46: Chapter 44 Refining

His consciousness had spent an unknown amount of time within the Prajna Heart Lamp, yet only a single instant had passed in reality.

By the time Lin Yan's consciousness returned, even the two women beside him had not noticed any abnormalities.

Yet at this moment, waves surged in the depths of Lin Yan's heart. Quietly perceiving the Prajna Heart Lamp that had returned to silence deep within his Sea of Consciousness, Lin Yan couldn't help but think to himself, "So this is your Origin!"

Of the power that brought him through his Transmigration, one-third was temporarily consumed to help him complete his Reincarnation.

As for the remaining two-thirds, it materialized the illusory heart lamp visualized by his past life's mind into a true companion Spirit Treasure...

What made Lin Yan even more unsettled was that one-third of his power had actually been left outside all this time!

At this thought, Lin Yan instantly associated it with the inexplicably appearing mecha over on the Sun and Moon side, as well as the sudden upheaval in the Extreme North this time. All these variables now seemed to have found their root!

The sea of fire phenomenon above the sky of the Extreme North did not last long. Just as the ice lotus within the underground ice cave completely condensed and formed, the sea of fire slowly dissipated along with it.

"Junior Brother, it seems to be fine?"

Zhang Lexuan's soft voice came over, interrupting Lin Yan's somewhat chaotic thoughts.

Temporarily suppressing his thoughts, Lin Yan nodded slightly and led the two women back down to the ground of the ice cave.

As the three of them stepped closer again to the ice lotus suspended mid-air, what rushed towards their faces was no longer a piercing, bone-chilling cold, but a hint of warmth.

However, the warmth of ordinary flames stems from the heat released by their own combustion.

But the warmth of this ice flame was completely different; it did not release any heat of its own, but instead continuously devoured all the surrounding cold Qi.

As the biting cold Qi was completely devoured by the ice flame, a slightly warmer zone naturally formed around the ice flame compared to other areas of the ice cave.

Mental Energy probed toward the ice flame, but the moment the two made contact, his Mental Energy was frozen solid!

Seeing this, Lin Yan's thought stirred again, urging Diyan to cover his hand as he tentatively probed toward the ice flame at the heart of the lotus.

As soon as he drew close, the first feeling that swept over him was an Ultimate Chill sufficient to freeze everything!

But when Lin Yan increased his Soul Power output and thoroughly plunged his palm into the flame's core, the extreme cold suddenly receded, replaced by an Ultimate Heat akin to molten lava!

One cold and one hot, ice and fire coexisting!

This was unexpectedly an extreme ice and fire with Ultimate Ice as its exterior and Ultimate Fire as its interior, where yang is born from the extreme of yin!

While he was carefully perceiving the traits of this bizarre ice flame, bestowed by the heavens and earth in the netherworld, Lin Yan naturally learned its true name: Extreme Cold Mysterious Ice Fire!

Seeing Lin Yan retract his palm, Jiang Nannan at the side immediately asked softly with eyes full of curiosity: "Brother, what on earth is the Origin of this flame?"

A smile hung on the corners of Lin Yan's lips, and he was clearly in a good mood. He softly replied: "This is a rare fire and strange fire nurtured by heaven and earth, named Extreme Cold Mysterious Ice Fire."

Facing the two women's astonished gazes, Lin Yan then briefly introduced the miraculous traits of the Extreme Cold Mysterious Ice Fire, which was ice on the outside and fire on the inside.

Upon hearing this, the look of amazement in the eyes of Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Nannan grew even stronger. They hadn't expected that such a bizarre flame could exist in this world!

Ultimate Ice and Ultimate Fire, two completely contradictory extreme forces, could actually coexist as one. This simply subverted their consistent understanding!

Looking at the two women's shocked and delighted expressions, Lin Yan felt inwardly solemn. Right now, they were actually facing a crucial question: how should they handle this Extreme Cold Mysterious Ice Fire?

The handling here did not refer to the distribution issue, because looking at the expressions of Zhang Lexuan and the other, one could tell that they had naturally presupposed from the very beginning that this ice flame belonged to Lin Yan.

Therefore, what Lin Yan worried about handling was how to take it away!

A strange fire possessing dual ultimate attributes of ice and fire was naturally exceptionally overbearing. Ordinary storage spirit tools simply could not withstand the scouring of the Ultimate Ice and fire forces.

Right now, apart from the ice lotus that nurtured it, Lin Yan did not have anything capable of storing and bearing it.

If he were to directly use the ice lotus as a carrier to carry it around with him, it similarly would not work.

The boundless cold Qi of the Extreme North happened to be the best nourishment for the Extreme Cold Mysterious Ice Fire.

Once they brought it out of the underground ice cave, it would definitely crazily devour the surrounding cold Qi, kicking up a large-scale cold Qi vortex. With such a commotion following them, it would be even more impossible for them to escape the Extreme North by then.

Furthermore, through Lin Yan's observation, this plundering of cold Qi by the Mysterious Ice Fire could only be forcibly blocked and suppressed by forces at the ultimate level.

But based on Lin Yan's current total amount of Soul Power, if he were to forcibly make a move to seal it, he wouldn't be able to last long at all before his Soul Power was completely depleted!

As for temporarily leaving it here and waiting until they returned to the academy to call for backup to retrieve it, Lin Yan pondered for a moment and abandoned this option.

They didn't know how long this back-and-forth trip would take, and who knew if other changes would occur in the middle.

Moreover, the Extreme Cold Mysterious Ice Fire had just been born and was still relatively mild.

But once it was allowed to wantonly devour cold Qi to quickly pass through its infancy stage, the difficulty and danger for Lin Yan to refine it at that time would definitely skyrocket!

Weighing pros and cons in his heart for a moment, the path left for him right now seemed to be only one—to stop thinking about taking it away and directly refine this strange fire on the spot!

A strange fire was completely different from the Origin Beast Fire that Lin Yan had previously extracted from the bodies of Spirit Beasts.

After the Origin Beast Fire was refined, all of its original Impurities and energy had already been completely burned away as firewood, leaving behind only the pure flame Origin.

Therefore, Lin Yan was able to store it into his Spirit Origin space, allowing Diyan to slowly refine it by itself as time passed.

But for a strange fire born of heaven and earth like the Extreme Cold Mysterious Ice Fire, even in its infancy stage, relying on its terrifying power, it was absolutely impossible to directly store it into his Spirit Origin space!

If Lin Yan truly dared to do that, the only result awaiting him would be courting his own destruction!

Compared to the slow and gentle process of refining beast fire, refining a strange fire was a violent and berserk process; it was either success or doom, which also meant that the refining time would be drastically shortened!

This also made Lin Yan refining the strange fire on the spot feasible!

Having made a decision in his heart, Lin Yan informed Zhang Lexuan and the other of his analysis. However, to avoid worrying them, Lin Yan intentionally glossed over the perilous aspects of refining the strange fire.

In truth, for his first time refining a strange fire, Lin Yan did not have absolute certainty in his heart either.

But with the Prajna Heart Lamp deep within his Sea of Consciousness present, relying on its suppression by a supreme rank, once the refinement failed, it would be enough to forcibly suppress the strange fire and expel it from his body. This was also Lin Yan's greatest source of confidence in daring to take a risk and try!

However, even though Lin Yan intentionally concealed the peril of refining the strange fire, Zhang Lexuan and Jiang Nannan were not fools. Just looking at the overbearing traits of this strange fire's dual extremes of ice and fire, the two of them could more or less guess the danger within.

Seeing Lin Yan's first two spirit rings light up, with Diyan wrapping around his body as he was about to reach out and grab the Extreme Cold Mysterious Ice Fire.

Jiang Nannan's face turned pale, her heart panicking somewhat as she subconsciously grabbed his arm: "Brother!"

"Rest assured, I know what I'm doing."

Lin Yan patted the back of her hand, turned his head to look at the two, and revealed a confident smile, speaking in a clear voice: "Don't worry, I won't joke with my own life."

As his voice fell, Lin Yan took a deep breath, suppressing the distracting thoughts in his heart. Without further hesitation, he walked slowly to the front of the ice lotus.

The next moment, Lin Yan's right hand, wrapped in monstrous nine-colored Diyan, thrust forward and forcefully grabbed the Extreme Cold Mysterious Ice Fire located at the heart of the ice lotus!

"Boom——!"