Chapter 40

Chapter 41: Ice and Fire from the Same Source

It was scorching hot! Qian Xing felt as if his whole body was about to explode.

A surge of incomparably violent and cruel killing intent, accompanied by the heat wave in his chest and abdomen, rushed straight to Qian Xing's Purple Mansion.

Fortunately, at this moment, his mind still retained a bit of clarity. He entrusted the operation of the Ninefold Purple Fire Technique to the three Lei people and stopped worrying about it.

Qian Xing fully activated the Ice Technique on his right side, directing the cold aura formed by the Ice Technique straight to the Purple Mansion below his crown. The cold true qi blocked the vast and cruel killing intent, fully resisting the residual consciousness of the high-level demon, which was eroding Qian Xing's nerves and will!

While Qian Xing's left side felt as hot as fire, his head's temperature was clearly lower than that of his body!

This made Lei Yue sigh with relief. It seemed that Qian Xing had a high chance of merging the high-level fire gun demon's magic core while remaining mentally clear. Moreover, the three of them could gain a reliable and highly skilled ally in the Beast Arena.

At least, if the four of them entered a scene together next time, they could easily find each other's traces according to the left talismans and thus perform the Four-Gathering Spirit Array, easily defeating opponents of their level.

After all, this was an experimental fusion. If it succeeded, they would gain another helper; if it failed, the three of them would not lose anything.

Of course, the three Lei people would not reveal that this was their first time helping someone merge a high-level demon's magic core!

As time passed, the cold true qi of the Ice Technique became less and less, and a small part of the vast and cruel consciousness still seeped into Qian Xing's consciousness.

Just as Qian Xing felt a surge of madness and was about to lose his defense, the fiery heat in his body was finally fully incorporated into the orbit of the Ninefold Purple Fire Technique.

After the agitated aura in his body calmed down, Qian Xing closed his eyes and practiced, discovering that the cold true qi formed by the Ice Technique and the fiery true qi controlled by the Ninefold Purple Fire Technique each occupied a territory on either side of his body, with the Zhongtan point as the boundary, running in an orderly manner without interfering with each other!

However, since the Ice Technique was only practiced to the second level and had been heavily consumed, the cold true qi on the right side was clearly weaker.

Opening his eyes, he saw that Lei Yue and Lei Hai were sitting cross-legged to recover their strength, while Lei Feng, who had just recovered from his injuries, was guarding them.

Seeing Qian Xing open his eyes, Lei Feng quickly waved to stop him from expressing his gratitude. He took a fragrant spirit pill and also sat cross-legged to recover his strength.

Qian Xing thought, "The Dan Ding Sect is really impressive; taking spirit pills is like eating candy beans."

When the three Lei people woke up, Qian Xing bowed to the ground: "The great kindness of the three elder brothers, I don't know when I can repay it. I only wish to follow the three elder brothers for life, willing to work as a horse or a cow, without any hesitation!"

This phrase was something Qian Xing learned from "Water Margin." Those subordinates, after receiving Song Jiang's money or being rescued from prison by him, would all bow to the ground and express their gratitude.

Qian Xing was a person who cherished old friendships and was grateful. Too many hardships in life had made him start selling lamb skewers in college.

Now, with such a great opportunity, serving the three elder brothers as a horse or a cow was only right. It was too rare to meet someone who genuinely helped him.

As for the idea of not expecting repayment for kindness, treating not repaying kindness as a matter of course, that was treating others as fools!

Unless he was a beggar, in which case people would not expect repayment for their charity. Although Qian Xing was a small businessman, he still had his dignity and would never lower himself to the level of a beggar.

Of course, if it involved risking his life, Qian Xing would have to think about it.

Seeing Qian Xing's deep respect and gratitude, the three Lei people were delighted. From now on, as long as the four of them were transported to a scene, they would almost be invincible, because the Beast Arena system would not arrange for combatants with vastly different levels to enter the same scene. Otherwise, wouldn't it become a score-boosting machine for some strong individuals?

Since a substantive alliance had been formed, Lei Yue shared the spirit pills he carried with Qian Xing and also gave him the alchemy techniques and artifact control techniques that the three of them had learned. In an alliance, the stronger Qian Xing was, the stronger the four of them would be, and the more likely they would be to uncover the core secrets of the Beast Arena, thus gaining unexpected great benefits. Compared to this, the initial investment of these basic techniques and formulas in the Dan Ding Sect was really just a small amount.

However, since Qian Xing only had hellfire in half of his body and needed to practice the Ninefold Purple Fire Technique, Lei Yue instructed Qian Xing to collect more cold-attribute herbs and refine more cold-attribute spirit pills after returning to China, to be taken together with fire-attribute spirit pills, to avoid an imbalance of yin and yang, which could lead to danger.

After all the matters were completed, they began to search for the Wind Lung Spirit Horse. Since it was known that the Wind Lung Spirit Horse needed to survive on the essence of the Black Star Sand Beast's remains, even if it could transfer its spirit roots, it would not leave the range of the Black Star Sand Beast's tomb.

The idea that a fully formed immortal herb could run for hundreds or thousands of miles was purely nonsense.

Generally, herbs that had grown for hundreds of years needed to grow in places with abundant spiritual energy and special nutrients. Leaving such a place, unless they could root in an even more spiritually rich area, they would die.

The four people's divine senses were not very strong, and they had no particularly tempting herbs for the Wind Lung Spirit Horse—such a rare spirit creature that only a few old monsters in the Dan Ding Sect had the complete formulas to control it. How could these junior disciples expect to encounter such a thing?

The four people divided the large cave into four areas, each taking one area. They used their magical artifacts to turn over the ground inch by inch, determined to find the spirit creature, even if it meant searching the ocean for a needle.

Qian Xing had no magical artifact, so Lei Yue gave him a Taiyi Essence Gold medicinal hoe used by the Dan Ding Sect. Although it was not as versatile as a magical artifact, capable of changing size and flying, it was extremely hard, forged from Taiyi Essence Gold.

As a result, Qian Xing's progress in digging the ground was much slower than the three others, who used their magical artifacts to create large beams of light, flying up and down. However, using the medicinal hoe allowed him to dig more carefully.