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boom!

Ice and fire collided head-on in the very center of the cave, and a terrifying energy shockwave spread outwards from the point of impact. The remaining stalactites were shattered, the cracks in the rock walls widened further, and the entire cave trembled violently.

Su Xuan's body slid back three zhang in the shockwave, his feet carving two deep furrows in the ground before he regained his footing.

A trickle of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, and the blood in his chest surged.

The cost of withstanding a blow from a half-step Golden Core cultivator's Frost Breath was considerable, but he managed to withstand it.

The cold dragon's vertical pupils contracted slightly.

It never expected that this human, who had to hide in a corner just six months ago, could now catch its breath head-on.

Without giving it time to think, Su Xuan charged forward again.

He activated the Fire Step technique at full power, his figure darting rapidly among the rubble in the cave, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, each step carrying a scorching heat.

The icy dragon's tail swept across, whistling through the air. Su Xuan ducked down, the dragon's tail brushing past his hair, the chill making his scalp tingle.

Using the momentum of his downward movement, he slid under the dragon's belly and slammed his right fist, which was wrapped in Samadhi True Fire, into the scales on the dragon's abdomen.

boom!

Several newly grown scales were shattered, but the dragon's body only paused slightly.

not enough.

Enraged, the frost dragon turned its head and bit down on Su Xuan's back with its icy blue teeth.

Su Xuan lightly touched the pebbles on the ground with his toes, shifting three feet to the side. The dragon's teeth closed up, grazing his shoulder, and crushed the rocks on the ground with a snap.

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The live chat was completely white.

"It's been half a year! Su Shen has finally faced that dragon head-on!"

"Holy crap, he took the breath attack of a half-step Golden Core cultivator head-on! A Foundation Establishment cultivator doing something like this? Am I seeing things?"

"Having mastered that divine power, the fiery aura surrounding Su Shen is completely different now, far surpassing what it was six months ago!"

"But that dragon has recovered too, with a physique at the half-step Golden Core stage. Su Shen's punches are like a tickle to it!"

Inside the cave, the battle reached a fever pitch.

Su Xuan used his exquisitely refined Fire Step technique to weave through the gaps in the Frost Dragon's attacks, each dodge teetering on the edge of death. The dragon's tail swept across, but he leaped to avoid it.

As the dragon's claws slammed down, he slid to the side to avoid it.

The frost breathed down, overwhelming everything, but he used his Samadhi Fire to burn a path through it.

Dozens of rounds, hundreds of rounds.

Su Xuan had seven or eight wounds on his body caused by the cold air, and the blood that seeped out was quickly dried by the high temperature on his body.

The cold dragon also had more than a dozen charred marks on its body from the Samadhi True Fire, but these were all superficial wounds and did not affect the root cause.

Stalemate.

After dodging the dragon's tail sweep once again, Su Xuan retreated to a distance of ten feet and quickly assessed the battle situation.

After fighting for over a hundred rounds, he had consumed nearly 40% of his spiritual energy, while his opponent's injuries were all superficial and fleshy.

If this continues, he'll be the first to collapse.

We must strike decisively.

His gaze fell on the left side of the cold dragon's body, the area directly hit when the Lin family head's golden core self-destructed half a year ago.

The newly grown scales covered the surface, but the deep tissues of the old wound could not have fully recovered in just six months.

That's where the breakthrough point lies.

The frost dragon charged forward again, its head lowered, and a thick layer of frost shield formed around its body with icy blue spiritual energy. The entire dragon transformed into a moving iceberg and crushed down upon them.

Su Xuan did not dodge.

He rushed forward, unleashing his maximum speed in the last three zhang of the distance, his entire body sliding past the Frost Dragon's icy shield, the scalding body heat making a piercing hissing sound upon contact with the ice.

The head of the cold dragon chased after him, only half a foot away from the back of his head.

Right now.

Su Xuan rapidly formed hand seals, drawing all the fiery spiritual energy within his body. At that moment, all twenty-four spiritual energy nodes were activated simultaneously, and the overwhelming fire-type spiritual energy completed its final convergence and compression within his body.

He turned around abruptly and thrust both palms forward.

"Burn the heavens and boil the seas!"

A terrifying sea of ​​fire, imbued with the characteristics of Samadhi True Fire, erupted from his palm. The crimson flames condensed and twisted in the air, transforming into a ferocious fire dragon several meters long. With its head open and carrying an intense heat capable of burning everything, the dragon crashed head-on into the Frost Flood Dragon's shield with overwhelming force.

Bang!

The frost shield couldn't even hold for a breath under the fire dragon's impact; the entire ice wall shattered and crumbled, turning into a cloud of water vapor that evaporated completely.

The fire dragon pierced through the ice shield and struck the old wound on the left side of the cold dragon with precision.

The newly formed scales shattered and peeled off instantly under the extreme heat of the Samadhi True Fire. The flames then seeped into the dragon's body through the cracks in the old wound, beginning to burn its flesh and meridians from the inside out.

The cold dragon let out a scream that was extremely shrill.

Its dragon body tumbled and twisted wildly in the air, and icy blue spiritual power burst from its body to try to extinguish the flames, but the nature of the Samadhi True Fire made all its efforts futile.

The fire spread from the wound to the internal organs, and from the internal organs to the whole body. The once incredibly hard scales shattered and burned under the extreme heat.

The dragon's body crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of rubble and dust. Its enormous body was still twitching and struggling, but the spasms were getting smaller and smaller.

After three breaths, the struggle stopped.

The ten-zhang-long dragon's body turned into a charred corpse, all its scales turned to ash, and its flesh was burned into dry charcoal, leaving no trace of life.

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The entire comment section was silent for a full three seconds the moment Han Jiao fell.

Then it exploded.

"Killed it! Su Shen killed the Golden Core Flood Dragon! A Foundation Establishment cultivator directly slaying a half-step Golden Core demon beast—what does that even mean!"

"Burning the heavens and boiling the seas! This divine power has only been practiced for half a year, and it can kill in one strike. Is such comprehension even possible for a human?"

"From being hunted down to killing a Golden Core cultivator, and then slaying a Golden Core dragon, Su Shen's experiences over the past six months are so numerous that even a novel couldn't believe them!"

"No one's going to steal that water-repelling pearl now, right? Su Shen's struck it rich!"

Within the forbidden area.

Su Ruo collapsed to the ground!

Anna's jerky fell to the ground without her noticing, and she stood there with her mouth agape, stunned.

"Half-step Golden Core cultivator, killed in one move."

Victoria straightened up from beside the withered tree, her long golden hair cascading over her shoulders, and for the first time, pure shock appeared in her usually proud, azure eyes.

Yukina slowly rose from the shadows, her body taut beneath her black ninja outfit, her cold eyes fixed on the young figure illuminated by the firelight in the sky.

Alice didn't speak. She slowly lowered her crossed legs, her emerald eyes narrowed into slits, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly before she suppressed it again.

Su Xuan gasped for breath, the crimson flames around him slowly receding. He knelt on one knee on the pile of rubble, sweat mixed with blood streaming down his forehead.

The spiritual energy was almost exhausted.

The attack that burned the heavens and boiled the seas completely drained his spiritual energy, leaving his meridians empty and his limbs extremely weak.

He took out a bottle of Grade 4 healing pills from his storage ring, unscrewed the cap, poured out three pills, and swallowed them directly.

As the pill entered his stomach, its warm medicinal power flowed slowly through his meridians, and the wounds torn in the battle began to heal, while the depleted sea of ​​spiritual energy began to flow back in a trickle.

Su Xuan took out two more high-grade spirit stones and held them in his palm. He closed his eyes and meditated for over a hundred breaths.

Once his body stopped trembling, he opened his eyes and stood up.

The gaze passed over the charred remains of the dragon, the shattered rocks, and the nearly evaporated pool water, and landed in the very center of the cave.

The water-repelling bead floated three feet above the pool, emitting a soft, icy blue light. The surrounding air was moistened by its spiritual power, and fine water droplets condensed and scattered in the air, repeating endlessly.

Su Xuan walked over, his feet treading on pebbles and dragon blood, each step firm and steady.

He stretched out his hand, closed his five fingers, and held the fist-sized bead in his palm.

An extremely pure power surged out from the pearl, flowing into his entire body through the meridians in his palm.

Cool, gentle, and lingering.

The water-based primordial power showed no repulsion or aggression. It flowed spontaneously along Su Xuan's meridians, and wherever it passed, the minor internal injuries healed rapidly, and the dried-up spiritual energy sea was refilled with living water.

Su Xuan looked down at the bead in his palm, the icy blue light reflecting on his face, pulsating incessantly.

The value of this item far exceeded his previous estimates.

It's not just a simple water-based magic weapon; it's a crystallization of the primordial power of water. Refining it is more effective than consuming a hundred breakthrough pills.

Without hesitation, he immediately sat cross-legged by the pool, held the water-repelling pearl in front of his dantian with both hands, and began to circulate the Five Elements Foundation Building Technique.

The spiritual energy circulated along the path required by the cultivation technique, and the icy blue primordial power was drawn out of the bead strand by strand, introduced into the meridians, and merged into the dantian.

Within his dantian, the crimson spiritual sea of ​​Samadhi True Fire surged.

As soon as the water element's primordial power entered the dantian, the two forces instantly clashed.

The crimson fire element and the icy blue water element repelled, burned, and devoured each other, causing Su Xuan's dantian wall to endure the excruciating pain of being torn apart by the two forces.

The operational path of the Five Elements Foundation Building Method came into play at this moment.

The spiritual energy nodes of the cultivation technique separate and guide the two extreme forces, one to the left and one to the right, one yin and one yang, forming two mutually chasing spiritual energy vortices in the center of the dantian.

Crimson chases Ice Blue, Ice Blue chases Crimson, spinning faster and faster, spinning more and more harmoniously.

The prototype of the Tai Chi Yin-Yang symbol began to take shape.

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The density of bullet comments suddenly surged.

"Water and fire in harmony? Isn't this the legendary Yin-Yang dual cultivation? The Five Elements Foundation Building Technique is just too heaven-defying!"

"He directly refined a water-based sacred artifact, something others would take hundreds of years to slowly refine. Su Shen just brute-forced it; he truly is the most powerful person in the cultivation world!"

"So Su Shen now has both fire and water attributes? If he breaks through, how many times will his combat power increase?"

"Quiet down, let him practice quietly. That Wang family head is still squatting outside the poisonous swamp!"

Within the forbidden area.

Su Ruo stared at the figure sitting cross-legged on the sky!

He's alive.

She only managed to utter those two words, her voice trembling.

Victoria gathered her long, golden hair over her shoulders, her azure eyes sweeping over Su Ruo.

"Your brother was lucky. That dragon blocked most of the power of the Golden Core self-destruction for him. Otherwise, his Foundation Establishment stage body wouldn't have been able to withstand the aftershocks."

Su Ruo ignored her.

Alice sat on the high rock platform with her legs crossed, her emerald eyes fixed on the blue-glowing bead in the sky, muttering something under her breath.

"A sacred water artifact! This thing is priceless! And he just swallowed it whole!"

time flies.

There was no alternation of day and night, no changing of seasons in the cave; only the faint light from the constant fusion and collision of the two forces surrounding Su Xuan marked the passage of time.

The size of the water-repellent beads is shrinking day by day.

From the size of a fist, to the size of an egg, to the size of a fingernail.

The Tai Chi Yin-Yang fish in Su Xuan's dantian became increasingly solid, with the spiritual energy of the two poles of water and fire circulating within it endlessly, each cycle increasing his total spiritual energy by one point.

One month, three months, half a year, ten months.

One year.

For a whole year, Su Xuan sat motionless in the depths of the cave, consuming batch after batch of spirit stones. The 30,000 high-grade spirit stones left by the Lin family head were completely used up during this long period of seclusion.

The water-repelling pearl shrank into a point of light, and the last trace of its primordial power was drawn into its body.

boom.

A silent tremor erupted from Su Xuan's body, and the spiritual energy sea in his dantian suddenly expanded, breaking through its original boundaries, and the total amount of spiritual energy doubled in an instant.

The barrier at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment has shattered.

Su Xuan slowly opened his eyes.

Golden-red flame patterns danced in his left pupil, while icy blue water rippled in his right eye. Two completely opposite forces coexisted harmoniously within him, complementing each other.

He stood up and stretched his limbs, which had been stiff for a whole year, his joints cracking and popping.

The spiritual energy around him naturally overflowed, causing the broken stones within a three-zhang radius to tremble slightly.

Mid-Foundation Establishment stage, dual attributes of water and fire, Samadhi True Fire, capable of burning the heavens and boiling the seas, Asura Divine Body.

It's more than ten times stronger than when I first ventured into this toxic swamp a year and a half ago.

Su Xuan glanced at the completely carbonized corpse of the Frost Dragon, then casually waved his hand, and a surge of spiritual power swept the dragon's bones, tendons, and the few remaining intact scales into his storage ring.

The corpses of Golden Core demon beasts are all valuable materials, each piece being a piece of hard currency.

He turned around and strode towards the cave exit.

The ice layer in the rock crevice that had been frozen by the breath of the icy dragon had long since melted away naturally after a year and a half.

Su Xuan squeezed through the narrow crevice and climbed upwards along the path he had come from.

The miasma of the Netherworld Poison Swamp rushed towards us, and a purplish-black poisonous mist hung over the swamp.

Su Xuan released both water and fire spiritual energy from his body simultaneously. The Samadhi True Fire burned away the poisonous mist, while the water spiritual energy formed a protective film on his body to isolate the erosion. The two forces worked together seamlessly.

He stepped on the footholds in the swamp and sped forward.

It took me three days to find my way here, but I finished in half a day.

The edge of the poisonous swamp.

The moment Su Xuan emerged from the purplish-black miasma, a golden spiritual energy barrier descended from the sky, completely sealing off an area of ​​a hundred feet in radius.

"They're out."

An old, somber laugh came from outside the barrier.

Su Xuan looked up.

At the top of a withered tree on the outskirts of the poisonous swamp, an old man in a dark robe stood with his hands behind his back, his full head of silver hair fluttering in the wind, and his triangular eyes filled with a sinister smile.

Wang Zhenhe.

The head of the Wang family, a Golden Core cultivator in the early stage, was the one who set up a blockade around the poisonous swamp a year and a half ago.

"I've been waiting for you for a year and a half." Wang Zhenhe's laughter echoed within the barrier.

"That good-for-nothing Lin Changfeng died inside, but you came out alive. You're lucky."

He floated down from the withered tree, landing ten feet away from Su Xuan, releasing his Golden Core stage aura without reservation.

"Hand over the Lin family's storage ring, and also hand over the flame on your body, and I'll give you a quick death."

Su Xuan stood there, looking at the Golden Core cultivator he had been waiting for for a year and a half, the golden-red flame in his left eye flickering slightly.

A year and a half ago, this man's intimidating presence made it difficult for him to breathe.

Now, it's no different from scratching an itch.

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The live chat exploded instantly.

"Holy crap, the Wang family head has been waiting for a year and a half without leaving? His perseverance is unmatched!"

"Oh no, Su Shen just came out and ran into a Golden Core cultivator, he hasn't even had a chance to rest yet!"

"Wait, look at Su Shen's expression, he doesn't seem flustered at all?"

"Nonsense! A mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator with Samadhi True Fire, Heaven-Burning and Sea-Boiling, plus dual water and fire attributes—this setup can easily defeat an early-stage Golden Core cultivator, right?"

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Outside the cave, Wang Zhenhe narrowed his triangular eyes slightly.

Not right.

The aura of the young man in front of me was completely different from that of a year and a half ago. His spiritual energy fluctuations were several times stronger, and there was an added layer of icy coldness in his fiery aura. The fusion of water and fire was extremely strange.

He instinctively took a half step back.

late.

Su Xuan raised his right hand, and a ball of light, interwoven with crimson and ice blue, condensed in his palm. The two forces intertwined and compressed, unleashing a terrifying wave that far surpassed any single-attribute attack.

Water and fire combine to create extraordinary powers.

Wang Zhenhe's pupils suddenly contracted, and a golden shield flew out from his sleeve, protecting him in front of him, its spiritual light shining brightly.

Su Xuan pushed his palm forward.

The ball of light shot out, carrying a devastating energy shockwave that slammed head-on into the golden shield.

He couldn't even hold on for a single breath.

The spirit runes on the shield shattered instantly under the combined onslaught of water and fire, cracks spreading from the center to the edges, and the entire golden shield exploded into countless fragments.

Wang Zhenhe was thrown backward by the aftershock, spitting out a mouthful of blood into the air. The sinister smile in his triangular eyes vanished completely, replaced by pure fear.

"No, impossible! You're only at the Foundation Establishment stage, how could that be!"