Ma Hongjun stared blankly at the earth-yellow orb floating before him, his mind completely empty.
Absorb the Spirit Ring's Origin Power?
Alter his Martial Soul's attributes?
Rebirth through nirvana?
He understood every word Lin Xi said, yet when put together, they formed a miraculous account he could not comprehend at all.
"Why are you still standing there?" Lin Xi's voice pulled him from his shock. "If you wait any longer, the energy will dissipate."
"Oh... oh!" Ma Hongjun jolted, as though waking from a dream.
He looked at Lin Xi with fervent admiration in his eyes, like the most devout believer seeing a god walking among mortals.
He no longer had any doubts. Sitting cross-legged, he slowly held the gentle earth-yellow orb in his trembling hands.
The moment the orb touched his hands, a dense and pure energy flowed through his arms and into every part of his body.
Unlike the violent Soul Power he usually absorbed, this energy was like a warm stream. Wherever it passed, the agitated, scorching meridians within him, made so by his evil fire, seemed to be soothed one by one and nourished as never before.
"Steady your mind. Guide this energy and merge it with the origin of your Martial Soul!" Lin Xi's voice rang by his ear.
Ma Hongjun did not dare delay. He immediately focused and carefully guided the earth-element energy toward his dantian as Lin Xi had instructed.
Within his dantian, a dark-red flame that seemed to burn eternally flickered uneasily. That was the origin of his Martial Soul, the Evil Fire Phoenix.
When the earth-yellow energy approached, the evil fire instinctively sensed a threat and began to resist violently, crashing about as it tried to drive out this "foreign" energy.
A searing pain surged from Ma Hongjun's dantian. He let