Ice Heart Incantation

It hurt...

His internal organs felt as if they were being burned alive.

Lin Xiao felt his body growing hotter and hotter.

The youth's originally fair skin had now turned red, like a cooked prawn.

The evil fire had already built up to a certain point.

If this continued, What awaited Lin Xiao would be his body igniting on its own and turning to ash.

Or, before he could ignite, the fire poison would attack his body and he would explode to death.

"I don't want to die..."

Lin Xiao's mind was already showing signs of gradually blurring.

But his fierce will to survive still forced him to bite down hard on the tip of his tongue, keeping himself from passing out.

He held fast to his principles.

But that did not mean he was willing to die.

In his daze, Lin Xiao suddenly remembered the incantation of the Ice Heart Incantation from his memories of his previous life.

"When the heart is clear as ice, even the sky's collapse brings no alarm."

"Amid ten thousand changes, remain steady; the spirit at ease, the breath still..."

With the mentality of trying anything in a desperate situation, Lin Xiao began silently reciting the Ice Heart Incantation. After some time, he actually felt a thread of cooling energy being born from deep within his heart.

Under the suppression of the Ice Heart Incantation, the evil fire inside his body seemed to show signs of easing.

Yet the good times did not last!

Soon, the evil fire launched a violent counterattack!

Lin Xiao gasped for breath, staggered to his feet, scooped a large ladle of water from the water vat, and, without caring about anything else, gulped it down.

His body was already severely dehydrated. If he did not replenish his fluids now, he would not even need to wait for the evil fire to burn his body—he would collapse and die first!

Swaying back to the straw mat, Lin Xiao endured the intense pain and copied the Taoist meditation posture he had seen in his previous life, sitting cross-legged on the straw mat as he silently recited the Ice Heart Incantation once more.

"When the heart has no hindrance, the mind clings to nothing."

"Release the heart, free the spirit; be silent, without a soul."

"The water flows, yet the heart is not startled; the clouds drift, and all thoughts slow."

"With one heart unburdened by things, ancient and present alike, roam free."

In his muddle, Lin Xiao fell asleep.

The next day.

Outside the thatched cottage came the sound of conversation.

"Teacher, Lin Xiao refuses to vent the evil fire no matter what. Why are we still bothering with him?"

"He even said he would rather be shattered jade than intact tile. Is he the only noble one? As if I'm so filthy. I was forced by necessity too..."

Flender glanced at Ma Hongjun.

This disciple...

Last night, he had taken him to the brothel to vent the fire. Though he had not watched, the sounds coming from inside the room still made him imagine that unsightly scene.

The evil fire had clearly already been vented.

And yet he was still reluctant to part with the women in the brothel.

To be honest, Flender felt somewhat disappointed.

Lin Xiao had left a deep impression on him. Although Flender had flown into a rage out of embarrassment last night, how could there not also be some admiration for Lin Xiao deep in his heart?

His ideal was to establish the Continent's top academy.

With a student like Lin Xiao, how could he worry about not suppressing the other academies?

Thinking this, Flender pushed open the broken wooden door and walked in.

The moment he entered, Flender's expression jolted in shock!

Lin Xiao lay on the straw mat, his face pale, his life or death unknown. There was even the smell of ashes coming from the straw mat, while a faint scorched smell permeated the air.

Could the evil fire have already erupted last night!?

Flender leaned forward and was just about to check Lin Xiao's condition when a bewitching flame appeared out of thin air and flew toward him.

What terrifying heat!

It seemed as if even space itself had been twisted.

"Cat Owl Possession!"

Seven Soul Rings appeared behind Flender, and the aura of a Soul Sage revealed itself. Relying on his powerful soul power, he tried to annihilate that wisp of flame.

But the moment that Eerie Fire touched soul power, it was actually like it had encountered firewood, burning even more fiercely and filling Flender's heart with horror!

They were both Evil Fire Phoenixes, so why was Lin Xiao's different from Ma Hongjun's?!

"Fourth Soul Skill, Wind Blade Cutting!"

Flender waved his hand and summoned more than a dozen wind blades, cutting that wisp of eerie flame to pieces and finally extinguishing it.

Ma Hongjun stared blankly at the scene before him.

Why did Lin Xiao's evil fire seem different from his?

Lin Xiao also woke up at this moment.

Flender looked at Lin Xiao and frowned.

"Last night, your Evil Fire Outbreak happened?"

Lin Xiao nodded.

This time, Flender was truly shocked.

"An Evil Fire Outbreak, and you didn't die?"

Lin Xiao rubbed the space between his brows, feeling a wave of headache. His face was full of exhaustion.

"It was just luck."

Flender said coldly, "But even if you managed to endure it this time, when the next Evil Fire Outbreak comes, will you still be able to get through it?"

"If you forcefully suppress the evil fire, not only will it not make the evil fire inside you weaken, it will instead grow stronger and stronger through repeated accumulation!"

"Can you guarantee you'll be this lucky every time?"

You could dodge the first day, but not the fifteenth.

If Lin Xiao did not vent the evil fire inside him, sooner or later he would die!

As long as the flaw in his martial soul continued to exist, evil fire would be produced in an endless stream. In the future, it might even evolve further, and the might of each Evil Fire Outbreak would be more terrifying than the last!

This was also why, aside from Lin Xiao's higher Innate Soul Power, his evil fire was so eerie, far stronger than Ma Hongjun's.

Ma Hongjun's evil fire was vented every so often, but Lin Xiao insisted on courting death, allowing the evil fire to accumulate inside his body and grow stronger and stronger!

Lin Xiao remained silent.

He was not a rigid person, and he had always been searching for a solution.

The Ice Heart Incantation could only temporarily suppress evil fire that was not yet too powerful, but once the evil fire accumulated in the future, there would come a day when the Ice Heart Incantation could no longer hold it down.

But if he wanted to cure it at the root, it seemed only Immortal Grass could do it...

"In a few days, I'm leaving."

Lin Xiao suddenly spoke.

Flender was a little stunned.

"Leaving? You're a child who isn't even a Soul Master, and you've only just undergone Martial Soul Awakening. Where do you think you're going?"

Lin Xiao did not tell the truth.

"To wander around, and take another look at this world."

Speaking of it, Lin Xiao actually did not know much about Douluo Continent. Although he had read the novel in his previous life, only by living here himself did he realize that reality and the novel were vastly different.

Compared to the words on paper, the ones he came into contact with were all living, breathing people...

A life-and-death crisis could be brushed over in a single line in a novel.

But after Lin Xiao had experienced it once, it felt as if a lifetime had passed.

Flender could not understand at all.

"To take another look at this world before you die?"

"What a pity. Your life has only just begun, and this world is far more wonderful than you imagine, yet you insist on seeking death."

"Is it really worth it?"

A sense of sorrow could not help but rise in Flender's heart.

How had it come to this!

A mere youth—why was he so stubborn and unyielding!

Lin Xiao, however, gave a clear, easy smile.

When he smiled, even his pale complexion looked a little rosier.

The youth's long, Crimson Maple Color hair was slightly disheveled, but his childish face already held a trace of handsomeness, and his gaze was so resolute it hardly seemed like a child's.

Lin Xiao pointed at a certain spot.

Outside the moss-covered threshold of the dilapidated thatched cottage, a cluster of wild chrysanthemums stood proudly.

"Better to die on the branch holding my fragrance than ever be blown down into the north wind."

Lin Xiao lowered his head and murmured.

Flender completely gave up.

With a long sigh, he took Ma Hongjun and left.

In his heart, he could only lament:

What a pity, what a pity!