At the same time, figures came from afar, with Ying Xiaoxiao and Ying Huanhuan at the front. The two women saw the lightning tribulation appear.
"Sis, he'll be all right, won't he?"
A trace of worry appeared in Ying Huanhuan's beautiful eyes.
Beside her, a flicker of pain crossed Ying Xiaoxiao's face from time to time.
But Ying Huanhuan's thoughts were entirely on Fang Yi, so she did not notice anything unusual about Ying Xiaoxiao.
Ying Xiaoxiao forcibly endured the pain from the battlefield emotions in her mind. Her voice trembled slightly, but she maintained her usual composure as she said, "Even if something happened to you, nothing would happen to him. And you're worried about him?"
The other disciples watching the tribulation did not think it would trouble Fang Yi either, but in the very next moment-
The figure in the sky did something that surprised everyone watching.
A clear voice rang out, calm yet carrying an imperious authority that seemed only natural.
"By my decree, heavenly lightning, become a pill!"
Before anyone understood what was happening, they saw the dark clouds, where serpents of lightning flickered ceaselessly, as if they had received some command.
They actually transformed at once into a massive furnace, with serpents of lightning flashing inside it.
"Heaven and earth as the furnace, yin and yang as the charcoal, creation as the craftsman, all things as the bronze..."
Fang Yi sent out one hand seal after another. Countless flames seemed to rise in the furnace formed from the gathered dark clouds, treating the serpents of lightning inside as medicinal ingredients.
"What is this? Is the young sect master refining medicine? Using the Wind and Thunder Tribulation to refine medicine?"
"Wait, is the young sect master cultivating the same path as us? Why does it always feel like we're on different levels?"
"Indeed, it's as if what we cultivate isn't even the same kind of thing."
The disciples broke into excited discussion. His technique of turning dark clouds into a furnace and wind and thunder into medicine had shocked them to their core.
Was this still martial arts?
Some disciples could not help looking at the many hall masters who had also arrived. Never mind the disciples-even Qi Lei and the others had never seen anything like it.
Qi Lei could not help saying, "Is the young sect master really still cultivating Origin Energy and Mental Energy, rather than something else?"
The other hall masters and deputy hall masters also shook their heads, indicating that they did not know. Never mind Nirvana when it came to a technique that seized the power of heaven and earth's creation.
Even someone in the Life Profound Realm might not be able to do it. At most, someone in the Life Profound Realm could conjure attacks several thousand zhang in size.
But this method of refining medicine with lightning was not something that could be achieved through high cultivation alone.
As everyone watched in silence, the pill furnace formed from the dark clouds grew smaller and smaller, finally landing back in Fang Yi's hand.
Fang Yi held a dazzling pill and tossed it into his mouth with one hand.
Sunlight poured down upon Fang Yi, making him look like an immortal deity from the heavens.
"Phew..."
Fang Yi breathed out softly, the sound of wind and thunder winding through his breath. Four Yuan Nirvana, Two-Seal Heavenly Talisman Master.
Although he cultivated the Heart Demon Thunder Emperor's cultivation art, the rules of heaven and earth were different, so he had no way to cultivate Spiritual Energy.
It was just that, because of his cultivation art,
once he reached the Great Thousand World, he would quickly adapt to its rules, and the power within his body would rapidly transform into Spiritual Energy.
That would save him the time needed for conversion altogether.
"Old man, I didn't let you down!"
Fang Yi drifted over to Ying Xuanzi, who had appeared in front of Ying Xiaoxiao and Ying Huanhuan at some unknown time.
Ying Xuanzi's face darkened, and he reached out and rapped Fang Yi on the forehead.
"Don't make it sound like you worked so hard. I don't believe that thing could have stopped you. If you ask me, Ying Huanhuan learned to be so lazy from you!"
Fang Yi covered his forehead and hurriedly said, "Old man, so many people are watching. Give me some face."
"You didn't give me any face when you called me old man," Ying Xuanzi said mildly. Then he added, "Fang Yi, come with me."
He then looked at Ying Xiaoxiao. "You come too."
When Ying Huanhuan heard that both her sister and Fang Yi had been called over, she hurriedly pointed at herself. "What about me?"
We're all family, so why am I being left out?
"You still have to teach Yinyin today. It's nothing important."
Ying Xuanzi waved his hand, then turned into a streak of light and brought Fang Yi and Ying Xiaoxiao to the bamboo house deeper within.
"You're cultivating the Second Origin Art?"
As soon as they landed, Fang Yi looked at Ying Xiaoxiao. In fact, he had noticed it the moment he first saw her.
The others could not detect it, but Fang Yi himself had succeeded in forming the Second Origin by using the battlefield's killing intent, and he had now completely transformed the Heavenly Talisman.
He was exceptionally sensitive to Mental Energy. If he wished, he could search souls and seize spirits at any time, so he could naturally see the situation inside Ying Xiaoxiao clearly.
"I can resolve it."
Ying Xiaoxiao spoke, but Ying Xuanzi could not be bothered to pay his stubborn daughter any mind.
Instead, he looked at Fang Yi and said apologetically, "This girl wanted to try the Second Origin Art, but unlike those Life Profound Realm elders, who have already begun gradually condensing their Origin Pearls..."
"The power in this girl's body has trouble erasing those emotions within it. These past few days..."
"Didn't you say one had to reach the Life Profound Realm before attempting it?"
Fang Yi had not seen the martial art Ying Xuanzi had developed.
But since Ying Xuanzi had said that one needed to reach the Life Profound Realm to attempt it, that was surely the case.
Ying Xuanzi had probably been unable to resist Ying Xiaoxiao's pleading again and had let her try.
"I should be able to find a solution. I just wanted to ask if you had a way to help Ying Xiaoxiao deal with it for the time being."
Ying Xuanzi knew that Ying Xiaoxiao had been dealing with the onslaught of emotions every moment these past few days. If it had been another disciple, he would only have said that this was cultivation.
But Ying Xiaoxiao was his daughter, after all.
"Open your mouth!"
Before, Fang Yi might have needed to study the problem.
But he had discovered that the power of the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo could suppress the battlefield emotions and neutralize the battlefield's killing intent.
So there was no need to go to that trouble.
He forced a drop of blood from his finger, dazzling as light and seemingly cast from molten gold. Ying Xiaoxiao parted her red lips instinctively, and the golden light fell into her mouth.
"Go and refine it. Just use the power inside it to suppress those forces."
The Second Origin Art did not use much battlefield killing intent, because Ying Xuanzi had previously told him that the Second Origin Art proceeded step by step.
It had four stages, and only upon reaching the fourth would the Second Origin be fully opened.
Naturally, the amount needed was much smaller.
"All right!"
A blush flashed across Ying Xiaoxiao's fair face. She went into the bamboo house on her own and began refining it. Ying Xuanzi breathed a sigh of relief, only to see Fang Yi narrow his eyes.
"Old man, you're unbelievable too. You knew those cultivation arts were still being tested, yet you let Xiaoxiao learn one?"
"You know what she's like. If you don't let her learn, she'll just stay unhappy."
Fang Yi nodded as well.
Xiaoxiao was not as direct and lively as Huanhuan, whose joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness came quickly and went just as quickly.
Xiaoxiao was a closed gourd through and through.
"Wait, is Xiaoxiao what you should be calling her? Call her Sister Xiaoxiao!"
Ying Xuanzi glared at Fang Yi.
Fang Yi chuckled and changed the subject. "This isn't just about Xiaoxiao... Sister Xiaoxiao, is it?"
"Mm. I've already sent someone to deliver a message to the Immortal Sacred Whale. As for Jiang Yinyin, I examined her once during this time. I'm afraid your guess was right."
Ying Xuanzi rubbed the space between his brows. He felt that he had dealt with more matters these past few days than he had in all these years.
"Mm."
Fang Yi nodded slightly.
"By the way, the Palace Master of Taiqing Palace from the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace will be coming in a few days. She said she wants to discuss an exchange between the sects. You'll receive her with me when the time comes."
Fang Yi had spoken of one hot and one cold; now that Ling Qingzhu had returned, she had probably suggested that the palace master come to the Dao Sect.
"Uh, that might not work."