The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

Leng Shanyue squatted next to Shen Yifei, her tail swaying slowly behind her. She reached out and poked his face.

"It hurts...it hurts!" Shen Yifei cried out, grimacing.

"It's normal for it to hurt; it means the skin and flesh in that area are still alive." Leng Shanyue withdrew her finger.

Shen Yifei tried to sit up, but the moment he moved, he gasped in pain.

Every part of my body aches. My skin is charred and then starts to grow back, with new flesh emerging from the scabs, which is both itchy and painful.

Bai Lu was awakened by his movement. She looked up and saw that Shen Yifei had his eyes open, so she reached out and touched his forehead.

"We're not burning it anymore."

"Miss Bai, why are your eyes red?"

Bai Lu withdrew her hand and turned her face away.

Leng Shanyue sneered from the side.

"You were unconscious for a whole day and night, and she channeled spiritual energy into you until she almost fainted herself. Why are her eyes red?"

Bai Lu stood up and walked to the edge of the pool, her back to the two of them.

The golden light along the edges of the lotus petals in the center of the pool was brighter than yesterday. The nine petals were tightly closed together, but the golden light had already formed a small semicircle, twinkling intermittently.

"The flowering season is almost here." Leng Shanyue walked to her side. "Judging from the current situation, it will be around midnight tonight."

Bai Lu returned to Shen Yifei's side.

Shen Yifei was trying to sit up from the rock, supporting himself with both hands on the surface, but he just couldn't get up.

Bai Lu reached out and supported his back, lifting him up to lean against the stone wall.

"You just woke up, don't move around."

Shen Yifei leaned against the stone wall and took a couple of breaths.

"Those two people ran away?"

"It ran away." Leng Shanyue walked over. "The skull of the Fusion Body was bitten to pieces by your broken cauldron, and its soul was severely injured. It will take a hundred or two hundred years to recover."

Shen Yifei looked down at himself; his clothes were long gone, and his chest and lower abdomen were covered with a layer of charred remains.

He looked down, shook it vigorously, and then breathed a sigh of relief. Although it was charred black, it could still move, which meant it wasn't completely burned.

"Do I look ugly right now?"

Leng Shanyue: "Ugly! You were only average-looking to begin with, and now you're burnt to a crisp. Bai Lu will only be able to recognize you by your nose."

Bai Lu rolled her eyes at Leng Shanyue: "Even if you were burned to ashes, I would still recognize you, let alone him as he is now."

Leng Shanyue was so speechless by Bai Lu's words that his tail practically popped out of his head.

"You recognize me? Do you think I need you to? I'd be a million times better looking than you even if I were burned to charcoal!"

Bai Lu replied indifferently, "Yes, you're pretty. Besides your pretty face, what else do you have?"

Shen Yifei listened and then carefully observed Leng.

Just as Bai Lu said, Leng Shanyue's face was indeed extremely beautiful, but she was thin and weak, unlike Bai Lu, who had curves in all the right places.

Thinking back to that night of battling with Bailu, the feel and the sensation were simply indescribable.

"Bai Lu, who are you saying only has a face left?"

"I'm talking about you." Bai Lu didn't even lift her eyelids. "I didn't wrong you."

"I'm not in good shape?" Leng Shanyue puffed out her chest. "Are you blind?"

"You're as skinny as a bamboo pole, and you dare to stand up straight? What can you possibly show?"

"I'm slender! What do you know? You fat-headed snake."

"I'm fat?" Bai Lu stood up. "Do you even know what 'full-figured' means?"

Knowing her figure was inferior to Bai Lu's, Leng Shanyue scoffed, "It's all soft, flabby flesh, what's so great about it!"

"It's still better than your bony frame, it's uncomfortable to touch."

Shen Yifei leaned against the stone wall, watching the two demon kings at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage arguing over their figures, wanting to laugh but daring not to.

"You two..."

Bai Lu and Leng Shanyue looked at him simultaneously and said in unison, "Shut up!"

Leng Shanyue looked at Shen Yifei and suddenly found a new breakthrough. She sneered.

"Little Blackie, you have a say in this. How did it feel when you slept with this fat snake? Did you sleep cuddling the snake or the person? Could you even wrap your arms around her barrel-shaped waist?"

Shen Yifei leaned against the stone wall and grinned.

He knew in his heart that Leng Shanyue wanted to use him as a weapon, but deep down he still leaned towards Bai Luhe, after all, they were comrades who shared a bed.

"Senior Leng, Miss Bai's waist is just the right size!"

Bai Lu's lips curled up slightly with a hint of smugness.

"Thin? You call that thin? You call that having no waist! Do snake demons even have waists? A tube running from her neck to the tip of her tail, is that what you call a waist?"

The two women wanted to continue arguing when Shen Yifei noticed something unusual about the Nine Heavens Mystic Lotus in the pool!

Shen Yifei called out, "Lotus!"

The two demon kings stopped arguing and looked at the lotus flowers in the pool.

The golden light along the edges of the petals of the Nine Heavens Mystic Lotus had formed a semicircle. The nine petals trembled slightly, as if something inside was pushing outwards.

"Soon." Leng Shanyue stared at the lotus flower. "Let's get this straight. Once the flower blooms, use it to heal this black stick's wounds, and the rest is mine!"

Bai Lu nodded. "Okay, it's a deal. I didn't want to compete with you in the first place! But be careful, there will definitely be a lot of people trying to take it tonight!"

Leng Shanyue chuckled, "Dare to rob me? I'll kill as many as come!"

child time.

As Bai Lu had predicted, a large crowd of over a hundred people had gathered around the cold pool.

The area was divided equally between demons and rogue cultivators, with the closest being thirty feet from the edge of the pool, but no one dared to take another step forward.

Two demon kings at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage stood on either side of the pool, their auras fully unleashed, making it difficult for everyone to breathe.

Leng Shanyue's nine tails spread out in the moonlight, their tips glowing red in a continuous line. She glanced at the crowd of onlookers, a slight smile playing on her lips.

"Gentlemen, are you watching a play here? Would you like me to bring a few chairs?"

No one dared to answer.

Bai Lu stood by the pool, her snake tail swaying gently, her face expressionless.

She didn't bother with words, and her overwhelming pressure as a Nascent Soul cultivator at the peak of her cultivation swept over them. Several Golden Core cultivators in the front row nearly collapsed to their knees.

Some people in the crowd were whispering among themselves.

"Two Nascent Soul cultivators at the Great Perfection stage are guarding a single flower; what's the point of fighting over it?"

"I heard that those two old geezers from the Golden Crow Sect were crippled. With our cultivation level, going up there would just be suicide."

"Sigh, let's just watch the show."

At this moment, in the center of the pool, the petals of the Nine Heavens Mystic Lotus began to tremble.

Nine ice-blue petals unfurled one by one, and with each petal that opened, the golden light shone brighter. By the time the third petal opened, the entire icy pool was illuminated by the golden light.

When the lotus leaves opened to the sixth petal, the silvery-white lotus seeds inside the lotus heart were revealed. There were nine seeds in total, each one crystal clear.

When the ninth panel was opened, golden light shot into the sky, dyeing the entire night sky gold.

Faced with temptation, some people still can't resist and start moving forward.

Leng Shanyue flicked her tail, drawing a circle around the icy pool. "Anyone who dares to cross this line, I will kill!"

Bai Lu was already standing directly above the lotus flower. She bent down, pinched the base of the outermost petal with her fingers, and gently folded it. The petal fell into her palm.

She tossed the flower petals to Shen Yifei on the shore.

Shen Yifei reached out and caught it; the petal was icy cold, like holding a piece of ice. He quickly put the petal in his mouth, chewed it a couple of times, and swallowed it.

A chill ran from my throat straight to my lower abdomen.

The three cracks on the golden core were filled with that coolness, and the threads of affection loosened one by one. However, the cracks did not disappear; they only shrank a little bit.

He called out, "Miss Bai...my dantian..."

Bai Lu had already picked the lotus petals and seedpods, put them into a jade box, and given it to Leng Shanyue.

Hearing Shen Yifei's shout, she rushed over, and upon investigation, she couldn't help but frown.