Queen Medusa

Clad in a luxurious, expensive purple robe that wrapped around her delicate body, her full and fiery figure radiated an enchanting allure.

Her slender, pale-purple eyes could drive countless men crazy with nothing more than a casual glance.

A section of purple snake tail emerged from beneath her robe. As it swept lazily back and forth, it exuded a strange, bestial charm.

Xiao Jin considered himself someone who had seen quite a few beauties. Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian were both rare beauties.

Yet even Ya Fei, the most mature and alluring among them, paled slightly in charm before Medusa at that moment.

That naturally enchanting allure, combined with the bearing cultivated from residing in a position of power for so long, was truly something ordinary people could not compare with.

"You know me?" Medusa narrowed her eyes and sized up the youth before her.

She was now a Peak Dou Emperor expert. With her own strength, she protected the peace of the Snake-Person Race, causing the surrounding empires to fear making a move against them.

With her strength, she could naturally see that the youth before her was a genuine Dou Wang expert.

"The renowned Queen Medusa—there shouldn't be many people in the Jia Ma Empire who haven't heard of you, right?" Xiao Jin wore a smile at the corner of his lips, showing not the slightest hint of nervousness.

Even without counting his soul power, he did not believe he would lose to Medusa in her current state.

His true battle strength had already reached the Dou Emperor realm, and this place was the Magma World, where fire-attributed energy was exceptionally dense.

Snake-kind was naturally cold and yin-aligned. Even an expert like Medusa would have more than thirty percent of her strength sealed here.

Moreover, Xiao Jin had the Heavenly Flames that most effectively countered Magical Beasts. The power of the Three Thousand Burning Flame could not even be resisted by the Green Lotus Core Flame, let alone Medusa.

With one side weakened and the other strengthened, even if his cultivation realm could not guarantee him victory, he was confident he could retreat unscathed.

"Human, no matter what your background is, you won't be taking that Green Lotus Core Flame with you." Medusa's voice was cold. The Heavenly Flame was related to her evolution, and she would never let it go under any circumstances.

Xiao Jin shook his head. Why did everyone in this world believe in the principle that whoever had the bigger fist was right?

Hai Bodong was like this, and Medusa was the same.

It seemed that no matter what he said, they would have to fight first.

Since he had decided to fight, he did not intend to waste his breath. He simply beckoned to Medusa with his finger.

"I know what you're thinking. Let's fight first and talk afterward."

Medusa was a straightforward person as well. Before Xiao Jin had even finished speaking, a powerful energy beam shot out instantly, charging toward him with an unstoppable momentum.

This was an attack from a Peak Dou Emperor, far beyond what a second-rate character like Hai Bodong could compare with.

Although Xiao Jin did not think he would lose, he still had to face it with the utmost concentration if he did not use his soul power.

In fact, ever since he began cultivating, Xiao Jin had rarely used his soul power.

He had always consciously tempered his physical body and constantly improved his cultivation.

Just as the Pill Tower Ancestor had said, only a sufficiently powerful physical body could support the prolonged use of soul power.

Fighting experts was also a form of tempering.

He spread his hands apart, and a dark-purple light wheel roughly ten zhang long appeared before him. Its serrated edge sliced through the air, producing a piercing hiss.

"Sun Wheel!" Xiao Jin swung his arm and hurled the light wheel, sending it crashing into Medusa's energy beam.

Under its sharp cutting force, the powerful energy beam was split in two like a torn rag. The Sun Wheel's momentum did not diminish as it continued toward Medusa.

The might of an Earth-tier Low-level Dou Technique was fully revealed at this moment!

Medusa's pupils constricted slightly. She had not expected the attack she had launched with seventy percent of her strength to be dispelled so easily.

No, it had not merely been dispelled. It was a counterattack!

A fair, jade-like hand reached out and firmly caught the enormous Sun Wheel.

Then, with a single-handed squeeze, the dark-purple light wheel shattered into fragments. Specks of starlight drifted down, adding a hint of holiness to Medusa.

Xiao Jin raised his brows. He had not expected an Earth-tier Low-level Dou Technique to be caught so easily.

Medusa was equally shocked. She hid the jade hand she had extended behind her back and continuously circulated her Dou Qi to neutralize the violent flames that had invaded her body.

In merely one exchange, both sides gained a deeper understanding of each other's strength.

Neither of them had expected the other to be so powerful.

Since long-range attacks had no effect, Xiao Jin naturally changed his tactics.

After stomping hard on the ground, he used the powerful recoil to rapidly close in on Queen Medusa.

At the same time, purple flames coiled around his right leg.

In the blink of an eye, he had arrived before Medusa.

"Explosive Flame Whip Kick!" The Xuan-tier Intermediate Dou Technique, Explosive Flame Whip Kick, was unleashed. After spinning and sweeping out with his leg, his right leg shot toward Medusa's head like a scarlet-hot whip.

Its extreme speed created a sharp sonic boom. If this kick landed solidly, even Medusa would have to spend five seconds dazed.

Medusa took a step back to gather force. Dou Qi energy condensed in her left hand as she met Xiao Jin's whipping leg head-on.

She had her own pride and could not possibly choose to evade on the second move.

Medusa chose to clash directly.

Boom! The violent collision created a powerful current of air, and the two separated the instant they made contact.

Medusa retreated two steps and relied on her snake tail to steady herself.

Xiao Jin, meanwhile, staggered back five steps before barely coming to a stop.

In this head-on clash, even though Xiao Jin held the advantage of striking first, he still suffered a hidden loss.

"Tsk, as expected of a Peak Dou Emperor expert. She really isn't someone an ordinary Dou Wang can challenge." Xiao Jin curled his lips, feeling the pain coming from his right calf and finding it rather difficult to endure.

When one received a courtesy, one had to return it. Xiao Jin had used two advanced Dou Techniques in succession, but Medusa was no pushover.

But then again, Xiao Jin had read the original novel twice, and he genuinely could not remember Medusa using any Dou Techniques.

The only one ever mentioned was the sealing technique she had used against Hai Bodong, sealing his strength at the Dou Ling stage.

Thinking about it that way, Hai Bodong had quite the status. The only Dou Technique Medusa had used in the entire book had been used on him.

Relying on the powerful physique of the Snake-Person Race, Medusa's speed had nearly reached the point where the naked eye could not follow it.

In the blink of an eye, she appeared before Xiao Jin.

Her violent fist wind tore through the air as it struck toward Xiao Jin's chest.

"Holy crap, she's ruthless!" Xiao Jin secretly swallowed, imagining that if this blow landed, wouldn't he end up scattered in pieces?

He released his soul perception, and his body completed its transformation into flames in an extremely short time.

"Calamity Fire Flash!" The Earth-tier Intermediate movement Dou Technique activated instantly, and Xiao Jin appeared behind Medusa in an instant.

Medusa felt her vision blur. Her supposedly certain punch had actually struck nothing but air.

At the same time, an eerie voice sounded behind her.

"Heh heh, Medusa, take my Heart Melting Palm!"

What a spiteful man. Medusa had once frightened him from behind, so Xiao Jin simply had to get his revenge.