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(Third Person POV)
Xia Dongyi extended her hand and initiated amassing her spiritual energy in her hand.
Lightish blue energy started accumulating in her hand, and the moment the energy materialized, Elder Lin opened his eyes wide staring at the energy intently.
'What pure spiritual energy...so this was what Sect Master was talking about? Huh...it's hard to believe that she is only in Foundation Realm right now...' Elder Lin thought of seeing the purity of the Spiritual energy of Xia Dongyi.
Xia Dongyi ignored everything around her and focused completely on the gathering and feeling that she reached her limit she stopped even before Elder Lin could tell her.
Elder Lin nodded seeing that Xia Dongyi knows her limits and doesn't get overboard.
'Huh... well looks like she is not like other disciples in the alchemy sect...especially my current disciple...that fool blew his hand completely...' Elder Lin thought remembering about his disciple.
Xia Dongyi looked at the spiritual energy in her hands and mentally controlled it to compress it.
'Urghh it is difficult to compress this spiritual energy...dang it....' Xia Dongyi thought-feeling her mental energy leaving her just to compress her spiritual energy.
"Don't be hasty, do it calmly we have all the time we need." Elder Lin instructed seeing Xia Dongyi trying hard and becoming hasty.
Xia Dongyi nodded and closed her eyes for a moment.
'Right... it is not like my last life, I could take the things a little slower and explore everything that the world had to offer...This world is not boring and you are not alone..' Xia Dongyi thought calming herself.
Xia Dongyi nodded towards Elder Lin and closed her eyes again, starting to compress the spiritual energy but calmly this time.
'Why is Senior Sister in so much hurry... she should start to take the things slowly..and have fun with me..' Yang Ruiya thought, thinking about the future where she will travel with Xia Dongyi...but will it be true? She never thought of the answer...as she never consider it as a question as she never doubted that.
Xia Dongyi calmly controlled her spiritual energy and let it contract and making it compressed.
After 10 minutes, the energy started showing signs of getting compressed but it was super slow and during the whole process, neither Elder Lin nor Yang Ruiya said anything.
They both know how hard it is to compress the energy especially Elder Lin who saw the purity of Xia Dongyi's spiritual power, which is even purer than his.
'It is difficult at first but once you get the whole focus, you could do it rather easily...but I am starting to feel myself getting mentally tired...I need to do a little hurry before I collapse..' Xia Dongyi thought-feeling herself getting mentally tired.
Xia Dongyi started to quickly compress the energy which was easily sensed by Elder Lin who ignored it.
'I guess it is making her mentally tired way too quickly..' Elder Lin thought.
Xia Dongyi opened her eyes and looked at the spiritual energy in her hands and narrowed her eyes increasing her focus even more.
In 10 minutes, she compressed her spiritual energy but her forehead was covered in sweat and her eyes also showed a little redness in them.
Elder Lin seeing that nodded his head, 'She has the true determination to become strong..and walk on the path of cultivation...true cultivation...' and thought.
"Could you pull the next step, Junior Xia?" Elder Lin asked in a questioning tone.
Yang Ruiya looked at Elder Lin with a surprised look.
"But Elder Lin! Did you not see her condition?! She is in no way too so anything?!" Yang Ruiya screamed and stood up walking towards Xia Dongyi but stopped in her path hearing a hoarse voice.
"...Don't come near me for now...Ruiya Please..." Xia Dongyi said while trying to keep her voice as affectionate as she could.
Yang Ruiya opened her eyes wide in surprise hearing those words, she could sense how hard Xia Dongyi should have tried just to say those words hearing her voice.
"But Why?" Yang Ruiya asked in a pleading tone but only to get ignored as Xia Dongyi returned her focus on her compressed Spiritual Energy ignoring everything.
Yang Ruiya stood there with a blank expression on her face seeing Xia Dongyi acting like this.
Elder Lin shook his head, 'Really...'
'Why is Senior Sister ignoring me...did I do something wrong?' Yang Ruiya thought looking for an answer desperately.
Xia Dongyi imagined the fire, to change her spiritual energy into the fire.
'Fire...Fire is the base of everything that is created...Earth has fire...Life has fire...Death has fire...everything has it....but from different perspectives...but what is my fire?....is it the fire of destruction or fire of life?...' Suddenly, the words that she read from the book appeared in her mind while she was lost in thinking about the meaning of fire.
'No...my fire is the fire of devouring, the fire which will neither destroy nor create but will devour everything in its path...even the fire itself...I am Devourer...' Xia Dongyi fell into a completely different state, understanding what her fire is.
Meanwhile, Elder Lin frowned as he saw the spiritual energy in Xia Dongyi's turning black and returning normal again.
'Weird...what is that? I wasn't informed of anything about this...' Elder Lin contemplated with a frown on his face.
Yang Ruiya remained standing where she was before showing the blank expression on her face. As they say, Yin and Yang are inseparable.
Xia Dongyi suddenly came out of her thoughts, 'That was weird....so was that what they called...The state of Enlightenment...but it was dangerous...way too much, I gained many insights on Devouring but I was about to lose control of my spiritual energy and it was going to be of devouring attribute...' Xia Dongyi thought, remembering her experience.
What Xia Dongyi experienced is called Enlightenment, something that every cultivator desire to experience even once in their life. Enlightenment could be gained through cultivating, in life-death battle, or going to the outside world to experience it. Enlightenment is often needed to master techniques or advance to higher stages of cultivation.
Xia Dongyi shook her head mentally, 'Now is not the time to think of this type of things, I will check the result of Enlightenment later, now I need to focus on creating the fire...and I think the Enlightenment helped me return all of my mental energy... ' and came out of her thoughts and focused on the spiritual energy in her hand which is now stability staying the same.
Xia Dongyi then thought of the fire, the one same as the one that Yang Ruiya made before, and slowly but surely, the spiritual energy started to change into the spiritual fire.
Elder Lin looked at that happening with a shocked expression on his face.
'I guess she quickly adapted to that...that's why she is favored by the Sect Master so much...' Elder Lin thought.
Xia Dongyi opened her eyes and looked at the fire in her hands, which is still a little unstable but still alright.
'Controlling it is a little easy now...but I still have to practice more on this...' Xia Dongyi contemplated seeing the fire still a little unstable.
"Good, you learned it pretty quickly and even controlled it like this." Elder Lin praised Xia Dongyi.
Hearing Elder Lin, both Xia Dongyi and Yang Ruiya came out of their thoughts with the latter looking at the former intently.
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