Battle Through the Heavens: I Can Solidify All Talents

Just as Xiao Qing's heart surged with excitement.

Buzz!

A dazzling pillar of light, impossible to describe in color, shot into the sky without warning!

The light was not merely nine-colored. Countless indescribable hues seemed to flow within it, brimming with vitality and an incomparably supreme majesty.

The pillar pierced the heavens, illuminating the entire gloomy Small World.

"What is this? That bloodline's call has appeared again!"

Queen Medusa stared fixedly at that streak of colored light in the sky.

An intense resonance arising from the depths of her bloodline!

It was clearer and stronger than ever before!

Xiao Qing was also startled by the sudden phenomenon.

Suppressing the slight stabbing pain the light caused his soul, he narrowed his eyes and looked up.

Within the pillar of light, he sensed an ancient aura.

"Since we entered because of this bloodline resonance, the key to the lock must lie with the one who tied it."

Xiao Qing suppressed the turmoil in his heart. His thoughts became clear as he continued.

"Then the way out is very likely at the source of this resonance! We have to go up there and take a look."

Xiao Qing's tone was firm, filled with determination.

In this desperate situation, any obvious clue was worth risking their lives for.

"Alright!"

Queen Medusa nodded without hesitation.

At that moment, the bloodline within Queen Medusa seemed to be boiling.

It began cheering, urging her toward that place.

The dazzling pillar of light that connected heaven and earth did not last long.

After roughly a few breaths, the light slowly began to recede like the tide.

Yet the thing at the pillar's source did not vanish with it.

When the blinding light completely faded, the sky returned to its original grayness.

There, high in the air where the pillar had risen, an ancient palace floated silently!

The entire palace was enveloped in a faint, flowing multicolored halo, radiating an eternal, sacred, and slightly primordial aura.

It was like a floating divine kingdom, standing silently above the Small World's heavens and looking down upon the shattered land below.

"Is that the source of the bloodline's call?"

Queen Medusa looked up at the Sky Temple and spoke softly.

At this moment, the resonance of her bloodline had reached its peak, nearly bursting from her body.

Queen Medusa could clearly feel the almost boiling summons coming from within her bloodline.

Its source pointed directly at that mysterious palace floating in the sky!

A clear thought echoed in Queen Medusa's heart.

There was a reason she had to go there. Perhaps...

It was also the only way to leave this desperate situation!

Xiao Qing's gaze flickered as he tried to extend his Spirit Realm soul power toward the palace.

Yet the instant it touched that nine-colored halo, a gentle but unwavering force repelled it.

This Sky Temple was absolutely not simple!

"Looks like we've found our target."

Xiao Qing took a deep breath. Feeling the immense pressure radiating from the palace, his gaze only grew more resolute.

The Sky Temple was right before them, yet it also seemed infinitely far away.

Before Xiao Qing and Queen Medusa could react, the seven-colored palace high above suddenly blossomed with a gentle yet irresistible radiance.

A profound force instantly enveloped them. Heaven and earth seemed to overturn and spin in that instant, while space twisted and shifted.

By the time they regained their footing, they were already in a completely unfamiliar environment.

It was an incomparably grand plaza. The ground was paved with smooth white jade, glowing with a faint halo.

Dozens of smaller yet equally exquisite palaces floated around the plaza.

They slowly moved along mysterious paths, as though stars surrounding the moon as they circled the central plaza.

Ancient runes too difficult to identify were carved upon the eaves of every floating palace, giving off an ancient and mysterious aura.

This sudden spatial transfer caused an expression of undisguised shock to appear on Queen Medusa's stunning face for the first time.

Queen Medusa was now a Dou Zong powerhouse who could initially wield Spatial Power, yet she had been utterly unable to resist that force. She could not even sense how it operated!

Any being capable of moving them here so effortlessly possessed a cultivation level that reached the heavens!

"This is... Were we transported above the temple?"

Queen Medusa's violet eyes were full of vigilance as she examined this unbelievable space.

Xiao Qing swept his gaze across the floating palaces and the plaza's layout, calmly analyzing the situation.

"This is probably the temple's internal space! From the outside, it looks like one palace, but inside, it contains an entire world of its own. Such spatial attainments..."

His soul power carefully probed the surroundings, and he discovered that the spatial structure here was unimaginably stable.

It was completely different from the Small World outside, which was on the verge of collapse.

Queen Medusa looked up at those floating palaces. A trace of contemplation flashed through her eyes as she said,

"These palaces have such unusual designs, and the runes carved upon them are so profound. Could they contain rare treasures, cultivation techniques, and Dou Skills left behind from ancient times?"

As the queen of a clan, she instinctively considered resources for her people's development first.

Xiao Qing nodded slightly. Though he could not understand the precise meaning of those mysterious words,

his keen perception as an Early Spirit Realm soul allowed him to vaguely sense the interiors of those palaces.

There were indeed traces of something within, as if exceedingly precious items had once been stored there.

Just as he tried to probe further,

a light and melodious voice, like the song of a lark, suddenly rang out and shattered the plaza's silence.

"What a pity."

The voice seemed to resound directly within their souls, carrying a hint of laziness and regret.

"I'm afraid your little plans will come to nothing!"

"These treasure halls lost their divine essence long ago over the endless years. Most of what they contained has turned to dust with the passage of time."

As the voice spoke, a dazzling colored radiance began gathering not far in front of them. The light was gentle, yet it contained an indescribable majesty.

The radiance swiftly condensed into the figure of a slender, captivating woman.

As the colored light gradually dispersed, the newcomer's true appearance was revealed.

She was a woman dressed in an ancient green gown embroidered with intricate and exquisite patterns.

Her ink-black hair cascaded to her waist. Her face was breathtakingly beautiful, and her temperament ethereal and detached, like that of a fairy untouched by mortal dust.

Yet her body possessed a strange semitransparent appearance. She was clearly not corporeal.

More startling still, after the woman appeared, Xiao Qing's formidable Early Spirit Realm soul power failed to detect even the slightest trace of her aura!

Had they not seen her with their own eyes, they would never have known there was a third person here.

As the woman appeared, the natural energy around the plaza began gathering toward her of its own accord.

Her originally illusory figure became visibly more solid at a speed noticeable to the naked eye.

Moreover, the aura emanating from her body grew increasingly unfathomable.

"Senior."

Xiao Qing suppressed the shock in his heart. His tone was respectful, but guarded.

"May I ask why Senior brought the two of us here?"

He could clearly sense that although this mysterious woman was in an unusual state,

her level of existence and the residual fluctuations of energy within her were far beyond anything he could currently reach.

"Relax, little one. You're quite vigilant!"

The woman in green seemed to see through Xiao Qing's thoughts. Covering her lips, she chuckled softly, her eyes carrying a hint of teasing amusement.

"But I bear you no ill will, so rest assured."

There was a strange magic in the woman's voice that made people instinctively believe her.

"As for why I summoned you here, naturally I have my reasons."

The woman had only just awakened. The moment she did, she sensed that new "guests" had entered the Small World that had been silent for many years, and one of them possessed the bloodline of her race.

The woman turned her gaze toward Queen Medusa. An indescribably complex emotion appeared in her eyes—nostalgia, gratification, and a trace of relief.

Meanwhile, ever since this mysterious woman had appeared, the bloodline of the Eight-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python within Queen Medusa had produced an unprecedented resonance and sense of closeness.

It was like a wanderer returning home, or a fledgling seeing its closest kin. Queen Medusa instinctively wanted to approach her and could not summon even the slightest hostility.

"May I ask... who are you?"

Queen Medusa's voice unconsciously softened, carrying a hint of dependence that even she did not notice.

The woman in green looked at Queen Medusa, the smile in her eyes deepening as she said teasingly, "In terms of bloodline origins, perhaps you should call me Ancestor."

"Ancestor?!"

Queen Medusa's delicate body trembled, and her violet eyes instantly widened.

At once, the legendary first Queen Medusa of the Snake-People Tribe appeared in her mind—the peerless genius who had led her people to glory!

Could this woman be...

Noticing Queen Medusa's misunderstanding, the woman in green shook her head. Her voice was ethereal and distant. "I am not the ancestor you have in mind."

"That little girl you speak of merely entered this place by chance back then and had some affinity with me."

The woman slightly raised her head, seeming to sink into distant memories. Her tone carried a faint melancholy.

"Thousands of years have passed. I have long forgotten my own name. I only vaguely remember..."

"Others seemed to call me Saint Qingling. I only remember that I seemed to have an unfinished mission, and I have been waiting here in bitter vigil."

Saint Qingling!

A Dou Saint powerhouse!

A tempestuous wave rose in Queen Medusa's heart.

In her understanding, a Dou Zong was already a powerhouse capable of dominating an entire region.

As for Dou Zuns, Queen Medusa's ancestor had reached the Dou Zun realm and was already able to awe the entire Northwest Continent!

And Dou Saints...

That was a realm one could almost only hear about in legends!

Could this seemingly gentle woman before them actually be the Remnant Soul of a Dou Sheng?

Compared to Queen Medusa's shock, Xiao Qing appeared far calmer.

Not only had Xiao Qing learned long ago from Old Yao just how terrifying Dou Saints were,

but not long ago, he had personally witnessed the complete annihilation of a Remnant Soul of a Dou Sheng.

To him, a Dou Saint was powerful, but not a future beyond reach.