Xuanling Sect, eternal ice.

In an ice cave, Xuan Qingye sat cross-legged. At this moment, he was surrounded by ice-attribute spiritual energy. This icy spiritual energy directly poured into his body, transforming into icy-attribute spiritual power in his meridians and gathering in his dantian.

Xuan Qingye had already stabilized his realm. At this moment, he was at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage. His expression was indifferent, but no one knew that he was hiding a fire in his heart!

"You're dragging us down!"

Su Qing's words kept provoking him, and a fire ignited in his heart, contrasting sharply with the icy chill around him.

Xuan Qingye slowly opened her eyes. Her icy blue eyes were devoid of emotion, but a closer look revealed a tiny spark that quickly disappeared.

Xuan Qingye opened a bottle of pills; these were sixth-grade Snow Soul Pills that Su Qing had refined for him using Ice Lotus.

The Snow Soul Pill felt icy cold as it entered her mouth, sliding down her throat and into her internal organs. Xuan Qingye felt the flames in her heart seem to have weakened a bit.

As she continued cultivating, Xuan Qingye could feel the icy coldness of the Snow Soul Pill dissipating from her internal organs into her meridians, and finally gathering in her dantian.

In his dantian, the Snow Soul Pill stabilized his spiritual root. At this moment, Xuan Qingye's spiritual root was like an ice tree, crystal clear in the ice-blue dantian, with specks of white snowflakes floating in the dantian, just like a beautiful snow scene.

But who could know that at this moment, a fire was burning and tormenting Xuan Qingye in his heart?

Finally, Xuan Qingye opened her mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood!

The bright red blood stained the area around the cave. That splash of red landed on the ancient ice and froze instantly, but it remained forever.

Xuan Qingye looked at the crimson stain, his hand gently sweeping over it. His chest heaved, and the hot blood in his body began to boil, causing the meridians that were circulating with icy spiritual energy to become scorching hot. Finally, this hot blood swept over his dantian.

His beautiful, snow-covered dantian changed in an instant!

The snowflake-like spiritual energy floating in the dantian melted, and the spiritual root wrapped in a layer of ice blue also began to melt, eventually returning to the original form of the spiritual root.

Xuan Qingye trembled all over, feeling his body alternate between feeling cold and burning hot!

Has he gone mad with desire?

Isn't his spiritual power of the ice and cold attribute?

Why did all the icy spiritual energy in his dantian melt away?

No, he can't give up!

Although Su Qing said she was a burden, how could he let Su Qing go to the Gobi Desert by herself?

But what exactly is this burning sensation in my chest?

It actually affected his dantian?

Xuan Qingye felt the heat was about to engulf his brain!

"Open your sea of ​​consciousness! Open your sea of ​​consciousness!"

Xuan Qingye held on; he couldn't lose consciousness, he couldn't just give up like this!

His last shred of reason sustained him as he fought against the inexplicable burning sensation within his body.

Sea of ​​consciousness, sea of ​​consciousness...

Xuan Qingye took a deep breath. Only a trace of icy power remained in his dantian. He forced it to circulate in his already burning meridians, and a cool sensation cleared his mind.

Then, he felt as if he had pushed open a door.

A vast expanse of land appeared before him!

Is this his sea of ​​consciousness?

A world of ice and snow, pure white, with thick fog in the distance.

In his sea of ​​consciousness, Xuan Qingye stood alone in a pure white world, where he saw fire burning in the sky.

That must be the flame in his heart.

Like a fiery sunset, it seemed as if the flames were opening their gaping maws, about to devour this pure white world!

At this moment, Xuan Qingye sat cross-legged in the eternal ice. His body was covered in frost for a while, but the frost melted and even burst into flames.

The interplay of ice and fire tempered Xuan Qingye's body.

As the saying goes, things reach their extremes and then reverse. Xuan Qingye, with her pure ice-attribute spiritual root, must be born in a place that is exceptionally hot.

Only with both ice and fire can yin and yang be in balance.

Just like in Su Qing's dantian, the five elements spiritual roots formed a closed loop, and then another lightning attribute spiritual power was derived!

Xuan Qingye has always been a genius of the Xuanling Sect, and his cultivation has been smooth sailing. He shouldn't have drawn out his inner fire when he was at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage.

However, he forcibly entered the eternal ice to cultivate.

The Eternal Ice Cave is an extremely cold place, and his cultivation level is still shallow. Cultivating here is inherently very dangerous, so it is only natural that it would force out his inner demons.

That's right, the flame in his chest is his inner demon!

In fact, if Xuan Qingye had followed the Xuanling Sect leader's instructions to cultivate step by step, it would probably have been when he reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage and the Deity Transformation stage that his inner demons were forced out.

At that time, he might be like the sect leader of the Xuanling Sect, who hesitated to become a Nascent Soul because he was worried about the backlash from his inner demons.

Xuan Qingye's cultivation is still shallow. Although his inner demons are troublesome, they have not yet grown up, which is a good thing for him!

However, the sect leader of Xuanling Sect was getting restless and anxious while waiting outside.

Xuan Qingye is his disciple. The Xuanling Sect leader was planning to cultivate Xuan Qingye so that he could hand over the Xuanling Sect to her with peace of mind once she reached the Nascent Soul stage, and then he could focus on his own cultivation.

At that time, the Xuanling Sect Master will be at peace, regardless of whether he succeeds in reaching the Nascent Soul stage or not.

Who would have thought that Xuan Qingye would be cultivating in the eternal ice before even forming her core?

If he succeeds in his cultivation, that would be great, but if anything goes wrong, he, as the successor, will have to find someone else.

Alas, the Xuanling Sect Master knew in his heart that even if Xuan Qingye succeeded, with his talent, he would probably reach the Nascent Soul stage earlier than him.

In his mind's eye, Xuan Qingye gripped the Shattered Moon Blue Ice Sword, coldly watching the flames burning in the air.

The flames resembled a powerful demonic beast. At that moment, the beast opened its mouth wide, and a young man emerged from the flames.

The boy looked exactly like Xuan Qingye.

Since it was Xuan Qingye's inner demon, the two of them were naturally identical.

The boy was dressed in fiery red, and the longsword in his hand was exactly the same style as the Shattered Moon Blue Ice Sword, but instead of being wrapped in icy energy, it was wreathed in flames!

Xuan Qingye looked at the other person coldly, a cold smile curling at the corner of her lips.

"So it was you, lurking in my heart, trying to disturb my mind while I was cultivating!"

Xuan Qingye then realized that what was opposite him was his inner demon.

"Since you loathe yourself so much, why not let me take over your body?" the inner demon said. "Why suppress your desires? What's wrong with indulging a little?"

Xuan Qingye bit her lip.

Because of his ice-attribute spiritual root, he has always had a cold personality and deliberately distances himself from everything. He wants to make friends, but he still doesn't have a single friend.

Until he met Su Qing.

It was Su Qing who melted his icy coldness.

Could it be that his inner demon is Su Qing?

No, absolutely not!

Xuan Qingye thought to herself, her face pale, while the inner demon opposite her burst into laughter. Before even making a move, she had already aroused the other party's suspicion. This was the best time for the inner demon to make its move!