Interested in Making a Deal?

Clang!!

Yang Chen gripped the spear shaft horizontally above his head with both hands, blocking Medusa Queen's downward slash. Then, with a powerful shake of his arms, he directly sent Medusa Queen staggering back.

His arms sank. In the heat of battle, Yang Chen's eyes narrowed. The Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear resting at his waist traced a flourish through the air. Then Yang Chen leaped up, twisting his body as the spear spun at his waist before cleaving straight at Medusa Queen's face.

Medusa Queen's snake eyes contracted, and her expression changed slightly. She immediately held the seven-colored longsword horizontally before her, her left hand lightly bracing its blade. The next moment, the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear came crashing down with tremendous force.

Clang!

The immense force was like a surging tidal wave, instantly rushing up the sword and into her arms, knocking Medusa Queen several steps backward.

Yet after that strike, Yang Chen exerted force through his waist again. His body, suspended horizontally in midair, abruptly spun, the spearhead rapidly drawing one flourish after another. Along with his whipping robes, it continuously slashed toward Medusa Queen.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

One strike followed another, each more powerful than the last. With every blow, Medusa Queen was driven farther back, until even her arms began to tremble.

The terrifying waves of energy also exploded across the lava, bursting into brilliant, magnificent blossoms of golden-red molten rock.

When the seventh strike descended, its formidable power, together with the momentum that had built to its peak, erupted all at once and sent Medusa Queen flying.

Yang Chen suddenly halted in midair, a sharp glint flashing through his eyes. He stepped on empty air, and a pair of illusory wings imbued with wind and lightning attributes abruptly appeared behind him. He transformed into a streak of silver light and vanished from where he stood.

As Medusa Queen flew backward through the air, her vertical snake pupils reflected that increasingly brilliant silver flash. She bit down hard on her vivid red lips, and a trace of blood quietly seeped out.

The scent of blood thoroughly provoked Medusa Queen. The wildness in the Snake-People Tribe's bloodline, along with the queen's pride, drove her to forcibly circulate her Dou Qi. She raised the sword in her hand and slashed it toward that silver gleam.

Clang!!

The sword's edge struck between the two spear points of the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear. In the next instant, Medusa Queen's snake eyes narrowed, and her left hand abruptly pressed down on her right wrist.

Just as Medusa Queen brought both hands to bear, the spearhead suddenly thrust forward. In the end, it stopped less than a foot before Medusa Queen.

In the distance, Hai Bodong, Lei Na, and Lin Sen were all dumbfounded. They stared blankly at Yang Chen standing in the air, his right arm gripping the end of the spear as he thrust the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear forward, only for it to be blocked by the seven-colored longsword in Medusa Queen's hands.

Their gazes met in the air. As Yang Chen's boiling blood gradually calmed, he flicked the spear shaft back with his right hand, then seized the middle of the shaft. A flash of light passed, and the long spear in his hand turned back into the black Universe Fan, which Yang Chen held in his grip.

Seeing Yang Chen take back his spear of his own accord, Medusa Queen stared impassively at the peerlessly handsome man before her, whose cultivation was nearly two realms below hers, and expressionlessly withdrew her sword.

Drip! Drip! Drip!

For a time, neither of them spoke. Only the sound of lava rain falling into the molten sea echoed around them. In the end, Medusa Queen was the first to speak, breaking the strange silence.

"Since I have lost, the Heavenly Flame belongs to you."

There was a trace of unwillingness in Medusa Queen's voice. After searching for so many years, she had finally found the trail of a Heavenly Flame. She had finally seen an opportunity to break through to the Dou Zong realm, yet now she could only give it up. How could the desperately impatient Medusa Queen possibly accept that willingly?

But what could unwillingness change? As the proud queen of the Snake-People Tribe, she would not lower herself to beg a human. As for taking it by force, he had already given her a fair chance to compete.

Though she hated to admit it, Medusa Queen was not someone who could not accept defeat. Although Yang Chen had not truly won their earlier exchange, she had already lost.

Yang Chen could not help but smile. Earning the acknowledgment of a powerhouse was pleasing even for someone who was also a powerhouse.

"I have heard that the Snake-People Tribe possesses a secret technique that can use the power of a Heavenly Flame to temper the bloodline within one's body. If the evolution succeeds, not only can one break through to the Dou Zong realm in the process, but one can also transform into a serpent magical beast with a purer and more powerful bloodline."

Medusa Queen's expression grew colder and colder, and her gaze gradually became sinister. Yet Yang Chen continued calmly.

"However, this evolution is exceedingly dangerous and cannot be interrupted. Once it is interrupted, or if the evolution fails, death is certain. The reason you want this Heavenly Flame should be to prepare for your bloodline evolution, correct?"

As Medusa Queen's cold eyes opened and closed, an icy aura radiated from her body. She glanced sideways at Hai Bodong and the other two, who were slowly closing in, then snorted coldly.

"Hmph! I did not expect Your Excellency to be so knowledgeable that you even know the secret techniques of my Snake-People Tribe."

Yang Chen paid no mind to the hostility in Medusa Queen's eyes. He understood the Snake-People Tribe's situation. Those not of our kind are bound to harbor different intentions. Which of the surrounding empires did not eye the Snake-People Tribe greedily? The Snake-People Tribe was naturally wary and guarded toward humans.

"I said before that I possess a secret technique that can help beings with beast bloodlines evolve the bloodline within their bodies. I wonder whether Medusa Queen would be interested?"

Yang Chen slightly spread his left hand, and a mass of luminous white light gathered continuously. Before long, it formed a special jade tome in his palm, from which a peculiar fluctuation of soul power emanated.

In this world, Yang Chen might lack other things, but when it came to special inheritances and cultivation methods, he had an inexhaustible supply.

Even the most basic ones, if thrown out into the world, would be Heaven-tier cultivation methods and Dou Techniques at the very least, and all of them would be high-quality mid-grade works.

The foundational inheritances cultivated by Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran were even more numerous. At present, only the ones left with Yao Chen, as well as the three inheritances passed on to Lei Na and Lin Sen, were relatively precious.

Among them, Xiao Yan's was the most precious because it was a complete inheritance. Lei Na's and Lin Sen's were likewise foundational inheritances, but they were high-level ones.

It could not be helped. To teach two students, he had specifically written two textbooks, hired two teachers, and opened two classes. The teachers could not possibly know nothing before teaching the students, could they? What if they led their pupils astray?

"What conditions do you have?"

Medusa Queen's snake pupils contracted slightly, and her narrow eyes narrowed further before she spoke softly. Yang Chen raised his hand in response, and the jade tome flew before Medusa Queen.

"Interested in making a deal, Queen?"