"Roar!"
Amethyst Flame burst from between the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's fangs.
The trees within several dozen meters were reduced to dust amid the lightning.
It actually still wanted to struggle!
But after using Amethyst Seal, it was already at the end of its rope.
The little strength it barely managed to gather quickly dispersed.
Yun Yun leaned against Xiao Yi Xian, clutching her bleeding left shoulder as she prepared to retreat.
Yet a crimson streak flashed past. The young man's four wings beat, and his figure shot into the sky!
The surging Crimson Flame swelled and burned, scorching the air with mirror-like traces of molten distortion.
"I don't sell tickets, but people always come to me to buy a one-way ticket to hell."
"This time, you can pay the fare with your Magic Core!"
Xiao Yan hung upside down above the lion's head. He raised a hand and clenched it fiercely, sending ripples of fiery patterns through the air.
"Flame Wings, Heaven Slash!"
The surging energy finally accumulated to the limit of his body before bursting forth violently.
"Boom!"
His four wings suddenly folded together into a Sky Burning Fire Wheel, spiraling and compressing the blazing flames into nine Blood Moons.
Amid the shrill scream of tearing air, the flaming slash actually condensed into the phantom of a Blood Moon Slash in midair!
The hundred-meter fire wave carbonized all plants within several hundred meters.
Yun Yun's starry eyes abruptly narrowed.
"Th-this is Earth Tier? And not merely Earth Tier Low-grade?!"
The nine crescent slashes converged in the air, transforming into a crimson half-moon that spanned heaven and earth as it crashed down!
Everything in its path was destroyed. Even the air itself burned away!
The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King spread its wings in fury. It could only withstand it head-on now.
"How is this possible?!"
"Just a mere Da... Da Dou Shi?"
"This is a fucking Da Dou Shi?!"
Where the flowing light passed, all things burned to ashes.
The two forces collided.
"BOOM!!!"
The purple beast fire barrier melted away like snow.
"Roar!!!"
A surging explosion bloomed.
Crimson fire waves and shockwaves swept through everything with unmatched might!
Trees were blasted backward before shattering belatedly.
Xiao Yi Xian had already taken Yun Yun far away.
The moment she saw Xiao Yan begin charging his attack, she sensed that something was wrong.
After all, he had not even needed a charged attack when he fought the Blood Wolf Mercenary Group.
When the Crimson Flame dispersed, the Sixth-tier Beast King lay sprawled within a hundred-meter-deep crater.
A ten-meter-long burn mark, wreathed in strange crimson flames, ran across its beastly body that should have been impervious to blades and spears!
It was a Heavenly Flame burn that even a Dou Emperor's regenerative ability could not rapidly heal!
Xiao Yan descended gracefully on crimson fire, lightly tracing the patterns on the Heavy Black Ruler with his fingertips.
"It's powerful, but it seems it's not dead yet."
Still, that was only normal. A Dou Emperor-level Magical Beast possessed an incomparably powerful body.
Even though the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King had reached the end of its rope after using Amethyst Seal—
its terrifying vitality and recovery ability still were not something a Da Dou Shi could kill.
Even a peak Dou Ling would have been useless.
With Heavenly Flames, a foundation and combat power far beyond those of his peers—
and the second powerful Dou Technique he had comprehended after fusing with the panel—
Xiao Yan had already done something inconceivable by reaching this point!
Did he not see Yun Yun's pupils dilating in shock from afar?
"Could it be that I can only use the Emperor Tier Dou Technique—Ghost Possession?"
While Xiao Yan was still deep in thought, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King at the bottom of the crater suddenly let out a sinister laugh.
"Hahaha, brat, you can't kill me!"
"Once I survive this backlash, I'll definitely eat you and those two women!"
"Don't worry. I'll savor every bite!"
Xiao Yan's gaze darkened as he looked toward the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King. Although that strike had indeed failed to kill it—
after unleashing that strike, he had sensed the Purple Fire within its body.
That flame was filled with fear and submission toward him!
Since that was the case, Xiao Yan flashed down to the bottom of the crater.
Without giving the lion time to react, he suddenly raised his hand.
The instant his palm pressed against the lion's head, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King suddenly trembled in terror.
The inherited source beast fire within its body was so overwhelmed by a higher-order pressure that it could not move at all!
Then, disregarding the control of its own master, it erupted violently!
Without another word, Xiao Yan fully circulated the Kirin Devouring Heaven Flame within his body!
As well as the cultivation art formed from the fusion of the Fire Cloud Art and Fen Jue—the Kirin Sky Burning Art!
A Kirin fire mark emerged on the young man's chest. A tremendous suction force violently dragged the beast fire from the lion's body!
"Roar!"
A pained howl echoed out.
The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's body writhed madly. Unconcealed terror filled its struggling eyes.
In its current state, it would certainly die if it lost its source beast fire as well!
"No, stop!"
"Human! I submit, I submit!"
"I still have treasures, stop... stop..."
Its voice grew weaker and weaker, but Xiao Yan ignored it completely.
Not until the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's body stopped struggling.
Xiao Yan stood silently in place as his cultivation suddenly surged.
In the blink of an eye, he reached the peak of Da Dou Shi!
After at most a few days of stabilizing his cultivation, he could break through to Dou Ling in one go.
A bottleneck?
That thing did not exist for him.
Xiao Yan opened his eyes and murmured softly.
"Master of Fire?"
It seemed this was the first time he had felt the heaven-defying effect of this talent.
I am the master; all flames submit!
The fused cultivation art alone did not possess such a heaven-defying effect.
Xiao Yan sat cross-legged and examined his body internally.
He glanced at the trembling Amethyst Flame floating beside the Kirin Burning Heaven Flame seed.
Then he looked at the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, which appeared to have no breath left.
It still had not died. It seemed that this thing's bloodline had partially reverted to its ancestors.
Whether it lived or died would depend on its fate.
Three days later, in a forest cave.
Yun Yun gazed at the young man adding firewood to the campfire, the firelight outlining his black hair in gold.
"To easily withstand the backlash of an Earth Tier Dou Technique and unleash such an attack..."
"Are you truly only a Da Dou Shi?"
When the Blood Moon had struck the ground two days ago, she had been unable to use her senses due to Amethyst Seal.
Yet by her estimation, its power had even faintly surpassed the limits of a Dou Ling.
And it had definitely been an Earth Tier Dou Technique!
"Sect Master Yun, be careful with your words."
Xiao Yan casually tossed over a roasted Amethyst Spirit Chicken.
"Being able to injure a Sixth-tier Beast King was entirely because the Heavenly Flames countered it, and it was already on the verge of death."
"The key is—"
His words paused. Xiao Yan suddenly spun around, snatched the medicinal herbs Xiao Yi Xian had just gathered from her arms—
and tossed them into the iron pot simmering over the fire.
"The Six-Leaf Flower this girl picked can improve the meat's aroma by thirty percent."
The young girl's ears reddened where Xiao Yan's fingertips had brushed past her.
She hurriedly poured the freshly ground Amethyst Powder into the Medicine Cauldron beside her.
Crimson flames churned within the cauldron. It was clearly the pill Xiao Yan had specially refined for the Calamity Poison Body.
The pill was visibly transforming into a jade-green color.
"Bang!"
The Medicine Cauldron suddenly burst with green light, and three Four-Patterned Nether Poison Pills leaped out.
Yun Yun's pupils abruptly contracted. She truly had not expected—
that one day, she would see an alchemist stewing meat while refining pills.
And he could even chat with her at the same time!
Even Gu He, the chief alchemist of the Misty Cloud Sect, could not manage such threefold multitasking, could he?
Moreover, he was refining fourth-grade pills.
In just a few days, this young man had completely overturned her worldview.
How could such a monstrous genius exist in this world?
"I've decided!"
Xiao Yan tossed the pills to Xiao Yi Xian.
"The few fourth-grade healing pills I gave you will be exchanged for ten jin of Mysterious Ice Marrow."
"Don't look at me like that. This is absolutely fair for young and old alike."
"Besides, I even returned a new undergarment to Sect Master Yun."
As he spoke, he looked solemnly toward a crack in the cave ceiling.
"You!"
Yun Yun's face instantly flushed red.
After losing her storage ring, the close-fitting clothes on her body had indeed been changed by the time she woke up from unconsciousness.
Xiao Yan did not answer. His gaze swept across the two women in the cave as he casually flicked a blood-colored Jade Slip toward Xiao Yi Xian.
"Comprehend the cultivation art I mentioned before yourself."
Then he turned to meet Yun Yun's probing gaze.
"As for you..."
Before you continue