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

'Teleportation? No, there's no spatial fluctuation...'

Although the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was very fast, it could not possibly travel a hundred meters away in an instant. This speed was close to teleportation, yet Xiao Yan did not detect any obvious spatial fluctuations.

His gaze fell upon the trees snapped in half between himself and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. Xiao Yan understood. 'A special, linear acceleration ability? This speed is almost comparable to my full strength, isn't it?'

Escaping a hundred meters in less than a second—if it weren't for the fact that Yao Lao taught Xiao Yan better movement techniques and fighting skills, Xiao Yan might have chosen the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger as his fifth soul ring based on this alone.

At this moment, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was lying in the distance, spitting out large mouthfuls of gray liquid that looked like blood. Its crimson eyes had dimmed a bit, but it was still staring intently at Xiao Yan in the distance.

"Wind, thunder, space, and evil—these four attributes match up." Xiao Yan muttered to himself as he looked at the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which seemed determined to fight back to the death.

"I already have the wind attribute, and if it's just pure lightning attribute, I might as well just find that Thunderous Hell Vine... or the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex would also work, anyway, it's stronger than that... The spatial attribute is quite appealing, but, the battle aura of the spatial attribute always feels a bit strange..."

After much deliberation, Xiao Yan realized that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger was completely unsuitable for him. As a magic core, this kind of multi-attribute mixed magic core seemed to have only simple collectible value.

"I have a collection of pills that enhance spatial perception..."

How could Yao Lao not understand Xiao Yan's blatant manipulation? After Xiao Yan stood there muttering to himself for more than half a minute, Yao Lao finally spoke up helplessly.

"Alright! Let's go try to purify the spatial attributes!" Xiao Yan said with a look of delight.

He could comprehend and utilize spatial abilities at the Dou Zong and Dou Zun stages, but that stage was still quite far away. It would be best if he could get in touch with it earlier!

While secretly amused, Xiao Yan focused his Dou Qi on the Xuanzhong Ruler. It was a sudden inspiration of his. When he gathered the power of heaven and earth, he swung the Flame Dividing Wave Ruler, but what if he only used Dou Qi?

The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which had been keeping a close eye on Xiao Yan, naturally noticed the Xuan Heavy Ruler in Xiao Yan's hand, which was gradually getting warmer. Its dim eyes brightened again, and after roaring, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger endured the pain and activated its dash skill again, appearing in front of Xiao Yan like a phantom.

However, at this moment, it held the huge barb in front of it, and the barb was aimed at Xiao Yan's right eye.

But such an obvious movement couldn't possibly hurt Xiao Yan. He slightly tilted his head, and the barb, which contained a chilling and evil aura, was dodged by Xiao Yan.

"It's my turn..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xiao Yan noticed a huge black hole suddenly appearing behind him in the direction the barb had thrust out.

Although somewhat surprised by the sheer number of abilities the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger possessed, Xiao Yan did not hesitate for a moment when wielding the Xuan Heavy Ruler. This time, the Xuan Heavy Ruler's target was precisely the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's unprotected brain—

However, despite the distance being only a few tens of centimeters, Xiao Yan hesitated to swing his Xuan Heavy Ruler, and the huge black hole that formed behind him swallowed him and the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger that was emitting black light.

Everything around was plunged into darkness, but the dull sensation disappeared.

"Teacher, what was that just now...?" Xiao Yan asked, suppressing his excitement.

"The power of time—it stretched that less than one second into dozens of times, dozens of times longer for it!" The old apothecary's voice was also filled with excitement.

"really!"

Xiao Yan's eyes lit up. If he hadn't witnessed the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's time-manipulation ability, its spirit ring would have been nothing more than a magic core for refining pills. But now—

"Teacher, I've decided to choose this for my fifth spirit ring!"

"A fifth spirit ring? Are you planning to break through to Great Dou Master right now?"

"No, it's just absorbing a spirit ring," Xiao Yan said, rubbing his nose with a hint of pride. "As long as I control my battle qi with my mental power and prevent it from condensing into a battle crystal, I can absorb the fifth spirit ring normally, but that's all."

Although he possesses five attributes, and although none of them are particularly powerful, they represent time! Even if he only inherited the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's ability to slow down time, Xiao Yan is already quite satisfied!

Suddenly, the surroundings brightened, and Xiao Yan was somewhat surprised to find that he had come to a strange space. It seemed to be a huge arena, an arena that stretched as far as the eye could see. There were no clouds, sun, or stars in the sky, only boundless darkness. Xiao Yan felt that the light that had brightened the surroundings was also emanating from this strange arena.

Meanwhile, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger stood opposite Xiao Yan, still eight meters long, still handsome, and still the kind of creature that Xiao Yan found somewhat captivating.

That's right. With just a time-manipulation ability, this ferocious Dark Demon Evil God Tiger has become the most handsome soul beast in the world in Xiao Yan's eyes, the soul beast that Xiao Yan has always dreamed of!

Although the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger has become Xiao Yan's dream beast, it is currently bewildered and devastated.

The arena of life and death—this is its last trump card, and also the trump card it uses to turn defeat into victory.

This ability is to turn the opponent into a child, but the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger discovered that the human being was no more than fifteen years old. For safety, it used all its soul power to forcibly change "turn into a child" to "rewind time by fourteen years"!

When the black hole swallowed Xiao Yan, it had almost seen its victory, after all, it was about to face an infant who could only crawl on the ground!

This is how it should have been...

Looking at Xiao Yan, whose size had noticeably increased, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's face was filled with despair. It had clearly succeeded! Why hadn't this human turned into an infant? Although the human's soul power had indeed decreased, it had no soul power left!

Strange sounds came from all directions.

"Welcome to the Arena of Life and Death. Only when one side dies can this life-or-death battle end and one leave this space. Countdown: five, four, three, two, one, begin."

When that sound rang out, Xiao Yan had already sensed something was wrong—

His body seems to have grown a bit? But his physique is obviously much weaker, and even the fighting spirit in his body has dropped to the level of only a one-star Dou Zhe.

With these doubts in mind, Xiao Yan faced the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger directly.

After realizing that it didn't seem to intend to attack, Xiao Yan released his mental energy and killed it safely and securely.

After the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, whose mind was full of doubts, died, the arena disappeared, and Xiao Yan returned to the Star Dou Great Forest. His body returned to its previous state, and his fighting spirit returned to normal.

Not far in front of him, a strange bead floated on the massive corpse of the Dark Demon God Tiger. The bead appeared to be entirely black, but it emitted a blend of cyan and blue light.

Before the bead could escape, Xiao Yan casually waved his hand and used his mental power to control it.

After examining the bead in his hand for a moment, Xiao Yan looked at Yao Lao, who had floated out early in the morning to observe it with him, with some curiosity.

"Teacher, can you tell what this is?"

"I'm not sure... but it should be considered the source of its attributes and abilities, right?"

Yao Lao shook his head. Since arriving in this Douluo Continent, he has found that there are more and more things he doesn't know. First, there were talisman masters, then there were natal talismans, then the Flame Ancestral Talisman, the Dark Holy Tiger and the Plane Embryo not long ago, and finally there was this obviously unique bead in front of him. These things were all things he had never heard of before.

Chapter 74 Reunion with Lin Dong

After putting away the mysterious bead, Xiao Yan discovered that the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had not immediately produced a soul ring after its death.

Does it require special handling?

With this in mind, Xiao Yan took out a small knife used to remove important parts from the soul beast and approached the corpse of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

However, before Xiao Yan's blade could even land on the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's corpse, a gray aura began to condense above its body, instantly forming a ring shape, and quickly turning from gray to black, finally hovering above the corpse.

Although the formation of this spirit ring was a bit slow, Xiao Yan didn't pay too much attention to it. After using his mental power to confirm that there were no noteworthy spirit beasts within several hundred meters, he summoned the Xuan Heavy Ruler and sat down cross-legged.

The black spirit ring transformed into a shooting star, flying directly towards Xiao Yan. At the same time, it precisely landed on the Xuan Heavy Ruler, and a sharp, icy current entered Xiao Yan's body.

In terms of the tactile sensation when absorbing the soul ring, this soul ring felt even better to Xiao Yan than the one from the Fire Spirit Serpent, but that was all. As the Burning Technique was activated, the slight coldness in his meridians disappeared, turning into a warm current flowing through Xiao Yan's meridians.

As Xiao Yan began absorbing the soul ring, the enormous corpse of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger beside him began to dissipate into wisps of gray mist.

'It was clearly made of flesh and blood, yet after death it transformed into pure darkness… evil energy?' The old man Yao, who was protecting Xiao Yan, looked at the dissipating gray mist in surprise. 'This kind of soul beast is indeed much more special.'

Less than ten minutes later, Xiao Yan slowly opened his eyes and noticed the corpse of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which was turning into gray mist and dissipating.

Blinking his eyes, Xiao Yan looked at Yao Lao and asked, "Teacher, did you do this?"

In Xiao Yan's view, only Yao Lao could transform a flesh and blood body into pure attribute energy.

“No, it seems to be due to the special nature of this soul beast,” Yao Lao shook his head. “The bead you put away should contain all of this soul beast’s abilities, and it’s even possible that its own soul is hidden in it.”

The old doctor had also examined the corpse of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger. It turned out that after its death, no part of the soul beast showed any fluctuations in soul power, meaning it did not produce any soul bones. Based on this, it was deduced that the bead that had tried to escape was the most valuable thing on the soul beast.

"I feel the same way."

With a slight pout, Xiao Yan nodded, his expression somewhat helpless.

"Didn't it inherit the time attribute?"

Seeing Xiao Yan's expression, Yao Lao immediately knew what had happened.

“Yes, its soul ring gave me a skill called ‘Evil God Transformation’,” Xiao Yan said helplessly. “The effect is that after using the soul skill, all attributes are increased by 400%, which can be considered a secret technique without any side effects.”

So far, Xiao Yan has absorbed a total of five spirit rings. Perhaps because the effects of the first four spirit rings were so good, Xiao Yan was somewhat disgusted with the spirit skill given by the fifth spirit ring. But it can't be said that he completely disliked it, after all, the Burning Technique he cultivated was only at the low level of the Yellow Rank...

Indeed, although he had devoured the natal flames of the Ice Flame Wolf and the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent, the Burning Technique still showed no signs of being ready to advance. However, Xiao Yan could clearly feel that after devouring those two beast flames, the Burning Technique's operating speed and the amount of Dou Qi generated per operation had increased significantly. This Evil God Transformation could effectively solve his current problem of frequent Dou Qi depletion.

"You should be content," Yao Lao said, giving Xiao Yan a light slap on the head after hearing his words. "Secret techniques without any side effects are very rare, and besides, no one knows whether your soul skill will remain effective even when you become a Dou Wang or Dou Huang!"

According to the effects of soul skills in this world, they can be perfectly effective at the level of Title Douluo, which is from the high-level Dou Ling to the early-level Dou Wang. Although it is unclear whether they will be effective after level 99... if they really work perfectly, then Xiao Yan will be very lucky.

"Moreover, even if the spirit ring doesn't allow you to inherit the time attribute, as long as you have that bead, you could become the next person to master the power of time. Throughout history, there haven't been many people who have mastered the power of time!"

That's right!

Thinking of this, Xiao Yan suddenly smiled again.

……

Three days later, Canghui City

Although Canghui Academy is not as good as Five Elements Academy or some higher soul master academies supported by duchies under the Heaven Dou Empire, it ranks quite well on the continent, having at least made it to the knockout stage of the Soul Master Competition multiple times.

Furthermore, with the addition of Shi Nian, the Soul Saint-level holder of the most bizarre martial soul "Remnant Dream," the level of Canghui Academy has been rising day by day. There are rumors that this Soul Saint recently took on a disciple, and this disciple alone has inspired Shi Nian to set such lofty ambitions as to ensure that Canghui Academy will definitely reach the top four in the next Soul Master Competition, and become the champion the time after that.

"I heard that Master Shi Nian's disciple is only ten years old, but he is already a powerful Soul Master."

"Ten years old? A Soul Master? Are you out of your mind? If someone with such talent really chose Canghui Academy?"

"Exactly, if you become a Soul Master at the age of ten, you could easily go to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy and get a noble title, wouldn't that be better? Why would you come to Canghui Academy looking so miserable?"

"This wasn't my doing; it was information released by Canghui Academy!"

"So you're an idiot, believing such obviously fake news!"

"That's it."

As the people around him were laughing and joking, Xiao Yan, completely shrouded in a black robe, happened to pass by and overheard the conversation. He couldn't help but roll his eyes.

'That's great. Although no one knows his real name, everyone is talking about Lin Dong's story... But how do I find him?'

Xiao Yan has many clothes in his Awakening Flame Ring, but as a black robe enthusiast, these clothes... well, they can't be called simple, they're just very durable and of top-notch quality.

The problem is, if Xiao Yan went to Canghui Academy wearing such clothes and said he wanted to see Lin Dong, he felt he would be turned away 100%. The reason the guards didn't directly drive him away was probably because they were afraid he might actually know Lin Dong, or even be Lin Dong's relative or something.

'Let's go to a clothing store first and buy a few nicer outfits.'

The key point isn't that they're expensive, but that they're gorgeous. To be honest, if it weren't for the kind people explaining their identities when they encountered Canghui Academy and Chihuo Academy, Xiao Yan might have thought these gorgeously dressed young men and women were nobles from somewhere.

Although it's possible to sneak into Canghui Academy at night and then go find Lin Dong.

However, choosing such a sneaky method when visiting friends is too shameful.

Moreover, Xiao Yan didn't have that much time to wait until nightfall.

After asking around, Xiao Yan finally arrived at the largest building in Canghui City, the preferred place for luxurious clothing, and there he saw a familiar figure—

"Senior Sister Ziyue?"