A Battle! I, Xiao Yan, Will Blow Those Long Legs to Death

"Can't learn that, can't learn that!"

Mo Xuan felt rather let down. He had thought he might be able to lend a hand!

He hadn't expected that sly bastard Xiao Xuan to have a trick like that up his sleeve.

With a trace of condensed spiritual power mixed in, drawing in the surrounding natural Qi, could it actually unleash something close to the might of a Dou Sheng?

No, the power still fell a little short, but there was no question it counted as the might of a Half-Saint.

Venerable Snake immediately began slaughtering his enemies in all directions.

Stranger still, did the Hall of Souls have someone there to back them up?

They moved at the same time he struck, but instead of seizing an opening to ambush him, they took the remaining Hall of Souls members and began to flee?

And that wasn't all!

The newly arrived Hall of Souls Dou Zun had also used the opportunity to come to their aid to launch a sneak attack on the two gravely wounded Hall of Souls Venerable Elders.

It was simply jaw-dropping!

At that point, it seemed the power of the method left behind by the senior had been exhausted, so Venerable Snake let them leave without a change in expression.

The Hall of Souls will probably turn on itself, won't it?

The thought appeared in Venerable Snake's mind out of nowhere.

Negotiations?

The infighting he had expected never came. Instead, the surviving Hall of Souls Dou Zun offered to cooperate, though the details would only be known after some negotiation.

The string of developments caught Venerable Snake completely off guard. Though he had weathered many great storms, he had never experienced much that was quite so bizarre.

Perhaps the senior knows!

After ordering the sect disciples to clean up the aftermath, Venerable Snake headed to the forbidden ground alone to report.

After a great battle, he didn't even have a speck of blood on him...

Wearing a somewhat strange expression, Venerable Snake told Xiao Xuan every piece of information he had seen or obtained, leaving nothing out.

"Mm, cooperate with them!"

"Put it under the name of a partnership, and those people from the Hall of Souls won't interfere in the Heavenly Snake Empire."

Xiao Xuan had sensed it long ago. The deaths of the two Hall of Souls Dou Zun were enough for those two protectors to rise to power.

And when the time came, they would also have an explanation for how they had grown stronger. Hadn't they simply been ruthless enough to kill Dou Zun from their own ranks and seize a wealth of resources?

In the Hall of Souls, that was nothing.

"Yes, senior."

Venerable Snake had many questions, but when they reached his lips, he said nothing and took his leave with the utmost respect.

"Now that the Heavenly Snake Mansion's affairs are settled, I won't stay here any longer."

"As for the forbidden ground here, seal it off for now. Your Heavenly Snake Mansion disciples may enter to cultivate."

Xiao Xuan opened a stable Space Wormhole that led only to the outermost part of the ruins.

Only a few opportunities had been laid out there. Xiao Xuan didn't think much of them, but for the Heavenly Snake Mansion's level of strength, they were the best choice.

They would no longer have to search blindly in every direction as they had before, and could gain improvements in relative safety.

As for whether they might accidentally venture deeper while wandering around the designated area?

If that were truly possible, the Heavenly Snake Mansion wouldn't have remained confined to the northwest for so long.

It wasn't just because they needed to keep a low profile, but also because they lacked both the strength and the fortune to explore the ruins.

"I'm leaving!"

With that, Xiao Xuan led Xiao Yi Xian and the others away, vanishing before Venerable Snake's eyes.

Along the way, he swept up Mo Xuan, who was still wandering around nearby.

The Jia Ma Imperial Capital was now in an uproar as well.

It wasn't because of an invasion from outside, however, but chaos among its internal factions.

They had thought Xiao Yan, who had come to keep the Three-Year Agreement, was already monstrous enough as a sixteen-year-old Dou Ling and fifth-tier alchemist.

But who could have imagined it would end in a battle between Dou Zong!

The Mittel Family was now considered to have come under Xiao Yan's banner.

In a courtyard, Xiao Yan's face twitched slightly as he looked at the long-legged woman before him.

"Medusa, if you want to make trouble for the Misty Cloud Sect, why drag me into it?"

"And you left the Xiao Clan so rashly. Aren't you afraid the ancestor will slap you to death when he gets back?"

Xiao Yan now had a profound understanding of the art of borrowing a tiger's hide to raise one's banner.

There was nothing he could do. His master, Yao Lao, wouldn't intervene, saying it was a Xiao Clan family matter and that an outsider like him shouldn't force himself to take sides.

Old fox!

Xiao Yan knew Yao Lao was wary of Medusa's origins. After all, she was the clan-guardian spirit beast the ancestor had personally brought back, and she was to be raised into a Dou Sheng.

There was no point making an enemy over such a small matter.

But Xiao Yan had his doubts about that.

A mere Dou Sheng. The ancestor can't be that shortsighted, can he?

Besides, even if it were all true, they couldn't use him as a target!

Now that all the attention had been stolen from him, how was Xiao Yan supposed to clear his name?

"Slap me to death?"

"Believe it or not, I'll slap you to death right now."

Queen Medusa's slender brows shot up, and she showed no sign of accepting the threat.

As for Xiao Xuan, even though Medusa's strength had now evolved to its peak, she was still deeply wary of that man.

Fortunately, he had already left, though he would return.

Before then, she had to settle her tribe's affairs.

The Misty Cloud Sect had happened to offend the Xiao Clan, giving Queen Medusa the perfect chance to relocate the Snake-People Tribe into the Jia Ma Empire in one stroke.

She had truly had enough of living in that wretched desert.

Besides, the desert's nature did little to help the Snake-People Tribe develop. On the contrary, the scorching environment was something the Snake-People Tribe, who favored the cold and shade, loathed.

Queen Medusa had now broken through to Dou Zong and, drawing on the foundation gained through her evolution, had even reached the ranks of the High-Rank Dou Zong.

Granted, most of the credit belonged to that man for nurturing her true body.

But it was only natural to make use of it now!

Beside her, Xiao Yan's expression grew even uglier.

"Master?"

Yao Chen didn't want to intervene, but he had been keeping watch beside Xiao Yan all along. If anyone truly wanted to harm Xiao Yan, they would have to get past him first.

Besides, he was sitting right there, calmly drinking tea. Had Queen Medusa lost her mind?

In any case, a fight definitely wouldn't break out.

A Dou Zun was a pillar that could calm the seas wherever he went.

"Elder Hai, President Fa Ma, how about lending me a hand?"

Xiao Yan began calling for backup. With the help of two Dou Emperors and his own ultimate move, he could just about hold his own against Queen Medusa.

Provided she had no intention of killing him.

What he called holding his own would amount to little more than her playing house with Xiao Yan.

Hai Bodong had been in a great mood after returning to his family, but when he heard Xiao Yan's words, he immediately waved his hand and said with a laugh, "You little brat, it's not like you don't know Queen Medusa sealed me."

"Leave me out of it, will you? I'm too old to take it."

As for President Fa Ma, he was an old acquaintance of Venerable Yao and had benefited from his guidance. That was why he had doggedly followed him to the Mittel Family, and it looked as though he intended to stay there permanently.

With Yao Chen's casual guidance, his bearing also showed faint signs of approaching that of a sixth-tier alchemist.

He was only one step short, so Yao Chen let him be.

"Young Master Xiao, why such a temper? However much you fight, aren't you all on the same side? When the senior returns, I'm afraid he'll punish the lot of you!"

Fa Ma had hit the nail on the head. He knew Xiao Xuan existed, and though he didn't know the details, he held a deep fear of that senior's strength.

Wasn't even the alchemist who had once been renowned as the finest on the continent now following at his side?

Fa Ma didn't believe taking Xiao Yan as a disciple was enough to keep Venerable Yao in the Jia Ma Empire.

It's that senior's doing after all!

At those words, everyone present fell silent.

Xiao Yan grew extremely irritated, and Dou Qi rose from his body.

"Medusa, come and fight me!"

"If you win, you can go to the Misty Cloud Sect."

"Master, how about supporting your precious disciple? Give me some Bone Spirit Cold Flame. Just watch me blow those long legs to death today!"