The rag picking sister turned out to be a weapon refiner

The pain from the burning flames was about to devour Hu Xingtong's consciousness. His consciousness gradually slowed down along with the speed of the flames. The pain that penetrated into his bone marrow gradually brought Hu Xingtong's consciousness into the abyss of darkness.

"Where is this?" Hu Xingtong looked around blankly. The pain all over her body left her with no strength to move, and the darkness around her made her look around at a loss.

"Xingxing, come on, you will definitely be able to make it. Mom, sister and I are all waiting for you to come home..." Such a familiar voice, as soft as a feather, passed by Hu Xingtong's ears, and dissipated with the wind as if it had never been there.

"It's my sister. Does she still remember me?" Hu Xingtong didn't dare to have any illusions, but she awkwardly wanted to have a glimmer of hope. Maybe the bug in the world would befall her sister, so that her existence would not be forgotten by her family, and someone would remember her when she returned home.

"Hu Xingtong, wake up!" A serious and childish voice sounded, and Hu Xingtong suddenly woke up. His consciousness swept across the surroundings, and then he remembered that he was still absorbing the earth's core fire. The sudden distraction just now almost caused his consciousness to not keep up with the speed of the flames, and almost caused a disaster.

"Hold on, after one week of operation, your spiritual roots will be able to merge with the earth's core fire." The system sat down in front of the barrier at some point, sitting cross-legged on the ground, supporting its head with its hands and looking at Hu Xingtong.

Hu Xingtong did not respond. His consciousness followed the pace of the earth's core fire and invaded his dantian step by step.

"Well……"

The moment the local heart fire entered the dantian, a scorching burning sensation instantly enveloped the dantian. The pain of burning flesh and blood made Hu Xingtong groan involuntarily. This pain was even worse than before, even more than a hundred times the burning pain in his body just now.

Broken moans continued to escape from Hu Xingtong's mouth, and her spiritual power was no longer enough to support her body. Driven by the pain, she finally fell to the ground and curled up in pain.

Hu Xingtong only felt that the time at this moment was so long and torturous, and the system outside the barrier felt the same way.

Finally, the strange light on Hu Xingtong's body gradually subsided, and his flesh and blood gradually returned to their white color. The system's expression finally relaxed.

After the talisman's barrier gradually dissipated, the system took out a recovery pill from a pile of supplies beside it, hugged the exhausted Hu Xingtong and fed it to him.

The slightly hard pills transformed into cool medicinal power under the systematic feeding, spreading into Hu Xingtong's body. The mild medicinal power brought countless surging forces, allowing Hu Xingtong to gradually come to his senses.

"Chen Wu...it hurts." The first time I felt Chen Wu's embrace, it was so warm and kind, and there seemed to be a comfortable sense of security.

"It's okay, just take a moment and I'll give you the task reward later." Chen Wu gently lifted the hair stuck to her forehead, his movements as gentle as if he was treating a porcelain doll.

Hu Xingtong leaned into the system's arms and asked, "Can I also absorb the mission rewards?"

Chen Wu shook his head, not understanding his eagerness. "You haven't refined the Nine Golden Fire yet, so those three ingredients are useless."

"Then how did you distribute the mission rewards? Did you use a backdoor?"

"..."

"No, it was your spiritual roots and the Earth's core fire that formed a new strange fire, which barely completed the task."

Seeing that she was very enthusiastic, the system didn't wait any longer and immediately sent the task reward to her.

【Task rewards have been issued, please check carefully.】

"?" Hearing the prompt sound in his mind, Hu Xingtong looked at the system with a suspicious look on his face. The expression seemed to be asking why it was given now, didn't it say it would be sent later?

The system glanced at her and didn't really want to pay attention to her.

Feeling bored, Hu Xingtong checked the task rewards himself.

[Cold Heart Flame: A top-grade Xuan-level exotic fire, born from the magma above the ice. It has an ice-attribute flame and possesses an extreme ice attribute.]

"Can ice and fire exist at the same time?"

The system shook its head. "I don't quite understand, but theoretically, it does exist. Frostbite and burns are essentially the same. It just depends on which one is stronger. If flame and ice reach a balance, then theoretically, an ice-attributed fire could exist."

"Whatever. Having an ice-attribute fire will make it easier to refine spiritual weapons of different attributes in the future." Hu Xingtong, who had recovered, waved his hand indifferently and looked at the materials of the storage bag in thought. He had already felt the pain once, so he might as well solve it all at once.

The system saw her eyes linger on the storage bag and understood her thoughts. It quickly stopped her and said, "Continue tomorrow. Rest well today and get enough energy to absorb the strange fire."

Hu Xingtong pouted, but he couldn't act unreasonably in front of the system, so he could only listen and rest obediently.

The next morning, under the system's urging, Hu Xingtong lazily climbed out of bed, holding his waist and complaining: "Sooner or later, I will have to replace the furniture in this room. My waist hurts every morning when I wake up."

"When you have the strange fire, go and refine it. I also want a small room. Build one for me and I'll give it to you as a reward." The system blinked its big pink eyes at her. Hu Xingtong didn't refuse. The system was so soft and cute, and she was willing to give her half of the room. "Then let's do it soon. When I have the strange fire ready, I'll go down the mountain to see if there is any way to earn spiritual jade. I can earn some spiritual jade to buy materials and buy us a bigger house."

Perhaps it was because modern people's thinking was deeply rooted that Hu Xingtong always wanted to have a small house of her own, not too big, with a sofa, a bed, a table, a recliner, and a puppy, something simple would be fine. Although she had already achieved the first few things in her original world, she was not very happy after all, perhaps because she was a disabled person at that time.

After having a simple breakfast of some spiritual fruits, Hu Xingtong took out the materials he had seen before. With the help of the system, the medicinal power of the spiritual herbs could be absorbed into the body without any extraction.

Feeling the medicinal power gradually spreading through his body, Hu Xingtong hurriedly used the Fire Technique to guide the medicinal power to flow through his meridians. The feeling of alternating hot and cold kept switching in his body, and the spiritual energy absorbed from all around kept gathering in his dantian. Gradually, one spiritual power vortex after another formed around Hu Xingtong's body.

The system was stunned when it saw this scene. She didn't expect that just absorbing a spiritual herb and cultivating a strange fire would cause such a big fuss. She immediately found a replacement talisman from among the many miscellaneous items to temporarily move her body, ran out of the room with the talisman paper, and stuck the talisman paper on herself at a suitable distance.

Then a strange scene happened. Hu Xingtong turned into a silver light and instantly appeared at the location where the system had just appeared. The system returned to the location where Hu Xingtong had just appeared, and looked at Hu Xingtong's location from a distance.

The vortex continued, and Hu Xingtong, who had changed his position, was not affected at all. The spiritual power around him was still surging, and the surrounding spiritual energy also penetrated into his skin with the help of the vortex.

Unexpectedly, Hu Xingtong did not feel much pain during the absorption process. The most he felt was the occasional swelling in his body and dantian.

Not knowing whether this feeling was correct, Hu Xingtong only knew that the swelling in her body was becoming more and more intense. She wanted to force herself to stop, but found that she could not control her body at all. The scanning eye transmitted the image in her dantian.

In the originally calm Dantian, strange tornadoes were invading everywhere, flames emitting dazzling light filled the Dantian, and spiritual energy was still pouring in from all directions.

"Focus your mind, gather your energy, use your spiritual power to flush your meridians, and practice the magic formula." A soft and gentle male voice sounded beside his ear. Hu Xingtong seemed to have received a revelation and used his spiritual power according to the man's words.

After using his luck and spiritual power, Hu Xingtong noticed that his golden-red spiritual power had turned orange at some point. However, this was not important at the moment. The important thing was that he needed to overcome the difficulties in front of him first.

Recalling the spell that Tan Luo had taught him before, the orange spiritual power circulated in his body for a large circle, and the effect was immediate. Under the influence of the spiritual power, the medicinal power was directly dissipated a lot. Under the continuous circulation of the spiritual power, the medicinal power in the body was finally completely digested.

Deep in her dantian, Hu Xingtong felt a warm and hot breath. After scanning with the scanning eye, she finally saw the result of her efforts - the Nine Golden Fires.

After the training ended, a mechanical electronic voice rang out in Hu Xingtong's mind: "Congratulations to the host for lighting up the Fire Seed Atlas. The mission reward has been issued."

Open the reward, [Longhua Fruit: rare material, contains the essence of dragon energy. After taking it, you can obtain a certain amount of dragon blood. It can also be used by the dragon clan to improve the purity of blood.]

This reward didn't seem to be for himself, but rather for Gu Sihe. Hu Xingtong thought that he hadn't seen Gu Sihe and Ye Nanhe for a year. If there was a chance, he would go down the mountain to meet them. He had to complete the mission and curry favor with them.

After opening his eyes, Hu Xingtong noticed that he was not in a room. After looking around, he saw a tall and straight figure behind him. The figure looked somewhat familiar, wearing a blue robe and with white hair fluttering, and seemed to be somewhat similar to his master who had been in seclusion for a long time.

"Master?" Hu Xingtong asked tentatively. The other party had obviously noticed her and turned around to ask her, "You haven't practiced in this year?"

"Uh..." It was Hu Xingtong's turn to feel embarrassed. This feeling was as uncomfortable as being caught eating spicy snacks by his parents.

"I have been studying in the Sutra Library this year. I haven't been able to practice because of the tight schedule." Hu Xingtong buried his head in his arms while performing the disciple's etiquette. He didn't feel guilty if he didn't look.

"No wonder, you've spent the whole year learning other things, and now you don't even have luck." Tan Luo's tone was calm, but it gave Hu Xingtong a sarcastic feeling. She was a little shocked and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

After thinking about it, if I had used my spiritual power to circulate the magic formula to digest the situation from the beginning, perhaps the situation would not have been like that.

Forget it, wrong is wrong, and arguing is not good: "The disciple knows his mistake."

"You must have seen the bag already," Tan Luo said, changing the subject. Hu Xingtong was naturally happy to accept and replied gratefully, "Thank you, Master. The materials inside will be very useful to me."

For some reason, Hu Xingtong always felt that the man opposite was smiling, as if he was very happy to be thanked by her?

"They were all personally selected by the master for you. They should be the most suitable for you."

Asking for praise? Hu Xingtong felt that the other party's tone was strange, just like when Hu Yege came to him to ask for a gift after getting a perfect score.

"Master, everything you have chosen is extremely suitable. Disciple thanks you."

The man opposite seemed somewhat satisfied. "That's good. I'm free today. If you have any questions about cultivation, you can ask me."

Really, it’s not that Hu Xingtong is shameless, she just feels that her master today is a little too arrogant, which is very different from the gentle and cold real image described by the system.