"All right, finished with all the farewells?" A soft, alluring voice pulled Xiao Yan out of his ption as he gazed in the dire of the Hall of Souls.

  Turning around, he saw Medusa staring at him with her enting eyes. The ers of his mouth twitched into a slightly awkward yet polite smile as he sheepishly asked, "Does Your Majesty need something from me?"

  Medusa gave a faint smile, her bck-colored hair fluttering in the wind with a unique exotic charm. Her snake-like pupils looked at Xiao Yan like a predator sizing up its prey as her snow-white jade hand suddeeoward him.

  After her evolution, Medusa's skin was as tender as a baby's. Her fair, delicate hand stirred an impulse in others to take a bite.

  "What is it?" Xiao Yan looked puzzled, not uanding her iion.

  "The recipe for the Spirit Fusion Pill," Medusa expined leisurely, dispelling Xiao Yan's fusion.

  With a light flick of his ste ring, the scroll taining the Spirit Fusion Pill recipe was casually hao that jade-white hand.

  Slender fingers gripped the pill recipe as Medusa's enting face revealed an impatient expression for the first time. She swiftly unrolled the scroll, her beautiful eyes meticulously reading the recorded effects of the Spirit Fusion Pill. Only after a long while did she slowly roll up the scroll.

  "When you refi?"

  ┓()┏

  Xiao Yan spread his hands and said, "You think the ingredients for a tier 6 pill are like cabbages on the roadside? Even if I emptied out your tribe's treasury, I still couldn't get more than a few ingredients for a tier 6 pill."

  A fsh of murderous i passed through Medusa's eyes upon hearing this. She had nearly fotten that this bandit Xiao Yan had not only snatched away a Heavenly Fme but also plundered many preedial ingredients from her tribe's treasury.

  "You really think I wouldn't dare to kill you!"

  Xiao Yan shrugged again and replied, "These medial ingredients are ultimately going to be used for you. If I die, who will restruct the body of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python for you?"

  "Moreover, I make the Heavenly Fmes collide a before I die. By then, you'll either be dead or severely injured. I believe the vast majority of people in the Jia Ma Empire would prefer to see your corpse rather than a living Queen Medusa."

  "If you fight me to the death and end up seriously injured, even if you don't die, your Snake-People Tribe will be annihited by the joint forces of several major empires the very day. Now that the news of your successful evolution has spread, the Snake-People Tribe will at least enjoy peace food while."

  Seeing Medusa's expression of barely suppressed anger yet uo do anything to him, Xiao Yan rubbed his nose, feeling a bit smug inside.

  He slowly extended his hand, imitating her earlier gesture, and said, "Time to return the Heavenly Fme."

  Crack, crack, crabsp;The joints of Medusa's fingers cracked as a hint of crimson surfaced on her lovely face. This was from sheer rage.

  In the end, she didn't make a move against Xiao Yan. After all, she bore the weight of the entire Snake-People Tribe on her shoulders. She was a queen.

  After retrieving the Heavenly Fme, Xiao Yan said calmly, "Ahem, don't be so angry. Once we gather all the ingredients, you should have already pleted your body restru. By then, you tinue being your queen, and I'll tinue being my impoverished alchemist. We'll mind our own business and stay out of each other's way. Doesn't that sound good?"

  Xiao Yan slowly desded back to the square. Watg his figure, Medusa slowly closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and after p for a moment, could only follow behind him.

  At this point, she needed his power more than ever.

  After they slowly nded in the square, which had long been reduced to ruins, there was no o except Yun Yun and Nan Yanran. The other uninjured disciples of the Misty Cloud Sect had taken the wouo the Medie Hall for treatment.

  As for Yun Shan, there was o mention him. Gu He probably had his hands full.

  This battle ultimately cluded with Yun Leng and the other three being used as scapegoats and expelled from the Misty Cloud Sect, bringing the matter to a close.

  As for the deeper reasons, Xiao Yan and Yun Shan naturally chose to remain silent; after all, matters ing the Hall of Souls were a closely guarded secret.

  Yun Yun looked at Queen Medusa following behind Xiao Yan and asked with slightly furrowed brows, "You're also staying at the Misty Cloud Sect?"

  Medusa g Yun Yun but didn't bother answering her question at all. As a Snake-Person, she still harbored a deep hatred for humans in her heart. Except for Xiao Yan, who elicited some special emotions due to their soul tract, other humans were nothing more than ants in her eyes.

  Xiao Yan and Medusa followed Yun Yun and Nan Yanran deeper into the heart of the Misty Cloud Sect.

  Looking out over Misty ountain, one could see a vast expanse of lush greenery and unduting peaks. The mountain peaks s above the clouds eveured breathtaking waterfalls casg down, and arees twisted like dragons g to sheer cliffs.

  No matter who it was, upon seeing the grandeur of these mountains, they would marvel at the beauty of the ndscape before them.

  "Truly worthy of being the most powerful se the Jia Ma Empire. This sery is indeed unparalleled," Xiao Yan didn't hold back his praise. As the number o in the Jia Ma Empire, the Misty Cloud Sect's sery surpassed that of the imperial pace, the Snake-People Tribe's pace, the Magic Beast Mountain Range, and even the Inner Academy of Jia Nan Academy by quite a margin.

  Medusa looked at this magnifit ndscape, and there was a hint of envy in her eyes. After all, the Snake-People Tribe resided in a nd of yellow sands, where even oases were a rarity, let alone such splendid mountains and rivers.

  Pavilions and grand halls were built along the mountains, shrouded in clouds and mist, with some pces eveing bursts of light.

  From this, one could dis that the Misty Cloud Sect had indeed experienced a glorious past.

  After a long while, Xiao Yan followed Yun Yun to a secluded building.

  "You rest here for now. We'll head to the Gate of Life ah tomorrow."

  Yun Yun looked at Xiao Yan and, after p for a moment, said, "I heard from Yanran that you want to ehe Gate of Life ah because of a Heavenly Fme?"

  Xiao Yan didn't ceal it and nodded. "Indeed, I'm a fire-attribute Dou Qi cultivator and an alchemist to begin with. It's not strahat I want a Heavenly Fme, right?"

  All three women looked at Xiao Yan strangely. Wanting one Heavenly Fme is uandable, but you already have the Ten Thousa Fme, Green Lotus Core Fme, plus that bck fme!

  Although they all found it odd, the three women didn't press the matter further.

  "If you need anything, just find Yanran. She resides in the building oher mountain peak," Yun Yun said.

  "So you've truly bee a servant?" Xiao Yan chuckled.

  "You... I..." Nan Yanran wao retort, but for a moment, she didn't know what to say. After all, this was the wager she had made herself.

  "All right, I'm just kidding. With how clumsy you are, I'd find you more of a hassle than a help." Xiao Yan pushed open the door, walked into the building, aly closed the door behind him.

  Seeing Xiao Yan close the door, Yun Yun and Nan Yanran exged gnces before taking their leave. As the Sect Leader, Yun Yun had numerous matters to handle iermath of this i.

  Once Xiao Yan's Spiritual Strength firmed that the two had departed, the pyful expression on his face immediately vanished.

  "You went to great lengths to cause such a huge otion iire Misty Cloud Seot just for a Heavenly Fme, is it?"

  "If you just wao ehe secret realm of the Misty Cloud Sect, you should have had plenty of methods to do so." Medusa sat on a chair and asked softly.

  "Since when did Her Majesty the Queen bee so ed about me?" Xiao Yan sat across from her, smiled, and casually poured two cups of tea.

  "I'm only ed about the pills."

  Xiao Yan lightly tapped his ste ring, retrieving the Green Colored Lotus Ptform, and said, "In a moment, I'll use the Ten Thousa Fme to refine some pills that will help accelerate the growth of your physical body. With the assistance of the Green Colored Lotus Ptform, I believe you'll be able to return to Rank 7 ihan two years."

  "Tonight, you cultivate on the Green Colored Lotus Ptform by yourself; you don't o follow me."

  Medusa furrowed her brows and said, "Yoing out?"

  "Just pnning to iigate some matters."

  …

  In the evening, not long after Nan Yanran delivered his meal, Xiao Yan, following the guidance of the Soul and Token, passed through the dense forest and arrived at a wooded area within the Misty ountain Rahe strahing was that the soul light seemed to be abruptly severed, stopping in mid-air.

  'An illusion barrier, huh...'

  The ers of his mouth curved upward. He retrieved the long-unused Soul Robe from his ste ring, do, and pulled down the hood to ceal his appearance.

  When he reached out again, he discovered that his hand actually passed through a yer of barrier and disappeared.

  'To think it's actually a formation that distort space!'