Nine-Star Peak Dou Zong Realm, Half-Step Battle Venerable Expert

As the formation's ghostly green poisonous glow pressed down like a canopy over the sky, venomous battle qi tightened around the space layer by layer...

Yao Xuan felt that even the airflow within the formation's domain had frozen solid.

Without the slightest hesitation, the Green Lotus Core Flame and Yellow Mysterious Flame appeared once more above his palms!

Yao Xuan understood that with his current Dou Wang-level strength, if Yao Lao did not intervene—

The only trump card he had to break this formation was the Fire Lotus formed by fusing his Heavenly Flames!

However, just as Yao Xuan prepared to fuse the Heavenly Flames, Yao Lao's steady voice suddenly rang out in his mind, urgently stopping him.

"Stop. You must not use the Fire Lotus."

Yao Xuan's gathering motion abruptly halted. His brows furrowed slightly as he asked inwardly,

"Uncle Chen, why?"

"This formation was laid by five Peak Battle Emperor Realm experts. Without using the Fire Lotus to break it, I cannot find a chance to escape..."

"This formation seals the surrounding space with the same-origin battle qi of four Dou Emperors. Its walls are airtight, without even the slightest gap for energy to leak out..."

Yao Lao explained slowly, his tone carrying the calm of someone who saw through everything.

"The explosive force of your Fire Lotus is far too violent. If it detonates in a sealed space, even if the formation is blown apart, the violent aftermath will have nowhere to escape. Most of its power will rebound onto you!"

"Even if you break the formation, you will still suffer severe injuries..."

Upon hearing this, the Heavenly Flames gathering in Yao Xuan's palms slowly receded...

Yet the next moment, Yao Lao's voice sounded again, unhurried and calm.

"Kid, don't worry..."

"With me here, you won't die..."

"Leave the rest to me..."

As his words fell, Yao Xuan remained standing where he was, his expression unchanged...

As a trace of Bone Chilling Flame flashed through his eyes, the aura around Yao Xuan underwent a heaven-shaking transformation!

The battle qi wings behind him slowly dispersed, and he stood directly in midair!

A vast aura surged from Yao Xuan's body, spreading outward as invisible waves of air...

The suffocating pressure of the poison formation was shattered layer by layer beneath that aura...

"A Dou Wang-level body really is quite good..."

"It can let me exert fifty or sixty percent of my strength..."

The next moment, Yao Xuan raised his head and swept his gaze over Medusa and the other five Dou Emperors. Then Yao Lao's voice emerged through Yao Xuan, echoing before the Snake-People Sacred City.

"This killing formation is indeed not bad..."

"If an ordinary Peak Battle Emperor Realm expert fell into this formation, they would likely lose a layer of skin. Unfortunately..."

Before he finished speaking, Yao Xuan, possessed by Yao Lao, casually raised his right hand and lightly tapped the poison-patterned void with a single fingertip.

There was no earth-shaking boom, no raging torrent of flames. It was an utterly ordinary finger strike...

Yet the imposing Four Extremes Soul-Locking Poison Formation immediately let out a series of dense cracking sounds...

Cracks spread from the point of impact through the ghostly green poison chains filling the sky.

The dark green poisonous radiance rapidly dissipated, while the formation's foundation crumbled inch by inch.

In the span of a finger snap, the sure-kill trap that had cost the five Dou Emperors most of their focus to set up was effortlessly destroyed with a single finger.

As the formation shattered, the four elders who had formed it suffered backlash and each staggered a step backward...

The instant the formation broke, Medusa's expression changed abruptly.

The chilling killing intent on her face froze in place, and the Dou Emperor battle qi churning around her fell into disorder beyond her control.

Medusa knew that the soul-locking formation jointly activated by the Snake-People Tribe's four great elders would require even a newly advanced Dou Zong to spend time fighting before breaking it. There was no way it could have been destroyed so easily...

The four elders stationed in the four directions were even more shaken.

After all, the four elders had cultivated for their entire lives before finally reaching the Peak Battle Emperor Realm...

Throughout that time, they had witnessed countless top experts, yet they had never seen anyone break the Snake-People Tribe's inherited ancient killing formation with nothing but a single finger.

Feeling the unfathomably terrifying aura emanating from the human before them, and seeing him walk through the air without battle qi wings—

Medusa's eyes were filled with shock, because she understood!

The human before her was no longer the Dou Wang from moments ago. He had already risen steadily above Dou Emperors, becoming the Dou Zong she had pursued her entire life!

"How is that possible?!"

"He was still a Dou Wang just now. How did his aura rise so much in a single breath?"

"Who exactly are you?"

The First Elder asked in a deep voice, unable to keep a trace of apprehension from entering his tone...

Medusa suppressed the waves in her heart, her gaze locked tightly onto Yao Xuan in the center of the field!

Yet Yao Xuan, possessed by Yao Lao, merely took a light step forward, and a powerful aura instantly descended!

No one present, Medusa included, noticed that Yao Xuan's step had not only been a Dou Zong's ability to walk through the air without using Battle Qi Wing Transformation!

That single step had also cracked the void beneath his feet!

The power of space was the mark of a Battle Venerable!

In other words, through Yao Xuan's Dou Wang-level body, Yao Lao could now exert the strength of a Nine-Star Peak Dou Zong Realm, a Half-Step Battle Venerable Peak!

Yao Xuan then calmly swept his gaze over the five grave-faced figures, his words still carrying overwhelming pressure.

"I said earlier that I came to cooperate, yet you insisted on killing me. Now that the formation has been broken, do you still intend to fight?"

The four elders exchanged glances, none daring to rashly attack first. The image of that single finger breaking the formation still lingered in their minds...

They all knew that if they attacked recklessly now, they would very likely bring annihilation upon themselves.

Thus, they all turned their gazes toward Medusa...

Medusa herself was also frowning tightly, weighing the advantages and disadvantages in her heart.

Seeing that Medusa and the others remained silent, Yao Xuan's eyes turned cold. The pressure of a Half-Step Battle Venerable instantly descended, suppressing the entire Snake-People Sacred City.

"My patience is limited as well..."

"Medusa, I already gave you a chance just now. If you still refuse to state your position..."

"I do not mind having your entire Snake-People Tribe buried alongside you!"

At this moment, Medusa and the four elders were completely unable to move beneath that terrifying pressure.

Finally, the arrogance in Medusa's eyes slowly faded, replaced by reverence.

"May I ask, Senior..."

"What cooperation are you referring to?"

Yao Xuan smiled faintly.

"Earlier, I saw your tribe send word that you discovered another Heavenly Flame in this desert—Wind Fury Dragon Flame?"

"I am somewhat interested in that Heavenly Flame. Would Queen Medusa be willing to tell me its location?"

After hearing this, Medusa finally understood Yao Xuan's intention. Yet in her heart, the Wind Fury Dragon Flame was her hope of breaking through to the Peak Dou Zong Realm!

If she handed over the Wind Fury Dragon Flame again, she would likely never set foot in the Dou Zong Realm in this lifetime...

But if she refused, the entire Snake-People Tribe truly would perish here!

After all, judging from the pressure radiating from the man before her alone, he truly could easily wipe out the entire Snake-People Tribe with a wave of his hand!