Fighting Soul Clan Demoness

Chapter 549 The Destination of the Escape?

The fire lotus was only the size of a palm, and Xiao Yan used his immense strength to forcefully clamp it in his hand. The lotus heart was divided into three petals, each displaying four different colors, as if it had stolen all the wonders of the world, dazzling and enchanting.

However, the only flaw is that this exquisitely beautiful fire lotus, as you get closer, takes on a slightly ethereal quality, like a firefly flickering in the summer night.

The Venerable Qinghai was the lucky one who witnessed it.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment, while the illusory lotus flower slowly magnified in his pupils until it replaced everything else.

"No, no!!" Venerable Qinghai finally felt fear.

At this moment, he finally realized that Xiao Yan had never intended to complete the Fire Lotus Fighting Technique from the beginning. Instead, he wanted to rely on his habitual thinking and, when his rationality was eroded by killing intent, exchange injury for death!

No. This is no longer about trading injury for death; this is a true life-or-death struggle. This remnant of the Sound Valley is trying to drag him down from his pedestal with his life!

"Madmen, those damned remnants of the Yin Valley, they'll always be a bunch of reckless madmen!"

The Venerable Qinghai let out a hysterical roar, and his Dou Zun light wheel flashed wildly, transforming into countless iron chains that lashed at Xiao Yan's body, trying to break free from the opponent's massive hand, which was as strong as a divine mountain.

But Xiao Yan seemed to feel no pain at all. The iron chains slammed into his body, producing only a tooth-grinding explosion like metal colliding.

"burst!"

His eyes were icy cold, and his voice seemed mechanical, like a steel judgment.

Boom——————

The Venerable Qinghai had never heard such a terrifying explosion in his life. Even his soul perception was reduced to nothingness, and only his heart was pounding wildly like a runaway carriage.

Accompanied by terrifying sounds never heard before in his life, and immense pain never felt before in his life, he followed in quick succession.

A fiery storm, hundreds of feet wide, erupted in an instant. Looking up from below, the storm pierced through the clouds, like a link connecting heaven and earth.
In an instant, all of Qinghai Venerable's senses were stripped away. He could no longer feel the previous excruciating pain and could only observe the destruction of his physical body with the soul power attached to the surface of his body.

"Uhhhhhhhh!!!"

Skin, bones, and blood—all organs—were charred by the flames. He instinctively suppressed the urge to scream, completely unaware of just how horrific his cries were.

"Xiao Yan!"

Seeing the devastating explosion in the sky, Hun Ruoruo's pretty face turned terribly gloomy. She didn't even care about the aftershocks of the explosion and wanted to rush into the center of the storm to find the other person.

But at that moment, a heavy, ancient, black ruler pierced through the storm, carrying Xiao Yan's charred figure as he flew backward and crashed heavily to the ground.

This was precisely the escape method Xiao Yan had prepared in advance: using the Xuan Heavy Ruler as an anchor point to stabilize himself, and then, at the moment of the explosion, quickly pulling himself away from the center of the explosion.
Only in this way can the damage to the fire lotus be avoided to the greatest extent.

"Let me carry you!"

Hun Ruoruo didn't offer any words of comfort or concern. She didn't even say a single extra word. She immediately activated her pure water battle qi to envelop the other person and then laboriously carried her on her shoulder.

After confirming that Xiao Yan was still breathing, the girl did not hesitate at all and quickly carried him away into the distance.

She knew very well that the fire lotus used by Xiao Yan was not a true finished product at all, and might not even have one-third of its power.

The reason it could produce such powerful destructive force was simply because it took a shortcut and launched a sneak attack when the Venerable Qinghai was caught off guard; it was simply impossible to kill a Dou Zun-level expert.

Reaching the Dou Zun level means that one is fundamentally different from ordinary cultivators. Not only is their cultivation level vastly different, but their vitality is also completely incomparable. Once the other party realizes this, the two of them will surely die!

"I'm too heavy."

Xiao Yan suddenly grinned and squeezed out broken words from his burnt throat.

At this moment, his face was deathly pale, his lips were dry and withered, and his body was covered with deep, bone-revealing burns.

What's amazing is that the joints, which should have been white, now have faint golden lines, and there is no sign of breakage at all.

And this is Xiao Yan's true trump card that allows him to withstand the fire lotus's attack at close range—the Heavenly Demon Puppet!

To be precise, he himself is the Heavenly Demon Puppet.

After undergoing the baptism of Dan Lei, Xiao Yan not only successfully comprehended the Three Thousand Thunder Illusion Body, but also completely transformed the refining method of the Heavenly Demon Puppet into a body refining technique, engraving the patterns deep into his bones, all in order to allow his physical body to achieve a leap forward.

As it turned out, Xiao Yan succeeded. Not only did he survive the fire lotus that was powerful enough to severely injure a Dou Zun, but he also survived without breaking a single bone and still had the ability to fight again.

"It's just a pity that my Fire Lotus didn't explode perfectly."

Xiao Yan paused, took a deep breath, and smiled through his blood-foam: "I will make up for this debt."

"Damn it, you're going to kill yourself sooner or later!" Hun Ruoruo gritted her teeth, but her hands didn't slow down at all as she carried Xiao Yan and ran. Xiao Yan chuckled: "Your senior brother is still a virgin, I can't bear to die."

"Is that so?" Hun Ruoruo seemed not to have caught the hidden meaning in his words and sneered, "Then you'd better stay a virgin for the rest of your life, so you'll never die!"

Xiao Yan: "."

Slowly crawling out of the ruins, Venerable Qinghai coughed up several mouthfuls of blood, and the Dou Zun Wheel behind him almost disappeared.

At this moment, his face was almost turned into a pile of rotten flesh, his dark eye sockets were sunken out, and even his eyeballs seemed to have been blown out halfway. His miserable state was beyond description.

"Why...why didn't that fighting technique kill him? Damn it!!"

The Venerable Qinghai roared with resentment, then suddenly reached out and forcefully stuffed the eyeball that was about to fall out back into its original position.

The excruciating pain continued to tear at his face and body. With his gradually recovering vision, he could vaguely see Hun Ruoruo and the other person fleeing into the distance again, and his heart clenched violently.

"That direction is..." Venerable Qinghai's pupils contracted: "No, absolutely impossible, how could they have the guts?"

He stopped the jumbled thoughts in his mind, forced himself to calm down, and carefully considered his options.

Now that things have come to this, even though the extremely threatening fire lotus in Xiao Yan's hand has dissipated, he absolutely cannot let the other party leave.
This is a truly irreconcilable situation. If the other side escapes today, they will face endless and utter turmoil!

At this moment, Venerable Qinghai even felt that ten years was too conservative. He had a vague premonition that when he met the two of them again, even with the Golden Crow's Cry as an aid, they would not be at a disadvantage again. On the contrary, they were very likely to kill him.

"The talents of these two are too terrifying. Even if I intend to take all the treasures for myself, I am afraid I am powerless. At such a young age, they already have the strength to fight against Dou Zun. Given time, I am afraid even my Twenty-Four Palaces of Earthly Fiends may fall into their hands."

The unprecedented blow actually calmed the Venerable Qinghai down. Like a wounded viper, he concealed his sharpness and quietly waited for the best opportunity to stop his opponent's life.

This wasn't him making a mountain out of a molehill. Anyone who dared to underestimate Xiao Yan and his companion because of their cultivation level and age, even if they were Dou Zun, would likely be toyed with and killed by them!
"Huchi. Huchi"

The same heavy breathing echoed through the jungle, but this time it was the girl below and the boy above.

Xiao Yan was unlike ordinary cultivators; the density of his bones and blood was exceptionally high, with each tiny unit containing immense power, and his weight naturally far exceeded that of ordinary people. This made things difficult for Hun Ruoruo, who was not good at physical training.

Because of the need to conceal their whereabouts, the girl didn't even dare to draw out any extra battle qi at this moment. She only used a sliver to support Xiao Yan's body to prevent herself from falling due to exhaustion.

"Ruo Ruo, how about I get down and walk by myself?" After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Yan asked without the slightest hesitation, his voice extremely weak.

"Stop nagging." Hun Ruoruo sullenly continued forward. "With your current physical body, you'll probably fall apart after just a few steps. Can't you be a little more careful with your life?!"

Xiao Yan, who choked on his own saliva, wasn't annoyed and just rubbed his nose helplessly.

"Alright then, let me put it another way." He moved a little closer to the girl and whispered, "Junior sister, you should pay attention to exercising."

It had only been half a day since we evacuated from the explosion zone.

Any expert nearing the peak of the Dou Zong realm could easily withstand this level of exertion, but Hun Ruoruo's stamina had long since run out, and her cheeks were so hot that their temperature could be felt from a distance.

Xiao Yan couldn't help but worry about her health.

"Shut up!"

Unable to bear it any longer, Hun Ruoruo exerted force with her slender hand and violently shook Xiao Yan's body, immediately eliciting a painful groan.

"Aren't you tired of always arguing here?"

“I don’t want to keep arguing, but the main problem is that we can’t keep running away like this.” Xiao Yan said with a wry smile, “The Qinghai Venerable will catch up sooner or later, and our strength is almost exhausted.”

Although we do not know where the Venerable Qinghai is now, we are certain that with his cunning and greedy nature, he will not give up so easily and may come back to kill us at any time.

Therefore, in Xiao Yan's view, the best option is to return to the Starfall Pavilion and reunite with Yao Lao and the others. In any case, both sides are already severely injured, and as for who will win or lose, that is up to fate.

Xiao Yan glanced tentatively at the girl, only to find that although she looked nervous, she seemed to have no fear of being chased, which was extremely strange.

He finally couldn't hold back any longer and asked, "Ruoruo, what exactly are you planning?"

"Hang in there a little longer, we're almost there." Hun Ruoruo didn't offer any explanation, but her voice was unusually gentle.

"Coming?"

Yes, we're almost there.

Having said that, the girl ignored the other person's bewildered expression and simply increased her speed, rushing forward with all her might.
(End of this chapter)