Aren't You the Ones Surrounded by Me?

Hearing Xiao Long's words, Yue Huo's pretty face turned icy. To her, this human was insulting the queen!

A mere Dou Shi, however unusual he might be, actually dared demand that the queen come to him.

"You're courting death! Surround them!"

Yue Huo had originally intended to use gentler methods, but after hearing Xiao Long's remark, she could no longer let him live!

The queen was not merely the ruler of the Snake-People Tribe. She was also their spiritual totem.

Killing intent instantly flooded Yue Huo's heart.

The surrounding Snake-People swished their tails, encircling Xiao Long and Xiao Yi Xian in an instant.

"I was going to give you a way out, but since you dared insult the queen, you can become fertilizer in the Magical Beast Mountain Range!"

The next moment.

Yue Huo lunged at Xiao Long with both blades, her Dou Qi transforming into enormous purple pythons that advanced alongside her.

They opened their blood-red maws and charged at Xiao Long, while the other Snake-People attacked him as well.

"A bunch of rotten fish and shrimp think they can surround me!"

Facing so many Snake-People, Xiao Long showed no panic whatsoever. His tone remained composed.

"So what if there's something special about you? Your Dou Qi will run out sooner or later!"

"Is that so? Aren't you the ones surrounded by me?"

The moment Xiao Long finished speaking, the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame erupted. Fiery beasts took shape one after another, and every one of them possessed intelligence.

They intercepted the Snake-People charging in to encircle and kill him.

"What is this?!"

Yue Huo had never expected this man to summon so many fiery beasts. More importantly, they were like magical beasts, with auras that were far from weak.

And more importantly.

The fiery beasts intercepting her subordinates could actually use Dou Techniques. For a time, the fiery beasts and Snake-People soldiers clashed.

Although the fiery beasts' auras were not particularly strong, they possessed the heat of a heavenly flame and had been formed from Xiao Long's Dou Qi.

The two sides immediately reached a stalemate.

As for Xiao Long.

The next moment.

The Dou Qi within Xiao Long's body began draining at a frenzied rate.

Fortunately, Xiao Long's Dou Qi was already unlike that of ordinary people, its quality extraordinarily high, and he had also switched to a heaven-tier cultivation technique.

He had plenty of mana.

Had he actually cultivated the Flame Mantra, never mind heaven-tier Dou Techniques-even fighting with mystic-tier Dou Techniques would probably have been a struggle.

"Ten Thousand Flames Great Hand Seal!"

During this time, he had finally mastered the first level of the Ten Thousand Flames Great Hand Seal, a low-level heaven-tier Dou Technique and one of the four heaven-tier Dou Techniques obtained from the Tou She Ancient God Jade.

The Ten Thousand Flames Great Hand Seal!

This Dou Technique had three levels. The first could be used with Dou Qi or beast flame, the second required heavenly flames, and the third required at least three kinds of heavenly flames.

And the stronger the flames he controlled, the greater its power!

The Myriad Beast Spirit Flame spread out, forming a hand seal several zhang across that slammed toward Yue Huo.

As the hand seal swept through the air, the surrounding space actually grew somewhat illusory and blurred.

With a single slap, it shattered the purple pythons formed from Dou Qi that had advanced ahead of Yue Huo.

Its momentum did not diminish.

It hurtled straight toward Yue Huo. She could only abandon her attack and switch to another defensive Dou Technique, turning her Dou Qi into an enormous python that enveloped her.

But before this hand seal, it was shattered in an instant, scattering across the ground like the broken remains of a dead snake.

Naturally, Yue Huo could not avoid being sent flying.

With a thud, she slammed heavily into the ground.

Yue Huo had never imagined that a mystic-tier Dou Technique used with her Dou Ling cultivation would be shattered outright.

Just what rank was the Dou Technique this fellow had mastered?

"If that's all the strength you have, then you can stay here forever!"

Xiao Long had no intention of showing tenderness toward a beauty. She was not Medusa, and besides, humans and the Snake-People Tribe truly shared a blood-deep feud.

Never mind the wars of the past-even now, Snake-People captured humans, while humans captured Snake-People to sell.

Moreover, this female Snake-Person had never intended to show mercy from the beginning.

Without another word, he sent another great hand seal crashing toward Yue Huo. Her pretty face changed drastically. How could he use a Dou Technique like that a second time?

"Burst!"

Yue Huo could no longer hold anything back. Her purplish-red Dou Qi immediately began burning, while her aura continued to swell.

In an instant, she reached the level of a Four-Star Dou Ling.

She slashed fiercely at the great hand seal with both blades. Her purplish-red Dou Qi resembled countless darting little snakes, and the swarm collided head-on with the Ten Thousand Flames Great Hand Seal!

Boom, boom, boom-!

A continuous series of explosions suddenly rang out, steadily weakening the great hand seal.

"This is a secret art I learned by seeking Commander Hua She'er's guidance. You're dead!"

"You're just burning your essence to increase your strength. What kind of shitty secret art is that!"

Xiao Long hurled out another Ten Thousand Flames Great Hand Seal. There was no other reason.

He had plenty of mana!

A body transformed by the Ox Talisman really was formidable.

The amount of Dou Qi one possessed was related to both cultivation technique and physical constitution.

As a Dou Zhe, he could already unleash attacks with the power of a Da Dou Shi. Now he was a four-star Dou Shi, with all sorts of enhancements on top of that.

Unleashing two heaven-tier Dou Techniques was his limit.

As for why he could use it a third time, it was because he had just secretly swallowed two third-tier magical beast Magic Cores as a temporary replenishment.

For an ordinary person, that would naturally be courting death, but for him, it was faster and more potent than popping pills.

"You..."

Yue Huo had never expected Xiao Long to be able to keep using it. The two Ten Thousand Flames Great Hand Seals blasted her away. Before such pure power.

A secret art that merely raised her strength by two stars was of little use.

This time, she no longer had any Dou Qi protecting her chest. The explosion struck her twin peaks like a landslide, leaving them a bloody mess.

Seeing Yue Huo lying on the ground, Xiao Long instantly appeared before her, his palm poised to smash her beautiful head.

But an idea suddenly flashed through his mind.

He changed his palm strike into a finger thrust, touching Yue Huo's forehead.

The Monkey Talisman activated!

Yue Huo had thought she was about to die, but instead felt a force invade her body, seemingly intent on transforming her from the inside out.

Originally, she could have resisted, but now, with her severe injuries, she could not even mobilize her Dou Qi.

How could she resist?

Then she discovered that she was changing.

In the end, from her perspective, Xiao Long seemed to have become a giant. As she sensed her own body, she discovered that her arms and legs were gone.

After wriggling about, she discovered that she had actually become a snake-and a magical beast she knew extremely well at that.

A Purple Flame Ghost Snake.

Xiao Long's eyes lit up. He had pictured a bamboo pit viper in his mind, yet what appeared was a Purple Flame Ghost Snake, a creature even he recognized.

"Could the fused magical beast soul have affected this Snake-Person?"

He had originally intended to kill her, but then remembered that the Snake-People Tribe possessed plenty of valuable things, such as their many secret arts. Unremarkable as they might seem, the secret art for fusing with a magical beast's soul alone.

In Xiao Long's eyes, it was no worse than a heaven-tier cultivation technique.

However, it was limited to snake-type magical beasts. Xiao Long was not a Snake-Person, but he had the Monkey Talisman, which he had tested before.

Its transformations were genuine, tangible changes.

If he could turn into a Snake-Person, could he use this secret art?

Even if he could not, he should at least master the secret art and see whether he could extend it to other kinds of magical beasts.

So he planned to kill the other Snake-People, take control of this obvious leader, and then use the Sheep Talisman to enter her dreams.

He would master all the Snake-People Tribe's secret arts she knew before killing her.

That was why he intended to use the Monkey Talisman to turn her into a snake first. Bringing a Snake-Person back to Wutan City would be rather outrageous, after all.

Yet he had never expected to turn this Snake-Person into a magical beast. That made her far more valuable as a research subject.

If the Monkey Talisman could transform him into magical beasts with the help of their souls, then he really would be capable of seventy-two transformations.

Although some magical beasts were poor fighters, they possessed many special abilities, known as innate abilities.

If I can really figure this out, I remember there's a Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse over in the Black Triangle. More importantly, there's still a Magic Core inside.

There's a remnant soul in it. Once I can extract it, I'll be able to transform directly into a Heavenly Demon Phoenix.