“How does he have another kind of spiritual energy?”
“What is this spiritual energy? It feels like it’s going to devour me!”
“Terrifying, this spiritual energy is too terrifying!”
The crowd let out a series of startled cries, but among them, Feng Lanyue remained relatively calm. He had personally witnessed Lin Xiao unleash the combined cyan-black flame spiritual energy.
“At the Pan family, he used a unified cyan-black spiritual energy. Could this be a special kind that can separately manifest three attributes: cyan fire, black flame, and a fused energy?” Feng Lanyue’s face showed a mix of shock and curiosity.
In the arena, Yunfeng’s gaze also faltered. Lin Xiao’s display of spiritual energy caught him off guard.
But he quickly regained his composure, snorting coldly, “So what if your spiritual energy is special? It won’t help your elixir now!”
This was a refining contest, and with insufficient herb quality and spiritual power grade, no amount of calcination would change that.
Ignoring the crowd’s reactions, Lin Xiao unleashed his Heaven-Devouring spiritual energy, enveloping the Green Flame Evil Fruit. The entire fruit seemed swallowed by a mass of black flame.
Yet soon after, the black flame gradually converged and dissipated, revealing the green fruit once more.
This time, the green fruit had finally changed, shrinking slightly.
“Not enough!” Lin Xiao gritted his teeth, summoning another mass of Heaven-Devouring black flame, four or five times the size of a person, which danced wildly as it surged toward the Green Flame Evil Fruit.
After a while, it was absorbed again, and the fruit shrank further.
Less than a quarter of an hour remained. After half that time, Lin Xiao was struggling to muster any more spiritual energy.
“He’s still going to fail!” Ye Fenghua sighed with reluctance. He, along with Le Zheng Hongmao and others, stood watching Lin Xiao’s condensation attempt.
Half a quarter remained.
“Chi!”
Suddenly, the black flame shifted, transforming into a fire with a black core and cyan exterior, rushing toward the green fruit. Lin Xiao’s body swayed precariously, his spiritual power clearly overdrawn.
“Could it be a fusion of two spiritual energies? Impossible!” Ye Fenghua gasped, dismissing the notion instantly.
In all the history he knew, there was no record of anyone fusing two spiritual energies simultaneously.
Even with heaven-defying luck to encounter two, refining and merging them into the mind would surely cause it to explode.
“Hmph, no matter how strange, you’re still doomed to fail, without even a ranking!”
Yunfeng’s icy gaze locked onto Lin Xiao, burning with jealousy over what Lin Xiao possessed.
“Not enough, here’s a spirit core!” Unable to summon more spiritual energy and on the verge of collapse, Lin Xiao flung out a third-tier spirit core from his storage ring, originally intended for the Yellow Heaven Elixir.
The Green Flame Evil Fruit required vast energy to form an explosive elixir. A spirit beast core, brimming with power, was a desperate gambit to supplement its insatiable absorption.
He had no other choice, utterly drained of spiritual power to fuel his energy further.
The crowd gaped at Lin Xiao’s move, especially Ye Fenghua, who recognized the core as the one he’d given for the Yellow Heaven Elixir. Lin Xiao seemed to be refining chaotically now!
He also worried that the fruit, having absorbed such immense energy, might explode, with dire consequences…
Ye Fenghua readied himself to intervene.
“Chi! Chi!” As Lin Xiao had hoped, the Green Flame Evil Fruit began devouring the core’s energy, avoiding an explosion.
This relieved Ye Fenghua and others poised to act.
The fruit continued consuming the core. After a while, the core’s energy was fully absorbed, yet the final incense stick was nearly spent.
In total, less than ten breaths remained.
“Still not done?”
Lin Xiao nearly broke down…
“I won’t accept this!” Gritting his teeth, he forced himself to summon spiritual energy again, only to feel his head spin as his body slowly crumpled.
“It’s over!” The crowd clenched their fists in pity for Lin Xiao. They could see he was so close to success, yet he’d ultimately failed as his body began to fall.
“It’s finally over!” Yunfeng sighed inwardly with relief. He’d believed Lin Xiao couldn’t surpass his elixir, yet an inexplicable tension lingered, as if Lin Xiao’s success might threaten him.
Though brief, that strain felt endless, and now it was finally ending.
“Time to step in.” Spiritual power surged from Ye Fenghua’s mind, racing toward Lin Xiao and the elixir.
“Chi!” But just as Lin Xiao was about to collapse and lose consciousness, a vast wave of spiritual power erupted from his head, flooding his body with renewed vigor.
“A breakthrough!” Ye Fenghua exclaimed, hastily retracting his power.
“Ha!” Lin Xiao roared, snapping upright, his eyes blazing with light. A massive cyan-black flame shot toward the Green Flame Evil Fruit.
“Chi! Chi!”
In that instant, the fruit absorbed the final cyan-black flame, its aura shimmering.
“Condense!”
Lin Xiao enveloped the fruit with spiritual power, tightening it. The fruit, now shrunken to the size of two thumbs, condensed into a small, finger-sized, glossy elixir.
“Chi!” A tremendous wave burst from the elixir, rippling outward in all directions.
The Thunderclap Evil Fire Elixir had formed!
At that very moment, the last incense stick flickered out.
“Phew!” The crowd exhaled collectively. In the final breath, Lin Xiao had condensed an elixir. Though they didn’t know what it was, they’d all sweated for him.
The refining process had been grueling, full of twists and turns…
“It’s done, I finally did it!” Wen Renliang and others leapt up in excitement. Lin Xiao’s refining was always this thrilling…
But the true shock belonged to Ye Fenghua and the vice leaders on the jade platform. Others might not know, but they did: the energy it emitted marked a long-lost elixir type…
“Explosive elixir, it’s an explosive elixir!” Le Zheng Hongmao and Situ Guang trembled with excitement.
“It really is an explosive elixir!” Ye Fenghua quivered too, a rare loss of composure after so many years.
