"W-who are you?" Xiao Yan had never witnessed anything like this. Seeing the mysterious Dou Emperor appear barely a thousand feet away, he blurted out, "As a Dou Huang expert, which of the empire's experts might you be?"
Because Yun Shan had stopped Yun Yun, she had never gone to the Magical Beast Mountain Range to seek out the Amethyst Winged Lion King. Thus, Xiao Yan had never witnessed a battle between Dou Emperors, nor had he obtained the Companion Amethyst Essence and acquired the purple flame.
As a result, Xiao Yan's cultivation technique, the Flame Mantra, remained at the Low Yellow Tier. Meanwhile, after Fan Tian broke his seal, Hai Bodong had closed his map shop, costing Xiao Yan not only the support of a Dou Emperor, but also the fragment of the purifying lotus demon flame map.
"Heh, what? Must I be a Dou Emperor from the Jia Ma Empire to come looking for you?" Ling Ying's voice was hoarse, his tone chilling. "The soul body inside you can come out now. He's the one I'm looking for!"
Xiao Yan froze.
"Surely you've made a mistake!" Xiao Yan struggled to calm himself. "There's no soul body inside me!"
"Xiao Yan, I wasn't speaking to you!" Ling Ying grew slightly angry. If not for his young lady, he would never have bothered wasting words on a mere Dou Shi. "Will you come out yourself, or must this Emperor help you?"
The air froze.
Xiao Yan wanted to say more, but a single glance from Ling Ying made him lower his banners and silence his drums.
A Dou Huang expert was indeed someone he could not afford to provoke.
A moment later.
An ethereal soul body slowly emerged from Xiao Yan's ring.
"Heh, my friend, you don't look like someone