Leaving the astonished group behind, Qin Xin walked out of the pavilion without looking back.
The Eighth Elder glanced at the young man's figure disappearing into the crowd at Kunmen Square, his eyes flashing, but the look vanished in an instant.
"This guy is interesting."
Yu Haoqian, one of the ten peak disciples of the Kunmen, watched Qin Xin's departing figure with a smile on his face.
"Haha, I don't think that's funny. It seems like they don't take you, Fengzi, seriously at all."
Li Luan, who was from Xifeng Tianxun Pavilion, was watching the show and couldn't help but laugh and say it.
"Li Luan, have you ever taken me seriously?"
Yu Haoqian's somewhat heroic eyebrows suddenly drooped, and his androgynous face revealed no emotion. His eyes were fixed on Li Luan, and his intimidating aura forced Li Luan to retreat repeatedly.
"Alright, everyone who wants to enter the Spirit Realm to challenge the trials, disperse."
Seeing the commotion inside the pavilion, Elder Ba's face darkened, and he impatiently reprimanded him.
Upon hearing this, no one spoke further, and the spiritual gates in the pavilion continued to descend one after another.
On his way back to his cave, Qin Xin could sense several streams of true energy freely circulating within his martial core. The blue and red true energy flowed and merged with each other like a sunfish pattern, achieving a mysterious tacit understanding.
Upon reaching the main peak, the blue and red true energy sunfish suddenly burst open, and a murderous aura burst forth from its dantian.
To avoid being spotted outside the main peak, Qin Xin maintained his last shred of rationality and rushed straight towards the location of the cave.
"Thump!"
Upon reaching the cave, Qin Xin could no longer control his body and collapsed into the stream where the spring water had gathered, losing consciousness instantly.
However, just as Qin Xin was unconscious, a miraculous change began to occur in his body. It was as if the will of heaven and earth was slowly descending, directly enveloping everything within three zhang around Qin Xin.
At this moment, a very strange scene is unfolding inside the cave.
Qin Xin, who had already fallen into a deep sleep, was sitting cross-legged, suspended in mid-air. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth surrounded him, turning into a blue torrent. The black staff martial spirit behind him shone with golden light, and the Heavenly Phoenix martial spirit pattern was swirling on it. Under the infusion of this blue torrent, the pattern seemed to undergo a transformation, becoming more complex and magnificent.
When everything returned to calm, Qin Xin fell to the ground with a thud, but his eyes remained closed, and he did not wake up.
"Ouch, that hurts!"
As dusk fell, a painful scream echoed across the main peak of Kunmen.
Qin Xin was rubbing his slightly swollen buttocks, jumping up and down, because after regaining consciousness, the pain in his buttocks spread throughout his body.
"You brat, what are you yelling about? You've ruined my sweet dream."
Danqing, like a ghost, drifted out from the space of the broken map, his expression somewhat gloating.
"Try falling on your butt and see if it hurts!"
Seeing Danqing's expression, Qin Xin rolled his eyes, his hand still gently rubbing the injured buttock.
"I wish I could fall down, but I can't," Danqing said with a smile.
Looking at the smile on Danqing's face, Qin Xin was at a loss for words. He knew that Danqing had long since lost his physical body and had endured the pain of being without one for countless years.
"Alright, you're so young, why are you so cunning? I'm used to this kind of behavior from your teacher."
Danqing seemed to have seen through Qin Xin's thoughts and spoke up to comfort him.
"If I am able to do so in the future, Qin Xin will definitely restore my teacher's physical body."
Qin Xin's answer was very brief, but the firmness in his eyes moved Dan Qing, and her eyes began to sting slightly.
"Let's take a look at the changes in your body first."
Danqing turned her back, seemingly worried that Qin Xin would see the change in the corner of her eye, so she made up an excuse.
"Um!"
Upon hearing Danqing's words, Qin Xin recalled the insights he had gained from the mysterious woman in the eleventh level, but he fainted as soon as he returned to his cave.
Qin Xin turned his spiritual sense inward to examine the Martial Core, only to discover that the Black Stick Martial Spirit was no longer purely black. The complex golden patterns on it appeared very mysterious, and it seemed to contain very powerful energy, looking as if it had evolved from the Heavenly Phoenix Martial Spirit Pattern.
Looking down again, the martial pill seemed to have undergone a qualitative change. Qin Xin couldn't quite put his finger on what that change was, but the powerful energy emanating from the martial pill made him feel that, although they were both martial artists at the first level of the Aperture Opening Realm, the true energy that his martial pill could contain was probably several times or even ten times that of some ordinary martial artists at the Aperture Opening Realm.
He activated his martial elixir, channeling true qi through his meridians and slowly converging it in his acupoints. With a light touch of his finger, red flames gathered in his palm.
The flames appeared warm, but they contained extremely violent energy.
"Is this real fire?"
Staring at the red flames burning in his palm, Qin Xin uttered a questioning sound.
"It seems my senses were right; there really is a strange fire in this inner courtyard."
Danqing, who was standing to the side, was also staring intently at the red flame in Qin Xin's hand, a glint of light in his eyes.
"Is this the strange fire?"
Qin Xin could feel that although the flame in his hand had changed color and was stronger than ordinary true fire, it was still worlds apart from the strange fire that possessed the power to destroy the world.
"No? This is just a trace of the true essence of a strange fire." Danqing shook his head and said.
"The true meaning of fire, what is that?"
Qin Xin seemed to have never heard of the true meaning of fire that Danqing spoke of.
“Strange fires possess spirits, and spirits possess true meanings, and these true meanings are the true meanings of fire.” Danqing paused for a moment before continuing, “This strange fire in the inner courtyard of the Eastern Wilderness Academy probably already possesses a spirit. No wonder its aura is concealed; it seems to have been sealed away.”
"This mere trace of the true essence of fire is already so powerful; if it were the entire strange fire..." Qin Xin couldn't even imagine it for a moment.
“A spirit-infused strange fire is even more terrifying, but once it can be subdued, it will be much more powerful than an ordinary strange fire.”
Danqing said, but there was some worry in his voice, "However, it is much more difficult to subdue than an ordinary strange fire. Let's go and take a look first. If we can't subdue it, we should give up on this strange fire. There are also many powerful people in the inner courtyard of the Eastern Wilderness Academy. I'm afraid that you and I are powerless to compete for it."
"Um."
Qin Xin nodded, agreeing with Danqing's statement.
"But what kind of strange fire is this? How could it generate a fire spirit?"
Qin Xin was somewhat unwilling to give up, as he urgently needed a different kind of fire to enhance his strength.
"Judging from the appearance and effect of the flame, it should be the Lava Core Flame." Danqing thought for a moment. "The Lava Core Flame is born in the mountains and formed by compression over hundreds of millions of years. Its color is red and its shape is like a lotus. It is ranked thirty-second in the Record of Strange Flames."
"Lava core fire?"
Qin Xin clenched his fists and muttered to himself.
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