Arriving Just in Time
With a crack, the astonished Ice Venerable's body shattered, instantly turning into an ice sculpture.
Seeing this, Little Fairy Doctor showed no surprise. She manipulated the fiery thread with her fingers, drawing a circle in the air. The thread was then guided to pierce directly into the void, tracking the Ice Venerable hiding within.
She was now a venerable Alchemist! Although only a Tier 1, Little Fairy Doctor's control over fire far exceeded that of a Tier 1! She possessed a Strange Flame! The dark green Strange Flame thread carried intense poison. A white figure fled from the void in a disheveled state. His Dou Qi was Ice Venerable Strength fused with the acquired Calamity Poison Body, but Little Fairy Doctor surpassed him in both Strange Flame and Calamity Poison.
The Ice Venerable waved his hand, and a mass of extreme icy aura surged out, rushing towards the fiery thread. The terrifying icy force froze the entire space, but with a hiss, the flame could not be frozen at all, burning the icy Dou Qi into steam.
"What flame is this!"
The Ice Venerable gritted his teeth, and the Calamity Poison Body within him erupted. His eyes even turned gray as he roared in his heart, "Poison Ice Profound Method!"
With a boom, the Ice Venerable's aura surged from the peak of a Four Star Dou Zun to a Five Star Dou Zun! Clearly, the Ice Venerable, as a force from one of the Three Valleys, also possessed a Poison Ice Secret Method no weaker than the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations.
"Icy Poison Finger!"
The Ice Venerable no longer fled, extending a finger with terrifying poison gas coiling around it. The power of this move had actually reached the Quasi-Heaven Rank level! The power of heaven and earth seemed to boil and churn madly.
The Ice Venerable pointed his finger at the fiery thread. This finger was like a black dragon, the black poison finger bringing with it endless fishy winds! *Boom!*! The two collided, and spatial cracks spread out like spiderwebs!
Flame and ice, two terrifying energy fluctuations, clashed in space. In this fierce confrontation, the Ice Venerable's body trembled, and a muffled groan escaped his throat. He then stepped back rapidly in the void for nearly a hundred meters! In contrast, Little Fairy Doctor was not affected in the slightest. The icy aura disappeared without a trace within ten meters of her! "You possess a Strange Flame?!" The Ice Venerable now realized that the terrifying flame was definitely not an ordinary Beast Flame, but ordinary Strange Flames were not very powerful for Dou Zun experts. Little Fairy Doctor's Strange Flame was so terrifying! Before Little Fairy Doctor could speak, a shrill scream came, "Ahhh! Valley Master, save... me."
When the Ice Venerable looked over, he saw that Elder Tian She, who ranked third in strength in Ice River Valley, was enveloped in a mass of Black Flame. His Soul was swallowed by the Black Flame, and his death was extremely miserable.
"So what if you have a Strange Flame? That Strange Flame was given by me." Xiao Yan dusted off a bit of bone ash from his robe, as if resolving a Half-Step Dou Zun was not worth mentioning.
"Xiao! Yan!" At this moment, the Ice Venerable felt absolute anger and hatred towards Xiao Yan. He never expected that he was the fish being baited! The news brought by the Black Fire Sect was deliberately leaked by this Xiao Yan!
"Ice Venerable, I gave you a chance to choose, but unfortunately, you chose wrong." Xiao Yan's eyes showed no pity. If he or Little Fairy Doctor were the weaker ones, then he could be 100% sure that this Ice Venerable would not spare him and Little Fairy Doctor.
Xiao Yan was simply putting himself in the other's shoes.
"Xiao Yan, let me leave, and I can guarantee that I will no longer be your enemy. I will also give you the treasure of Ice River Valley, which includes a Tier 9 Pill Recipe that I obtained. Only I know where the treasure is, and it is not in Ice River Valley. If I die, no one will know the location of the treasure." The Ice Venerable also knew that the situation was dire. Apart from Tian She, the other two Nine Star Dou Zong Elders had been killed by Qing Hai, and even their Souls had been taken away.
Now, Tian Shuangzi was desperately holding on with a secret technique, but it was estimated that he would not last long. As for Smoke Serpent Venerable of the Nine Serene Earthly Underworld Serpent Race, he had no intention of fighting and was thinking about how to escape. Relying on him to save the situation was impossible.
"Although I, Xiao Yan, am a greedy person, I also know that some things cannot be coveted. Your life can put my mind at ease." Xiao Yan smiled faintly. The Tier 9 Pill Recipe was indeed tempting, especially for Xiao Yan, who yearned to become a Tier 9 Alchemist. A Tier 9 Pill Recipe was essential for that.
In Medicine Venerable's inheritance, there were only a few Tier 9 Pill Recipes, and the Medicinal Herbs for these Tier 9 Pill Recipes were very difficult to find. He also wanted more Tier 9 Pill Recipes.
But Xiao Yan understood that if this Ice Venerable did not die, his heart would not be at peace.
Hearing Xiao Yan's words, a sinister look flashed in the Ice Venerable's eyes. With a boom, a black icy Dou Qi erupted from his body, and he shouted, "You forced me to do this."
"Calamity Poison Burst!" Qing Hai Venerable shouted and quickly abandoned Tian Shuangzi, hastily using a defensive Dou Technique.
He was only doing things for money, not risking his life. If the Ice Venerable self-destructed in this sealed space, the result would be that everyone would die!
Xiao Yan's eyes flashed, and he instantly looked at a certain space, saying in a deep voice, "Your methods are too low-level to hide from me."
Space twisted, and another Ice Venerable appeared from the space. The one about to unleash the poison burst was just an ice sculpture! Although this move was not as magical as the Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body, it was also an Earth Rank High-Level ice-attribute movement technique.
The Ice Venerable exerted force with his feet and suddenly rushed towards Xiao Yan. The poison burst was just to attract Little Fairy Doctor's attention. He planned to capture Xiao Yan and use him as a hostage! "Young Master Xiao Yan, be careful!"
Seeing the incredibly fast Ice Venerable, even activating Bone Wings would not allow Xiao Yan to avoid him. But he had not intended to avoid him from the start.
He had deliberately revealed a flaw because he also knew that if he forced the Ice Venerable into a desperate situation and triggered the Calamity Poison Burst, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Your ability to make choices has always been poor." Xiao Yan's expression was stern, and a terrifying Soul force burst out from his body.
An Asura Demon Shadow appeared behind Xiao Yan. The Asura opened its eyes and held a black Soul Chain in its hands.
The terrifying Soul force erupted, and Xiao Yan's cultivation loosened once again and began to rise, breaking through the barrier of Dou Zong and reaching Dou Zun!! From Half-Step Dou Zun to a true Dou Zun, even the Ice Venerable was surprised this time! No one would dare to believe that a Five Star Dou Zong could be promoted to a One Star Dou Zun! The gap between them was probably difficult to break through even with a Heaven Rank Low-Level secret technique! But Xiao Yan relied on the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations and the Asura Soul Severing Technique to forcibly raise his strength to the level of a One Star Dou Zun!
But it was not over yet. Xiao Yan deliberately revealed a flaw, naturally, he was prepared. A mass of Black Flame appeared on Xiao Yan's palm, and a Fire Lotus formed by the fusion of nine Strange Flames floated out of the Black Flame, steadily resting on Xiao Yan's palm.
Nine-Colored Fire Lotus!!!
Xiao Yan roared in his heart, "Nine Fires Unite, Heaven Piercing Fire Lotus!!"
Boom!! In that instant, the temperature of the entire space rose sharply. The space around Xiao Yan's palm was completely distorted. This extremely terrifying Fire Lotus even caused burns on Xiao Yan's palm!
Even he had difficulty controlling this move, and it was his strongest attack at the moment! Bone Wings erupted, and the Three Thousand Lightning Movement was used. Xiao Yan took the initiative to attack! Five Star Dou Zong against Five Star Dou Zun (using a secret technique).
This was an act of hitting a stone with an egg, but Xiao Yan did it anyway!
Seeing Xiao Yan rushing over, the Ice Venerable did not mock him because he felt how terrifying the power of destruction was contained in the small Fire Lotus on Xiao Yan's palm!
This was a power that could even break through the heavens! "Ice River Eternal!" The Ice Venerable actually felt the taste of death from it. He dared not hold back any longer and used his most powerful Quasi-Heaven Rank Dou Technique, striking out at Xiao Yan with a palm as well.
Boom!! Ice and Strange Flame collided with a sizzle, and in that instant, extreme cold and extreme heat clashed, instantly evaporating the entire space, and the world became a vast expanse of white.
Above the sky, one side was the terrifying and unparalleled Strange Flame, and the other was the ice that froze all space. The collision of the two forces was extremely dazzling, even more spectacular than fireworks blooming at night!
A wisp of icy air and a lick of Strange Flame fire tongue splashed from the collision could easily destroy a high mountain, freeze a city, or evaporate a lake! Such a terrifying collision was like the end of the world.
"Too strong, this, the Flame Venerable's strength is actually so powerful!" Qing Hai Venerable, who was hiding behind the defensive Dou Technique, even forgot to conceal Xiao Yan's identity, but now no one could hear his mutterings.
Everyone present was astonished beyond words, especially the remaining disciples of Ice River Valley. A twenty-six-year-old young man was actually fighting head-on with their Valley Master?!!
However, the battle came quickly and ended quickly. Just as Xiao Yan had said, the Ice Venerable had made the wrong choice.
"You..." At this moment, the Ice Venerable coughed up blood from the corner of his mouth and turned his head with difficulty. He could only see the Little Fairy Doctor's cold face. Looking down, he saw that his chest had already been pierced by a poisonous claw.
Calamity Demon Poison Claw, a true Heaven Rank Low-Level Dou Technique, not a Quasi-Heaven Rank Dou Technique. Once the poisonous claw came out, a Dou Zun would fall!
The terrifying Calamity Poison instantly penetrated the Ice Venerable's Eight Extraordinary Meridians, even contaminating his Dou Qi. Not to mention being directly pierced through the body, even being scratched by the Calamity Demon Poison Claw was a fatal wound!
Did he really think the Little Fairy Doctor wouldn't kill? When he didn't seize Xiao Yan in the first place and focused his attention on Xiao Yan, when he was held back by Xiao Yan, the Ice Venerable was already not far from death.
With a buzz, the Ice Venerable's Dou Qi, whose body had been pierced by the Calamity Demon Poison Claw, disappeared, and the terrifying flames of the Nine-Colored Fire Lotus erupted, engulfing everything.
The sound of rushing water rang out, and from the waves of the Nine-Colored Fire Lotus, several Soul Chains shot out from the black Void Swallowing Flame Earth Sub-Flame, piercing into the Ice Venerable's Soul Body.
"Want to escape with your Soul Body? Is it that easy?" Xiao Yan's voice came from the Sea of Fire. With a whoosh, the already dead Ice Venerable couldn't even escape with his Soul Body. He was directly taken into the Soul Token inside the Void Space, and even the physical body was not wasted by the Void Swallowing Flame, which directly swallowed it into the Void Space.
This was the body of a Dou Zun, used as cat food, bringing him one step closer to the Heaven Sub-Flame.
A generation of legendary Venerable had fallen into the Little Fairy Doctor's hands just like that.
Before long, the flames dissipated. Standing in the sky at this time was a pair of divine immortals. The Little Fairy Doctor and Xiao Yan stood above the nine heavens, and there were only the two of them in the sky. The Ice Venerable seemed to have been burned to ashes.
"Valley Master... Valley Master is dead!"
For a time, all the disciples of Ice River Valley looked ashen, as if mourning their parents. Although Xiao Yan was not a vicious person, he was not a saint either. With a wave of his hand, countless black Soul Chains pierced through the bodies of these Dou Huang, Dou Zong disciples, and Elders.
Those stronger Dou Zong were also defeated by Zi Yan and Qing Lin. Miserable screams and pleas for mercy came from the Soul Tokens, but Xiao Yan did not let these people go, because these Ice River Valley disciples had also attacked the Flame Alliance disciples in the past.
Ice River Valley's actions had already crossed Xiao Yan's bottom line.
Moreover, these people knew too much.
"You... you are from the Soul Palace!" Tian Shuangzi only managed to say this sentence before being killed by Qing Hai Venerable with a palm strike, and even his Soul Body was taken away.
Xiao Yan didn't mind this mere one-star Dou Zong's Soul Body. The four-star peak Dou Zun Ice Venerable was worth far too much.
Just as Xiao Yan was planning to have the Little Fairy Doctor join forces to deal with the Smoke Serpent Venerable, suddenly a violent fluctuation occurred. The Smoke Serpent Venerable instantly transformed into its true form, a huge serpent whose entire body was like smoke.
"Snake Shedding Smoke Escape!!"
With a puff, the Smoke Serpent Venerable suddenly bit its own body, not hesitating to seriously injure itself to use the escape technique. Immediately, countless smoke screens that could block perception surged out.
Xiao Yan was stunned. How could he escape from the sealing grand formation that sealed the nine heavens and ten earths? Immediately, Xiao Yan felt that something was wrong. His eyes narrowed, and his Soul power swept across the sealing grand formation, suddenly looking towards one place. There was actually a gap there! "It was the collision with the Ice Venerable that caused the gap!" Xiao Yan gritted his teeth. He didn't expect that his meticulous plan had a flaw. The Heaven Piercing Fire Lotus's collision with the Ice Venerable's Quasi-Heaven Rank Dou Technique had actually blasted a small gap in the sealing grand formation!
With a whoosh, a wisp of smoke as fast as light instantly passed through the gap and escaped.
"Qing Hai, immediately undo the seal. Little Fairy Doctor, Yao Lao, don't let that guy run away!" Xiao Yan couldn't help but feel regretful that he had been so careless! The Little Fairy Doctor and Yao Lao also knew the seriousness of the situation and used their fastest speeds to chase after him.
However, what happened next was something that Xiao Yan had not expected. A familiar aura appeared in Xiao Yan's Soul perception.
"If he is hurt, the Nine Serene Earthly Underworld Serpent Race will be finished!"
A gentle voice swirled in the sky. At the instant this gentle voice with a hint of etherealness rang out, Xiao Yan's heart couldn't help but tremble. Six years! A full six years! When that beautiful figure was taken away from Canaan Academy, Xiao Yan was only twenty years old, and now, Xiao Yan was already twenty-six years old! A full six years! He had not heard this voice again! When this voice rang out again, Xiao Yan's first thought was whether he was dreaming.
His throat rolled slightly, and Xiao Yan looked in disbelief at the distorted space a hundred miles away. The voice coming from his perception... was almost deeply familiar to his Soul. Even if Xiao Yan forgot his own voice one day, this voice that had been deeply imprinted in his heart would never be forgotten! "Xun Er, is that you?"
With a boom, the escaping Smoke Serpent Venerable was jointly blasted away by the two old men behind Xun Er, directly crashing into the ground. The Smoke Serpent Venerable, who had already been seriously injured by the Heavenly Flame Venerable and had consumed a large amount of Dou Qi to escape, directly fainted.
"Miss, be careful, this person is a five-star Dou Zun, and his strength is above the two of us!" One of the old men beside Xun Er looked solemn. What was going on? How did a five-star Dou Zun come here?!
Originally, they had heard that Ice River Valley had mobilized to capture Xiao Yan, so they rushed over, but they didn't see Ice River Valley, but instead saw the Nine Serene Earthly Underworld Serpent Race.
At this time, Xun Er's beautiful eyebrows furrowed slightly as she looked at the Little Fairy Doctor with gray-white hair not far in front of her. She didn't know why, but she had a strange feeling in her heart that made her very uncomfortable.
The Little Fairy Doctor also looked at Xun Er with her beautiful eyebrows furrowed. For no reason, she had never even seen Xun Er's appearance, but at this moment, she knew that this person was the woman named Xun Er that Xiao Yu had mentioned at Canaan Academy.
The two women's eyes met in the air, and for a moment, one could even see a trace of sparks.
On one side was Xun Er, dressed in a simple green dress, but faintly exuding a noble aura that stood proudly between heaven and earth.
On one side was the Little Fairy Doctor, dressed in a plain white dress, transformed into the Heavenly Poison Immortal, carrying a wisp of terrifying poison gas.
At this moment, Xiao Yan ignored the Smoke Serpent Venerable. He flapped his Bone Wings and flew towards the horizon. When Xiao Yan saw Xun Er, his eyes softened.
Xun Er was born with a noble aura, as if she were the master of heaven and earth. Three thousand strands of black hair were casually tied with a light purple silk ribbon, falling smoothly along her moving curves. Occasionally, a gentle breeze would blow, causing her hair to flutter, revealing a hint of detachment, like an immortal who had strayed into the mortal world, possessing an inviolable ethereal quality.
On that flawless and exquisite face, her fair skin was as delicate as if it could be broken with a touch, radiating a healthy and moving rosy glow. A gentle smile was on her face, giving people a feeling of being bathed in a spring breeze.
Just as Xiao Yan was about to fly over and embrace the beautiful figure he hadn't seen in six years, Xun Er took a step ahead of Xiao Yan, extended her right hand, and said with a smile, "Hello, my name is Gu Xun Er, from the Gu Clan. You must be Little Fairy Doctor. I often heard Brother Xiao Yan mention you at Canaan Academy. He has a very good 'friend'."
As soon as these words came out, Xiao Yan's body froze in place. The Heavenly Flame Venerable beside him had a strange expression and even slowly took a few steps back.
Little Fairy Doctor smiled faintly, took a step forward, and also extended her hand, smiling, "Hello, my name is Little Fairy Doctor. The Flame Alliance has been established for many years, but I have rarely heard of Miss Gu's great name."
Then, under Xiao Yan's gaze, the two women extended their jade-like hands and gently shook them together.
Looking at the jade hands of the two women clasped together, the smile on Xiao Yan's face froze, because he discovered that gray gas and golden flames were slowly rising from the point where their jade hands met.
A series of crackling collision sounds rang out.
Two equally outstanding women, at this first meeting, were launching a nearly instinctive, womanly contest in front of Xiao Yan.
For a time, the clouds in the sky were surging. Clearly, neither of them had used any Dou Techniques, or even Dou Qi, yet the world was showing strange phenomena! Xiao Yan swallowed his saliva and came up with a plan.
Pfft! Suddenly, Xiao Yan spat out a mouthful of blood, the Dou Qi in his body suddenly became chaotic, and his Bone Wings lost their effect, causing him to fall from the sky.
"Brother Xiao Yan!" Xun Er's eyes were flustered. She withdrew her hand and appeared next to Xiao Yan in a flash, embracing him.
Little Fairy Doctor, who had already taken a step forward, hesitated. Clearly, her cultivation was higher, but Little Fairy Doctor's non-competitive nature made it easy for her to suffer losses at times!
"I... I'm fine, it's just a side effect of using a secret technique."
Xiao Yan coughed a couple of times, sighing inwardly. He hadn't expected that he hadn't suffered such injuries even when dealing with the Ice Venerable, but now he was forcibly injuring himself because of these things!
The battle between women is even more dangerous!
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