Queen Medusa: What do you mean my sister might call me Mom in the future?
Three months later.
Xiao Yan returned to the Danta and continued his previous life.
He cultivates his skills, teaches his disciples how to refine medicine, occasionally refines poisons with Xiao Yi Xian, spars and fights with Queen Medusa, and helps Tang Huo'er cultivate the Great Sun Separation Fire Body.
Zi Yan and the Han Sisters in seclusion, so they are rarely seen.
Zi Yan's advancement is self-evident, while the Han Sisters simply felt they were too weak and wanted to work hard to cultivate and catch up with Xiao Yan.
After four months of training, Tang Huo'er is now showing the initial signs of becoming a "King of Burn Resistance," at least her hair is no longer being burned off.
As for Xiao Yi Xian, she is truly too kind.
She had been determined to drug Xiao Yan thoroughly and completely defeat him, but when she saw that even in the Danta, which was considered the safest place in the Central Plains, Xiao Yan was so engrossed in his work that he didn't sleep at all, and his only rest time was after sparring and fighting with Queen Medusa, she couldn't bear to harm Xiao Yan. Instead, she sweetly asked him to spend more time with her while they were refining poison, which was a way of letting him rest.
But Queen Medusa has recently discovered a problem.
As is widely known, members of the Snake-Person Tribe are born with a special secret technique that integrates the soul of a snake-like magical Snake-Person Tribe into their bodies, allowing them to freely switch between Snake-People and snake-like magical beasts before they can take human form.
In short, the Snake-Person Tribe are essentially two souls within one body.
Especially for someone like Queen Medusa, although she herself evolved into the ancient magical beast Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, the soul of the Purple Nether Flame Snake that merged into her body also evolved, becoming the soul of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
This body is essentially both Queen Medusa's and the Heaven-Swallowing Python's.
In fact, the Heaven-Swallowing Python hasn't appeared for a long time.
Queen Medusa was always the one outside.
As she advanced to the Dou Zun Realm, she discovered that the Heaven-Swallowing Python's soul had not been completely and subtly integrated into her; instead, it had directly fallen into a state of slumber.
To be honest, she's feeling incredibly conflicted right now.
She had a feeling that if she were to give birth to a child in the future, the soul of the Heaven-Swallowing Python might take this opportunity to regenerate into a physical form and be born along with her child.
This is also why she couldn't help but want to swear.
Because this Heaven-Swallowing Python and she were one body with two souls for many years, and they evolved together into the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, theoretically, it would have the Dou Zong realm after birth. Putting that aside for now, the key point is that its appearance would be almost identical to hers.
Of course, that idiot is incredibly soft-hearted. Not only is she dependent on Xiao Yan, but she even forcibly controlled her before, making her hug and kiss Xiao Yan.
Theoretically speaking, she should be considered her younger sister.
But based on her understanding of the Heaven-Swallowing Python, if it really did conceive a new body, the first thing it would probably do is go and kiss, hug, and lift Xiao Yan up high with her own face, and then take him to bed.
After all, she and the Heaven-Swallowing Python shared the same body. She knew exactly what the Heaven-Swallowing Python felt, and the Heaven-Swallowing Python knew exactly what she felt!
The key issue is that if she were to allow the Heaven-Swallowing Python to use her pregnancy to regenerate her body, her relationship with the Heaven-Swallowing Python and Xiao Yan would become a complete mess.
Should the Heaven-Swallowing Python call her "sister" or "mom"?
Should we call Xiao Yan brother-in-law, husband, or even...?
This is no joke.
She had a feeling that if that were to happen, it might attract some indescribable divine punishment.
So on this day, she found Xiao Yan and told him about it.
"Hiss, that makes sense!"
Xiao Yan gasped upon hearing this.
He was a time traveler, and he knew very well that as the protagonist of Qidian (a popular online novel platform), there were certain things he absolutely could not touch!
Of course, he had already realized this, but now he needed to give Queen Medusa an appropriate response.
What else can I say?
Actually, I had been planning this for a while, but I forgot about it because I was busy running around.
Putting aside the fact that he had been planning this all along, whether he wanted to find a twin sister for Queen Medusa so he could have the blessing of having two wives, just the fact that he forgot about the things he had arranged for the Medusa was enough to make Medusa so angry that she wouldn't let him launch a full-scale attack for a month.
How can this be allowed!
"Don't worry, I'll go find my teacher to discuss this matter. I'll definitely come up with a solution that satisfies both sides. After all, I'm Eighth-Grade Alchemist now, so this shouldn't be difficult to resolve."
Xiao Yan spoke with righteous indignation and a stern expression.
However, in reality, back when Old Yao was reawakened, Xiao Yan had already given Yao Old Yao the formula for the Soul Fusion Pill, asking him to research how to directly separate the Heaven-Swallowing Python's soul from the Queen Medusa's body, which possessed two souls in one body.
Now that so much time has passed, the matter should have been resolved by now.
Queen Medusa, being the person who has spent the most time with Xiao Yan so far, could naturally see that this little Xiao Yan was deliberately putting on a righteous and stern act because he was clearly feeling guilty.
But she wasn't the kind of crazy person who would cause trouble for no reason. She and Xiao Yan were now a loving and harmonious couple. Although they weren't officially married, they were practically husband and wife.
Therefore, she didn't take Xiao Yan's slight guilty conscience to heart at all, because she knew that no matter what, Xiao Yan not hurt her, and Xiao Yan would definitely help her with the things she needed him to do!
She doesn't need to figure everything out; there's no need for it.
Xiao Yan knew he couldn't hide it from the Medusa, but at least he'd saved face. He could always confess next time when Queen Medusa was in a daze.
After all...
However, since it concerned the lives of him and his many confidantes, Xiao Yan naturally wouldn't delay and immediately ran to his beloved Xuan Ma to find Old Yao.
When he knocked on the door, Xiao Yan, still Xuan Yi, opened it and smiled, saying:
"Xuan Ma, I need to talk to the teacher about something."
Upon hearing this, Xuan Yi realized that Xiao Yan had indeed come with important business. Without further ado, she led Xiao Yan directly into her boudoir to find Yao Chen.
Of course, in Xiao Yan's eyes, this so-called boudoir was just like his parents' bedroom. Although the furnishings were still in the style of Xuan Yi, they actually already had a lot of Old Yao's living atmosphere.
God knows why the Old Yao doesn't even have a physical body, yet these two can live together.
Before he had the Xuan Yi, Xiao Yan might have been able to tease Old Yao a bit, but now he couldn't do that.
It can only be said that Xiao Yan, who lacked maternal love, truly regarded Xuan Yi as his mother.
"Ah, is the Heat-Resistant King here?"
When the Old Yao saw his long-lost disciple come to visit him, he smiled and teased him.
All the little words he learned from Xiao Yan were used on Xiao Yan himself.
Xuan Yi, standing to the side, smiled without saying a word; she quite enjoyed watching the master and disciple banter.
"Teacher..."
Xiao Yan was also somewhat helpless. If Old Yao continued with this attitude, he would have to find another mistress from the Flower Sect to Old Yao a more intense treatment.
He had heard that back then, Xuan Ma and the Fairy Qing from the Flower Sect had some unpleasant past because of Old Yao.
If you put all of these together, it would definitely be an eye-opening experience!
It's a pity that both Mistress Han and Mistress Hu are currently missing, otherwise...
Hehehe!
"Speak, what brings you here to see your master all of a sudden?"
Seeing Xiao Yan's somewhat helpless and depressed face, Old Yao laughed heartily.
How could a teacher not feel sorry for his student? He was only a sixteen-year-old boy, yet he had to bear such terrifying pressure. He wanted to use this method to relax Xiao Yan's mind.
"It's about the Medusa's dual souls that I mentioned to you before. I wonder if you and Venerable Skyfire have developed any pills or other methods to separate the Heaven-Swallowing Python's soul?"
Xiao Yan got straight to the point.
The teasing look on the Old Yao's face faded, and he stroked his chin, his expression becoming serious.
"This matter is indeed of utmost importance. The Soul Fusion Pill formula you gave me was mainly for fusing two souls. To safely and completely separate the two souls of one body without harming Medusa's essence, and even allow the Heaven-Swallowing Python's soul to separate, regain its physical body, and survive independently, the difficulty has increased more than tenfold."
Fortunately, Venerable Skyfire Danta deduced the answer over a long period of time before we came up with some ideas."
Hearing this, Xuan Yi nodded in agreement.
She knew something about this.
After all, since the Old Yao needed to consult the ancient texts of the Danta, it was naturally she who helped him retrieve them.
She also participated in the subsequent deductions, and it wasn't long before she had a fairly good grasp of them.
"Very good!"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan cheered with great anticipation.
Although he was a well-established Eighth-Grade Alchemist, in terms of vision and background, he was certainly not as knowledgeable as the seniors like Old Yao, Venerable Skyfire, and Xuan Yi, who had accumulated many years of experience.
The Old Yao nodded and said:
"By combining the principles of the Soul Fusion Pill with reverse engineering and incorporating fragments from ancient texts, we have deduced a solution. The solution consists of two steps: first, we need to refine a Three-God Soul-Separation Pill specifically for the Heaven-Swallowing Python; second, we need to use a portion of Medusa's essence blood as a catalyst to refine a special Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill. Only then can we completely resolve the problem of this dual-soul body."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan's eyes lit up. "Alchemy is great!"
He knows this, and he's exceptionally good at it!
"Teacher, I have experience with the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, but what about the Three-God Soul-Separation Pill?"
Xiao Yan sat very upright, looking like he was seeking guidance.
The Old Yao also smiled and explained:
"This Three-God Soul-Separation Pill is a high-grade Eighth-Grade pill. Normally, it can summon Seven-Colored Pill Lightning. Its main ingredients are the Magical Core of Eighth-Rank Magical Beast with fire, wood, and earth attributes, as well as many rare medicinal herbs and a wisp of the soul power of the Heaven-Swallowing Python. The function of this pill is to stabilize and separate the soul of the Heaven-Swallowing Python, while protecting its Soul Origin from damage during the separation process."
As for the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, you are quite familiar with it, but the one needed this time is a specially modified version. It requires Medusa's own essence and blood as the core ingredient, supplemented with several medicinal herbs that nourish the soul and body.
The purpose of this pill is to reshape the separated soul of the Heaven-Swallowing Python into a new physical body that perfectly matches its soul and possesses enormous potential.
This physical body will be based on Medusa's Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline. Theoretically, its form and aptitude will be infinitely close to Medusa's original Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python body. Its talent will not be bad, and it will be a great help to you in the future."
Xiao Yan nodded repeatedly, his eyes gleaming. Old Yao and the others' ideas were indeed thorough.
The plan takes into account almost all the key points, ensuring both safe separation and the survival and independence of the separated Heaven-Swallowing Python.
Although he knew about Queen Medusa's idea of using offspring to regenerate the body of the Heaven-Swallowing Python, he naturally dared not use it.
That method will lead to something terrifying if you use it!
"Teacher, please give me the detailed list of materials needed first. Although my Alchemy are still lacking, it's definitely right to start collecting materials first."
Xiao Yan acted decisively and immediately spoke.
The Old Yao was clearly prepared, and turned to look at the Xuan Yi.
Xuan Yi raised his hand, Bone Flame Ring flashed, sending out a scroll and a number of medicinal herbs that hovered in front of Xiao Yan.
"It's not easy to get the medicinal herbs from the Danta for free this time. However, I've accumulated quite a collection over the years, and I've already prepared most of the herbs for you. But to refine the Three-God Soul-Separation Pill, it's best to find Soul Infant Fruit for the best effect. So you'll have to think of a way yourself. If you really can't find one, you can use the Ink Jade Soul-Nurturing Vine as a substitute."
After seeing Xiao Yan put the medicinal herbs away, Xuan Yi quickly reminded him.
"Soul Infant Fruit?"
Xiao Yan was somewhat surprised and helpless upon hearing this.
Good heavens, he originally went to the ancient Dou Sheng's ruins in the Beast Domain for the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and the Dou Saint Skeleton.
Now the Soul Infant Fruit is definitely ours to obtain.
He remembered that the Soul Infant Fruit in that Ancient Ruins was the highest quality Gold-Grade Soul Infant Fruit, so its effects would definitely be very good. It might even enhance the soul power of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python Queen Medusa.
As for the Ancient Ruins, he had previously asked Venerable Feng to help him search for traces of those ruins in the Beast Domain, but he didn't know their current status.
"Disciple understands!" Xiao Yan bowed to Old Yao and Xuan Yi to express his gratitude, then pondered for a moment before continuing, "Teacher, Xuan Ma, besides this matter, disciple has another matter."
Seeing that Xiao Yan seemed hesitant, Old Yao narrowed his eyes slightly.
He sensed that what Xiao Yan was about to say would be difficult to answer.
Xuan Yi's expression also turned serious; she could tell that what Xiao Yan was about to say was definitely not simple.
Sure enough, Xiao Yan spoke with an extremely firm tone, even one that left no room for argument:
"I want to devour and refine the Three Thousand Burning Flame."