Xian'er, you really meant it!

The Wolf Head Mercenary Group had fallen, brought down by a sixteen-year-old boy.

Over a hundred members of the mercenary group had suffered devastating casualties from a single strike by Xiao Yan, and both deputy leaders had died horribly beneath his Xuan Tier Dou Technique.

Mu She had not escaped either. Xiao Yan had reduced him to charcoal on the spot with a single Great Flame Palm.

From that day onward, Qingshan Town no longer had a Wolf Head Mercenary Group.

"Other than a Profound Tier Low Grade Wind Blade Frenzy, these are all Yellow Tier cultivation techniques and Dou Techniques. What a pile of junk. You can have them."

Xiao Yan tossed Mu She's Storage Ring to Xiao Yi Xian.

Earlier, while gathering herbs, Xiao Yi Xian had put the extras into her herb basket, which suggested that her Storage Ring did not have enough space.

As it happened, Xiao Yan had seized Mu She's Storage Ring. After taking the two hundred thousand gold coins and some first-grade healing pills inside, he gave Xiao Yi Xian all the remaining cultivation methods, combat skills, and miscellaneous odds and ends.

News of the entire Wolf Head Mercenary Group's destruction soon spread throughout Qingshan Town.

The other two major mercenary groups made no moves, however. Neither wanted to draw the flames onto themselves.

And so, Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian spent a relatively peaceful stretch of time in Qingshan Town.

Half a month later, Xiao Yan slowly opened his eyes in his room, emerging from his cultivation.

He had completely mastered the Flying Dou Technique, Eagle Wings. A pair of eagle wings now clung to his back like tattoos.

All he needed to do was pour in dou qi, and the wings would unfurl, allowing him to soar through the sky!

Over that half-month, Xiao Yan had studied medicine with Xiao Yi Xian while continuing to cultivate, and his cultivation had broken through to Three-Star Da Dou Shi.

Ever since meeting Xiao Xuan, the ancestor of the Xiao Clan, Xiao Yan had felt that his cultivation speed had increased.

Yet Xiao Xuan had clearly said that the bloodline within Xiao Yan had already run dry and would not increase his cultivation speed.

Now, Xiao Yan did not know whether he was imagining it.

"Xiao Yan, are you there?"

Xiao Yi Xian pushed his door open without ceremony and hurried inside.

Her cultivation speed was nothing special. Even after half a month, she was still a One-Star Dou Zhe, which made Xiao Yan shake his head.

"Don't you need to knock before coming into my room? Then next time I come into yours, I won't knock either."

Watching Xiao Yi Xian hurry in, Xiao Yan deliberately teased her.

After growing familiar with him over the past half-month, Xiao Yi Xian had come to understand his personality. Instead, she lifted her snow-white chin.

"Sure. I'll be waiting whenever you like. You're a Da Dou Shi, anyway. Even if I wanted to resist, it wouldn't do any good. Whatever you want to do, it's all up to you."

Her words instantly raised goosebumps all over Xiao Yan. "All right, my lady, I surrender. Tell me, what did you come to see me about?"

Xiao Yi Xian giggled and explained, "I found a poison formula in the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture. I have all the ingredients now except one: the magic core of a third-tier poison-type magical beast. Could you get one for me?"

At her request, the corner of Xiao Yan's mouth twitched. Good grief, she was asking for a third-tier magical beast right off the bat.

Third-tier magical beasts were equivalent to Da Dou Shi. Even he would have a tough time dealing with one.

"Good grief, you're only a Dou Zhe, and you already need a third-tier magical beast's magic core to make poison? Are you planning to poison me to death?"

A third-tier poison could generally kill a Da Dou Shi, and he was the only Da Dou Shi Xiao Yi Xian knew. Xiao Yan seriously suspected that she had come up with this to deal with him.

"What are you thinking? If I wanted to use it against you, would I even need to tell you? Anyway, I have my own use for this poison. I swear I won't use it on you!"

Xiao Yi Xian looked at him with a solemn yet pitiful expression. "Please? Pretty please?"

She wore down every last bit of Xiao Yan's resistance. He could never stand a girl wheedling like this, and goosebumps kept rising over his skin.

"All right, all right, I'll do it. I was planning to make a trip into the Magical Beast Mountain Range anyway, so I'll help you out while I'm there."

Hearing him agree, Xiao Yi Xian grew visibly excited. "Wonderful! I knew you'd help me!"

With that, she excitedly leaned toward Xiao Yan and planted a light kiss on his cheek.

Only after she had kissed him did everything fall silent. Whenever Xiao Yi Xian got excited, she liked to kiss cute things.

This time, she had kissed Xiao Yan without thinking, leaving the atmosphere rather awkward.

"Ah, Xian'er, you really meant it!"

"Get out! Right now!"

At the entrance to the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Xiao Yan did not recruit mercenaries to accompany him this time. With his strength as a Three-Star Da Dou Shi and the aid of his Flying Dou Technique, he could make a clean getaway even if he encountered a fourth-order ground-dwelling magical beast.

Fifth-tier magical beasts were essentially the kings of the Magical Beast Mountain Range. Such creatures were rarely seen, so Xiao Yan was not too worried about them.

As for sixth-tier magical beasts, there were only a handful in the entire Magical Beast Mountain Range, and each had its own fixed territory. If he managed to run into one, he would have to be suffering the rotten luck of eight lifetimes.

Following the map Xiao Yi Xian had drawn, Xiao Yan soon reached the basin they had visited before.

Continuing farther from here would take him into the depths of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where the magical beasts were stronger and the resources more abundant.

Xiao Yan took out his Heavenly Flames Coordinate Map. After comparing it with his surroundings, he discovered that the Heavenly Flame was actually located astonishingly deep within the range.

This left him in a difficult position. He would certainly be safe on the outskirts, and he could handle himself comfortably even in the depths.

But once he entered the core region, his chances of encountering magical beasts of the fourth order or higher would increase dramatically.

A fourth-order magical beast's combat strength was equivalent to that of a Dou Ling, far beyond what Xiao Yan could currently handle.

"Ah, I'm still a little too weak. Forget it. I'll take care of Xiao Yi Xian's request first."

Third-tier poison-type magical beasts-that was a fairly broad category.

Generally speaking, snake-type magical beasts were the most common. Xiao Yan had already encountered several on his way in.

However, the magical beasts on the outskirts were far too low-tier to meet Xiao Yi Xian's requirements. Xiao Yan could only cross the basin and enter the depths of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Even in the depths, though, third-tier magical beasts were relatively rare, and finding one that happened to be poison-type was even harder.

Moreover, third-tier magical beasts were already fairly cunning and moved around frequently, so Xiao Yan had no way to locate them immediately.

Realizing that this was not something he could accomplish in a short time, Xiao Yan simply

found a reasonably well-hidden cave.

He also roasted its original resident, a Tier 2 Magical Beast, a Savage Bear, preparing for a prolonged campaign.

During this time, Xiao Yan used the cave as his starting point and kept exploring in every direction, though he ventured no more than a few hundred meters each time.

After all, encountering some terrifying magical beast in a place like this would hardly be surprising.

Finally, on the fourth day, Xiao Yan found a suitable target amid a lingering cloud of purple poisonous mist: a third-tier plant-type magical beast, a Demon Fusion Flower!