94: Chapter 94 The Queen of Schemes! The Ice Emperor Slides to His Knees

"Hai Bodong?"

Medusa's lips curled slightly, her eyes becoming playful.

"When I entered Mo City, I sensed a familiar energy fluctuation, but I didn't have much interest in exploring it."

"I didn't expect it to be you, the former Ice Emperor. That familiar energy fluctuation was the sealing power I left inside your body."

"More than a decade has passed, and you still haven't resolved it, your strength remaining at the Dou Ling level. The top ten experts of the Jia Ma Empire are nothing more than this."

As she spoke, Medusa raised her hand, and the Dou Qi within her body surged out, condensing into a blood-red longbow.

"More than a decade ago, you actually managed to escape after obtaining something in the desert. It was my negligence that I didn't keep you."

"Now that we've met, it's the perfect time to make up for it!"

As she spoke, a red energy arrow began to condense, emitting a terrifying aura.

At this moment, countless memories flooded his mind, and the scenes of his nightmares from these past years surfaced. Hai Bodong was so scared his legs went weak.

If he hadn't been leaning against the wall, he would have collapsed by now; he couldn't even muster the thought of resisting.

"Your Majesty, wait a moment." Xiao Ting appeared in front of Medusa and raised his hand to stop her actions.

It was only because Medusa was willing to hear what he had to say; otherwise, Hai Bodong would already be a corpse.

"You want to protect him?" Medusa's eyes turned cold.

"I wonder, does this Ice Emperor have some deep grudge against Your Majesty?" Xiao Ting smiled noncommittally.

"No, there isn't one at all!" Hai Bodong's voice rang out, sounding somewhat distraught.

Xiao Ting's back looked so imposing to him.

The moment this person stood out to block Medusa for him, he became Hai Bodong's future faith.

Hearing that Xiao Ting seemed to be speaking up for him, he immediately said, "How could I dare to have a grudge against Medusa?"

"More than a decade ago, I heard that a map merchant from the Central Plains had appeared in the desert, so I went to look for him. By coincidence, I witnessed him and a commander of the Snake-People Clan fighting to the death, both perishing together."

"I went forward and obtained their belongings. That was when Medusa arrived with her people and immediately tried to kill me without a word. I was no match for her and could only flee in a sorry state."

"She hunted me for seven days and seven nights. When I finally managed to escape to the vicinity of Stone Desert City, she placed the Snake Curse Seal on me, forcing me to only be able to exert the strength of a Dou Ling all these years. I've been neither human nor ghost, living in utter misery."

"So, you are dissatisfied with me?" Medusa's eyes narrowed: "You must hold a grudge against me. You truly deserve to die."

"No, no, no!" Hai Bodong was so scared he stuttered: "I don't hate you. It was my fault for entering the territory of the Snake-People Clan, and it was my fault for taking the belongings of those two people instead of handing them over to you."

"This small grievance shouldn't be worth a life, right, Your Majesty?" Xiao Ting coughed lightly and chuckled to smooth things over: "If we're going to fight and kill over this, then when we met outside Stone Desert City that day, Your Majesty would already be a corpse."

"Are you threatening me?" Medusa was getting a bit angry.

She was currently cooperating with Xiao Ting to put on a show, one playing the good cop and the other the bad cop, to force Hai Bodong to obediently submit.

This dog of a man was actually threatening her in return.

"No, no, no, I'm just stating an objective fact. How could I threaten Your Majesty over something like this?" Xiao Ting immediately waved his hand: "I think it should be like this: let this Ice Emperor hand over the things he obtained back then. Since he has been sealed for so many years, the matter of offending Your Majesty can be considered paid for. What do you say?"

"Hmph!" Medusa pretended to glance at Xun'er and casually withdrew the longbow in her hand: "For the sake of you buying so many things for me today, I'll give you this face."

"Your Majesty is magnanimous." Xiao Ting immediately turned to look at Hai Bodong: "Lord Ice Emperor, whatever you obtained back then, return it in full now. Don't try to be clever."

"Yes, yes, yes." Hai Bodong was still immersed in the fear of suddenly seeing Medusa, and the bewilderment brought by the fact that Medusa listened to Xiao Ting, so he instinctively followed instructions.

He took out a storage ring and tossed it to Xiao Ting: "The things inside are only more, not less, compared to what I... what I gained back then."

"The items include a fragmented map that I couldn't understand. A few years ago, I used my map-making skills to split it into two parts, and one of those parts is in your hands."

Xiao Ting scanned it with his soul power and indeed found the other half of the quarter-fragmented map of the pure lotus demonic flame inside the storage ring.

【fragmented map obtained <photo>】

【There are a total of four fragmented maps. Two are in my hands, and the other two will appear in the near future at an auction in the Black-Corner Region and at a Space Auction House in the Central Plains. I will find a way to get them.】

【If I can persuade Xun'er to successfully cultivate the Burning Technique, this fragmented map of the pure lotus demonic flame can be given to her first, allowing her to raise the grade of the Burning Technique first.】

【With the resources of the Ancient Clan, and since she is the dao companion I have chosen, perhaps she is more suitable for the Purification Lotus Demon Flame. Later, I will act to obtain the Void Swallowing Flame to become an Emperor, and then slowly help Brother Yan.】

With a thought, he uploaded his ideas directly.

It takes a long time to tell, but in reality, it was just a fleeting thought.

Xiao Ting looked at Medusa: "Your Majesty, I am interested in this fragmented map. Could you give it to me?"

"If it can catch your eye, its value shouldn't be low. Are you just going to open your mouth and ask for it for free?" Medusa tilted her chin slightly, signaling for Xiao Ting to trade something for it.

Hai Bodong: It's clearly my fragmented map.

"As far as I know, after a member of the Snake-People Clan becomes pregnant, they can use a certain pill combined with a secret technique to improve the infant's talent." Xiao Ting decisively offered his price: "What you used, Your Majesty, was the Grade 6 Pill, Snake Marrow Bone-Shedding Pill, which is only a medium-grade secret technique to ensure you reach the Dou Huang level without a bottleneck."

"A high-grade secret technique requires the Grade 7 Pill, Heavenly Soul Blood-Melting Pill."

"I promise that when you need it, Your Majesty, I will give you a Grade 7 Heavenly Soul Blood-Melting Pill. How about that?"

Actually, in Xiao Ting's view, a high-grade secret technique is just average.

If Medusa were to bear him a child, then he would have to find a way to use an Eighth Grade Pill or even a Ninth Grade Pill to create a super-grade secret technique.

"You are also an Alchemist?" Medusa asked with slight surprise, her eyes changing somewhat.

Of course, it was all an act; she knew Xiao Ting's situation like the back of her hand.

"Not bad." Xiao Ting summoned the Purple Heaven Flame: "I started alchemy half a month ago, and I am now almost a Grade 2 Alchemist. My teacher said that I might be able to reach the height of a Grade 8 Alchemist in the future."

"By the way, my teacher is a Grade 8 Alchemist. Even if I can't do it, my teacher can help me fulfill the promise."

"Very well." Medusa went with the flow and agreed.

Meanwhile, beside them, Hai Bodong's expression changed again after hearing Xiao Ting's words.

When Xiao Ting and Medusa finished their conversation, he immediately rubbed his hands together and said: "Little friend, could you please ask that teacher of yours to help this old man refine a Grade 6 Pill?"

"What pill does Elder Hai want to refine?" Xiao Ting put the storage ring away, showing no intention of handing it to Medusa.

Buying things for Medusa has now been returned a thousand-fold, ten thousand-fold.

"It is a pill called the Po'e Pill." Hai Bodong smiled awkwardly, not daring to look at Medusa: "It can help this old man break the seal in my body and restore my Dou Huang strength."

"In return, this old man can act as your bodyguard for a period of time. Three years, no, five years. How about that?"

"This proposal is very tempting. With a Dou Huang expert as a bodyguard, I can almost walk sideways in the Jia Ma Empire." Xiao Ting revealed a thoughtful expression.

Just when Hai Bodong thought he was going to agree, he heard him continue: "But I will soon be going to Jia Nan Academy. By the time I graduate, I definitely won't need the protection of a Dou Huang expert."

Hearing this, Hai Bodong became somewhat anxious.

Is he going to refuse me?