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

"Let all the ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts riot and hunt down all the humans in their territories," the Azure Bull Python ignored the Titan Giant Ape's impotent rage. "And... drive that beast out to the outer area."

"That... Dark Demon Evil God Tiger?" The Titan Giant Ape was slightly taken aback.

"What do you say?"

Roar!

The Titan Ape let out a triumphant roar, and moments later, the silent forest erupted into chaos, turning the entire forest into a nightmare for humankind.

Completely unaware of the consequences of his actions, Xiao Yan was walking across a desert, taking stock of his gains over the past two days as he made his way.

"Forty fourth-tier magic cores, eight of each of the five attributes; sixty third-tier magic cores, twelve of each of the five attributes; and then more than thirty second-tier magic cores for refining Qi-restoring pills..."

"Then there are soul bones... Never mind, these things are useless, I'll just give them to Lin Dong later."

"Next up are the ice-attribute magic cores," Xiao Yan said, realizing that his soul ring storage device was almost empty after taking stock of the inventory. "Teacher, we don't need too many ice-attribute magic cores, do we?"

After glancing at the last eight empty storage slots in the Awakening Flame Ring, Xiao Yan asked.

"You need to refine the Ice Heart Pill yourself. I failed three times back then, wasting three magic cores. You should consider how many you need."

The desert climate is dry and hot, so much so that even Yao Lao didn't want to leave his storage ring. These words echoed directly in Xiao Yan's mind.

"Let's use them all up then. If there are any left over, we can use them later." Xiao Yan nodded.

After crossing this small desert and then a vast grassland, he will see the snow-capped mountain. After crossing the snow-capped mountain and traveling several dozen kilometers further, Xiao Yan will officially enter the territory of the Star Luo Empire from the north.

With a light breath, Xiao Yan patted his robe, which had become dirty again, pulled up his hood, and continued on his way.

……

In the vast desert, golden sand is the only dominant color, and the raging wind, carrying high temperatures, rushes wildly between heaven and earth.

Although the sand-laden winds forced Xiao Yan to constantly circulate his Dou Qi, forming a thin film of it on his face to prevent disfigurement, the fire-attribute energy in the desert also made his Dou Qi increasingly active and exhilarating, as if he were about to advance to the next level—

Suddenly realizing he wasn't cultivating, Xiao Yan hurriedly mobilized his spiritual power to suppress the lively and exhilarating purple-gold battle qi, while simultaneously relying on the pure and domineering fire attribute energy in the desert to refine his battle qi.

Along the way, still feeling that the power wasn't strong enough, he summoned the Xuanzhong Ruler, carried it on his back, and relied on the increasingly powerful suppression of battle qi effect after absorbing three soul rings to limit himself.

Moving forward again, after climbing a sand dune, Xiao Yan took a long breath, then his expression changed slightly. He flipped his hand, and the purple-gold flames transformed into an ice sword, which pierced straight into the yellow sand in front of him.

"hiss!"

The ice sword pierced into the yellow sand, immediately emitting a shrill cry. Xiao Yan expressionlessly dispelled the ice sword, and a patch of crimson blood seeped into the surface of the yellow sand. With a flick of his sleeve, a burst of energy blew a small soul beast out from beneath the sand.

Xiao Yan sighed as he glanced at the lifeless soul beast. He had almost been ambushed by a hundred-year-old desert scorpion simply because he hadn't used his spiritual power to observe it. Even if it wasn't the Dou Qi Continent, the desert was still fraught with danger.

Under the scorching sun, Xiao Yan advanced for another two hours or so, during which he killed dozens of low-level soul beasts that seemed to have gone mad and were mindlessly charging at him.

Just as Xiao Yan stopped, preparing to release his spiritual power to drive away all the low-level soul beasts around him, he raised an eyebrow, turned his head, and looked at the sand dunes not far away—

Among a group of desert scorpions, a figure kept releasing soul skills, as if trying to drive away these heat-loving scorpions with flames.

If it were a stranger, Xiao Yan might have left indifferently, after all, in the desert, no one could guarantee that it wasn't some low-level trap.

However, that person happened to be wearing a gold and red school uniform, and had a rather unremarkable face—

If it's not a coincidence, that person is one of the students from Blazing Fire Academy that Xiao Yan met not long ago. His name is Huo Lie, and his martial soul is a fire leopard.

You're quite lucky.

After muttering to himself, Xiao Yan lifted his foot and prepared to move in that direction. However, before taking his first step, he obediently took off the Xuanzhong Ruler from his back.

"Fire Blaze! Hold on! I'm coming right away!"

Suddenly hearing someone call his name, Huo Lie instinctively turned around. Before he could even see who was running towards him, another scorpion stung him with its venomous stinger.

"Uh……"

Watching Huo Lie fall headfirst and roll down the sand dune, Xiao Yan suddenly felt that he shouldn't have called his name...

Chapter 59 Two-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent?

But since he's already fallen, there's not much more to say.

After confirming that Huo Lie had lost consciousness, Xiao Yan used his movement technique to reach Huo Lie's side in a few breaths and helped him up as he continued to roll.

Immediately afterwards, purplish-gold flames began to spread from his side, instantly engulfing the swarm of scorpions that pounced on him.

After the flames subsided, the hundreds of desert scorpions were frozen into ice sculptures.

After casually shattering the ice sculpture, Xiao Yan poured two bottles of antidote from his Flame Awakening Ring into Huo Lie's mouth. He then casually tore open the clothes on Huo Lie's thighs and arms, examining the wounds inflicted by the scorpion stings.

"Yes, the herbs needed for this toxin are blue lotus grass and autumn wood flower..."

While examining Huo Lie's wounds, Xiao Yan took out various herbs from his Flame Awakening Ring to make corresponding antidote pills.

If Xiao Yan hadn't cultivated the Fire Refining Talisman, Yao Lao would definitely have asked him to refine a universal antidote pill before entering the desert. After all, the dangers in the desert aren't limited to large soul beasts; some hidden hunters are the true reapers of low-level cultivators.

However, now that he has cultivated the Fire Refining Talisman and his soul power is gradually approaching the Great Perfection of the Mortal Realm, these low-level hunters can hardly threaten Xiao Yan anymore. Therefore, in Xiao Yan's Awakening Flame Ring, there are only one or two bottles of medicinal liquid that he once refined that have an antidote effect.

"Yes, the medicine is working. He should wake up in about three or four minutes."

After confirming the herbs needed to cure Huo Lie's poison, Xiao Yan breathed a sigh of relief. He then summoned his self-made "Five Medicine Cauldrons." "Completing a Grade Two Antidote Pill within three minutes... that's quite a challenge."

He slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, and the purple-gold flames inside the medicine cauldron began to rise.

About three minutes later, Huo Lie, who was in a coma, twitched his eyelids. Noticing this movement, Xiao Yan intensified the flames in the medicine cauldron, preparing to finish the third batch of antidote before Huo Lie opened his eyes.

As Xiao Yan put the still-warm pills into the jade bottle, Huo Lie slowly opened his eyes, but he didn't seem to be fully awake yet, staring straight at the sky.

"Huo Lie? How are you? Are you alright?" Noticing this, Xiao Yan stretched out his palm and waved it in front of Huo Lie's eyes.

"...Rock Owl?"

Thank goodness, although Huo Lie was still a little confused, he managed to call out Xiao Yan's name.

"It's me. What are you doing here? Where are Huo Wushuang and the others?" After letting out a sigh of relief, Xiao Yan immediately asked.

"Huo Wushuang... Yes, Huo Wushuang!"

Upon hearing Xiao Yan's name, Huo Lie became excited. "Yan Xiao, are your friends nearby? Help us! Our teacher is seriously injured, and Huo Wushuang and the others are surrounded by the Desert Scorpions!"

Huo Lie excitedly grabbed Xiao Yan's arm, hoping to get a good answer from Xiao Yan.

"Don't panic. Do you know where Huo Wushuang and the others are right now?" Xiao Yan controlled the agitated Huo Lie, afraid that he would overreact and faint again.

"Fire Spirit Serpent... Yes, Two-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent. We were ambushed within the territory of the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent. Our teacher was seriously injured protecting us, and then we began to retreat. They should be getting close to the forest now..."

The Two-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent, the strongest spirit beast in this desert region, is estimated to be around 90,000 years old according to the Spirit Hall's map. It's not that I look down on that teacher, but someone who isn't even a Soul Saint should be unable to protect anyone from this sneak attack by the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent, and besides—

"Are you sure you're backing away?" Xiao Yan looked at Huo Lie with a serious expression.

“I just came out of the forest this morning and was heading towards the grasslands, and you met me in the direction I was heading.”

The two heads of the two-headed fire spirit snake represent two attributes. One head is definitely fire attribute, while the other is most likely earth attribute, or a mutated earth attribute, but there is also a very small chance that it is spirit attribute.

Xiao Yan's two reiterations finally brought Huo Lie to his senses. And it was precisely because his mind cleared that Huo Lie's face turned deathly pale.

"So...the teachers are going deep into the desert?" Huo Lie said, his voice hoarse.

"That's probably it," Xiao Yan nodded somewhat gravely. "We need to catch up with them quickly!"

Flames rose around Xiao Yan, eventually coalescing into a giant firebird.

"Huo Lie, come up here, you show us the way!" Xiao Yan shouted to Huo Lie as he climbed onto the bird's back.

“But your friend…” Huo Lie hesitated, not because he was afraid of death. If he were truly afraid of death, he wouldn’t have used the desert scorpion’s favorite flame as bait, hoping to lure away all the flame scorpions by himself.

He simply felt that Xiao Yan didn't need to die with him...

"Xiao... Xiao Ding is nearby, let's go there first!" Xiao Yan could also see what Huo Lie was hesitating about, so he didn't hesitate to use his elder brother's name as a substitute.

"He's a Contra Master. Even with that two-headed fire serpent right next to us, he can still protect us!"

“…Okay!” Upon hearing the words “Contra,” Huo Lie instantly gained confidence, immediately flipping onto the bird’s back and sitting behind Xiao Yan. “Left front, that’s the direction I came from!”

After realizing that he had just been trapped in a mirage created by the two-headed fire spirit snake, Huo Lie quickly deduced the current location of Huo Wushuang and the others.

"Okay, hold on tight!" Xiao Yan responded, and threw down a piece of black cloth as the giant bird flapped its wings to take off.

“My older brother told me to wait for him here and leave him a message so he knows where I am.”

As he moved forward, Xiao Yan also offered an explanation.

"Yes, I understand..." Huo Lie nodded. Right now, his mind was full of the dangers that the people of Blazing Fire Academy had encountered. He had no doubts about Xiao Yan's words, but of course, he didn't really listen to them either.

About ten seconds later.

"Rock Owl, isn't your speed... a bit too fast?" Even though he was anxious, Huo Lie realized that the giant firebird's flight speed seemed ridiculously fast.

"what?"

"Soon? It's less than a third of full speed!" Xiao Yan turned around, looking bewildered.

Controlling the giant firebird with his mental power, Xiao Yan could reach a speed of 320 meters per second when flying at full speed. At this moment, in order not to be too conspicuous, Xiao Yan had controlled his speed as much as possible, even to less than 100 meters per second.

“Oh, my elder brother once refined a pill for me. After taking it, the speed of flying with this soul skill can be increased several times,” Xiao Yan smiled casually. “The only problem is… the consumption of soul power will also be accelerated.”

As he spoke, he casually tossed a Qi-restoring pill into his mouth. "So I'll also carry some pills to speed up the recovery of my soul power. Would you like one?" The cyan-red Qi-restoring pill rolled into his palm, and Xiao Yan calmly looked at Huo Lie.

"...Thank you." After a moment of silence, Huo Lie accepted the cyan-red Qi-restoring pill.

"It's alright, we're all friends." Xiao Yan smiled and looked ahead again. "If you can't see the situation below clearly, you can say so. It's okay to go slowly, but you can't overtake them."

"Ah."

Huo Lie nodded and put the pill into his mouth.

Even if the speed is increased several times... a Great Soul Master's speed still can't compare to a Soul Douluo's, right?

Judging solely by his current speed, Xiao Yan is already faster than the dean of Blazing Fire Academy. Huo Lie finds it hard to imagine what kind of pill could make a Great Soul Master's speed surpass that of a Soul Douluo, even with the enhancement of Soul Skills.

"Then let the dean examine Yan Xiao's meridian damage."

Huo Lie thought silently.

Chapter 60 Female Snake

No matter what kind of pill it is, one must enter a state of cultivation immediately after taking it to maximize its medicinal power. However, neither Xiao Yan nor Huo Lie currently have the environment and conditions for quiet cultivation.

With his eyes slightly closed, Xiao Yan could feel his Dou Qi, which had been somewhat depleted after continuously refining three batches of antidote pills, regaining its vitality and continuously providing Dou Qi as it spun incessantly.

"The low-level Yellow Rank Burning Technique isn't enough," Xiao Yan pursed his lips, "I need to find a beast fire of a suitable level to refine as soon as possible."