"Despicable humans! How dare you attack our tribe's Holy City! Medusa Snake Guards!" Yue Mei's pretty face turned cold as she turned her head and shouted.

  "Yes!" A uniform and icy response rang out. Immediately, over a dozen figures used the height of the city walls to their advantage and surrounded Gu He in the blink of an eye.

  The four peak Dou Spirits from the Misty Cloud Sect all made their moves to defend against the attack.

  Gu He's face drastically ged as he said to Queen Medusa, "Your Majesty, please hear my expnation."

  Yun Yun suddenly stretched out her hand to stop Gu He and said in a deep voice, "She has already left. That's just an energy proje."

  !!! Only after hearing this did Gu He dare to sweep his Spiritual Strength over Queen Medusa, and indeed found that this was only an energy proje, not her real body.

  "Gu He, it's clear that a third party is involved in this matter, deliberately making things chaoti an attempt to shift the bme." Walking Wind Feng Li looked at the tinuous explosions in the Mei Sribe and the raging fmes in the Holy City not far away. He roughly guessed what was happening.

  There was indeed a third party, and this third party was sowing discord by stantly attag the Snake-People Tribe to pin the bme on them and divert the Snake-People's attention.

  "Just who is it?!" Gu He gritted his teeth. He had spent over half a year and a signifit amount of resources to obtain a Body Transformation Pill through his es with the Alchemist Association, all with the sole iion of iating with Queen Medusa.

  He never expected a third party to suddenly appear and muddy the waters. Even if it roven that his side wasn't responsible in the end, Queen Medusa would no longer be willing to make a deal with him.

  "But this isn't necessarily a bad thing," Feng Li suddenly said.

  "Huh? Old Feng, what do you mean?" Gu He hurriedly asked.

  "Water that is too clear has no fish. If you want to catch fish, you only do so in muddy waters." Feng Li narrowed his eyes. Gu He's heart suddenly trembled with realization.

  Feng Li's suggestion was to make things even more chaotid seize the opportunity to snatch the prize! If iations were off the table, they could just steal the Heavenly Fme directly and then hide in the Jia Ma Empire! He would still have a Body Transformation Pill left over!

  "Now that a third party is involved, the Snake-People Tribe may not be able to handle so many issues at once. Moreover, you know why Medusa he Heavenly Fme from what Hai Bodong said. She might not even be willing to trade with you. If you really want the Heavenly Fme, the best method is still..." Feng Li made a throat-slittiure as he spoke slowly.

  Gu He looked at Yun Yun beside him, who calmly replied, "I open a path for you. Whether or not you snatch the Heavenly Fme amidst this chaos will depend on your own luck."

  Gu He slightly furrowed his brows and fell into ption for a moment before nodding with a solemn expression.

  He wasn't the type to dither. When it was time to be decisive, he definitely wouldn't let a fleeting opportunity slip away due to some trivial questions of morality.

  If they were going to snatch it, then so be it. Who's afraid of whom?!

  "Old Shi, Feng Li, help me hold off the two tribe leaders. Regardless of success or failure this time, I will refine a Dou King Pill for each of you!" Gu He waved his hand, sending out a blue fme that covered the sky, and said in a deep voice.

  Yan Shi fshed a wide grin, baring his teeth. "Hehehe, you alchemists really know how to get people's blood boiling with a single sentence!"

  "Stht there!" Yue Mei and the other tribe leader Mo Ba Si oy wall immediately fshed over with grim expressions to obstruct them.

  "Hehe. Your oppos are us!" Fierce air currents shot toward Yue Mei and Mo Ba Si with a whoosh.

  Quickly dodging the attag air currents, Yan Shi and Feng Li swiftly appeared in front of Yue Mei and Mo Ba Si, smiling as they intercepted them.

  …

  Meanwhile, Xiao Yan in the Holy City took advantage of the chaos. He transformed into a shadow and sneaked into the Sribe's treasury.

  Looking at the massive, thick iron door before him, he smiled and said, "Nihility Dev Fme, devour it!"

  Even though Mao Wu was currently busy setting fires all over Holy City, it had still left some Bck Fme in the Acceptance Soul for Xiao Yan to use.

  The Nihility Dev Fme surged forth. The moment the thick door came into tact with the Bck Fme, it visibly began to be devoured. Before long, a rge hole appeared before Xiao Yan.

  Xiao Yan walked into the treasury and looked at the three-meter-thick door that couldn't withstand the Nihility Dev Fme for even a few seds. He couldn't help but start p, 'If Mao Wu grows even more, maybe it will be able to directly devour the space itself.'

  A Dou Aor could use some space-reted teiques, but only a Dou Vee could truly trol it. However, the Nihility Dev Fme was innately capable of doing so!

  "Tsk tsk tsk, this is truly worthy of being the treasury of a Magical Beast Tribe," Xiao Yan murmured as he looked at the piles of gold, silver, and jewels in front of him.

  ons, magical beast bones, pill recipes, Qi Methods, Dou Teique scrolls... The shelves were packed full of them.

  However, as an alchemist, none of these things held any allure for Xiao Yan. His eyes were only drawn to the preedial ingredients!

  "Good boy, the Body Transformation Grass used to refihe Body Transformation Pill! It seems Queen Medusa also po have someone refihe Body Transformation Pill for her!"

  "Sand Datura, might as well take this too."

  "Monster Cores from Rank 5 magical beasts, and so many of them!"

  Xiao Yan rushed to the depths of the treasury like a mouse in a rice jar. There were simply too many medial ingredients in a tribe's treasury. He khat his time was limited, so he didn't aim to take a rge quantity, only the most valuable items.

  'They're ing. What a pity I only took a third.' Xiao Yan had a look ret on his face. He sensed a rge number of Snake-People heading this way and gave up on the idea of tinuing his 'zero-gold- shopping spree'. He swiftly flew out of the treasury.

  However, even that third was enough to drive any 5th-tier alchemist mad with envy.

  He had only e here to shop along the way. His true goal wasn't the medial ingredients ireasury, but the Green Lotus Core Fme in Queen Medusa's chamber.

  'Now that things are this chaotic, I refuse to believe you won't try to devour the Heavenly Fme to evolve.' A glint fshed in Xiao Yan's eyes, and the smile on his face was filled with fide was as if everything happening now was goily acc to his pn.

  He looked at the Ten Thousa Fme in his hand. Queen Medusa was quite clever. She had divided the Heavenly Fme into four auras and pced them in four different locations. Even the spiritual perception could be deceived. However, he possessed a genuine Heavenly Fme.

  Heavenly Fmes ily had a special e with each other. With his own Heavenly Fme, he could easily pinpoint where the real Green Lotus Core Fme was.

  However, even without a Heavenly Fme, Xiao Yan could have guessed the real Green Lotus Core Fme's location. Given Queen Medusa's personality, how could she possibly entrust something as important as the Green Lotus Core Fme to someone else? It could only be in her own chamber.

  Xiao Yaraight ahead. The Dou Grandmaster guards he entered along the way couldn't withstand a single punch from him. Even when he ran into Medusa Snake Guards at the Dou Spirit realm, Xiao Yaing with the Ten Thousa Fme, still had the upper hand.

  He tio break through one obstacle after another, darting around the pa the Holy City for nearly ten minutes before his vision suddenly opened up.

  A stunningly beautiful chamber appeared before his eyes. In the ter was a small, clear ke, shimmering like an isnd amid rippling waters. Beautiful pnts were arranged all around, creating a seremosphere. In the deepest part of the chamber was a rge bed on which a purple sail was writhing.

  'That's Queen Medusa!!'

  At this moment, Queen Medusa was wearing a luxurious and expensive purple silk nightgown that g traceful and delicate figure. Beh the sheer nightgown that revealed glimpses of skin was a full and explosive curvaceous body, exuding a bewitg temptation.

  A se of her purple sail was exposed below the purple nightgown, swaying zily and exuding a wild aic charm.

  She was an absolute stunner who could make men lose their minds, a femme fatale that any man would want to embrad possess at first sight.

  'No wonder Queen Medusa's beauty is renowned across several empires; her reputation is truly well-deserved.' Just a single gnce from Xiao Yan was enough to send his imagination running wild. One could easily imagine how breathtaking Queen Medusa's beauty was.

  Especially the way she zily y on the bed, her sail gently swaying... It made one's heart itch with unbearable desire.

  Even Xiao Yan couldn't help but sigh in amazement. She was simply too alluring. That enting fad devilish figure, this was absolutely the dream lover in every man's heart!

  The current Queen Medusa seemed oblivious to Xiao Yan peering from the shadows. Her beautiful eyes were fixated on a green fme, and in the refle of the light, her red pupils flickered with the fme's rhythmic motion.

  Xiao Yan suppressed the other thoughts in his heart. For a determined man like him, a Heavenly Fme was far more important than ay.

  "Sigh, it's been dragging on for half a year now. It's about time," Medusa mused, her nguid eyes gng out the window.

  Currently, the entire Holy City was filled with fmes, and the nearby Mei Sribe was engaged in tinuous battles. Yun Yun had already cleared a path, and Gu He was flying toward one of the fake Heavenly Fme locations.

  Medusa didn't care at all about how the Holy City was beiroyed or whether the treasury had been looted. Because for Medusa, her existence was the meaning of the Holy City's existence. Even if the city were destroyed, it would mean nothing to her.

  She made a hand seal, and with a wave, the Green Lotus Core Fme slowly floated into her palm. Then she slowly stepped down from the bed, carrying the Green Lotus Core Fme as she walked toward a huge bath beside her.

  The bath was filled with crystal-clear liquid, wisps of white mist curling above the surface. Even from a great distance, Xiao Yan could feel the extreme cold emanating from it.

  'No wonder Hun Lao Gui said the Ice Spirit Cold Fountain isn't sold by the bottle. There's a whole bath filled with it!'

  It was no wohe people from Hall of Souls looked down on the Ice Spirit Cold Fountain. It filled a small pool here. One could imagihat as long as someone reached a certain level of strength, they could easily obtain it. It wasn't an overly precious item.

  Queen Medusa walked to the edge of the bath and pondered for a moment. She lightly bit her red lips as if making a decision. Her jade-like hands slowly undid the buttons of her nightgown, and in an instant, a fwless, heaven-crafted body was exposed to the air.

  Especially that waist, a slender willow-like waist that looked as if it could be held with one hand. It appeared slim yet exuded a sense of suppleness. No wonder people often said she had the face of an ahe body of a devil, and the waist of a s truly was no exaggeration!

  Xiao Ya his blood surging upon seeing this alluring se. He even caught a whiff of a sweet fragrance! Medusa was naturally endowed with a seductive st, a bodily fragrahat was undoubtedly intoxig.

  He bit his toil it bled to quell the fmes of desire in his heart. He was just oep away from obtaining the Green Lotus Core Fme. He absolutely could not let such matters ruin this crucial moment!

  A sharp, shrill hiss emanated from Queen Medusa's throat. Her body standing in the pool of Ice Spirit Cold Fountaied a dazzling, powerful light.

  The ceiling of the chamber shattered with a thunderous boom. After which, a Quiet Purple Fme Serpent over a hundred feet long appeared and hovered in the air.

  Even the people in the Mei Sribe could clearly see the massive serpent's silhouette.

  Yun Yun observed the enormous serpent silhouette and the surge of the Heavenly Fme's aura. She calmly said, "It seems she's about to begin her evolution."

  "Damn humans! Once Her Majesty successfully evolves, all of you will die!" Yue Mei roared furiously as she clutched her wound.

  Yun Yun sneered coldly and looked down at Yue Mei. "If she fails, your Snake-People Tribe will fanihition."

  Medusa circled a few times in the sky above before letting out a clear, low cry.

  Then, she dove headfirst into the cluster of green fmes without aation.

  The giant purple serpent instantly shot downward under Xiao Yan's intense gaze. Without a moment's dey, she plunged into the Green Lotus Core Fme in a frantiner.

  Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!!! Immediately, Medusa's shrill screams of ag out from within the Green Lotus Core Fme.

  'Using the Heavenly Fme to temper her body and activate the a bloodlihin her is indeed a clever method. If she had used the Ten Thousa Fme or the Bone Chilling Fme with its extreme ess, the success rate would likely be even higher.'

  Seeing Medusa pluo the Heavenly Fme, intending to use it to temper her body and activate her bloodlio evolve, Xiao Yan no longer cealed himself and emerged from the shadows.

  With a loud bang, his entire body, including his flesh, bones, and skin, was instantly filled with the Ten Thousa Fme. His muscles swelled, and a pair of blood-red beast pupils appeared. The illusory figure of the Eight-Winged Fme Demon Tiger enveloped him, a wings sprouted from his back.

  Ten Thousa Fme—Full Beast Transformation!

  Xiao Yan approached the Green Lotus Core Fme step by step and calmly said, "Even with the Soul Robe, you should have noticed my presence a long time ago, given your sensitivity to air."

  "But you didn't make a move against me. You couldn't have thought a mere Dou Grandmaster fly wasn't worth your effort, right?"

  Xiao Yan had prepared a backup pn to escape far away if Medusa attacked him, but he hadn't expected her to be sant.

  The Green Lotus Core Fme had already been provoked into a frenzy by Queen Medusa. Anything that approached within a certain range would be burned into nothingness.

  The small pool filled with Ice Spirit Cold Fountain was rapidly evaporating. Even its ess couldn't withstand the heat.

  "Not sppio death right away is the thing you'll regret the most in this life."

  Xiao Yan removed his hood, revealing a youthful and fident face. A mass of bck fmes erupted from his body the moment his words fell. The Nihility Dev Fme and the Ten Thousa Fme instantly merged, f a special kind of fme that enveloped him entirely.

  He executed the Exploding Steps, and with a resounding boom, propelled himself like an arrow straight into the raging Green Lotus Core Fme!

  Xiao Yan po snatch the Green Lotus Core Fme from Queen Medusa through sheer force!

  The terrifying green fmes pouoward the approag Xiao Yan. However, when the greeouched the fmes that had merged with the Nihility Dev Fme, a rge portion of them were devoured. The remaining green fmes were isoted by the Ten Thousa Fme.

  As he rushed into the Green Lotus Core Fme, Xiao Yan saw that the once hundred-foot-long giant serpent had already been reduced to a mere thirty feet by the searing fmes! The Essence Fme of the Green Lotus Core Fme had already been swallowed by the purple giant serpent.

  The fact that Medusa had swallowed the Essence Fme weakehe fmes, giving Xiao Yan an opening to charge in as well.

  Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!!! The charred and tattered purple serpent roared furiously at Xiao Yan. She nretted not spping him to death when she had the ce.

  Medusa never imagihat a Dou Grandmaster could actually charge into the frenzied Heavenly Fme. Even more unthinkable was that Xiao Yan possessed both the Nihility Dev Fme and the Ten Thousa Fme!

  "That's not enough! That's not enough for you tret!" Xiao Yan took a step forward and the Heavy Xuan Ruler appeared in his hand. He swung the ruler and smashed it directly toward the purple giant serpent's head.

  The blow nded with a resounding thud, but even though Medusa o suppress the Essence Fme within her body, she was still tless times strohan Xiao Yan. His attack had no effect whatsoever.

  Xiao Yan stared at the giant serpent before him, his figure reflected in those serpent eyes.

  A smug smile appeared on his face as he looked at his refle in those serpent eyes. "The physical body of a magical beast is indeed formidable. But unfortunately for you, I don't just rely on Dou Teiques to attack. I also know Soul Skills."

  ! ! ! ! !

  "Soul Impact!!!"