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

"You don't seem like the kind of person who hates evil so much," Xiao Yan chuckled dryly.

When Zhou Wei revealed that her martial soul was a "vampire puppet" and took control of Lin Fei's body right before his eyes, Xiao Yan understood how Zhou Wei had controlled those low-level soul beasts from the previous day, and also understood the purpose of her planned attack.

Let them get injured, then let her mosquito-like martial spirit absorb their blood, using the blood as a medium to control those whose blood has been sucked.

“That was true before,” Zhou Wei said, unconcerned by Xiao Yan’s rudeness. “So, what is your choice?”

“I…” Xiao Yan took a deep breath, turned around, and looked at the Lu sisters apologetically, “Aren’t you going to let the leader and the others continue forward?”

"Follow behind them"—this was the order Zhou Wei gave before Lin Fei and Zhang Yu were taken into custody.

"And you?" Zhou Wei nodded silently, then her gaze fell on the Lu sisters behind Xiao Yan, who looked nervous.

“We will follow Yao Yan.” It was unclear whether it was Lu Chen or Lu Mu who responded with a trembling voice.

The tents were left behind. Xiao Yan and the Lu sisters obediently followed behind Lu Yun and Zhou Ke. Behind them were Zhou Wei's granddaughter, Lin Fei, and Zhang Yu.

The group walked silently through the Sunset Forest, and their destination seemed to be the very center of the forest, a forbidden area marked as "No Survival" on the map provided by the Spirit Hall.

This time, because Zhou Wei unabashedly released her aura as a Soul Saint, she didn't encounter any foolish Soul Beasts along the way.

"Senior...is your destination the forbidden area in the heart of Sunset Forest?"

When he could see the tall mountain in the very center of Sunset Forest, Xiao Yan slowly exhaled and asked in a heavy voice.

A forbidden area in the heart of Sunset Forest?

Upon hearing these words, the Lu sisters' faces changed drastically, and their bodies trembled uncontrollably, as if they had heard some terrifying words.

"Forbidden area? Ha."

Zhou Wei, who had been silent the whole way, heard Xiao Yan's words... no, to be precise, when she noticed the Lu sisters' terrified expressions, as if they were determined to die at Zhou Wei's hands rather than move forward, Zhou Wei sneered and said.

"The strongest spirit beast in Sunset Forest is only 30,000 years old. Do you really think it's possible that in the next few decades, a spirit beast capable of killing all the spirit saints and spirit douluos who come to investigate could suddenly appear in this forest?"

"what do you mean……"

"Poison Douluo, have you heard of that title?" Zhou Wei didn't answer directly, but instead posed a question.

"Poison Douluo... do you mean Bi Lin Douluo, Your Majesty Dugu Bo?" Lu Chen, or perhaps Lu Mu, asked cautiously.

“That’s right, it’s that villain Dugu Bo,” Zhou Wei sneered. “There must be a treasure trove right in the center of Sunset Forest. After Dugu Bo discovered it, he shamelessly occupied it and viciously killed all the subsequent visitors…”

"Just like he killed my children."

At this point, Zhou Wei seemed to suddenly become interested and began to tell her story, a cliché story of a mother who commits all sorts of evil deeds after her children are murdered, just to kill the enemy who killed her children.

After hearing this story, Xiao Yan and the Lu sisters understood that the controlled girl was not Zhou Wei's granddaughter. However, the Lu sisters couldn't maintain their composure any longer—

"You mean you want to lead us to the outskirts of His Majesty Bilin's territory to ambush him?"

Lu Chen's eyes twitched as she asked the question. At the same time, her gaze swept over the people present: Soul King Lu Yun, Soul Sect Master Zhou Ke, and Soul Venerables Lin Fei, Zhang Yu, Yao Yan, and the two sisters.

Not to mention Lu Chen, even Xiao Yan was completely dumbfounded. He even repeatedly confirmed with Yao Lao in his heart that Zhou Wei was indeed just an ordinary Soul Saint, at most her Martial Soul was too hidden to be discovered.

One Soul Saint, one Soul King, one Soul Sect Master, and five Soul Venerables—this was Zhou Wei's plan, prepared over forty years, to take revenge on Dugu Bo.

If Xiao Yan hadn't known Dugu Bo's granddaughter, he might have assumed that the girl whose name he still didn't know, who was being controlled by Zhou Wei, was Dugu Bo's granddaughter.

“Ambush? No, I don’t have such ambitions. What I want to do is…” Zhou Wei seemed to realize she had said too much, “Let’s move forward and catch up with the two of them.”

After retracting the words that were about to come out, Zhou Wei urged Xiao Yan and the Lu sisters to catch up with the two "dolls" that had stopped in place.

'Three meters...was it intentional, or is this the limit?'

After calculating the distance between Zhou Wei and Lu Yun, Xiao Yan took a step forward, silently reciting his discovery in his heart.

'Speaking of which, to go from a Soul Master to a Soul Saint in forty years—is this what it means to be a Fallen Soul Master?'

The saying "looking at a mountain makes a horse run itself to death" is sometimes wrong. At least from the place where they could see the mountain, Xiao Yan and his group arrived at the foot of the mountain in less than an hour.

"Senior, please have the commander and the other two stop."

Upon smelling a foul, fishy odor, Xiao Yan slowly exhaled and said.

"What? Tired?" Zhou Wei's cold laugh rang out.

"Ahead... lies His Majesty Bilin's poisonous formation. If we rush in directly, we'll be reduced to dust in no time..."

Xiao Yan didn't care about Zhou Wei's sarcasm. After all, at this moment, he could vaguely sense a very special spiritual energy of heaven and earth, a spiritual energy of heaven and earth that was even stronger than that of the central area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest. Without Zhou Wei's guidance, it might have taken him a long time to get to this area.

"so what?"

However, Xiao Yan's explanation did not dispel Zhou Wei's idea of ​​having Lu Yun and Zhou Ke scout ahead; she simply asked a cold question in return.

Chapter 94 The Yin-Yang Well of Ice and Fire

so?

Zhou Wei's matter-of-fact tone gave Xiao Yan a headache. If he weren't currently playing the role of an ordinary Soul Master, trying to lure Zhou Wei into this inexplicable "forbidden zone" that could block his spiritual power, Xiao Yan might have already punched Zhou Wei in the face.

So you're saying that your forty years of preparation was just empty talk, that you weren't prepared at all to enter that Poison Douluo's territory, and that you were simply prepared to use human lives to pave the way and explore the path?

call--

"You're not really planning to use our lives to measure the safe zone, are you?" Xiao Yan forced a dry smile. "The two captains and the rest of us don't care..."

"Are you really going to have Lu Mu and Lu Chen do the experiment?"

Zhou Wei looked disdainful at Xiao Yan's first half of the sentence, her expression practically asking, "Is there a problem?" However, upon hearing the last half of the sentence, Zhou Wei's expression changed drastically. Her wrinkled old face twitched violently a few times, and she stared intently at Xiao Yan, remaining silent for a long time.

Upon hearing the second half of Xiao Yan's sentence, the Lu sisters looked at Xiao Yan and Zhou Wei with blank expressions. No matter how they thought about it, they could never guess that Zhou Wei's real purpose in approaching the Jaguar Soul Hunting Group was actually the two of them.

Indeed, after Xiao Yan's observations and assessments along the way, he roughly understood that among the entire Jaguar Soul Hunting Team, Zhou Wei only truly cared about the Lu sisters. Her previous explanation about Yao Yan being a recent graduate was merely a lie to appease the Lu sisters. Even her explanation after Xiao Yan pointed out that their destination was the forbidden area within Sunset Forest was entirely for the Lu sisters' benefit. As for the reason—

"After Lu Mu and Lu Chen die, how long do you plan to spend searching for the next low-level Soul Master who possesses a Soul Skill that allows people to 'fly'?" While Zhou Wei remained silent, Xiao Yan slowly revealed the reason why she had set her sights on the Lu sisters.

Of course, unlike Oscar's soul skill, which can actually allow people to experience flight earlier, the Lu sisters' soul skill should only reduce a person's weight. Under extreme conditions, it might just give a person the illusion that "a gust of wind could blow me away."

"When did you find out?" Zhou Wei asked slowly.

“Just before, when you were ignoring Lin Fei,” Xiao Yan said, looking relieved, “didn’t you think your gaze was too intense? And you were actually paying attention to the flowers and plants at Lin Fei’s feet.”

"Is that all there is to it?" Zhou Wei clearly didn't believe Xiao Yan's words.

"Furthermore, I have personally experienced their soul skills, and your destination is the territory of Bi Lin Douluo..."

At this point, Xiao Yan looked up at the mountain in front of him. "Although it's only about a thousand meters high, your destination... can't be the mountaintop or a cave halfway up the mountain, right?"

"Eliminating those two options, the only remaining option is a volcanic crater in the middle of a high mountain, the existence of which is uncertain..."

These were all fabrications by Xiao Yan. After personally experiencing the Lu sisters' soul skills and confirming the change in Lin Fei's weight after being affected by the soul skills, Xiao Yan was certain of the effects of the Lu sisters' soul skills. However, saying it directly would be a bit embarrassing, so it was better not to say it.

"Heh, you guessed right..."

After listening to Xiao Yan's speculation, Zhou Wei sneered and, after a brief silence, took out six pills from her storage soul tool.

"Two pills per person. The poison in this poison array is fatal to soul beasts, but much less so to soul masters. However, without soul power of level 70 or above, stepping into it will also be certain death."

"Take one of these two pills first, and it will ensure you're fine for the next day. Take the other one at this time tomorrow. Two days should be enough time to prepare everything."

When Xiao Yan received the pill from Zhou Wei, he confirmed that its effect was roughly the same as the detoxification pills he had made using common medicinal herbs before he officially began refining medicine.

"Don't the commander and the others need it?" After swallowing a pill, Lu Chen looked at the other puppets controlled by Zhou Wei.

“They were already corpses when I took control of them,” Zhou Wei said coldly. “The pills in Yao Yan’s hands were squeezed out from the share of you two sisters, Lu. If everything is not over in two days, you will die in the poison array together.”

The cold words stunned Lu Chen for a moment, and his eyes almost instantly turned red.

Zhou Wei didn't give Lu Chen any time to grieve. She looked at Xiao Yan and asked, "Can we go in now?"

"Ah."

At this point, Xiao Yan naturally had no reason to refuse. After swallowing the pill, he followed closely behind the corpses of Lu Yun and Zhou Ke, heading into the poison array.

The moment he broke through the poison array, Xiao Yan's eyes lit up instantly—the concentration of spiritual energy in this mountain range was actually close to that of Wutan City!

On the Douluo Continent, Xiao Yan had been suppressing the growth of his strength. It wasn't that he hated the feeling of his strength increasing; it was just that on this continent, where the concentration of spiritual energy was far inferior to that of Wutan City, the rate of his strength growth was absurdly fast. It felt as if this continent didn't require any accumulation of realms, but only the continuous accumulation of Dou Qi.

The premise of suppression is that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on this continent is too thin. If the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on this continent were the same as that of the mountains within this poison array...

Xiao Yan's only option remains to suppress the growth of his strength.

"Teacher, this mountain range..." Xiao Yan licked his dry lips, his face filled with excitement.

This mountain range is nothing special, but since it can shield Xiao Yan's spiritual power and enhance the spiritual energy of the entire mountain range, making the spiritual energy of the mountain range a whole level higher than that of the outside, it means that there must be a great treasure somewhere in this mountain range!

"Fire and water elemental energies are the most active, so there must be the corpse of a sixth-tier... no, perhaps around the seventh-tier soul beast here." Yao Lao's words confirmed Xiao Yan's guess.

'Just a corpse?' Xiao Yan blinked, somewhat puzzled.

"It's just a corpse. If it were a living sixth or seventh-tier magical beast, there wouldn't be any variation in the density of spiritual energy," Yao Lao explained to Xiao Yan, imparting knowledge he was unfamiliar with. "Only after a magical beast dies, its internal energy dissipates, leading to an excessive concentration of one or more types of spiritual energy."

"Hmm..." Xiao Yan nodded, then glanced at Zhou Wei behind him. "Teacher, do you think she knows about the situation here?"

"It's highly likely they don't know. That Azure Phosphorus Douluo... if nothing unexpected happens, he's probably unaware of the situation here either," Yao Lao said without hesitation. "They probably designated this mountain range as their territory simply because the various medicinal herbs here grow much faster than outside."

"Keep going up, haven't you already guessed our destination?"

Xiao Yan had just slowed his pace when Zhou Wei's icy voice came from behind him. Her words made no attempt to hide her impatience with Xiao Yan, practically stating that she would deal with him once they reached their destination.

Rolling his eyes in exasperation, Xiao Yan quickened his pace.

With Lu Yun and Zhou Ke leading the way on the mountain path, Xiao Yan didn't need to worry about which parts were difficult to walk on. Therefore, the group quickly reached the top of the mountain under the guidance of Lu Yun and Zhou Ke.

Upon arriving here, Xiao Yan realized that his previous fabricated stories might not have been entirely wrong—

Before them was an inverted cone-shaped valley, and they were located right at its edge. Thick, humid heat rose from the valley, carrying with it the smell of sulfur.

"Is there a hot spring down there?" Xiao Yan couldn't help but glance at Zhou Wei.

"Perhaps." Zhou Wei glanced at Xiao Yan, then stepped forward. "Go down."

Gazing at the damp mist below, Zhou Wei uttered these words calmly, her target naturally being Xiao Yan beside her.

"Um... do your two soul skills have range limitations?"

Just as Zhou Wei had hoped, at the last moment, Xiao Yan suddenly "softened" and looked at Lu Chen with an embarrassed smile.

"No."

Although Lu Chen's answer was very firm, Xiao Yan's face still showed "conflict" and "fear". At this moment, Zhou Wei stopped urging him and just leaned on her cane, watching Xiao Yan and Lu Chen with great interest.

After feigning fear for a while and using the time to set up mental trigger devices on the Lu sisters, Xiao Yan took a deep breath and said, "Come on, I'm ready."

Looking at Xiao Yan, who was staring at them with unwavering determination, the Lu sisters exchanged a glance and simultaneously summoned their martial souls. The purple soul rings on their bodies lit up, and cyan light shot out from their martial souls, landing on Xiao Yan.