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As the two merged, their colors changed slightly. After being scorched by the crimson flames, the original white liquid gradually turned into a viscous, icy blue liquid, which exuded a chilling aura and resisted the scorching heat of the Fused Heavenly Flame.

Seeing that the refining was successful, the Heavenly Flames in Lin Qing's palm gradually dissipated. With a flick of his finger, the icy blue viscous liquid in his hand fell directly into a Jade Bottle.

As soon as the liquid entered the Jade Bottle, the surrounding temperature dropped significantly. If it weren't for the lava field outside the cave, Lin Qing suspected that the icy liquid would have caused frost to form around them.

"This is Cold Blood, which will allow you to cultivate normally in this environment!"

After handing the jade Jade Bottle to Cailin, Lin Qing found a corner, sat down cross-legged, took out the prepared Dan Bead, and immediately entered a state of cultivation.

Cailin held the Jade Bottle in her hand, feeling the chilling aura emanating from it. Seeing Lin Qing close his eyes, after a long while, her gaze shifted to the three Black and White Cocoon in the cave, and she sighed softly.

I hope everything goes well for you!

This time, the group is focusing on building their physical bodies and cultivating in seclusion, which will likely take a considerable amount of time. As a result, she will be the only one guarding the entire Magma Sea, which will naturally make her a little bored. However, the group cannot tolerate being disturbed. Although the surroundings are very quiet and there are no enemies around, they still need to be careful, as the consequences of being disturbed would be unimaginable.

So she had no choice but to wait around all day and couldn't go out. Faced with this situation, she felt somewhat helpless.

This Magma World is quite silent; the sound of rolling magma can be clearly heard, giving people a rather oppressive sense of deathly stillness. Living here for a long time would probably make one's personality extremely strange and withdrawn.

This tedious waiting continued little by little with the passage of time, but fortunately, her past as Magical Beast gave her patience for such things.

While Lin Qing was diligently cultivating in the cave, Jia Nan Academy and Green Emperor Pavilion remained peaceful, just as he had predicted.

However, in a dark valley in the Black-Corner Region, things are not peaceful. Because of the eerie winds that blow here all year round, coupled with the peculiar geography, the sound of these winds is very much like that of hell, so the people of the Black-Corner Region call it the Nether Wind Valley!

Deep within the Nether Wind Valley, in a spatial fold, inside a pitch-black hall, a man in black robes, whose age and appearance were obscured, sat regally on the main throne.

Below him knelt a Soul Body.

"How's it going? Have you found out yet?"

"Reporting to the Venerable Elder, we do not know what happened to those two Protector. The only thing we know is that their Soul Tablet are broken," the Soul Body below respectfully reported.

"Forget it, they're just two ordinary Protector. We can just keep recruiting to fill the vacancies! We've encountered this kind of thing before, so we can just shift the blame onto the hostile forces!"

"Yes!"

Just as the Soul Hall Branch Hall was giving up on two people, Lin Qing was unaware of it. If he had known, he would have only sighed, "That's how outsourcing works!"

At this moment, below the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, above the magma, in a huge Cave Dwelling —or rather, a Cave Dwelling, as it was tens of thousands of square meters in size—three black and white Light Cocoon floated within the floating Medicinal Pellet, surrounded by black and white halos.

Within the halo, two completely different scenes unfolded: one side was vibrant and full of life, while the other was lifeless and gloomy, with even the surrounding space becoming dull and gray due to that lifelessness.

Life and death, two unique energies that control the cyclical nature of heaven and earth, give rise to all sorts of wondrous phenomena.

Inside that Light Cocoon were the three individuals— Caidie, Little Marten, and Yao Tianhuo —who had condensed their physical bodies. They had remained in this state ever since the day they swallowed the Life-and-Death Reincarnation Pill and formed the Light Cocoon.

As time passed, the Light Cocoon that the three of them had formed, apart from growing larger and larger, did not emit any fluctuations or even a sound. Surrounded by that Qi of Life and Death, no one could detect what was happening inside.

However, judging from the increasingly dense Qi of Life and Death permeating the Light Cocoon, nothing unsettling seems to have occurred yet.

Overall, things went relatively smoothly for the three of them.

In this desolate, ancient Magma World, time slips away silently like sand through one's fingers. The passing years are so insignificant that they barely cause the boundless magma to stir. Time seems to have become negligible here.

Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye!

In the past six months, with the help of Dan Bead, Imperial Extreme Pill, and Pure Emperor Pill, he broke through to the Peak Nine-Star Dou Emperor. Among them, Imperial Extreme Pill helped him break through two stars, Pure Emperor Pill helped him break through three stars, Dan Bead helped him break through a little more than one star.

With his breakthrough, the area of his inner Pocket World also reached 500 square kilometers.

Because of his rapid cultivation, he estimated that it would take him about a year to reach the threshold of the Dou Zong level.

After all, becoming Dou Zong is no longer simply about accumulating energy; it requires mastering a certain amount of spatial power.

Having reached this point, Lin Qing knew that continuing to bury himself in arduous cultivation was no longer the best option. Although cultivation should not be neglected, one must also know that excess is as bad as deficiency. Blindly pursuing obsessive and frantic cultivation would only lead to a lower path. Therefore, when he discovered that he had broken through to the Nine-Star Dou Emperor, he stopped cultivating day and night and instead began hunting those Lizardmen again, while also honing his Dou Technique and the Ancestor Symbol he had mastered.

Time passed slowly as Lin Qing continued his daily cultivation and hunting.

In the following period, Lin Qing put aside the cultivation of Dou Qi and focused more on mastering Dou Technique and Ancestor Symbol. As a result, he became more proficient in using the Great Desolate Imprisoning Finger, the Flame Ancestral Talisman, and the Spatial Ancestral Talisman.

While practicing these skills, Lin Qing would hunt some Lizardmen every few days and occasionally study the "Five Wheel Fire Li Technique".

This study gave Lin Qing a sense of sudden enlightenment. The Fire Control Technique, as the name suggests, is a method for controlling flames. He had never studied this technique before, and his usual methods of controlling Heavenly Flames for attack were rather rudimentary. His control techniques were far less sophisticated than the so-called "Five Wheel Fire Li Technique".

Therefore, upon encountering and studying the "Five Wheel Fire Li Technique," one undoubtedly feels a sense of novelty, as if suddenly entering a new realm. The various methods of fire control recorded in the technique are not only dazzling, but also allow for the most exquisite control of flames with minimal consumption of Soul Strength, ultimately unleashing the greatest power.

For someone who already possesses multiple Heavenly Flames and the Flame Ancestral Talisman, this is undoubtedly like adding wings to a tiger.

Although this was his first time encountering this fire control technique, he was still at the peak of the Spirit Realm Perfection, and his powerful Soul Power allowed him to grasp the fire control technique and Dou Technique almost instantly.