Exposure Ends!

Suddenly, a tremendous boom came from the direction of the city gates!

Inside the bedchamber, Medusa immediately understood that the human experts outside had begun their assault!

Without further hesitation, Medusa rose to her feet and swayed her snake tail as she approached the Green Lotus Core Flame. Her beautiful eyes gradually turned resolute and fierce. Then, beneath Xiao Yan's dumbfounded gaze from the shadows, she extended her jade-like hand, lifted the Green Lotus Core Flame, and forcibly swallowed it whole!

In a shadowy corner not far away, Xiao Yan's eyelid twitched violently.

"This Queen Medusa really is one ruthless woman!"

"The Green Lotus Core Flame may only rank nineteenth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, but it can easily make the earth quake and trigger volcanic eruptions. Even ordinary high-level Dou Zong experts would find it incredibly difficult to subdue it—practically a nine-in-ten chance of death!"

"Yet Queen Medusa is only at the peak of the Dou Huang Realm right now, not even in the Dou Zong Realm, and she actually chose such a brutal method as directly swallowing a Heavenly Flame!"

"She really is one crazy bitch!"

"I wonder what kind of hell her future husband will have to live through!"

As he sighed inwardly, a sly, smug grin suddenly appeared on Xiao Yan's face, as though he were taking pleasure in someone else's misfortune!

Inside the Pope's Palace, Bibi Dong watched the scene, her silver teeth clenched and her pretty face icy as she cursed viciously.

"Hmph! That damn little thief! How dare he talk about me like that... Hmph!"

Remembering that her disciple Hu Liena was still present, Bibi Dong forcibly swallowed the rest of her words and did not curse aloud!

Below, Hu Liena wished she could plug her fox ears shut.

Is this really something I should be hearing?!

The moment Xiao Yan's voice fell, Old Ya's voice followed.

"I once traveled across the continent and heard that the Queen Medusa of the Snake People Race could evolve the bloodline of her Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python by swallowing a Heavenly Flame. This would stimulate her potential, allowing her to break through the Dou Huang Realm and enter the Dou Zong Realm!"

"However, while this method may succeed, its odds are practically nine deaths out of ten!"

"And once it fails, the powerful, violent energy of the Heavenly Flame will burst her body apart on the spot, blowing her to pieces!"

Just as Old Ya finished speaking, a beam of azure light erupted from Medusa's body, piercing straight through the roof of the palace before shooting into the sky!

Outside the city, the human experts immediately understood upon seeing this that Queen Medusa had chosen to use the Heavenly Flame to forcibly break through the shackles of the Dou Huang Realm!

"Quick! We're running out of time!"

For a moment, no one held back any longer. They all unleashed their full strength, quickly breaking through the obstruction of the Snake People experts and charging toward the city!

Elsewhere, within Queen Medusa's bedchamber, the originally enchanting and seductive Queen Medusa abruptly transformed into a gigantic python. She struggled for only a brief moment!

BOOM! A deafening explosion rang out as violent explosive energy swept outward from the center of the bedchamber. Everything in its path was reduced to dust! Seeing this, Old Ya immediately acted to protect Xiao Yan. Thus, by the time the energy from the blast had completely dissipated, nothing remained within the queen's bedchamber or for ten li in every direction except Xiao Yan himself—only a barren stretch of ground remained!

On Douluo Continent, everyone who witnessed this scene was left dumbfounded.

"Gasp! What happened?! The explosion of a peak Dou Huang expert was actually this destructive?!"

"Yeah, it directly wiped out everything within ten li, didn't it?! Even Titled Douluo probably couldn't unleash that kind of destructive power!"

"They absolutely couldn't. I was once fortunate enough to witness Sword Douluo battle a ninety-thousand-year-old Nine Nether Earth Dragon Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest. Even when both sides fought with all their strength, the destruction only covered a radius of around a hundred meters!"

"Looking across the entire continent, perhaps only the legendary Great Enshrined of Spirit Hall, Angel Douluo—Qian Daoliu—could possess such destructive power, right?!"

"But what a pity. Such a stunning beauty as Queen Medusa just died like that!"

"Ah!"

"..."

Inside the Pope's Palace, Hu Liena stared at the scene in utter astonishment.

"Queen Medusa is just gone? No! That's not right!"

"Judging by Master's current reaction, there must have been plenty of romantic stories between the two of them in their past life. She should be with Xiao Yan later on, so Medusa couldn't have died here!"

"I just wonder how she survived!"

With those thoughts in mind, Hu Liena continued watching with great interest.

Above her, although Bibi Dong was also surprised by her past self's self-destruction in the image, she never worried that her past self had truly perished. Instead, she also wanted to see what that little thief Xiao Yan would choose to do next.

After the explosion had completely dissipated, Xiao Yan was stunned for a moment when he saw the sight around him!

Then Old Ya spoke again.

"Powerful experts are approaching. They'll likely be here soon. Disciple, hurry! Collect the Green Lotus Core Flame first, then get out of here!"

Hearing Old Ya's voice, Xiao Yan snapped back to his senses. He hurried over to the Green Lotus Core Flame scattered on the ground and put it away. Just as he was about to flee, he suddenly noticed that something seemed to be wriggling beneath a nearby charred snake belly.

Driven by curiosity, Xiao Yan reached out and lifted half of the snake's body, revealing a tiny snake covered in seven colors, no thicker than his thumb!

Unlike the disgust that other snakes inspired, this little snake was actually extremely adorable, with an irresistibly cute appearance.

Xiao Yan became interested and slowly held out his hand before the little snake, smiling softly.

"Hey, Little Fellow, want to come with me? I can guarantee you'll live well and eat well."

Upon hearing Xiao Yan's voice, the little snake tilted its head as if thinking.

The next instant, before Xiao Yan could even react, the little snake suddenly appeared around his wrist and coiled itself there, as though it had fallen asleep.

Though startled by the little snake's terrifying speed and aware that it was no ordinary creature, Xiao Yan sensed powerful experts rapidly approaching from nearby. He had no choice but to set aside his other thoughts and immediately flee, vanishing with Old Ya's help!

The scene sped forward. When Xiao Yan first attempted to refine the Green Lotus Core Flame, an accident occurred, and the little snake suddenly transformed into Queen Medusa. Then, after threatening each other and making compromises, Xiao Yan and Medusa began a journey that would accompany them for the rest of their lives!

From shopping together in the marketplace, to her grand appearance at the Cloud Mist Sect during the three-year agreement to save Xiao Yan; from returning to the Xiao Family to help Xiao Yan destroy the other two great families of Wutan City, to ascending the Cloud Mist Sect again to resist Yun Shan for Xiao Yan; from escorting Xiao Yan through the Black Corner Region toward Jialan Academy, to their unexpected union within the body of the Fallen Heart Flame beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower... In every scene, their feelings steadily deepened, until Xiao Yan finally became the Flame Emperor, sealed Hun Tiandi, and even reached the era of Five Emperors Soaring!

The image gradually dimmed. This exposure came to an end, and the Heavenly Dao Rankings retreated!