Control Medusa

She knew Kui Xing's strength all too well.

Although inferior to her, he was still a genuine Peak Dou Huang.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have become the Grand Commander of the Snake-People Clan.

However, in front of Shen Wen, he couldn't even put up a decent resistance before being beaten into a near-death state with the most brutal and humiliating methods!

The entire process.

Shen Wen relied solely on his incredibly formidable physical strength and the strange lightning coiling around him!

'If he were to attack me again...'

As this thought arose, Medusa's heart turned cold.

She mused that even if she used all her trump cards.

The best outcome would probably be a mutual defeat with Shen Wen; more likely, she would be mercilessly crushed like Kui Xing.

And once she, the strongest of the Snake-People Clan, fell.

What awaited the Snake-People Clan would be the ruthless partitioning and slaughter by the surrounding human empires!

Just as Medusa's thoughts raced, even considering whether to gather all the clan's strength, including the four elders who were also Peak Dou Huang.

At the moment she had the crazy idea of keeping Shen Wen here at all costs.

Shen Wen seemed to have seen through her thoughts, “Put away your unrealistic ideas.

Not to mention whether you have the ability to keep me, even if you were fortunately successful...”

He paused, his voice not loud, but it exploded like thunder:

“Do you really think the Pill Tower would sit idly by and watch me perish in the Tagor Desert?”

“Back then, the three great human empires, the Jia Ma Empire, the Izumo Empire, and the Mu Lan Empire, joined forces.

They were able to suppress your Snake-People Clan in the depths of this harsh desert.

How do you think these three combined compare to the Pill Tower of the Central Plains?”

“Or do you think that with my talent and age, in the eyes of the Pill Tower, I am a dispensable character who can be sacrificed at will?”

Three sentences, each more incisive than the last!

Like a basin of ice water.

Poured over Medusa's head, instantly extinguishing the frantic flame that had just ignited in her heart, leaving only bone-chilling cold and despair.

The mere mention of the Pill Tower was enough to suppress everything.

Far incomparable to these surrounding human empires.

A Seventh-Rank Alchemist so young, his value was immeasurable, absolutely the core of the core for the Pill Tower's future.

If he died here.

The wrath of the Pill Tower, let alone her, Medusa, even the entire Snake-People Clan bound together, could not bear!

That would be a true... calamity of clan annihilation!

Everything she did, competing for the Heavenly Flame, longing for evolution, striving for the Dou Zong realm... wasn't it all to lead her clan to a better living environment and escape this endless desert?

If, because of her momentary impulse and unwillingness, she brought catastrophic disaster to her clan.

Then what meaning would all her previous efforts and sacrifices have?

A tremendous sense of powerlessness and the cruelty of reality, like two invisible large hands, fiercely kneaded Medusa's heart.

The color drained from her exquisite face, leaving only a pallor that was almost desolate.

Her straight back seemed to stoop slightly at this moment, revealing an indescribable weariness.

She took a deep breath.

Forcing down the churning blood and the bitterness that almost spilled from her eyes, she spoke with difficulty: “...Fine. Human, you win. The Heavenly Flame here... this King... I, yield it to you.”

After speaking, she seemed to have exhausted all her strength, no longer looking at Shen Wen.

Nor did she look at the heavily injured and unconscious Kui Xing, turning to leave.

Her retreating figure actually carried a hint of desolation and loneliness.

“Wait.”

Shen Wen's voice rang out again, causing Medusa's departing movement to suddenly stiffen.

She spun around abruptly, the suppressed rage in her eyes almost erupting: “Shen Wen! What more do you want?!

I have already yielded the Heavenly Flame, do you truly intend to exterminate us?!”

However.

Shen Wen's next words made her freeze in place again, the anger in her heart replaced by immense astonishment.

“Could it be,” Shen Wen looked at her, his eyes profound, “that you no longer wish to purify your bloodline, break through your shackles, and truly step into the Dou Zong realm?”

This single sentence instantly struck Medusa's deepest, most desired goal!

Hope and despair, giving and taking... this back and forth tugging made Medusa's heart feel as if it were repeatedly kneaded by an invisible hand, sometimes sinking to the bottom, sometimes thrown to the clouds.

She stared blankly at this excessively young yet incredibly powerful human man before her.

Her pale purple eyes were filled with an unprecedented mix of emotions.

Anger, unwillingness, apprehension, shock, and even a hint of curiosity that she herself couldn't understand.

She had roamed the Tagor Desert for many years, seeing countless strong cultivators and geniuses, both human and magical beasts.

Yet never had anyone, like Shen Wen.

Combined dominance, assertiveness, calculation, and unfathomable strength and background so perfectly.

With almost no effort, he had firmly grasped her and the entire Snake-People Clan's lifeline in his palm.

She, Medusa, for the first time in front of a male.

Felt helplessness and a suffocating sensation like being coiled by a python.

“...You, what exactly do you want?”

Medusa's voice carried a dryness she hadn't noticed, her gaze at Shen Wen was extremely complex.

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However, in Medusa's eyes, this smile made her feel unusually uncomfortable and disgusted.

“Then, for this period, I ask Your Majesty the Queen to accompany us. After we find the Heavenly Flame, we will discuss the fate of your Snake-People Clan.”

“Fine!”

Medusa also gave up. Now, she was at a disadvantage, and it could be said that the fate of the Snake-People Clan was entirely in Shen Wen's hands.

“Recovery Pill, have your subordinate take it.”

Shen Wen casually tossed a bottle of pills, which landed in Medusa's jade hand. Medusa looked at the pills, her beautiful face filled with complexity.

“What exactly do you want?”

“Nothing, really. Do you want to watch your subordinate die?” Shen Wen smiled slightly.

Medusa secretly sighed.

After all, he was the Grand Commander of the Snake-People Clan.

She couldn't possibly watch him die.

She went to Kui Xing, who was now a heap of mud, and made him take the pill. The effect of a Fifth-Rank Pill was quite good.

A moment later.

Kui Xing woke up and saw the person who had severely injured him talking to his Queen.

Kui Xing even noticed that his Queen's expression seemed somewhat ingratiating.

Instantly, his anger flared.

But the next moment, he saw his Queen cast a glance at him, her eyes full of warning.

An invisible humiliation permeated Kui Xing's heart.

Medusa said indifferently: “You return to Holy City first. I will stay here for a while. Do not alarm the four elders when you go back.”

Kui Xing was puzzled, but the Queen's command was supreme, so he could only nod helplessly: “Yes!”

Before leaving, he could only glare fiercely at Shen Wen, but once his eyes met Shen Wen's, Kui Xing recalled his experience of being casually tossed around.

He felt phantom pains all over his body and hurriedly departed.