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  Hai Bodong abruptly stood up upon hearing this, his eyes fshing with a hint of ferocity as he stared ily at Xiao Yan, as if trying to dis the truth from his gaze.

  "Old Hai, don't get too excited. Sit down and have some water first," Xiao Yan said with a calm smile.

  Hai Bodong took a deep breath to calm himself down and asked, "Are you telling the truth?"

  Xiao Yan took out the Sand Datura from his ste ring, pced it oable, and said, "It's true. When I infiltrated the Holy City, I ehe Snake-People Tribe's treasury to find the Sand Datura for you..."

  Hai Bodong's eyes widened. Entering the Snake-People Tribe's treasury?! Is the treasury that easy to get in?!!!

  "Ireasury, I discovered a scroll about the sealing teique used by Queen Medusa. I gave the scroll to my elders to examine, and they finally analyzed a way to reverse and break the seal," Xiao Yan told a half-truth, half-lie in a very calm manner.

  Hai Bodong furrowed his brows, p whether what Xiao Yan said was true or false.

  "However, Old Hai, this method was devised by my elders after much effort. And while it indeed help you break the seal, that 6th-tier pill recipe and medial ingredients..." Xiao Yan smiled, his eyes almost narrowing into slits like a ing fox.

  How could Hai Bodong not uand the hidden meaning in those words?

  "The pill recipe and ingredients were meant for breaking the seal in the first pce. If you help me break Medusa's seal, I give you both of them." Shaking his head with a wry smile, Hai Bodong took out numerous alchemy ingredients from his ste ring. In his hand, he held a yellowed, a sheepskin paper. The pained expression on his face was not feigned. He had endured tless hardships to obtain this pill recipe.

  After all, this was a 6th-tier pill recipe. Giving it away felt like cutting off a piece of his own flesh.

  Xiao Yan maintained a gentle smile on his face, though inwardly he was delighted. Even within the mysterious ste ring, pill recipes that could break seals were incredibly rare. Being able to obtain a 6th-tier pill recipe along the way was naturally a great deal.

  "Of course, I believe Old Hai still remembers our bet from before, right? If I mao break the seal within a year, you agreed to give me half of the Miteer Au House, remember?" Xiao Yan said with a smile, not in a hurry to take the pill recipe.

  Hai Bodong's eyelid twitched violently. He had inally thought of using the fact that the agreement was to refine a pill to brush it off ter, but Xiao Yan had directly brought it up.

  "I... I remember." Those two words were almost squeezed out through his ched teeth, revealing the struggle in his heart.

  Xiao Yan finally accepted the a pill recipe after hearing Hai Bodong's agreement. The smile on his face became even brighter.

  "You really have a way to help me break the seal?" Hai Bodong asked again, still skeptical.

  "The Snake-People Tribe is yin-cold by nature, and Queen Medusa even more so. Her seal is extremely cold. To break it, we o use a Heavenly Fme to ehe body aralize the cold energy within the seal," Xiao Yan said without blushing or his heart rag.

  "Heavenly Fme?!"

  Xiao Yan opened his hand, and a cluster of green fmes appeared in his palm. "As it happens, Queen Medusa was very generous and gave me a Heavenly Fme."

  Hai Bodong fell silent. Letting a Heavenly Fme enter one's body to break a seal was aremely dangerous thing. If not trolled properly, it could cause irreparable damage.

  Notig Hai Bodong's , Xiao Yan directly took out a medial cauldron from his ste ring. Right in front of him, he used the Green Lotus Core Fme to refine an ordinary 4th-tier medial pill.

  His trol over the fme could be described as perfect. The inally wild Heavenly Fme had bee incredibly obedient due to the Fme Mantra, pletely under his trol.

  With the Fme Mantra, Xiao Yan could be said to have the most perfect trol over Heavenly Fmes oire Dou Qi ti.

  A soft pop sounded as three Great Blood Recovery Pills were successfully refined and pced into a jade bottle.

  "Old Hai, my trol over fire isn't bad, is it?" Xiao Yan smiled slightly as he put the medial cauldron bato his ste ring.

  Even Hun Huzi had praised his alchemy talent back then, so it was no surprise that Hai Bodong was half-vinced after witnessing his fwless trol over the fme.

  "Good! If you really help me break the seal, I, Hai Bodong, will surely remember it in my heart and treat you with utmost siy!" Hai Bodong gritted his teeth. He really didn't want to remain sealed any longer.

  Twenty years! Do you know how these twenty years have been?!

  Xiao Yaly rejoiced in his heart. Although the method he mentioned was fabricated, he indeed had a way to break the seal. He simply didn't want to reveal the ability of the Nihility Dev Fme.

  Hai Bodong led him into a secret chamber and said, "No one will disturb us here."

  "The's begin."

  Xiao Yan lightly tapped Hai Bodong's shoulder with his left hand. A green fme flickered and instantly burned his earth-colored robe into nothingness.

  "Old Hai, bear with the pain."

  Xiao Yan slowly extended his Spiritual Strength from his body, and with a thought, Mao Wu emerged from his Acceptance Soul, its body shrinking to oh the size of a fingernail as it jumped onto his fiip.

  His fihen pierced Hai Bodong's body with a soft sound, sending Mao Wu to the location of the seal.

  Medusa's seal was even more vicious than the one on the Amethyst Winged Lion King. It had sealed almost all the acupoints in Hai Bodong's body. Moreover, the seal had coated his meridians with a yer of poison.

  To break this kind of seal, not only did the seal o be devoured, but the poison yer on the meridians also o be ed without damaging the meridians themselves.

  If it were the Xiao Yan who had just met Yun Yun in the Magic Beast Mountain Rahe success rate wouldn't have exceeded 50%.

  But now, not only had his Spiritual Strength increased signifitly, but more importantly, Mao Wu had also grown stronger.

  Under his trol, the shrunken Mao Wu fiercely devoured the poison yer in the meridians. Even the deadliest poisons could be devoured by the Nihility Dev Fme.

  As Mao Wu tinuously traversed the meridians throughout the body, the bck fmes persistently burned and devoured the poison yers. Hai Bodong could clearly feel his body being lighter.

  That smooth, flowiion was returning once again!

  His aura gradually increased as time passed quietly. Even though he was drenched i from head to toe, the excited smile on his face couldn't be cealed.

  'Just a little more... a little more!'

  Hiss! Suddenly, a stern terattacked. Xiao Yan's eyes narrowed as his soul body instantly emerged and fiercely struck out with a palm. Meanwhile, the Nihility Dev Fme surged through Hai Bodong's entire body like a ferocious tiger, dev the venomous sh a sie.

  The moment the stern was eradicated, Hai Bodong's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened wide. A burst of spiritual light shot out from his pupils like something tangible, and the power that had been deeply suppressed for nearly decades erupted from within his body.

  The walls of the secret chamber began to crader the immense pressure.

  Xiao Yan hurriedly retreated after sensing this Dou Emperor-level strength.

  "This damned seal is finally gone! I've bee a Dou Emperain!!!" Hai Bodong's face was filled with ecstatic joy as he threw his head bad ughed maniacally.

  After a while, he turned his head to look at Xiao Yan, who was sitting calmly on a chair. His eyes narrowed slightly as if pting something.

  Xiao Yan raised his head to look at Hai Bodong in the air and dispyed an incredibly fident smile. It was as if the tter posed no threat to him at all.

  "What's the matter, Old Hai? Something wrong with your body?" Xiao Yan slowly took out the Soul and Token from his ste ring aly pced it oable.