For the Snake-People, they were naturally cold-blooded, and this Tagor Desert was certainly not a good place.
Medusa had the intention to lead the Snake-People Clan out of their predicament, and to lead the Snake-People Clan out of the desert, she needed sufficient strength.
A Dou Zong was already considered a powerhouse in the Northwest Continent; as long as she could step into the Dou Zong Realm, she could bring benefits to the entire Snake-People Clan.
But Medusa had no hope of breaking through to Dou Zong using ordinary methods, so she could only pin her hopes on the exotic fire.
She wanted to use the power of the exotic fire to remove the cold energy and human Bloodline from her own Bloodline, in order to activate the evolution of her ancient bloodline.
This was a huge gamble; win and live, lose and die.
If Medusa were to fall, the Snake-People Empire would inevitably be carved up by the surrounding major human Empires.
However, Medusa decided to bet the fate of the entire race on a desperate struggle.
Oh right, the last person who went all-in with their entire clan like this seemed to be named Xiao Xuan.
However, the difference was that Xiao Xuan failed to break through to Dou Di, which resulted in the current strongest member of the Xiao Family being her, a Dou Ling.
And right now, Medusa should not have obtained the Green Lotus Core Flame yet.
But if she still chose the path of using the exotic fire to temper her body and evolve, then she would inevitably succeed.
If Medusa were so easily defeated, the Snake-People Empire would have long been destroyed by several human Empires; how could it have survived for so long in the cracks between several Empires, and even brought about such a notorious reputation?
Of course, in terms of talent, Aptitude, and Heart-Nature, the current Medusa certainly could not be compared to the semi-emperor Xiao Xuan of the past.
The main reason for Xiao Xuan's failure was... there was no Source Qi back then, so no matter how awesome you were, you could not become an Emperor.
After Medusa evolved successfully, becoming a Dou Zun would only be a matter of time.
And if she had enough Opportunity, she was the only person in the original story by Xiao Yan's side, besides Xiao Xun Er and Zi Yan, who broke through to Dou Sheng.
With talent, potential, a high ceiling, and the fact that her favorability was easy to farm—helping her evolve successfully, and then helping the Snake-People Clan relocate, could definitely max out her favorability.
A guaranteed Dou Zun, with a push potentially becoming a Dou Sheng, a thug with a promising future; why not recruit her?
Moreover, it was just breaking through to Dou Zong; Xiao Xue had plenty of ways to make it easier for Medusa to break through.
Another point was that in the original story, Medusa prepared a pool of ice spirit cold spring to aid her evolution using the exotic fire.
A whole pool, completely filled with ice spirit cold spring!
In the original story, Xiao Yan had to bitterly trade earth fire lotus seeds just to get a small bottle of ice spirit cold spring.
In other words, as long as one had a certain amount of strength, it was actually not difficult to obtain the ice spirit cold spring.
Based on this, perhaps the Snake-People Clan still possessed the Advanced version of the ice spirit cold spring, the ice spirit cold marrow?
The cold energy of one ice spirit cold marrow could freeze a Dou Zong to death; calling it an "exotic water" was not an exaggeration.
Just like the "fire seed" of exotic fire, the ice spirit cold marrow was like the "Water Source" of "exotic water".
If she refined the Bone Chilling Flame, having the ice spirit cold marrow for protection should significantly increase the success rate.
Moreover, this ice spirit cold marrow might be able to replace the so-called "spirit storage" and serve the purpose of containing the Bone Chilling Flame.
By then, the Bone Chilling Flame could be directly fused within her body along with the ice spirit cold marrow, serving the purpose of tempering her Dou Qi.
After resolving all matters, Xiao Xue went to find Xiao Yan once more and handed him the second fragment of the Purification Lotus Demon Flame map.
Regarding the origin of this map fragment, Xiao Xue just smiled faintly, "Heaven's secrets cannot be revealed." (Strikethrough)
"Just a stroke of Luck."
Regarding Xiao Xue's words, Xiao Yan and Yao Lao did not have much suspicion; they only marveled at Xiao Xue's good Luck.
After all, first the Calamity Poison Body, then the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils; these rare Physiques, each more extraordinary than the last, had all been encountered by Xiao Xue.
In Yao Lao's view, this girl, Xiao Xue, "was a person of great Luck."
Therefore, when Xiao Xue took out another map fragment, although Xiao Yan and Yao Lao were a bit surprised, they did not find it strange.
Then, a few days later, the flight caravan of the Jia Nan Academy finally arrived at the Gama Emperor City.
The day after the flight caravan arrived, Xiao Yan, Xiao Xue, Xiao Xun Er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, along with Xiao Yu, Xiao Ning, and Xiao Mei, all left the Xiao Residence together.
Except for Xiao Yan and Xiao Xue, who were going out to train on their own, the others were all heading to the Jia Nan Academy.
Beside the flight caravan, Xiao Yan and Xiao Xue said goodbye to the others.
"Xian Er, take good care of Qing Lin; Qing Lin, you must Cultivate well at the Jia Nan Academy!" Xiao Xue instructed the two.
"Mhm, Qing Lin will remember." Qing Lin nodded obediently.
After saying goodbye to Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, Xiao Xue turned to Xiao Yu, "Cousin Xiao Yu, I will stop here."
"If anything happens, contact me directly through the communication jade token, and I will arrive as soon as possible."
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