On one side is the silent world of ice, with a vast snowfield and boundless white snow. On the other side is the restless furnace of fire, with brilliant pits of fire and endless sky fires.
One ice, one fire, one stillness, one movement.
The energy emitted by both of them through the air was extraordinary. Even though He Gu had reached the Fourth Realm, he still felt a hint of danger.
The area where they connect has become the safest place.
Needless to say, there is a sea of fire ahead. In addition to the high temperature and heat wave, there are also noisy flames bursting out and fireballs falling from the sky. It is very dangerous to look at.
In comparison, he felt that the snowfield behind was safer and only needed to resist the cold.
But the moment he thought this way, the situation in the snowy field suddenly changed without warning at all.
In the distance, the calm snowfield set off an ice and snow storm, rolling towards them at an extremely fast speed.
Along with the gradually increasing howling sound, the scene where the storm passed was blurred, and even the sky dimly disappeared, as if the world was gradually being swallowed up.
It started out as a tiny skyline, but in a blink of an eye it grew to only a thousand meters away, almost before our eyes.
The snowfield that was still vaguely visible under the falling snowflakes just now was like a painting that had its white paint wiped away and blown away by the wind, and suddenly became gray and chaotic.
The wind and snow are becoming more and more violent, and there seems to be a strange force in it, and the air is slightly distorted wherever it blows.
Sometimes a fleeting white light can be glimpsed in the twisting air, which is difficult to detect without careful observation.
He Gu accidentally noticed it and was frightened.
"That's an ice and snow restriction. If you touch it, your spiritual power will be slowly drained away. It's best to avoid it." Leng Qingzhu reminded.
Spiritual power is the foundation of a cultivator. A cultivator who loses his spiritual power is nothing more than a useless person, only slightly better than a mortal.
The Far North area has always been classified as a dangerous place by the outside world. It is even said that even the Nine Realm experts dare not go deep into all areas. He Gu finally understood why he described it so exaggeratedly.
"Follow me down, be careful of those flames. Although they are not a restraining force, they contain fire poison. If they accumulate too much in the body, they will damage the body's functions."
Leng Qingzhu opened a safe space and walked down the pit.
Looking back at the ice and snow storm, He Gu quickly summoned his flying sword to follow closely.
As soon as you enter the fire pit area, the surrounding temperature rises suddenly. As you go down, the air becomes drier and hotter.
The sweat on He Gu's body continued to break out, and it was dried again within a few breaths of a heat wave, which made him feel unspeakably uncomfortable.
I deliberately mobilize the spiritual power in my body to block the heat wave, but I find that there is always a part that cannot be blocked at all.
He couldn't help but steal a glance at the master who was one step ahead.
Leng Qingzhu didn't seem to be affected at all. The skin on his white jade neck was still as fine and smooth as mutton fat, not at all as embarrassed as him.
Deeply absorbed in his body, he found that there was some reddish and slightly hot energy that he had never seen before appearing everywhere in his body. It was very thin and had a faint burning sensation attached to his flesh and blood.
"What enters your body is fire poison. The Tao Yun I plan to let you plant is in the center, and the power of the fire poison there is much stronger than here.
You need to adapt to the fire poison to a certain extent before you can officially refine Tao Yun." Leng Qingzhu did not look back and continued to step forward.
He Gu tried again but still couldn't completely block the fire poison from entering the body, and it was difficult to expel the fire poison that had entered the body.
However, after hearing Leng Qingzhu's words, he was not in a hurry and just waited for the master's arrangements.
A quarter of an hour later, the two reached the bottom of the pit.
Stepping on the scorched earth, Leng Qingzhu turned around and gently tapped He Gu's forehead with his slender white jade fingers.
The weak and delicate touch made He Gu's mind tremble. He had no time to think more, and his attention was quickly snatched away by the incoming information.
"This is how to eliminate fire poison. You will practice here in the past few days until you can safely walk to the center. During this period, the teacher will help you open up space to avoid the interference of the flames." He Gu calmed down, meditated on the spot, and began to practice the detoxification method in the brain.
Leng Qingzhu stood quietly on the side.
The detoxification method taught is not difficult to learn, and He Gu mastered it after half an hour.
He immediately started to move, guiding his spiritual power to wrap a ball of fire poison and transport it along a fixed trajectory.
During the process, it passes through different acupuncture points in turn, and every bit of pure energy will be peeled off from each acupoint.
After a full week, the fire poison was transported to the last acupoint on the tip of the middle finger of the right hand. The remaining toxin accumulated on the finger, immediately turning half of the finger slightly darker.
After accumulating strength and squeezing, the toxins were immediately forced out.
A wisp of black smoke emerged from the tip of his outstretched middle finger, dispersed instantly, reintegrated into the air, and soon disappeared.
It only took one attempt to succeed, but He Gu was not happy at all.
Looking at the fire toxins that have accumulated in his body, and the new fire toxins that are constantly intruding into his body, based on his current detoxification speed, it is completely a drop in the bucket.
Understanding that the detoxification method he had just mastered was not proficient enough, he quickly continued practicing.
The time devoted to cultivation always passes quickly without noticing.
From the beginning of frowning with difficulty, to gradually relaxing the facial muscles, the time between He Gu's efforts to force out the fire poison is getting shorter and shorter.
I don’t know how long it took, but at a certain moment he opened his eyes and stood up.
Now the speed at which he is detoxifying is faster than the speed at which fire poison enters his body. The fire poison in his body has been emptied, and he can move forward to accept the test of stronger fire poison.
To be cautious, he didn't go too far. He stopped after only about ten meters and started meditating again to detoxify.
Leng Qingzhu noticed the moment He Gu wanted to stand up, and when He Gu walked forward, she also followed him.
When He Gu sat down again, she stood silently aside as before, her ice eyes calm.
The surrounding fire waves slapped against the invisible space wall controlled by Leng Qingzhu, like dye splashed on transparent glass and forced to flatten and spread out.
Except for the fireballs that fell from time to time, the sky was red, and the fire was so bright that it looked almost the same at any time, and it was impossible to tell the specific sky color and time.
It wasn't until night fell that I realized the exact passage of time.
Night to day, day to night.
Three days later, He Gu had already walked a mile. As he gradually became bolder, the distance he moved forward gradually increased, and finally remained at about 100 meters.
Moreover, he also found that the pure energy stripped out of the fire poison was quite considerable when accumulated, and his own realm had improved significantly.
Now he is more at ease, and except for necessary rest, he is running the detoxification method at other times.
Time flies, more than half a month has passed since they came out.
After advancing again, a small lava lake appeared in front of them.