Ye Tian began to feel an intense scorching sensation spreading through his entire body.
Under normal circumstances, if the temperature was high enough for even Ye Tian to feel scorching heat, the deck of the flying ship beneath him would have long since been burned through.
At the very least, no one below the Return to Void realm would have been able to remain within a hundred zhang of him.
But aside from feeling scorching hot himself, Ye Tian experienced no other abnormalities.
Everyone in the Sacred Hall not far away continued cultivating silently and healing their injuries, completely unaffected.
The flying ship's deck beneath him, where he sat cross-legged, remained safe and sound.
After a while, Ye Tian felt his body turn freezing cold again.
Over the time that followed, Ye Tian seemed to fall into a strange alternation between extreme cold and extreme heat.
Moreover, the changes between those two sensations gradually became faster and faster.
In the end, they changed so quickly that even Ye Tian could no longer tell whether he was freezing or burning.
Until roughly an hour later, amid that terrifying alternation, the extreme heat and extreme cold finally seemed to reach a bizarre balance. The two had finally shaken hands and made peace, no longer confronting each other like sworn enemies.
No further alternation of heat and cold appeared on Ye Tian's body.
By all reason, this seemed to mean the refinement had succeeded.
Ye Tian returned to the cabin and came before Fairy Qing Xia, who had been silently cultivating all this time.
"Use a fire-type spell on me," Ye Tian said seriously.
"What are you talking about?" Confusion flashed through Fairy Qing Xia's beautiful eyes.
Ye Tian repeated himself.
Fairy Qing Xia looked Ye Tian up and down, then nodded lightly