A person in the heavens, starting with a Chaos Emperor Dao Fruit

Yunhua slowly swam towards the blue lotus.

As Yunhua got closer to the blue lotus, she could appreciate its breathtaking beauty. Such a near-perfect thing could probably only be created through the tempering of time and nature.

Avoiding the roots and tendrils that could drain a person's fighting spirit, Yunhua slowly approached the top of the blue lotus. His gaze swept across it, and in the center of the small lotus platform within the lotus, there was a hole the size of a fist, in which a blue flame floated and flickered.

This is the strange fire, a miracle of nature. Yunhua can feel the surging energy within it and the terrifying temperature of a single strike.

Yunhua arrived at the lotus platform and sat cross-legged in mid-air. He wanted to comprehend the Dao principles of this flame. With the lotus platform supplying energy and maintaining the light shield, Yunhua began to comprehend. He planned to let the Soul-Devouring Demon Flame absorb the laws of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame and evolve.

Meanwhile, the Great Emperor Dao Fruit, far away in the world of Shrouding the Heavens, also stopped enhancing Yun Hua's physical transformation and began to channel his power through the Gate of the Other Shore to Yun Hua on the lotus platform, helping him comprehend the laws of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame.

As Yunhua's understanding deepened, flowers of the Great Dao appeared around him, some were lotus leaves and some were broken lotus petals, constantly colliding and merging around him.

These unusual phenomena are all part of the incomplete laws of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame that Yunhua comprehended; they are only a portion of the complete laws.

Limited by his strength, Yunhua could only comprehend one part at a time, like a blind man touching an elephant. He would first describe its characteristics, and then combine these characteristics to use exhaustive methods to try again and again until he pieced together the complete Law of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire.

This process wasn't too slow, because with the blessing of the world across which the Great Emperor's Dao Fruit was obtained, Yunhua quickly pieced together a seed of fire that somewhat resembled the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame.

Perhaps because some details were not fully grasped, the forcibly combined lotus prototype also disintegrated, returning to a state of incomplete parts.

Fortunately, Yunhua had the complete Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame in front of him to study. This unsuccessful attempt to piece it together also made Yunhua notice some hidden law runes within the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame.

The reason these runes are not easily detected is because this law is a unique law of this world, but it is different from the Soul-Devouring Demon Fire.

Yunhua was able to quickly comprehend those incomplete laws because these laws were relatively universal. Although they looked somewhat different from the universal laws of other worlds, their core was the same.

Yunhua had already comprehended these universal laws, which is why he was able to peel back the layers of what seemed like a piece of cloth woven from various laws into individual lines of law.

As for those hidden, unknown laws, Yunhua felt that these might be the fundamental laws governing the birth of different flames in this world, containing the essential secrets of different flames in this world.

Time flew by, but Yunhua, engrossed in the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame, didn't notice the passage of time. However, Yunhua was close to success.

Through a process of constant piecing together, disintegrating, perfecting, and reassembling, Yunhua gradually came to understand the full picture of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame.

At a certain moment, Yunhua stopped his comprehension, raised his palm, and a miniature version of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame appeared in his palm. The Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame on the lotus platform was only different in size and energy content, and it looked like it was malnourished.

However, it is indeed malnourished. The true Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame has been drawing on the energy of the earth for thousands of years, making its origin incredibly rich, while Yunhua's mini Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame only has a tiny bit of its origin condensed by Yunhua.

The difference between the two is like the difference between a Great Accomplished Holy Body and a Lesser Accomplished Holy Body; it's a difference in origin. However, Yunhua doesn't care about origin because he only needs the laws.

By comparing the hidden laws of the Soul-Devouring Demon Fire and the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire, Yunhua discovered that although the two were different, they were actually fragments of a complete law.

The two fragments of the incomplete laws were attracted to each other, but because they were covered by a fiery cloak constructed from other external laws, they were difficult to fuse.

Yunhua speculated that this law might be the essential factor that allows different flames to fuse and eventually become the Emperor Flame.

With the pull of two fragments of the same origin, Yunhua quickly overcame the repulsion of the external laws of the two different flames and successfully fused the laws of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame into the Soul Devouring Demon Flame.

The fused flames changed from purplish-black to bluish-purple, and their power was further enhanced, reaching another level in both temperature and soul-devouring power.

After finishing his meditation, Yunhua stood up and collected the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame that he had thoroughly comprehended. He then melted it into a blue bead with a dancing Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame in the center.

Yunhua understands the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame too well. All its essence and flaws are under Yunhua's control, so she can easily turn it into a bead that does not emit any heat.

Having completed all this, Yunhua looked at the twelfth-grade blue lotus platform and the lotus seeds within it.

Chapter Seventy-Five: Medusa's Attack

That lotus platform was formed by the condensation of the earth's fire over a thousand years. If it were dismantled and one sat on it during cultivation, the cultivation speed would not be increased tenfold, but it would at least be three or four times faster.

When encountering an enemy, you can activate it with your battle qi to release the hidden earth fire within. Even a Dou Ling level enemy can be blocked. However, for Yun Hua, it is not as good as directly refining it into a magic weapon.

The lotus seeds within the lotus platform are known as the Earth Fire Lotus Seeds, the essence of fire spirits. Only one seed is formed every hundred years. Anyone who cultivates fire-attribute techniques can improve their Douhuang realm by several stars by absorbing and refining just one seed. Its effect is no less than that of ordinary sixth-grade pills.

"One, two, three... There are eleven Earth Fire Lotus Seeds in total. Hehe, not bad luck." Yunhua said with a smile after counting the tiny glowing lights in the green lotus.

Yunhua took out several pieces of jade, melted them into liquid with the Soul-Devouring Demon Fire, and then shaped them into a jade sword to take away the lotus seeds and lotus platform.

The blue lotus is a rare and wondrous thing of nature. Any iron that touches it will melt. To cut it open, one must use a piece of pure jade to remove it without contaminating its efficacy.

Yu Hua used her jade sword to gently slice the part of the lotus seat that connected to the rootstock. Instantly, the perfect blue lotus, like a work of art, fell off.

Seeing the blue lotus fall, Yu Hua quickly reached out and drew it in, then made it float in front of her and slowly rotate. Her gaze swept over it, her face full of amazement.

As for the remaining roots, stems, and leaves, Yunhua did not take them. Under the Heavenly Dao, there is always a glimmer of hope. Let it be left to the destined one. Perhaps a thousand years later, a lotus platform will grow again, lotus seeds will be produced, and the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire will be born.

Yunhua took out a jade bottle, picked out eleven green lotus seeds with her jade sword, and stored them in the bottle. She planned to use them to refine pills, but not the alchemy techniques of the Dou Qi Continent, but the pill refining manual she created herself, so that the effects of these lotus seeds could be fully utilized.

However, many precious medicinal herbs are needed to refine it, so Yunhua cannot refine it for the time being. However, this twelfth-grade lotus platform can be refined into a spiritual weapon.

Without further ado, they took action. Fortunately, the fire element energy here was extremely concentrated, which would allow Yunhua's refining process to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Yunhua continuously condensed law runes and cast them into the lotus platform in front of him. These law runes all had specific meanings, such as solid, strong, heavy, light, sharp, and so on.

Once enough runes are drawn on the lotus platform, some complementary or similar runes combine to form a talisman. The difference between a talisman and a rune is that a talisman connects the runes to form a sentence from words, such as "This object is heavy and sturdy, and can defend against physical attacks."

At its initial stage, a magical artifact only contains some simple runes, and its power is not interconnected. At the stage of a magical treasure, it contains some talismans, which connect the runes, and its power increases exponentially.

In the Spirit Artifact stage, the talismans combine to form a complex array, further enhancing its power. All the scattered runes and the power of the talismans are combined into a whole, and the array gives birth to an array spirit. The array spirit can autonomously control the Spirit Artifact's defense and offense, which is why it is called a Spirit Artifact.

At this moment, Yunhua had refined three formations on the twelfth-grade lotus platform in front of him: one for suppressing attacks, one for defending and absorbing, and one for gathering and storing spiritual energy.

At this time, it only has the ability to defend, absorb, and suppress attacks. Its ability to gather and store spiritual energy is incomplete because it lacks a magic core in the eleven lotus seeds and the central green lotus fire to absorb and store spiritual energy.

Therefore, the spirit gathering and storage capacity is only 30% of the complete array, which is not as powerful as the array that can be transformed into its complete form and exert its full power by obtaining eleven sixth-order magical beast cores and one seventh-order magical beast core.

Currently, this 12th-grade Azure Lotus, a spiritual artifact, can only increase Yunhua's cultivation speed by ten times. Moreover, both attack and defense require Yunhua to invest energy. However, once the collection of the demon core is complete, the spiritual artifact's ability to assist cultivation will become one hundred times stronger, and both attack and defense will only require the spiritual energy stored by Yunhua.

Having successfully mastered the technique, Yunhua shrunk the three-foot-long, twelve-square-meter blue lotus to the size of her palm. Then, after glancing at the spot where the blue lotus was growing, she turned and left.

This time, Yunhua didn't use the light shield formed by the Soul-Devouring Demonic Fire. Instead, she stood directly on the Twelfth-Grade Azure Lotus. The Azure Lotus emitted a blue light curtain, blocking the magma from the outside world while simultaneously absorbing its energy.

Stepping on the twelfth-grade azure lotus, Yunhua moved with incredible speed, directly locating the two-headed fire spirit snake on the upper layer of azure magma.

Seeing Yunhua stepping on the green lotus and moving at great speed, the Fire Spirit Serpent quickly followed, and the two of them rapidly rose into the magma.

Meanwhile, Xian'er and Qinglin, located more than ten kilometers away, were waiting anxiously. Nine days had passed, and Yunhua was still nowhere to be found. Even Qinglian's communication with the two-headed fire spirit snake could not obtain any information about Yunhua, who was in the Qinglian Fire Space.

Just as the two were still anxious, Qinglin seemed to sense something and hid in Xian'er's arms, trembling as if something terrifying was about to descend.

"Qinglin, are you alright?" Xian'er asked, puzzled, not knowing what Qinglin was afraid of.

"Over there... there's a very strong person over there. Their aura is terrifying and chilling." Qinglin pointed towards the large pit with his head down.

Xian'er looked in that direction and indeed sensed an extremely powerful fluctuation of battle qi, at least that of a Dou Huang.

"Oh no, she's coming over. She's found us. Ugh, what do we do?" Qinglin said, tears streaming down her face.

"Qinglin, you run first and find a place to hide. I'll buy some time. Brother Yun should be out soon," Xian'er said to Qinglin.

"Oh, a human girl and a half-human, half-snake girl, where do you think you're going? Can you tell me where the strange fire is?"

Above the sky, the afterglow of the setting sun shone down, illuminating the distorted space. In the next instant, a graceful, curvaceous figure slowly appeared in Xian'er and Qinglin's sight.

A beautiful woman suddenly appeared, dressed in a magnificent purple brocade robe. Beneath the robe, her voluptuous figure was like a ripe peach, exuding a subtle charm. Her long, black hair cascaded down her shoulders and draped over her slender waist.

Beneath the brocade robe, a section of purple snake tail was visible, swaying slightly and exuding a wild and alluring charm.

Behind her, a pair of dazzling battle aura wings spread out, with a wingspan of three or four meters, clearly indicating that she was an extremely powerful Battle Emperor.

"You are Queen Medusa. I can tell you that the strange fire is in the magma beneath that large pit. If you have the ability, go and get it yourself." Xian'er knew Yun Hua's strength, and that Queen Medusa in front of her was definitely no match for him.

"Oh, really? It seems you're waiting for that powerful figure who went down to retrieve the strange fire. You're quite close, aren't you? Then I'll capture you and make him exchange the strange fire for your lives."

Above the sky, Queen Medusa lowered her head slightly, looking at Xian'er and Qinglin. Her red lips curved into a delicate arc, and in an instant, her exquisite face became full of demonic charm. Every frown and smile was mesmerizing!

"Hmph! Don't even think about it. Brother Yun will be back soon. Until then, let me be your opponent." Xian'er spread her purple cloud wings and came into the air to confront Queen Medusa.

"Interesting. You're only at the Dou Ling level, but the purity and quantity of your energy are comparable to a Dou Wang, and you even have a flying Dou Technique. But even so, what gives you the confidence to face me, a nine-star Dou Huang?" Queen Medusa looked at Xian'er, who seemed on high alert, with great interest.

Chapter Seventy-Six: Fairy's Battle Against Medusa

"Then let's try it. I'll show you my power, Ten Thousand Poisons Spirit-Severing Mist!" Xian'er knew she was no match for Medusa, so she started with her Golden Core Divine Power, her trump card.

A vast expanse of green poisonous substance spread out from Xian'er's body, quickly covering the sky for more than ten miles and enveloping Medusa.

"Interesting. This fighting technique probably has power close to the Heavenly Rank, but that's not enough." Queen Medusa's body was covered with a layer of fighting aura, which kept the poison gas out.

Even so, the highly toxic gas was eroding Medusa's battle aura, causing it to creak and hiss, and Medusa's battle aura was being consumed rapidly.

Medusa condensed thousands of poisonous spears and shot them out at Xian'er. The sharp sound of them tearing through the air was terrifying. The poisonous spears rained down, densely covering Xian'er's body.

"Hmph, I'm not afraid of poison at all. Swallow it!" Xian'er formed a hand seal, and a huge vortex appeared in front of her, swallowing all the thousands of poison spears.

"Here you go!" Xian'er transformed the poisonous spear she had devoured into a massive venomous spear. The spear, dozens of feet long, pierced through Medusa, tearing through the heavens and penetrating the netherworld, directly locking onto Medusa.

"She's not afraid of poison? This is a bit of a problem." Medusa was somewhat surprised to see that Fairy was not afraid of her venom and could even absorb and use it.

The snake-people are most skilled in using venom, but they are severely countered by Fairy's Calamity Poison Body, forcing Medusa to use only other attributes to attack.

In the original story, the Heavenly Poison Sect founded by Little Fairy Doctor was constantly in conflict with the Snake People Clan, and now the two are clashing here.

Since Medusa couldn't use the venom attribute, she prepared to use the ice attribute, which was also her area of ​​expertise.

A massive amount of ice crystals appeared in the air, forming a huge ice shield that blocked Xian'er's venomous spear.

The two collided and exploded, scattering venom and ice crystals in all directions, directly dispersing some of the poisonous gas from Xian'er's Ten Thousand Poisons Spirit Mist.

Medusa, being a Dou Huang level expert, was far superior in terms of the depth of her Dou Qi, her Dou Techniques, and her physique.

While Xian'er was still catching her breath, the attack was launched again, still of the ice attribute, with countless ice crystals forming a giant meteorite that crashed down on Xian'er.

Ice crystals crashed to the ground, blasting large craters into the earth. Unfortunately, this was a desert region, where fire and earth attributes would be amplified, while ice and water attributes would be reduced to some extent.

Xian'er immediately summoned a long whip of fire, shattering all the approaching ice crystal meteorites. The fire was a fire control technique that Xian'er learned after mastering alchemy.

This flame is also quite extraordinary; it belongs to Xian'er's elixir fire, possessing both fire and poison attributes, and its power is no less than that of the beast fire of sixth or seventh-tier magical beasts.

Medusa's face was icy cold, but she was somewhat speechless. She only wanted to capture a Dou Ling with the strength of a Dou Wang, but this Dou Ling was extremely effective against her. Her poison was useless and could even be used against her. Her ice attribute could not exert its due strength because of the desert and Xian'er's domineering fire whip.

If they were to engage in a war of attrition with Xian'er, firstly, the Ten Thousand Poisons Spirit-Slaying Mist would provide the absorbed energy to Xian'er, and secondly, Medusa would need to capture Xian'er in a short time to threaten Yunhua who was about to emerge, making it difficult to achieve their goal.

Suddenly, Medusa noticed Qinglin running away. That silly girl kept looking back as she ran, and she hadn't gone very far at all.

"Hehe, little girl, you are indeed formidable. I'm not playing with you anymore." Medusa flew directly towards Qinglin, preparing to seize him.

"Damn it!" Xian'er's Purple Cloud Wings were no match for Medusa's Douhuang-level Dou Qi Wings. Her speed was completely outmatched, so she could only grit her teeth and follow behind Medusa, trying to stop her.

Soon, Queen Medusa flew to Qinglin's side, grabbed him with a large hand of fighting spirit, and then quickly flew away towards the pit.

Xian'er had no choice but to follow, arriving above the pit and glaring at the somewhat smug Queen Medusa.

"Release Qinglin immediately! If you want to fight, then fight! Don't be so despicable and shameless!" Xian'er was unusually angry, her face filled with murderous intent and a hint of rage.

"Oh, the victor is king, the loser is villain. What does it matter if it's despicable as long as the goal is achieved?" Medusa's flawless white hand traced across Qinglin's terrified face.

"Ah! No, don't hurt me." Qinglin trembled, tears welling in his eyes. He was terrified by the Queen's bloodline suppression.

At this moment, Medusa suddenly glanced at Qinglin and noticed that the little girl in her arms had strange pupils.

Upon closer inspection, she noticed three small dots in Qinglin's eyes. As she prepared to get closer to take a look, Qinglin was so frightened that she closed her eyes.

So Medusa approached and forcefully pried open Qinglin's eyelids, preparing to take a closer look.

Due to extreme fear, Qinglin once again triggered the Azure Serpent Three-Flower Pupil, causing three small dots to bloom and form three small flowers.

A ghostly light shone from the hole, plunging Medusa into an illusion. Just as the light was about to take control of Medusa...

The surge of blood within Medusa instantly brought her back to her senses, dispelling the eerie light before her. Her expression turned cold as she stared at the little girl who had almost subdued her.

The ghostly light was shattered, and Qinglin fell into a coma, causing Xian'er, who had witnessed everything, to be extremely worried.

"Qinglin, what's wrong with you? Wake up! You vicious woman, what have you done to Qinglin?" Xian'er was furious, but she was also afraid of hurting him, so she could only stare at Medusa, wanting to kill her with her eyes.

"The Azure Serpent's Three-Flower Pupil, the eyes of an ancient celestial serpent, are truly not to be underestimated. I didn't expect to encounter two young girls, each of whom is so effective at restraining me." Medusa was somewhat frustrated, but fortunately, she had a bargaining chip in her hand, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

Just then, the magma in the pit surged, and Yunhua shot out directly, stepping on a twelfth-grade green lotus, looking at Medusa and the captured Qinglin.

In fact, Yunhua had already sensed the danger Qinglin was in from the restlessness of the two-headed fire spirit snake while he was still in the magma, so he quickly floated to the surface.

He used his divine sense to see Medusa grab Qinglin while he was in the magma, which is why he reached the ground so quickly.

"So it was you who obtained the strange fire, sir? Hand it over, if you don't want anything to happen to this little girl." Medusa tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and spoke to the powerful man.

"Queen Medusa, a nine-star Dou Huang, wants a different kind of fire. Do you want an evolution that's fraught with peril?" Yun Hua said with certainty.

"Oh, you are indeed very knowledgeable. What? You're not willing to exchange the little girl in my hands for my strange fire?" Medusa said indifferently.

“Actually, the Queen and I can cooperate. This time I obtained some Earth Fire Green Lotus Seeds, which need to be refined into pills to help people undergo transformation. This will greatly help the Queen’s evolution. In addition, I have the gentle Green Lotus Earth Core Flame, which can help the Queen’s evolution less painful. What does the Queen think?” Yun Hua said sincerely, a gentle Green Lotus Earth Core Flame appearing in his hand.

Chapter Seventy-Seven: Collaborative Alchemy