Success, sudden

Shen Wen's eyes narrowed as he shouted softly, "Ying'er, hold steady!"

Cao Ying pursed her lips, controlling the Green Lotus Core Flame with all her might to block out the aftershocks of the heart-fire that were trying to entwine around her.

Fine beads of sweat seeped from her forehead; clearly, this was not easy.

Shen Wen didn't hesitate any longer, his hands shifting through Seal gestures.

The power of the Flame Ancestral Symbol quietly circulated, and an invisible force that stood above all fires spread out.

The Sea Heart Flame shuddered violently, its azure light expanding and transforming into a bridge-like torrent of flame, actively reaching toward the heart-fire aftershocks surging from below.

At the same time, it lightly touched the Green Lotus Core Flame controlled by Cao Ying.

Under the forced command and reconciliation of the Flame Ancestral Symbol, the three flames—each with vastly different attributes and varying strengths—began to fuse with difficulty.

A constant sizzling sound rang out as the colors of the flames shifted unpredictably: sometimes a deep azure, sometimes a gentle emerald green, and sometimes mixed with a restless streak of dark red.

Shen Wen's expression was solemn; his Heavenly Realm Soul power was like the most precise net, enveloping every minute change in the flames.

He forcibly twisted them into a single, stable, and singular new flame.

This flame's outer layer shimmered with a blue-green luster, but its core contained a wisp of dark red heart-fire, emitting a unique fluctuation of intertwined extreme Yin and extreme Yang.

"Now!" Shen Wen turned his gaze toward Xiao Yi Xian inside the cauldron.

Hearing him, Xiao Yi Xian's tightly shut eyes suddenly snapped open, a flash of determined grayish-purple light flickering within them.

Her hand Seals changed, and her delicate body gave a slight shudder.

"Buzz—"

A terrifying power that had been dormant for a long time, like a Vicious Beast fully awakening from its slumber, erupted violently from within her!

The dark grey Calamity Poison Power was like a floodgate opening; no longer suppressed in the slightest, it surged frantically out from the pores all over her body.

Poisonous mist spread, and everywhere it passed, even the scorching air let out a "sizzling" corrosive sound, carrying a bone-chilling, gloomy silence.

Xiao Yi Xian's face instantly lost all color, and pain etched itself between her brows.

This power was too massive and violent, as if it intended to devour its host along with everything else.

"Xian'er, concentrate!"

Shen Wen's low shout came, his voice ringing directly in the depths of her Soul with a reassuring steadiness.

At the same time.

Shen Wen's left hand grabbed at the air, and the dark monster core obtained from the Rank 6 Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast, along with the jade bottle containing the bodhi transformation saliva, flew up simultaneously.

With his right hand, he controlled the fused singular flame, wrapping it around the two items and accurately striking them into the heaven burning cauldron, aiming straight for Xiao Yi Xian's Dantian!

"Ugh—!"

Xiao Yi Xian let out a suppressed groan of pain, her body trembling violently.

The moment the monster core and bodhi transformation saliva entered her body, it was like throwing ice water into boiling oil.

The residual poisonous beast nature within the monster core, the majestic life-purifying power of the bodhi transformation saliva, and the Calamity Poison Power erupting within her collided violently!

The three forces tore frantically through her Meridians, each collision bringing a bone-scraping, marrow-crushing pain.

Grayish-purple light darted erratically beneath her skin, and her body spasmed uncontrollably.

Even more dangerous was that...

...under the stimulation of the intense pain, the out-of-control Calamity Poison Power...

...instinctively tried to spread outward, seeking a broader space to corrode, as if it wanted to become a tide of destruction and burst out of the heaven burning cauldron, or even the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower!

"Don't even think about it." Shen Wen's eyes turned sharp, and the power of the space ancestral talisman, which he had prepared long ago, activated instantly.

An invisible yet tough spatial barrier, like the sturdiest of cages, sealed the interior of the heaven burning cauldron.

Specifically, the three-foot radius around Xiao Yi Xian was locked down tight.

The surging Calamity Poison Power slammed against the spatial barrier with muffled thuds, but it couldn't leak out even a fraction. It could only be confined to this small space, churning ever more violently.

"Xian'er, guide them! Use the Great Poison Technique to press the poison power into the monster core!"

Shen Wen's low shout rang out again.

Simultaneously, under his control, the fused flame turned into a warm stream of light, enveloping Xiao Yi Xian.

The extreme Yang portion of the flame burned away the overly cold poisonous miasma, while the extreme Yin portion soothed the Meridians being battered by the violent power, forcibly maintaining a sliver of balance.

Xiao Yi Xian's teeth chattered, and her lower lip had been bitten through, seeping blood.

Relying on her stubborn willpower, she held onto a single point of clarity within her mind amidst the boundless pain.

She recalled the Profound Truth of the Great Poison Technique taught by Shen Wen; it was not simply about releasing toxicity, but about harnessing and commanding it.

"Get... in there!"

She roared in her heart, her Soul power operating frantically in coordination with the Cultivation Technique.

She no longer tried to suppress the Calamity Poison Power that wanted to spread; instead, she treated it like a rushing river, desperately guiding it to crash toward the dark monster core at her Dantian!

The torrent of poison power slammed into the monster core, causing it to tremble violently and cracks to appear on its surface.

The life force of the bodhi transformation saliva took the opportunity to permeate, like the most flexible silk threads, entwining with the violent poison power and the monster core's remnant Soul, gradually soothing and fusing them.

This was a slow and perilous tug-of-war.

Xiao Yi Xian's clothes had long been soaked with cold sweat, clinging to her body and revealing her slightly trembling silhouette.

Her face was as pale as paper, and only the intense trembling of her eyelashes beneath her closed eyes showed the kind of ordeal she was enduring.

Cao Ying watched anxiously from the side and couldn't help but whisper, "Husband, Xian'er..."

"Trust her." Shen Wen's voice was steady, yet sweat was also faintly visible on his forehead.

Simultaneously controlling multiple Heavenly Flames, maintaining the spatial lock, and having to divide his attention to monitor the minute changes within Xiao Yi Xian's body was an immense drain even for him.

Time passed bit by bit.

After an unknown amount of time, the cracked monster core at Xiao Yi Xian's Dantian finally absorbed the last of the surging Calamity Poison Power.

The dark grey poison power slowly spiraled inside the monster core, gradually settling.

It reached a delicate yet stable balance with the life force of the bodhi transformation saliva and the energy of the monster core itself.

A singular poison pill the size of a longan, grayish-purple all over with faint green light patterns flowing on its surface, slowly condensed into form and floated steadily in the center of her Dantian.

In an instant.

All the leaking Calamity Poison Power surged back, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, and completely vanished into that poison pill.

The heart-palpitating grayish-purple light around Xiao Yi Xian's body quickly withdrew, and the violent aura receded like a tide.

Her body went limp and she fell forward, but Shen Wen, who was already prepared, flickered into the cauldron and caught her steadily in his arms.

Xiao Yi Xian leaned against his chest in exhaustion, her heavy eyelids fluttering open just a crack to see Shen Wen's face—so close, filled with concern and fatigue.

Her pale lips tried to curl upward, her breath as thin as silk, yet carrying an unprecedented sense of ease and relief:

"Husband... I... I think I... succeeded..."

Shen Wen nodded, then his eyes suddenly narrowed as he looked at the increasingly violent energy fluctuations below.

"That beast sensed the power of two Heavenly Flames and seems to be striking the Seal at the bottom of the tower."

"I'll go deal with it."