“Ye… Elder Ye?”
Looking at Ye Ziyuan, who exuded such oppressive pressure, Li Shangyan’s words came out a little haltingly.
Dammit!
He was just a twenty-year-old young man, but the stunning woman in front of him had an aura that was far too overpowering.
It was like a fresh recruit in the workplace facing a sassy CEO.
He finally understood a little why the other disciples of the Sect had such complicated feelings when they saw Ye Ziyuan.
Her temperament today was completely different from yesterday’s!
If he had not already known that Ye Ziyuan’s appearance might change drastically, if it were not for that face being exactly the same as the Ye Ziyuan he had seen yesterday, he would never have believed they were the same person.
This woman was still a peerless beauty, but now she had a strong, highly aggressive aura.
Even big shots at the Nascent Soul stage or even the Spirit Transformation stage might not be able to suppress her in terms of presence.
Ye Ziyuan, dressed in a red skirt and holding a small short whip in her hand, slowly walked up to Li Shangyan.
A faint, very pleasant fragrance drifted into Li Shangyan’s nose, and it seemed to turn into invisible threads that gently wrapped around his heart, making him unconsciously hold his breath.
Her every step was so calm and unhurried. As her red skirt swayed, it almost seemed as if even the air was filled with an irresistible majesty and charisma.
Li Shangyan’s Adam’s apple moved with difficulty as he swallowed.
Meanwhile, Ye Ziyuan had a faint smile at the corner of her mouth, as if she was enjoying the scene.
She lightly raised the short whip in her right hand, moving it from bottom to top, and in the end it actually stopped at Li Shangyan’s dantian.
Li Shangyan instantly felt a warm current coming from the short whip.
A trace of surprise appeared in Ye Ziyuan’s oppressive gaze. “Weren’t you at Qi Refining Layer 2? How did you reach Layer 3?”
She had actually used that short whip, together with spiritual energy, to inspect the qi in Li Shangyan’s dantian and judge his realm.
Li Shangyan pretended to be confused and said, “Maybe it’s because I was already close to breaking through, and I also used the Sect’s Spirit Stone and the Augmentation Pill.”
Ye Ziyuan’s gaze toward Li Shangyan suddenly filled with interest.
“Interesting! You managed to reach here alive, and you also comprehended the first layer of the Blazing Fire Art, which means you are not stupid.”
“Now the test begins formally. As long as you can still stay inside Red Garden today, you pass.”
Hearing this, Li Shangyan felt an inexplicable sense of anticipation rise in his heart.
He was a little curious about what kind of test this sassy Elder would give him.
And if he really passed the test, it would not only prove his strength and potential, but might also win Ye Ziyuan’s favor, which would undoubtedly be very beneficial to his future cultivation path.
Right now, what he needed most was someone to guide his cultivation.
Through his initial study of the Blazing Fire Art, he had already felt that cultivation techniques were indeed somewhat unusual.
He did not know if it was the same for people with a single attribute, but at least he felt that once his fire attribute increased too much, it would cause the spiritual energy within him to become somewhat uncontrollable.
“Your disciple will certainly go all out and live up to Elder’s expectations.” Li Shangyan bowed respectfully, his tone firm.
“Hehe, I hope you can hold out a little longer and let me have some… fun!” A smile appeared at the corner of Ye Ziyuan’s mouth.
For some reason, Li Shangyan only felt his butt tighten, and an ominous premonition arose spontaneously.
Ye Ziyuan raised the short whip in her hand and flicked it a few times. The short whip actually began emitting strands of flame, finally turning into a long flame whip.
She flicked the long whip in her hand, and the flame whip let out a series of explosive cracks!
“Pa!”
The flame whip tore through the entire space, and then Li Shangyan felt the space in front of his eyes seem to shatter.
The shape of the cave began turning into countless fragments.
Li Shangyan’s vision went black for a moment. When he looked again, he discovered that he was already inside a world of flames.
It turned out that everything before had been inside a formation.
Even the falling process had been caused by the formation.
The scenery around them changed drastically. The cave was replaced by a crimson sky, and the air was filled with suffocating heat, as if even breathing could ignite flames.
The ground was no longer solid earth, but rivers of flowing magma, with occasional surges of lava that produced crackling sounds.
As for Ye Ziyuan, she stood among the rising flames like a flame queen.
In her sassy voice, she teased, “Little guy, welcome to the Li Fire Grand Formation I set up.”
“This is a formation, and also a place to temper your fire-attribute spiritual energy.”
“Of course, you can cultivate the Blazing Fire Art here, and that will make you feel a little better.”
“If you can’t hold on…”
Ye Ziyuan covered her mouth and laughed. “Heh heh heh, as long as you shout one sentence: ‘I have been conquered by you…’ then you can get out of the formation!”
Li Shangyan was stunned!
Could this woman… also be a transmigrator?
Playing this wildly?
He tentatively asked in a low voice, “Heaven covers the king, earth covers the tiger?”
Ye Ziyuan’s eyes narrowed, and she cried sharply, “You are calling me a tigress?”
After saying that, she swung the flame whip at Li Shangyan!
“Holy crap!” Li Shangyan was startled and hurriedly retreated.
However, with just that one step, he felt a strong burning sensation, and even smelled the scent of singed hair!
Without time to think, he immediately activated the cultivation techniques of the Blazing Fire Art.
He tried to guide the fire-attribute spiritual energy within his body to resonate with the fire elements outside, and even absorb them.
However, the moment those fire elements entered his body, he felt as if his dantian and meridians were on fire.
How should he describe this feeling?
It was like drinking boiling water straight down his throat!
Li Shangyan cried out in pain!
And yet!
A disdainful voice came over: “Little… guy, you went in and only lasted a moment before you couldn’t take it?”
“You can surrender…”
Li Shangyan was instantly furious!
“How can a man not be able to handle it?”
“Not to mention just moving once…”
“I’ll let you know… what a real… man is!”
After shouting, he desperately used the spiritual energy in his dantian to suppress those fire elements!
However!
His spiritual energy contained the Five Elements. At this moment, there were too many fire elements inside his body, causing the Five Elements spiritual energy to begin losing balance and becoming violent!
“Holy crap… I’m about to blow up!”
At this moment, Li Shangyan felt like a powder keg on the verge of exploding!
But he did not give up!
That was simply his personality: the more critical the moment, the calmer he became.
His mind raced as he thought of all kinds of methods!
He believed that although the Sect did not think much of him as an outer disciple with Five Elements Perfection, it would not harm him!
Ye Ziyuan was beautiful and had S attributes, but she would not play him to death either!
So there had to be a solution!
“The Five Elements counteract one another… Right now, because I am in a flame world and there are too many fire elements, they are restraining the other attributes of my spiritual energy, causing a riot.”
“If I increase the spiritual energy of the other attributes in my dantian and make the Five Elements spiritual energy equal, then maybe I can end the riot and achieve the mutual generation of the Five Elements?”
“Whatever. Let’s try this first!”
Li Shangyan sat cross-legged, pressing both hands against his dantian. His movements looked a little strange, and the Guanyin pendant quietly appeared in his hand!
This was at least a high-grade Spirit Stone, containing enormous spiritual energy!
In an instant, a huge surge of spiritual energy poured into his dantian. He used his intention to split it into four parts and distribute them to the Metal, Wood, Water, and Earth elements!
Originally, the five-colored spiritual energy inside his body was gradually being dominated by red.
But as he rapidly absorbed spiritual energy, gold, green, blue, and yellow also began growing quickly!
They gradually formed a stalemate.
And at this moment, Li Shangyan no longer felt any burning sensation. Instead, he felt comfortable.
He broke through!