Chapter 1228

Creak creak

And that dark gray pill just entered Lin Feng's mouth, the pill instantly melted, turning into a Cold Current that started from Lin Feng's mouth and rushed wildly down his throat.

At the same time, wherever that Cold Current passed, layers of dark gray ice instantly covered those parts of Lin Feng's body.

Of course, this pill has already half-stepped into the Nine Profound Pill Realm, and its medicinal potency is far beyond ordinary imagination.

Therefore, these Cold Currents, to this pill, are like a bacterium invisible to the naked eye falling from a blue whale's body—not worth mentioning.

At this moment, the huge energy within the pill is constantly roaring through Lin Feng's body, madly circling, tirelessly freezing his internal organs.

Victory or defeat—this is the decisive move!

Sensing the condition inside his body, Lin Feng immediately exhaled lightly.

Immediately after, he shouted sternly: "Xiao Ling, protect me as I approach the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire!"

"Yes, Master."

Hearing that, Xiao Ling dared not delay, immediately driving the flames to roll out, swiftly wrapping Lin Feng's entire body inside.

And at the moment the bronze-colored strange fire protected him, Lin Feng quickly extended his palm and directly grasped that small pink flame.

"Bang!"

However, just as his hand touched that cluster of pink flame, that seemingly tiny flame instantly expanded, turning into a raging inferno that engulfed Lin Feng's entire body.

At the same time, even with the suppression of the Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill, the Flame-Cold Grand Formation, and the Drunk Demon Saliva, the terrifying temperature that would make a Six-Star Dou Sheng change color suddenly erupted and quickly engulfed Lin Feng's entire person.

"Holy shit, it seems this Demonic Fire's origin, even after being weakened, is still not something anyone can mess with!"

Feeling the sudden surge of high temperature on his body, Lin Feng's face instantly turned pale with shock.

Unexpectedly, despite making so many preparations, when contacting this Demonic Fire's origin, he was still burned by that heat, causing intense pain all over his body.

However, he naturally could not let these high temperatures roast him; after reacting, he immediately drove the strange fire within his body to run wildly, finally condensing into layers of gauze-like protection on his body's surface.

However, this time is different from before; even his fierce flame formed by fusing the ten strange fires from the Strange Fire Ranking, when contacting the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire's origin, actually showed signs of slight trembling.

It appears Lin Feng's strange fire is quite wary and fearful of the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire.

Even the bronze-yellow color has become much dimmer now.

Fortunately, although Lin Feng's flames are greatly afraid of the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire, they still played a significant role.

At least, it made Lin Feng hurt less than before.

"This Pure Lotus Demonic Fire truly deserves to be classified alone with Wu Nie Tun Yan as a heaven-earth divine object; even the Dou Qi Continent dares not produce a second one. Even though I have absorbed the ten strange fires from the Strange Fire Ranking, three of which are ranked within the top ten, plus the Blood Spirit Flame, making eleven kinds of strange fire fused together, I still cannot match this Pure Lotus Demonic Fire."

Gazing at his strange fire awed by the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire, Lin Feng sighed helplessly.

The top three strange fires on the Strange Fire Ranking are each emperor-like existences among strange fires; upon seeing them, ordinary strange fires have their power greatly weakened.

Even Xiao Ling is likewise unable to resist the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire.

Otherwise, that girl earlier would not have been frightened into not daring to come out.

"I hope that pill can protect me well."

Afterwards, Lin Feng lowered his head, looked at the pink origin fire in his palm, then hardened his heart, shoved it into his mouth, and with a throat motion quickly swallowed it into his body.

"Hiss—hiss"

However, the origin fire seed of the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire, upon entering his body, the areas where the earlier pill's Cold Current had frozen Lin Feng's flesh instantly melted completely, leaving only thick white mist rising sharply from his ears, nostrils, mouth, etc.

From afar, Lin Feng's figure was quickly veiled by that white mist, appearing and disappearing within it.

However, fortunately, although the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire's terrifying destructive heat is strong, that pill which has half-stepped into the Profound Pill Realm is no simple matter either.

Wherever the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire's origin fire seed passes, although the ice layer is quickly destroyed, the Cold Current transformed from the pill likewise rushes over, swiftly repairing those destroyed ice layers completely.

Sometimes, when it just brushes past the origin fire seed, it will frantically release Cold Currents to surround it, attempting to freeze it as well.

Although these Cold Currents could not completely freeze the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire's fire seed, under the onslaught of those strong Cold Currents, even the raging Pure Lotus Demonic Fire origin likewise quickly waned considerably.

At the same time, upon seeing the fire seed enter his body, Lin Feng hurriedly controlled his Dou Qi, forcibly pulling the origin fire seed into the meridians circulating the Burning Technique, then fully activated the Burning Technique, using Dou Qi to forcibly push it into motion.

"Bang!"

However, once entering those meridians of the Burning Technique, the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire, although it has lost its previous memory like a newborn infant, that instinct still makes it sense a hint of danger.

Therefore, after sensing that special suppressive force of the surrounding Burning Technique Dou Qi, this origin fire previously suppressed by the Cold Current immediately changed from its lethargy to become extremely violent.

And as the fire seed went berserk, in an instant its already extremely high temperature surged violently again.

The next moment, wherever the pink fire seed passed, in the blink of an eye the melting speed of those ice layers suddenly increased severalfold.

"Xiao Ling, protect my meridians!"

The rise in the fire seed's temperature instantly made Lin Feng feel his meridians rapidly being burned dry and withered; he did not dare delay, hurriedly calling for Xiao Ling.

"Okay, Master."

Seeing this, Xiao Ling quickly turned into a bronze streak of light, piercing into Lin Feng's body, then arriving at the location of the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire's fire seed; she opened her mouth and immediately spat out a large amount of bronze flame, covering Lin Feng's meridians. Moreover, after the fire seed moved, Xiao Ling also swiftly rushed ahead of it; wherever she saw the ice layer melt, she would promptly spray out strange fire to shield against the fire seed's high temperature, so that the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire would not harm her master.

"Phew, fortunately before entering here I had already raised my Dou Qi strength to Five-Star Late-Stage Dou Sheng; otherwise, I would soon be roasted into jerky by the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire's heat."

And Lin Feng saw his meridians, under the double protection of the Cold Pill's Cold Current and Xiao Ling, successfully blocked the terrifying high-temperature erosion of the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire, and at that moment he also let out a big sigh of relief, his tone full of lingering fear.

After all, he is alone here, and Gu Xun'er certainly won't help him refine this Pure Lotus Demonic Fire together.

Even, the other side might now even hope that he gets burned to death by this Pure Lotus Demonic Fire.

But soon, Lin Feng cast aside these distracting thoughts, tightened his mind, focused entirely on mobilizing his battle qi, continuously pushing the seed of the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire to slowly wander within his meridians.

And as Lin Feng focused on absorbing the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire, Yun Yun, far away, after obtaining that Thunder Tribulation Pill, likewise found a place and began to swallow the pill; plus Gu Xun'er being sealed, this vast demonic fire space instantly fell silent, leaving only the occasional sound of the white lava rising.

However, unlike the tranquil and harmonious demonic fire space, the Zhongzhou Continent at this moment has seen the war between all sides fall into a stalemate.

Although the Ancient Clan, upon seeing that Gu Xun'er's soul jade tablet was not shattered and her life was temporarily safe, breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

But the continuous battles with the Soul Clan over the past few months have added many new grudges between the two sides.

And what makes the conflict between the two sides even sharper is the families of the fallen; many of them are still alive, and under their strong demands and urging, how could the fighting possibly stop?

As for the Stone Clan, which suffered heavy losses due to various reasons, they are even more unable to disengage.

After all, in their previous battle with Lin Feng, they lost their clan's second strongest, the Great Elder, as well as a four-star Dou Sheng and two two-star peak Dou Sheng in one go.

And in the recent Pure Lotus Demonic Fire descent event, they also lost one of the three Elders, a four-star Dou Saint, as well as a top young genius within the clan.

Such losses left the Stone Clan heartbroken and unable to speak.

But the weaker the Stone Clan's strength became, the more fearful they grew, leaving them with no choice but to become the loyal lackeys of the Soul Clan.

In the battle against the Ancient Clan, the Stone Clan also spared no expense, directly sending out several one-star Dou Saints and a two-star Dou Saint to help the Soul Clan oppose the Ancient Clan.

As for the Ancient Clan side, due to the Soul Devil Old Man's breaking of the agreement within the demonic fire space, they are now extremely dissatisfied with the Soul Clan.

After all, since the Xiao Clan was destroyed, the Soul Clan had most of its high-ranking Dou Saints taken away by Xiao Xuan before his death, and the Soul Emperor was heavily wounded; thereafter the Ancient Clan has always regarded itself as the leader of the seven clans.

Now that the Soul Clan has openly broken the agreement, it also makes this self-proclaimed 'big boss' of the Ancient Clan lose face.

Under these circumstances, can the face-conscious Ancient Clan calm down?

However, while the clans are tearing at each other, the Beast Realm in southern Zhongzhou is unusually quiet, merely watching the continent's conflicts in silence.

But although it appears so on the surface, if one were to investigate the interiors of the three major beast overlords, one would find that these major beast races are actually not stable at all.

After Lin Feng left, Cao Ying and the two other girls basically spent every day in alchemy, hardly having any time.

Even Zhao Ran, because of what Lin Feng had said earlier, is now being dragged in to do manual labor.

She once regarded these ninth-grade treasure elixir ingredients, which required a huge cost to collect, as precious; now, whenever she stops alchemy, people from the three major beast races immediately bring her several new batches of ingredients, allowing her to continue.

Those heavenly materials and earthly treasures that would drive even the top alchemy masters of the Xiao Dan Tower crazy are here as common as ordinary items.

Since she arrived on Dragon Island, for several whole months, aside from the necessary time to recover her battle qi and soul power, she has not stopped even for a moment, spending all her time in alchemy.

With that endless supply of medicinal ingredients, she has become highly skilled at refining ninth-grade treasure elixirs, to the point of forming muscle memory.

Furthermore, her success rate has jumped from the initial twenty or thirty percent to now seventy or eighty percent.

After all, with so many medicinal ingredients piled up madly, she herself is a top-tier alchemist of the Xiao Dan Tower; if her success rate still couldn't improve like this, she might as well kill herself.

As for the three beauties of the Dan Tower who have been refining for even longer, their skill in refining ninth-grade treasure elixirs now surpasses even the familiarity of having children with their own husbands.

In fact, over the past few months, they have not had a single failed ninth-grade treasure elixir.

Furthermore, with the help of experts from the Tai Xu Ancient Dragon Clan, they captured some powerful black demonic thunder from the Void Thunder Pool and refined it into Thunder Tribulation Pills, thereby leaping to the mid-four-star Dou Saint level.

When the experts of the Tai Xu Ancient Dragon Clan saw how this miraculous ninth-grade treasure elixir saved on medicinal ingredients, they were overjoyed and frantically captured black demonic thunder in the thunder pool for the three beauties of the Dan Tower to refine into Thunder Tribulation Pills.

However, when they saw in the center of the thunder pool the nine Xuan gold lightning that only appears when a ninth-grade golden elixir is born, they thought of capturing a few bolts to give Cao Ying and Dan Chen some practice.

After all, with the help of the Heavenly Tier Soul Cultivation Technique, they have already reached the great perfection of the Heavenly Realm; although their strength is comparable to that of brothers, the two mid-four-star Dou Saints working together barely meet the conditions for refining a ninth-grade mysterious elixir.

Therefore, tempted by the ninth-grade mysterious elixir, the Tai Xu Ancient Dragon Clan could not hold back, dispatching their sole mid-seven-star Dou Saint expert together with two five-star Dou Saints to the center of the thunder pool to capture the nine Xuan gold lightning.

However, although the Ancient Dragon Clan's capture operation proceeded normally at first, after they captured two bolts, they disturbed whatever was inside, and were finally electrocuted to the point of doubting their lives.

If it weren't for the fact that the Senior Elder who had been the senior elder before the Ancient Dragon Clan's split happened to return just in time and rescue the three of them, the Ancient Dragon Clan would likely have lost three experts outright this time.

However, although the three were rescued, their bodies continued to tremble uncontrollably for the following months.

Only recently did they fully recover.

Fortunately, Zi Yan spent some time searching for the Dragon Washing Pool; along the way, bored, she couldn't resist eating some of the ninth-grade treasure elixirs refined by the three girls to boost her strength. By the time she found the Dragon Washing Pool and underwent the baptism, exiting seclusion, the thunder pool incident was already over.

Otherwise, if this girl had also gone along, the trouble would have been even greater.

As for Cao Ying and Dan Chen, after obtaining the two bolts of nine Xuan gold lightning captured by the Ancient Dragon Clan, they expressed that they were powerless.

Because if they were to normally use medicinal ingredients to refine the ninth-grade mysterious elixir, they might still give it a try, but this nine Xuan gold lightning would throw even a seven-star Dou Saint off guard into disarray; how could the two of them possibly have the ability to refine it!

Seeing this, the Tai Xu Ancient Dragon Clan finally had no choice but to temporarily abandon this plan, instead continuing to have the two girls refine ninth-grade treasure elixirs.

As for the mysterious elixir, they will wait until they reach five-star Dou Saint before attempting it.

After all, the minimum strength required to refine a ninth-grade mysterious elixir is five-star Dou Saint, and even the entire Ancient Dragon Clan can scarcely produce such ingredients; they are reluctant to let Cao Ying and Dan Chen, whose current strength is only four-star Dou Saint, practice with them.

(End of chapter)