Chapter 29: Heavenly Burning Refining Qi Tower
Time passed by minute by minute.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, the sound of an ancient bell rang loudly in the area. As the bell rang, the noisy open space, which was as noisy as a vegetable market, suddenly became quiet.
"Open the tower!"
The bell rang, and an old voice came from the tower. The dark door that was originally tightly closed was slowly opened with a "creaking" sound. Even though it was far away, Xiao Yun could feel a hot breath coming out of the tower, and even the temperature around him rose a little.
Xiao Yun stood on the tree branch and waited for two or three minutes. When he saw that the crowd was no longer so crowded, he flashed down from above and followed the crowd into the black tower.
Standing at the door of the black tower, the fiery red fighting spirit surged out of his body, surging and wrapping Xiao Yun's entire body. After fully arming himself with fighting spirit, Xiao Yun took a step and stepped into the tower door.
Just as his feet stepped onto the ground inside the tower, his originally normal face instantly became like a burning charcoal, and a faint white mist also permeated from his body.
"Is this Meteoric Heart Flame so strong? A mere spark of fire can break through my fighting spirit defense." Xiao Yun stood still, his mind sinking into his body, looking at the strange flame that suddenly appeared in his body.
This flame was invisible, and the high temperature emanating from it began to burn Xiao Yun's meridians, bones, muscles, etc., and his organs began to feel a little tingling.
Xiao Yun knew that if he let the flame continue to burn, his meridians would soon lose their function, and his meridians would be useless, and he would no longer be able to circulate fighting spirit, just like a useless person.
With a thought, the cyclone in the lower abdomen instantly gushed out a large amount of fiery red fighting spirit, and then, the purple crystal lion fire also gushed out from the soul-gathering space. With Xiao Yun's mental command, the fighting spirit wrapped around the purple fire, passed through countless meridians, and went towards the invisible flame with great momentum.
Although this was the fourteenth-ranked Meteoric Heart Flame, it was only a tiny fire after all. With the help of Xiao Yun's fighting spirit, the purple crystal lion fire rushed up and quickly devoured the invisible flame.
"Isn't this fire too little? It feels like there is no change after swallowing it."
Xiao Yun carefully felt the changes of the purple crystal lion fire, but found that except for the color becoming lighter, there was no improvement. Even if the temperature was raised a little bit, it would be fine!
In the softly lit ancient tower, a large group of people surrounded Xiao Yun, who closed his eyes tightly, and a low laugh came from time to time.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way, Elder Liu is here!"
Xiao Yun just regained his mind and heard a scolding voice. He opened his eyes and saw a large group of people surrounding him. In the middle, the crowd made way for a small path, and an old man in simple clothes walked slowly over.
"It's you, little guy. You just came to the Heavenly Fen Refining Qi Tower after entering the inner courtyard. You are really anxious." The old man was Elder Liu from the Fire Energy Hunting Competition yesterday. Xiao Yun's outstanding performance in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition made him remember the face of this evildoer.
"Hello, Elder Liu. I am a little anxious and I have disturbed you." Xiao Yun bowed and saluted.
"It's just my duty. Besides, you didn't need me to help you. You just broke through the tempering of the heart fire by yourself. It really opened my eyes." Elder Liu said with a smile. Suddenly, his face changed. He looked around and shouted in a deep voice: "Why, you guys are not going to practice? Do you want me to invite you?"
Hearing Elder Liu's scolding, the students around shook their heads and quickly flashed around the ancient tower, worried that they would be recorded in Elder Liu's little notebook if they were not slow.
"These bastards just like to watch the excitement. If they are not fierce, they will ignore you." After sending away the people around, Elder Liu smiled at Xiao Yun again.
"..." Looking at the old man in front of him who was changing his face like a book, Xiao Yun didn't know how to start for a while, so he had to remain silent. The atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.
"Since this is your first time to come to the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower, I will introduce you here, so you don't have to ask people everywhere." As if he noticed the difference in the atmosphere, Elder Liu quickly changed the topic and began to lead Xiao Yun to visit the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower.
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Xiao Yun was somewhat shocked by the size of the ancient tower. As he walked with Elder Liu, he was surprised to find that the first floor of the tower alone could accommodate 500 people for simultaneous practice.
In the circular tower, there were practice rooms of different sizes. Above the doors of these rooms, there were some small red signs with three levels of words written on them: high-level, medium-level, and low-level.
"In this Tianfen Refining Qi Tower, the right to use these practice rooms is generally fought for by the students' strength. If you are strong, you can have better practice conditions. If you are weak, you can only practice in the outermost low-level practice rooms." Elder Liu smiled, pointing to the small red signs on these practice rooms.
"To practice in the same level of the tower, no matter the level of the training room is high or low, the fee required is the same, so this is why they are fighting for it."
"In the Tianfen Refining Tower, as long as you have enough fire energy, you can practice for as long as you want. However, because of the fire poison, generally no one can do it. Most people practice here for a week and then go out."
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Unknowingly, they had walked around the ancient tower and returned to the dark gate. Elder Liu stopped and said with a smile:
"Okay, this is probably the situation here. Which level do you want to practice now?"
"I'm a new student here. Does the elder have any recommendations?" Seeing that Elder Liu was so easy to talk to, Xiao Yun bowed, hoping that he could open a back door for him.
"Well, with your strength as a seven-star master fighter, it would be best if you could go to the second or third level, but now you can only practice on the first level."
Seeing the doubt on Xiao Yun's face, Elder Liu changed his smile and said seriously, "According to the rules of the inner courtyard, new students must practice on the first level for a full week before they can enter the next few levels. Because of the burning heart fire, no matter how strong you are, you will always be contaminated with a trace of fire poison in the fighting spirit."
"This thing is not a joke. Over the years in the inner courtyard, there are not a few people who have suffered irreparable damage to their cultivation due to the accumulation of fire poison."
"Secondly, although the burning of the heart fire can speed up cultivation, it also takes time to adapt. With each level, the heat of the heart fire will increase exponentially. If you go down rashly, you will end up in the scene you saw at the door just now."
After hearing Elder Liu's loud words, Xiao Yun suddenly felt dizzy. He didn't want to make things difficult for Elder Liu, so he shook his head helplessly and said, "Okay, then I will practice on the first level for seven days first."
"Well, not bad. In that case, follow me." Elder Liu led Xiao Yun into the ancient tower and soon came to a medium-sized practice room.
"This is where I usually sit in meditation. Although it is an intermediate training room, the effect is no worse than that of an advanced training room. Now there are no extra advanced training rooms for you to use, so you can practice here first." Elder Liu patted Xiao Yun on the shoulder and said with a smile.
"Here, your training room is for me to use. Where are you going, Elder?" Xiao Yun didn't expect Elder Liu to be so polite and actually took out the place where he usually stayed.
"Hahaha, your teacher, Old Man Huo and I are good friends. This little thing doesn't matter. Besides, I am already a fighting king. The effect of the heart fire here has no effect on me. It will be the same wherever I go."
"Thank you very much, Elder." Xiao Yun bowed and saluted. He didn't expect that his teacher had such a wide network of contacts that he could benefit from it in the Tianfen Refining Qi Tower.
"Well, all right, go in and practice, don't waste time." Elder Liu smiled and waved.
Xiao Yun nodded, turned and entered the practice room, and closed the door.
Looking at the closed door, Elder Liu couldn't help but shook his head and whispered: "You are so talented, and your character is so humble and polite. I really envy Old Man Huo for accepting such a good disciple..."