Yin Fire

After all, Chang'e's Moon Star governed moonlight; no anomaly in the sea of stars could possibly escape her notice.

"That's true." Jiang Zhe also thought Weaver Girl had a point, so he handed her all the lollipops he had won in the lottery.

He had come to realize that Weaver Girl really was like a blank sheet of paper, so innocent that it was a little worrying. She especially loved sweet things like lollipops.

"Wow, you have these too?" Just as Jiang Zhe had expected, Weaver Girl looked delighted at the sight of the lollipops.

Her eyes narrowed into crescents.

"I prepared them especially for you."

"You're so good to me!" Weaver Girl looked at Jiang Zhe with admiration in her eyes.

Seeing how a few lollipops had made her lose all sense of direction, Jiang Zhe couldn't help feeling helpless.

"All right, all right, I have to go back. My cousin has already arrived at Mount Hua. I absolutely can't let him find me."

Weaver Girl looked at Jiang Zhe with a trace of reluctance, then sighed.

"Okay, you're going back so early?" Jiang Zhe couldn't help frowning at her words. They had only just gotten together and hadn't even had time to be affectionate before she suddenly had to leave. When all was said and done, Jiang Zhe really didn't want her to go.

"My family doesn't get along very well with my cousin. If he sees me here, he'll definitely report it, and then I'll be in real trouble." Weaver Girl stuck out her tongue as she said this.

"Will you be all right, then?" Jiang Zhe looked at Weaver Girl skeptically.

"Who are you looking down on? I'm the only one of the Seven Fairies who has mastered her natal star."

"I'm a fairy! You'd better cherish me."

"If you dare forget me and don't come to the Heavenly Court to find me, I'll come down and beat you up." With that, Weaver Girl gave Jiang Zhe a punch in the chest with her little pink fist.

"Got it." Jiang Zhe pinched Weaver Girl's cheek. Then, in the first light of dawn, she carefully guided the starlight of the Weaver Girl Star and flew toward the horizon.

Jiang Zhe watched in silence until Weaver Girl disappeared completely from his sight.

The courtyard fell utterly quiet, and the voice that had been chirping nonstop faded away.

Jiang Zhe looked at the gently swaying swing. It seemed a trace of Weaver Girl's presence still lingered on it.

He stood before the swing for a long time. To be honest, Jiang Zhe had mixed feelings about the time he had spent with Weaver Girl.

Especially the task triggered yesterday.

A Heaven-ordained romance!

It sounded lovely, but the risks went without saying.

Collecting his thoughts, he turned his attention to the rewards this time.

There was no need to say much about the one hundred thousand merit points. It was almost the most merit Jiang Zhe could obtain.

One hundred thousand merit points were enough for one high-level lottery draw, and Jiang Zhe was itching to try.

But he only entertained the thought. After all, staking one hundred thousand merit points on a single draw was a little foolish.

The low-level lottery was already quite good; he could even draw a Heavenly Flame from it. But with one hundred thousand merit points, if the things obtained from the low-level lottery were already that good, there was no need to mention the intermediate lottery.

After some thought, Jiang Zhe first tried an intermediate lottery draw.

[Draw successful! Congratulations, host, on obtaining Yellow Springs Water]

Yellow Springs Water?

It could be considered one of the ten great waters in Journey to the West. It was water from the Yellow Springs in the Underworld and had the ability to corrode souls.

And with the Three Thousand Weak Water added to it...

With the two combined, if he caught Joyful Boy's soul, the final result went without saying.

It really was time to complete that task.

Mainly because Jiang Zhe was afraid.

After completing Cowherd and Weaver Girl's task, he had inexplicably replaced Cowherd.

Jiang Zhe was genuinely afraid that after completing Liu Yanchang and Yang Chan's task this time, he would somehow end up winning Yang Chan over too.

If that really happened, things would be terrible.

Next, Jiang Zhe made ten more low-level lottery draws and three intermediate draws.

Besides cultivation resources, the intermediate draws actually yielded a Nine-Turn Golden Elixir and the divine ability Shrinking the Earth to an Inch.

The things drawn from the intermediate lottery really were much better than those from the low-level lottery.

Aside from a huge pile of spirit stones, the low-level draws yielded a few lollipops. The only good thing was corrosive venom!

It was also a kind of water.

As for the remaining fifty thousand merit points, Jiang Zhe thought it over and decided to use them to raise his cultivation realm.

But before that...

He would first fuse the three water-element talents he had obtained!

Fusing the three talents should also bring him a considerable boost.

After becoming entangled with Weaver Girl, Jiang Zhe couldn't be sure when their relationship might be exposed.

When that happened, he, a cultivator living in the mortal world, would definitely be unable to escape the Heavenly Court's punishment.

Even Weaver Girl might be dragged into it and made to try out Yang Chan's script ahead of time.

He absolutely would not allow that to happen.

He had to improve his strength.

"System! Fuse all the water-element power I currently have!" Jiang Zhe said in a low voice.

Immediately afterward, the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts began to circulate, and streams of silvery-white water began to float before him.

The first to be swallowed was the Three Thousand Weak Water.

The Black Rhino pattern on his chest seemed to come alive. It let out a roar, then opened its enormous bloody maw and forcibly swallowed the silvery-white Three Thousand Weak Water.

After the Three Thousand Weak Water entered his body, the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, which had been hungry and thirsty for a long time, used its power to madly temper his flesh and primordial spirit.

Intense pain filled every corner of his body. As soon as the Weak Water entered him, Jiang Zhe felt as though he had been thrown into an icy river, and his blood nearly froze.

He even lost the ability to sense his flesh and skin.

But! The Flame Dragon on his chest began to grow scorching hot.

One cold, one hot, the two forces rampaged through his body. With his clothes off, the veins bulging beneath Jiang Zhe's skin were plainly visible, as though two snakes were biting at each other inside him.

Seemingly sensing that something was wrong, the Primordial Chaos Creation Divine Lightning suddenly joined in, forcefully suppressing the water and fire at once.

Magic power began to reinforce and merge with them bit by bit. At that moment, the innate aptitude that came with being an Innate Living Being fully revealed itself.

Lightning and water merged. Even though it was the Three Thousand Weak Water that he was channeling within his body, the Primordial Chaos Creation Divine Lightning was now crackling and shocking him nonstop from within.

It seemed to be speeding up the digestion of the Three Thousand Weak Water.

Just as he was halfway through refining it, Jiang Zhe suddenly felt a scorching heat beneath his feet.

The Yin Fire had arrived!

Yin Fire, one of the Three Calamities!

The scorching heat beneath his feet came without warning. He immediately opened his eyes and looked down. Through inner vision, he saw that two narrow slits had appeared on the soles of his feet at some point.

Two wisps of strange flame emerged from the slits. Like corrosive gu, they passed through the Yongquan acupoints on the soles of his feet and began burning his primordial spirit and flesh at the same time.

Most importantly, they were doing so through the magic power tempered by the Three Thousand Weak Water. Good grief, no wonder it was one of the Three Calamities! If he let this thing burn unchecked, it probably wouldn't take long for all his cultivation to be burned away.