The instant the giant serpent's phantom swallowed the green lotus core flame, the azure fire dragon engulfed its entire form.
The giant serpent roared toward the heavens, thrashing violently amid the azure flames. Its screams left every living creature nearby dizzy, their eardrums aching fiercely-whether the four elders of the Snake-People Tribe, Sun Buxiao's group, or the snake-people outside the Divine Temple who were still trying to break through the Poison Veil maintained by Xiao Yi Xian.
Even the poisonous mist shrouding the sky began to stir restlessly.
No one knew what kind of agony Medusa was enduring-not even the two people present who had absorbed heavenly flames.
Before absorbing the netherworld poison flame, Sun Buxiao had spent a very long time with it, saturating it with vast quantities of Dou Qi. It could be said that the netherworld poison flame had already belonged to him before he devoured it; swallowing it had merely been a formality.
Even so, Sun Buxiao had endured considerable pain from its scorching heat.
Yao Lao's process of subduing the bone spirit cold flame had been somewhat more complicated, but overall, it had not taken long-at least he had not needed to do something as insane as Medusa, exposing his body, and even his soul origin, directly to a heavenly flame.
Xiao Yan hid to one side, covering his ears, his face deathly pale. He was so close to both the heavenly flame and Medusa that he was suffering the effects of both at once.
The green lotus core flame unleashed scalding waves of heat, almost matching the temperature inside the Earthfire Cave, while Medusa's shrieks left his consciousness growing hazy.
But what shocked him most was Medusa's wretched condition.
"...!"
Sun Buxiao glanced toward the center of the Divine Temple, his expression turning slightly