area51novel 649. Joint Change
649. Joint Change
"Of course! A piece of cake!" Zi Yan patted her budding chest confidently, her eyes sparkling with excitement.
Seeing this, Wei Jiangyuan asked with some skepticism, "Are you really capable, little girl? This formation was set up by dozens of Dou Zun experts!"
Zi Yan wrinkled her small nose in dissatisfaction: "Hmph! Don't look down on me! This formation is indeed ingenious. It gathers immense power, has a solid barrier, and is specifically designed to counter spatial abilities. If I were to force my way through, I really wouldn't be entirely confident in breaking its seal."
She abruptly changed the subject, a sly glint in her eyes, and pointed her slender finger upwards: "But they're not foolproof. I've already sensed a flaw. However, it might be troublesome to break through with others."
Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan exchanged a glance, knowing that what Zi Yan was referring to was probably the oversight they had made earlier. Their previous efforts had not been in vain; the gap in the great formation, which had been torn apart by Qing Lin's earth-shattering slash and then repaired by Xiao Yan's Flame Devouring Wave Ruler, had now become the most crucial breakthrough point.
"No, you don't need to bring anyone." Xiao Yan took a deep breath, his gaze sharp as a knife. "Go to the battlefield below, find Little Fairy Doctor, take the jade pendant from her, and crush it outside the great formation. A Dou Sheng expert will then come to your rescue!"
Zi Yan's face instantly turned serious as she realized the gravity of the situation. She nodded emphatically, "Understood. It's just calling for reinforcements; leave it to me!"
"Lingfengzhui is indeed up to no good; someone's coming," Wei Jiangyuan warned.
Beneath the dark sky obscured by smoke and energy radiance over Saint Pill City, four figures, as black as ink, pounced from different directions like ghosts. Each of the four spirit guards possessed a powerful and imposing aura, their battle qi fluctuations steadily surpassing the limits of a five-star Dou Zun.
Xiao Yan knew how troublesome these spirit guards were. If there were no loopholes in the air restriction, none of them would be easy to defeat.
"Zi Yan, find a chance to go down!" Xiao Yan also said.
"We're in charge of stopping them!"
Wei Jiangyuan glanced at Ling Fengzhui, who was approaching, and felt the suffocating pressure of the semi-saint. Even from a distance, he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling. He asked helplessly, "Who's going to deal with that guy?"
"Let's do it!" Xiao Yan looked at Huo Zhi with a questioning look in his eyes, and then Huo Zhi nodded in approval.
"Can."
"But you need to intercept those spirit guards," Xiao Yan said to Wei Jiangyuan.
"Every time you open your mouth, it's never good news. It seems I shouldn't have come to this alchemy gathering!" Wei Jiangyuan complained, but after saying that, he transformed into a streak of light and went to intercept the spirit guards of the spirit race who were trying to surround and trap them for Zi Yan.
Despite his injuries, he brought the exquisite nature of his Heavenly Rank movement technique, "Shadow Thousand Transformations," to its fullest potential. He didn't charge straight at the enemy, but instead changed positions continuously with astonishing speed in the path of the four spirit guards' attack. His tactics were crystal clear: he didn't aim to defeat the powerful enemies, but simply to hold them off for a short time.
"Come on." Xiao Yan looked at the approaching Ling Fengzhui and extended his right hand to Huo Zhi.
Huo Zhi was slightly taken aback by Xiao Yan's direct action. A faint blush rose visibly to her pristine, beautiful face, appearing like a blush on snow beneath her porcelain-like skin. Fortunately, the Emperor Flame Mark burning brightly on her forehead and the tongues of flame from the Crimson Lotus Karmic Flame around her body emitted a scorching light, effectively concealing this subtle shyness.
"Why is this guy so direct?" Huo Zhi muttered to himself.
"What, have you forgotten that our fighting spirit can be transferred through the Red Lotus Karmic Flame?" Xiao Yan reminded Huo Zhi, who was standing there in a daze.
"I haven't forgotten!" Zhi Qinglie's voice responded with a hint of urgency that was barely perceptible, as if trying to conceal a slight displeasure. Without further hesitation, she cleared her mind of all distractions and decisively extended her left hand. Her slender, fair fingers, carrying a touch of coolness, firmly clasped Xiao Yan's right hand.
The pure, powerful, and molten core Heaven-rank cultivation technique of the Yan Clan within Huo Zhi's body immediately surged forth like a torrent finding an outlet, pouring into Xiao Yan's nearly depleted meridians without hesitation through the point of contact between their palms and the connection between the primordial fire seeds within their bodies!
This pure and unparalleled blazing fire-attribute battle qi was far more powerful than Xiao Yan's own, and extremely refined and condensed. The moment it entered his body, Xiao Yan felt as if a long-parched riverbed had been filled with a surging torrent. A powerful warm current, almost enough to burst his meridians, instantly swept through his entire body, and the exhaustion he had felt after the intense exertion was completely swept away!
However, just as Xiao Yan was invigorated by the influx of this power and was preparing to return it to Huo Zhi's fighting spirit, the surging Yan Clan fighting spirit that poured into his body seemed to enter a bottomless pit, showing absolutely no intention of following the old path and flowing back into Huo Zhi's body through the bridge of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire!
The fighting spirit emanating from Huo Zhi's palm was still surging, and the power within Xiao Yan's body was rapidly increasing. However, the bridge connecting the two seemed to have become a one-way gate, allowing fighting spirit to flow only from Huo Zhi to Xiao Yan.
Time seemed to freeze at that moment.
Xiao Yan was completely bewildered. He had proactively extended his right hand, indicating that Huo Zhi would be the main force in their battle. However, his battle qi was now continuously entering his body, showing no sign of returning.
"What's going on? Why won't you send back your battle aura?" Huo Zhixiu frowned, a surge of anger mixed with being deceived and worried welling up inside her, and her voice unconsciously rose a little.
"It's not that I don't want to, it's that I can't!" Xiao Yan said with a helpless bitter smile.
"How is that possible? It turns out that everything is possible. What have you been doing all this time?" In fact, Huo Zhi didn't believe that Xiao Yan would be stingy with his power or deliberately sabotage things at such a critical moment.
Just as the two were locked in a stalemate, filled with surprise and doubt due to the strange blockage in the transmission of their fighting spirit, a flash of inspiration struck Xiao Yan like lightning. Huo Zhi had been cultivating within the Three Thousand Burning Flames body all these days, so there was no way she could have changed. Therefore, the only one who had changed was himself.
Xiao Yan's original flame did indeed change during this period, transforming from the original single Red Lotus Karmic Flame into the Red Lotus Heart Flame, which is a fusion of three different flames.
"Is this my flame?" The Crimson Lotus Heart Flame appeared in Xiao Yan's palm.
Huo Zhi was slightly taken aback upon hearing this, and her cold gaze instantly focused on the three-colored red lotus heart flame that was pulsating in Xiao Yan's palm, which had fused the characteristics of three different flames.