Battle Through the Heavens: Xiao Yan, I am your second master.

Han Feng lay weakly on the ground, watching Yao Lao slowly walk over. He knew it was the old man who had come, so he knelt there to await his fate.

"Han Feng, have you ever regretted it all these years? Back then, you were still young, and I couldn't bear to see you perish in the snowy night, so I rescued you and took you in. For more than ten years, we've been together day and night. I taught you to wield a sword, refine pills, and cultivate your spiritual practice."

I gave you everything, with a clear conscience, yet you turned out to be a sharp blade used against me.

The old doctor murmured, and one could tell he was quite saddened; he was truly sincere towards Han Feng.

Venerable Wind also sighed.

Han Feng rolled his eyes and kept kowtowing: "Teacher, I was bewitched and blinded by the old man Mu Gu's sorcery. Please forgive me."

Looking at Han Feng, who was kowtowing repeatedly, Yao Lao sighed in his heart: "Han Feng, considering our master-disciple relationship, you should end your own life."

"End it all?!" Han Feng couldn't believe it; even after all this, he was still doomed!

'This is trying to kill me!'

Han Feng immediately stood up and pointed at Yao Lao: "Old man, do you really want to kill us all? This world is a dog-eat-dog world, and becoming stronger is the only way out! It's because you refused to pass on the Burning Technique to me that you've blocked my path!"

Seeing Han Feng's ungrateful attitude, Xiao Yan held the Xuan Heavy Ruler, intending to deal with Han Feng, but was stopped by Venerable Feng. Venerable Feng condensed a blue light in his hand, his eyes sharp.

"Yao Chen! You have no regard for the bond between master and disciple! Then don't blame me!" Han Feng immediately stood up and quickly formed hand seals: "Fortunately, that old fellow Mu Gu taught me a move! It came in handy today. Now that you have no physical body, I'll take you down with me!"

Yao Chen closed his eyes in pain: "Stubborn to the end."

Venerable Feng pointed his finger at Han Feng, intending to finish him off, but just then a black fire dragon attacked and completely engulfed Han Feng.

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

In an instant, Han Feng vanished without a trace. The black fire dragon then spat out two balls of flame, one deep blue and the other yellowish-brown.

"Alas, a beast is a beast. He only cares about immediate interests. If there is anything he dislikes, he will magnify it. He only remembers the bad and not the good. He can't be tamed."

It's better to raise a dog, feed it, and it even knows how to guard the house. Some people are even worse than dogs. No, that's an insult to dogs; a dog's loyalty cannot be slandered.

Xiao Li slowly appeared inside the house, and the black fire dragon then entered Xiao Li's body.

"Alas, it was my poor judgment that led me astray. You've made a fool of yourself, Lao Xiao," Yao Lao said with self-deprecation.

“People are different, so it can’t be said that Master Yao is bad at recognizing people. The two people behind you, one is a close friend and the other is a great disciple. Isn’t that where your ability to recognize people is evident?”

"And that one from the Flower Sect, she still can't forget you, can she? A few years ago I even received a letter from her asking where Yao Chen was. I'm afraid she'll come here to interrogate me about your whereabouts." Xiao Li said with a faint smile.

"Hehe, you rascal, you're insulting me like this, and you still want me to work for you? Really." The old doctor laughed, his originally somewhat depressed mood turned into a wry smile by Xiao Li's words.

Chapter 254 On the Eve of Reviving the Medicine Master

"Teacher, the materials have been collected almost completely. I have the remains of a Dou Zun and the essence blood of a seventh-tier magical beast. All that's missing is the Bone Regeneration and Blood Fusion Pill. Second Master, could you help me refine a Bone Regeneration and Blood Fusion Pill? I need to revive my teacher."

At this moment, Xiao Yan was thinking about reviving his teacher.

"No rush. Your teacher's soul power has been weakened by your actions. I will help your teacher recover his soul power first, and then I will personally refine his body."

"Your teacher and I made a promise: if he trained you to be successful, I would personally resurrect him. You can keep your junk for yourself; it's good for making puppets. You don't need to worry about the resurrection materials for your teacher."

Xiao Li spoke to Xiao Yan, then took out a silver pill the size of a dragon eye. A mist formed on the pill, which condensed into a silver rabbit.

"This is... an eighth-grade pill, the Yin-Yang Soul Tracing Pill? And it's a Yin-Yang Soul Tracing Pill that has undergone the Seven-Colored Pill Lightning!" Elder Yao exclaimed in shock as he looked at the pill in Xiao Li's hand.

Xiao Yan and Venerable Feng also came over. Venerable Feng had seen quite a few Rank 8 pills before, after all, what was his relationship with Yao Chen? However, he hadn't seen Rank 8 pills of this caliber for a while, while this was the first time Xiao Yan had ever seen a Rank 8 pill.

"Second Master~" Xiao Yan rubbed his hands together and said slyly, "Why don't you reward your grandson with an eighth-grade pill? Your grandson has never taken an eighth-grade pill before."

Xiao Li glanced at Xiao Yan: "You've never taken an eighth-grade pill? What was the First Beginning Pill you took when you were a kid? I'll punch you!"

"Huh? When did I take the One Beginning Pill? Teacher, have I taken it?" Xiao Yan asked.

"Of course I've eaten it, otherwise why do you think your body is so resilient? Do you think you were born with superhuman strength?" Yao Lao said speechlessly, then looked at Xiao Li.

"Hey, Lao Xiao, the remains of that two-star Dou Sheng from before?"

"Don't worry, it's still there. I'm just missing a Yin-Yang Reversal Pill. I lack the essence of my soul. You should take this pill to restore your soul first. I'll go visit the Soul Palace and pick up some essence of my soul."

After handing the pill to Elder Yao, Xiao Li left.

"The origin of the soul? What is that?" Xiao Yan asked.

"The essence of the soul is..."

. . . . . .

Seven days later,

"Your Majesty, I am still collecting the ingredients for the Rejuvenation Pill. Please wait a little longer. I am confident I can complete it in just six months."

boom--

Queen Medusa slammed her fist into the wall, and Xiao Yan's cheek was less than a finger's width away from her jade arm!

"Another six months! A year! Six months! You think I'm easy to fool? Believe me or not, I'll settle all your old scores with you! Don't think I'm afraid just because you have a Dou Sheng backing you up. I'll risk my life to make you pay!"

Queen Medusa spoke aggressively, but she did not make a move.

Xiao Yan swallowed hard, gazing at Queen Medusa's stunning beauty and recalling the passion beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Tower a year ago.

Xiao Yan coughed and said, "Cough cough, Cai Lin, calm down, calm down. I promise you, three months is three months, and I'll bring you the Soul Restoration Pill!"

"Hmph! If you deceive me again this time, you know what will happen! Hmph!" Queen Medusa snorted coldly and left, glancing back at Xiao Yan as she went.

"Wow~ What a disaster~" Xiao Yan slumped to the ground.

"Tsk tsk tsk, amazing, Xiao Yanzi, how did you manage to tame such a fierce and beautiful snake? What good thing happened? Tell me."

Xiao Li's voice came from the side. Xiao Yan looked in the direction of the voice and found Xiao Li sitting to the side with his legs crossed and a smile on his face as if he were watching a melon.

"Sigh~ It's all the fault of the Burning Technique. After refining the Fallen Heart Flame, it caused side effects. Cai Lin and I were both knocked off the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower by Han Feng. Cai Lin was right next to me at the time, and she was..."

Xiao Yan said embarrassedly, since it was his fault. His feelings for Queen Medusa were complicated. If you say he liked her, then Queen Medusa's peerless beauty was something any man would like, unless that man liked men.

However, their relationship wasn't that good yet. Xiao Yan had been threatened and frightened by Queen Medusa quite a few times before, but Queen Medusa had indeed saved him many times.

"Oh my, you've even called her 'Colorful Scales,' and she doesn't seem to mind your name. You've got potential, kid. You probably don't know this, but while Medusas throughout history have been ruthless, once they're truly captivated, they're loyal to the death. This kid... tsk tsk, he's really got some luck with women!"

Xiao Li teased.

"Huh? Really?" Xiao Yan recalled Cai Lin's volcanic eruption. Every time he looked for her, she was like an iceberg. Could she really have feelings for him? However, Xiao Yan recalled the bits and pieces under the magma. At that time, he was out of control and could not remember the details and feelings.

I only remember her gentle and graceful demeanor, her passionate and fiery spirit, and how she soared to the heavens.

"Hey! You're practically drooling, aren't you going to chase after her? As long as you're thick-skinned enough, you'll definitely succeed. Your skin is thick enough to appease her anger. Suffering physical pain to win the heart of a beauty is a very worthwhile deal~" Xiao Li laughed.

"Um, but Second Master, Yanran and I are already engaged, and..." Xiao Yan muttered.

"You're really not being honest. So many girls have genuine feelings for you, are you really going to choose just one? Why don't you just take them all? I, your second master, already have four. In the Dou Qi Continent, strength is paramount, and it's perfectly normal for a strong person to have three wives and four concubines."

"Some powerful women can have several husbands. With your talent, you should marry them all to help the Xiao family continue its lineage!" Xiao Li said, arms crossed.

"Um, is this really a good idea? If they get together, they're bound to fight." Xiao Yan could already picture them all in the same room.

"That depends on your skills. Anyway, your mistresses live in perfect harmony, and we're all having a great time," Xiao Li said, waving his hand.

"Okay! I'll go after her!" Xiao Yan immediately ran off to chase after Queen Medusa.

Xiao Li watched Xiao Yan's retreating figure with a grin.

"Your second master is really not good. How can you let your junior be so fickle?" Yao Lao suddenly appeared next to Xiao Li and said.

Looking at Yao Lao's solidified soul, Xiao Li knew that Yao Lao's soul had returned to its peak state, and even saw that Yao Lao had made another breakthrough in his soul.

"Hehe, you don't seem to have the right to talk about me, do you? Fairy Qing of the Flower Sect, President Xuan Yi of the Pill Tower, let me think of something else." Xiao Li teased.

"And there's also Fox Clan's Fox Jiu Jiu, who almost got married to Yao Chen~ And there's more," Venerable Feng said, covering his mouth as he appeared beside Yao Lao.

Faced with Venerable Feng's merciless betrayal, Elder Yao angrily said, "Feng Xian, are you trying to die?!"

"Who hasn't had their share of romantic escapades? You haven't even settled your own romantic debts yet, so what right do you have to lecture Xiao Yan? Hahahaha!" Venerable Feng laughed loudly.

"Old Yao, you're not being honest~ We're the same kind of people, hehe~" Xiao Li laughed.

Hey you two!

As Yao Lao, Xiao Li, Feng Zun Zhe and the others were laughing heartily, a sound suddenly broke through the air.

"Huh? A shooting star?"

"It doesn't seem so!"

"That's Xiao Yanzi!"

"How did he fly? He hasn't even activated his aura wings yet?"

Whoosh~ Boom~

Xiao Yan flew over from a distance like a shooting star and crashed heavily to the ground. Xiao Li and the others rushed forward to check on him, and after seeing a bright red handprint on Xiao Yan's face, they guessed what had happened.

"Hahahahaha!"

Xiao Yan's misfortune drew ridicule from several old men!

Chapter 255 A Strike from a Dou Sheng

Xiao Li walked over and squatted down next to Xiao Yan, touching Xiao Yan's swollen cheek: "Tsk, what happened to you this time? Such a hard slap?"

"Second Grandfather, you're lying! That woman almost beat me to death!" Xiao Yan felt pain all over his body.

"What did you say that made her do this?" Xiao Li asked.

"I just told her what happened that day and apologized to her, and then she got angry and beat me up," Xiao Yan complained.

"Uh, then you deserved to be beaten. How could you be so blunt? You actually apologized for ruining someone's reputation. Does that mean you can just apologize after ruining someone's reputation? Where's your brain? Can't you say something else?"

She's already upset about this, and you're just adding fuel to the fire. Just ask her if she's free to go shopping or have a meal with you. If she doesn't agree verbally, just take her with you. You, as a man, need to be more proactive!

Are you waiting for them to make the first move? I really don't understand why so many girls are interested in you, and you still don't know how to please them. Xian'er has told me countless times that you have no sense of romance.

Xiao Li curled his lip and said that he did not expect that Xiao Yan, the so-called love saint of the Dou Qi Continent, would be so straightforward!

"Please teach me, Second Grandfather!" Xiao Yan immediately stood up, knelt on one knee before Xiao Li, and said obsequiously.

"Hmph! Ask your teacher, he's a master of romance." Xiao Li waved his hand and left.

"Teacher! Please teach me!" Xiao Yan immediately changed direction and landed on Yao Lao in a fierce tiger-like landing.

The old apothecary stroked his beard: "Little Yanzi, listen to me, you should do it this way."

. . . . . .

Seven days later, in the secret chamber of Maple City,

"Master Yao, are you ready? The materials prepared for your resurrection this time are: the skeleton of a two-star Dou Sheng, a Yin-Yang Reversal Pill that has been tempered by the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, and the essence blood of a half-saint level Illusionary Fire Scorpion Dragon Beast."

Xiao Li took out all the materials he had prepared.

Xiao Yan stared in disbelief at the materials his second master had brought out.

"Second Master, no wonder you said mine are all junk, they really are junk."

Xiao Yan said with a self-deprecating smile that the skeleton he was currently in belonged to an elder of the Soul Palace, who had been beaten to death by his grandfather. Xiao Yan was thinking of taking it in to refine a body for his teacher.

And his second master directly took out a complete Dou Sheng skeleton. He was too extravagant, inhumanly extravagant!

"Oh? An eighth-grade, nine-colored Yin-Yang Reversal Pill? Even at my peak, the success rate of refining such a pill was only fifty-fifty," said the old medicine master, stroking his beard.

"Hehe, I am now a Battle Saint with an extremely high soul realm. In addition, I have refined this Yin-Yang Reversal Pill many times, so I can refine it with ease."

"With Yao Lao's resurrection, he should be able to reach the Dou Sheng level in one fell swoop," Xiao Li said with a faint smile.

The old doctor smiled faintly: "Thank you for your kind words. I feel that meeting you and Xiao Yanzi is the embodiment of my good fortune! Hahahaha! Let's begin!"

"Ok!"

Xiao Li unleashed the Yin-Yang Sacred Flame, which enveloped the skeleton of the Dou Sheng. The Yin Flame disposed of the original owner's flesh and blood, while the Yang Flame gave the skeleton life.

"Master Yao, your soul!"

"Alright!" The old apothecary gave up a wisp of his soul, and Xiao Li infused the soul into the skeleton. The skeleton then opened its empty eyes.

"Master Yao, take the pill! Come in!"

After taking the Yin-Yang Reversal Pill, Yao Lao felt an incomparably powerful medicinal force. He then rushed into the fire, intending to merge with the physical body, but was repelled by the bones of the Dou Sheng.

"As expected of the remains of a Battle Saint, even in death, there is still such an instinctive rejection reaction. In that case! Merge into one!"

Xiao Li activated his soul power and forcibly merged Yao Lao's soul with that Dou Sheng skeleton!