Chapter 31: The Sea of Fire

A desolate land of unusual crimson. The earth was crisscrossed with ravines, the soil was dry and cracked, and the air was filled with a strong fire.

"Poof"

Suddenly, a voice rang out, and a fire ignited on the earth. As soon as the flames appeared, they spread in all directions, and at the same time, the flames multiplied geometrically. In the blink of an eye, a circle of about one zhang high and about ten zhang in diameter was formed, and it was Xiao Ling who stood in the center of the circle.

Although he was in a world of flames, the surrounding temperature was very high, but Xiao Ling did not feel hot at all, and he who cultivated the "Burning Heaven Technique" naturally had a certain resistance to flames and high temperatures.

Xiao Ling faced the flames around him, and he didn't face it head-on like he did before facing the wind pillar, but was thinking about countermeasures.

"I'll try first to see if I can fly away from this sea of fire, although there is a chance that it will not work, but I will only know until I try. Xiao Ling thought so.

The true yuan was running, and Xiao Ling's figure suddenly rose to the sky, and then the fire ring also flew up with Xiao Ling's flying, always surrounding Xiao Ling in the middle. And the flames seemed to be enraged by Xiao Ling's actions, and slowly closed towards Xiao Ling.

"Then I'll try the 'Burning Heaven Technique' to see if I can absorb the flames. Xiao Ling saw that the method of flying away from the sea of fire did not work, so he took another way, thinking about absorbing these flames.

Do what you think. Xiao Ling ran the "Burning Heaven Technique", and the already high temperature around him rose again, and Xiao Ling's hands quickly turned fiery red. Immediately, he pushed his hands forward, and the scorching Flame True Yuan suddenly rushed towards the flames.

As soon as the True Yuan came into contact with the flame, the flame suddenly shrank back a little, as if he was a little afraid of the Flame True Yuan.

Xiao Ling saw this situation, secretly said, "There is a door", and then urged the three points of cultivation, and suddenly the Flame True Yuan swallowed a small part of the flames, and absorbed it in a few breaths.

Xiao Ling used the "Flame Burning Heaven Technique" to consume a little True Yuan, and now he absorbed this small part of the flame's energy, but the two complemented each other, which was equivalent to using the energy of the flame itself to extinguish the flame. This discovery made Xiao Ling overjoyed, and he urged the "Burning Heaven Technique" with all his might, and immediately devoured and absorbed all the flames, and his true yuan was not consumed at all.

"Poof"

Just after all the flames were devoured and absorbed by Xiao Ling, there was another soft sound, and another flame appeared, and a circle of fire quickly formed. This time the flames were slightly darker than the previous ones, and the ring of fire was a little smaller than before.

Xiao Ling repeated his old tricks, and continued to devour and absorb with the "Burning Heaven Technique" to replenish his own consumption.

In this way, the flames kept appearing, and Xiao Ling kept absorbing them. Although the flame energy that appeared each time was greater than the last time, Xiao Ling's consumption was also getting bigger and bigger, and as the flame energy gradually increased, Xiao Ling's difficulty in devouring and absorbing it was also increasing.

Finally, when the color of the flames took on a dark blue color and the diameter of the fire ring became three zhang in size, Xiao Ling could no longer devour and absorb these flames to replenish himself.

"Since I can't absorb it, then I'll put out the fire with fire!"

Urging the true yuan, the "Flame Burning Heaven Technique" was issued at will, and a large number of flames suddenly appeared in the palms of Xiao Ling's hands. Xiao Ling pointed his palm against the fire ring, and the two flames suddenly intersected, shooting out sparks all over the sky. Soon, Xiao Ling gained the advantage and completely extinguished the dark blue flames. But without the replenishment of flame energy, Xiao Ling's true yuan was also partially consumed.

The dark blue flame vanished, and suddenly a lilac flame burst out again.

Although Xiao Ling knew that it was not a way to go on like this, he was afraid that he would still be depleted of his true yuan like he had faced the wind pillar before, but he had no choice. Xiao Ling didn't have the idea of outwitting, on the contrary, he had this idea from the beginning and put it into action - he had been analyzing the characteristics of the flame when he was devouring and absorbing the flame before, hoping to find the trick to cracking the flame. But under his analysis, he came to a conclusion that made him helpless - every time the flames appeared, there were differences, and the difference between the flames of different colors was even greater, as if there were two levels. If you want to find out the secret of the flame here, you can't do it with Xiao Ling's cultivation at all.

"Alas, there is no way but to fight hard!"

Xiao Ling let out a long sigh, and then cast the "Burning Heaven Technique" to continue the pace of extinguishing the fire with fire.

When the dark purple flames disappeared and the pale cyan flames appeared, the method of extinguishing the fire with fire would not work. Xiao Ling had also consumed more than half of the True Yuan at this time.

Facing the pale cyan fire ring that was only two zhang in size, Xiao Ling's eyes showed a trace of exhaustion, but he was then forcibly pressed down by him.

"Extinguishing a fire doesn't work, what should I do? Extinguish a fire, extinguish a fire, extinguish a fire, water overcomes fire, isn't the best way to extinguish a fire be water? At the beginning, I used the 'Burning Heaven Technique' to absorb the energy of the flames, and the effect was remarkable, so I always used the 'Burning Heaven Technique', even if the flame energy was too strong to absorb it, I still used the 'Burning Heaven Technique' to extinguish the fire, and I even ignored the most basic common sense!"

Thinking of this, Xiao Ling's frowning brows quietly stretched, and as soon as the magic recipe changed, the "Burning Heaven Technique" was instantly replaced with the "Xuan Ice Sealing Heaven Technique".

When Xiao Ling's magic technique changed, his hands turned from fiery red to frost, and the temperature around him also dropped rapidly. I saw that between the operation of Xiao Ling's magic technique, a large amount of cold qi rushed towards the surrounding flames, and after a stalemate between the two sides for a long time, the flames were finally extinguished one by one.

The flames were extinguished and born, born and extinguished, and Xiao Ling's true yuan was also constantly consumed.

I have to say that the flame energy that appears each time is much larger than the flame energy that appeared last time, and the difference in this energy becomes more and more obvious the later it comes.

Just when Xiao Ling had just extinguished the dark cyan flame, and Zhen Yuan had only the last trace left, and he didn't know how to deal with the flames that were about to ignite again, the extinguished flames surprisingly did not reappear.

Although the flames did not appear, Xiao Ling did not relax at all - since the last three wind pillars of the trial the day before yesterday appeared after a long time, then who knows if flames with more powerful energy will suddenly emerge from here after a while.

Xiao Ling waited for a long time, but the new flame still did not appear, and Xiao Ling believed that he should have passed today's fire trial.

Xiao Ling completely relaxed, sat down on the ground all of a sudden, and gasped for breath. Wiping a handful of sweat from his face, although Xiao Ling was very tired now, and the continuous casting of spells had caused the True Yuan to be almost exhausted, coupled with the lack of True Yuan's body protection, the high temperature around him had seriously dehydrated his body, but Xiao Ling's face was filled with a satisfied smile - he persevered to the end with his own strength in the second trial, not as weak as the first time.

As soon as the flowers bloom in front of you, the surrounding scenery gradually becomes illusory. When the scenery is clear, what catches your eye is the familiar place and the familiar people.

"Three masters" Xiao Ling opened his mouth to speak.

"Don't say anything, you're doing a good job!, but what you need most now is to restore your cultivation, and it's not a good thing for your true yuan to be depleted for a long time. In this case, it is better for you to recover slowly on your own than for us to help you, and it will strengthen your mastery of the true element. Okay, just restore it on the spot. Yun Qingzi looked at Xiao Ling with a satisfied smile and quickly spoke.

"Yes!"

Spit out the word "yes", Xiao Ling didn't say anything else, sat cross-legged on the spot, and tried his best to recover the consumed true yuan.

Unconsciously, a day and two nights passed, and when Xiao Ling recovered his true yuan, it was already noon on the third day when he woke up.

"Ling'er, have you recovered your cultivation?" As soon as Xiao Ling opened his eyes, Yun Qingzi's concerned voice came from his ears.

"Well, Third Master, Ling Er has recovered. ”

"Tell me how you feel. Yun Xuzi said with a smile.

"Well, Ling'er experienced the fire trial this time, and when I was about to reach the end, I already felt that I was going to fail again like last time, and this result surprised and delighted me. I think under normal circumstances, my cultivation is not enough to complete such a trial, but I succeeded, and the biggest reason should be that I cultivated the 'Burning Heaven Technique', through which I absorbed the energy of the flames to supplement my own consumption, saving a lot of True Yuan, so I could persevere to the end and not fail like the last time I faced the Wind Pillar. However, if I hadn't adopted the method of 'extinguishing the fire with fire', but had been able to absorb those flames and immediately extinguish the fire with the 'Frozen Heavenly Technique', I would have thought that in the end I would have had a little bit of True Yuan left. Also, the color of those flames is different every time they appear, from extremely light to extremely dark, and after being extremely deep, they will change to another color, and the energy contained in them is also more and more, and in the future, no matter how much I urge the 'Flame Burning Heaven Technique', I can't absorb it, Master, is the energy of the flame really related to the color?" Xiao Ling thought for a while and expressed his feelings and questions.

"Hehe, the reason why you were able to pass this fire trial is indeed that, as you analyzed, you did a good job on this. As for the color of the flame you mentioned, it has nothing to do with the energy of the flame. There are thousands of colors of flames in the world, and the flames in nature have different colors, and as for the flames produced by cultivating the method, the colors are even more numerous, and the cultivation level of the same method is different, and the color of the flame produced during operation is also different. ”

"Then why" Xiao Ling opened his mouth to ask again, but was interrupted by Yun Xuzi.

"As a teacher, I know what you want to ask, these things that you will inevitably come into contact with in the future, so I can tell you now. During the trial, you will encounter many different colors of fire, and the energy of the flames will gradually increase from low to high. This is true, but it does not mean that if the flame is of different colors, there is also a difference in power. I think you must have analyzed the characteristics of each flame in your fight against flames, but in the end, the result is that the characteristics of each flame are different, yes or no?"

"Yes. ”

"Actually, the results you came up with after analyzing them are wrong, no, I should say that they are not entirely right. It is true that the characteristics of flames of different colors are indeed different, but the characteristics of different flames of the same color and shade are the same, and you didn't analyze it because your cultivation is still shallow, and the energy contained in the flames that appear every time is different and misleads you. Generally speaking, the flames in nature are naturally different in color and nature, and they naturally have their own victories in terms of use, or they are suitable for refining weapons, or they are suitable for fighting, and so on. However, there is no such thing as the flames produced by cultivating the magic technique of the fire attribute, they are all used against the enemy, unless it is a magic technique specially used for refining weapons. It is true that the nature of the different colors of fire you encounter in the trial is different, but the amount of energy has nothing to do with the nature of the flame, which means that there is no level of fire itself. ”

"So that's the case, Ling Er understood. Xiao Ling listened to Yun Xuzi's explanation and suddenly realized.

"Well, you can go back today and come back tomorrow. Tomorrow you will experience a test of patience. ”