Awakening!

"Perhaps it was some secret formula concocted by a reclusive alchemist from the Jia Ma Empire."

Ling Ying respectfully placed the pill back on the table.

"But it is only a first-grade pill after all. Though it may be considered a divine medicine to the people here, in the eyes of true experts, it is nothing more than a child's toy."

Xiao Xun'er nodded, not paying it much mind.

Indeed, to the young lady of the Ancient Clan, it was merely a novelty.

"Where is Brother Xiao Yan?" Xiao Xun'er suddenly asked.

"Young Master Xiao Yan... seems to have gone to the Back Mountain." Ling Ying's tone became somewhat strange.

At the Xiao Family's Back Mountain, heat steamed through the air.

The hot spring here was one of the Xiao Family's treasured spots, and few people came here on ordinary days.

Xiao Yan whistled as he strolled leisurely through the woods, his hands clasped behind his head.

Xiao Zhan had acquired a Beast Power Pill today and had been in high spirits, giving him quite a bit of spending money. He was wondering whether to find a place for a relaxing soak.

But as soon as he rounded a huge boulder, the sight before him stopped him in his tracks.

They were a pair of legs.

Long, white, and straight.

Amid the swirling mist, a young woman stood with her back to him, scooping up water to wash her long, glossy black hair.

Those distinctive long legs appeared and disappeared beneath the water, dazzling his eyes.

"Damn..."

Xiao Yan unconsciously swallowed, and two words popped into his head: So white.

As a transmigrator, what kind of sights had he not seen on Blue Star?

But this was a genuine live show, and those legs... it would be such a waste if they did not pedal a tricycle.

Just then, the young woman seemed to sense something and suddenly turned around.

Their eyes met.

She was Xiao Yan's cousin, Xiao Yu.

Space seemed to freeze for an instant.

Then, a scream powerful enough to shatter eardrums rang through the Back Mountain.

"Ah!!!"

"Xiao Yan!!! I'm going to kill you!!!"

Xiao Yan shuddered all over and turned to run, putting every ounce of strength into it.

"Misunderstanding! Cousin! It's a misunderstanding! I didn't see anything! Really, the fog was too thick!"

"You little pervert! Stop right there!"

How could Xiao Yu listen to his explanation? Wrapped in an outer robe, she rushed out of the water, clutching an unsheathed longsword and chasing after him with her face flushed red.

One in front and one behind, they put on a high-speed life-or-death chase through the woods.

"Stop chasing me! I'm at the Eighth Duan of Dou Qi, while you're only at the seventh! You can't catch me!"

Xiao Yan fled with his head in his hands, yet still did not forget to turn back and taunt her.

"You still dare say that?!" Xiao Yu was so furious she nearly fainted.

After finally escaping back to his little courtyard, Xiao Yan crashed through the door, panting heavily, and happened to see Xiao Xun'er reading in the yard.

"Brother Xiao Yan?"

Xiao Xun'er put down her book and looked at the bedraggled Xiao Yan in confusion.

"What happened?"

"N-Nothing. Just exercising." Xiao Yan wiped away his sweat guiltily.

At that moment, Xiao Yu's furious roar came from outside the courtyard gate. "Xiao Yan! You bastard, get out here!"

Xiao Xun'er was exceptionally clever. She looked at Xiao Yan's evasive gaze, listened to the commotion outside, and instantly understood most of what had happened.

She sighed, rose to her feet, and walked to the gate, blocking the aggressive Xiao Yu.

"Cousin Xiao Yu."

Xiao Xun'er's voice was gentle, yet carried an aloofness that permitted no refusal.

"Brother Xiao Yan has already gone to rest. Whatever it is, we can discuss it tomorrow."

"Xun'er, move aside! That bastard was peeping at me while I was bathing in the Back Mountain!"

Xiao Yu stomped her feet in fury.

Xiao Xun'er glanced back at Xiao Yan, who was cowering inside the room, shook her head helplessly, then turned around and continued blocking the entrance.

"Cousin, Brother Xiao Yan is not that kind of person. I think there must be some misunderstanding. Perhaps he simply took a wrong turn?"

"A misunderstanding? His eyes were practically popping out of his head!"

"That's enough, Cousin."

Xiao Xun'er interrupted her, her tone becoming slightly firmer.

"It is late, and making a scene would not be good for your reputation either, Cousin. I trust that Brother Xiao Yan will be more careful in the future."

Under Xiao Xun'er's calm yet oppressively forceful gaze, Xiao Yu gritted her teeth. In the end, she could only glare fiercely into the room before leaving in indignation.

Inside, Xiao Yan let out a long breath and patted his chest.

"Xun'er really is the best..."

While Xiao Yan was still shaken by those two pale legs, Lu Heng was undergoing a far more dangerous transformation in his own room.

The table was covered with materials he had just bought from Ya Fei. The gold coins had naturally been advanced from his future profit share.

Five second-tier fire-attributed Magic Cores were arranged neatly in a circle, radiating scorching heat.

Ten second-grade fire-attributed medicinal ingredients—Blazing Sun Grass, Crimson Flame Fruit, and more—each were exceedingly valuable. Of course, that was only in Wutan City; even a family like the Xiao Family earned merely eighty or ninety thousand gold coins a year.

(Xiao Yan said so himself in the original work.)

"Cultivation really burns money."

Lu Heng grumbled, then drew a deep breath and sat cross-legged in the center of his bed.

The guidance of the Book of Destiny surfaced in his mind once more.

"Consume."

Without any hesitation, Lu Heng grabbed a Crimson Flame Fruit and stuffed it into his mouth.

The instant its juice burst forth, a scorching current rushed down his throat and into his stomach, as if he had swallowed a red-hot piece of charcoal.

Next, he picked up a fire-attributed Magic Core and began using the special method of the Five Spirits Chaos Art to guide its violent energy.

The Dou Qi within his body instantly began to boil.

At the center of the originally azure Qi Vortex, that previously faint strand of crimson Dou Qi surged upward like a flame that had been fed an enormous amount of fuel.

Fire-attributed Dou Qi rampaged through Lu Heng's meridians as though someone were scraping them with a dull blade.

Wood fed fire.

At this moment, the Azure Wood Dou Qi within his body served as the finest accelerant.

Lu Heng gritted his teeth and guarded his mind with all his strength, guiding that violent fire-attributed energy as it tore through his meridians before finally flowing into his dantian.

Time passed second by second.

Lu Heng's skin turned crimson, and the sweat that emerged was instantly vaporized into white mist.

The temperature of the entire room rose sharply, even turning the window paper somewhat scorched yellow.

Who knew how long passed.

A crisp cracking sound came from within Lu Heng's body.

The burning sensation receded like a tide, replaced by an unprecedented sense of fullness.

Lu Heng opened his eyes.

Within his dantian, the original Qi Vortex had undergone an earth-shaking transformation.

If it had previously been an azure Qi Vortex with a thread of red mixed into it, then now azure and crimson had completely divided the territory between them, forming a perfect yin-yang twin-fish pattern.

Azure and crimson intertwined, endlessly generating one another.

Lu Heng let out a long breath and prepared to strike while the iron was hot. Since the Li Fire Body had successfully awakened, it was time to raise the Azure Wood Body as well!

Without further hesitation, Lu Heng repeated the process, taking out five wood-attributed Magic Cores and ten second-grade wood-attributed medicinal ingredients.

He consumed the medicinal ingredients and refined the Magic Cores!

After an unknown amount of time, the physique section in the Book of Destiny changed.

[Physique: Azure Wood Body (Second Tier), Li Fire Body (Second Tier)]