Battle Through the Heavens: The Strongest in the Entire Map, I Will Always Be Above You

Upon hearing Xiao Yan's words, the five soul entities were immediately stunned. The four lower-level ones subconsciously turned to look at Elder Chen. After pondering for a moment, Elder Chen floated to the closest point to Xiao Yan and asked, "Young brother, is what you say true?"

Xiao Yan chuckled: "Of course it's true!"

Looking into Xiao Yan's seemingly honest eyes, Elder Chen remained silent for a few seconds before nodding directly: "Alright, as long as the Yang Alliance behind you can revive us, young brother, the lives of the five of us will be entrusted to the Yang Alliance!"

Xiao Yan smiled, then reached out and grabbed the cage, giving it a shake. Instantly, the cage that had trapped the five souls, leaving them unable to live or die, turned into dust.

This thing is only effective against souls, but for normal people, even a Dou Ling can easily break through this cage, let alone Xiao Yan, who is a Dou Wang.

At Yao Lao's suggestion, Xiao Yan put these souls into the Bone Flame Ring, where Yao Lao would train them.

After dealing with these matters, Xiao Yan used a fire to relieve the pain of the remaining dazed souls, then flew away from the Soul Palace building to reunite with Chen Yang.

……

While Xiao Yan was ransacking the house, Chen Yang was dissecting the dragon corpse of the Tyrannosaurus God. This guy's life force was extinguished, and after Chen Yang captured his soul, his original half-dragon form was restored to his original body, which was about ten feet long. This Tyrannosaurus God was obviously not a pure-blooded dragon, and his wings were the most distinctive feature.

However, although this dragon corpse has impure blood, it is still a dragon after all. Its demonic core and essence blood can be used to refine medicine, and its wings can be used to refine flying combat techniques. Once Chen Yang obtains the Nine-Winged Sky Goose, he can start refining it. Its body is also a great tonic. Not to mention that people can eat it, it is also excellent for feeding magical beasts.

After disassembling it and removing impurities from the essence blood with a strange fire, Chen Yang obtained three small bottles of pure essence blood and a pile of materials.

In addition, Chen Yang also organized the storage rings of all the Soul Hall powerhouses, including the Old Demon Qi Cang.

Among the items in the storage ring of the Old Demon of Qicang, Chen Yang found the Earth-rank high-level combat skill he cultivated, "Blood Demon Great Handprint," as well as the Earth-rank mid-level cultivation technique he practiced, "Soul Devouring Technique." This "Soul Devouring Technique" was probably a technique of the Soul Clan. Chen Yang threw these two items, along with other items that clearly had the characteristics of the Soul Palace, into a corner of the storage ring. If there was an opportunity in the future, he could trade with the ancient clans or something similar, as they would probably be interested in the things of their enemies.

Besides these, Chen Yang mainly gained two low-level Earth Rank cultivation techniques, five low-level Earth Rank combat skills, and dozens of other Xuan Rank techniques. These cultivation techniques and combat skills were of normal quality and could be left for those around him to cultivate or put back into the Yang Alliance as a foundation.

In addition, I also received elixirs, medicinal herbs, and gold coins.

Regarding elixirs, he found an eighth-grade three-colored thunder elixir and five seventh-grade healing or qi-restoring elixirs in the storage ring of the old demon Qi Cang. The other people's storage rings contained a number of medicinal herbs and elixirs, most of which were sixth-grade or lower. The only seventh-grade one he found was in the storage ring of Protector Xiao, which was also a healing elixir.

"The Soul Palace... isn't very wealthy either!" Chen Yang muttered to himself, turning his head to look down at the Heavenly Burial Ravine, where he saw Xiao Yan and the Six-Winged Tiger King returning.

"Brother Yang, this Soul Palace is really poor. I searched all over and only found a little over 50 million gold coins. There aren't even 30 main medicinal herbs that can be used to refine pills of grade five or above. They're not even as rich as the Mo family!" Xiao Yan muttered with a look of disdain.

"The Soul Hall isn't a family or sect. Most of the people here act independently, and they naturally keep their own interests in their own hands!" Chen Yang said calmly.

"So that means they're all in those storage rings you collected, Brother Yang?" Xiao Yan asked.

"Of course!" Chen Yang chuckled and looked at Xiao Yan. "So, this time it's my turn to make a fortune, hehe..."

Xiao Yan's face darkened instantly. "You're getting rich, fine, but why are you telling me this... Ahhhh, this is so painful!" Seeing Chen Yang get rich was more painful for Xiao Yan than losing a hundred million gold coins himself.

In particular, Chen Yang also acquired the entire fortune of a three-star Dou Zun, equivalent to the combined wealth of many Dou Zong and Dou Huang!

After mentally complaining for a while, Xiao Yan listlessly recounted the story of the five alchemists' souls he had just taken.

After careful questioning and investigation by the old alchemist, it was discovered that among the five alchemists, the seventh-rank Chen Lao was a four-star Dou Zong in his lifetime, while the other four were all Dou Huangs: one was a peak sixth-rank, two were ordinary sixth-rank, and one was a peak fifth-rank. Among them, the peak fifth-rank was the strongest in his lifetime, reaching the strength of an eight-star Dou Huang.

After receiving this information, Chen Yang said, "Anyway, we've obtained quite a few skeletons this time, including one from a Dou Zun. These soul bodies only have one Dou Zong, while the rest are Dou Huang. So we only need to consume the skeleton of one Dou Zong!"

Xiao Yan frowned and said, "But I haven't seen a single ingredient for the seventh-grade Bone Regeneration and Blood Fusion Pill yet. Even if I find it, it should be given to my teacher first!"

He agreed to the conditions, but the pills and the essence and bloodline of the magical beasts were difficult to find.

"No problem. They don't deserve high-grade pills. A sixth-grade peak Qingyu Pill will suffice. As for the beast essence blood, a sixth-order beast will do. We can just find any beast to kill later," Chen Yang chuckled.

“That’s true. Our teacher was a Dou Zun in life, so naturally he needs good things to be resurrected. But they are at most Dou Zong, so some substitutes will be enough!” Xiao Yan also felt that he had fallen into a misconception, thinking that the resurrection of strong people must use the conditions that Yao Lao mentioned.

"Alright, time is of the essence, let's not linger here. If the Soul Hall discovers that the branch hall has been destroyed and sends powerful experts, it will be troublesome!" Who knows if the people from the other branches of the Soul Hall will be included in the statistics if they come here? If not, wouldn't we become clowns?

"Shall we go straight back to Canaan Academy?" Xiao Yan asked.

"Let's go to the capital of the Tianxin Empire first and see if the capital of the empire in the Northwest Continent, which is closest to Zhongzhou, has the medicinal herbs we need. If it does, we won't have to go back and search everywhere!" Chen Yang said with a smile.

“Alright!” Xiao Yan nodded, and then he and Chen Yang led the Fierce Tiger King straight to the capital of the Heavenly Heart Empire.

In the capital of the Tianxin Empire, the two of them visited various auction houses and herbal medicine shops, and actually managed to gather all the ingredients for the two types of pills that Xiao Yan needed, except for the Earth Core Tempering Milk.

In addition, Chen Yang also collected some medicinal materials for refining seventh-grade pills, such as the main or auxiliary ingredients for Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill and Transformation Pill. Unfortunately, even in the great city of the Tianxin Empire, he could not find Transformation Grass.

After spending most of their gold coins and pills, Chen Yang and Xiao Yan flew away from the Tianxin Empire and then opened a spatial passage to enter, heading straight for the Black Corner Region.

……

Ten days after Chen Yang and his two beasts, along with their six souls, left the Heavenly Heart Empire, a spatial rift suddenly appeared above the Heavenly Burial Ravine. An old man in blue robes stepped out from it. As soon as the old man appeared, a light drizzle began to fall from the sky, and the Heavenly Burial Ravine was instantly shrouded in a curtain of rain.

"There isn't a single living person left?" Mo Yu looked down at the Heavenly Burial Ravine, his brows furrowed. "In this Northwest Continent, besides Mang Tianchi from Canaan Academy, is there anyone else capable of killing the Old Demon Qizang?"

The one who came was none other than Mo Yu, the Nine Heavenly Venerables of the Soul Palace and a peak Seven-Star Dou Zun.

Mo Yu flashed into the Heavenly Burial Ravine and began to probe with his soul power. After a moment, Mo Yu was filled with rage and roared, "Volcanic Stone Flame... Good... Good indeed! I didn't expect the Flame Clan to extend their reach to the Northwest Continent and even destroy one of my Soul Palace branch halls. Very good, excellent..."

Mo Yu gritted his teeth, stepped out and disappeared into the spatial passage, it was unknown whether he was going to cause trouble for the Yan Clan!

……

Meanwhile, Chen Yang, unaware that the Yan Clan had taken the blame for him, had already appeared in the Black Corner Region.

After advancing to the Five-Star Dou Zun, Chen Yang only took ten days to travel from the Tianxin Empire to the Black Corner Region, and that was with frequent stops along the way.

Looking at the vast Black Domain Plain that appeared before him, Xiao Yan glanced at Chen Yang beside him and sighed:

"A Dou Zun level expert is indeed terrifying..."

Chapter 124 Ya Fei: You can't have a child just by talking!

"This trip has been very fruitful, Brother Yang!" In the sky, Xiao Yan, carrying twelve storage rings filled with various medicinal herbs, thought to himself that he really was from a small place and hadn't seen much of the world.

If the Heavenly Heart Empire, which is the closest to Zhongzhou, can gather enough Earth Spirit Pills and all the medicinal materials for all the pills he and the Xiao family will need to cultivate over the next few years, one can only imagine how prosperous Zhongzhou, with its abundance of powerful figures, must be.

"This is an unexpected bonus. Normally, your cultivation wouldn't be so easy," Chen Yang said with a smile, his hands behind his back.

"Hehe, we've made it in time!" Xiao Yan chuckled. He understood Chen Yang's point: the path to becoming a strong person is fraught with difficulties. If everything goes smoothly without laying a solid foundation, the road ahead will likely be much harder.

"Haha..." Chen Yang chuckled. Having been in Dou Qi Continent for a long time, this was the first time he had given Xiao Yan such instructions. Perhaps, imperceptibly, he had come to regard this fellow villager, whose mental age was even older than his own, as a true friend.

"Brother Yang, where are we going next? Back to Canaan Academy?" Xiao Yan estimated the time. Xun'er and the others must have already entered the inner courtyard by now, and should even have gotten used to the environment of the inner courtyard and started cultivating. However... this place is quite close to the Jia Ma Empire.

"I'm going back to Gama, I miss my wife!" After being out for a long time, Chen Yang said that since Qinglin was underage and couldn't eat it, he felt a little itchy.

Xiao Yan: "..."

If you miss your wife, just say so, can't you just say it directly?

Seeing Xiao Yan roll his eyes, Chen Yang laughed heartily: "Hahaha, Xiao Yanzi, if you miss Xun'er, just go to Canaan Academy. I made an agreement with Qing Lin for two months, and only forty days have passed. I'll only stay in the Jia Ma Empire for two weeks at most before coming back. There are still many things to take care of at Canaan Academy!"

Xiao Yan gritted his teeth at Chen Yang, bumped Chen Yang with his left shoulder, but was thrown back. He rubbed his sore shoulder and said helplessly, "Forget it, I'll go back with you, Brother Yang. With a Dou Zun expert leading the way, it won't take an hour for us to go back and forth. If I fly back to the capital by myself, it will take at least ten days to half a month with all the stops!"

Chen Yang nodded nonchalantly: "Alright, let's go then!"

……

Beyond the Black Plains lies the Ghost-Suppressing Pass. With Chen Yang's current strength, it only took him a dozen minutes to appear above the capital of Jiama from the Black Corner Region.

Looking at the familiar capital city, Chen Yang and Xiao Yan exchanged a glance. Xiao Yan went back to the Xiao family, while Chen Yang glanced around and then appeared in the Yang Alliance headquarters in a flash.

At this time, at the Yang Alliance headquarters, after handing over the affairs of the Mittel family back to Teng Shan, Ya Fei took on the role of the spokesperson for Chen Yang of the Yang Alliance. Internally, everyone called her by her name or Miss Ya Fei, while outsiders referred to her as the Alliance Leader's wife.

In Chen Yang's room, Ya Fei leaned on her hand, gazing at the wind chimes Chen Yang had made by hand on the windowsill, her eyes somewhat misty.

Whenever she had free time, she would think of Chen Yang, wondering if he had eaten well, if he had encountered any strong opponents he couldn't defeat, and if he had been ripped off when doing business with others.

"Sigh... I wonder how my brother is doing now?" Ya Fei sighed, then picked up her pen and continued writing.

"Ding-a-ling!" Suddenly, the wind chimes hanging on the window frame rang, and two familiar hands suddenly appeared on her shoulders.

Ya Fei, who was alone in the room, suddenly froze and instinctively let out a scream.

In the living room outside, a beautiful woman in a purple dress, who was lying on the table idly gazing at the lotus pond, heard Ya Fei's scream. In an instant, she disappeared from her spot and reappeared inside the house the next second.

Then, she saw Chen Yang standing behind Ya Fei and exclaimed in surprise, "Master!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Yang turned his head and smiled at the woman in the purple dress who was posing as an attacker towards him: "Heh, big lion, your transformed appearance is quite handsome!"

The beautiful woman in the purple dress was none other than the Amethyst Winged Lion King, who had successfully transformed after advancing to the next level. Hearing Chen Yang's praise, she shyly performed a somewhat clumsy curtsy and said, "Master, you flatter me. Without your guidance, I would not have achieved what I have today."

At this moment, Ya Fei finally realized what was happening. She got up, playfully punched Chen Yang, scolded him a few times, and then snuggled into his arms.

Upon seeing this, the Amethyst Winged Lion King, now known as Purple Robe, wisely left the bedroom, closing the door behind him.

After a brief moment of tenderness between Chen Yang and Ya Fei, Ya Fei said softly, "The Amethyst Winged Lion King successfully transformed thirteen days ago. She took the initiative to stay at the Yang Alliance headquarters, saying that when she agreed to follow you, she promised to be your guardian beast. Now that your power is only the Yang Alliance, she wants to keep her promise!"

Chen Yang sniffed the sweet fragrance and nodded: "Who gave her the name Ziyi?"

Upon hearing this, Ya Fei looked a little proud: "It's me. What do you think? This name suits her quite well, doesn't it? After she transforms, she appears in a purple dress. Her name contains the characters 'purple' and 'wing,' which sounds like 'purple dress,' which is both beautiful and befitting of her status!"

Chen Yang reached out and tapped Ya Fei's nose, praising, "It seems that Sister Ya Fei not only has a business mind, but is also so good at naming things. Why don't we let Sister Ya Fei name our future children!"

Upon hearing the word "child," Ya Fei blushed instantly, but being always bold, she looked up at Chen Yang with teary eyes and said, "You can't get a child just by talking..."

Upon seeing this, Chen Yang burst into laughter: "Haha, then let's prove it with actions!"

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Five days later, Chen Yang left the capital city and went to the Yunlan Sect.

Two months later, Yunlan Sect had recovered quite well. The buildings that were damaged by Protector Wu and Yunshan had all been repaired.

Chen Yang swaggered to Yun Yun's palace, only to be told that the sect leader was in seclusion. Having missed his target, Chen Yang went to the back mountain to find a place to refine pills. Among the pills he gave Yun Yun were two wind-attribute pills, one of grade seven to improve her aptitude and the other of grade six at its peak to improve her cultivation.

The copyright for this item also comes from the Flame Emperor, the lord of the Endless Fire Domain in a certain Great Thousand World. Chen Yang originally intended to refine it for Ya Fei, but the Jia Ma Empire was too poor and could not collect all the medicinal materials.

It just so happens that all the medicinal herbs were collected in the Tianxin Empire, which is one of the reasons why Chen Yang returned to Jiama.

In addition, there are five ice-attribute special items for Hai Bodong. Two of them are specifically for improving cultivation level, and the other three are for accelerating cultivation speed. All of them are low-grade and mid-grade seventh-rank items, the kind that cannot summon pill lightning.

After refining the pills, Chen Yang used his Dou Zun techniques to deliver the two pills to Yun Yun and left a letter.

After returning to the capital of Jiama, Chen Yang delivered Hai Bodong's pills. The two of them, along with Xiao Yan, drank together for a while. Chen Yang then told Xiao Yan that he would be going to the Chuyun Empire again.

Xiao Yan said that Chen Yang could go by himself. He would stay in the capital for a few more days and, after transforming the medicinal herbs he had obtained into the foundation of the Xiao family, he would return to Canaan Academy.

Chen Yang nodded and headed straight for the ruins of the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate of the Cloud Empire.

Upon arriving at the ruins of the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate and entering the space where Little Fairy Doctor resided, Chen Yang was surprised to find a cocoon in the location of the small wooden house in the middle of the lake. After a careful inspection, Chen Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

The cocoon formed by Little Fairy Doctor was actually a legacy left by the previous controller of the Netherworld Poison Fire. Although it is unknown how Little Fairy Doctor triggered it, it is a good thing. Judging from Chen Yang's current perspective, once Little Fairy Doctor has transformed all the poisonous flowers, poisonous plants, and poisonous water in this space with this legacy, she may be able to reach the Dou Zun level.

"However, in that case, I'm afraid Xian'er won't be able to come out for at least a year!" Chen Yang shook his head helplessly, but it was a good thing that Little Fairy Doctor was able to have this opportunity.

He stayed there for a few more days, leaving a letter for Little Fairy Doctor, and left on the fifth day.

Shortly after Chen Yang left, the large purple cocoon swayed slightly before falling silent again...