Starting as a supporting character in Doupo

"What a madman..." Medusa looked at Xiao Fan's slightly distorted soul essence and felt a little scared.

After all, when she was undergoing her tribulation, she was scorched by the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame and felt it for a while, but that was mostly physical pain. Her soul only suffered a little bit of the power emitted by the strange fire.

The mere scorching power of a wisp of the strange fire was enough to make her contemplate suicide.

What Xiao Fan is doing now is to sever his own soul essence, which is many times more intense than the pain she endured back then.

Moreover, this was something Xiao Fan brought upon himself, and even Medusa couldn't help but admire Xiao Fan's tenacious will.

Having re-entered the realm of his divided origin, Xiao Fan quickly lost the will to think about anything else. On one hand, the pain emanating from his soul caused his power to crumble several times, and if he didn't control his power properly, the pain from his soul would intensify. He also had to devote some of his attention to protecting his soul's origin.

After all, damaging any part of the soul's origin could cause irreversible harm. Even when dividing it, Xiao Fan only separated it slightly while ensuring its integrity.

Or rather, it involves compressing and replicating the scattered soul power around oneself that has not yet undergone qualitative change, thereby recreating one's own soul origin. However, this process still requires separating the origin first.

Xiao Fan quickly forgot about Medusa's existence.

Medusa watched helplessly as Xiao Fan's soul essence continued to deform.

Knowing Xiao Fan's current situation, she was even more clueless and didn't know what to do. If she interfered recklessly, she might leave her aura in Xiao Fan's soul essence, which could affect both of them. Moreover, her rash intervention could cause Xiao Fan to fail at the last moment.

Just as Medusa was pondering, Xiao Fan's original consciousness also began to stagnate.

All that remained was instinct, continuing the division of the soul's origin. The soul's origin, which was originally like a lump of putty, gradually transformed into two incompletely fused spheres under Xiao Fan's prolonged pulling.

"Almost there, almost there..."

Xiao Fan himself could also sense that the division of the soul's origin had not encountered any major problems, and he could already faintly see the dawn of victory.

While gritting his teeth and enduring the pain in his soul, he continued to split it apart. Because of his powerful regenerative ability, Xiao Fan dared not stop for even a moment. If he stopped, he was afraid that all his previous efforts would be in vain, and he was even more afraid that after resting, he would not be able to muster the courage to face this painful feeling again.

After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Fan's consciousness had fallen into a semi-conscious state. At this moment, controlling his soul power to divide his origin was merely an instinctive act.

Once he falls into a coma, the soul power he controls will disappear, and the soul's origin will begin to recover again, rendering all previous efforts futile.

"Xiao Fan..."

Just as Xiao Fan's consciousness was about to fade away, Medusa's voice jolted him awake for a moment.

"Damn it, it was still so close..."

Having exhausted all his strength, Xiao Fan's last thought flashed through his mind before he slowly drifted into a deep sleep, and the power that his consciousness had been controlling in the split also disappeared.

Medusa naturally noticed Xiao Fan's change, her expression changed drastically, and she anxiously called out to him in her mind, but there was no response from Xiao Fan.

"Damn it, he's fallen into a coma at this crucial moment..."

Medusa watched as Xiao Fan's soul essence, which had been divided into an hourglass shape, slowly began to reassemble itself after losing the control of Xiao Fan's consciousness.

Without further guidance, it's estimated that the situation will return to normal soon.

This is not a trauma, but merely a change guided by Xiao Fan himself. If he loses the guiding power, he will soon return to his original state.

Chapter 150 His Contract

Within Xiao Fan's consciousness space, Medusa was now the only one remaining.

Medusa's expression was uncertain. Xiao Fan had fallen into a coma. If she were to intervene, their souls would become intertwined, and their memories might become confused.

"Humph!"

Gritting her teeth, Medusa let out a soft snort. "Consider it repaying the favor you did me by helping me through my tribulation."

Despite saying this, Medusa's face was unusually serious.

Once she made up her mind, she didn't hesitate any longer. Medusa's figure rapidly approached the location of Xiao Fan's soul origin, and the surrounding soul power constantly intertwined with Medusa's body.

Medusa was quickly imbued with Xiao Fan's rich aura. Approaching the source of his soul, Medusa's consciousness sank into it.

At this moment, her soul was so close to Xiao Fan's, their souls were constantly in contact. Xiao Fan fell into a coma, but she remained awake. In other words, the two were... having a soul-to-soul exchange.

The strange sensation stimulated Medusa, causing her delicate body to tremble slightly. She endured the strange feeling and carefully controlled Xiao Fan's soul essence.

The original source, which was gradually recovering, began to split again under Medusa's power, and the original hourglass-shaped soul source gradually separated.

"Uh...well..."

At this moment, the soul power controlling Xiao Fan's soul essence is Medusa's soul power, and Medusa naturally also experienced the pain that Xiao Fan had previously endured.

Medusa felt a slight tremor in her heart; she could hardly believe that Xiao Fan had endured such pain for so long.

After all, the pain at the level of the soul's origin far surpasses the pain of the body. Medusa only knew that the pain Xiao Fan endured was indescribable, but now that she had truly come into contact with him, she understood what this young man, who was not yet twenty, was going through.

Meanwhile, due to the contact between their souls, fragmented images continued to appear in Medusa's mind.

"This is...his memory?"

Medusa had only glanced briefly at the memories in her mind, but for some reason, she suddenly had the urge to take this opportunity to tear Xiao Fan to pieces.

snort!

It's just living with people in the mountains, isn't it?

That woman, if I'm not mistaken, is Yun Yun from the Yunlan Sect? At her age, she actually went to the Monster Beast Mountain Range to seduce a young man who's only a Dou Zhe?

snort!

And then there's this: Xiao Fan and a girl in a white dress, in a beautiful—no, a valley full of deep pits—sat side by side on the steps, gazing up at the deep starry sky...

The more Medusa looked, the uglier her expression became.

Until she saw a familiar giant snake writhing and howling amidst the scorching blue flames.

That was the effect of her tribulation. She then saw Xiao Fan feeding her blood, clump after clump, into her mouth.

Medusa's expression softened slightly as she took a deep breath and continued to carefully control her power, dividing Xiao Fan's soul essence.

hum!

With the last remaining connection to the origin being severed, Xiao Fan's soul essence now transformed into two wisps, quietly floating in the space of consciousness.

"Phew, finally succeeded..."

Even Medusa, after completing the task, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief; she never wanted to experience that kind of soul-crushing pain again.

At the same time, the drawback of Medusa helping Xiao Fan emerged. Because of their previous contact, their soul powers were now intertwined and inseparable. Even Medusa could not completely separate their soul powers.

Each person's soul essence is like a color of ink; casual contact can pollute the soul, and the mutual influence is extremely serious.

This is why Medusa hesitated until Xiao Fan fell unconscious before she had no choice but to take action.

Once two souls become intertwined, it becomes very difficult to expel each other's aura. If it's just simple contact, then one can directly give up a portion of their soul power, making a painful sacrifice to refine their own soul.

But they are different. What they just came into contact with was the very essence of the soul. Without hesitation, given their situation, even if a Dou Di (Battle Emperor) were to be summoned, he could only shake his head and say:

“You two are inseparable; you are in me and I am in you. You are no longer separate.”

Medusa stood silently in Xiao Fan's consciousness space, watching the two wisps of soul essence floating in the distance. Her expression shifted for a long time before she finally shook her head helplessly and murmured, "Never mind..."

When I helped him, I had already made up my mind, hadn't I?

Floating in the air within Xiao Fan's consciousness space, Medusa transformed into a snake-woman, waving her hands as her soul power inscribed a mysterious array around her.

Standing in the center of the formation, Medusa's tail was coiled beneath her body, her hands were placed on top of her head, and then she lowered them in mid-air and said softly, "I, You Ruo Medusa, a descendant of the snake-human race, am willing to form a symbiotic contract with Xiao Fan. From now on, my life will be with you, and we will be bound together in life and death, never to be separated."

As Medusa finished speaking, a mysterious rune rose from the top of her head, then flashed in the void and imprinted itself on Xiao Fan's essence.

As their consciousnesses made contact, it seemed as if an invisible thread had appeared between them, connecting them.

After it was over, Medusa remained kneeling on the ground. Since becoming the queen of the snake people, her name had once again become Medusa. Every queen of the snake people had only one name, which was Medusa.

"I never imagined... I'd have to mention my own name again..."

Medusa looked at Xiao Fan's consciousness space with a complicated expression, then waved her hands. The scattered soul power that Xiao Fan had originally had in his consciousness space was quickly injected into the two spheres of soul essence as Medusa raised her hands.

The two wisps of soul essence expanded rapidly at a visible speed. After a while, Medusa's body also became slightly more ethereal, undoubtedly because the power that had just been poured into Xiao Fan's soul essence included not only Xiao Fan's but also Medusa's.

The original soul essence, which had shrunk due to the division, has now returned to the size of a fist, and is even a few inches larger than before.

"If you keep feeding me, you'll overeat."

With a soft hum, Medusa's body flickered and vanished from the spot.

Outside, Medusa, who had been sitting cross-legged on the ground, slowly opened her eyes, a trace of fatigue flashing in them, before gazing at Xiao Fan, who had fallen into a deep sleep.

With a wave of his right hand, a mysterious rune appeared on Xiao Fan's forehead. Medusa stared at the rune for a long time, then gently stroked it with her finger, seemingly unable to believe that she had truly formed a contract with it...

Chapter 151 Please Call Me Your Majesty

When Xiao Fan woke up, he immediately noticed the changes in himself.

Originally, I thought the attempt to separate the origin had failed, but the soul origin in my mind still split into two clumps, each clump even larger than before the separation.

His own soul power has also increased significantly, and should have reached the upper-middle level of a fifth-grade alchemist.

"I am..."

Just as Xiao Fan was wondering, he quickly discovered the lingering aura of Medusa in his mind.

"She made her move?"

Xiao Fan surveyed everything in his mind, and then he heard the voice echoing in his mind.

“I, You Ruo Medusa, a descendant of the snake-human race, wish to form a symbiotic contract with Xiao Fan. From now on, my life will be with you, and we will be inseparable, through life and death.”

......

Upon hearing this voice, Xiao Fan understood that he had failed in his attempt to divide his origin, but Medusa had intervened to help him in the end.