Chapter 227 Devouring Strange Fire
The strange ghostly light swept back and forth on the two-headed fire snake, and finally stopped at the center of its forehead. Then it began to shrink and finally turned into a green flower, engraved on the forehead of the two-headed fire snake.

The originally ferocious two-headed fire snake finally became docile at this time, staring at Qinglin without blinking. At this time, Qinglin seemed to be over-exhausted and fainted.

Xiao Yan quickly ran to Qing Lin and hugged her. The two-headed fire spirit snake wanted to stop him, but after realizing that Xiao Yan had no ill will towards Qing Lin, it felt that it could not defeat Xiao Yan, so it could only stare at Xiao Yan with a vigilant look on its face.

As long as Xiao Yan makes any move to hurt Qing Lin, the two-headed fire spirit snake will forcibly protect its master even if it cannot defeat Xiao Yan.

After a while, the unconscious Qing Lin finally woke up. Looking up at Xiao Yan who was holding him, Qing Lin immediately regretted waking up a little early.

However, when Qinglin saw the two-headed fire snake not far away, he suddenly became happy and smiled with his little fangs showing.

"Thank you, young master! I didn't expect that you would really help me catch a pet!" At this time, Qing Lin finally knew what the pet Xiao Yan was talking about.

“Haha, this is your own credit. If you didn’t have the magical Green Snake Three-Flower Pupil, even if I put the Two-headed Fire Spirit Snake in front of you, you wouldn’t be able to subdue it. This Two-headed Fire Spirit Snake is quite powerful and has reached the Dou Ling level. It is more powerful than any team leader in Shimo City. No one will dare to bully you in the future.” Xiao Yan said with a faint smile.

"Young Master is so nice to me!" Qing Lin kissed Xiao Yan on the face, then retracted his head.

"Haha, this is just the beginning. You will subdue more monsters in the future. The more monsters you subdue, the stronger you will be. Maybe you will surpass me in the future, and I will need to curry favor with you!" Xiao Yan said to Qing Lin with a smile.

"Qinglin is just the young master's maid. Now that the young master said that, does that mean he doesn't want Qinglin anymore?" Qinglin looked at Xiao Yan with tears in her eyes and said pitifully.

"You are not made of water! Why do you cry so easily?" Xiao Yan smiled helplessly.

"Then will the young master leave Qinglin?" Qinglin looked at Xiao Yan and said.

"It's your choice! If you really want to follow me, I won't refuse. But it's very dangerous to follow me, so you have to think it through." Xiao Yan said with a sigh.

Although Qing Lin will have great development in the Heavenly Snake Mansion, Xiao Yan's own strength is already not weak. After this retreat, his strength will improve by leaps and bounds.

Besides, as long as Qinglin is provided with enough snake monsters, Qinglin’s strength will naturally increase rapidly, and it will not have much impact whether he goes to the Heavenly Snake Palace or not.

"I will never leave the young master." Qinglin said in a firm tone.

"But I'm going to go into seclusion soon. The place where I'm going to seclude myself is under the magma. You can't accompany me down, so you should go back to the base first! I'll accompany you after I come out of seclusion!" Xiao Yan explained.

Qing Lin looked at the magma below. Although she really wanted to accompany Xiao Yan down, she knew that she was not strong enough and could not go down at all.

"Qinglin, can you wait here for the young master?" Qinglin looked at Xiao Yan expectantly. At this moment, Xiao Yan seemed to have become her closest person, and she didn't want to be separated from Xiao Yan.

"Uh... I'm going to be in seclusion for a long time. Won't you be bored staying here?" Xiao Yan looked at Qing Lin in some surprise.

"Qinglin is not afraid!" Qinglin said firmly.

"Well then! There are some daily necessities in this ring. If you don't have enough, go up there and ask my two brothers for them." Seeing Qing Lin's determination, Xiao Yan did not force her to leave. Under Qing Lin's reluctant gaze, Xiao Yan jumped directly into the magma and swam towards the direction of the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire.

"Little Yanzi, not bad? You have got another beauty with unlimited potential!" Yao Lao teased.

"What nonsense are you talking about? I just treat her as my sister!" Xiao Yan said with a pout.

"Haha, but that little girl doesn't treat you as her brother!" Yao Lao said jokingly.

Hearing this, Xiao Yan was stunned for a moment. He was good to Qing Lin, but he felt that she was a little pitiful. In addition, Xiao Yan did not have much feeling towards the descendants of the snake people and humans. After all, Xiao Yan's soul was not from this world, so he did not have that much hatred towards the snake people.

Besides, there is a little snake lying in Xiao Yan’s arms!

He took the Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python out of his arms and took a look at it, only to find that it was still sleeping.

This Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python has been sleeping ever since it was brought out from the desert, and no matter what is done, it cannot be woken up.

According to Yao Lao, it was because of the forced evolution into the Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python that it consumed too much energy, so it fell into a deep sleep.

However, the reason why the Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python was lying on Xiao Yan was because Xiao Yan's martial arts could operate on its own and the surrounding fire energy was extremely abundant, so the Nine-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python found Xiao Yan.

As soon as Xiao Yan reached the green lotus pedestal, the green lotus core fire at the center of the lotus pedestal transformed into a small snake and circled around Xiao Yan, as if welcoming his arrival.

"Oh! It's like this every time! I can't bear to eat it!" As the saying goes, you can still have feelings for a kitten or a puppy!
“Actually, you don’t have to devour all of the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire. You just need to absorb the energy of the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire like you absorbed the Purple Fire last time. In this way, although the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire will lose some energy, it will be able to recover after a period of time, and can be used for a long time!” Seeing that Xiao Yan was actually a little reluctant, Yao Lao immediately came up with a good idea.

"Teacher, you are so mean! You are taking advantage of me! But I like it!" Xiao Yan widened his eyes, feeling like he was meeting Yao Lao for the first time.

However, Yao Lao's method is not bad. The strange fire is essentially just energy. Even if the Green Lotus Core Fire is completely swallowed up, it will only extend the time for the next generation. However, Xiao Yan does not intend to do that.

Xiao Yan walked to the center of the lotus platform, sat down cross-legged, and prepared to begin devouring the strange fire.

"I'll take you home, and you can lend me some energy to evolve, okay?" Xiao Yan looked at the little green flame snake in front of him and said in a negotiating tone.

Upon hearing this, the Qinglian Earth Core Fire, which had transformed into a small green snake, was stunned, as if thinking about something, and then directly turned into a flame form and wrapped Xiao Yan's whole body.

"Oh shit! Ah! Oh!" Before Xiao Yan could react, the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire had already spread all over his body. At this moment, Xiao Yan finally understood what Medusa felt at that time, how terrifying the power of uncontrolled strange fire was.

Unfortunately, Xiao Yan was unable to shout to stop. The body of Xiao Yan, a fourth-order demon beast, was nothing in front of the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire. In the blink of an eye, it was burned to only bones.

The Yin-Yang twin flames were trying their best to rescue Xiao Yan at this moment, wrapping his entire skeleton tightly, but it was still no use. Xiao Yan was about to turn into a pile of ashes, and not even ashes would be left.

(End of this chapter)