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

"Who knows? Maybe they want to turn the Star Dou Great Forest into their Spirit Hall's backyard?" Dai Mubai grinned. "Let's go, we're already in town, let's book the whole place!"

During their conversation, the group finally arrived at the town where they had stayed on the way there. Dai Mubai generously booked an entire hotel, and he covered all the expenses during their rest period.

The group stayed in the town for two days. On the third day, when the teacher from Canghui Academy led his students out of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Shrek Academy group finally finished their rest. After exchanging a few pleasantries with the Canghui Academy group, they parted ways.

"Finally back! It feels so good to be home!"

That evening, after a day's journey, the group finally returned to Shrek Academy. Upon seeing the sign, Oscar stretched and exclaimed loudly.

"Keep your voice down, didn't you notice it's already dark?!" Zhao Wuji glared at him. "Alright, you all go back and rest. I'm going to talk to the dean about what's happened lately."

After a long day of travel, everyone was quite tired. Upon hearing Zhao Wuji's words, they all responded and headed towards their respective dormitories.

"Yan Xiao, why did you choose Blazing Fire Academy in the first place?"

On the way, Ning Rongrong also asked Xiao Yan a question that piqued the interest of everyone else.

"The reason for choosing Blazing Fire Academy in the first place?" Xiao Yan rubbed his nose. "Well... after all, it's the only advanced soul master academy that specializes in fire elemental martial souls. As someone with a fire martial soul, it's not unreasonable to choose Blazing Fire Academy as the first choice, right?"

In fact, even now, Xiao Yan still has great enthusiasm for Blazing Fire Academy—after all, he has only been involved with martial souls for less than ten years, and he is not very proficient in classifying and summarizing martial souls. Changing the characteristics of a martial soul is even more difficult than climbing to the sky. However, if Blazing Fire Academy has some research in this area, he can use it as a reference...

"Even if they are highly skilled in fire elemental martial souls," Tang San had heard Xiao Yan's explanations of his own soul skills from others along the way, and upon hearing Xiao Yan's words, he couldn't help but say, "They can't possibly use flames as freely as you do, can they?"

"But if Blazing Fire Academy dares to use fire element as its signature, it means they must have their own unique expertise in fire element, right?" Xiao Yan shrugged. "No matter what, I'm just one person. No matter how talented I am, I can't compare to their centuries of accumulation, can I?"

"That's true..."

Upon hearing this, Tang San nodded unconsciously. Even someone as talented as him could only imitate others when making hidden weapons and could never innovate.

"Fatty, look at him!" Oscar patted Ma Hongjun's belly as he listened to Xiao Yan's words.

“I can’t learn it, I don’t have the ability,” Ma Hongjun rolled his eyes in annoyance. “I don’t even understand my own martial soul, let alone learn Yan Xiao?”

"Oh, right, speaking of your martial soul..."

Ma Hongjun's words also served as a reminder to Xiao Yan: "Have you ever tried dual cultivation?"

"Dual cultivation? Fatty is practically spending all his time in brothels practicing dual cultivation." Dai Mubai suddenly burst out laughing.

"No, I'm being very serious," Xiao Yan glared at Dai Mubai, annoyed. "You've all witnessed the Dragon and Snake couple's spirit fusion technique, right? I've been thinking about it, and the Yin and Yang attributes they mentioned should be..."

'Yin and Yang?' Tang San's expression changed slightly.

A slight ripple appeared in Zhu Zhuqing's usually calm and collected eyes.

"This attribute is a Yang attribute."

Seeing the confusion in everyone's eyes, Xiao Yan sighed helplessly, took out the Crimson Sun Flower from his soul tool, and showed it to everyone.

"This is..." Tang San's eyes lit up the moment he saw the Crimson Sun Flower in Xiao Yan's hand. He remembered that this thing was a first-tier medicine below the Immortal grade!

'But this lifespan…' By the time the Crimson Sun Flower reached Tang San, his excitement had waned. 'It's not even a hundred years old, what a waste!'

Xiao Yan had no idea what Tang San was thinking. After the Crimson Sun Flower returned to his hands, Xiao Yan casually sent it back to the Soul Tool, of course, wrapped in a jade box.

“The Yang attribute is like the Crimson Sun Flower, a variant of the fire attribute,” Xiao Yan continued to explain. “I don’t have a sample of the Yin attribute here, but it’s a mutated water attribute, or of course, it could also be the dark attribute.”

"The two attributes of Yin and Yang are opposites, but not completely opposite. In fact, these two diametrically opposed attributes can be perfectly contained together. This is the balance of Yin and Yang..."

At this point, Xiao Yan glanced at Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing. If there was any possibility that the relationship between the two could be restored to normal, he could ask them for advice on the method of yin-yang balance, since the Netherworld White Tiger seemed to combine the yin and yang attributes of the two of them.

Unfortunately, Zhu Zhuqing had already made it clear to Dai Mubai that the two of them would never cross paths again, and would simply spend their final moments separately, quietly awaiting death.

"The Dragon and Snake couple's Martial Soul Fusion Skill is the result of Yin-Yang balance," Xiao Yan muttered to himself, then continued, "Fatty, your Evil Fire is the result of an excessively strong Yang attribute, so..."

"So I need to find a female Soul Master with overflowing Yin attribute?!" Ma Hongjun's eyes lit up immediately.

“That is indeed an option,” Xiao Yan nodded, “but such Soul Masters should be hard to find… most of them are probably in mass graves, right?”

"Huh?" Ma Hongjun was stunned.

"Overflowing Yang attribute will at most make you energetic, but Yin attribute can really kill you! And most likely you'll die young!" Xiao Yan rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"The dual cultivation I'm proposing means that you find a Soul Master girlfriend, and when you cultivate together, you release your extra Yang attribute for her to absorb."

"In this way, you release your excess Yang attribute, which she replenishes. In fact, because you absorb your overflowing attribute, it will be very easy for the two of you to unleash a Martial Soul Fusion Skill!"

"So, Yan Xiao, you were thinking about Fatty the whole way back?" Ning Rongrong asked, her lips slightly parted, looking at Xiao Yan with some surprise.

"No, I'm thinking about how I can change the nature of my martial soul," Xiao Yan waved his hand. "Martial soul fusion skills... are a bit too unreasonable."

If he really manages to fuse the Xuan Heavy Ruler and the Fire Refining Talisman into a martial soul, then he can be said to be able to challenge opponents of higher levels under normal circumstances!

"Change the nature of the martial soul?"

Everyone stared at Xiao Yan in disbelief.

"Is it really possible to do something like this?" Ning Rongrong was the first to ask.

"It's still possible, like I just said, if Fatty can find a female Soul Master who can cultivate dual cultivation." Xiao Yan shrugged.

"However, this is just speculation at the moment."

"It's just a guess?" Ma Hongjun looked disappointed. He was very interested in the wonderful future that Xiao Yan described, and even almost regarded that future as his goal.

"After all, I've only ever witnessed the spirit fusion technique of the Dragon and Snake couple," Xiao Yan said with a helpless shrug. "It's just the most basic spirit fusion technique between the two of them. It's already quite remarkable that I was able to deduce these!"

“Speaking of which…” Xiao Yan seemed to have thought of something, and his gaze fell on Ma Hongjun.

"The dean and the other two soul masters have a spirit fusion skill, right? Are they teachers in the academy? Can I see it?" After asking several questions, Xiao Yan gave Ma Hongjun another strong suggestion, "Perhaps I can deduce the more important factors of a spirit fusion skill from the three-in-one spirit fusion skill!"

Xiao Yan roughly understood the content of the Dragon and Snake couple's martial soul fusion skill; in fact, he could say he completely understood it.

If we consider the Dragon-Snake Combo as a whole, then the existence of the Dragon King and the Snake Queen is like this whole dividing itself into two parts, and then roughly merging these two parts together to form a new Dragon-Snake Combo, but it is no longer the original Dragon-Snake Combo.

If the fusion skill of two people is like this, what about the three people? Does it also evenly divide a "whole" into three parts?

If so, what about the legendary Seven-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill?

Xiao Yan didn't care about the truth behind the three-person or seven-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill. However, if he could witness a three-person Martial Soul Fusion Skill, at least the neutralization of the Fire Refining Talisman, flames, and Xuan Heavy Ruler would make progress.

That's right, neutralization.

Normally speaking, the Xuan Heavy Ruler that Yao Lao gave to Xiao Yan should be a perfect match for flames. After all, the Flame Dividing Wave Ruler is released by relying on the Xuan Heavy Ruler. If Xiao Yan's martial soul is really flames and the Xuan Heavy Ruler, he might have already created a martial soul fusion skill that belongs to him alone.

The other martial soul is the Fire Refining Talisman Seal, although Xiao Yan did not realize the connection between the two at the beginning.

However, after eliminating the beast fire, Xiao Yan unexpectedly discovered that the compatibility between the Fire Refining Talisman and the Xuan Heavy Ruler was acceptable, but with the refined beast fire stuck in the middle, the fusion, which should have been smooth, actually resulted in a 'rejection reaction'.

Although the rejection reaction is just an exaggerated metaphor, if the relationship between these three factors is not handled properly, this fusion technique may never be able to be resolved.

"Teacher, do you think it's possible... that the reason the Beast Fire is stuck in the middle is because it's not a Martial Soul yet?"

Late at night, after emerging from his cultivation state, Xiao Yan suddenly said this.

"So, how do you refine the flames into a martial soul?" Clearly, compared to Xiao Yan, who lacked experience, Yao Lao had already considered this possibility.

“The Xuanzhong Ruler is an actual weapon, and the Fire Refining Talisman can be regarded as a spiritual imprint with fire attributes. There are records of similar martial souls,” Yao Lao said calmly. “But fire, pure fire, there are currently no records of a martial soul with an element, right?”

Elements alone cannot exist as a martial soul.

This seems to be the basic rule of this continent; the students or teachers of the five elemental academies, such as Blazing Fire Academy, simply have martial souls with various elemental attributes.

For example, the Dragon Technique is not applicable to intangible substances like beast fire.

The Fire Refining Talisman does not require anything other than mental power as an aid.

Xiao Yan's verification of the Martial Soul Fusion Skill got stuck at this awkward point—he could raise potential problems, but had no solutions at all. Therefore, he could only use beast fire, which was not a Martial Soul, as the third type of fusion material, and then hope to witness Flander's Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Chapter 49 Martial Soul Fusion Technique (Part 2)

Early in the morning, Ma Hongjun, who hadn't slept well all night because of what Xiao Yan had said, hurriedly knocked on Flander's door.

Awakened by the knocking, Frandra opened the door and welcomed Ma Hongjun inside.

A moment later, the door to the room was opened again, and Flander rushed out of the room like a shadow, carrying Ma Hongjun, who looked like a round ball, in his hand.

"Soul Fusion Skill..."

After shaking Yu Xiaogang awake, Flander asked Ma Hongjun to repeat everything he had just said. After listening to Ma Hongjun's retelling, Yu Xiaogang fell silent for a moment.

"Xiaogang, do you think it's possible?"

Flander's voice trembled slightly. Ma Hongjun was his personal disciple, and for someone like him who had no children, Ma Hongjun was practically his own son.

The Evil Phoenix, though a beautiful name, was something Flander knew all too well; in a way, this evil fire was like the fuse that ignited a fallen soul master. If he was lucky, Ma Hongjun might be able to continue cultivating indefinitely; but if he was unlucky, this evil fire could explode at any moment, igniting Ma Hongjun's sanity or his body.

"The Netherworld White Tiger of the Star Luo Empire and the Dragon-Snake Combination Strike of the Peerless Dragon and Snake are both dual-attribute martial soul fusion techniques," Yu Xiaogang muttered to himself, seemingly oblivious to Flander's question, "and they both involve a male and a female, with the male being of the Yang attribute and the female of the Yin attribute..."

“No, we shouldn’t think like that. The Yang attribute should be the Dragon Lord’s dragon head cane and the Dai family’s white tiger, while the Yin attribute should be the Snake Granny’s snake head cane and the Zhu family’s Netherworld Cat. Evil Fire Phoenix…” Yu Xiaogang suddenly looked at Ma Hongjun, “Release your martial spirit.”

His expression was stiff, his voice was cold, and he had an arrogant air about him.

Ma Hongjun, who already had a bad first impression of Yu Xiaogang, subconsciously looked at Flander.

"Do as Xiaogang says." Flander nodded, indicating that Ma Hongjun should do as he said.

Hearing his teacher say this, Ma Hongjun had no choice but to suppress his dissatisfaction and obediently release his martial spirit.

The intense heat emanating from the Fiery Phoenix caused Yu Xiaogang to instinctively tilt his head back, trying to avoid the scorching heat. Then, his eyes were fixed on the flames on Ma Hongjun's body.

“…That’s right, Ma Hongjun’s martial soul is of the Yang attribute,” Yu Xiaogang nodded after a moment, a stiff smile appearing on his face. “If you find a female soul master as your girlfriend and cultivate together at night, it’s possible to change that female soul master’s martial soul attribute to the Yin attribute.”

"Wasn't my martial soul's attribute already stated from the beginning? Did it really take you so long to confirm this?" Ma Hongjun's face showed a hint of displeasure. "It's possible to convert other people's martial souls into Yin attribute, wasn't that already mentioned? What do you mean by repeating it again?"

“That Trinity…” Flander became excited.

"Shut up!" Yu Xiaogang's emotions instantly surged. He shouted sharply, his eyes fixed on Flander. "I told you yesterday, don't mention her in front of me!"

Flander's excitement gradually faded. "I already said yesterday that I won't tell him your news, nor will I force you to look for her. What I want to ask is simply whether you can organize the information about the Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Technique and then tell Yan Xiao."

"Heh, what's the use of telling him? Does telling him mean he can save your apprentice?" Yu Xiaogang scoffed disdainfully, then fell silent.

"You can go out first. I'll organize the information when I have some free time in the next couple of days."

After a long silence, Yu Xiaogang finally spoke.

Like a parched land receiving sweet rain, Flander was suddenly moved to tears. Suppressing his sobs, Flander nodded heavily and then left the house with Ma Hongjun, who was still in the state of possessing a martial soul.

"Teacher, that person is..." After leaving the room, Ma Hongjun obediently withdrew his martial spirit, and asked with a hint of resentment.

“My old friend from back then, and also the core of my Three-in-One Spirit Fusion Technique,” ​​Flander said with a long breath and a proud tone, “is also a very famous master in the Spirit Master world… By the way, he is also Tang San’s teacher.”

"Tang San's teacher?!"

Ma Hongjun stared wide-eyed in disbelief, "The one who made Tang San choose the Mandragora Snake as his first spirit ring and the Human-Faced Demon Spider as his third spirit ring?!"