Inside the cave, Xiao Yi Xian's aura surged all the way to Peak Dou Wang.
Although she had increased several stars in a short period of time,
her Dou Qi did not feel unstable in the slightest.
After the effects of the poison control pill wore off, the intense poison carried by the Netherworld Poison Flame became the best nourishment for the Calamity Poison Body.
Furthermore, although the Fire Spirit's strength was far from what it used to be, it wasn't difficult to let Xiao Yi Xian directly Breakthrough to Dou Huang.
Therefore, the momentum of Xiao Yi Xian's increase still showed no signs of stopping.
It seemed that Xiao Yi Xian intended to strike while the iron was hot and directly Breakthrough to Dou Huang.
After confirming that Xiao Yi Xian was safe, Xiao Xue used the peach blossom mark to call Medusa and had her stand guard nearby.
Breaking through from Dou Wang to Dou Huang requires quite a bit of time.
Even Xiao Yan, in the original work, went into seclusion for more than three months to Breakthrough to Dou Huang.
Of course, Xiao Yan is the Protagonist.
At the same level, the energy he requires for a Breakthrough is naturally much higher than that of ordinary people.
However, even for an ordinary person to Breakthrough to Dou Huang, they still need a certain amount of time to accumulate.
With Xiao Yi Xian having taken the soul cleansing toxin suppressing pill and her Calamity Poison Body fully active, the energy required for her Breakthrough naturally far exceeded that of ordinary people.
During this period, it was naturally impossible for her to stay by Xiao Yi Xian's side the entire time.
So, Xiao Xue directly handed the task of being a Protector over to Medusa.
After Medusa learned that Xiao Yi Xian was breaking through to Dou Huang here and needed someone to stand guard, she helplessly accepted the task.
Actually, this job was easy; she just had to ensure Xiao Yi Xian wasn't disturbed by the outside world.
Then, Xiao Xue, Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao—two people and one Soul—returned to Jia Nan Academy.
Xiao Yan, and even Yao Lao, were seeing someone else refining a sentient Heavenly Flame for the first time.
So this wave of observation brought them quite a few insights.
Although refining a sentient Heavenly Flame has many benefits, one must bear the risk of backlash.
It was only because the relationship between the Fire Spirit and Xiao Yi Xian was quite good that Xiao Yi Xian could refine it.
If it were another Heavenly Flame and the Fire Spirit ran wild inside her body, Xiao Yi Xian would be either dead or crippled by now.
Therefore, after discussing it, Xiao Yan and Yao Lao decided.
If they could obtain the Fallen Heart Flame in the future, they would first annihilate its sentience before attempting to refine it.
Regardless, one's life is more important.
The Fallen Heart Flame is comparable to a High-Tier Dou Zong; gambling one's life to become stronger shouldn't be done like this.
Perhaps in the future, Xiao Yan might be able to refine a sentient Heavenly Flame.
After returning, Xiao Yan naturally threw himself into his Cultivate once more.
He was already a three-star Great Dou Master; with the boost from the Fallen Heart Flame, reaching Five-Star wouldn't take more than a few months.
Then, he could take two purple heart barrier-breaking pills and one Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill to surge to the Peak of Great Dou Master.
If things went smoothly, he might even Breakthrough to Dou Ling before this "semester" ended.
Meanwhile, Xiao Xue began to study the Ancient Blood Secret Technique left behind by Gu Yuan.
With Gu Yuan's Realm, he could see through her current situation with a single glance.
Since Gu Yuan said there was a problem with her Bloodline Fusion, he definitely wasn't joking.
Although she didn't know when that mysteriously appearing Heaven Swallowing Python Bloodline and her Heavenly Fox Bloodline had started to fuse;
or what problems had occurred during their spontaneous Fusion.
However, since a problem had appeared, it was naturally better to resolve it as soon as possible.
A Secret Technique like Ancient Blood would take several days just to reach the entry level.
Fortunately, the problem shouldn't be too serious yet, and there was still time.
Xiao Xue put aside other matters and focused on studying the Ancient Blood Secret Technique.
Other than that, she only refined sugar pills for Zi Yan a few times.
With Xiao Yi Xian in seclusion, Zi Yan could only come to Xiao Xue for snacks.
Xiao Xue naturally wouldn't refuse Zi Yan's requests.
She wished Zi Yan would come more often so she could build up more favorability early on, making it easier to take her as a disciple later.
Time passed peacefully like this.
Two months later, at the back mountain of Jia Nan Academy.
As time went by, Xiao Yi Xian's aura had become flickering and indistinct.
By now, her aura was completely hidden.
Even with Medusa's strength, she could only vaguely sense that thread-like aura inside the cave by exerting her full effort.
She knew that Xiao Yi Xian was currently at Peak Dou Wang and was on the right track to advancing to Dou Huang.
When her aura truly disappeared, that would be the moment she successfully promoted to Dou Huang.
On this day, Medusa spent her time as usual, alternating between Cultivate and guarding.
She was not far from becoming an Eight-Star Dou Zong.
Just as she was about to enter a state of Cultivate, she suddenly felt the energy in the valley fluctuate violently like boiling water.
Medusa was startled and immediately tracked the source of the fluctuations, which was indeed Xiao Yi Xian's place of seclusion.
"This fellow..."
Her eyebrows furrowed slightly; Medusa could feel the dense energy in the back mountain frantically converging toward that cave.
Moreover, the speed of this convergence was getting faster and faster.
In the end, an energy vortex several zhang in size actually formed in the air above the back mountain.
"How can the energy she needs for advancement be so massive?"
Staring in shock at the massive energy vortex above her head, Medusa couldn't help but be a bit dazed.
She hadn't not experienced the advancement from Dou Wang to Dou Huang herself.
That process did indeed require an exceptionally large amount of energy, but it shouldn't be like Xiao Yi Xian's, which was almost like a frantic plundering of the world's energy, right?
Of course, Medusa didn't know that when an ordinary Dou Wang advanced to Dou Huang, they only went through the refinement of their internal Cultivation Technique.
But Xiao Yi Xian was different; she not only had the Earth-rank Cultivation Method that Ahri practiced back then, but she also had a Heavenly Flame.
The Netherworld Poison Flame was also protecting her body at all times.
All the energy poured in from the world had to pass through this gate before it could be absorbed by her.
Therefore, a thick, impure stream of energy the size of an arm would be directly refined into a tiny wisp after passing through the Netherworld Poison Flame.
After being transformed by the Cultivation Technique, the volume of the energy shrank again.
Of course, although the volume decreased, it brought infinite benefits to Xiao Yi Xian.
With such pure Dou Qi, her Foundation at the Dou Huang level would be much more solid than that of an ordinary Dou Huang.
This point would play a crucial role in advancing to higher levels in the future.
The downside this caused was the need for much more massive and terrifying energy than an ordinary person's advancement.
The multicolored energy vortex slowly rotated in the air, and the surrounding world's energy was continuously drawn out.
Moreover, as the suction of the vortex gradually increased, even energy from further away began to faintly converge toward the cave.
And this scene was naturally noticed by Medusa.
Immediately, Medusa's expression changed slightly.
There were many powerful Demonic Beasts in this back mountain, and their sensing of energy was also extremely keen.
Such strong fluctuations appearing here would definitely attract them.
Although she could defeat them all, it would be troublesome if Xiao Yi Xian's Breakthrough was affected.
"As expected, the things Xiao Xue arranges are never easy."
Medusa shook her head slightly helplessly, and with a movement of her body, she appeared in the sky above the valley.
Then, Medusa's expression gradually became solemn, and her hands formed complicated hand seals one after another.
As Medusa's hand seals danced into afterimages, the space above the cave suddenly showed some strange wriggling.
After a while, this patch of space actually became distorted and messy.
And that multicolored energy vortex was also slowly hidden within the distortion of space.
Spatial Lock.
A Dou Zong can use basic Spatial Power, so they can naturally achieve this.
In the original work, Medusa used this move when Zi Yan and Xiao Yan broke through to Rank 6 together.
However, for the current Medusa, who was almost at eight-star, hiding the fluctuations of a Breakthrough was much easier than in the original work.
"Sigh, she really doesn't make things easy for people."
Sitting down cross-legged on the huge rock again, Medusa gave a bitter laugh and muttered to herself.
It was estimated that Xiao Yi Xian would soon emerge from seclusion.
On the other side, after two months of bitter Cultivate, Xiao Yan stepped into Five-Star Great Dou Master, then took two purple heart barrier-breaking pills and one Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill.
He naturally didn't suffer any backlash from the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill and directly promoted to the Peak of Great Dou Master.
It shouldn't be difficult to Breakthrough to Dou Ling in a short time.
After two months of research, Xiao Xue finally reached the entry level of Ancient Blood.
Then, she carefully conducted a self-examination according to the guidance within.
With this look, she really did discover a problem—
A newly born Soul was hidden deep in her Sea of Consciousness, sleeping very soundly.
[Things are about to get interesting, jie jie jie]
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