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

"The first place Xiao Yan was taken to was a volcano in the Eastern Continent, where there was a mature Xuanhuang Flame. Although it had not yet developed a complete consciousness, if it were to erupt in full, it could burn a nine-star Dou Zong of the Earth attribute to ashes. By the time I arrived there, the Xuanhuang Flame had already disappeared, along with the accompanying fire attribute treasures..."

Dan, who also didn't know why Xiao Yan was taken there to absorb the strange fire, wisely didn't answer Yao Lao's question, but continued, "The second place... After I learned that it was the world consciousness that took Xiao Yan away, I only sensed where Xiao Yan went and didn't follow him, but I still know the general location... The very center of the Beast Domain."

"In the very center of the Beast Realm... the chief of the Azure Phoenix Clan told me that a war that swept through all the magical beast clans broke out there, a war started by an evolved ancient phoenix and an evolved ancient dragon."

After Dan finished speaking, he looked at Venerable Feng. Venerable Feng, after a brief moment of contemplation, lived up to expectations and recounted this part of history from the very center of the Beast Domain.

"So, that's the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire?" Yao Lao realized.

“There should also be the beast soul that gave birth to the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire. The beast soul is to the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire what fire attribute techniques are to fire attribute battle qi cultivators,” Venerable Heavenly Fire added. “The stronger the beast soul that gives birth to the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire, the stronger the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire will be.”

"So, it will be almost two years before Xiao Yan returns?" Cai Lin frowned slightly.

"...I told that person that I would be back in about a year."

Dan, too embarrassed to admit that it took her more than half a month to pinpoint Xiao Yan's first location, and more than ten days to pinpoint the second location, and she even got slapped in the process, spoke up.

"One year later..." The old doctor seemed to be thinking. He remembered that the ten-year deadline he had mentioned at the beginning was one year later.

"Another year has passed?" Cai Lin sighed.

"So, Xiao Yan will be a Dou Sheng after he comes back, right?" Little Fairy Doctor, who vaguely felt that Xiao Yan would absorb the Netherworld Poison Fire again, thought of the poisonous swamp of the Chuyun Empire. "Let's arrange for people to search for the locations of several important branch halls of the Soul Hall... How about that?" She turned her head and looked at Cai Lin.

“…Yes, that’s fine.” After thinking for a moment, Cai Lin nodded.

In reality, his strength would be controlled by the world's consciousness at the Seven Star Dou Zun level, since exceeding that level would prevent him from entering the Heavenly Tomb...

After thinking for a moment, Dan didn't voice what the World Consciousness had told him. 'Speaking of which, even the World Consciousness is watching the Heavenly Tomb... Could it be that the ten years the Empress mentioned refers to that Heavenly Tomb?'

*

'Leave here.'

Half a month later, as soon as Little Fairy Doctor stepped into the poisonous swamp that once belonged to the Izumo Empire, a strange voice echoed in her mind.

"I am his..." Little Fairy Doctor was slightly startled, but still spoke calmly.

"I know who you are, but he can't wake up right now," the world's consciousness decisively interrupted Little Fairy Doctor, "Come back in half a month. The records of controlling the Calamity Poison Body left behind by each generation are in that small world!"

"I want to know when he can go back?" Despite the unexpected joy, Little Fairy Doctor still shook her head. "I don't believe in that pill."

'Tsk, that piece of trash…' The world consciousness spat out with remarkable clarity. 'His cultivation technique is incomplete. To fully evolve, he needs to devour all the strange flames in the world except for the Pure Lotus Demon Flame and the Void Devouring Flame. He can return no later than before the Heavenly Tomb opens… approximately eleven months.'

"Is it just absorbing the strange fire?" Little Fairy Doctor asked again.

'Otherwise what? If I hadn't been asked to… tsk, why would I be telling you all this?' The world consciousness was clearly a grumpy older sister. 'Alright, get out of here.'

Little Fairy Doctor breathed a sigh of relief, then tore open a spatial rift and left.

'Tsk, who taught these people?' After closing the spatial rift, the world's consciousness clicked its tongue in displeasure. 'In ancient times... no, those people back then were even more outrageous!'

Thinking back, it was his own suppression that allowed cultivators on the Dou Qi Continent to learn how to open spatial rifts. The world consciousness sighed helplessly.

'Strange fire, Bodhi tree, and Heavenly Origin Flower... That woman really treats me like a beast of burden? And I have to finish it within a year...'

After making another sarcastic remark, the world consciousness that enveloped the entire poisonous swamp briefly departed.

If a powerful being from ancient times could hear the words "Heavenly Origin Flower," they would probably search for the existence of the world's consciousness at all costs.

After all, even in ancient times, the Heavenly Origin Flower was a legendary medicinal herb that could remove any bottlenecks in a person's future cultivation of battle qi and soul power.

Regardless of whether he cultivates battle qi in the future!

Chapter 441 Jade Inscription

"Let's go to the third level of the Heavenly Tomb!"

After uttering those decisive words, Xiao Yan's consciousness detached from the dazzling flames. In a daze, he murmured uncertainly the message that seemed to be transmitted to him by the world's consciousness: "Heavenly Tomb... third level?"

Why the third floor?

Xiao Yan was filled with confusion. He could naturally think that the Heavenly Tomb might be related to the world consciousness, but in his opinion, if the Heavenly Tomb was really related to the world consciousness, then the world consciousness and the Embryo of That Dimension must be on the fifth level of the Heavenly Tomb.

But the message conveyed to him by the world's consciousness was from the third layer...

"Perhaps it's because the fourth and fifth levels of the Heavenly Tomb cannot be entered through normal means that I was given such an ordinary goal as entering the third level?"

As he muttered to himself, Xiao Yan's gaze finally fell upon the dazzling flame in his hand—

"Uh...did I take the wrong one?"

Looking at the surging, lotus-shaped flame above his palm, radiating countless brilliant colors, Xiao Yan hesitated for a moment. His consciousness sank into his body. He wondered if he had taken out his original strange fire. After all, the flame he had seen before, although equally brilliant, was extremely weak, just a tiny flame, not this fully developed one.

"This……"

Then, as soon as his consciousness detected the primordial strange fire within his body, Xiao Yan was stunned once again. The primordial strange fire within his body was both strange and familiar. In addition to the strange fires that Xiao Yan had devoured and absorbed, there were also many unfamiliar flames with their auras.

"Mysterious Yellow Flame, Myriad Beast Spirit Fire, Yin-Yang Twin Flames..."

After separating the unfamiliar flames, Xiao Yan was surprised to find that those "unfamiliar" flames were actually all the flames on the Strange Flame Ranking except for the top three flames. Moreover, except for the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, he could clearly tell that the strange flames that had been absorbed were all mature strange flames.

Was it given to me by the world consciousness?

Xiao Yan immediately thought of this, but looking around, this was clearly the cave he had randomly chosen earlier, and there was no sign of it being burned by the strange fire.

"Wait... so how much time has passed?!"

Then, the next moment Xiao Yan suddenly realized this. He had just come out of more than four years of seclusion. Could it be that another four or five years had passed since he contacted the world consciousness this time?

Thinking of this, Xiao Yan did not hesitate to absorb the flame in his hand into his body, and then with a wave of his hand, he tore open a spatial rift and went straight in.

In the main hall of the Starfall Pavilion, Yao Lao, who was talking with Venerable Feng, suddenly raised an eyebrow, turned his gaze to the void, and chuckled, "Finally back!"

As soon as the old doctor's laughter subsided, the space within the hall rippled, and then a figure slowly emerged from the ripples.

"Teacher..." Xiao Yan, who appeared from the space tunnel, looked embarrassed.

"Don't worry, only a year has passed," Yao Lao said with a smile, knowing what Xiao Yan was worried about. "Besides, when you were in seclusion, Senior Dan told us about your whereabouts."

"Where...am I?"

Just as Xiao Yan was relieved by Dan's thoughtfulness, he noticed Yao Lao's choice of words, and then recalled the changes in his own primordial flame and the flame that connected to the world's consciousness...

"He was taken by the world's consciousness to absorb the strange fire...you didn't know?" As he spoke, Yao Lao also noticed Xiao Yan's somewhat strange expression.

"Actually, I knew... but I only found out after I woke up from my seclusion." Xiao Yan smiled wryly. "It seems that the enhancement of the Origin Flame was simply a bonus during the process of strengthening the flame that connects to the world's consciousness!"

"Hmm? What is the flame that links to the world's consciousness?" Upon hearing Xiao Yan's question, Venerable Feng, who was listening in, asked curiously, "And isn't it a bonus during the process of perfecting the Burning Technique?"

Ok?

Xiao Yan's body stiffened slightly, and he looked at Venerable Feng and Elder Yao with some surprise. Seeing that the two of them were staring at him strangely, Xiao Yan realized that what had happened in the past year seemed to be completely different from what he had thought.

Soon, after Yao Lao explained what they knew about Xiao Yan's experiences over the past year, Xiao Yan began to circulate his Dou Qi and carefully examined the changes in the Burning Technique.

"How is it?" Yao Lao asked after Xiao Yan's fighting spirit calmed down.

"Hmm... it doesn't feel very real," Xiao Yan frowned slightly. "The trajectory of operation hasn't changed either. If it weren't for the fact that Little Fairy Doctor heard the phrase 'perfecting the Burning Technique' from the world's consciousness, I might have thought it was just a joke."

The speed and trajectory of the Burning Technique remained unchanged, exactly as they were a year ago. If it weren't for the fact that he actually possessed nearly thirty different flames within his body, Xiao Yan would have suspected that the world's consciousness had simply fabricated an excuse to get rid of Little Fairy Doctor.

"Perhaps... the changes in the Burning Technique will only become apparent after absorbing the Pure Lotus Demon Flame or the Void Devouring Flame?" After a moment's hesitation, Yao Lao spoke.

"Perhaps..." Xiao Yan smiled helplessly.

"In that case, I do have some good news," Yao Lao said with a smile, picking up his teacup with a sigh of relief. "It's related to the Pure Lotus Demon Flame."

Upon hearing this, a look of undisguised surprise appeared on Xiao Yan's face—

"Is the Pure Lotus Demon Flame about to appear in the world ahead of schedule?"

"We've found a clue for the last remaining fragment of the map!"

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao spoke almost simultaneously, and then, realizing that what the other said was completely different from what they had expected, the two fell silent once again.

"What do you mean by appearing in the world ahead of time?" Yao Lao rubbed his temples and asked with some helplessness.

“A few days ago… no, a year ago, I got this information from Senior Huoyun of Burning Flame Valley,” Xiao Yan rubbed his nose, “The Pure Lotus Demon Flame was sealed after the Pure Lotus Demon Saint fell. Only on the day when the Nine Stars are united will the space sealing the Pure Lotus Demon Flame open. More than nine hundred years have passed since the last time the Nine Stars are united. If nothing unexpected happens, the Pure Lotus Demon Flame will reappear in a few years.”

"I see..." A look of realization flashed in Yao Lao's eyes. "No wonder there has been no news of the Pure Lotus Demon Flame in Zhongzhou for so many years!"

After learning of the existence of the Strange Flame Ranking, Yao Lao had considered searching for the top three Strange Flames, but gave up because he couldn't find any clues. Now that he thinks about it, perhaps only a power like the Burning Flame Valley, which has a history of thousands of years, knows the whereabouts of the top three Strange Flames, including the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

Among these forces, the seven ancient clans that still exist are the most powerful...

Although he no longer cared much about the old story of the Medicine Clan exiling him, Yao Lao couldn't help but worry when he thought about the strength of the various ancient clans that were on par with the Medicine Clan. After all, given the arrogance of those clans, obtaining the Pure Lotus Demon Flame would ultimately require overcoming their blockade, which had come because of the appearance of the demon flame.

"Does the teacher already know who has the last fragment of the map?" Xiao Yan asked hastily, sensing that Yao Lao was somewhat agitated.

"I only know that it will appear at the Space Trade Fair a year from now," Yao Lao chuckled as he came to his senses. "Now that we know the day the Demon Flame will appear, let's go and see if there will be any Heaven-Rank Battle Techniques!"

The Space Trade Fair is a mega-trade fair held once every ten years in the Central Continent region. Those who enter must be at least at the peak of the Dou Zong level. Moreover, every Space Trade Fair features many rare treasures, and even Heaven-rank Dou Techniques can often be seen.

"A year later? That would be just in time for the Heavenly Tomb to close."

Xiao Yan nodded slightly. He didn't have much interest in Heaven-Rank Battle Techniques, but there would definitely be a lot of medicinal herbs at the Space Trade Fair. A year ago, he had obtained all the recipes for the Ancient Clan's Treasure Pills and Profound Pills from Xun'er, and what he lacked most were high-grade medicinal herbs.

“Indeed,” Yao Lao said upon hearing the words “Heavenly Tomb,” and took out a black jade slip with many mysterious patterns from his storage ring. He handed it to Xiao Yan and said, “The coming-of-age ceremony of the ancient clans is about to begin. It’s time for you to announce your existence to the young talents of the ancient clans who are participating in the ceremony!”

A Seven-Star Dou Zun and an Eighth-Rank Nine-Color Alchemist—neither of these qualities is something that the younger generation of ancient families of the same age can match. Not to mention that Xiao Yan could even defeat a late-stage Five-Star Dou Sheng with the strength of a Seven-Star Dou Zun—even with the help of the World Consciousness in that battle.

“I don’t care about those things,” Xiao Yan said with a hint of helplessness as he took the jade token, “but those old fogies of the ancient clans don’t think that way… especially after the rumors of the Flame Alliance leader having three thousand concubines spread.”

Thinking of those outrageous rumors in Zhongzhou, Yao Lao couldn't help but chuckle, and joked, "Why don't you take Little Fairy Doctor, Cai Lin, and Xiao Xiao with you when you go to the Ancient Realm this time?"

"Maybe we shouldn't?"

Xiao Yan's expression was somewhat subtle. Although he felt that there wouldn't be any conflicts if Xun'er and the others met, his future father-in-law was the patriarch of the Ancient Clan. If he brought Little Fairy Doctor, Cai Lin, and Xiao Xiao along... he would definitely be kicked out of the Ancient Clan, right?

Chapter 442 Medicine Clan

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Above the azure sky, a huge black shadow swept across like lightning, leaving a trail of foul wind in its wake.

"Young Master Xiao Yan, at our current speed, we should be able to reach the Eastern Region this afternoon." On the massive Nine Netherworld Python, several figures sat steadily, with Qing Lin holding a map in his hand as he spoke.

“However, the entrance to the Ancient Realm is in a city called the Ancient Holy City in the center of the Eastern Region,” Venerable Tianhuo said from the side. “After arriving in the Eastern Region, we need to find a large city with a spatial wormhole that leads directly to the Ancient Holy City.”

“Most large cities in the Eastern Region have wormholes that lead directly to the Ancient Holy City, so there’s no need to worry too much,” Xiao Yan chuckled. “Alright, Qing Lin, there’s no trace of the Soul Palace around, let’s speed things up.”

As soon as the words fell, the people on the back of the Nine Netherworld Python clearly felt a surge of soul power flowing in from all directions, which was then absorbed into Xiao Yan's body—

During the year that Xiao Yan was taken away by the world consciousness, the news of the Yan Alliance searching for the Soul Hall branch could not escape the attention of anyone with a heart. As a result, there were constant frictions between the Yan Alliance and the Soul Hall during this year. Although Xiao Yan did not care about being approached by the Soul Hall's Dou Zun or even Dou Sheng, it was a crucial moment when the ancient clan's coming-of-age ceremony was about to begin. It would not be good to delay because of the Soul Hall's minions.