People fight and become emperors in advance

Chapter 78 The Ice Soul Talisman works!

On the fourth day after the Strong Ranking Competition came to an end, the inner courtyard, which had been quiet for a while, became lively again.

This is because the top ten strongest people on today's list are the ones who can enter the Tianfen Qi Refining Tower to receive the tempering of the original heart fire.

Everyone in the inner courtyard knew that as long as they could endure this kind of body training, they would be able to pave the way for their future promotion to Dou Wang. This kind of opportunity that could not be sought after was enough to make anyone jealous and salivate.

The sun rose in the east. When Chen Xiao and Zi Yan arrived outside the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower, hundreds of people had already gathered there.

Some of these people came to send their gang leaders, while others came simply to watch the fun. Today, because the top ten on the strong list had to enter the bottom of the tower, the inner courtyard had banned other students from entering. Although this move caused some complaints from everyone, they also understood that this was the rule of the past generations and could only accept it helplessly.

"They seem very afraid of you."

Following Chen Xiao, Zi Yan saw that the other people in the top ten of the strong list all nodded to Chen Xiao in a friendly manner from a distance, but did not dare to step forward to greet him, so she immediately laughed.

Looking at this girl pretending to be stupid, Chen Xiao was speechless.

After the two arrived, they waited for about half an hour. Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking wind from the sky, and several old figures flashed outside the tower gate. The one leading the group was the great elder Su Qian.

"Haha, it seems like you all can't wait, so I won't waste any more time talking."

Su Qian glanced around and saw that the top ten were already there. Without wasting any words, he waved his hand and the heavy tower door slowly opened with a creaking sound.

"The top ten on the Power Ranking will follow me in. The rest of you will not be allowed in today. Otherwise, you will not be able to enter within the next six months."

After saying this lightly, Su Qian ignored the people who were shrinking their necks in fear of the severe punishment and turned to walk towards the tower.

Looking at Su Qian's back, the ten leaders looked at each other, and under those envious gazes, they followed him into the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower!

After entering the tower, the bright light suddenly dimmed. The ten people raised their eyes and saw Su Qian waiting for them.

"Just follow me all the way. Don't walk alone. Once you reach the lower floors of the tower, don't move around randomly. No matter what happens, don't look around. Otherwise, I will disqualify you. Do you understand?"

As he spoke, Su Qianduo glanced at Zi Yan.

Obviously, among these ten people, this little dragon man made him most worried.

Zi Yan curled her lips slightly. She was just a little bit eccentric, but not really stupid. She could naturally know the importance of things.

After everyone nodded, Su Qian turned around and led the way. The route he took was different from the usual route down the tower. He did not choose to go down the stairs, but opened the iron gate that was usually locked.

Ten people followed closely behind with curious eyes.

Entering the iron gate, there is a winding passage. The light inside becomes dimmer and one can only barely see the road ahead with the naked eye.

Fortunately, with the help of the perception of soul power, this does not affect the speed of everyone's progress.

The ten people followed Su Qian in silence all the way, turning left and right. After a few minutes, they saw an elder sitting like a sculpture guarding the place. And on the rest of the way, they could see another one here every few minutes.

Such tight defense, coupled with the dim atmosphere around, made several old students who were unaware of the inside story secretly amazed, and they didn't understand why they had to guard so tightly.

Chen Xiao and Zi Yan knew more. These elders guarding here were not actually on guard against the students.

What they are guarding against is the Fallen Heart Flame that is suppressed at the bottom of the tower!
After nearly half an hour of this depressing journey, it was finally broken by the light that appeared at the end of the dim passage.

"We're here!" Su Qian's voice rang out.

The ten people then took a closer look and saw that they were in an extremely spacious and empty space inside the tower. It covered a very large area and was no smaller than any floor above. Moreover, since there were no training rooms here, it felt even more spacious at first glance.

Their gazes moved, and soon, everyone's eyes were fixed on the central location.

There, there is a huge hole about tens of meters wide, which is exactly the same as the huge deep hole in the middle of each layer above, and corresponds to it from a distance.

"Everyone come forward."

After Su Qian finished speaking, he walked towards the deep cave in the center, and everyone followed closely behind him.

Su Qian didn't stop until he was about twenty meters away from the entrance of the deep cave. He waved his hand, and suddenly two figures flashed out from nowhere and finally stopped about ten meters away from the cave entrance.

"Let's all sit down!" Su Qian pointed to the ground on the right.

There, there were ten specially made jade platforms shaped like futons that had been prepared in advance, and they looked as emerald green as jade.

Hearing this, the ten people hurriedly followed his instructions and each found a jade platform to sit on. They could all feel a light coolness coming from under their seats, isolating most of the heat at the bottom of the tower.

Seeing that everyone was sitting down peacefully, Su Qian turned around and whispered a few words to the two elders.

The next moment, the two elders slowly approached the entrance of the deep cave, formed hand seals with their hands at lightning speed, and finally shouted in a low voice.

As the two men stopped shouting, a wave of fluctuations suddenly surged around the empty deep cave, and then a layer of somewhat illusory energy ripples slowly appeared in front of everyone's gaze.

After the energy ripple shield emerged, the two elders waved their hands, and suddenly, a pale white light shield the size of a human head slowly floated out from the deep hole, and finally permeated with circles of energy ripples, hovering two meters above the ground, fluctuating up and down.

Shortly after the first pale white light shield floated out, another light shield floated out one after another. Soon, exactly ten light balls appeared in front of everyone.

Seeing the expectation in the eyes of the ten people, Su Qian smiled and waved his sleeves, and the color of the light ball quickly became transparent.

If you look closely at this moment, you can see that a ball of strange flame, which seems invisible but can be observed with the naked eye, is rising in each light ball.

"This is the Origin Heart Flame you've all been dreaming of. The Inner Court spends a lot of effort every year, but can only capture three or four. Otherwise, the Power Ranking Competition wouldn't be held only once every five years."

"I won't elaborate on the effects of this Origin Heart Flame, as you all already know. I do want to remind you that using it to strengthen your body also carries considerable risks. The pain of strengthening your body is unbearable. If you're not careful, not only will you fail, but you'll also suffer considerable harm."

"Therefore, when you're training your body, if you feel your limits, stop. Even if you can't break through immediately after leaving, it will pave the way for you. Don't rush!"

Su Qian focused his attention on several nine-star Dou Lings, including Chen Xiao, and gave them a focused reminder.

As for the others, Zi Yan didn't need to say much. The eight-star and seven-star Dou Ling were still some distance away from breaking through to the Dou Wang level.

Chen Xiao and the others nodded in agreement. "Since you all understand, then close your eyes and concentrate. Don't be distracted. If any problems arise, the two elders and I will take action."

Su Qian nodded slightly and waved his sleeves. Ten balls of light flew over the heads of the crowd. Finally, under the gazes of the crowd, they burst with a bang. The invisible flame in them fell straight down and disappeared directly over the heads of the crowd!
As the invisible flame penetrated into the heads of the ten people, in an instant, except for Zi Yan who trembled slightly and then returned to normal, the other nine people's bodies began to tremble to varying degrees. Then, their faces turned red like charcoal, and there was even a wisp of white mist seeping out from their foreheads.

Among these nine people, Chen Xiao, who had the ice attribute, reacted the most violently.

Under the gaze of Su Qian and the two elders, Chen Xiao was like a red-hot iron block thrown into cold water. The white mist that rose up was more terrifying than the sum of the other eight people.

Su Qian couldn't help laughing as he casually set up a small barrier to isolate Chen Xiao.

"During the Power Ranking Competition, this kid easily made it into the top ten, but here, his attributes are greatly disadvantaged. For him, this Heart Fire Origin Body Strengthening is really just a body strengthening effect, with basically no chance of success. The fighting spirit in his body simply can't withstand the consumption of the Heart Fire Origin. However, it can pave the way for the future, so it can be considered a gain."

Hearing this, the two elders beside him also nodded.

Chen Xiao is not the first person with ice attribute to be in the top ten of the list, there have been some before.

But every time, people with ice attributes can only hold on the shortest time here, because the heart fire entering their bodies reacts most violently with their fighting spirit, their consumption will be greater, and the pain they endure will be more intense than others.

...

Pain, heart-piercing pain!

This is how Chen Xiao feels at the moment.

After the heart flame origin entered his body, Chen Xiao felt as if his body had become a battlefield with artillery fire flying everywhere. The heart flame was the invader, and the ice-attributed fighting spirit in his body was the defender.

The two sides seemed to have an irreconcilable feud. The moment they came into contact, they launched a self-destructive war without any explanation. Every time the heart fire flowed through the meridians, it would "die together" with a large amount of fighting spirit, causing the fighting spirit in Chen Xiao's body to be rapidly consumed, and also leaving his place in ruins.

At this moment, Chen Xiao was sweating profusely, his veins bulging, and he gritted his teeth to endure the pain which was ten or a hundred times more intense than the Earth Core Tempering Body Milk Bath. He practiced his skills frantically, mobilizing the fighting spirit in his body to stop the raging heart inflammation.

However, the pain could still be endured with gritted teeth. What worried Chen Xiao the most was whether he could withstand the consumption of the heart inflammation.

At this moment, Chen Xiao already understood why it was difficult for people with ice attributes to succeed in accepting the heart fire to forge the body's origin, because this kind of consumption far exceeds that of ordinary people and is simply not something that ordinary people can afford.

Chen Xiao is currently practicing an intermediate earth-level technique, and the length of his blue bar is far beyond that of others.

But even so, in just a few minutes, he felt that 30% of his fighting spirit had been consumed!

On the other hand, the raging momentum of the heart fire in the body was only slowed down by two points.

What Chen Xiao didn't know was that Su Qian and the two elders were already very surprised to see that he could hold on for a few minutes.

"It's because of the technique. The technique he practices is above the Earth Rank, but it's still difficult. I remember there was a top ten Ice Attribute cultivator ten years ago who also practiced a low-level Earth Rank technique, but he only lasted a quarter of an hour."

An elder shook his head and said that he still did not think Chen Xiao could succeed.

As time passed, and after gradually becoming numb to the heart-wrenching pain, Chen Xiao was finally able to feel the benefits brought by this heart fire body training.

In the battle between ice and fire, his bones, meridians, and even muscles were like steel in the raging fire, being tempered to become tougher and more explosive at a clearly perceptible speed.

In other words, this battlefield has become even more indestructible.

"Practice for me!"

Feeling the benefits, Chen Xiao was even more unwilling to let it end. The Dou Crystal in his body spun wildly, and powerful rays rushed towards the origin of the Heart Flame, like a death squad ready to die.

30%, 50%, 80%...

The fighting spirit in his body gradually ran out, and a quarter of an hour passed.

Seeing that Chen Xiao was still struggling, Su Qian and the two elders were stunned.

Suddenly, Su Qian seemed to think of something.

"I remember that in the outer courtyard's library, there were two intermediate-level earth-grade techniques, one for ice and one for fire. Both were left behind by the dean. The ice-attributed technique... No, that's not right. So, it seems this kid actually has a chance of success!"

Su Qian's eyes lit up, as if he had guessed what Chen Xiao had gained in the library, but he only spoke halfway, causing the two elders beside him to stop talking several times.

You're saying it all.

Riddler, damn it!
Just as Su Qian guessed, after persisting for more than twenty minutes, the fighting spirit in Chen Xiao's body was completely exhausted.

But, this does not mean that he has failed.

Because he still has an Ice Soul Talisman!
Hidden energy is activated for the first time at this moment!
Time passed minute by minute, half an hour, until nearly an hour, Chen Xiao finally felt that the heart fire raging in his body was finally extinguished by the fearless ice-attribute fighting spirit.

In an instant, all the pain disappeared and the taut string was loosened at this moment.

Chen Xiao slowly opened his eyes, his throat moved, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.

However, Chen Xiao was not affected at all, and an even brighter smile appeared on his face.

This mouthful of blood is simply the blood stasis discharged after the meridians, blood and flesh are strengthened.

"Are you okay?"

Su Qian appeared beside him in a flash, with admiration in his eyes not concealed at all.

The two elders on the other side were even more stunned. They never expected that he would actually succeed!

Feeling the Great Elder's concern, Chen Xiao shook his head slightly.

"It's nothing, just rinsing my mouth."

(End of this chapter)