The Snake-People Tribe's Foundation: Five Battle Emperors Besieging a Dou Wang?

"Wind Fury Dragon Flame!?"

Hearing Yao Lao's words, Yao Xuan could not help raising an eyebrow slightly.

He had not expected that, aside from the Green Lotus Core Flame, the Tagor Desert could actually produce another Heavenly Flame!

And it was the eighteenth-ranked Wind Fury Dragon Flame!

Though it was only ranked one place above the Green Lotus Core Flame, it still ultimately surpassed it...

Thus, Yao Xuan did not hesitate in the slightest. He fully circulated the Dou Qi within his body and closely followed Medusa as she rushed onward...

A moment later, an imposing city appeared before Yao Xuan amid the desert.

Looking up, he saw that it was the Snake-People Sacred City!

Yet the next instant, Medusa's voice drifted eerily over from behind Yao Xuan once more:

"Human!"

"This Queen has already spared your life, yet you still dare follow This Queen here!"

"Do you truly think This Queen does not dare kill you?"

Yao Xuan turned back at her words and smiled faintly. "Queen Medusa..."

"Please do not misunderstand..."

"I came this time because I wish to discuss a cooperation with Your Majesty..."

Yet Medusa merely gave a disdainful smile. "Cooperation?"

"This Queen has nothing to cooperate on with a human!!"

"Furthermore, you trespassed into the forbidden grounds of my Snake-People Tribe and stole the Green Lotus Core Flame. The fact that This Queen has not killed you already is mercy enough, yet you still dare follow me and presumptuously speak of cooperation!"

"Utter wishful thinking!"

Hearing Medusa's words, Yao Xuan found them somewhat amusing.

Medusa truly was incomparably domineering. The corners of Yao Xuan's lips lifted slightly as he chuckled softly.

"In my view, you did not refrain from killing me out of mercy. It is simply because you cannot do so right now..."

"And you keep claiming that I stole the Green Lotus Core Flame?"

"Then let me ask you this: where on the Green Lotus Core Flame is there a mark belonging to your Snake-People Tribe, or a mark belonging to you, Medusa?"

"This Heavenly Flame is a spiritual treasure of heaven and earth. It has always belonged to whoever is fated to obtain it..."

"How can it be called theft?"

After Yao Xuan spoke, the Green Lotus Core Flame emerged once more above his palm. At the sight, the fury in Medusa's heart instantly surged again!

The killing intent in her eyes resurfaced, but after their brief clash earlier...

Medusa also knew that although she was at the Peak Battle Emperor Realm, she truly could not suppress this human Dou Wang before her in a short time...

Yet when she saw the Green Lotus Core Flame dancing in Yao Xuan's palm, the killing intent in Medusa's heart was ignited once more...

"Sharp-tongued human!"

Medusa's red lips trembled slightly. Her icy voice, carrying boundless killing intent, resounded through the skies above the entire Snake-People Sacred City...

"Spiritual treasures of heaven and earth belong to those fated to obtain them? You still dare spout such nonsense within the territory of my Snake-People Sacred City!"

"Then today, you shall remain here forever!"

The instant Medusa's words fell!

From within the towering, pitch-black temple of the Snake-People Sacred City, four entirely different yet equally vast and formidable Battle Emperor Realm auras suddenly broke through the temple's restrictions and swept violently across heaven and earth!

Four black figures descended in an instant from the skies around the temple...

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Four muffled explosions rang out at once as four main hall elders of the Snake-People Tribe, clad in black-patterned elder robes, landed steadily around Yao Xuan, instantly forming an encirclement...

All four wore sinister expressions. They had human bodies and serpent eyes, their skin wreathed in faint, ink-black poisonous light...

More importantly, the pressure of their Nine-Star Peak Battle Emperor Realm cultivation poured forth without reserve...

Feeling those terrifying auras, Yao Xuan instantly understood that these four who had suddenly appeared must be the Snake-People Tribe's four great main hall elders! They were also the strongest combatants in the Snake-People Tribe beneath Medusa...

The Great Elder standing directly eastward was slightly hunched, his aged face covered in the ravines of time. His pair of vertical pupils were cold and lifeless as they stared fixedly at Yao Xuan!

The other three elders stood separately to the southwest, northwest, and due north, their auras steady and fierce...

The Dou Qi around the four great elders faintly intertwined and connected, forming an invisible net of pressure that firmly sealed every route of advance and retreat available to Yao Xuan.

The combined momentum of four Nine-Star Peak Battle Emperor Realm experts crushed down in layer upon layer, seeming to make even the surrounding space grow heavy...

"Foreign human, you have brazenly violated the Sacred City!"

The Great Elder's voice was hoarse yet imposing. His gaze remained firmly locked on Yao Xuan in the center as he shouted:

"You provoked the Queen and trampled upon the thousand-year dignity of my Snake-People Tribe. Your crimes are unforgivable!"

The Dou Qi around the four elders circulated and connected, forming, as if guided by fate, the Four Extremes Soul-Locking Poison Formation passed down by the Snake-People Tribe for ten thousand years.

This formation was jointly activated by four Peak Battle Emperor Realm experts. It could attack and defend, imprison Dou Qi, and seal space!

It was the ultimate killing formation of the four great Snake-People Tribe elders when they joined forces!

Once this formation was deployed, it had never failed in a thousand years. No one had ever left it alive...

Medusa, who had originally confronted Yao Xuan alone...

Now slowly stepped forward and stood at the highest point before the great formation.

In an instant, an incomparably terrifying pressure descended, firmly enveloping Yao Xuan within a certain death trap.

The auras of five Battle Emperor Realm experts merged together, causing the surrounding space to tremble faintly under the suppression...

After all, the might of the Snake-People Tribe's five Battle Emperor Realm experts joining forces represented the pinnacle of combat power in the Tagor Desert, enough to crush all ordinary Battle Emperor Realm cultivators.

Facing this terrifying formation that could instantly pulverize an ordinary Battle Emperor Realm expert, Yao Xuan stood at the center of the encirclement, yet not a trace of panic or fear appeared on his face...

Yao Xuan slowly withdrew the dancing Green Lotus Core Flame into his palm, then calmly swept his gaze across the five top Snake-People Tribe experts before and behind him, all brimming with killing intent!

The restraining force around him grew ever stronger, locking down the space surrounding his body...

Yao Xuan could feel that even the circulation of the Dou Qi within his body was being faintly impeded...

Countless strands of highly poisonous Dou Qi had also appeared in this space, seeking to corrode him. Fortunately, Heavenly Flames emerged around Yao Xuan's body, sparing him from their effects...

The next moment, Yao Xuan merely smiled lightly. "Five Peak Battle Emperor Realm experts. The Snake-People Tribe truly has profound foundations..."

"To mobilize all your top combat power and lay down an ultimate killing formation just for a mere Dou Wang like me—you truly think highly of me. I am rather flattered..."

"However, I am somewhat curious. With five Peak Battle Emperor Realm experts like you, the Snake-People Tribe is still willing to remain confined within the Tagor Desert?"

"That is rather surprising!"

The chill in Medusa's violet eyes surged as she looked at Yao Xuan, her killing intent piercing:

"Insolence!"

"You are at death's door, yet you still dare profane the dignity of my Snake-People Tribe!"

"You deserve execution!"

As Medusa's words fell, the Dou Qi around the four great elders surged at the same time. The formation hanging above Yao Xuan abruptly flashed with a dim green poisonous radiance!

Then, an immense pressure instantly descended from the formation, seeking to completely suppress Yao Xuan...

Yao Xuan could not help looking up. "Five Peak Battle Emperor Realm experts..."

"To deal with a minor Dou Wang like me, you have actually even deployed such a formation!"

"The Snake-People Tribe truly thinks highly of me..."