Battle Through the Heavens: Who put Laozi in my storage ring?

Drawing a Dou Ling would be easy, but this one is a peak Dou Huang! A mere step away from Dou Zong. Even Yun Shan in his current state might not be able to defeat him.

Xiao Yan was on the verge of tears; this was just too unlucky.

"Human, you deserve to die!" Queen Medusa's phoenix eyes were filled with rage. This was the secret of her snake-people race: by devouring a strange fire and supplementing it with a special advancement technique, she could evolve her bloodline into a seven-colored sky-devouring python. It was also the only chance for her snake-people race to rise, but it was ruined by this human.

The snake people migrated to this place and fought against humans several times, but were defeated each time. In the end, they were forced to be driven to the dry desert. They were dissatisfied, wondering why this vast and fertile plain was occupied by these humans for so many years.

Therefore, she has been trying to break through to the Dou Huang realm. In order to search for the strange fire, she has even neglected her cultivation over the years, expending countless efforts, but...

"You ruined it!!!"

Queen Medusa's serpent tail tightened around Xiao Yan's body, her pale purple eyes filled with cold, sinister intent. Kill him!

Even if this person absorbed the strange fire, it is still possible to kill and forcibly seize it. However, compared to the strange fire that was born intact from heaven and earth, the success rate of this strange fire forcibly extracted from a human body to evolve into the Seven-Colored Sky-Piercing Python is probably more than 10% lower.

"Hiss..." Xiao Yan gasped. The seemingly soft and slender snake tails around him were actually incredibly terrifying when they strangled him. Moreover, it was clear that this guy was just taking his anger out on him.

A Dou Huang powerhouse has too many ways to kill.

"If I'm not mistaken, you must be aiming to break through to the peak of Dou Huang and advance to Dou Zong, right?" Xiao Yan said, his face slightly pale, enduring the intense pain all over his body.

"Not bad." Queen Medusa glanced at him coldly and snorted softly.

"I can help you. I can refine the Breakthrough Pill you want."

Xiao Yan felt as if the pent-up energy in his chest was about to be squeezed out, and he said, word by word.

"..."

"A mere insect dares to speak such arrogant words. Even if Pill King Guhe were here, he wouldn't dare to make such boastful claims." Queen Medusa glanced at Xiao Yan with her long, narrow eyes, but her snake tail unconsciously relaxed a little.

"Huff~"

Xiao Yan exhaled a breath of turbid air, opened his palm, and a python condensed from it, coiling around his arm. Visibly, two flames of different colors were faintly visible within it.

In an instant, the pale blue flame was released, and the entire fire python instantly turned pale blue.

"You're really an alchemist?!" Medusa leaned closer, her fair and slender neck revealing an elegant curve, her beautiful eyes scrutinizing Xiao Yan with a hint of suspicion.

Two different flames!!

Moreover, judging from his control over the strange fire and his own cultivation level, he is probably at least a third or fourth-grade alchemist. He may not have eaten pork, but he has seen pigs run.

The bloodline of the snake people is inherently yin, which is incompatible with the fire attribute essential for alchemists. Therefore, there are not only few alchemists among them, but none at all.

"But the Breakthrough Pill is a high-grade sixth-rank pill. Even for ordinary sixth-rank alchemists, it is extremely difficult to refine, let alone for a mere third or fourth-rank alchemist like you." Queen Medusa said in a soft and charming voice, but with a hint of patience.

"I'm only sixteen years old, and I've already reached the fourth rank. In a year or two, or at most three or four years, I'm confident I can break through to the sixth rank," Xiao Yan said calmly.

This was purely a gamble on one's own talent, but even the ruthless Queen Medusa remained silent for a long time before finally glancing at Xiao Yan with her long, narrow eyes and uttering a single word from her alluring red lips: "Okay."

“But if they knew what was happening today, they would all die.” Medusa glanced at the corner behind her, where Hai Bodong and Qing Lin were cowering in fear.

"Elder Hai, didn't you just tell me that you could easily knock Queen Medusa unconscious? Your Xuanbing Dragon Soaring is invincible, please make your move!" Qinglin said anxiously.

Hai Bodong: "..."

The old man's face twitched. Twitching my ass! Back when he was a Dou Huang, he couldn't even beat this woman; now, at the mere Dou Ling realm, he's even less likely to...

Queen Medusa glanced at Hai Bodong with her beautiful eyes, clearly recognizing this old acquaintance long ago. She sneered, a cold glint flashing in her eyes, and with a light tap of her fingertip, she was about to kill him.

"Wait!" Xiao Yan frowned slightly.

“I will go to the desert with you, but these people… you must not harm them.”

"Hehe, kid, you're the first one who dares to negotiate with me." Queen Medusa leisurely picked at her eerie purple nails, a dangerous smile appearing on her stunningly beautiful face.

"Just because I spared your life doesn't mean you can command me."

"I have already devoured the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame. Your method of devouring a different flame to advance your bloodline is now cut off, because there are no more different flames near the Gama Empire. They are only found in Canaan Academy. So if you want to break through to the Dou Zong level, you can only rely on me. Moreover... I have a way to help you break through your bloodline."

Xiao Yan glanced at Queen Medusa. This girl probably never intended to let him go from beginning to end, imprisoning him among the snake people as their alchemist.

What she truly coveted was not the sixth-grade Breakthrough Pill, but the seventh-grade Transformation Pill.

Although Gu He disdained the Transformation Pill in the original work, he was actually determined to do so. Now that the possibility of breaking through the bloodline shackles has been greatly reduced, the Transformation Pill is naturally the first choice.

Chapter 41 Advancing to a Sixth-Rank Alchemist: Xiao Yan's Evil Plan

"On what grounds?" Queen Medusa sneered, her long, alluring eyes flashing with a cold light.

She dislikes being threatened, especially by someone who is as weak as an insect in her eyes, the kind she could crush with a flick of her wrist.

“Because you have no choice.” Xiao Yan also sneered. “If you have the guts, kill me and we’ll all perish together. But I’ve heard that the old sect master of Yunlan Sect seems to have broken through to the Dou Zong realm. If war breaks out, I wonder how long the Snake-People can hold out.”

"You dare threaten me!!!" Queen Medusa's eyes grew colder, and her pair of fair and slender hands gripped Xiao Yan's throat, exerting force inch by inch until the boy's face turned red. Even though he felt like his throat was about to be crushed, Xiao Yan still stared coldly at the number one beauty of the snake clan who was so close to him.

"Hmph!" Medusa snorted coldly, and with a sudden flick of her hand, she slammed the boy to the ground.

A cloud of dust was stirred up.

"Are you sure you don't need me to intervene?" Laozi's chuckling voice came from the storage ring. "To remain calm after such humiliation, not bad, not bad..."

In Laozi's view, experiencing some setbacks is a good thing, so he did not take action when Xiao Yan did not ask for help.

"Thank you, teacher, but... no need." Xiao Yan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, a flash of heat and anger in his eyes as he looked at Medusa's alluring figure. He subtly touched a storage ring containing pills and medicinal herbs. Some things... although they hadn't been used in the cave, it was time to put them on the agenda.

Moreover, his strange fire is the Netherworld Poison Fire. This thing is colorless and odorless when it contains poison, and it is usually impossible to tell the signs. In fact, it will accumulate poison fire in the body of the user. Once it is triggered and erupts, it will be a disaster.

Daring to threaten an alchemist who possesses Netherworld Poison Flame, heh heh.

"..."

He gave Hai Bodong a few simple words of advice, telling them to temporarily cancel their plans to go to the Black Corner Region and instead return to the Imperial City, where the Mittel family was located and a Dou Wang expert was stationed, which would be safer.

As for him, after giving him a few instructions, the somewhat impatient Queen Medusa grabbed him by the neck, her wings fluttering behind her, and she soared into the air and disappeared from this world.

"Good lad... loyal enough." Hai Bodong swallowed hard. The moment he saw Medusa, he thought he was going to die, but he never expected that the kid would actually save him.

"Let's go. Let's go back to Shimo City and inform Xiao Ding and the others." Hai Bodong took a deep breath, his expression solemn.

"Mr. Hai, do you think Young Master Xiao Yan will come back alive?" Qing Lin asked, tears welling in her eyes, as she gently bit her red lips.

Her two-headed fire spirit snake was suppressed and severely injured by the snake woman in an instant, shrinking back into a ball and unable to transform again. Otherwise... she would have definitely tried her best to stop it.

"Perhaps." Hai Bodong looked ashamed and glanced at the distance with some complicated feelings as he stepped out of the cave.

I couldn't bear to tell the girl the truth.

Once inside the Snake-People tribe, even a Dou Huang (Battle Emperor) wouldn't be able to escape unscathed, let alone a mere Da Dou Shi (Great Dou Master).

……

"To concoct medicine? You need to provide me with the necessary ingredients."

Queen Medusa's bedroom.

Xiao Yan idly fiddled with the storage ring, a smile appearing on his face.

"Naturally, my snake-people will not treat you unfairly in this regard." Queen Medusa swayed her snake tail slightly, got up from the bed, glanced at Xiao Yan with her beautiful eyes, and a hint of contemplation flashed across her face.

The Serpent People are desperately short of alchemists.

Excessive threats and intimidation during the day, even if one's cultivation level improves, will eventually create a rift between them and the snake-people.

Therefore, Queen Medusa's tone softened slightly at this moment; she intended to win her over... through a marriage alliance.

Of course, the best option is a marriage alliance. If the man is unfaithful, she can simply use more snake women to keep him around; after all, that's the kind of woman she has plenty of.

Then, looking Xiao Yan up and down, he asked, "You've seen many beauties from my Snake-People clan today. Is there anyone you fancy?"

Upon hearing this, Yue Mei, who was guarding not far away, felt a hint of curiosity rise in her eyes.

“If it were Your Majesty, you might consider it.” Xiao Yan smiled, making no attempt to conceal his admiration for Medusa’s graceful figure. Now that they were in the palace, he could observe her more closely.

Seemingly afraid that Xiao Yan would run away, Medusa specially arranged for him to stay in her palace, where he would eat and live with her.

"How dare you!!" Yue Mei's eyebrows shot up, and she charged forward with her weapon in hand, her eyes filled with murderous intent.

Queen Medusa is their faith and the most revered person. Humans are truly all birds of a feather, utterly disgusting!

"Commander Yue Mei." Queen Medusa didn't even lift her eyelids, waving her hand to signal the latter to leave. She glanced at Xiao Yan, whose expression remained calm, with a complex look in her beautiful eyes, and after a long silence, slowly said, "Then it depends on your performance..."

"..."

Xiao Yan's lips curled up; no one would believe that.

He was willing to be brought to the snake people for two reasons: first, there were plenty of resources there, enough for him to refine pills, improve his cultivation, and even squander them; second, he was there to see Queen Medusa.

Clearly, they were not impressed by Queen Medusa's ambiguous and suggestive words.

Do you really think you're a fool?

Can you really bewitch someone with just a few words?

The storage ring moved quite nimbly in his finger, and Xiao Yan still smiled and nodded: "Of course, I will do my best to deliver the Transformation Pill I promised Her Majesty the Queen as soon as possible."

……

Six months later.

The heartland of the Serpent People.

On a sand dune pavilion, a dense, dark green aura spread out, its terrifying power resembling waves of air that permeated the surrounding area. The snake-people guarding the area all wore ordinary expressions, clearly already accustomed to the alchemist "invited" by their tribe.

Inside the attic.