Opening the door to the cultivation room, Chen Xiao raised his head without any guard, his gaze directly meeting a pair of eyes that held an indescribable suspicion.
She walked closer, sizing Chen Xiao up and down, and finally extended her small hand to poke him a few times.
"Why were you inside for so long? And your body is so cold, like a block of ice."
"I was immersed in cultivation and forgot the time for a while. Let's talk outside."
Chen Xiao glanced at the few senior students watching from a distance and said.
Even though they were in the scorching hot Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, when he opened his mouth, he could exhale streams of cold mist, which surprised Zi Yan.
Zi Yan also didn't like staying in the tower. Hearing Chen Xiao's words, she immediately nodded and went up to the upper levels with him.
However, the few senior students who were waiting to watch the show from a distance today were greatly disappointed.
What a pity, they didn't fight.
Having such a thought could only mean that their understanding of Zi Yan was too superficial.
Indeed, Zi Yan was a little angry at first, but after arriving at the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, she only needed to think for a moment while waiting to guess that Chen Xiao must have been busy with something important.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have specifically changed to a Red Fire Crystal Card that was usually not very useful a few days ago.
Knowing this, Zi Yan's little emotions vanished.
She was lively, but she knew what was important, parentheses, only for people she recognized.
Outside the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower.
The warm sunlight fell on him, and feeling his body temperature gradually returning to normal, Chen Xiao smiled with satisfaction.
Thanks to the help of the Fallen Heart Flame, the time it took him to refine the Heavenly Cold Qi was greatly accelerated.
But even so, it still took a full eight days to completely succeed.
With the protection of Dou Qi, although his body wouldn't be frozen in eight days, recalling the feeling of being completely stiff and unable to move for a long time after the refinement ended was also not pleasant.
"What were you doing these past few days? I thought you were breaking through to Dou Wang earlier, but looking at your strength, you haven't improved much."
Having held it in all the way, now that there were no other people around, Zi Yan asked curiously again.
Chen Xiao smiled slightly and didn't hide anything.
"I enhanced the power of my Dou Qi. Let me show you something fun."
Saying that, Chen Xiao took out a fire starter from his Storage Ring, blew it alight, and handed it to Zi Yan.
Immediately, his internal Dou Qi circulated and attached itself to the surface of his body.
In an instant, the fire starter in Zi Yan's hand, without any external force affecting it, automatically extinguished with a 'puff'.
Seeing this, Zi Yan's mouth slightly opened in surprise.
She carefully examined the fire starter in her hand and tried to light it again, but as long as Chen Xiao's body surface Dou Qi wasn't retracted, no matter how dizzy she blew, she couldn't make it burn.
"You were messing with this these past few days? The color of your Dou Qi seems a bit deeper."
As Zi Yan said, after refining the Heavenly Cold Qi, the most direct change for Chen Xiao was the color of his Dou Qi.
Before, his Dou Qi was a pure ice blue, but now it subtly leaned towards azure blue.
In addition, the power of his ice-attribute Dou Qi, in Chen Xiao's perception, had also increased several times.
However, this change wouldn't be particularly obvious to others unless he was fighting someone.
"Not only is the color deeper, but the power is also greater."
"Like what?"
"Let's put it this way, if there was a fire-attribute enemy a few days ago who could match me, now I can press him down and beat him up."
The increase in Dou Qi power had more benefits than just this.
Now, if Chen Xiao faced opponents who possessed Heavenly Flames, he would definitely not be as completely suppressed as ordinary ice-attribute users.
If the opponent's Heavenly Flame was ranked lower, Chen Xiao could even gain an advantage.
Of course, there was no need to explain so much to Zi Yan. Giving a simple and easy-to-understand example was enough for her to understand.
"Then the improvement is indeed significant."
Chatting all the way to the New Student Accommodation Area, only Fu Tong was left in the pavilion.
Chen Xiao greeted her, returned to his room to wash up, and changed into a black robe that he only wore in the Black-Corner Region before preparing to leave.
When he came downstairs, Chen Xiao saw that Zi Yan had also taken this time to change into a black leather skirt.
Honestly, after getting used to Zi Yan's all-white appearance, seeing her change to a different color was quite novel.
Withdrawing his gaze, Chen Xiao looked at Fu Tong.
"Cao Hui and the others don't know when they'll be back, so I won't greet them. If they ask about me, just tell them."
Fu Tong nodded. Just as Chen Xiao was about to leave with Zi Yan, she opened her mouth and called out to him.
"Chen Xiao."
Chen Xiao turned his head and gave a questioning look.
Anything else?
Fu Tong hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Last time I heard you talking about Central State, I wanted to ask, is the Cao Family very powerful? I don't mean anything else, you know, my friend's health..."
Hearing this, Chen Xiao immediately understood.
"As for pills that simply extend lifespan, that Pill Emperor in the Black-Corner Region has the ability to refine them. It's just that this person is too dangerous, you don't need to consider him. And as for the Cao Family, there are many people who are more powerful than this Pill Emperor."
"I understand, thank you!"
Fu Tong nodded, as if she had made some decision.
Chen Xiao had no interest in digging for details. He waved his hand slightly and turned to leave with Zi Yan.
"Do you want to say goodbye to the Grand Elder?"
"No, I already said goodbye a few days ago. I just want to get to the Black-Corner Region as soon as possible. I heard the people there are very dangerous, it sounds interesting."
"It is indeed dangerous. There were several times when I was targeted by seven or eight groups of people in one day. I narrowly escaped death, almost to the point where you wouldn't see me anymore."
"Really? Did you manage to escape later?"
"?"
The sound of their conversation grew softer and softer until it could no longer be heard.
...
When he was training alone in the Black-Corner Region, Chen Xiao felt like a silent lone wolf, coming and going in the wind and rain, barely speaking a few words a day, sometimes even going several days without saying a word.
But after bringing Zi Yan along, Chen Xiao felt like a rich idler walking a bird.
This little dragon person chirped all day long, as if she had endless things to say, making the number of words Chen Xiao spoke in a day now probably equal to the total he spoke in a month when he was training alone!
Moreover, because this girl had just left the academy, she found everything new and interesting. If she was provoked by someone who didn't know any better, others might get angry, but Zi Yan found it incredibly amusing.
This meant that most of the time, Chen Xiao didn't need to act. Zi Yan would volunteer to take on the trouble, looking exactly like a thug.
In the first month of training together in the Black-Corner Region, Zi Yan would occasionally show mercy, requiring Chen Xiao to finish the job.
But as she became more accustomed to the ways of survival in the Black-Corner Region, this little dragon person's attacks became so fast, accurate, and ruthless that even Chen Xiao couldn't help but exclaim.
At the same time, he also sighed, thinking that the Grand Elder's worries were unnecessary. When Zi Yan entered the Black-Corner Region, the ones who should be worried were not her, but the small fry in the Black-Corner Region
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