Battle Through the Heavens: Heavenly comprehension

Xiao Yan constantly innovated, and as his teacher, Yao Lao naturally refused to follow old conventions.

To address Xiao Yan's physical condition, Yao Lao further improved the prescription for Burning Blood.

With his abilities as an eighth-tier alchemist, this was not a particularly difficult task.

Back when he first prepared Burning Blood for Xiao Yan, he had already made a highly aggressive modification to the prescription.

Originally, Burning Blood only required the blood of magical beasts, which was sufficient for ordinary people.

But for Xiao Yan, who had cultivated at an astonishing speed for years, ordinary magical beast blood had little effect.

Only the violent energy of a second-tier fire-attribute magical beast's core could maximize Xiao Yan's cultivation speed.

The new Burning Blood recipe included over fifty additional fire-attribute medicinal ingredients and the core of a third-tier fire-attribute magical beast.

Seeing the nearly doubled amount of materials, Xiao Yan gasped.

"This teacher sure is strict!"

For ordinary people, the potion refined from this recipe would likely be a torturous ordeal akin to slaughtering pigs.

Even for Xiao Yan, if he had tried this before today, it would have been unbearable.

Covered in the potion applied by the medicinal puppet, Xiao Yan absorbed the potency of the new Burning Blood using the Burning Sky Body Refining Technique. At the same time, he mobilized the power of the stars to neutralize the scorching medicinal effects.

Once the potion was fully absorbed, Xiao Yan's physical strength significantly improved, and his Dou Qi power broke through to the level of a seven-star Dou Practitioner.

Exhaling heavily, Xiao Yan wiped the layer of sweat from his forehead.

Yao Lao smiled with satisfaction. "It seems my heavily revised Burning Blood recipe is quite effective."

Xiao Yan sighed. "This new Burning Blood should just be renamed to Burning People."

Without his foundation of nearly ten years of Dou Qi cultivation, along with the Burning Sky Body Refining Technique and Three Thousand Star Technique, an ordinary person would likely burst into flames.

"You've just advanced in strength, and you're sighing already. What do you think of this new Burning Blood?" Yao Lao asked.

"The potion you refined, Teacher, is naturally excellent," Xiao Yan replied with a smile. "I was just thinking about when I might obtain a flying mount."

In the Eastern Magical Beast Mountain Range, the best flying mount was undoubtedly the sixth-tier magical beast, the Amethyst Winged Lion King.

But its strength was far too overwhelming. Even if Yao Lao subdued it, Xiao Yan lacked the ability to tame it due to the vast difference in soul strength.

However, taming a Blue Eagle similar to Xiao Lan would be good enough.

"That's easy to handle," Yao Lao said after some thought. "To the east of this valley, there are two flying magical beasts. Which one you tame will depend on your ability."

"Having an elder at home is indeed like having a treasure," Xiao Yan said with a grin. He summoned Xiao Hong and set off immediately.

Following Yao Lao's guidance, Xiao Yan made a detour before heading toward the boundary between the depths and outskirts of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

In the azure sky, a dark purple giant eagle soared, its sharp cry echoing like thunder as it locked its gaze on a Blue Eagle.

The giant eagle moved with astonishing speed, like a dark purple bolt of lightning streaking through the sky, pursuing the Blue Eagle relentlessly.

Sensing the threat from behind, the Blue Eagle flapped its wings desperately, trying to escape.

However, the strength of the giant eagle was overwhelming, and it knocked the Blue Eagle out of the sky with a single strike.

"They've encountered each other! That smaller beast probably won't make a good mount anymore," Yao Lao said with some regret, observing the fight.

These two magical beasts had been identified by Yao Lao, and compared to the third-tier Purple Poison Eagle, he had preferred the first-tier Blue Eagle.

Xiao Yan's eyes narrowed. "A Blue Eagle? Could it belong to Xiao Yixian?"

Gripping the handle of his Heavy Xuan Ruler, Xiao Yan urged Xiao Hong to increase its speed.

The wolf's howl caught the attention of the Purple Poison Eagle, which dove toward Xiao Yan with a powerful flap of its wings. These two magical beasts possessed far greater energy than the Blue Eagle.

"Perfect!" Xiao Yan shouted, leaping from Xiao Hong's back. A surge of Dou Qi flooded from his body like a tide, pouring into the Heavy Xuan Ruler.

As more Dou Qi infused it, the ruler's surface glowed brighter, and mysterious patterns emerged.

"Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler!"

The shout echoed in the sky as a crescent-shaped white energy blade shot out from the ruler.

The massive crescent blade of golden-yellow flame energy surged forward, scorching the sky as if it were baked by magma.

The blade streaked across the sky with a piercing sonic boom, splitting the air as if it could cleave the heavens in two.

The third-tier Purple Poison Eagle was as fragile as a paper tiger.

In an instant, it was sliced in half by the crescent blade and fell from the sky.

"You truly are a genius in Dou Technique cultivation," Yao Lao praised. "You've mastered an Earth-tier Dou Technique so perfectly in such a short time!"

"Too bad there's no magic core," Xiao Yan remarked, glancing at the midair blood splatter before directing Xiao Hong toward the Blue Eagle's crash site.

The Purple Poison Eagle wasn't a melee-focused magical beast. Its physical resilience was far weaker than that of ground-based third-tier magical beasts, and its overconfidence led to its deserved demise.

Moments later, after traversing a dense forest, Xiao Yan saw a young woman tending to the Blue Eagle's wounds.

The girl wore a white dress, her delicate face exuding a fresh, ethereal charm. Her slender waist, cinched by a green belt, was so thin it seemed fragile.

Yao Lao, with his discerning eye, admired the girl's skill. "At such a young age, she can temporarily suppress the Purple Poison Eagle's venom through her knowledge of medicine."

A Blue Eagle and a slender waist—this must be Xiao Yixian!

Leaving the Blazing Fire Wolf in the forest, Xiao Yan approached the cliff. "With your current medicine, you can at most suppress the venom's spread. The healing effect is limited. Even with a magical beast's strong constitution, it would take two to three years to recover fully."

"Who are you?" Xiao Yixian asked warily as she stood up. "I don't recall seeing you in the herb collection team."

Xiao Yan stepped closer and flicked his fingers, scattering white medicinal powder onto the three claw marks on the Blue Eagle's wing.

Xiao Yixian looked down and was astonished to find the black-robed boy's powder to be miraculous!

The three purple-black wounds on the Blue Eagle's wing seemed to encounter their nemesis, as poisonous blood flowed out continuously.

Within a few breaths, the venom troubling her so greatly was completely neutralized.

(End of Chapter)

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