Chapter 230: Negotiation

Although Medusa had absorbed quite a bit of energy during this period, this energy was no different from a drop in the bucket for Medusa, only enough to keep her awake for a while before she had to fall into a deep sleep again.

"What are you thinking about? It's truly a daydream!" Xiao Yan said with disdain.

Yao Lao didn't make a move because Medusa had no killing intent. If she really had killing intent, Yao Lao would never stand by and watch.

"You aren't afraid of death!" A cold light flashed in Medusa's eyes, her tone cold.

"Stop talking big, you can't do it at all. You hit me all night without even daring to use Dou Qi, and you're still threatening me here! Try killing me? I'm afraid you'll immediately turn back into your original form! As long as you turn back into your original form, I'll throw you away. I have no obligation to carry you!" Xiao Yan rolled his eyes, dismissing Medusa's threat.

"You're courting death!" Medusa flashed and grabbed Xiao Yan's neck directly.

Xiao Yan's face turned pale from the choking, but he didn't say a single soft word from beginning to end.

However, a chill suddenly surged into his mind, allowing Xiao Yan to instantly recover. Looking at the Companion Amethyst Source in his hand, Xiao Yan was shocked and wanted to put the Companion Amethyst Source back into the storage ring.

"Sigh! Do I count as bringing this upon myself?" Xiao Yan smiled bitterly and helplessly. He hadn't expected that adopting Medusa would cause such a big problem. He truly regretted it now, regretting that he had been blinded by greed at the time.

"I..." Xiao Yan was made to feel dazed and confused, his mind filled with Medusa's figure, wanting to give everything he had to the beauty before him. With a flick of his finger, a bottle of Companion Amethyst Source appeared in his hand.

"Holy crap! How did I only reach one-star Dou Ling? I was in seclusion for so long and swallowed so much energy. Reaching Dou Wang wouldn't have been excessive! Even if I couldn't reach Dou Wang, reaching nine-star Dou Ling wouldn't have been excessive! After all, I was already a nine-star Great Dou Shi before seclusion. It only increased by one star in three months. How much Dou Qi did Medusa steal from me!" Xiao Yan smiled bitterly and helplessly.

Medusa burped with satisfaction, threw the empty bottle to Xiao Yan, and smiled: "Keep me by your side and provide me with Dou Qi and this Companion Amethyst Source. If you dare to throw me away, your two brothers will... lose their lives! But I also promise you that I will make a move at a critical moment to save your life!"

"There is!" Yao Lao's mouth hooked into an evil smile and said.

"What? Regretting it?" Yao Lao transformed into a ball of white light and emerged from the ring, then floated beside Xiao Yan and said.

"Teacher, why didn't you come out to help me?" Xiao Yan looked at Yao Lao and said helplessly.

"This is the last time. Next time, I will really do what I say." Medusa snorted coldly, transformed into the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python again, and dove into Xiao Yan's arms, starting to absorb Dou Qi. However, the absorption speed was obviously faster than before, clearly venting her dissatisfaction with Xiao Yan.

"It will probably take a hundred or two hundred years for you to recover to a normal appearance!" Xiao Yan was somewhat helpless and also somewhat heartbroken, but compared to the complete swallowing like in the original work, Xiao Yan still left a bit of affection.

"Then what should we do now? If I keep her with me, she will definitely snatch any good things I encounter in the future." Xiao Yan sighed, feeling somewhat tricky.

But Medusa, with quick eyes and fast hands, snatched it away, then opened the bottle cap and drank it in one gulp, licking her crimson lips, seemingly still wanting more.

"Cough, cough! She wouldn't easily fall in love with someone else, stop talking nonsense! Let's talk about the results of my seclusion this time!" Xiao Yan shook his head helplessly. Wanting Medusa to fall in love with him was harder than ascending to heaven.

"You can investigate it yourself first!" Yao Lao said with a faint smile.

Putting his mind into the center of the Qi vortex, he discovered that the original diamond-shaped crystal had disappeared, replaced by something resembling a sea urchin with nine spikes on it.

After speaking, Medusa transformed into a small snake again and dove into Xiao Yan's arms, starting to absorb Xiao Yan's Dou Qi. However, the absorption speed was only one-third of what he cultivated automatically.

At this moment, the rotation speed of the Dou Qi vortex was ten times faster than before, like a glutton, crazily swallowing Dou Qi.

After the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python was thrown out, it first looked around in confusion, then purple light surged brilliantly, and it transformed into Medusa again.

Seeing Xiao Yan was so tough and not daring to really kill him, Medusa could only let go of his neck. After all, she felt a soul not weaker than her own beside Xiao Yan.

"There is no good way now. If she really wants to kill your two brothers, I can't stop her. And Medusa is a ruthless person who does what she says. We can only take it one step at a time." Yao Lao spread his hands, clearly having no good way either.

Hearing this, Medusa felt a tiny bit of embarrassment, but immediately changed her expression. She floated before Xiao Yan, a flash of cunning in her purple pupils, and a faint smile hung on her alluring red lips. Just as she was about to stick to Xiao Yan's lips, she exhaled a hot breath into Xiao Yan's mouth and said: "Do you like me?"

"Damn! Actually using charm on me!" Xiao Yan was so angry he gritted his teeth. In the blink of an eye, he had lost a bottle of Companion Amethyst Source.

"Make her fall in love with you! Medusa only loves one person in her life, and once she falls in love, she will be devoted. She can disregard everything for love. You don't want a woman like this?" Yao Lao looked at Xiao Yan with a smile, clearly having seen through Xiao Yan. If Xiao Yan really didn't want Medusa, with his intelligence, how could he not think of a way?

"Oh? What way?" Xiao Yan looked at Yao Lao with anticipation.

"Hehe, you actually blame me. It wasn't me who made you adopt Medusa." Yao Lao laughed helplessly.

Xiao Yan shook his aching neck, looked at Medusa, and mocked: "I helped you evolve out of kindness and kept you by my side. When I swallowed the Exotic Fire, you absorbed quite a bit of my energy, and now you want to kill me. You snakes are truly cold-blooded creatures."

"Since you don't care about the lives of your two brothers, don't blame me!" Medusa glanced at Xiao Yan, then flashed and prepared to kill Xiao Yan's two brothers.

"I'm not raising you!" Xiao Yan pulled the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python out of his arms directly, too lazy to even look at it, and threw it out.

"Is there really no way to deal with her?" Xiao Yan said helplessly.

Hearing this, Xiao Yan sat cross-legged on the lotus seat directly, looking at the original Green Lotus Core Flame, whose color had become very pale. This was the result of excessive energy loss.

Slowly closing his eyes, he sank his mind into the Qi Sea. The first thing that came into view was the Dou Qi vortex, which was dense to the extreme and resembled a Taiji pattern. The Taiji pattern rotated rapidly, constantly absorbing the Dou Qi refined by the meridians.

"Wait! I'll agree to you!" Xiao Yan sighed helplessly. He had thought Medusa couldn't transform into human form for the time being!

How could the loss not be severe? Not only was it swallowed by Xiao Yan for nearly three months, but Medusa was also secretly absorbing it.

Shaking his head helplessly, he stopped paying attention to the sea urchin that looked somewhat dazzling and instead sank his mind into the Yin-Yang Dual Flames at the center of the sea urchin.

The Yin-Yang Dual Flames were not only not larger at this moment but had shrunk quite a bit, becoming the size of a grain of rice again. However, although the size was small, the concentrated energy was even more terrifying, almost a hundred times more than before.

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