Deep within the Star Dou Great Forest, in front of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's lair.
The pitch-black door opened completely, revealing endless darkness behind it, yet also hinting at the presence of another world.
Standing in front of the door, Xiao Yan felt the familiar yet unfamiliar aura, and his heart began to beat faster involuntarily.
"You... you want to go in?"
Zhu Zhuqing's voice carried a hint of worry.
Xiao Yan turned around and looked at her.
Under the moonlight, Zhu Zhuqing's face was still somewhat pale, a trace left by the previous battle.
"I can sense the presence over there." Xiao Yan hesitated for a moment, but then said, "I can sense there's no danger. I'll take a look and be right back."
Zhu Zhuqing remained silent for a moment, then finally nodded.
" Xiao Xin. If anything seems amiss, come back immediately."
Xiao Yan smiled, reached out and ruffled her hair, and said:
"Don't worry. Everything will be fine. Besides, with my current strength, I can protect myself."
Xiao Yan took a deep breath and turned to walk towards the dark door.
"Open!"
As Xiao Yan's thoughts flashed through his mind, the towering, eerie black gate standing before him slowly opened, under the watchful eyes of him and Zhu Zhuqing.
The main gate opened to both sides, revealing an interior resembling a starry sky.
A pitch-black passage appeared, and around it, like a galaxy, were countless stars.
Xiao Yan took a deep breath to calm his agitated heart, smiled at Zhu Zhuqing, and then took a step forward!
Stepping into the passage, Xiao Yan was surrounded by endless darkness, with the whistling wind in his ears, and his body seemed to be floating in an endless void.
He could feel a strong spatial force enveloping him, with no sense of gravity.
The feeling was strange, like an out-of-body experience or falling into an abyss.
After an unknown amount of time, a light suddenly appeared before my eyes.
Xiao Yan opened his eyes and found himself standing in an unfamiliar place.
Beneath our feet was hard rock, surrounded by reddish-brown cliffs, and the air was thick with the smell of sulfur.
Beneath their feet, crimson magma flowed slowly, making gurgling sounds, occasionally splashing a few sparks, but they were immediately blocked by an array.
Xiao Yan was stunned.
Upon closer inspection, it seemed they were underground, perhaps within a building, and not far away, Xiao Yan spotted a familiar figure.
Xiao Huohuo sat cross-legged on a boulder by the lava lake, surrounded by invisible flames.
That face was exactly like his.
Just as Xiao Yan was sizing up Xiao Huohuo, Xiao Huohuo suddenly opened her eyes and turned to look in Xiao Yan's direction.
A look of shock flashed in Xiao Huohuo's eyes when she saw Xiao Yan suddenly appear.
Their gazes met in the void.
"You..."
Xiao Huohuo stood up, her eyes filled with disbelief.
"How... did you come all this way?!"
As Xiao Huohuo Xiao Huohuo, a phantom figure appeared beside him; it was none other than Yao Lao.
"I don't know either."
Xiao Yan took a deep breath, suppressing his shock and excitement, and explained:
"After I advanced to Soul Emperor and absorbed the Sixth Soul Ring, my Soul Division Martial Soul suddenly underwent a change, transforming into a pitch-black portal."
After I stepped through that gate, I arrived here.
The Yao Lao floated to Xiao Yan's side, looked him up and down, his eyes full of surprise.
"Incredible... truly incredible..."
The Yao Lao's face was full of surprise as he spoke:
"In all my years of life, I have never seen anything so bizarre."
Two worlds, connected in this way...
As soon as Yao Lao finished speaking, his gaze turned to the wide-open, dark door behind Xiao Yan.
The Yao Lao's illusory soul reached the edge of the portal, looking at the ancient and strange symbols on it with curiosity in his eyes.
"Even Spiritual Soul Power can't pass through this portal..."
The Yao Lao probed the portal with his vast Spiritual Soul Power, but there was no movement at all. Instead, the Spiritual Soul Power he probed into the portal mysteriously disappeared.
Xiao Huohuo also walked over and stood in front of Xiao Yan.
The two stood facing each other, like looking in a mirror.
They both reached out and shook hands.
At that moment, they both felt a strange resonance—a resonance of their Soul Origin, a feeling of two divided souls reconnecting in this instant.
"Don't rush into reminiscing," the Yao Lao suddenly interrupted, speaking with a solemn expression.
"The passage connecting the two worlds is far too vast. Were you discovered when you came here?"
Xiao Yan shook his head.
"Probably not. I was deep in the Star Dou Great Forest at the time, and there was no one else around."
The Yao Lao breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's good. This kind of thing must never be known to others. Otherwise, it will cause a huge uproar in both this world and Douluo Continent."
You'll likely become someone that powerful figures from both worlds want to capture.
Yao Lao, who was once at the Peak Dou Zun, understood all too well the thoughts of the world's top experts.
Once the Douluo Continent is discovered, the inevitable outcome will be a battle between the two worlds.
Yao Lao believed that the powerful figures of the Douluo Continent definitely shared the same thoughts.
Xiao Yan nodded; he was well aware of the seriousness of the matter.
"Where is this?" Xiao Yan looked around and asked curiously.
In the past two years, due to cultivation, he and Xiao Huohuo have been able to sense each other, but they will no longer be pulled into that strange space to meet as before.
He had been busy developing the Dark Hall's strength with the help of the Spirit Hall, so he hadn't paid any attention to this.
Xiao Huohuo, who was standing to the side, spoke up to explain:
"This is the Inner Academy of the Jia Nan Academy, the lowest level of the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower. The Fallen Heart Flame is sealed beneath here!"
Xiao Yan was taken aback by Xiao Huohuo's words. He hadn't expected that Xiao Huohuo had already entered Jia Nan Academy and found a second kind of Heavenly Flames.
Congratulations!
Xiao Yan smiled slightly and asked:
"You should have obtained the Green Lotus Core Flame, right? How did you get it?"
Upon hearing Xiao Yan's words, Xiao Huohuo's expression became complicated, and a strange look appeared in her eyes.
Xiao Yan was taken aback.
What happened?
Xiao Huohuo took a deep breath and slowly began to speak:
"After that standoff, Medusa ultimately refused the deal."
However, she was too eager to evolve and too eager to lead the Snake-People Tribe out of their predicament.
Therefore, she chose the most extreme method—forcibly consuming the Green Lotus Core Flame.
Xiao Yan's pupils contracted slightly.
Forcibly devouring the Heavenly Flames?
Isn't that just courting death?
"Is she crazy?" he blurted out.
Xiao Huohuo smile.
That's what I thought at the time too.
However, the teacher said that this was a secret technique passed down from ancient times by the Snake-People Tribe.
Although it's a near-death experience, if she succeeds, her bloodline will revert to its ancestral form, her strength will skyrocket, and the Snake-People Tribe will be able to completely escape their predicament.
Xiao Huohuo paused for a moment, then continued:
"My teacher and I infiltrated the Holy City again and saw her break the seal on the Green Lotus Core Flame."
Then... he swallowed it in one gulp.