Breaking the Masked Man

“Hmm~” Cai Die naturally wouldn’t refuse. Although she wasn’t particularly attached to cultivation, she didn’t want to miss out on too much of the medicine.

"Aren't you going to rest for a while?"

Cai Lin could no longer pretend to be asleep. She opened her eyes, her light purple eyes fixed on Yao Yan, her voice soft yet tinged with seriousness.

"Do you think I need it?"

Yao Yan looked into Cai Lin's eyes and said meaningfully.

Livestock!

Cai Lin's breath hitched, but she immediately realized she had been overthinking things. She closed her eyes and ignored Yao Yan.

The butterfly blinked its clear eyes, not quite understanding yet. (End of Chapter)

207. Chapter 207

207.

Time flies, and half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

Inside the palace of the Serpent People.

Zi Yan sat bored by the railing, swinging her cute little feet. Her big, deep purple eyes stared blankly at the distant sky. After a long while, she muttered, "So boring~ Why haven't Big Brother and Sister Cai Lin come out of seclusion yet?"

Seemingly getting angrier the more she thought about it, she gently stroked the spatial bracelet on her wrist, took out a bottle of pills, and started taking them.

For her, when she's in a bad mood, eating is all she needs to do.

Ling'er lay on Zi Yan's head, lazily squinting her eyes and swaying her beautiful big tail. She only opened her eyes when she saw Zi Yan taking the pill. As a little foodie, how could she watch Zi Yan eat alone? She let out a soft and cute cry and reached out her paw to pat Zi Yan's head.

Zi Yan seemed used to this, and handed over the half-eaten medicine bottle. Then she continued to stare blankly into the distance. She suddenly felt that the older brother she had recognized was a liar. He had promised to take her out to play, but after arriving in the Jia Ma Empire, Yao Yan started to get busy. If she hadn't been hungry, she would have definitely given Yao Yan a good beating.

Ling'er took the medicine bottle and happily began to take the medicine.

Ling'er only realized what was happening when a figure appeared behind the human and the fox. She tilted her head to look at the newcomer, and at that moment, her neck was grabbed by the person behind her, accompanied by a laughing and cursing voice.

"Eat, eat, and eat!"

"?!"

Zi Yan turned her head at the sound and saw Yao Yan teasing Ling'er. Her eyes lit up and she exclaimed with surprise, "Big brother, you've come out of seclusion?!"

"Once the matter is settled, you will naturally be released from quarantine."

Yao Yan rubbed his kidneys and said with a complicated expression, "Compared to helping Cai Lin evolve her bloodline, helping Cai Die evolve hers was twice as difficult. Who could blame him when the two sisters have a special telepathic connection, especially when they are close to each other... Naturally, this made things difficult for me as well."

It can only be said that they are indeed of the Medusa Queen's lineage, truly... very persistent.

It took him a full half month to barely feed the two women. From now on, Yao Yan wouldn't need to watch over them anymore during the evolution process; he just needed to wait patiently.

The bloodline of the butterfly is different from that of the scales, so their evolutionary paths are also different.

Cai Lin's original companion soul was the Purple Nether Flame Serpent, which eventually evolved into the Devouring Python clan. Cai Die's, on the other hand, was the Purple Nether Dark Serpent, whose bloodline evolution was towards the Ancient Heavenly Serpent, which was on par with the Devouring Python. In ancient times, both of them were royal families among snake-type magical beasts, far more powerful than the Nine Nether Earthly Python of today.

That is an existence that can rival the Ancient Dragon Clan of the Void.

Unfortunately, both races perished in that ancient war, just like the Dou Di of the Dou Qi Continent, disappearing completely. Only a few magical beasts containing their bloodline remained, until the appearance of the Cai Lin sisters.

In truth, Cai Lin and Cai Die are not of the magical beast race. Their true identities are still those of the Medusa race. However, when they were in the womb, they were implanted with a companion soul, which caused a mutation in their bloodline. The two complement each other and grow together.

If it were just the Purple Nether Flame Serpent and the Purple Nether Dark Serpent, even if they exhausted their lifespan, they probably wouldn't be able to reach the seventh rank, let alone allow their bloodline power to undergo a transformation.

As we all know, the more powerful a magical beast is, the more advanced its bloodline power needs to be baptized or it needs unique rare and precious materials to transform its bloodline. These are things that sixth-tier magical beasts cannot obtain.

The two Rainbow Scale sisters were able to evolve successfully thanks to the power of the Burning Technique.

Who made Yao Yan a humanoid fire?

"Where are Sister Cailin and the others?" Ziyan tilted her head to look behind Yaoyan, but did not see the two familiar figures. She blinked, tilted her cute little head, and asked.

"almost."

Yao Yan looked at the gradually darkening sky, a faint smile on his lips, and said softly.

As the words fell, a flash of silver light appeared in the storage ring on his hand, and the Heavenly Demon Puppet, refined from the body of the Earth Demon Old Ghost, appeared beside him. Its ferocious aura instantly raged out, as it, being a puppet, had no ability to conceal its aura.

At the same time, the dark clouds in the sky became denser, and the surrounding天地能量 (heaven and earth energy) began to surge violently. Because of this surge of天地能量, the lightning in the sky began to flash and converge, transforming into streaks of silver dragons that resounded throughout the heavens.

"Go~" Yao Yan's consciousness stirred slightly.

"brush!"

A silver streak shot into the sky and instantly disappeared into the dark clouds filled with lightning power. The next moment, a cracking sound resounded in the dark clouds. The terrifying power tore the clouds apart, and even the rampant lightning power was turned into silvery fragments under the Heavenly Demon Puppet's fist, which were then absorbed by the Heavenly Demon Puppet's body.

Seeing this, Yao Yan was quite satisfied. Having absorbed this portion of the thunder power, the Heavenly Demon Puppet was not far from its highest stage.

As for the colorful butterfly... Ordinary magical beasts would naturally need to risk going through the tribulation of lightning to cleanse themselves with the power of thunder in order to achieve a complete transformation of their bloodline and physical body. However, the colorful butterfly obviously does not need to take this step. With Yao Yan, a humanoid strange fire, when the two communicate deeply, the power of that strange fire cleansing itself is far safer and more efficient than the power of thunder.

At this moment, countless members of the Serpent People came out, watching the changes in the sky with fear. Only a few of them knew that Her Majesty the Queen was advancing in rank.

"boom!"

With a gust of wind powerful enough to distort space itself, the dark clouds above the snake-man city finally dissipated.

Bright sunlight streamed down.

At the same time, a huge serpentine shadow emerged from the depths of the palace. It was formed from the energy of heaven and earth and seemed to instinctively resonate with the bloodline of the colorful butterfly. As a pair of scarlet eyes opened, an indescribable bloodline pressure swept out, causing Zi Yan to clench her small fists and her eyes to flash with purple light as she stared at the phantom.

The phantom was enormous, almost blotting out the sky, its entire body a deep purple-blue. As it swayed, the energy of heaven and earth trembled...

Fortunately, the strange phenomenon soon dissipated.

"..."

Zi Yan frowned, her expression somewhat serious, like a little adult.

Yao Yan reached out and patted her head, laughing, "That's what your sister Cai Die looks like after her bloodline advanced. What, are you feeling the pressure?"

"Just a little bit..." Zi Yan muttered, pushing against Yao Yan's hand, her eyes darting around before she looked at Yao Yan and asked, "Big brother, do you know what my true form is?"

"Didn't I say that you would be able to find your clan after you go to Zhongzhou?" Yao Yan was taken aback, then said softly.

"...I just want to know why my parents abandoned me."

Zi Yan's eyes dimmed slightly as she spoke softly.

This little one was clearly not as carefree as she seemed. She did have some thoughts about her family, after all, she had no family by her side since she was a child. You know, even the magical beasts in the mountains would fight desperately to protect their cubs after they were born.

But she didn't. She was almost eaten by other magical beasts many times, but fortunately, her bloodline was strong and her growth rate was unmatched by other magical beasts, which allowed her to survive in those dangerous mountains.

It was also luck that the mountain range happened to be within the territory of Canaan Academy, where there were no magical beasts of the sixth rank or above, nor any powerful figures from the Black Corner Region.

Otherwise, Zi Yan would never have been alive today.

"I'll ask why for you later," Yao Yan promised softly after a moment of silence.

"Okay." Zi Yan nodded heavily, then took out a bottle of pills and started eating them. She wanted to grow up quickly so that she could ask her older brother why, and if there was no reason, she would smash their heads.

"Waaah~" Ling'er, whose neck was being pinched by Yao Yan, wiggled her little hooves and looked at Zi Yan with some eagerness as she took the medicine. She looked at Yao Yan with a pitiful expression, as if to say that she wanted to take it too.

"Silly fox~"

Yao Yan smiled and placed her on his shoulder, then handed her a bottle of pills. With his current collection, he could afford to feed Ling'er even if she ate as much as she wanted, so he wouldn't be stingy with some low-grade pills.

"Brush~"

In a short while, the Heavenly Demon Puppet returned and stood beside Yao Yan.

After being tempered by lightning power several times, the Heavenly Demon Puppet has almost reached the pinnacle of the second stage. The silver light on its body has been completely contained, and it is clear that it is not far from stepping into the highest level. After being subjected to a few more colored lightning strikes, it should be able to step into that level.

After finishing a bottle of pills, Zi Yan seemed to be in a much better mood. She glanced at the Heavenly Demon Puppet and then asked Yao Yan, "Big brother, when are we going to Zhongzhou?"

"Let's wait a few days."

Yao Yan hesitated for a moment, then said softly.

He had not yet told Cai Die about his trip to Zhongzhou, and he did not want to take Cai Die and Cai Lin with him on this trip, since what he was going to do was not suitable for them to be taken along, and it would be easy for them to be implicated if something happened.

Zi Yan, on the other hand, didn't need him to worry about anything, because this little guy had the most powerful backing. As the most powerful race in the magical beast world, the strength of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan was definitely no weaker than some imperial clans, even without the Dragon Emperor.

Yao Yan brought Zi Yan along to change her development path and help her grow up quickly. With more than ten years to make up for her early foundation, she wouldn't need to forcibly absorb the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit like in the original story. With her talent, her potential should be even higher. Too much time was wasted in the original story.

As for Cai Lin and Cai Die, the two girls have successfully advanced their bloodlines. Even without going to Zhongzhou, their strength will grow rapidly. If they seize some opportunities in the future, there will be no problem for them to step into the Dou Sheng realm.

"Okay~" Zi Yan nodded, looking rather impatient.

At this moment, Cai Lin slowly walked out from behind Yao Yan. Beside him, an extremely beautiful purple snake was floating in mid-air. Its gem-like eyes revealed a clear naivety as it curiously looked around at everything. When it saw Yao Yan, a familiar feeling welled up in its heart. It even flew directly towards Yao Yan as a streak of light, which was caught steadily by him.

However, the impact still surprised Yao Yan. The evolution of the colorful butterfly seemed to be extremely successful, and its bloodline advancement was even more thorough than that of the colorful scales. Just after its birth, this little guy's strength had already reached the peak of the fifth rank.

The power of the bloodline of these ancient beasts is truly terrifying.

The little guy seemed to be very affectionate with Yao Yan, constantly swimming around Yao Yan's wrist until it found a comfortable place and then calmed down. Soon after, it fell into a deep sleep, a scene that made Cai Lin quite jealous.

Even though she had just been born, she was still so affectionate towards Yao Yan, which shows how deep her feelings for Yao Yan were. Even though her soul was in a deep slumber, it still affected her companion soul.

"That saves you the trouble of deceiving me~" Cai Lin slowly walked to Yao Yan's side, glanced at Yao Yan with her cold and beautiful eyes, and snorted.

"You can't fool me this time, the Companion Amethyst Source is all gone!"

Yao Yan shrugged and said with an innocent look on his face.

Cai Lin's expression froze, and she inexplicably thought of herself. The Devouring Python she had transformed into had been completely fooled by Yao Yan and was almost treated like a pet. Thinking of this, a complicated look flashed in her eyes.

“The bloodline of the Rainbow Butterfly has evolved more thoroughly than yours. The Ancient Celestial Serpent clan is different from your Devouring Python clan. If your bloodline wants to advance to a higher level, you need to rely on external objects to reach the level of the Nine-Colored Devouring Python. I will keep an eye out for you when we go to the Central Continent.” Yao Yan touched the little guy on his wrist and said softly to Rainbow Scale.