The Unlucky Queen Medusa (Please Follow and Bookmark)

[You decided to strike while the iron was hot, continuing to upgrade your cultivation technique and strengthen yourself.]

[You first found a cliff in the Monster Mountain Range. Inside a cave on the sheer cliff face, you obtained that incomplete Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map.]

[You knew that this was the key to whether you could obtain the Tou She Ancient God's inheritance and become a Dou.]

[You also knew exactly where the remaining fragments could be found, and had already devised a plan to seize them.]

[When Yao Chen saw the map, he marveled at how incredibly lucky you were to obtain such an opportunity in a place like this.]

[You merely smiled without saying a word.]

Ye Hao: ...

This act of showing off had a few more details to it.

If only there were a showing-off system!

This round would definitely earn over a thousand showing-off points!

[Over the following days, you devoted yourself to cultivation while gathering medicinal ingredients, and also had Yao Chen guide you in alchemy.]

[You improved rapidly, reaching the level of a fourth-tier alchemist in less than half a year.]

[Yao Chen was stunned speechless. He swore that you were the most talented person he had ever seen.]

[In just half a year, you had gone from someone who could not even touch the threshold to a fourth-tier alchemist!]

[He had a feeling that your future achievements in alchemy might very well surpass even his own.]

Ye Hao: "This must be Explosive Good Luck at work again."

Going from knowing nothing at all to becoming a fourth-tier alchemist in just half a year—how was that not exceptional talent?!

He wondered whether, once the simulation ended, his alchemy skills could rise to another level.

His strength would be even better if it improved too.

Better make a wish first.

What if it came true?

[You were very cautious, worried that some Venerable Elders of the Soul Hall would discover your secret.]

[You continued gathering powerful souls as usual while preparing the pills needed to devour the Green Lotus Core Flame.]

Ye Hao: "Being careful is never wrong. Hun Tiandi really is a bit of a lunatic."

In order to become an emperor, he had not only slaughtered the Shi Clan and Ling Clan, but had even killed more than half of his own Soul Clan members!

He was utterly insane!

Still, there was one thing he had said right: the victor became king and the loser a bandit. History was written by the victors!

[Along the way, you returned to Heavenly Burial Ravine and turned in some souls.]

[The Earth Protector of the Soul Hall looked at the souls you had brought back. There were a great many of them, but none were particularly powerful.]

[However, compared to the others, you had done exceedingly well, and they praised you without reservation.]

[Thus, you left the Heavenly Burial Ravine Branch Hall and returned to the Jia Ma Empire.]

[After several months of painstaking collection, you had gathered most of the medicinal ingredients. Only the Ice Spirit Cold Spring remained.]

[As you recalled, there were only two places that had Ice Spirit Cold Spring.]

[One was Gute in Black Rock City, and the other was Queen Medusa, who possessed an entire pool of Ice Spirit Cold Spring.]

[Without the slightest hesitation, you decided to head to the Tagor Desert.]

[There, not only was there a fragment of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map, but also the Ice Spirit Cold Spring and the Green Lotus Core Flame.]

[Three birds with one stone.]

[On the road to the Tagor Desert.]

[You encountered dozens of third- and fourth-tier alchemists fighting until their heads were bloodied over some medicinal ingredients.]

[Some of them even intended to slaughter children and use their blood as an ingredient for alchemy.]

[As someone educated in the new era, you naturally could not accept this. As it happened, their souls were passable enough, so...]

[You killed them all, taking their souls and preventing them from slaughtering innocents.]

[You lightened their sins.]

"Good, good, good!"

"So you gave them a physical send-off, huh!"

Still, this round really was lucky. He had just turned in some souls before coming out.

And now he had harvested another pile!

[You arrived at Desert City on the edge of the Tagore Desert.]

[You asked a passerby: "Excuse me, is there a map shop here called Ancient Map Shop?"]

[The passerby led you outside the Ancient Map Shop.]

[After thanking him, you entered the Ancient Map Shop.]

[The shop was not large. Two Moonlight Stones were enough to illuminate the entire room.]

[No one came to serve you.]

[You walked over to the shelves and searched through the dust-covered maps for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map.]

[Behind the counter, the old man who had been lowering his head and carefully making maps noticed your actions, and his expression gradually turned cold.]

[He had sold ancient maps here for many years. No one had ever dared to make trouble on his turf!]

[In his eyes, your actions were a provocation against his dignity!]

[The old man shouted coldly: "Get out! I'm not doing business with you!"]

[At the same time, the old man threw the Black Pen in his hand at you!]

[The pen was incredibly fast. With a piercing sonic boom, it tore through the air with enough force to pierce a wall as it shot toward you!]

[You did not care in the slightest. With only a slight movement of your left foot, a powerful surge of Dou Qi condensed into a wall of energy and blocked the pen.]

[The old man was horrified at the sight and hurriedly rose from behind the counter.]

[He walked up to you, bowed, and said: "Greetings, Lord Dou Zong."]

Ye Hao: "I still prefer the way you were acting all arrogant and unyielding."

Or... he could just use Mysterious Ice Dragon Soars!

If he really did that!

The old man would probably get beaten into shit.

[The old man broke out in a cold sweat, his face pale.]

[He had never imagined that he would one day encounter a Dou Zong powerhouse—and that he would even have the audacity to attack you.]

[At this moment, he could only pray desperately that you would not hold it against him.]

[He had been hiding here for decades because he did not want to die.]

[You still ignored him, merely taking the small Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment out from that pile of maps.]

[You asked: "Where is the other fragment?"]

[The old man hesitated for a moment before answering in a trembling voice: "In reply to my lord, I only have this one fragment."]

[Boom!]

[A violent Dou Qi Storm swept out from your body, sending the old man flying and smashing him heavily into the counter.]

[The old man spat out a mouthful of blood, and his aura instantly withered.]

[You said coldly: "Hai Bodong, I'll give you one last chance!"]

[Hai Bodong was utterly shocked. He stared at you in terror, never expecting you to expose his true identity in a single sentence.]

[Terrified of death, he no longer dared to conceal anything and respectfully offered up the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame fragment.]

[After taking the map, you gave him another palm strike as punishment!]

Ye Hao: "What was Hai Bodong thinking? He actually tried to muddle through before a Dou Zong powerhouse. He was lucky, or he would have died."

[Hai Bodong was severely injured by your palm strike and died.]

Ye Hao: ...

[You also took all the medicinal ingredients he had collected in preparation for refining the Po E Dan.]

[Then, without wasting any time, you headed to the Tagor Desert.]

[Yao Chen witnessed everything and had long since been too shocked for words.]

[He had never imagined that while finding even one fragment map would be an enormous opportunity for ordinary people, you seemed to know in advance and could always find them with perfect accuracy!]

[You even knew that Hai Bodong had another fragment hidden away. He was completely convinced.]

[After finding a place in the desert, he willingly refined all the pills you would need to devour the Green Lotus Core Flame.]

"As expected of Venerable Yao. He knew how to read the situation. A wise bird chose the tree it perched in."

[One month later.]

[Once fully prepared, you officially set foot in the Snake People Tribe.]

[The moment you appeared, you released the aura of a Dou Zong powerhouse.]

[The terrifying pressure descended from the sky like a mountain, crushing everyone in the Divine Temple until they could barely breathe.]

[They had no idea how they had offended you.]

[All of them stared at you in terror.]

[At that moment, it was as though they saw their late grandmothers waving at them.]

[Wails and cries echoed throughout the area surrounding the Divine Temple.]

[Even several reclusive elders of the Snake People Tribe knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.]

[Queen Medusa endured the pressure of your aura and walked out.]

[Queen Medusa bowed deeply, drenched in sweat, and asked: "Lord Dou Zong, I wonder how my Snake People Tribe has offended you. Please enlighten us, my lord."]

[You said indifferently: "Hand over the Ice Spirit Cold Spring, or the Snake People Tribe will vanish from this world!"]

[Queen Medusa stared at you in surprise with her Beautiful Eyes. Aside from herself, no one else knew about the Ice Spirit Cold Spring.]

[She found it strange. How had you learned of it?]

[At this point, she knew she could no longer conceal it, so she gave you a bottle that she carried with her.]

[You shook your head. "Not enough."]

[Queen Medusa said: "My lord, there truly isn't any more."]

[You said: "Take me to the depths of the Divine Temple!!!"]

[Queen Medusa looked as though she had been struck by lightning. She stared at you in disbelief, her emotions incomparably complicated.]

[At this moment, she felt as though she were standing naked before you, with not a single secret left to hide.]

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