Three-Colored Jade Snake Eyes Qing Lin

[With your formidable strength, you easily killed these greedy but utterly mediocre fellows.]

[Medicine Elder successfully refined the medicine and suggested that you fly to the destination yourself. The disappearance of several alchemists would cause quite a stir.]

[To purchase a detailed map of the Tagor Desert, you found an ancient map shop in Desert City.]

[While browsing casually, you discovered another Pure Lotus Demon Flame Fragment Map.]

"What?!" Xiao Yan abruptly sat upright. His luck was just too good.

Many people could search their entire lives without obtaining any information about a Heavenly Flame, yet in less than a year, he had already found two pieces of information related to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, ranked third on the Heavenly Flame Ranking.

[While you were speaking with the shop owner, Medicine Elder warned you that the old man was no ordinary person. He had originally been a Dou Huang, but had suffered a seal and could now only wield the strength of a Dou Ling.]

[Whether or not you could find the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, this fragment map held immense significance for you. You prepared to seize it by force.]

[As a Five-Star Dou Shi, even after taking a Qi Recovery Pill and pushing every Dou Technique to an unprecedented limit, you could not bridge the enormous gap in levels.]

[You lost!]

[Medicine Elder took over and effortlessly sealed him within a layer of ice.]

Subduing a Dou Ling in one move, Xiao Yan said sincerely, "Medicine Elder is truly amazing."

But it was better if he was amazing to other people.

[After subduing the old man, you learned that he was actually Hai Bodong, the former Ice Emperor. He had become like this after obtaining the fragment map and drawing Queen Medusa's pursuit.]

[The fragment map had two parts, and the one you saw was only one of them. Hai Bodong wanted to use the other half to have you lift his seal.]

[During the period of his seal, Hai Bodong had gathered a prescription that could remove it, but it required a Heavenly Flame to refine.]

[The favor of a Dou Huang powerhouse, along with the other half of the fragment map, made you agree to refine the medicine for Hai Bodong.]

[Hai Bodong had to provide the medicinal ingredients himself, but he lacked an herb called Sand Mandala.]

[To make you search for the herb, Hai Bodong produced another piece of Heavenly Flame information.]

"What a legend!" Xiao Yan's eyes widened. Hai Bodong actually possessed information about two Heavenly Flames.

[You chose...]

[A: Kill Hai Bodong. You already possess a Heavenly Flame, and fusing another one defies common sense. Not everyone has the Flame Mantra and needs to fuse multiple Heavenly Flames.]

[B: Refuse Hai Bodong, stating that you already have a Heavenly Flame and have no use for another.]

[C: Wait for Medicine Elder's reaction.]

Seeing the three options, Xiao Yan swiftly calmed down.

He was still too young. His excitement had gone straight to his head.

He had to obtain the Heavenly Flame information. Since Medicine Elder had already acted, Xiao Yan chose C to see what Medicine Elder would say.

[Facing Hai Bodong's conditions, Medicine Elder had no reaction whatsoever. You could only agree for the time being.]

[After leaving the ancient map shop, Medicine Elder finally spoke!]

[Medicine Elder did not advise you to follow Hai Bodong's map completely. One must always be wary of others.]

"That's it?"

Xiao Yan rolled his eyes. He already had a Heavenly Flame and still wanted more—wasn't that practically telling Hai Bodong he had the means to fuse two Heavenly Flames?

Besides, he would definitely have to go to the other man's marked location in the end. No matter how fancy a route he took, could he avoid going to the destination?

[After making thorough preparations, you entered the Tagor Desert.]

[There was no Heavenly Flame at the eastern marker.]

[Just as you entered the western marked location, failed to find a Heavenly Flame, and prepared to leave, you happened upon mercenaries from your eldest and second brothers' mercenary corps.]

[With your formidable Five-Star Dou Shi strength, you killed the Snake-People surrounding them and returned to Stone Desert City with them.]

[Your Five-Star Dou Shi strength greatly shocked your two brothers.]

[The next day, after waking from a drunken sleep well into the morning, the pretty maid Qing Lin made you feel that something was strange.]

The girl appeared quite young. She wore an elegant light-green outfit, and although her body was petite, it had developed with a peculiar degree of maturity, though she still looked somewhat immature.

Her adorable, delicate oval face resembled a beautiful porcelain doll. Her timid appearance was like that of a frightened little rabbit, making people unable to help feeling pity for her.

Most unusual of all was the way her slender waist, seemingly narrow enough to grasp in one hand, swayed with a strange allure, like a beautiful serpent seductively twisting its waist.

[Scales grew on Qing Lin's arm. She was the child of a Snake-Person and a human, and was severely discriminated against along the borders of the Jia Ma Empire. You gently comforted the young girl.]

[Under Qing Lin's attentive care, you enjoyed yourself so much that you became somewhat unable to do without her.]

[Xiao Li invited you to spar. You planned to...]

[A: Send him flying in one move.]

[B: Give him some face.]

[C: Hold back and get sent flying.]

"Xiao Li is only a Four-Star Dou Shi, and his Dou Techniques are not particularly outstanding. It is nearly impossible for him to defeat a Five-Star Dou Shi by fighting above his level." Xiao Yan shook his head slightly and decided to give his second brother some face.

[After an evenly matched spar, you told your eldest and second brothers about your search for a Heavenly Flame. Qing Lin, standing nearby, provided you with information.]

[The next day, led by Qing Lin, you and a group of mercenaries arrived in the eastern part of Stone Desert City. While digging a tunnel, you were provoked by members of the Sand Mercenary Corps.]

[Dealing with trouble was a piece of cake for you. What surprised you was that the captain of the Sand Mercenary Corps was also named Luo Bu, sharing a name with someone from Canaan Academy.]

[Following the passage downward, you saw a sea of molten lava. While using a flying Dou Technique to search for the Heavenly Flame's location, you were attacked by creatures living in the magma.]

[Medicine Elder acted once again, dealing with the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake.]

[The beast turned and attacked Qing Lin, who had come along, but it was enveloped in green light and brought under Qing Lin's control.]

[Only after Medicine Elder explained did you learn that Qing Lin's eyes were the Three-Colored Jade Snake Eyes, the bane of nearly all serpent-type magical beasts. They existed only among the descendants of Snake-People and humans.]

[With the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, familiar with the surroundings, leading the way, you truly discovered something unusual within the magma.]

[There really was a Heavenly Flame here—the Green Lotus Core Flame—but it had been taken away by Queen Medusa of the Snake-People Tribe.]

[Here, you obtained eleven Earthfire Lotus Seeds and the Green Lotus Seat, which could accelerate cultivation.]

[After returning to the Desert Iron Mercenary Corps, you cultivated using the Green Lotus Seat and broke through to Six-Star Dou Shi that very night.]

[The next day, you bid farewell to your brothers and set out for the Snake-People Tribe's settlement.]

[While drawing water, you saw the back of a voluptuous woman in a clear lake.]

Long hair clung to her fragrant shoulders. Droplets of water covered her skin, smooth enough to seem breakable at a touch, then slid down from her shoulders over her exceptionally alluring slender waist before finally falling into the lake, sending ripples spreading outward.

Although he was some distance away, he could still clearly see how supple that taut waist was.

This seductive woman had a green snake tail that swayed gently, radiating a wild, bewitching charm.