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Seeing that Lin Yan was on the verge of tears, Xun Er decided to be considerate and softly said, "Xun Er should get back to cultivating; otherwise, the gap with Xiao Yan ge-ge will only widen."
Xiao Yan affectionately stroked her silky hair and then cupped her delicate face in his hands. A warm sensation spread from his palms. Gazing at Xun Er's rosy lips, he couldn't help but swallow.
Xun Er's cheeks flushed crimson. She lowered her head slightly and murmured, "Xun Er will head back first."
Before Xiao Yan could speak, Xun Er, giving him no chance to misbehave, swiftly dashed back to her courtyard.
Xiao Yan gave a faint smile as he watched Xun Er run away shyly. Indeed, public displays weren't appropriate, and besides, that fellow Ling Ying was watching.
anwhile, Lin Yan stood to the side, staring blankly at Xiao Yan. Big brother, there's still soone else here! Could you be a bit more mindful!!
Glancing at this third wheel, Xiao Yan said, "Co with ."
...
Inside Xiao Yan's room.
Xiao Yan began examining Lin Yan, who was seated before him, and asked, "How long has the fire poison been accumulating in your body?" He needed to understand the situation clearly before helping to expel the poison.
Lin Yan's expression turned sowhat grim as he replied, "Around a year and a half." The fire poison had already deeply affected his mind, making him extrely irritable.
"Back then, I was desperate to improve my strength, so I went into closed-door cultivation in the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower for one or two months at a stretch. The fire poison kept accumulating and, by the ti I realized it, had beco tightly intertwined with my Dou Qi and couldn't be separated."
Xiao Yan couldn't help but look down on Lin Yan. Isn't it just closed-door cultivation in the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower for one or two months?
Xiao Yan said calmly, "In a mont, bear with it. I'll use flas to enter your body and burn away the fire poison."
Lin Yan was stunned.
I'm afflicted with fire poison, not ice poison! You're adding more fire? Isn't that like adding fuel to the fire?!
Xiao Yan noticed Lin Yan's skeptical look and replied flatly, "If you don't trust , you can still choose to take four hundred days' worth of Fire Energy. I can give it to you right now." "Heh heh, how could I not trust you? I trust you, I trust you." Lin Yan had no other choice. Even if he had the Fire Energy, he wouldn't be alive to use it. Right now, Xiao Yan was his only lifeline.
Turning his back to Xiao Yan, Lin Yan nervously asked, "Brother Xiao Yan, what's your success rate?"
Placing his palm on Lin Yan's back, Xiao Yan said with a confident smile, "Soone asked the sa question before, and my answer is still the sa."
Whoosh!
A burst of energy shattered Lin Yan's robe into powder, exposing a muscular body.
"One hundred percent."
Xiao Yan instantly activated the Fla Mantra. The Nihility Devouring Fla flowed through his ridians to his palm, and with his imnsely powerful Spiritual Strength, he guided the black fla to drill into Lin Yan's body.
With a thud, Lin Yan's body suddenly trembled. His already muscular physique swelled as if inflated, doubling in size! His entire skin turned bright red, resembling a cooked prawn. "Ahhh!!!" Even a madman like Lin Yan who disregarded his own life couldn't help but let out an agonized howl at this mont. Clenching his teeth tightly, despite his crazed willpower, he couldn't suppress his screams.
"Bear with it. Relax your Dou Qi; don't use it to resist." Xiao Yan shook his head with a smile. This Lin Yan didn't seem as tough as the Inner Academy made him out to be. Even the old man Nalan Jie could endure better than him.
Lin Yan's fire poison was similar to the Searing Poison. The poison invaded his ridians, internal organs, flesh and blood, bones, and even skin.
Therefore, to completely remove it, the Nihility Devouring Fla had to thoroughly sweep through his entire body without missing a spot, devouring all the fire poison.
The terrifying, high temperature of the Nihility Devouring Fla caused pain to surface on Lin Yan's face, and his hands clenched tightly with blue veins bulging on his arms. However, the current Xiao Yan was not the sa as when he helped Nalan Jie expel the Searing Poison at the Nalan Mansion. Not only had the Nihility Devouring Fla's Seed Fla beco stronger, but his own Spiritual Strength was also incomparable to what it had been before.
Moreover, Heavenly Flas inherently attracted each other. Wherever the Nihility Devouring Fla passed, the fire poison of the Fallen Heart Fla was revealed. The black fla devoured it all like a greedy serpent.
After about thirty minutes, Xiao Yan retracted all the black flas. Lin Yan looked as if he had been through an ordeal, lying on the table with vacant eyes and panting heavily, his whole body limp and motionless.
Xiao Yan exhaled and said, "It's done. Put your clothes back on and go ho."
"Is it... done?! Just like that??" Lin Yan hurriedly sensed the condition inside his body. Sure enough, he found that all the fire poison had disappeared!
"You're making a fuss over nothing. It was just a small poison." Xiao Yan opened his palm and raised an eyebrow, signaling that Lin Yan should pay the treatnt fee.
Only then did Lin Yan snap out of his astonishnt. A bit embarrassed, he said, "Well, I'm not sure if the fire poison has been completely expelled. If by any chance..."
Xiao Yan couldn't help but recall that old fellow Hai Bodong, who also tried to weasel out of paynt, "Why are you all like this? Fine, fine. I don't think you'd be foolish enough to skip out on paying. I'll give you seven days to assess your condition properly."
After sending Lin Yan off, Xiao Yan counted on his fingers and muttered to himself, 'Now I still need the Asparagus Ice Fire Fruit and a Rank 6 ice-attribute Monster Core.'
'There's just over half a year until the Strong Ranking Grand Competition. I must refine the Ground Spirit Pill within this ti.'
Xiao Yan suddenly felt a surge of pressure because he only had one set of materials for the Ground Spirit Pill; failure was not an option.
'I'll focus on practicing alchemy these days.'
...
As expected, seven days later, Lin Yan cheerfully handed over the Green Wood Celestial Vine
to Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yan shifted his focus to alchemy during the ten-day period. Fortunately, he had collected so main ingredients for tier 6 pills from the Misty Cloud Sect and the treasury of the Snake-People Tribe back then, enough for him to practice with. Utilizing the powerful abilities of the Black Demon Cauldron and after wasting seven sets of dicinal ingredients, he finally succeeded in refining a tier 6 healing pill on the ninth day. With more practice to improve his success rate, he would beco a 6th-tier alchemist!
On the tenth day, Zi Yan finally erged from the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower. After informing Xiao Yan, she imdiately ventured into the deep mountains to search for heavenly treasures.
With the No. 1 cultivation room now available, Xiao Yan halted his alchemy practice and proceeded to the No. 1 cultivation room on the seventh floor to start cultivating. Passing through the central rest area on the seventh floor, a series of spacious cultivation rooms appeared in his view. As he walked closer, he could faintly sense the pure energy
overflowing from these rooms.
Along the way, he noticed the room numbers on the doors, starting from twenty. The further
he went, the more potent the warm energy that perated from the rooms beca. By the ti he reached rooms numbered within ten, he could even see wisps of pale red energy drifting in the air like fine threads. This bizarre sight left him secretly amazed.
His footsteps halted outside a spacious cultivation room at the deepest part. This cultivation room was sowhat strange. While the other rooms had robust energy spilling out, here it was completely empty. Standing outside, he couldn't sense the slightest bit of energy within. 'Tsk tsk, this No. 1 cultivation room even requires a barrier to seal it to prevent energy leakage,' Xiao Yan's Spiritual Strength clearly sensed that a barrier existed outside the cultivation room. One could imagine how terrifying the No. 1 cultivation room was.
Under the dumbfounded gazes of the experts on the Strong Ranking, Xiao Yan took out a token given by Zi Yan, pressed it against the door, and pushed it open. With a creaking sound, a burst of pale red light suddenly erupted.
When he saw the crimson fire-attribute energy inside that resembled a sea of flas, he couldn't help but exclaim in admiration, "This energy is truly astonishing. I wonder how much more incredible the Heavenly Fla space where the Fallen Heart Fla's essence
resides must be."
Xiao Yan didn't waste ti after entering the cultivation room. He took out a Fire Crystal Card
and tapped it.
'Thirty... truly an astronomical price, but worth every bit.'
With a flash of green light, the Green Lotus flew out from his storage ring. The snake-bodied
dusa poked her head out from the lotus platform and looked around, "The energy here is
much denser."
"The price is quite steep too. You should first absorb the Heavenly Fla energy to condense your snake body. On the last day, I'll use the Ten Thousand Beast Fla to help you refine the
Heavenly Fla energy."
"Mm."
Not wasting any more ti, Xiao Yan sat cross-legged on the stone platform and began frantically circulating the Fla Mantra to cultivate. dusa coiled atop the Green Lotus and greedily absorbed the fire-attribute energy floating within the No. 1 cultivation room. One person and one snake beca like two vortices, voraciously absorbing. Large clusters of Heart Fla appeared within Xiao Yan, being purified into strands of exceedingly pure Dou
Qi.
Cultivation knew no day or night. In the blink of an eye, twenty days passed. The terrifying environnt of the No. 1 cultivation room allowed Xiao Yan to advance another star in just twenty days, reaching the 6-star Dou Spirit stage!
By now, the Heavenly Fla energy within the No. 1 cultivation room had visibly thinned; fortunately, this was the No. 1 cultivation room, so the energy replenished quickly. Sitting cross-legged on the stone platform, a ball of blood-red flas continuously refined under Xiao Yan's Spiritual Strength. Through that special soul contract with dusa, he transmitted the Heart Fla drawn from the stone platform to her, using the pure Heart Fla to accelerate the formation of her Heavenly Fla Snake Body.
'This ti, dusa should achieve Dou Ancestor-level combat strength.' Although dusa's body had not yet grown to its complete form, the Heavenly Fla Snake
Body Xiao Yan was refining for her had brought her strength close to the Dou Ancestor realm.
Just as Xiao Yan was secretly delighted at soon having a Dou Ancestor-level ally, an unexpected change occurred!
Boom! Boom! Boom!!! Suddenly, the entire cultivation room began to tremble. "What's going on? Is the Fallen Heart Fla acting up? No, this is-!" Xiao Yan's eyes sharpened as he looked at the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python within the Ten Thousand Beast Fla. He sensed that this tremor was caused by its energy outburst. "Energy rampage?! Hey, dusa, are you alright?!" Xiao Yan's heart tightened. He had never
used a Heavenly Fla to help soone condense a physical body before, and he had no idea what might happen!
Suddenly, the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python within the Ten Thousand Beast
Fla opened its eyes and stared fixedly at Xiao Yan. Its eyes glowed with a blood-red intensity, just like Lin Yan's.
'You've got to be kidding ! How did soone at the Dou Emperor level get fire poisoned!!'
Xiao Yan was greatly alard. He could handle Lin Yan, but how was he supposed to deal with
a Dou Ancestor-level dusa!!
A seven-colored divine light abruptly erupted from the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's body. An imnse force violently flung Xiao Yan away, and with a heavy thud, his entire body slamd against the wall.
Shaking his head to clear his dizziness, Xiao Yan found his hands suddenly seized and pinned
against the wall before he could react. In his bewildered state, he felt sothing soft press against his lips.
Xiao Yan's entire body jolted! His pupils widened dramatically. It was as if he had been struck by lightning. His body went rigid as he stared at the blushing beauty before him. He let out a muffled, (My first ti is ant for Xun Er!) tragic wail...
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