Chapter 73: How About Being Friends
"What do you want?"
Xiao Ming looked at the girl in white in front of him with some helplessness, after leaving the center of the tower a moment ago, he originally thought that Zi Yan would let him go, but he didn't expect her to directly grab his arm, without any intention of letting him go.
With Zi Yan's physical strength, even if Xiao Ming's Rise of Twin Spirits had tempered his physical body to the point where it was comparable to that of a third-rank magical beast, it still wasn't enough.
So Xiao Ming had no choice but to ask her about her intentions.
"You said that you are not a magical beast, so how come your body strength is so strong? Do you have something that hides your aura and you were lying to me just now?" asked Zi Yan with dissatisfaction as her eyes locked onto Xiao Ming.
When she pulled Xiao Ming just now, it was naturally impossible for her not to notice how strongly he was resisting.
She realized that although Xiao Ming's physical strength was nowhere near her own, he was already stronger than many third-rank magical beasts with a weaker body, how could a human's body be so strong at such a young age?
'Hm hm hm, do you want to trick me? No way, I will take you as my younger brother today'.
Zi Yan thought inwardly with a sense of satisfaction.
Xiao Ming looked at Zi Yan, who was smiling smugly in front of him, as if his lies had already been exposed by her, and did not know what to say.
Wasn't it easier to directly use the Ten Thousand Beast Flame to prove it?
It was, however, there would be a mutual reaction between the Heavenly Flames, and it seemed a bit wrong to wake up the Fallen Heart Flame when he had just done it a moment ago.
In the end, Xiao Ming could only sigh and said helplessly, "Even if you're right and I’m a magical beast, there's no way I could be your younger brother."
Hmm?
In Zi Yan's eyes, Xiao Ming was just a child younger than her, and at this moment, she saw that he was acting as if an adult didn't know what to do with a child.
She, who had already put herself in the position of an elder sister from the beginning, felt that her majesty was being challenged.
So, she put on her most serious look and said.
"Well, you finally admit that you are a magical beast, and the one with the biggest fist in the world of magical beasts is the eldest. Hmph, if you don't listen to me, I will eat you!"
At this moment, Zi Yan looked very serious, as if she was really going to eat Xiao Ming, but seeing her small body, Xiao Ming wanted to laugh.
Luckily, he restrained himself in the end, and with a soft cough, Xiao Ming spoke.
"Actually, we can be friends, no need to get all elder sister and younger brother. How about this, each of us takes a step back, I know that magical beasts will eat medicinal herbs to increase their strength, but herbs are bitter and very tasteless, I can help you refine those herbs into delicious pills. In return, you protect me in the Inner Academy, is that okay with you?"
At this moment, Xiao Ming didn't explain further whether he was a human or a magical beast, as long as Zi Yan agreed, it wouldn't be long before she found out that he was human.
"This... Can you really refine herbs into delicious pills? You're not trying to trick me with my herbs and eat them yourself, are you?" Zi Yan was a bit skeptical, but Xiao Ming's proposal cheered her up.
She had long been fed up with the strange taste of those herbs, but in order to improve her strength and grow up quickly, she couldn't help but eat those things.
So this proposal Xiao Ming had put forward was too tempting for her.
After struggling for a while between having a younger brother or having the herbs become tasty pills, in the end, Zi Yan still favored having the herbs be tastier.
"Then do as you say, but if you don't know how to refine or if the pills you refine are not tasty, you will have to continue to be my younger brother."
Knowing how to refine pills basically meant being an alchemist, and yet Zi Yan did not seem to have given up her intention to take him as a younger brother, Xiao Ming did not know what Zi Yan was thinking.
But he still agreed to do it, although refining pills was an extremely tedious job, if one simply refined a medicinal herb into a pill form and added a few ingredients to make it tasty, it wouldn't take much effort.
Zi Yan finally left.
She said she would go get herbs and come back with Xiao Ming tomorrow to make a tasty pill.
Xiao Ming didn't know if she was going to get the herbs from the herb warehouse, or if she was going to find them herself in the deep forest.
But from her tone of voice, it was certain that she would definitely come to him tomorrow, Xiao Min thought that the first possibility has the highest probability.
He gave a second of silence to the elders who were taking care of the herb warehouse.
Then Xiao Ming put this matter behind him and walked around the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower again.
This time, Xiao Ming was not wandering blindly but wanted to find a room and test the effects of the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.
After going through the first level, Xiao Ming discovered that all the high-level cultivation rooms had been occupied.
Due to this situation, Xiao Ming casually encountered an unfortunate guy who occupied a high-level cultivation room, and after a friendly sparring session, Xiao Ming obtained the right to use his cultivation room.
Amidst the astonished looks of the spectators, Xiao Ming entered the room he had won.
When his feet landed on the ground, a faint cold air rose along his palms from the stone slab, causing a cooling sensation throughout Xiao Ming's body.
'Speaking of which, I hadn't realized just now, this Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower seems to be made of cold attribute materials, to be able to hold up for so long under the abrasion of Fallen Heart Flame's mature body, even with the maintenance of the Grand Formation, this material is very extraordinary.'
A thought quickly occurred to him as he ran his fingertips along the wall, feeling the coldness on his fingertips that was completely different from the hot, dry air.
With that, he closed the door he had opened upon entering, and Xiao Ming carefully inspected the surroundings of the cultivation room.
This cultivation room was for only one person to cultivate, and in the center of the room was a black stone platform that would only fit two people sitting on the ground, with the platform about five centimeters high above the ground.
'The black stone area in the center must be the cultivation area, and this protruding slot must be where the Fire Crystal Card needs to be inserted.'
Walking towards the black stone platform, Xiao Ming's palm carefully touched the black platform, a faint warmth came along his fingertips, and under this strange warmth, it seemed that the flow speed of Dou Qi in his body became a little more active.
Without wasting any time, Xiao Ming jumped up and sat cross-legged on the stone platform.
Feeling the heat growing more and more intense, Xiao Ming exhaled a long sigh and snapped his finger, a green-colored Fire Crystal Card appeared in his palm.
With a wave of his hand, a small click was heard and the green-colored Crystal Card was accurately inserted into the slot.
A faint light shot out from the slot, and with the appearance of the light, Xiao Ming clearly saw that the number on his green-colored Crystal Card was immediately reduced by one.
Obviously, this should have been a deduction from a day's cultivation, which was a Fire Energy.
Soon after the Fire Energy was deducted, Xiao Ming slowly closed his eyes and formed a cultivation seal with both hands, his body as still as an old monk in meditation.
In the silence and stillness of his mind, only the long, steady sound of his heartbeat slowly echoed.
After entering the cultivation state, Xiao Ming's sense of the energy of the surrounding heaven and earth became more and more sensitive, and he could feel the amazingly rich and fiery energy in this cultivation hall.
When cultivating in such a place, those who practiced Dou Techniques of fire attributes would undoubtedly achieve more remarkable results than others.
As his mind became quieter and quieter, a low and subtle sound suddenly rang out, and a seemingly invisible wisp of shapeless flame appeared without any warning not far from Xiao Ming's heart, with a faint wisp of heat slowly emanating, roasting the inside of Xiao Ming's body.
Xiao Ming stared at this flame, the current flame was undoubtedly more majestic than the one he had encountered at the entrance, so he thought that it was due to this high-level cultivation room.
This time, Xiao Ming did not let the Spirit out, the Spirit could not grow by devouring this kind of wisp flame, swallowing it would only be a waste of time.
Chapter 73: How About Being Friends
"What do you want?"
Xiao Ming looked at the girl in white in front of him with some helplessness, after leaving the center of the tower a moment ago, he originally thought that Zi Yan would let him go, but he didn't expect her to directly grab his arm, without any intention of letting him go.
With Zi Yan's physical strength, even if Xiao Ming's Rise of Twin Spirits had tempered his physical body to the point where it was comparable to that of a third-rank magical beast, it still wasn't enough.
So Xiao Ming had no choice but to ask her about her intentions.
"You said that you are not a magical beast, so how come your body strength is so strong? Do you have something that hides your aura and you were lying to me just now?" asked Zi Yan with dissatisfaction as her eyes locked onto Xiao Ming.
When she pulled Xiao Ming just now, it was naturally impossible for her not to notice how strongly he was resisting.
She realized that although Xiao Ming's physical strength was nowhere near her own, he was already stronger than many third-rank magical beasts with a weaker body, how could a human's body be so strong at such a young age?
'Hm hm hm, do you want to trick me? No way, I will take you as my younger brother today'.
Zi Yan thought inwardly with a sense of satisfaction.
Xiao Ming looked at Zi Yan, who was smiling smugly in front of him, as if his lies had already been exposed by her, and did not know what to say.
Wasn't it easier to directly use the Ten Thousand Beast Flame to prove it?
It was, however, there would be a mutual reaction between the Heavenly Flames, and it seemed a bit wrong to wake up the Fallen Heart Flame when he had just done it a moment ago.
In the end, Xiao Ming could only sigh and said helplessly, "Even if you're right and I’m a magical beast, there's no way I could be your younger brother."
Hmm?
In Zi Yan's eyes, Xiao Ming was just a child younger than her, and at this moment, she saw that he was acting as if an adult didn't know what to do with a child.
She, who had already put herself in the position of an elder sister from the beginning, felt that her majesty was being challenged.
So, she put on her most serious look and said.
"Well, you finally admit that you are a magical beast, and the one with the biggest fist in the world of magical beasts is the eldest. Hmph, if you don't listen to me, I will eat you!"
At this moment, Zi Yan looked very serious, as if she was really going to eat Xiao Ming, but seeing her small body, Xiao Ming wanted to laugh.
Luckily, he restrained himself in the end, and with a soft cough, Xiao Ming spoke.
"Actually, we can be friends, no need to get all elder sister and younger brother. How about this, each of us takes a step back, I know that magical beasts will eat medicinal herbs to increase their strength, but herbs are bitter and very tasteless, I can help you refine those herbs into delicious pills. In return, you protect me in the Inner Academy, is that okay with you?"
At this moment, Xiao Ming didn't explain further whether he was a human or a magical beast, as long as Zi Yan agreed, it wouldn't be long before she found out that he was human.
"This... Can you really refine herbs into delicious pills? You're not trying to trick me with my herbs and eat them yourself, are you?" Zi Yan was a bit skeptical, but Xiao Ming's proposal cheered her up.
She had long been fed up with the strange taste of those herbs, but in order to improve her strength and grow up quickly, she couldn't help but eat those things.
So this proposal Xiao Ming had put forward was too tempting for her.
After struggling for a while between having a younger brother or having the herbs become tasty pills, in the end, Zi Yan still favored having the herbs be tastier.
"Then do as you say, but if you don't know how to refine or if the pills you refine are not tasty, you will have to continue to be my younger brother."
Knowing how to refine pills basically meant being an alchemist, and yet Zi Yan did not seem to have given up her intention to take him as a younger brother, Xiao Ming did not know what Zi Yan was thinking.
But he still agreed to do it, although refining pills was an extremely tedious job, if one simply refined a medicinal herb into a pill form and added a few ingredients to make it tasty, it wouldn't take much effort.
Zi Yan finally left.
She said she would go get herbs and come back with Xiao Ming tomorrow to make a tasty pill.
Xiao Ming didn't know if she was going to get the herbs from the herb warehouse, or if she was going to find them herself in the deep forest.
But from her tone of voice, it was certain that she would definitely come to him tomorrow, Xiao Min thought that the first possibility has the highest probability.
He gave a second of silence to the elders who were taking care of the herb warehouse.
Then Xiao Ming put this matter behind him and walked around the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower again.
This time, Xiao Ming was not wandering blindly but wanted to find a room and test the effects of the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.
After going through the first level, Xiao Ming discovered that all the high-level cultivation rooms had been occupied.
Due to this situation, Xiao Ming casually encountered an unfortunate guy who occupied a high-level cultivation room, and after a friendly sparring session, Xiao Ming obtained the right to use his cultivation room.
Amidst the astonished looks of the spectators, Xiao Ming entered the room he had won.
When his feet landed on the ground, a faint cold air rose along his palms from the stone slab, causing a cooling sensation throughout Xiao Ming's body.
'Speaking of which, I hadn't realized just now, this Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower seems to be made of cold attribute materials, to be able to hold up for so long under the abrasion of Fallen Heart Flame's mature body, even with the maintenance of the Grand Formation, this material is very extraordinary.'
A thought quickly occurred to him as he ran his fingertips along the wall, feeling the coldness on his fingertips that was completely different from the hot, dry air.
With that, he closed the door he had opened upon entering, and Xiao Ming carefully inspected the surroundings of the cultivation room.
This cultivation room was for only one person to cultivate, and in the center of the room was a black stone platform that would only fit two people sitting on the ground, with the platform about five centimeters high above the ground.
'The black stone area in the center must be the cultivation area, and this protruding slot must be where the Fire Crystal Card needs to be inserted.'
Walking towards the black stone platform, Xiao Ming's palm carefully touched the black platform, a faint warmth came along his fingertips, and under this strange warmth, it seemed that the flow speed of Dou Qi in his body became a little more active.
Without wasting any time, Xiao Ming jumped up and sat cross-legged on the stone platform.
Feeling the heat growing more and more intense, Xiao Ming exhaled a long sigh and snapped his finger, a green-colored Fire Crystal Card appeared in his palm.
With a wave of his hand, a small click was heard and the green-colored Crystal Card was accurately inserted into the slot.
A faint light shot out from the slot, and with the appearance of the light, Xiao Ming clearly saw that the number on his green-colored Crystal Card was immediately reduced by one.
Obviously, this should have been a deduction from a day's cultivation, which was a Fire Energy.
Soon after the Fire Energy was deducted, Xiao Ming slowly closed his eyes and formed a cultivation seal with both hands, his body as still as an old monk in meditation.
In the silence and stillness of his mind, only the long, steady sound of his heartbeat slowly echoed.
After entering the cultivation state, Xiao Ming's sense of the energy of the surrounding heaven and earth became more and more sensitive, and he could feel the amazingly rich and fiery energy in this cultivation hall.
When cultivating in such a place, those who practiced Dou Techniques of fire attributes would undoubtedly achieve more remarkable results than others.
As his mind became quieter and quieter, a low and subtle sound suddenly rang out, and a seemingly invisible wisp of shapeless flame appeared without any warning not far from Xiao Ming's heart, with a faint wisp of heat slowly emanating, roasting the inside of Xiao Ming's body.
Xiao Ming stared at this flame, the current flame was undoubtedly more majestic than the one he had encountered at the entrance, so he thought that it was due to this high-level cultivation room.
This time, Xiao Ming did not let the Spirit out, the Spirit could not grow by devouring this kind of wisp flame, swallowing it would only be a waste of time.
