Chapter 45: Chapter 45: Challenging the Xuan Class Trial

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    The best way to deal with poison insects was through fire.

    Although Xiao Yan couldn''t yet materialize his Dou Qi flame directly and needed the aid of a medicinal cauldron and a Monster Core to ignite the flame, the skills of an alchemist were nonetheless his own abilities.

    He violently opened the lid and the Rank 2 Fire Attribute Monster Core, fully ignited by the Dou Qi flame, exploded into terrifying flames with a loud bang!

    Xiao Yan used his Spiritual Strength to control the flames and transformed them into a fire dragon that charged toward the dense swarm of poison insects.

    Zhang Chuan Wu laughed instead of panicking when he saw the fire dragon approaching. He had seen the fire of the alchemists'' medicinal cauldrons too many times to be scared. Although he couldn''t refine medicinal pills, he did have a medicinal cauldron, though it was used to refine poison.

    "Cauldron Fire? Indeed, poison insects fear the most yang of things. But my poison insects have been refined through the Poison Insect Technique and have evolved within my body for three generations. They are all protected by a layer of poison energy cloak. How could the flames of a mere Rank 2 Monster Core harm my poison insects?!!"

    Puff! The fire dragon opened its mouth and ''swallowed'' all the poison insects in one gulp. Then it coiled in the air and enveloped the countless poison insects as if it were a ball of fire.

    Buzz, buzz, buzz! Strangely, the poison insects were still moving freely within the fireball, seemingly unafraid of being scorched by the flames.

    Xiao Yan shook his head, placed his hands over the opening of the medicinal cauldron, and said indifferently, "Unfortunately, the flames I possess are not ordinary flames. Although there are only a few strands, they are, after all, from the Bone Chilling Flame. It''s more than enough to deal with these poison insects."

    A few strands of bone-white Bone Chilling Flame converged into a long white needle. This move was precisely the ''Needle Threading Flame Control'' technique used by Hun Huzi during the refinement of the poison pill!

    With just one look, he firmly memorized the technique and succeeded in seizing it!

    Upon seeing the bone-white Heavenly Flame needle emerge from the fire dragon, all the Poison Winged Ants were startled and immediately turned to flee with a whoosh. Evidently, they were terrified by the needle transformed from the Heavenly Flame.N/ne?w n0vel chap/ers are published o/n

    It was, after all, the 11th-ranked Heavenly Flame!

    Heavenly Flames were the most extreme Yang things on the Dou Qi Continent. Born from heaven and earth, they were the nemesis of all poisons!

    In fact, the Poison Winged Ants that had been nurtured by Zhang Chuan Wu''s poison Dou Qi for years were not afraid of ordinary medicinal cauldron flames, let alone considering Xiao Yan''s lower cultivation level. However, encountering a Heavenly Flame meant facing their ultimate bane.

    Even if Zhang Chuan Wu was a Dou Grandmaster, and his poison insects were twice as powerful, once touched by the Heavenly Flame, their only fate was death.

    Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!!

    Under the Heavenly Flame''s needle threading technique, all the poison insects couldn''t resist at all; any poison energy cloak they had was like a mist before the wind. Xiao Yan''s Spiritual Strength was extraordinary. Even Hun Huzi had praised it. Possessing such Spiritual Strength without any Soul Training Method truly made him a natural-born alchemist.

    The fire dragon served merely as a seal to prevent the poison insects from escaping. The real deadly move was the needle composed of a few strands of Bone Chilling Flame!

    "Come back!!" Zhang Chuan Wu''s heart was bleeding; those were his carefully nurtured poison insects!

    However, Xiao Yan quickly laughed it off and muttered with conviction, "If I can''t even reach the Xuan Class, what face would I have left to return and see Xun Er?"

    Nevertheless, he was in no hurry. After taking a Qi Recovering Pill to restore his Dou Qi, he reignited the medicinal cauldron, cut his finger to drop a blood droplet into it, and watched as

    the flame slowly decomposed the blood.

    He was still poisoned at this moment.

    ''To refine a Detoxification Pill, one must first know the composition of the poison and the

    toxins involved.''

    Since he had absorbed the poison, he needed to analyze its components in his blood and then use the effects of specific medicinal ingredients to neutralize the toxins. Strictly speaking, this was his first time formally detoxifying. The previous instance with Hun Huzi didn''t count; it was more of a quick-witted solution than a proper detoxification. After a day and a night of painstaking analysis, Xiao Yan finally identified the right medicinal herb to purify the toxins. He refined a Detoxification Pill and successfully removed the poison from his body.

    "It actually took a whole day just for the detoxification. Killing is easy, saving lives is hard; getting poisoned is easy, detoxifying is hard."

    Xiao Yan muttered sarcastically, then noticed that everything around him was dead silent, making him feel rather lunatic.

    "I''ve spent quite some time in this trial ground; it''s time to wrap this up. Let''s challenge the

    Xuan Class trials!"

    A buzzing sound rang out, and a door suddenly appeared before him as soon as he spoke. Unlike the previous portals, this door looked tangible and very real.

    "As expected from the Xuan Class, even the door is different," Xiao Yan mused as he walked

    through the door.

    ...

    In the Hun Realm within the void, thousands of young people practiced Dou Techniques in the cultivation ground of a secluded city.

    The instructor of the cultivation ground suddenly received a spiritual message. He casually pointed at a young man and said, "Hun Yu Cun, someone from the outside world has applied for the Xuan Class advancement trial. It''s your turn to go."

    All the Hun Clan descendants present at the cultivation ground showed expressions of envy, jealousy, and resentment upon hearing the instructor''s words. Why did such a good opportunity to gain soul points never fall upon them!

    "You''re lucky, Yu Cun. One needs one hundred soul points to advance to the Xuan Class. Isn''t

    facing someone from the outside world practically like being handed points for free?"

    Hun Yu Cun''s eyes sharpened as he licked his lips and said, "What I enjoy most is hunting down these ignorant fellows from the outside world. My collection is about to increase by

    one,"