While the player is in Battle Through the Heavens, the system is in The Great Ruler.

Chapter 115: A Battle Against a Peak Dou Zong – Zi Yan's Power
"Heavenly Serpent Palace..."

Lu Yu narrowed his eyes dangerously, and his fighting spirit began to slowly circulate around him. Zi Yan and Little Fairy Doctor immediately understood and stood on either side of him.

Zi Yan abandoned her playful demeanor, her dragon aura subtly emanating from her body, while Little Fairy Doctor's fingertips were enveloped in a faint purple poisonous mist, ready to strike at any moment.

Seeing this, Hong Qi raised an eyebrow and said with a smile, "What are you all doing here? I'm just here to see someone, I don't think I've offended you, have I?"

Lu Yu's gaze was like a knife as he coldly said, "Put that girl down. Does the mighty Heavenly Serpent Manor engage in such blatant robbery?"

"This girl?"

Hong Qi glanced down at the green scales at his feet, a look of understanding flashing in his eyes. He exclaimed, "So you're the young master this little girl was talking about. What a coincidence..."

"This girl is mine, the Heavenly Serpent Manor. Name your price for any compensation you want."

"compensate?"

Lu Yu sneered, his eyes revealing endless coldness, and said in a cold voice, "The Heavenly Serpent Mansion has quite a plan, thinking that it can take people away with some so-called compensation?"

"Qinglin is someone close to me, not an item that can be traded at will!"

Hong Qi was slightly taken aback, then the smile on his face gradually faded, and his eyes turned cold: "Boy, don't be so stubborn. My patience is limited. If you insist on obstructing me..."

So what if we try to stop them?

A cold glint flashed in Lu Yu's eyes, and his voice was filled with chilling killing intent: "I want to see what kind of skills your Heavenly Serpent Mansion has to snatch someone from my hands!"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly formed a hand seal with both hands, his ten fingers flying and leaving afterimages in his wake. The fighting spirit in his body surged out like a flood bursting its banks, flowing wildly through his meridians.

"Burning Heaven and Igniting Spirit!"

A thunderous roar echoed through the heavens. In an instant, golden flames erupted around Lu Yu, his aura surging upwards, instantly transforming him from a four-star Dou Huang to an eight-star Dou Huang!

"Secret method?"

Hong Qi's pupils contracted slightly, but he quickly regained his composure and laughed, "A mere eight-star Dou Huang dares to be so insolent before me! Today I'll show you that the gap between a Dou Huang and a Dou Zong cannot be bridged by secret techniques!"

"Zi Yan! Help!"

With a roar, Lu Yu's figure transformed into a streak of crimson-gold light. Golden flames rose beneath his feet, and with each step he took, a dazzling fire shadow condensed in the void.

Nine steps in a row, each step leaving a shadow, this is the Heavenly Fire Dragon Step at the Great Perfection level!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Nine afterimages bloomed one after another, and the scorching fire waves distorted the air. Each afterimage maintained a different attack posture, whether it was a fist, a palm, a finger, or a claw, as if nine people were attacking Hong Qi at the same time!

Hong Qi's pupils shrank suddenly, and he found it difficult to pinpoint the true form of the strange movement technique before him.

Those nine afterimages were not illusions; each one contained real fluctuations of battle qi. With the nine layers of attacks stacked together, even the surrounding space began to tremble slightly.

"What a weird movement!"

Hong Qi dared not be negligent. He quickly formed hand seals, and a blue light shield appeared around his body. Just as the nine attacks were about to hit him, he suddenly shouted: "Heavenly Serpent Protects Me!"

"boom!"

Nine fiery figures simultaneously slammed into the cyan protective shield, unleashing a deafening roar. The shield trembled violently, its surface rippling.

Hong Qi grunted and looked up to see that the protective barrier was covered with spiderweb-like cracks!
In that split second, Zi Yan's figure flashed, and the power of space rippled like water. Her slender figure instantly became ethereal and disappeared from the spot.

"court death!"

Hong Qi roared, and with a flick of his sleeve, three enormous azure energy pythons, each as thick as a water bucket, roared out. Each python was lifelike, its scales shimmering with a metallic luster, and it opened its blood-red maw to tear at Lu Yu.

Low-level Earth Rank combat skill: Python Slayer!

Lu Yu's eyes blazed with fighting spirit, and flames surged from his palms. Within the scorching fire, two miniature volcanoes were rapidly coalescing, lava churning and heat waves pressing in.

Burning Heaven and Boiling Sea Palm, Five Turns Burning Mountain!

boom!
Two fiery mountains collided with three giant azure pythons, unleashing a violent shockwave. The scorching flames and chilling snake breaths intertwined, forming a terrifying pillar of energy in the air! "Success!"

Just then, Zi Yan's delicate shout suddenly rang out, and she appeared instantly beside Little Fairy Doctor, carrying the unconscious Qing Lin.

The sixth-tier eight-winged black serpent king had already been knocked unconscious and fell heavily to the ground.

"Good boy!"

Seeing this, Hong Qi laughed in anger, his hands rapidly forming hand seals as he roared, "Do you really think you're the only one who knows secret techniques?"

"Heavenly Serpent Transformation!"

"boom!"

In an instant, Hong Qi's aura, originally at the peak of the Dou Zong realm, surged dramatically, and the azure Dou Qi around his body solidified as if it were a tangible substance. His body began to twist and change, fine snake scales appeared on his skin, and his eyes turned into cold, vertical pupils.

Although he has not yet truly broken through, his aura is already faintly touching the threshold of Dou Zun!
"A half-step Dou Zun?"

Lu Yu's pupils contracted sharply, then he sneered and said, "That's all there is to it!"

On the other side, Zi Yan, who had rescued Qing Lin, carefully handed the girl over: "Quickly check how she is..."

Little Fairy Doctor took the Azure Scale, her fingertips glowing with a soft green light. Her expression changed drastically as she said, "The meridians and acupoints have all been sealed!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Yu's eyes flashed with a cold light, flames suddenly surged around him, and he shouted sharply:
"You old bastard, you're asking for death!"

Hong Qi's face was ashen, and his hands quickly formed hand seals: "You arrogant juniors! Today I will show you the true strength of my Heavenly Serpent Mansion!"

As he completed his hand seal, the energy of heaven and earth within a radius of a hundred feet converged wildly, condensing into a phantom image of a hundred-foot-long giant python behind him.

The giant python was a deep blue color, and every scale gleamed with a cold light. As its scarlet tongue flickered, even the surrounding space began to distort and deform!
Earth-rank intermediate combat skill, Heavenly Serpent Devouring the Sun!
A cold glint flashed in Lu Yu's eyes, and he suddenly clasped his hands together. Three strange flames rose abruptly: the golden Floating Pagoda Flame was solemn and sacred, the black Netherworld Heart Demon Flame was unpredictable, and the azure Earth Core Flame was violent and blazing.

The phantom of the Floating Pagoda appeared in the sky, and the suppressive power forced the three-colored flames to merge, eventually transforming into a dazzling and destructive fire lotus!

"go with!"

With a roar, the fiery lotus burst forth. A three-colored streak of light pierced the sky, like a meteor falling to earth, and crashed into the giant blue python with a long, fiery tail.

"boom!"

Amidst a deafening explosion, the fiery lotus and the giant python collided violently. A blinding white light instantly illuminated the sky, and a violent shockwave swept in all directions, reducing mountains for miles around to dust in an instant!
Soon after, the smoke and dust gradually dissipated.
"Cough cough..."

Hong Qi collapsed to the ground in a disheveled state, his clothes tattered, and blood continuously spilling from the corner of his mouth.

Before Lu Yu, a young girl clad in golden armor appeared out of nowhere. The dragon and phoenix patterns on the armor shimmered brilliantly in the sunlight.

"How can this be?!"

Hong Qi struggled to lift his head, his eyes filled with horror. Just now, he had barely managed to withstand that strange fire lotus attack with all his might, yet this girl before him had managed to block his Heavenly Serpent Devouring the Sun attack without a scratch!
"He withstood my mid-level Earth-rank combat skill head-on without sustaining any damage..."

His voice trembled as he exclaimed, "What kind of monster is this?!"

"Thank you very much, Ziyan."

Lu Yu let out a long sigh, his face pale, with fine beads of sweat on his forehead. He had consumed a great deal of energy to forcefully suppress and fuse the three strange flames using the Floating Pagoda.

While it didn't exhaust him, he would likely have paid a heavy price if Ziyan hadn't intervened in time.

After all, the opponent was not a weak Dou Zong without Earth-rank cultivation techniques and fighting skills.

"Why are you so polite to me?"

Zi Yan smiled mischievously, her golden armor gleaming in the sunlight, and said, "Don't forget, I said I'd protect you!"

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(End of this chapter)