Blazing Poison Flame Jiao

After flying continuously for two hours, they returned to the Star Dou Great Forest.

"Master, I really... can't fly anymore..." Dugu Yan gasped for air, landing on a withered tree atop a mountain peak. She took out a Spirit Nourishing Pill and tossed it into her mouth to replenish the nearly depleted spirit power in her dantian.

Qingxi released her divine sense, which could currently cover a radius of a hundred miles. Beneath her feet lay a continuous chain of volcanoes.

Finally, Qingxi locked onto a direction.

"Wait for me here," she said, then flew rapidly toward the southeast.

A volcano that had been boiling suddenly seemed to sense something and gradually calmed down.

The next moment, Qingxi was already hovering in the sky above that volcano.

She stood in mid-air as if walking on flat ground, her dark eyes staring sharply downward, as if searching for something.

"Found you..." She raised her hand, the Universe Staff appearing in her grip, and hurled it with force toward a spot in the magma.

"Ah—" The next second, a painful shriek erupted from the magma. The molten liquid boiled and transformed into sharp blades flying toward Qingxi, but she advanced instead of retreating, diving toward the volcanic magma. The Universe Staff flew back out of the magma, the tip of its golden shaft stained with green liquid.

With the scorching heat boiling all around, Qingxi swallowed a pill and dove into the magma.

After a long while, the surging, boiling magma gradually grew calm.

Ten miles east of the crater, a patch of land suddenly collapsed, followed by a cloud of dust that formed a giant pit, with boiling magma churning at the bottom.

After a moment, Qingxi emerged, dragging a half-dead, red, serpentine creature with dragon-like features and wings on its back.

Only the upper half of the snake's body remained; its midsection appeared to have been pierced by something, leaving a massive, circular hole. Greenish-black blood dripped onto the ground, causing the surrounding flowers and grass to wither instantly.

She tossed the strange snake in front of Dugu Yan, who retreated several steps in fright.

"This is... a Flame Snake?" Dugu Yan looked at the dying red creature; though it was called a snake, it looked more like a Jiao.

Judging by its age, it was likely over ten thousand years old.

"This is a mutated species, a Blazing Poison Flame Jiao nearly sixty thousand years old. It specializes in both poison and fire attributes, making it very suitable for your fifth spirit ring."

Qingxi sat down to the side, casually sticking the Universe Staff into the ground, then took a roasted, crispy Soft-Bone Rabbit from her storage bag and began to nibble on it unhurriedly.

It had to be said, this Soft-Bone Rabbit really tasted quite good.

She couldn't help but show a satisfied expression, grateful to the sucker who provided it.

"Thank you, Master." Dugu Yan did not decline, drawing a dagger to deliver the final blow to the Blazing Poison Flame Jiao.

The moment the Jiao breathed its last, a black spirit ring emerged from its body, and she quickly sat cross-legged to absorb it.

Her absorption went exceptionally smoothly; she even felt a sense of relief.

The Universe Staff stuck in the grass trembled slightly, emitting a faint humming sound. The entire staff bent into an inverted L-shape, cautiously reaching toward the nearby Jiao carcass.

"Stop whining, you can't eat that!" Qingxi raised her hand and slapped the staff, and the little rod instantly behaved.

The next second, the Jiao carcass on the ground erupted with a soft green light, and a spinal bone floated out, which Qingxi beckoned over with a wave of her hand.

About half an hour later, Dugu Yan finished absorbing the spirit ring. She opened her eyes slowly; five spirit rings—purple, purple, black, black, black—circled her. As her power surged outward, a fierce wind whipped up.

Level fifty-one Spirit King.

"Come, absorb this too," Qingxi said, tossing over the spinal bone she had just extracted.

"This... Master... I am already satisfied with obtaining the spirit ring. This spirit bone is far too precious; you should keep it for yourself." Dugu Yan was so surprised her cheeks turned red.

She never expected her master to give her a spirit bone, and judging by its quality, it was at least at the ten-thousand-year level.

Spirit bones were extremely rare on the Douluo Continent, priceless treasures; even her grandfather only possessed one ten-thousand-year-level Medusa Skull Bone.

"This torso bone was dropped by that Blazing Poison Flame Jiao just now. Absorbing the spirit bone and spirit ring from the same spirit beast allows for greater synergy." Qingxi glanced at the staff nearby, which was practically drooling, and pouted. "Besides, if you don't want it, it's going to be treated as a snack by that thing."

Seeing that Dugu Yan didn't want it, the staff twisted its body happily, showing pure sycophancy.

"Ah..." Dugu Yan looked at the staff twisting like a pretzel and her mouth twitched.

She could never associate such a martial soul with her own master, who was as clear as the breeze and as bright as the moon.

"Hurry up and absorb it. I'll take you to have some fun afterward," Qingxi said in a deep voice, watching the sun slowly set.

"Yes, yes." Dugu Yan nodded and began to absorb the spirit bone, which went very quickly this time.

When she opened her eyes again, the spirit bone had vanished.

"Master, look!" Dugu Yan stood up, and instantly, a pair of massive dragon wings over three meters long unfurled behind her. The fiery red feathers were even tipped with flickers of cyan flame.

"Not bad." A hint of surprise flashed in Qingxi's eyes as she stood up. "Since that's settled, let's get moving."

"Where to?" Dugu Yan landed and asked curiously.

"Don't you want to beat up that little fatty from 'Shrek'? Let's go find some fun." She took out two sets of night-traveler clothes, tossing one to Dugu Yan and putting the other on herself.

"I've been wanting to beat them up," Dugu Yan said, her eyes lighting up as she excitedly put on the clothes.

On the way back, they passed the outer perimeter of the Star Dou Great Forest and saw a pack of Silver Moon Fierce Wolves hunting down a group of spirit masters.

Weren't those the unlucky bunch who had been beaten by Shrek at the tavern at noon?

Seeing that the group of kids and their instructor were surrounded by the wolves and on the verge of defeat, the two of them struck almost simultaneously.

"That leader is mine; you take care of the rest." As they brushed past each other, Qingxi set her sights directly on the three-thousand-year spirit beast atop the cliff.

"Leave it to me!" Dugu Yan unfurled the dragon wings behind her back, and five soul rings emerged in succession. "Let this pack of beasts have a taste of my new soul skill: Fifth Soul Skill—Blazing Poison Phosphorus Fire."

In an instant, cyan flames ignited across the ground, and hundreds upon thousands of wolves let out mournful howls as they launched a counterattack against Dugu Yan.

The Silver Moon Wolf King was the first to sense that something was wrong and turned to flee, but the moment the words "Prison Suppressor!" rang out, a weight of ten thousand catties descended upon its back, rendering it unable to move an inch.

Its eyes rolled slightly, and before it could even comprehend what had happened, its head had already fallen to the ground, severed from its body.

A black soul ring emerged, and the next second, the Universe Staff broke free from Qingxi's grip, flew straight out, and swallowed the soul ring in one gulp.

"Eat, eat, eat! All you ever do is eat!" Qingxi scolded it twice before summoning the Universe Staff back and turning around to support Dugu Yan.

Looking at the wolf corpses littering the ground and the two figures in black continuously reaping lives, the members of Canghui Academy huddled to the side, shivering in fear.

"Teacher, I'm scared," the youngest female student said fearfully.

She was at level twenty soul power, and they had come to the Star Dou Great Forest to find a soul ring for her, never expecting to encounter a wolf pack on the outskirts.

The numbers were simply too great; they could have handled a few hundred, but at least thirty of them were ten-thousand-year soul beasts. If it weren't for their instructor's martial soul being specialized in defense, they would have likely perished long ago.

"What a formidable poisonous fire!" Ye Zhiqiu watched the two figures in black, his shock growing with every passing moment.

He couldn't discern the soul power of the shorter one, but the other was a genuine Soul King, and one who even possessed a soul bone.

Even Ye Zhiqiu himself couldn't retreat unscathed from a pack of thousands of wolves, yet that person was faintly suppressing the entire pack.

As a fellow Soul King in his fifties, he felt a deep sense of inferiority.

After the Silver Moon Wolf King was slain, the pack launched their offensive as if seeking mutual destruction. Seeing the heavy casualties among the wolves, the survivors eventually chose to flee.

The two did not pursue.