like orb above it.

'Unfortunately, I can only perfectly control the Vermilion Bird now...' Xiao Yan murmured to himself, gazing at the black sun in the sky.

Controlling distractions wasn't difficult for Xiao Yan. However, compared to the Vermilion Bird, which symbolized the element of fire, Xiao Yan was slightly inferior in controlling the other four spirits. According to his plan, the Five Elements Fire Array could only play its greatest role when he could perfectly control the five spirits.

"Until you fully master the Wood element, I will continue to control the Azure Dragon." A somewhat mature voice echoed in Xiao Yan's mind.

"Same here as well." Another voice rang out.

The Life Flame and the King-Slaying Heavenly Pill, which have not yet reached perfection, are naturally not capable of suppressing the King-level alien demons on their own like the ancient divine objects of the Tianxuan Continent. However, they can still temporarily control the Azure Dragon and White Tiger in the Five Elements Separating Fire Formation for Xiao Yan, especially since their current state is almost identical to that of Xiao Yan.

"The Five Elements Fire Plate!"

Xiao Yan wasn't the kind of person who would wait until the enemy had gathered their power to its peak before making a move. After confirming with the Flame of Life and the King-Slaying Heavenly Pill, he changed his hand seals and let out a sharp shout.

As the shout fell, the five enormous fire spirits around them roared to the sky, and huge fire discs emerged from the strange formation. Then, the fire discs spun rapidly, and in the process of high temperature and high speed, the space around the fire discs completely collapsed, and huge black cracks appeared like ferocious mouths.

"go with!"

After a soft shout, the fiery discs flew out of the formation, accompanied by thunderous roars, streaking across the sky like meteors, and shooting towards the Ghost King.

After scanning the fire discs, Ghost King's gaze returned to Xiao Yan. These fire discs contained great power, and if not taken seriously, they would definitely cause serious injury. However, would Xiao Yan, who controlled the power of time and the power to extend the same amount of time by dozens of times, really use these fire discs as a killing move?

The Ghost King didn't believe this, so when facing these fire discs that could severely injure it, the Ghost King couldn't help but keep a watchful eye on any other possible killing moves.

"Great Demonic Erosion!"

boom!

The black sun, not yet fully formed, pierced the sky and fell towards the fiery discs. Indescribable energy ripples spread wildly, tearing the thousand-foot cracks already created by the fiery discs torn apart by these energy ripples, extending them to tens of thousands of feet.

Humph.

Xiao Yan let out a muffled groan, his face turning pale. His strength was far inferior to that of the Ghost King. Even though he had forcibly raised himself to the level of a three-star Dou Sheng, he was still incredibly weak compared to the Ghost King.

Regardless of whether Xiao Yan's apparent weakness was feigned, the Ghost King wouldn't allow himself to miss such an obvious flaw: "Great Heavenly Demon Finger!"

The pitch-black finger suddenly slashed down, and a strange black light flashed out. Space itself seemed to distort at this moment. The black light flashed and pierced through the void. Like the previous Great Demonic Erosion, this attack also contained terrifying fluctuations. Such a fierce offensive could seriously injure or even kill a four-star Dou Sheng.

Faced with the black light that had appeared before him in the blink of an eye, Xiao Yan's expression shifted slightly. The Vermilion Bird, as large as a mountain peak, flapped its wings, and the aura of the Fire Refining Talisman flashed by, directly scattering the black light.

Not right.

The failure of the Great Heavenly Demon Finger was naturally within the Ghost King's expectations. However, the Ghost King had anticipated that the Great Heavenly Demon Finger would at least be able to consume one of the five fire spirits that Xiao Yan had condensed. At that point, the formation, lacking a fire spirit, would naturally collapse on its own, and its Great Demonic Erosion would be able to crush those fire discs. It could also launch a new round of attacks when the Great Demonic Erosion fell towards Xiao Yan.

As a result, this move didn't even cause the strange formation to tremble in the slightest.

click!

Just as the Ghost King was gathering demonic energy in his hand, preparing to test Xiao Yan again and try to confirm how the Five Elements Fire Formation could so easily shatter the Great Heavenly Demon Finger, a crisp cracking sound came from the black sun in the sky.

"pity……"

With a soft sigh, the demonic energy in the Ghost King's hand transformed into a gigantic palm a thousand feet long, which rushed towards the fire discs after the black sun had completely shattered.

'Now!'

The moment the giant demonic palm touched the fire plate, a glint flashed in Xiao Yan's eyes. He changed his hand seals, and the five fire spirits beside him disappeared in the blink of an eye. When they reappeared, they had already trapped the Ghost King in the Five Elements Separating Fire Formation.

"The spirit of the ancestral symbol?!"

With the Fire Spirit almost touching him, the Ghost King finally sensed a familiar fluctuation from the Fire Spirit's body—a fluctuation unique to the ancestral symbols of the Tianxuan Continent, among which the fluctuation of the Flame Ancestral Symbol was the strongest and most obvious.

Almost instinctively, the Ghost King mobilized all his power to completely protect himself—

The gap between the Reincarnation Realm and the Wheel Reincarnation Realm can be filled by a single Ancestral Symbol, let alone the fact that its difference from Xiao Yan's current strength is only whether or not he has survived the second Reincarnation Tribulation.

Overwhelmed by fear, the Ghost King didn't even have time to consider why Xiao Yan possessed five Ancestral Symbols, why Xiao Yan, who could summon five Ancestral Symbol Spirits, didn't confront them directly at the beginning, and...

Why are these five ancestral symbol spirits so pitifully weak, so weak that the fluctuations emanating from them cannot even completely suppress the surrounding demonic energy?

Chapter 416 Refining Heaven Ancient Formation

"Five Elements Fire Formation, seal!"

The moment the Ghost King opened a gap due to its shock, Xiao Yan changed his hand seals, and the energy fluctuations from the five fire spirits intertwined to create a strange fluctuation. The Ghost King, which had released all its defenses, was directly sealed by the five "Ancestral Symbol Spirits" in its eyes.

'Wait, isn't something... a little off?'

As the seal was formed, the Ghost King also clearly realized that the five fire spirits in front of him were not the Ancestral Symbol Spirits he thought they were. After all, if they were the true Ancestral Symbol Spirits, there would be no need for a seal. The five Ancestral Symbol Spirits rushing up together would be enough to crush a Demon King like him who was not yet a true king.

Although, just as Xiao Yan had predicted, the Ghost King abandoned all its offensive intentions upon sensing the five fire spirits emanating the aura of the Ancestral Symbol, and was even unexpectedly controlled by the Five Elements Separating Fire Array, those five fire spirits were not true spirits of the Ancestral Symbol. To maintain control over the Ghost King for an extended period, other assistance would still be needed.

"Heaven-Refining Ancient Formation, destroy!"

Xiao Yan's hand seals changed again, and two milky white magma fire pillars shot out from the fire array that covered the sky and the earth, crashing into the Five Elements Separation Fire Array that trapped the Ghost King with a thunderous force. At the same time, the great array that covered the sky and the earth began to rotate like a millstone.

As the two large formations slowly rotated, the energy in this world suddenly became extremely violent.

Although the power used by the Ghost King had nothing to do with this world, the manipulation of its demonic energy was momentarily interrupted after being hit by two milky-white pillars of magma. This momentary interruption made it the only object being ground up in this towering millstone.

Even though the Ghost King could clearly feel itself being weakened bit by bit, the expression on its face became more and more relaxed, as if the black energy around it being constantly burned and annihilated had nothing to do with it.

"You don't have the Ancestral Symbol, do you?" Looking at Xiao Yan, who was controlling the two formations, the Ghost King asked with a smile.

After learning about the Ancestral Symbol's ability to restrain the Otherworldly Demons, the ancestors of the Tianxuan Continent created countless methods of imprinting the Ancestral Symbol. These methods of imprinting, to varying degrees, hindered the Otherworldly Demon army. Therefore, the Ghost King quickly understood why the five fire spirits possessed the aura of the Ancestral Symbol.

"If I'm not mistaken, the aura of those ancestral symbols... is from the seal-forming techniques created based on the ancestral symbols, right? They've cultivated five seal-forming techniques at the same time? Is this the change that the Tianxuan Continent has made for our comeback?" The Ghost King laughed provocatively.

'However, the aura of this Flame Ancestral Symbol... is unexpectedly powerful.'

Although the Ghost King was 100% confident in its prediction, it still glanced at the Vermilion Bird Fire Spirit with lingering fear. If the aura of the Flame Ancestral Symbol carried by this Fire Spirit had not been so strong and real, it would not have panicked and abandoned its normal defense, curling up everything and losing the initiative on the battlefield.

"Who knows?" Xiao Yan smiled calmly, his hand seals changing silently, and the fire array, like a millstone, spun faster and faster.

'If you have a backup plan, use it already! What's the point of dragging this out? Do you really intend to keep going like this forever?'

Xiao Yan's outward composure could not conceal the inner turmoil he felt. Although he had set up the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation a month in advance and had also incorporated many other formations to gather the energy of heaven and earth in order to reduce the consumption of the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation during battle, his own strength was ultimately far weaker than that of the Ghost King. If the Ghost King was determined to continue to wear him down, Xiao Yan would have no choice but to cancel the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation and the Five Elements Separating Fire Formation himself... or use these two formations as a prelude to his later trump card.

Tsk.

While Xiao Yan was feeling anxious, the Ghost King was also somewhat annoyed by Xiao Yan's calm expression. Indeed, apart from the extremely realistic aura of the Flame Ancestral Symbol emanating from the Vermilion Bird Fire Spirit, the aura of the Ancestral Symbol carried by the other four Fire Spirits was so faint as to be negligible. However, the strange fluctuations between the five Fire Spirits were constantly strengthening the other four Fire Spirits, not to mention that the formation of unknown level was gradually weakening its main body.