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

"Is 'don't judge a book by its cover' really applicable here?" Huo Wu rolled her eyes, then suddenly slapped Huo Yun on the shoulder. "Reaching level 40 within a year, no problem, right?"

Aside from the fire cloud held in Huo Wu's hand, this sentence was also addressed to all those present who had not yet reached level 40, and who might be Xiao Yan's future seniors.

"no problem!"

Not to mention Huoyun and Huoyu, who were both level 37, even the other level 36 players responded loudly.

Looking at the students who were full of confidence... or rather, high spirits, Huo Zhen was also very pleased. The only thing he felt a little regretful about was that Huo Yun's brain seemed to be not working properly. The two brothers were preparing to dissect the two-headed fire spirit snake to find the soul bone, and you still responded and said that you wanted to go down?

When Xiao Yan arrived at the underground, the deep red flames in mid-air seemed to be drawn by a vortex and began to surge towards Xiao Yan.

"Teacher, I'll leave the rest to you." Facing the surging flames, Xiao Yan's expression remained unchanged as he slowly raised the Bone Flame Ring into the air.

"You think you can boss me around?"

Despite uttering complaints, the figure of the old apothecary still appeared. Then, the slightly transparent figure of the old apothecary was like a black hole, frantically absorbing the flames that filled the sky.

As it devoured the flames with almost greed, the deep red flames surrounding it grew fainter and fainter until finally, they were completely swallowed into Yao Lao's body. When the last wisp of flame disappeared, Yao Lao's figure in mid-air became slightly more solid.

The two-headed fire spirit snake, controlled in mid-air by Xiao Yan's mental power, looked at Xiao Yan and Yao Lao in front of him with terror in its eyes. When it looked at the location of the "black-robed man", it found that there was nothing under the burning black robe.

"You, you are..."

At this moment, the two-headed fire spirit serpent couldn't even utter a complete sentence, as if it had lost the ability to speak.

"As you can see, what you took away was just a piece of clothing supported by spiritual power," Xiao Yan said with a smile.

Chapter 64 Dragon Horns

"Okay, now, I'll ask you questions and you answer them, okay?"

Xiao Yan calmly watched the controlled Fire Spirit Snake.

"Ha, aren't you going to kill me?"

The Fire Spirit Serpent replied dismissively.

"Uh……"

Xiao Yan was stunned—under normal circumstances, how do alchemists obtain beast fire?

The first source of the beast fire was Xiao Yan, who was absorbing a soul ring and was momentarily paralyzed.

"So you still want to get useful information out of me?"

Xiao Yan's reaction made the Fire Spirit Snake immediately assume that he was going to kill it, and it snorted coldly.

"..."

I can always look for it myself later.

Since he had already been misunderstood, Xiao Yan was too lazy to say anything more. In any case, absorbing soul rings was also a way to obtain beast fire.

Although the lack of an ice-type magic core prevents the refining of the Ice Heart Pill, the task of devouring beast fire can be postponed.

"Teacher, please protect me."

Having made up his mind, Xiao Yan decisively used his spiritual power to shatter the Fire Spirit Serpent's two brains. Subsequently, a pitch-black soul ring emerged from the Fire Spirit Serpent's corpse.

"Okay, let's begin then."

Seeing Xiao Yan activate the Purple-Gold Flame and turn a large area of ​​lava into solid ice, Yao Lao nodded.

Releasing his mental control over the Fire Spirit Serpent and letting it land on the solid ice, Xiao Yan sat cross-legged and summoned the Xuan Heavy Ruler to begin absorbing the Soul Ring.

This time, the process of absorbing the spirit ring went incredibly smoothly, to the point that Xiao Yan found it hard to believe.

Before the ice he had created showed any signs of melting, Xiao Yan opened his eyes.

"finished?"

Such speed left even the old doctor somewhat bewildered. The Ice Flame Wolf's spirit ring had taken about ten minutes to form, yet this Fire Spirit Serpent's spirit ring, which was over ninety thousand years old, couldn't even last ten minutes?

"That seems to be the case?"

Xiao Yan stared blankly at the four spirit rings hovering on the Xuan Heavy Ruler—one yellow, one purple, and two black. "Why do I feel like this is even easier than the last spirit ring?"

Whether it was due to the Ice Flame Wolf's characteristics or not, Xiao Yan felt a slight impact on his soul when he absorbed the spirit ring last time...

The sensation was so mild it barely even felt like an impact, more like a mosquito bite. And this time, despite possessing spiritual attributes, the Fire Spirit Serpent's spirit ring caused absolutely no reaction.

The fourth soul ring was lit, and a deep red flame appeared on the Xuanzhong Ruler.

"The soul skill isn't wrong... so why is this?"

Just like the third soul skill, this soul ring only provided Xiao Yan with the Fire Spirit Serpent's natal beast fire. However, because he did not absorb it, Xiao Yan still needs the help of the soul ring to use this flame.

"...Is it possible that it preserved its soul within its body...or within its soul bones?"

After a brief silence, Yao Lao suggested a possibility: in terms of sheer mental strength, this Fire Spirit Serpent was no weaker than the previous Haotian Douluo, and was even on par with Lin Dong when they first met. If that was the case, then the ability to transfer one's own soul... didn't seem so surprising.

"Anyway... let's look for soul bones first." Xiao Yan nodded and turned his gaze to the corpse of the Fire Spirit Serpent.

However, after scanning the area with his mental energy, Xiao Yan discovered that there seemed to be fluctuations resembling soul bones in both of the Fire Spirit Serpent's heads.

'Can a single soul beast drop two soul bones?'

With these questions in mind, Xiao Yan took out a jade dagger he usually used to collect herbs from his Flame Awakening Ring and slowly approached the corpse of the Fire Spirit Serpent.

After some busy work, Xiao Yan retrieved two items from the Fire Spirit Serpent's head—one was a small silver skull, which, if all went as expected, was a normal head soul bone; the other—

"Teacher, is there only one way for snake-type magical beasts to advance? Is it only by getting closer and closer to the Ancient Celestial Serpent or other ancient snakes?"

Looking at the pair of dragon horns in his hand, which were like blood jade and no more than five centimeters long, Xiao Yan looked at Yao Lao with curiosity.

"As far as I know, that should be the case..."

Ancient celestial serpents, seven-colored heaven-devouring pythons, and nine-nectar earth pythons—such serpentine magical beasts existed in ancient times. Although some disappeared due to the changing times, serpentine magical beasts with similar bloodlines have never become extinct. This has led to later serpentine magical beasts often purifying their bloodlines to make their bloodlines closer to those of ancient times.

However, the pair of dragon horns in Xiao Yan's hands... no matter how you look at them, they seem to have the characteristics of a dragon-type magical beast. In fact, the dragon energy within these horns is even more concentrated than the dragon energy in the Yin-Yang Dragon Profound Pill he refined. They don't seem like something that a fire spirit snake below the fifth rank could cultivate.

"Perhaps the serpentine spirit beasts of this continent originated from dragon-type spirit beasts?"

After saying this, Yao Lao couldn't help but laugh. How could that be? No matter which continent, shouldn't dragons be at the top? If someone has dragon blood, how could they possibly degenerate into a snake?

"Do you want to absorb this soul bone?" After laughing, Yao Lao asked, "These dragon horns should also be external soul bones, and they contain a trace of dragon energy. If you can inherit them, and you also obtain a fighting technique similar to a sonic attack, then when you fight someone in the future, you might be able to shake their soul and make them lose their senses for a moment by suddenly letting out a roar."

Upon hearing Yao Lao's words, Xiao Yan's eyes lit up, but he quickly thought of a small question, "Teacher, are you confident that I can inherit this trace of dragon energy?"

Xiao Yan chuckled awkwardly.

"What do you think?" The old doctor rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"Hehe, I was just asking, just to be on the safe side..." Xiao Yan shrank back, "Speaking of which, those metal-attribute bears dropped several external soul bones before, can I absorb them?"

Before bringing the dragon horns close to his forehead, Xiao Yan thought of the hand-like soul bones that had fallen from the bears he had hunted before.

"Are you sure?" Yao Lao looked at Xiao Yan. "If it weren't for the fact that these dragon horns are somewhat mysterious and could not possibly appear inside a fourth-order two-headed fire spirit snake, I wouldn't have planned to let you absorb them."

"After all, if it's just for dragon energy, the Yin-Yang Dragon Profound Pill is a better choice, and even safer."

"Then I'd rather not..."

In any case, Xiao Yan only thought of those hand soul bones because Yao Lao suggested that he absorb the pair of dragon horns. Since Yao Lao had clearly expressed his dislike for third and fourth-tier soul beasts, Xiao Yan put those soul bones out of his mind.

"Teacher, the Yin-Yang Dragon Profound Pill..."

More importantly, Xiao Yan heard about an unfamiliar elixir from Yao Lao.

"It's just named Yin Yang, it doesn't imply any balance between Yin and Yang," Yao Lao naturally understood what Xiao Yan was trying to say. "Although it also uses two magic cores, they are both magic cores with the same attributes, and they are completely different from what you want to refine."

"Oh, I see..."

Xiao Yan nodded obediently.

"Speaking of which, my teacher hasn't talked much about pills above the fifth rank? Is it because my strength isn't enough... or my soul power isn't enough?"

With these questions in mind, Xiao Yan began to absorb the pair of dragon horns.

Chapter 65 Cause and Effect

The absorption of the dragon horns went very smoothly, the only unexpected thing being that it seemed to have received some of the memories of the two-headed fire spirit serpent along the way.

'What is this? Dragon horns.'

It seems to have been when the Fire Spirit Serpent first saw those ruby-like dragon horns.

……

'Damn it, so what if he's cultivated for a few thousand or tens of thousands of years longer than me?'

This is when the Fire Spirit Serpent is being brutally beaten by a giant golden bear.

……

'If I absorb these dragon horns, I'll be able to transform into a dragon, right?'

The Fire Spirit Serpent's gaze fell upon the pair of dragon horns it had placed at the highest point.

……

'Kill all the humans in your territory!'

While the Fire Serpent was lazily soaking in the lava, it suddenly received an "order" from the Titan Ape, the king of the forest.

Although it's called an order, such messages are only effective against weak ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts. Anyone with a bit of strength will ignore these orders.

After all, powerful soul beasts know that the Titan Giant Ape and Azure Bull Python in the center of the Star Dou Great Forest are just gatekeepers; the true center of the Star Dou Great Forest is where the most powerful soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest reside.

After turning over, the Fire Serpent decided to ignore the order. If too many humans died on its territory, it might invite human attacks.

The Fire Spirit Serpent, who prides itself on being about to transform into a dragon and officially enter the ranks of the most powerful beings in the Star Dou Great Forest, does not want to cause trouble at this crucial moment.

'The Xiong King's most beloved son has died.'

Just as he turned over, a reason to persuade a spirit beast that was not prepared to obey his orders came through.

……

Who was the bear king's favorite offspring?

The Fire Spirit Serpent suddenly "jumped up" from the lava. Having been repaired not long ago, it was now slightly overwhelmed by the name.

"Tsk... I'll go see if there are any blind fools..."