Yun Yun: Is Queen Medusa Beautiful?

"M-Medusa... Queen Medusa..."

Hai Bodong froze in midair, the blood draining from his face in an instant.

The clouds behind him parted, and a graceful figure flew out, with blood-red Dou Qi Wings condensed to near solidity behind her.

Her long hair cascaded down to her waist, and her purple eyes were long and narrow. Wherever her gaze fell, even the air seemed to grow more sluggish.

She wore armor distinctive to the Snake-People Tribe on her upper body, outlining her astonishing curves. Below the waist, however, she had a slender snake tail, its purple scales gleaming faintly in the setting sun. The tip swayed gently, each movement carrying a primal temptation that stirred the senses.

"Is she beautiful?" Yun Yun felt a little jealous when she saw Lu Yuan staring at Queen Medusa without blinking.

"Of course she is. She's Queen Medusa, after all," Lu Yuan answered honestly. He turned and smiled at Yun Yun. "But there are many beautiful people in this world. Some are only suited to being admired. Not everyone is like you, Yun'er, with looks being the least noteworthy thing about you."

"I didn't know you had such a slick tongue." Yun Yun gave a soft huff, but she was quite pleased.

Queen Medusa looked at Hai Bodong, and the pressure surrounding her bore down on him as though it were solid.

Hai Bodong, whose cultivation had recovered to Three-Star Dou Emperor, found it somewhat difficult to breathe under the pressure and instinctively took half a step back.

Yun Yun's expression tightened. She circulated her Wind Attribute Dou Qi to its limit to resist the pressure, quietly resting her right hand on her sword.

Lu Yuan's soul power was strong, and his expression remained unchanged in the face of the pressure.

Medusa's gaze swept over the three of them, lingering longest on Lu Yuan before finally settling on Hai Bodong's face. A smile bloomed on her breathtakingly beautiful face. "Hai Bodong, go on. Why have you stopped? Aren't you good with words?"

"I..." Hai Bodong's lips moved. He wanted to argue, but felt it would be useless.

"Heh." Medusa's lips curved in mockery. "We haven't seen each other for more than ten years. Your cultivation hasn't improved, and you haven't grown any bolder, but your tongue has gotten sharper. You dare slander me behind my back."

Hai Bodong: "..."

My cultivation hasn't improved all these years. Isn't that because of you?

How was anything I said about you slander? It was clearly the most fitting description.

"Actually, nothing you said just now was wrong." Medusa raised her hand and took out a bow, then raised her hand to form a long arrow of energy and aimed it at Hai Bodong. "But you left out the most important thing."

"I never forget a grudge."

Hai Bodong shuddered all over. The shadow of being sealed back then rose in his mind at once, and he instinctively began to circulate his Dou Qi to flee.

"Your Majesty." Lu Yuan spoke up at just the right moment, stepping in front of Hai Bodong and cupping his hands in greeting. "I am Lu Yuan. I've come especially to visit you today and discuss a deal."

Medusa narrowed her purple eyes slightly and spoke in an icy voice. "A Nine-Star Dou Wang. Yet I don't know when an expert like you appeared in the Jia Ma Empire."

"But with that level of strength, you aren't qualified to make a deal with me."

"You jest, Your Majesty." Lu Yuan answered without servility or arrogance. "If we were to fight, my cultivation really would be nothing before you. But a deal depends on what each side brings to the table."

"In that case, you have something that can tempt me?" Queen Medusa's interest was piqued.

"That's right." Lu Yuan nodded slightly and said frankly, "Your Majesty is injured right now, isn't that so?"

He remembered that Queen Medusa used the Green Lotus Core Flame to make a breakthrough nearly a year and a half from now.

By then, Her Majesty had possessed the Green Lotus Core Flame for more than half a year.

When Xiao Yan went to the underground lava world, he found snake scales on the Green Lotus Core Flame's lotus platform.

It was therefore reasonable to guess that Queen Medusa was spending this time recuperating, and would only dare attempt to use its tempting power to break through once she had recovered to her peak.

"Say what you have to say." Medusa aimed the arrowhead at Lu Yuan, her lovely, willow-leaf brows drawing together. "I don't like guessing, and I like beating around the bush even less."

"All right." Lu Yuan stopped keeping her in suspense and said directly, "Your Majesty wants to evolve and break through. I can help you increase your chances of success."

"What!?" Queen Medusa's pupils contracted.

This man actually knows I'm going to evolve and break through?

As though seeing through her thoughts, Lu Yuan continued, "Using the Green Lotus Core Flame to stimulate the evolution of your bloodline, then taking the opportunity to break through to Dou Zong upon succeeding-this method means certain death for an ordinary member of the Snake-People Tribe."

"But Your Majesty's companion snake soul is the fire-attribute magical beast, the Purple Nether Flame Snake. Together with the various wondrous treasures of heaven and earth you prepared in advance, it can increase your chances of success by a few tenths. Even so, your overall chances are still very low."

"I imagine Your Majesty wouldn't mind increasing your chances of success a little more!"

Those words made Yun Yun's and Hai Bodong's pupils shrink sharply.

The notoriously fearsome Queen Medusa had actually found a Heavenly Flame, and she even planned to use it to evolve her bloodline and break through to Dou Zong.

If she succeeded, the balance of power among the forces surrounding the Jia Ma Empire would have to be rewritten.

"You're very interesting." Queen Medusa narrowed her long eyes, a suspicion in her heart confirmed. "You deliberately released the energy fluctuations of the Snake Seal to draw me here?"

"That's right." Lu Yuan clasped his hands behind his back. "Flying to the Snake-People Holy City to find you would take too much time, and complications could easily arise along the way. After all, we're humans."

"But drawing Your Majesty here in person is much simpler and quicker."

"Man, you've piqued my interest." Queen Medusa casually dispelled the arrow of energy and put away her longbow. "The deal you proposed is very tempting."

"Go on. What do you want me to do, and how will you help increase my chances of successfully evolving and breaking through?"

With a thought, Lu Yuan controlled his Dou Qi Wings and flew over to Queen Medusa.

Seeing this, Yun Yun immediately followed, tightening her grip on her sword.

Hai Bodong was in a panic, but he gritted his teeth and followed anyway.

Lu Yuan stopped half a zhang away from Queen Medusa and activated his Purifying Lotus Triple Flower Pupils.

"Hmm?" Queen Medusa felt a pressure bearing down on her soul.

When she met those eyes, she felt a faint urge to submit.

"Those eyes of yours..." Medusa's purple eyes narrowed. "The Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils?"

"No." Lu Yuan shook his head and began forming seals with both hands. "They are indeed related to the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, but they're a little more powerful. I call them the Purifying Lotus Triple Flower Pupils. Some of their abilities are much the same as those of the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils."

As Lu Yuan spoke, the three lotus flowers in each of his eyes radiated light that fell on the spot between Medusa's brows.

A strange power of a soul contract formed, about to brand itself onto Medusa's soul.

"You're courting death!" Queen Medusa thought she had fallen for Lu Yuan's trick and was about to strike in a furious rage.

But in the next moment, she sensed that both her consciousness and her companion snake soul had arrived in a strange space.

Lu Yuan's voice rang out at that moment. "Don't be alarmed, Your Majesty. With my current strength, I can't forcibly form a contract with you and your companion snake soul."

"This is the world within my eyes. I brought you here because this place has something to do with the terms I'm offering."

"Once you experience it for yourself, you'll know that what I say is true."