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Chapter 557 Plunder or Trade?

The so-called innate master is actually just a higher level of understanding of the rules of using power.

They can control the use of every bit of power with exquisite precision without wasting a single bit, bringing their own power to its fullest potential.

Use it when you need it, and save it when you can.

When everyone has a similar understanding of the rules for using power, and ultimately arrives at the same conclusion, what matters most is the depth of one's cultivation.

This is why Jiang Qian was full of confidence when facing Li Dachui.

However, even a master of innate abilities is still an ordinary person, and the amount of true energy that can be stored and utilized within their body is limited.

If we compare a master of innate talent to a bucket...
This bucket has a maximum capacity.

What would happen if water exceeding the bucket's capacity flooded in?

Of course it overflows.

Water overflows onto the ground, which naturally wets the ground.

However, if too much true energy flows into the body, it can damage the body.

Jiang Qian wanted to pour all her powerful internal energy into Li Dachui's body, to burst him apart.

This was Jiang Qian's own plan.
However, it is difficult to estimate how much influence the exhilarating feeling of the phoenix fire within the body had on him.

Just like Li Dachui following his body's instinctive reactions,
Or perhaps Jiang Qian made this decision subconsciously.

With her fists clenched, Jiang Qian was met not with a fierce counterattack, but with nothing in front of her. The Phoenix Fire flowed unimpeded, pouring directly into Li Dachui's body.

However, it didn't cause the significant blow that Jiang Qian had imagined.
Because his surging true energy, once it entered Li Dachui's body, vanished without a trace, like a mud ox in the sea.

A master of innate talent can control their true energy at will, but now, Phoenix Fire has gone and never looked back, completely out of Jiang Qian's control.

Jiang Qian was shocked.

Before they made their move, Li Dachui said that Qiankun Yiqi was the parent of Phoenix Li Huo and that it naturally suppressed the opponent, but Jiang Qian didn't pay any attention to that.

They even considered it an extremely absurd thing.

I am who I am.
What does it have to do with you?

But the ideal is very rich, while the reality is extremely harsh.

The once invincible and incomparably fierce Phoenix Flame, upon entering Li Dachui's body, was as if it had returned home. It instantly transformed from an unruly and rebellious teenager into an obedient child, merging into Li Dachui's true energy.

Jiang Qian had a chance to get out of her current situation, which was when she first discovered the problem, but at that moment she made a mistake that any normal person would make.

Because the attack was ineffective.

Therefore, they intensified their attack.

By the time she realized what was happening, the vortex of true energy within Li Dachui's body had rapidly expanded, and it seemed to have completely absorbed the Phoenix Flame that she had previously poured in. With the two combined, the true energy within Li Dachui's body was now even more powerful than Jiang Qian's.

At this point, it was no longer Jiang Qian pouring true energy into Li Dachui's body.
Instead, it became the Qi of Heaven and Earth within Li Dachui's body absorbing Jiang Qian's Phoenix Flame.

Jiang Qian was shocked and tried to pull her fist back, but found that her fist seemed to be tightly glued to Li Dachui and could not be separated at all. What was most terrifying was that the true energy that had been with her for decades and had always been as easy as her own arm was now surging into his body like a wild horse.

Jiang Qian's face grew paler and paler, her expression turning increasingly desperate. She now believed what Li Dachui had said.

But it's too late.

Li Dachui's current feeling is extremely strange.

He could clearly feel the Phoenix Fire surging into his body being drawn into the Universe Qi, and then being ground down in that huge vortex. The original fiery ferocity contained within it vanished without a trace in an instant. Most miraculously, a trace of Moonlight Weak Water separated from the Universe Qi and intertwined with the Phoenix Fire, just like braiding a rope, they entwined with each other. Then, all the distinct characteristics of the two disappeared, and they all became the Universe Qi that he was familiar with.

In other words, Jiang Qian's painstakingly crafted Phoenix Flame was all taken away by Li Dachui at this moment, serving as a wedding dress for him.

Suddenly, Li Dachui understood why Qingfeng had evolved Phoenix Fire and Moonlight Weak Water from the Qi of Heaven and Earth. Perhaps it was already like that in their world.

The truth is probably that these two skills were originally designed to serve the purpose of unifying the universe.

Their existence is to enable the original Qi of Heaven and Earth to climb to a higher level.

This also explains why Qingfeng, at such a young age, had already reached a level that no martial arts practitioner could even begin to comprehend.

Although the requirements for practicing Phoenix Fire and Moonlight Weak Water are strict, it is not particularly difficult to find such talents throughout the world.

Isn't it a waste to treat such talented people as disposable items?

To cultivate Phoenix Fire and Moonlight Weak Water to the Innate level, not only are there strict requirements for physical fitness, but also for comprehension and intelligence to be of the highest caliber.

Seeing Jiang Qian's face growing paler and feeling her body gradually weakening, Li Dachui became anxious.

He didn't want to actually kill Jiang Qian at this moment; his next plan still needed Jiang Qian's cooperation!
But now he finds that he can't stop it either; the Qi of Heaven and Earth is running on its own, and he can't control it.

How to do?
They watched helplessly as the Qi of Heaven and Earth had completely absorbed the opponent's Phoenix Fire. If it continued to absorb, it would be absorbing the opponent's vital essence, which would be fatal.

Jiang Qian closed her eyes.

She had resigned herself to her fate.

At that moment, Li Dachui discovered that the Qiankun Qi within his body, which had grown immensely, had stopped absorbing energy. A wisp of true qi separated from it and flowed back into Jiang Qian's body along the point where their palms and fists were connected. To Li Dachui's surprise, the wisp of Qiankun Qi transformed into Phoenix Flame as soon as it entered Jiang Qian's body. However, this Phoenix Flame was fundamentally different from Jiang Qian's original Phoenix Flame.

This wisp of true energy instantly traveled through Jiang Qian's entire body, then retreated back into Li Dachui's body. Immediately afterwards, an even stronger surge of Qiankun Qi repeated the same action along the same path.

Jiang Qian opened her eyes, which were also filled with surprise.

After the Phoenix Flame passed through Li Dachui's body once, it returned to her body without the fire evil that she had been worried about.

She was both surprised and delighted, and quickly activated her magic to try to bring the resurrected Phoenix Flame back under her control. Unfortunately, no matter how hard she tried, the Phoenix Flame only traveled through her body once before returning to Li Dachui's body.

The primordial energy of heaven and earth was cleansing and tempering Jiang Qian's body.

In an instant, Li Dachui and Jiang Qian both had a sudden realization.

That should be the case, Li Dachui took a deep breath.

Qingfeng separated these two skills back then so that she could advance faster. However, those who contributed to her would also receive generous rewards. After their bodies were tempered and cleansed by the Qi of Heaven and Earth, their subsequent cultivation would be faster, and they might even have the opportunity to break through to the Divine Travel realm.

It could be described as plunder, but it could also be described as exchange.

(End of this chapter)