Swoosh!
The icy flames retaliated violently, once again trying to burn Ye Chen along with the room.
Li Mei and Zhen Yunqi were also surrounded by flames; however, the flames kept their distance from Li Mei, so they were both fine.
Seeing this, Li Mei was puzzled and looked at her master, who was thinking something.
"Master, what is the special physique you and your senior brother talking about?" she inquired with an innocent look.
All Ye Chen told her was that she shouldn't reveal her ice abilities unless it's life and death situation.
He didn't mention anything about the special physique she had, so she was puzzled when she heard them talking and saw how the flames were afraid of her.
'Why are you so oblivious?!' Zhen Yunqi thought with a deep sigh as she saw her naive disciple's innocent look.
Clearly, she didn't know how great her existence was now.
"Li Mei, your senior brother must have his reasons for not telling you about this, so just wait for him to answer; if you don't want to, then just go and seduce him until he spills the beans," she replied with a shrug.
"Master!" Li Mei couldn't help but exclaim with a red face and turned her head away with a pout.
'Why even master teasing me now?' she thought with a complain while keeping an eye on Ye Chen's state.
Watching her like this, Zhen Yunqi smiled and turned her gaze at Ye Chen, who was refining the flame with a calm look.
'Why doesn't he show any reaction, is he immune to pain?' She thought with a puzzled look.
Unlike Li Mei, she was able to feel the natural flame causing chaos inside his body and trying to harm him from inside.
However, Ye Chen's expression remained calm, as if the natural flame was nothing to him.
But of course, this was not the case, as Ye Chen did feel the burning sensation in his body; however, with the divine alchemy art, the flame failed to harm him greatly.
Moreover, there was also Li Mei's leftover yin Qi, which suppressed the damage, lessening his pain.
Because of this, he was able to remain calm and guided the flame towards his Dantian.
Refning a flame in Dantian wasn't something new, but it was the most dangerous way and also a quick one.
Once he led the natural flame in his Dantian, the flame would have only two choices: one was to self-explode and the other was to get refined by him.
Ye Chen's cultivation wasn't strong enough to withstand the explosion of earth-grade flame; however, the ice flame was in a weak state; that's why he was confident in refining it this way.
And even if he failed, there was nothing to lose except his cultivation, so he fearlessly drove the flame towards his Dantian.
The ice flame knew what he wanted to do, so it started to resist more firmly this time, spewing out the icy cold flames, which started burning everything more rapidly.
'What a good flame,' Ye Chen muttered in his heart as he felt his body getting colder, as if someone poured cold water on him to stop the fire.
However, it was opposite, as he could see his upper layer of skin showing the signs of burn.
Even his spiritual consciousness, which he was using to see, was burning slowly.
Nevertheless, he didn't flinch at this and focused on driving the flame to his Dantian.
"Senior brother," Li Mei muttered with a worried look as she saw his skin becoming bloody.
Zhen Yunqi knew what he was planning to do, so she was also worried, as she didn't know what kind of alchemy technique he has and how much it could help him.
However, their worries were useless because Ye Chen's divine alchemy art was overbearing and could protect him from the flame.
Not to mention this was a divine-grade technique that could refine divine flame; lest the earth-grade.
Because of this, Ye Chen was fearless and forced the ice flame into his Dantian.
Once the ice flame arrived inside, it tried to escape, hoping it could leave; however, it was futile, and soon some formations appeared, suppressing its power and movements.
The ice flame got angered at this and knew it had only two choices. Without hesitation, it decided to self-explode.
However, it was only threatening to explode as it feared its life.
Watching this, Ye Chen shook his head silently.
'Why struggle so much? It's not like I am killing you,' He thought in his heart and cycled the divine art of alchemy with all the spiritual Qi he had in the Dantian.
In that instant, the spiritual Qi inside gathered like waves, forming complicated golden symbols, before suppressing the flame entirely.
However, it didn't take too long, and the symbols started to shatter one by one as the ice flame retaliated.
If it kept going like this, then the flame would successfully break all the symbols, and with Ye Chen having no spiritual Qi for defence, it could turn him to ash.
Thinking of this, the flame became aggressive, destroying as many symbols as it could.
Ye Chen knew the flame wanted to kill him; however, he remained calm as there was enough time to completely refine the flame.
He didn't delay anymore and condensed a special golden mark inside ethe dantian with spiritual consciousness.
The ice flame couldn't help but tremble as it saw a golden mark appearing.
It finally felt the fear and understood that if it didn't self-explode, it would be refined.
Thinking of this, the flame finally decided to self-explode with all power and started to flare brightly with anger as it knew its life came to an end.
Shatter!
Like a glass, the symbols started breaking rapidly, and the suppression on the flame decreased as it reached the point of explosion.
But just as the flame was about to explode, the spiritual mark shot through with speed and imprinted itself on it with a bright golden illuminance.