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

"Eat it!"

"Waaaaah, thank you, waaaaah, it's so delicious, waaaaah..." Zi Yan picked up her chopsticks and quickly stuffed her mouth full. Chen Yang and Qing Lin exchanged a smile and silently served Zi Yan more food. They ate happily, and although the little girl wasn't full, she was definitely satisfied.

After the meal, Chen Yang examined the medicinal herbs that Zi Yan had brought back, found more than a dozen of them, and took out seven or eight more from his own inventory. He then began refining medicine without a cauldron, and even refined four kinds of pills at the same time.

Half an hour later, four Grade 5 pills emitting a unique fragrance were produced. Zi Yan, who was sitting on a small stool next to Chen Yang, was immediately delighted. This smell was much better than any medicinal herbs she had eaten over the years.

"Here, one at a time. You can only take the second one after the medicinal effects have been fully refined, otherwise you will really get diarrhea!" Chen Yang put the four pills into four jade bottles and threw them to Zi Yan, giving her serious instructions.

"Mmm!" Zi Yan nodded obediently, knowing that she would grow up very quickly.

"Sweetie, get a good night's sleep. We'll set off first thing tomorrow morning!" Chen Yang got up, clapped his hands, and patted Zi Yan's head.

"Okay!" Zi Yan nodded, stood on tiptoe and tried to pat Chen Yang's shoulder, but only reached his arm. The little girl pouted in dissatisfaction, then spread her battle wings, floated up and patted Chen Yang's shoulder, then giggled and left.

"That little girl!" Chen Yang shook his head. After watching Zi Yan leave, he taught Qing Lin some combat skills for a while, and then the two began to review the wonders of riding!

……

The next morning, Xiao Yan, having adjusted his condition, arrived at the entrance of Chen Yang's courtyard early in the morning to wait. Soon after, he saw a little girl in a white dress skipping and hopping over.

"Oh, Zi Yan?" Xiao Yan greeted her with a smile upon seeing Zi Yan.

"Xiao Yan, are you also an assistant that Chen Yang invited?" Zi Yan asked Xiao Yan, smacking her lips as she savored the taste of the pills Chen Yang had refined for her last night.

"Uh..." Xiao Yan scratched his head. Why did this sound so strange?

"Squeak!" Just then, the courtyard gate opened, and it was Tiger King who opened it.

"Good morning, Tiger King!" Xiao Yan greeted Tiger King with a smile.

"Good morning, Young Master Xiao Yan, Miss Zi Yan!" Tiger King nodded to the two and respectfully welcomed them in.

Chen Yang was already waiting in the courtyard.

"Brother Yang!"

"Chen Yang!"

After exchanging greetings, they ate breakfast. After breakfast, Chen Yang tore open a space and disappeared with Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan.

Meanwhile, the Tiger King guarded the house. This trip to Demon Flame Valley was a crushing victory, and with the Tiger King, whose strength was neither high nor low, they still didn't know what it could do.

He brought Zi Yan along mainly to give her a sense of participation and help her integrate better into his team. Otherwise, the spatial seal set up by the old demon could be broken with a single thought from him.

At this moment, Su Qian, who was next door, sensed that Chen Yang had used spatial power to disappear and immediately shook her head: "I wonder what this young master is going to do this time!"

……

In the blink of an eye, they arrived at Demon Flame Valley.

Looking at the valley before them, which was even larger than Black Seal City, Chen Yang and Xiao Yan gained a new understanding of the terrain of the Dou Qi Continent.

[The real East African Rift Valley]

"So this is Demon Flame Valley!" Xiao Yan muttered.

"The strongest person in Demon Flame Valley is called Earth Demon Old Ghost, hmm... he's a Seven-Star Dou Zong expert!" Chen Yang sensed it and said to Xiao Yan and the others.

"A Seven-Star Dou Zong? Isn't that a much stronger expert than Elder Su Qian?" Zi Yan spread her Dou Qi wings and stood shoulder to shoulder with Chen Yang and the others, exclaiming in surprise.

"The purpose of this trip is to eliminate the powerful figures of Demon Flame Valley and clear the way for the future development of the Yang Alliance in the Black Corner Region!" Chen Yang said calmly.

“No problem, I’ll join forces with Teacher!” Xiao Yan nodded. He didn’t think that he couldn’t attack Demon Flame Valley unless they offended him. Brother Yang had already said that Demon Flame Valley was going to be destroyed, so this place must not be a good place.

"Leave it to me, to avoid causing any more trouble!" Chen Yang waved his hand, and the spatial power enveloped Xiao Yan and the others, causing them to disappear. The next second, they arrived at the inner valley of Demon Flame Valley.

Just as Chen Yang and his group landed and were about to charge in, a familiar voice rang in his ears:

【Ding……】

Chapter 130 The Heavenly Demon Puppet Triggers the System Mechanism! Chen Yang Obtains Heavenly Soldiers and Generals!

【Ding! 】

[The strongest puppet technique detected in Demon Flame Valley is the Celestial Demon Puppet. The host has obtained the puppet technique—Heavenly Soldiers and Generals!]

【Heavenly Soldiers and Generals: Created by the Flame Emperor, the Lord of the Endless Fire Domain of the Great Thousand Worlds, who improved the Heavenly Demon Puppet. They are divided into Heavenly Soldier-level puppets and Heavenly General-level puppets!】

Heavenly Soldier Level: Requires at least the same physical body and soul of a peak Nine-Star Dou Zong expert, plus at least a seventh-tier magic core and special metal materials, and is repeatedly forged with three different flames. The Heavenly Soldier Level puppet will possess the consciousness of its previous life, be able to use its previous fighting techniques, and absorb heavenly lightning to continuously evolve. Depending on the materials, the maximum limit is the peak of a Nine-Star Dou Sheng!

Heavenly General Level: To craft a Heavenly General Level puppet, at a minimum, one needs the body and soul of a Nine-Star Dou Sheng, plus at least a ninth-tier magic core and special metal materials. It must be forged using any of the top three Strange Flames on the Strange Flame Ranking, and requires a ninth-grade Golden Core Immortal Puppet Pill to activate. A Heavenly General Level puppet possesses a pre-death consciousness, can learn combat techniques and secret arts, and can absorb any energy to evolve. Its maximum potential is the peak of the Spirit-Grade Heavenly Supreme!

Besides some text materials, the system panel also features short videos of Emperor Yan improving his secret techniques and videos of heavenly soldiers and generals, which are extremely tempting.

Along with the content on the system panel, a detailed list of crafting techniques and special materials for "Heavenly Soldiers and Generals" appeared in Chen Yang's mind as if it had been unsealed.

After taking a quick look, Chen Yang couldn't help but marvel at how useful this thing was, but the materials were also incredibly expensive.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!" Just as Chen Yang was thinking about where to find the special metal needed for "Heavenly Soldiers and Generals", a group of figures suddenly darted out of the Demon Flame Valley. The leader was an old man dressed in green, with a thin figure. The most distinctive feature was his two hands exposed outside his sleeves. They were not only unusually large, but also had long, slender fingers with nails that gleamed with a cold light like blades.

"Your Excellencies have trespassed into my Demon Flame Valley without prior notice. Isn't that a bit impolite? I am Xie Zhen, the Fourth Elder of Demon Flame Valley. Friends from the Black Corner Region have given me face by calling me 'Old Man Eagle Claw.' May I ask which faction you and your companions come from, and what your purpose is in trespassing into my Demon Flame Valley?" Xie Zhen's eyes were gloomy as he looked at Chen Yang and the others. The aura of a five-star Dou Huang was unmistakable. In his view, although the two men and two women in front of him were all young geniuses, with three Dou Wangs and one person whose strength was unclear, they were at most seven or eight-star Dou Huangs. If they were allowed to escape on Demon Flame Valley's territory, where would Demon Flame Valley's reputation be?

"Murder! Robbery!" Chen Yang glanced at Xie Zhen and uttered four words indifferently.

"Arrogant!" Xie Zhen snorted coldly upon hearing this, and the disciples of Demon Flame Valley behind him sneered.

"Kid, three Dou Wangs and one Dou Huang, you think you can come to our Demon Flame Valley to beg for food? Do you think Demon Flame Valley is someone that anyone can mess with?" A three-star Dou Wang looked at Chen Yang and the others with disdain and sneered.

"Let's attack together, take them down, and then hand them over to the Valley Master for further judgment!" a nine-star Dou Ling said in a deep voice.

"Go!" After saying that, the three-star Dou Wang didn't wait for Xie Zhen to speak and used his movement technique to rush towards Chen Yang and the others.

"Overestimating yourself!" Xiao Yan shook his neck, his hand resting on the Xuanzhong Ruler behind his back, about to make a move. But then he saw Chen Yang wave his hand lightly, and the three-star Dou Wang instantly turned into dust, leaving only three storage rings floating in the air, looking extremely bizarre.

"You...who exactly are you???" Upon seeing this, Xie Zhen, who was originally planning to cover the battle, suddenly stopped in his tracks and looked at Chen Yang with a look of fear.

"Dead people don't need to know these things!"

As Chen Yang spoke, Xie Zhen and the others seemed to be frozen in place, their eyes glazed over, and in less than two and a half seconds, they completely lost their life force.

Xiao Yan's pupils suddenly contracted. He had not sensed any fluctuations in soul power, nor had Chen Yang used any battle qi or spatial power. In other words, what Chen Yang had just used was a powerful sonic battle technique.

"Hiss... I still have a long way to go in the art of sonic combat!" Xiao Yan sighed inwardly, but his hands did not slow down at all. Accompanied by flashes of lightning, Xiao Yan moved among the corpses of Xie Zhen and the others, and in a few seconds he had dug up a bunch of storage rings and ran back.

"This is so much fun! Chen Yang, can I steal a few storage rings next?" Zi Yan was immediately excited when she saw this scene. She looked up at Chen Yang with a smile and said excitedly.

"No problem!" Chen Yang reached out and patted Zi Yan's head, smiling as he spoke.

"whee……"

With Xie Zhen's death, the disciples of Demon Flame Valley who witnessed this scene from afar were all stunned and hurriedly went inside to spread the word.

Chen Yang was too lazy to wander around, so he just stood there and waited. Before long, the three of them arrived.

These three all possessed the aura of peak Dou Huang, though the leader's aura was slightly stronger, suggesting he wasn't far from reaching the half-step Dou Zong level.

"Your Mightiness……"

"brush!"

Just as the three were about to step forward and speak, Chen Yang gently raised his hand, and a spatial force instantly gripped their necks, pulling them close to his face.

"I'll give you a chance to live. Submit to me, and I'll spare your lives. Otherwise, you'll die!" Three peak Dou Huangs can't be used to refine Heavenly Demon Puppets or Heavenly Generals. Killing them would be a waste. It's better to leave a strange fire in their bodies to control them. After all, in the Black Corner Region, three peak Dou Huangs who work together are comparable to Dou Zongs and are quite useful.

"Dou... Dou Zun???" Fang Yan, the Grand Elder of Demon Flame Valley, looked at Chen Yang with disbelief in his eyes.

How could there be... such a young Dou Zun powerhouse?

"I surrender, I surrender!" Before Fang Yan's shock could subside, the Second Elder had already admitted defeat and chosen to surrender.

Even their Valley Master would have to kneel before a Dou Zun expert; these three peak Dou Huang experts shouldn't be pretending to be heroes here.

"I surrender, I surrender too!" Fang Yan hurriedly said, realizing what was happening. It wasn't easy to cultivate to the peak of Dou Huang. He also had three beautiful wives and concubines. If he died, wouldn't that benefit others? He didn't want to die; he wanted to live.

Seeing that Fang Yan and the Second Elder had submitted, Chen Yang nodded and turned to look at the Third Elder. The Third Elder was so anxious that tears were about to fall, but he couldn't speak. Fang Yan hurriedly explained to Chen Yang, "Senior, my third brother stutters. He easily becomes speechless when he's nervous. Third brother, just nod when you submit, nod!"

Upon hearing Fang Yan's words, the Third Elder quickly realized what was happening, gave Fang Yan a grateful look, nodded vigorously at Chen Yang, and stammered, "Me...me too!"

"Not bad!" Seeing that the three elders of Demon Flame Valley had all submitted, Chen Yang nodded in satisfaction. "Those who know when to yield are wise. You will be glad you made your choice today!"

After saying this, Chen Yang separated three streams of volcanic rock flames and injected them into the bodies of Fang Yan and the other two: "If you have no disloyal intentions, this strange fire will never erupt, and it may even save your lives in critical moments. But if you harbor any rebellious thoughts, this strange fire will instantly burn away your heart meridians, followed by your souls. In an instant, you will all be reduced to ashes!"

The three men, speaking in dialects, hurriedly nodded, professing their loyalty, and knelt on one knee, addressing their master.

They were well aware of these methods of controlling people; they controlled some of their own people in this way. Chen Yang's open display of these methods actually made them feel much more at ease.

"Just call me Alliance Leader!" Chen Yang said calmly.

"Yes, Alliance Leader!" the three said in unison, then stood up and stood beside Chen Yang as his guards.

Seeing this, Chen Yang smiled slightly and called out loudly, "Old Demon, a guest has come to visit. Are you going to refuse him your visit?"

After Chen Yang finished speaking, he suddenly felt a fluctuation of spatial power behind the Demon Flame Valley. Then, he sensed a powerful aura rushing away at an incredible speed.

"Heh... This old demon is quite clever. He knows that a Dou Zun expert is invincible, so he ran away. It's just a pity..." Chen Yang chuckled, his figure suddenly disappearing from the spot. In less than three seconds, he appeared behind the old demon and grabbed him by the neck.

"How could a Dou Zun expert possibly imagine the methods of a Dou Zong?" After saying this, Chen Yang tore through the void and reappeared at the entrance of the Demon Flame Valley, carrying the ashen-faced Earth Demon Old Ghost.

"Senior, spare me! I am willing to lead Demon Flame Valley to submit to you. From now on, Demon Flame Valley and my Earth Demon will be your most loyal dogs!" The old demon looked at Chen Yang and pleaded.

"Compared to you as a person, I think your soul and body are more useful to me. What do you think?" Chen Yang chuckled.

"Ah!!!" the old demon roared, his aura suddenly surging. "Since you won't let me live, then I'll make sure you suffer even in death!"

As the old demon roared, he was about to self-destruct.

"Heh! Overestimating yourself!" Chen Yang sneered, grabbed the Earth Demon Old Ghost's right hand and squeezed it, instantly pouring terrifying battle qi into the Earth Demon Old Ghost's body, suppressing its violent ice-type battle qi in an instant.

"what!"

"I refuse to accept this! I refuse to accept this! Why! Why???"

"My Demon Flame Valley, content to develop its power in a secluded corner, is about to be destroyed by a powerhouse like you!"

"I'll never let you go, not even if it kills me!!!"

The old demon roared loudly.

Hearing the words of the old demon, Chen Yang smiled slightly, raised his hand to destroy its life force, pulled its soul out of its body and put it into a jade bottle, and put its physical body into his storage ring.

No one spoke throughout the entire process.

That's how it is in the Dou Qi Continent; the strong are respected.

In the absence of a stronger authority, the strong are those who can take whatever they want from the weak, and this taking includes your life.