Sister, I don't want to be a furnace anymore. I'm about to become an immortal.

Chapter 27: Water and Fire Do Not Mix

In the jungle at night, the moonlight shone through the gaps in the leaves, sprinkling mottled light on him. The monster slowly approached Xiao Yichen's body, sniffing him all over. After confirming that it was edible, it bit his neck directly. However, after a while, it found that Xiao Yichen's skin was like rubber and could not be torn apart at all. The monster did not believe it, and continued to bite different parts of his body, from head to toe, and finally set its sights between Xiao Yichen's legs and pounced on that position.

"Ah..." With a scream, Xiao Yichen was awakened from his coma, and saw that his fundamental position as a man was being bitten by a monster.

"Fuck..." He didn't care about the severe pain in his body, and white light condensed in his hand, and punched the monster's head.

After dealing with the other party, Xiao Yichen took off his pants nervously. After checking for a long time, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, that guy has a big mouth and didn't bite any vital parts, otherwise, Yunmei would have to be a widow for the rest of her life." He patted his chest, stood up while enduring the pain coming from all over his body, walked to the front of the monster that had already split into two parts, and stomped on its vitals to pieces.

He glanced at the monster's head on the ground and stepped on it again. However, when he stepped into the head, he felt something pricked him. He retracted his foot, endured the disgusting smell, and slowly squatted down to check. Under the moonlight, a diamond-shaped crystal appeared in his hand.

"What is this? Is it harder than the bones of this beast?" Xiao Yichen looked at the crystal in his hand, which was half the size of his palm. It had very regular diamond-shaped faces and an extremely smooth surface, just like carefully polished obsidian.

As if he had guessed what it was, Xiao Yichen's face lit up with joy. He mobilized the energy in his body and slowly covered the crystal. Under Xiao Yichen's excited gaze, the crystal slowly became smaller and smaller, while a stream of spiritual energy appeared in his body.

"No way, there really is such a thing as magic crystal, why haven't I seen anyone using it in the sect before?" In fact, this cannot be blamed on others. Although magic crystals are rare, they are not particularly valuable. It's just that Xiao Yichen had been living and practicing in the sect almost exclusively, and no one would use magic crystals to practice in public, so he naturally had never seen it. In addition, the cultivation level he showed was the middle stage of the mortal realm, and no one gave him magic crystals as a cultivation resource, so it was normal that he didn't know about the existence of magic crystals.

The magic crystal can only be used by cultivators at or above the Qi Refining stage. People below this level have no way to guide out the spiritual energy inside. But Xiao Yichen is an exception. Although there is no spiritual energy in his body, he has another kind of energy that can also absorb the spiritual energy from the magic crystal.

After the magic crystal was completely absorbed by him, his hands were empty. He felt the extra spiritual energy in his body, which was incompatible with the original energy. The two auras kept circling in his dantian, and the scene was extremely strange.

"Hiss... These two energies are incompatible. There won't be any problems, right?" Sensing the state of his body, Xiao Yichen frowned slightly. He tried it. The use of spiritual energy was similar to that of that energy. Both were driven by thoughts, but he couldn't mobilize that energy after using spiritual energy, and vice versa. In other words, he was just using one energy at a time to fight the enemy.

"Isn't this a bit useless?" Scratching his head, Xiao Yichen sat on the ground and kept thinking. If he couldn't use these two energies at the same time, or make the two energies compatible, then for him, spiritual energy would only hold him back. After all, he could clearly distinguish the strengths between the two abilities. He even had an illusion that whenever spiritual energy touched that energy, he would produce fear-like avoidance behavior. Just when he was puzzled, there were bursts of rustling sounds coming from the surrounding jungle, as if something was approaching.

Retracting his thoughts, Xiao Yichen looked at the situation around him. At this moment, a roar suddenly came from the front and back. He dodged and saw a monster that looked like the wolf before appeared in front of him. Seeing that the attack missed, the monster did not continue to pounce on him, but roared to the sky.

After a while, no less than ten magical beasts appeared around one after another, all of the same species.

Xiao Yichen was not panicked when he saw this scene. He probably knew the strength of this monster, which was similar to that of a high-level mortal cultivator.

"Come on." After saying that, he took a step forward, leaving a footprint on the ground, and attacked the leading monster. When he got close, he condensed a long sword in his hand with energy and stabbed it straight at the opponent's head.

The demon beast had no way to dodge. Facing Xiao Yichen, who was one realm higher than him, it couldn't even react to the speed of the attack. The long sword pierced its brain, and the next moment, the demon beast's body collapsed to the ground.

Seeing this, the surrounding monsters pounced towards him, but to Xiao Yichen, this was not even a threat. With a wave of his sword, he chopped off the heads of monsters one after another. In less than a minute, more than ten monsters were beheaded.

He slowly came to the pile of corpses and luckily found two more magic crystals. After absorbing them into his body, the volume of spiritual energy in his body exceeded that energy. After all, spiritual energy is a gas, and that energy had already turned into liquid after his strength increased greatly through the Spring of Darkness.

Just as he stood up and prepared to leave, he suddenly felt a pain in his dantian. He squatted back on the ground with a somewhat ugly look on his face, as if he had eaten something bad. He hurriedly sat down and looked inward at his dantian again.

It seemed as if the original energy in his body had been provoked, and was frantically destroying the spiritual energy he had just absorbed, just like when he took the poison. Obviously, this energy regarded the spiritual energy as an external threat and was constantly killing these outsiders.

Xiao Yichen frowned, not because he felt distressed, but because the two energies were fighting each other, using his dantian as a battlefield. It would be strange if he could feel good.

"No way, are these two energies conscious? Why are they fighting?" Holding his stomach, Xiao Yichen lay on the ground, constantly paying attention to the situation inside his body.

After a long time, when there was no trace of spiritual energy in his dantian, the pain slowly dissipated. Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he suddenly thought of a terrible possibility.

"The energy in my body does not allow the existence of spiritual energy. Doesn't that mean that I have no way to break through to the Qi Refining Realm? What is this?" He kept thinking in his mind. Ever since he obtained that energy, he didn't know anything about it except for normal use. He didn't even know how to recover the energy after he used it up. He could only wait for it to recover slowly on its own. He couldn't recover by absorbing the spiritual energy in the surrounding environment like other cultivators, let alone improve his strength. Up to now, his strength has only been improved once after he came out of the Youyin Spring.

Suddenly, he remembered that he had just absorbed the magic crystal, and his body had not experienced any abnormalities. "No, the spiritual energy was not destroyed immediately after entering the body like poison. Instead, it flowed to the Dantian. In other words, that energy didn't care about the spiritual energy entering the body. This state only appeared after I absorbed two more magic crystals and the volume of spiritual energy in my body exceeded that energy."

He had a bold guess and said with shock on his face: "It's not that you dislike it, right? It seems that I have to find an opportunity to try it. If this is really the case, then it should be no problem for me to absorb other spiritual energy with higher purity. Maybe I can even strengthen this energy a bit more." Thinking of this, his face gradually improved. If he could not absorb spiritual energy, and there was no way to strengthen that energy, then it would be troublesome for him to break through the Qi Refining Realm.