Zhang Hong answered Li Xiaoya in the most direct way possible: she simply commandeered his fire-attribute cultivation chamber. When she first met him, her cultivation had actually been the highest among them. But after failing to advance to the Nascent Soul realm, she had become the only one who had yet to reach it, so naturally, she was terribly anxious. That was why she refused to hold a Dual Cultivation Ceremony together with Liu Xian'er and Li Xiaoya. Everyone who came to offer congratulations would be there for those two. How could a mere Golden Core stage cultivator like her stand on that stage?
Thus, Zhang Hong stopped returning to her own cave abode to cultivate and stayed in Li Xiaoya's instead. Li Xiaoya did not mind; he had intended to let her use the chamber filled with fire spirit energy first anyway. He cultivated a water element cultivation method in another chamber filled with blue water spiritual qi. His immortal roots were now no worse than heavenly immortal roots, after all, and he naturally had to make full use of that advantage...
He had chosen to cultivate a water element cultivation method first because of the inspiration he had gained from witnessing the Water-Fire Combined Strike used by those two old fellows, Han Bing Lie Yan of the Mystic Heaven Way, back on the Origin Continent. If he could develop a divine ability like that himself, he would have quite a few more ways to fight his enemies.
Another reason was that he thought mastering spells of another element might allow him to evolve his God-Devouring Fire Dragon Wave further. Perhaps its power would soar again. By then, even a Spirit Communion stage cultivator might have to weigh whether they could withstand it. What troubled him, however, was that