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

"Those two girls with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul and the Netherworld Tiger Martial Soul? No problem," Dugu Bo nodded as he took the jade bottles. "However, the effect of this Martial Soul Pill..."

"Soul evolution, if nothing unexpected happens, that should be the case."

Dugu Bo, whose eyes widened at the first four words, looked puzzled after hearing the last few words. "Weren't you very sure about the effects of the Soul Master Pill? Why are you unsure about this one?"

"Because the Soul Master Pill is a defective version of the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill, while this Martial Soul Pill is an original creation!"

Xiao Yan rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Because I am very familiar with the ingredients of Soul Master Pills, and there is only one test result for Martial Soul Pills: they are extremely effective for Martial Souls. What else can't be tested to show!"

Actually, the test was completed, but Xiao Yan wasn't very sure if the tulip would work. After all, it was only a fourth-grade medicinal herb. Even with the help of other medicinal herbs, it was uncertain whether it would be truly effective. Furthermore, due to the characteristics of that tulip, this pill was only effective for treasure-type and exotic beast-type martial souls. These exotic beasts referred to the likes of Yang Tiger and Yin Tiger, not ordinary soul beasts.

Dugu Yan's martial soul is the Azure Phosphorous Serpent, so the martial soul pill is most likely ineffective. However, after absorbing those two soul bones, she should undergo some evolution, and it might become effective.

"Oh, and this too, the Source Fire Pill, for Dean Flander's disciple. Its effect is to purify his flames. After taking it, his flames will most likely be only weaker than mine and Lin Dong's." Immediately afterwards, Xiao Yan took out another jade bottle.

After taking another bottle, Dugu Bo stared straight at Xiao Yan.

"What's wrong? Is something the matter?" Xiao Yan asked curiously, feeling a little uneasy under her gaze.

“I’m waiting for you to bring out the next bottle,” Dugu Bo rolled his eyes. “If you have any other bottles you want me to take out, it will save me from having to make another trip later.”

"That's all, don't think about it anymore," Xiao Yan said speechlessly. "Oh, right, don't tell anyone about the side effects of the Soul Master Pill. Just tell Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing through telepathy."

"You want to scam someone?" Dugu Bo asked curiously.

"What do you mean by 'tricking someone'? This is just making excuses for you!" Xiao Yan said irritably. "If you directly tell people about the side effects, how are you going to explain that you didn't make this? You can't just push me out on the spot, can you?"

“...That’s true.” Dugu Bo smiled awkwardly. If Xiao Yan hadn’t reminded him, he would have forgotten that the main reason Xiao Yan asked him to be his bodyguard was to avoid drawing attention to him.

"Come here, I'll teach you how to say it."

Seeing Dugu Bo's current appearance, it was hard for Xiao Yan to believe him. After sighing, he said—

"Just say that you found these two pills by accident. Since you didn't know their effects, you put them aside. Later, after I swallowed one, I learned that it could enhance my soul power and evolve my martial soul. However, in order to spur me on, you don't allow me to continue taking them and have decided to auction them off to create opponents for me... Do you understand?"

"You're not even going to mention the Soul Master Pill's effect on increasing Soul Power level?"

"Just report the lowest and highest values ​​of soul power we increased, including your granddaughter and my classmates!" Xiao Yan said helplessly. "Oh, right, when Dean Flander takes it to the auction, follow him and tell the person in charge of the auction about these things, so that he won't be cheated."

Although it's unclear whose power the Heaven Dou Auction House is, Flander, a mere Soul Saint, is certainly someone they can't afford to offend.

“Alright, leave it to me!” Dugu Bo nodded.

"Wait, there's one more thing!"

Just after Dugu Bo took off, Xiao Yan remembered something else and suddenly shouted, "Inside Shrek Academy, no matter what you see, don't be surprised. Just pretend you didn't notice anything!"

Xiao Yan, who didn't quite trust the rabbit's brain, was afraid that Dugu Bo would show a surprised expression and then be discovered by Tang Hao, who didn't know if he had gone to ambush Lin Dong, and eventually be cornered at the door.

Chapter 105 Extra: Dugu Bo's Bizarre Adventure

Outside the poison array, Flander waited with a conflicted expression. Not long after leaving Heaven Dou City, he encountered Dugu Bo. However, when he asked Dugu Bo about Xiao Yan's condition, Dugu Bo did not immediately realize that the disciple he was referring to was Xiao Yan, which made Flander feel an ominous premonition.

Suddenly, Flander saw a dark shadow flash across the mountaintop and then rush down the mountain.

When Flander finally saw the figure's face clearly, he was startled—

The person who arrived was naturally Dugu Bo, but Flander did not see Xiao Yan behind Dugu Bo. For a moment, he wondered if Xiao Yan had already died at the hands of Dugu Bo.

"Let's go back to Tiandou City." Upon arriving outside the poison array and discovering that Flander seemed to have remained in the same position, Dugu Bo nodded in satisfaction and said.

"Um... Senior Dugu!"

After realizing that Dugu Bo had no intention of explaining why Xiao Yan hadn't come out, Flander's heart sank completely. After hesitating for a moment, he called out to Dugu Bo's retreating figure as he walked out of Sunset Forest.

"Hmm?" Dugu Bo turned around with a puzzled look.

"Excuse me, how is Yan Xiao?"

If Xiao Yan hadn't mentioned it before, Dugu Bo wouldn't have known that Xiao Yan used this pseudonym at Shrek Academy. When Flander stopped him outside Heaven Dou City and asked about Yan Xiao, Dugu Bo almost didn't realize who the name referred to.

"He hasn't finished his cultivation task for today."

After mentally criticizing Xiao Yan's overly cautious behavior, Dugu Bo said calmly, "I will not let him out until he completes today's cultivation task."

"Not even a short rest?" Flanders pressed.

“Sure,” Dugu Bo glanced at Flander before turning back to his head, “It just means his year-long cultivation plan is completely ruined, and his soul power cultivation will be suspended for a year or two…”

"Are you going to make it up to him after this year and a half?"

The words "cultivation suspended" completely froze Flander. He couldn't figure out Dugu Bo's true thoughts, and at this moment, it seemed that all he could do was believe it.

"I just went in to find some pills," Dugu Bo said. He could take about ten meters with each step and didn't care if he was too fast. He was only concerned about whether Soul Saint Flander could keep up with him. "I took out all the pills that your disciple needed or the ones that Yan Xiao asked me to give to the students in your academy team."

“What my disciple needs…” Flander, who was gathering his soul power and following closely behind Dugu Bo, paused for a moment, “Can Hong Jun’s evil fire be cured?”

"if not?"

Dugu Bo wasn't surprised that Flander hadn't paid attention to the second half of his sentence. If he hadn't known the effects of the Soul Master Pill, his own reaction would probably have been similar to Flander's.

'It seems Yan Xiao is truly alright,' Flander thought, happy for his disciple and relieved. 'If something had happened to Yan Xiao, Dugu Bo wouldn't care about Hong Jun's situation.'

Dugu Bo had no idea what Flander behind him was thinking. He was just a little curious as to why Xiao Yan was using a pseudonym in Shrek Academy, and he was also curious about the circumstances under which Xiao Yan's real name would be revealed.

*

"Yanyan, your soul power..."

Looking at Dugu Yan, who had completely refined the Soul Master Pill, Dugu Bo's vision was blurred with tears. "Level 51... she actually reached level 51 directly!"

'Twenty years old, level 51? And level 51 before absorbing a spirit ring?' Flander, trembling as he watched from the sidelines, groaned inwardly, 'How am I supposed to fight this? The Spirit Master Tournament is over!'

'Oh, wait, Team Tiandou was guaranteed a spot? Then it's alright…'

"Alright, next up is this pill, the Martial Soul Pill."

After interacting with his granddaughter, Dugu Bo took out the most crucial elixir.

"Martial Soul Pill? Is its effect the same as the Soul Master Pill?" Dugu Yan looked at the pill in Dugu Bo's hand with some curiosity.

“No…this is different, you can take it first,” Dugu Bo smiled and shook his head, “Flander!”

"Yes! I'll go out right away!" Fran walked out of the yard very conscientiously.

More than half an hour later, as the golden light emanating from the courtyard faded, Flander could no longer hear the conversation inside. But before he could hear it anymore, he seemed to have heard—

"It actually evolved?"

'Soul evolution? Impossible, right?' Flander shrugged.

*

"Senior Dugu... what did you say was the effect of this Soul Master Pill?"

In the wooden house that once belonged exclusively to Liu Erlong at Shrek Academy, Yu Xiaogang asked in a hoarse voice.

"Oh."

Dugu Bo glanced at the clueless Great Soul Master in front of him, uttering a contemptuous sound. He didn't intend to answer his question, but his gaze still subtly fell on a female student with a scorpion braid.

'A 100,000-year-old soul beast… Could this be the reason Xiao Yan stayed in this academy?'

Looking at the large pink rabbit in his line of sight, Dugu Bo secretly made a guess.

"It can directly increase the soul power of Soul Masters and Soul Sect level Soul Masters by at least two levels and at most nine levels..." Liu Erlong didn't notice Dugu Bo's disdain for Yu Xiaogang for a moment. After swallowing hard, she looked at the jade bottle in Dugu Bo's hand in disbelief.

"Are you sure it's not at the cost of your life force, to quickly..."

Dugu Bo's contemptuous snort stung Yu Xiaogang's fragile pride. Gritting his teeth, he suppressed his dissatisfaction and asked, feigning nonchalance, a question that all the students present were extremely concerned about...

Of course, except for one trembling rabbit.

"Xiao Gang!"

However, before Yu Xiaogang could finish his question, Flander, who had been following Dugu Bo since the Sunset Forest, stopped him and whispered in Yu Xiaogang's ear:

"Senior Dugu's granddaughter just took it!"

Dugu Bo's granddaughter?

Everyone present was stunned for a moment, and then they all thought of the strange woman with dark purple short hair and emerald green eyes that they had seen in the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena.

Then, everyone was certain that this pill was definitely not the kind that would deplete a Soul Master's life force.

"But I'm not a Soul Master yet!" After confirming the authenticity of the pill, Ma Hongjun looked bitter and depressed.

Over the course of five months, he tried his best to increase his soul power, but with the evil fire holding him back, he was only at level 29, still one level and one soul ring away from becoming a Soul Master.

“If the levels are not too different, it can still be taken,” Dugu Bo finally shifted his gaze from Xiao Wu behind Tang San, “but the medicinal power will be somewhat depleted, and the effect will not be as good as that of Soul Master and Soul Sect.”

Xiao Yan had specifically reminded them of this, but at the time, he thought that Ning Rongrong and Ma Hongjun would be the ones to ask this question.

Dugu Bo glanced at Ning Rongrong, whose soul power was fluctuating and who seemed to have recently broken through to level 30. He could only sigh at Ma Hongjun's good luck. If Xiao Yan hadn't emphasized this, Ma Hongjun would have only received the same contemptuous voice as Yu Xiaogang.

"Even level 29 can take it?!"

In that instant, Tang San, Yu Xiaogang, Flander, and Liu Erlong stared even more intently at the jade bottle in Dugu Bo's hand, all because someone's soul power had stagnated at level twenty-nine for countless years.

“One for each regular player and one for each reserve player, that makes ten,” Dugu Bo said, pretending not to notice the intense gazes of these people. “There are four extra.”

Upon hearing about the extra quantity, Yu Xiaogang's eyes burned even brighter, and he almost shouted: Give me all four of them!

"Dean Flander."

"Yes!"

Flander, who was suddenly called out by Dugu Bo, immediately stood up straight.

"Take these four and put them up for auction. Consider the proceeds as a donation from me to the academy where Yan Xiao is studying," Dugu Bo said dryly, following the script Xiao Yan had given him. "Of course, you are not allowed to reveal the source of these pills... Understand?"

Is it forbidden to reveal the source of the elixir?

Flander was taken aback. "Then, the effects of the pill..." He had a guess in his mind, but after all, the owner of the pill was right in front of him, so he dared not speak rashly.

"Why not just have someone test it?"

Dugu Bo's nonchalant words were like heavenly words to Yu Xiaogang.

As Flander, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong looked on with delight at the four pills handed to them, Dugu Bo also gave the Martial Soul Pill to Ning Rongrong, as well as the one to Zhu Zhuqing…

Unfortunately, although her soul power level reached level thirty-seven within two months, the medicinal effects within Zhu Zhuqing's body had not been completely depleted, meaning she did not meet the requirements for taking the pill. When Dugu Bo transmitted the message to the two, telling them that a Soul Master Pill could only be taken once in a lifetime, he seemed to see a look of "surprise" on their faces?

'So that's how you figured out that these pills were made by Xiao Yan?' Dugu Bo guessed.

However, what Dugu Bo didn't expect was that when everyone present saw him give Ning Rongrong a pill, they all guessed that these pills were made by Xiao Yan. After all, the last person to take a pill provided by Xiao Yan was in the wooden house!