When Xiao Yan realized that the magma he was searching for might contain a Heavenly Flame, excitement stirred in his heart. However, he did not immediately set off to find it. Instead, after recovering to his normal condition, he returned to the little village to pick up Qing Lin first.
Xiao Yan had originally intended to enter Stone Desert City, find his two elder brothers, and leave them some cultivation methods and combat skills. But after discovering traces of a Heavenly Flame, he decisively changed his plans. As for Qing Lin, he was worried something might happen to her if he left her there alone.
As it turned out, the people in this life were still relatively simple and honest. In Xiao Yan's previous life, a crowd of refugees encountering a little girl would most likely have stewed her as a "two-legged sheep." Here, however, because Qing Lin had been brought by Xiao Yan, who had saved the entire village, the survivors treated her with great respect. If anything, Qing Lin found it rather unfamiliar.
Seeing Xiao Yan return safely, Qing Lin breathed a sigh of relief. Earlier, she had sensed an aura even stronger than Mo Bass's appear near Stone Desert City, so she had been praying for Xiao Yan's safety right up until his return. Of course, she did not know that powerful aura belonged to Queen Medusa. She had only barely sensed her presence through her Snake-People bloodline and the special abilities of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
Since it was already late, Xiao Yan chose to rest in the little village for the night. As he sat in meditation and cultivated, his Dou Qi cultivation naturally flowed into the Three-Star Dou Wang level, like water reaching its waiting channel.
Xiao Yan was not surprised by