Soul-Burning Fire Refinement

Just now, it had not even caught what Li Yan had said about "waiting until things settle down someday..." much less understood the meaning behind his words.

Naturally, the Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant did not know that they were already in another world, and that Li Yan, like it, had become a wandering soul with no fixed home.

Only when Li Yan sensed something was wrong and moved to retrieve that skull did the Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant suddenly stretch out its long trunk, blocking the skull as it swiftly floated toward Li Yan.

Seeing this, Li Yan did not forcibly take it back. He merely frowned. It was common for cultivators to gradually become cold and unfeeling.

He himself had not yet become like that, but it was enough to occasionally let such feelings arise at the sight of familiar objects. Cultivators had to be able to control their emotions.

Even without stating such things outright, so long as he gave the Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant a slight reminder in the past, it would understand.

Otherwise, if it sank deeper into those feelings, inner demons would slowly take root in its heart. By then, no one would be able to save it, and its path of cultivation would be ruined.

Seeing Li Yan withdraw his hand and quietly look at it, the Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant swiftly suppressed the emotions in its heart. After taking a long breath—

"Master, I can forge a physical body now!"

Then its eyes turned once more toward the crystalline skull that its long trunk was gently holding back.

Li Yan had thought that the Little Purple Divine Dragon Elephant had not escaped its emotions and wanted to keep this fragment of a skull. He had not expected its words