Suppress Evil Fire, Find a Girlfriend with Ice Affinity?

"What an adorable little brother."

"Huo Wu, is this your little brother? He's so cute."

Very quickly, a group of girls surrounded Li Qinglian and Huo Wu.

There was no helping it.

Li Qinglian's aura was far too ethereal. Added to the fact that Huo Wu herself was also a popular figure at Blazing Fire Academy, the attention on them instantly maxed out.

The girls seemed to have just come out of the swimming hall, with school uniform jackets draped over their one-piece swimsuits.

Li Qinglian's height only reached the girls' waists.

When he lifted his head, all he saw were the girls' slender legs and their full hips tightly wrapped in one-piece swimsuits.

It was obvious that the girls had probably all done hair removal.

"Ahem."

Li Qinglian hurriedly closed his eyes.

"Giggle, giggle, giggle."

Seeing Li Qinglian's stiff, awkward reaction, the girls only laughed even louder.

"All right. Stop messing around, you bunch of vixens. You can't just touch my little brother for free."

Huo Wu quickly pulled Li Qinglian behind her.

She knew how troublesome Li Qinglian's evil fire was to deal with, and she definitely did not want it to be provoked out of him.

Three days passed.

Almost everyone in Blazing Fire Academy had come to know Li Qinglian.

After all, in all these years, Blazing Fire Academy had never enrolled such a young child before.

Under normal circumstances, someone Li Qinglian's age should have been studying at a Junior Soul Master Academy.

It was just that Li Qinglian's talent was too great.

The moment he arrived at Blazing Fire Academy, the academy's higher-ups were reluctant to let him go.

His first soul ring was already a thousand-year one, he had twin martial souls, and he was even a swordsman who had comprehended supreme sword intent at such a young age.

With talent like that, if Blazing Fire Academy was willing to let him leave, they would be fools.

In the courtyard.

Li Qinglian swung the Three-Foot Green Peak in his hand.

The tip of the sword traced through the air with a unique rhythmic beauty.

Even someone who knew nothing about swords could feel a natural, seamless grace in it.

Huo Wu stood in the doorway, watching Li Qinglian practice his sword, her beautiful eyes filled with amazement.

This little brother was simply too charming. Even more charming than those boys his own age.

If only he were a little older.

Otherwise, whenever she looked at Li Qinglian, she always felt a sense of guilt.

Soon, Li Qinglian stopped, and only then did Huo Wu speak.

"Little Brother Qinglian, you look really good when you practice the sword."

Huo Wu said.

In Huo Wu's eyes, Li Qinglian practicing the sword was just like a girl dancing in a boy's eyes—it held a special charm.

Li Qinglian's sword technique was beautiful. Lotuses would occasionally bloom beneath his feet, Lotus Step, making him look like a Green Lotus Sword Immortal walking out from a lotus pond.

"Sister Huo Wu, you're here."

"Mm. The dean asked me to bring you over. It's about your martial soul. There's been progress."

When Li Qinglian heard that, his spirits lifted.

Very soon, the two of them arrived at the dean's office of Blazing Fire Academy.

The dean of Blazing Fire Academy was named Huo Lie. He was a powerful late-stage Soul Sage, and also the current head of the Huo Family.

"Li Qinglian, you're here."

"I carefully went through all the student records Blazing Fire Academy has kept over the past thousand years."

"In the past millennium, Blazing Fire Academy has enrolled a total of thirty-five fire-attribute soul masters who possessed the Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul. Without exception, their martial souls all mutated from poultry such as chickens, ducks, and geese, or from other flying beast martial souls."

"Because their martial souls mutated, they were born with the flaw of phoenix evil fire. Almost all of them chose to expel the evil fire in their bodies through intercourse with women. This method has both advantages and disadvantages."

"The advantage is that it can quickly suppress the desire stirred up by the evil fire. The drawback is that if left unchecked, once the evil fire arouses desire, it will make a person more and more depraved. At first, these people only had ordinary intercourse with women, but later it evolved into abusing them for pleasure... In the end, all of those soul masters became evil soul masters."

Huo Lie said with a solemn expression.

He had seen in a file that there had once been an astonishingly talented Fire Phoenix soul master who, in a single day, had humiliated and tormented more than a dozen women to death. In the end, Spirit Hall issued a warrant for his arrest, and afterward, it was confirmed that he had become an Evil Soul Master.

Li Qinglian remained relatively calm when he heard this.

But Huo Wu's expression changed drastically.

"An Evil Soul Master?"

"Qinglian naturally isn't an Evil Soul Master right now, but if he follows his desires in everything, he'll be devoured by them. In the end, he'll become a slave to desire and never be able to break free again."

Huo Lie explained.

"The dean is right. In fact, I noticed this long ago as well."

Li Qinglian frowned.

Ten thousand years later, Ma Xiaotao had likewise awakened the Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul, and in the end, she had easily been led astray and become an Evil Soul Master.

Soul masters who possessed the Evil Fire Phoenix martial soul had a very high chance of falling onto the evil path.

In the original plot, if Ma Hongjun had not met Tang San and obtained that opportunity, there was a high chance he would have become a thoroughly lecherous and depraved person later on.

"Then, Dean, is there really no other possibility? What about boys as self-disciplined as little brother Qinglian? Surely they can't all lack self-control." Huo Wu's face had gone pale.

In truth, she did not mind helping Li Qinglian. Even if that act was out of the question, she could still put on stockings and use her feet. She had heard that many boys were very interested in girls' stocking-clad feet.

It was just that after hearing the severe consequences Huo Lie described, Huo Wu hesitated.

"There were. Blazing Fire Academy once had an astonishingly talented Evil Fire Phoenix soul master. That person had the same stubborn nature as Li Qinglian. He believed that a phoenix underwent nirvana, seeking life from death. So he chose to rely on his own will to endure the evil fire."

"And he succeeded once. In the notes he left behind, he said that for a phoenix's nirvana, each successful endurance of the evil fire counted as one rebirth. After each nirvana, the impurities in the martial soul would decrease, and at the same time, the bloodline of the phoenix martial soul would be purified. He proposed a hypothesis: that if nirvana was taken to the extreme, the martial soul would evolve into a pure-blooded phoenix."

A phoenix's nirvana, seeking life from death!

Nine nirvanas, a pure-blooded phoenix!

This almost matched what Li Qinglian had figured out over the past few days.

That time at Shrek Academy, he had comprehended Green Lotus Sword Intent and used the nobility and purity of the green lotus to suppress the depravity of the evil fire. After that, the evil fire within his body had settled down.

"So that's how it is. Looking at it now, that time was a nirvana. And this kind of nirvana needs to be experienced nine times."

Li Qinglian clenched his fist.

"What happened to that person in the end? How come I've never heard of such a monster?"

Huo Wu was overjoyed.

Did this not mean Li Qinglian could be saved?

"He failed to endure it when the evil fire erupted for the fourth time, and he died. At the time, he was only a Soul Ancestor and had not yet shone brilliantly across the continent, so naturally, you wouldn't know of him."

A trace of regret flashed through Huo Lie's eyes.

In this world, who knew how many astonishingly talented people had already fallen halfway along their path.

He only hoped that Li Qinglian could go a little further.

Whether Li Qinglian became an Evil Soul Master or fell midway, neither was something he wanted to see.

However, Huo Lie still held great expectations for Li Qinglian.

"Dean, may I read that notebook?" Li Qinglian asked.

"Here. Keep this notebook with you for now. You can return it when you no longer need it."

"Oh, right. I took a look at it. That student was able to withstand the first three eruptions of evil fire because he received help from Tianshui Academy, using ice-attribute cold energy to suppress the evil fire."

"I strongly suggest you go to Tianshui Academy and find yourself an ice-attribute girlfriend."