"This fragment of the Hong Meng paper can actually borrow the power of divine fire."
Bai Shengyi was momentarily surprised. Her gaze shifted, and she reached out again towards the本体 of the divine fire.
The white shadow immediately flew over again. Just as it was about to be caught, the hand that had reached out horizontally feigned a strike. With a flip of her wrist, she opened her fingers and mercilessly pinched upwards!
She managed to trap the thin paper between her index and middle fingers.
This fragment had clearly never experienced the perils of the human world.
Bai Shengyi saw that it was completely stunned.
"Trying to snatch me?"
Bai Shengyi snorted. With her other hand, she flicked her finger, making a "pupu" sound.
"Swish!"
There was no wind; the fragment was shaking vigorously, trying its best to struggle free from Bai Shengyi's grasp.
"Be quiet!" Bai Shengyi threatened in a calm tone, "If you keep fussing, I'll use my Nine Revolutions Reincarnation Brush to draw turtles all over you!"
Hong Meng paper fragment: !
Hong Meng paper itself: ...
Other brushes might not be able to do it, but the Nine Revolutions Reincarnation Brush certainly could. The fragment immediately wilted.
"That's better." Bai Shengyi smiled and took out the other part of the Hong Meng paper.
The moment the two parts of the Hong Meng paper met, without any action from her, they automatically flew together and merged. Countless spiritual lights flew out from the magma's orange-red and bright yellow flames, enveloping them tightly.
Soon, a more complete sheet of Hong Meng paper landed before Bai Shengyi, as pristine as new, as sacred as snow, and purely dazzling.
Bai Shengyi reached out, and the Hong Meng paper settled into her palm, emitting a soft glow.
However, this gentleness lasted only a moment before a corner of the paper curled up, as if expressing its displeasure.
That curled corner was exactly where the fragment had been reattached.
"Little thing." Bai Shengyi lightly chuckled and pressed down the curling corner.
"Master, have we repaired about sixty percent of the Hong Meng paper?" Qing Meng Teng asked, tilting its vine-like head to estimate.
Bai Shengyi nodded. "Yes. Let's go get the divine fire."
Without the guardian fire spirit or the protection of Hong Meng paper fragments, the本体 of the divine fire was like a decorative vase with the power to instantly kill Nascent Soul cultivators. Bai Shengyi easily took it into her hand.
"Pfft!"
The moment the irregular flame landed on her fair finger, it instantly transformed into a tranquil, emerald-green lotus.
The green flame petals slowly unfurled, radiating vitality, beautiful and graceful, dreamlike and illusory.
"Sui Xing Divine Fire."
Bai Shengyi whispered. Even before she did anything, a petal of flame coiled around her fingertip.
Her fingertip immediately felt a subtle pain. Following that, she sensed a contractual relationship forming between herself and the Sui Xing Divine Fire. A gentle, surging power enveloped her dantian, and within moments, her internal injuries were mostly healed.
Bai Shengyi was amazed.
"It truly is my fire." She smiled happily and walked out from the magma.
Outside, the battle between Hong Yao and Zhao Xiaocao had also reached its conclusion.
In the end, Zhao Xiaocao's malice prevailed. He deliberately brought up childhood memories with Hong Yao. While Hong Yao was distracted, he directly crippled her dantian.
"Yaoyao, it's your fault for being too greedy. I originally wanted to marry you as my wife."
Zhao Xiaocao said this as he looked at Hong Yao's corpse, only to hear the sound of applause from the side.
"Bai, Shen, Nu." Zhao Xiaocao spun around abruptly and said angrily, "You did that on purpose, didn't you?"
He didn't need Bai Shengyi's answer. He immediately channeled all his guilt and unease about killing his childhood sweetheart into accusations against Bai Shengyi.
Yes, if it weren't for Bai Shengyi, how would he and Hong Yao have been chosen by the fire spirit simultaneously, only to turn against each other?
Yes, it was all Bai Shengyi's fault!
It was all her fault!
"It's all your fault! If it weren't for you, how would Hong Yao have died?" Zhao Xiaocao's eyes bloodshot, he glared fiercely at Bai Shengyi.
Bai Shengyi curled her lips, took a step forward, and raised her hand.
"Slap!"
A single slap sent Zhao Xiaocao flying backward, crashing against the rock wall with a bang!
"Are you awake now?" Bai Shengyi asked.
Zhao Xiaocao mumbled, unable to utter a word.
Bai Shengyi didn't expect him to answer anyway.
From her perspective, neither he nor Hong Yao were good people.
Oh no, it should be said that cultivators were generally not good people.
But if one forcefully blamed their own mistakes on others, they were truly despicable.
Bai Shengyi smiled. "I think you've woken up."
"Hmph! Don't get cocky. Once I completely fuse with the fire spirit, I'll leave you here... here..."
Zhao Xiaocao stared in shock as the fire spirit flew out of his body, his voice stuttering in disbelief.
He hurriedly tried to use the master-servant contract to control the fire spirit, but the contract seemed to have failed, rendering him useless.
"How could this happen?"
Zhao Xiaocao watched helplessly as the fire spirit flew towards Bai Shengyi, even rolling playfully in her palm, his face utterly numb.
"Crack!"
His contract with the fire spirit also completely severed.
Before he could react, a column of heat surged from the churning magma, and the orange-yellow lava poured directly onto Zhao Xiaocao!
"Ah!"
A piercing scream echoed from the bottom of the cavern.
At the cave entrance, Yao Er looked suspiciously at the bruised and battered Ning Changchao. "Are you lying to us?"
The other two men and three women also scrutinized Ning Changchao.
"Didn't you hear Zhao Xiaocao's scream?" Ning Changchao asked with a dark expression.
Yao Er: "What good does hearing it do? What if you and Zhao Xiaocao agreed to deal with us together?"
Yao Er rolled his eyes impatiently. "Do you really think our relationship is good enough to split treasures?"
Ning Changchao had found them, saying that there were traces of divine fire and many Heavenly Fire Lotuses here, but they had been snatched by Bai Shennu, Zhao Xiaocao, and Hong Yao. The remaining few of them could unite and snatch them back together.
Yao Er was skeptical.
As he said, his relationship with Ning Changchao wasn't good.
As for the remaining few...
Yao Er scoffed. Their schemes were more numerous than a sieve.
Ning Changchao frowned impatiently. "Then do as you please! If it weren't for dealing with that surname Bai, I wouldn't have told you about such a good place."
He was determined to get his revenge this time!
Mentioning Bai Shengyi, Yao Er's expression also changed slightly, his smile vanishing. "Fine, I'll believe you this once."
He followed Ning Changchao inside.
The remaining few exchanged glances and followed suit.
As soon as the group entered the cavern, they heard faint footsteps from within.
"Who?"
Everyone became vigilant.
Ning Changchao even drew his sword, a sudden bad feeling creeping into his heart.
The next second, that bad feeling became a reality.
A familiar figure casually walked out from around a corner. A hint of surprise flickered across her indifferent face, and her gaze then fell on Ning Changchao.
"Well, well, you found your way back, did you?"
Her crimson lips parted slightly, but every word she spoke was like salt rubbed into Ning Changchao's bruised and battered face.