Ice and Fire Backlash

The purple crystal stones on both sides of the passage turned into streaks of light, flashing backward as they moved at high speed.

However, just as Mo Lin was only tens of feet away from the bright light at the cave entrance, and could even faintly hear the earth-shattering energy collisions and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's furious roars from outside the cave, an unexpected change occurred!

A tearing, bone-piercing pain, completely beyond his expectations, erupted from his abdomen without warning!

It was as if two poisonous dragons, one ice and one fire, had suddenly awakened within him, beginning the most intense and primal battle!

"Ugh--!"

Mo Lin let out an involuntary groan of pain, his high-speed running figure suddenly stumbled, almost falling to the ground.

He forcibly braced himself against the rock wall beside him, barely managing to steady himself. However, his face instantly turned as pale as paper, and large beads of cold sweat seeped from his forehead, sliding down his temples.

It was the Companion Purple Crystal Source!

He instantly understood the source of the pain. The purple crystal source liquid he had swallowed contained extremely pure and vast fire-elemental energy. Although relatively mild, the accumulated quantity still made the energy immense.

And to verify his wild conjecture about the Yin Yang Feather Transformation Art—whether he could reverse-engineer the Great Dao of Yin Yang through the collision of extreme elemental powers—before swallowing the purple crystal source, he had deliberately mobilized a trace of the ultimate ice origin from within him, gifted by the Snow Emperor. It was imperceptible but possessed extremely high quality, and he mixed it with the purple crystal source.

He had originally thought that with the Snow Emperor's absolute control over ice, and since the purple crystal source was not extreme fire, merely large in quantity, he could carefully conduct a miniature, controllable "ice-fire collision" experiment. Even observing a sliver of Yin Yang transformation would have immeasurable guiding significance for his future cultivation path.

However, he had vastly underestimated the terrifying repulsive reaction that occurred when two extreme elemental energies, even in trace amounts, met after losing absolute suppression!

He had also overestimated his current control over this body and these two powerful energies.

That trace of ultimate ice origin was like a drop of ice water thrown into boiling oil, instantly igniting all the latent energy conflicts!

The mild fire-elemental energy in the purple crystal source was completely enraged, becoming incredibly violent, while the ultimate ice cold refused to yield. The two energies used his meridians and internal organs as a battlefield, engaging in a frantic mutual erosion and annihilation!

The pain from the intense energy conflict was far beyond imagination, as if thousands of ice needles and fire thorns were simultaneously ravaging him from within.

His meridians felt a burning and cracking sensation as if they were about to shatter, and his internal organs felt as if they were being roasted on a blazing fire, then instantly plunged into ten-thousand-year-old profound ice to freeze!

His consciousness rapidly blurred under the extreme pain of this ice and fire dual torment!

His vision began to shake and overlap, his ears buzzed, and even the deafening battle sounds from outside the cave became distant and unreal.

"Bad... bad... I messed up..." Only this desperate thought remained in Mo Lin's mind.

He desperately urged his Fighting Energy, trying to suppress this out-of-control situation, but the high-level Dou Master strength he had temporarily gained seemed so weak and powerless in the face of this conflict between two energies of extremely high quality.

The Snow Emperor and the Ice Emperor seemed to issue warnings in his spiritual sea, but his consciousness was too chaotic at this moment to receive them clearly.

He endured the suffocating pain, gritted his teeth, and relying on the last shred of his survival instinct and his concern for Yun Yun's safety, he dragged his body, which was on the verge of losing control, and stumbled, staggering, toward the light at the cave entrance.

Every step was like walking on knife-edges and seas of fire, the intense pain almost making him faint.

The cave entrance was in sight, and he could even see the sky outside, flickering with the light of the battle.

However, his physical strength and willpower finally reached their limit. His legs went weak, his vision went completely black, and he collapsed forward powerlessly like a puppet with a broken string.

In the instant before his consciousness completely sank into darkness, he seemed to hear the bloodthirsty roars of Mo Beasts nearby, and... the familiar sound of air being torn through from the sky, and that clear, cold cry filled with anxiety and anger...

Just as Mo Lin's consciousness was blurring amidst the intense pain of the frantic conflict between the two ice and fire energies within his body, on the verge of sinking into the abyss of darkness and waiting to die—

"Chii! Chii!"

Two bone-chilling, sharp, and peerless azure sword qi, like judgment lightning descending from the heavens, suddenly shot down from the sky!

They precisely sliced into the waists of the two ferocious Mo Beasts that were about to pounce on Mo Lin!

"Roar--!"

The shrill screams came to an abrupt halt. The two Mo Beasts, not weak in strength, were instantly cut in half. Foul blood and internal organs sprayed everywhere, and their massive corpses crashed heavily to the ground.

Almost simultaneously, Mo Lin felt his body lighten, his vision blurring and spinning rapidly.

The next moment, he landed in an exceptionally soft, warm, and fragrant embrace.

A familiar, faintly elegant fragrance entered his nostrils, strangely soothing a trace of the violent pain within him.

He struggled, his eyelids heavy, and his blurry vision captured a peerless and familiar face.

At this moment, her usually cold and noble pretty face was filled with anxiety and worry, her autumn-water-like eyes nervously watching him.

"Yun... Zhi..." Mo Lin's throat was dry as if burning. He used the last of his strength, squeezed out a weak smile, and uttered with difficulty: "Purple Spirit Crystal... got it... in... Storage Ring..."

Before he could finish speaking, intense dizziness and pain surged over him like a tide, and his consciousness completely plunged into darkness as he fainted.

Hearing Mo Lin's words before he lost consciousness, a complex emotion flickered in Yun Yun's beautiful eyes—relief, but also deep heartache and annoyance.

What had this kid done in the cave? How could he have gotten himself into such a state?

Without the slightest hesitation, without even paying attention to the furious roars of the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King coming from the distance, she tightly hugged the burning young man in her arms, and the azure energy wings on her back suddenly flapped!

"Swoosh--!"

The two of them turned into a streak of azure light, like a meteor chasing the moon, accelerating to the extreme and frantically rushing towards the outer edges of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

A strong sonic boom sounded behind them. Yun Yun spared no expense of her Fighting Energy, just to get away from the dangerous area as quickly as possible.

After a long while, until they had completely left the core depths of the Magical Beast Mountain Range and felt the aura of the young man in her arms growing weaker and his body temperature alarmingly high, Yun Yun finally found a very hidden valley with a babbling stream and slowly descended.

Landing in a clearing by the stream, hidden by dense vines, Yun Yun quickly and gently placed the scorching hot Mo Lin on the ground covered with soft moss.

As soon as her jade hand touched his body, she flinched slightly from the astonishing heat, and her pretty face instantly filled with shock: "What a domineering energy! This is definitely not ordinary fire poison backlash! This fellow... what did he absorb?"

Mo Lin, lying on the ground, had skin that was an abnormal purplish-red, as if scorched by intense flames. Black impurities seeped out from his pores.

Unconsciously, his body curled up in pain, his hands mindlessly tearing at his sweat-soaked clothes. From his open mouth, he actually exhaled extremely hot white steam, causing the surrounding air to slightly distort.

What shocked Yun Yun even more was that within his body, besides this violent and scorching energy, there was also an extremely pure and chilling ice energy that was frantically clashing and entwining with it. This was the true reason why his body was on the verge of collapse!