440: Chapter 44 Water and Fire Merge!

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Qin Yan chatted with Xiao Huo and Lu Youyou for a while longer before rising to take his leave.

After returning to his own residence, Qin Yan's life once again returned to that familiar rhythm.

Day after day of spear practice.

His most urgent wish at the moment was to quickly raise the progress of the first layer of the 'Five Elements Primordial Scripture'.

Only when the progress reached a certain critical point could he break through to the fifth rank.

And only by breaking through to the fifth rank could he step into the Taixuan Academy with a stronger posture.

Inside the room.

Spear shadows were dense and overlapping.

The Ink-Marked Spear was as agile as a living creature in Qin Yan's hands.

At times, it was like a golden rainbow piercing the sun, sharp and peerless; at times, it was like a babbling stream, seeping into every crevice; at times, it was like a raging wildfire, violent and overbearing.

Wisp-like nascent forms of spear intent flowed within the Spear Techniques.

The spear path profundity, at seven ten-thousandths, allowed his comprehension of the spear to progress every day.

Every thrust of the spear felt as if countless insights surged into his heart.

Every skill point gained from daily training was unhesitatingly invested into adding points to the 'Five Elements Primordial Scripture'.

On the panel, the progress of the 'Five Elements Primordial Scripture' was slowly inching upward at a visible speed.

Thus, time quietly arrived at the night of September 4th.

Qin Yan sat cross-legged on the bed, slowly exhaling a mouthful of turbid air.

He had just invested all the Skill Points gained from today's training into the 'Five Elements Primordial Scripture'.

Immediately, Qin Yan's comprehension of this technique rapidly increased.

In his mind, a strange scene slowly emerged—the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth each occupied a position, like five brilliant stars, slowly rotating in the void of his consciousness.

The golden Great White Sharp Metal Qi was as sharp as a sword;

The cyan Yi Wood Everlasting Qi was vibrant and full of life;

The blue Xuanming True Water was gentle and profound;

The red Nanming Li Fire was scorching and violent;

The yellow Thick Earth Kun Yuan Qi was heavy and steady.

Five attributes, five completely different auras, were now clearly presented in his mind.

At this moment, two attributes slowly began to merge.

It was the blue and the red—the Xuanming True Water and the Nanming Li Fire.

Water and fire are incompatible; this is a fundamental principle of heaven and earth.

But under the effect of the 'Five Elements Primordial Scripture', these natural adversaries slowly began to approach, intertwine, and merge.

It was as if some invisible force was mediating these two diametrically opposed powers, guiding them from opposition to unity.

This process was extremely difficult, like trying to blend fire into water, or pour water into flame.

But Qin Yan's will was as firm as iron, pushing this process forward bit by bit.

He could feel that the two attributes in his mind were undergoing some marvelous change, a change so profound and mysterious it was indescribable.

Finally—

Boom!

It felt as if something had been shattered.

The blue and red completely fused together, forming a brand new true qi.

That true qi displayed an interwoven blue-red color, like burning ice or congealed flame.

Its aura was difficult to describe in words.

This was the fusion of two attributes!

The explosive power it unleashed was also far more formidable than that of a single attribute.

Qin Yan could feel that this fused true qi was at least twice as strong as pure Xuanming True Water or Nanming Li Fire.

It was a qualitative change!

He slowly opened his eyes, turned his palm, and that blue-red interwoven true qi appeared floating in his palm.

It hovered quietly, sometimes leaning blue, sometimes leaning red, shifting unpredictably, breathtakingly beautiful yet palpably dangerous.

Looking at this true qi in his palm, a slow smile appeared at the corner of Qin Yan's mouth.

"With this water-fire fusion true qi I now possess, even without using the perfected Gold Splitting Spear, I am confident I can defeat the guardian of the 44th-floor secret realm head-on!"

It must be remembered that the guardian of the 44th-floor secret realm was a mid fifth-rank powerhouse who cultivated a Profound-level technique and had a blood qi as high as 77,000 Ka!

At that time, his own base blood qi was only 56,000 Ka.

Previously, he had exhausted all his strength, utilizing Blood Gang, the Destructions End Spear Qi, and the perfected Gold Splitting Spear, to barely defeat the guardian of the 44th floor.

But now, feeling the terrifying power of this fusion true qi in his palm, a powerful confidence surged within him.

The amplification effects brought by the fusion of different elemental true qi also varied.

Metal and fire fusion added explosive power to sharpness, doubling destructive force.

Wood and earth fusion turned vitality into solidity, combining defense and endurance.

And the first path he chose was water and fire fusion—the ultimate softness and the ultimate ferocity merging, possessing both water's ability to seep everywhere and fire's power to incinerate all things.

This was a bizarre and overbearing combination, making it impossible to guard against.

"The power of my fused true qi should be comparable to the true qi cultivated by martial artists practicing 'Earth Fiend·Top-tier' techniques, right?"

Qin Yan secretly compared in his heart.

Previously, relying solely on his Xuanming True Water qi, during his spar with Xiao Wangshu's true qi, he was subtly suppressed by her Great Yin Bright Moon true qi.

He thus deduced that the technique Xiao Wangshu practiced was top-tier.

But whether her technique was an Earth Fiend-level top-tier or a Heaven Gang-level top-tier, Qin Yan did not know.

"I wonder if my current water-fire fusion true qi can match her Great Yin Bright Moon true qi?"

This thought flashed through Qin Yan's mind but was quickly suppressed.

Now was not the time to think about this.

"Since the technique has made a breakthrough, it's time to proceed with breaking through to the fifth rank."

Qin Yan took a deep breath and focused his mind.

He took out five small, exquisite jade vials from his storage ring.

Metal, wood, water, fire, earth—one fifth-rank Spirit Pill of each.

These five spirit pills were stock he had previously exchanged with military merit points, prepared precisely for breaking through to the fifth rank.

Without the slightest hesitation, Qin Yan sent all five differently colored, richly fragrant pills into his mouth!

"Gulp."

The pills entered his stomach.

The next moment—

"BOOM—!!!"

The medicinal potency of fifth-rank Spirit Pills was countless times stronger than that of fourth-rank pills!

Five torrential streams of medicinal power, like five raging dragons, rampaged through his body. Wherever they passed, his meridians bulged, his blood qi churned, and an unprecedented feeling of fullness instantly swept through his entire body.

Qin Yan's five-element meridians were instantly on the verge of being overwhelmed!

The feeling was like a riverbed originally only capable of holding a stream suddenly being flooded with a torrential river.

The meridian walls were stretched nearly transparent, faintly revealing the surging glow of medicinal power within. Every inch of his meridians seemed to groan under the unbearable strain.

"For me—rotate!"

Qin Yan gritted his teeth and let out a low shout.

(Finally finished paying New Year visits.

No need to rush writing frantically anymore.)