I'll make you the furnace and the cauldron, so you can refine Yin and Yang and prove the Great

On the ice-jade bed, the cold air mingled with heavy breathing.

This time, Li Hanshan didn't just focus on his own breakthrough. He deliberately controlled the output of his pure yang energy, gradually channeling it into Liu Ruoxue's body—even though she didn't appreciate it.

Liu Ruoxue kept her eyes tightly closed, tears still clinging to her long eyelashes. She bit her lip, remaining silent, her face filled with humiliation and hatred. But the restriction sealed her spiritual power, leaving her unable to resist and helpless, like a cold puppet at his mercy.

Li Hanshan did not soften his heart.

This vixen responds better to gentleness than force. But if you're too soft, she'll think you're hypocritical. It's better to first use your strength to make her face reality, and then slowly win her heart.

Her extreme yin energy was too domineering, like an ancient iceberg. If one were to forcefully use pure yang energy to counter it, it would only provoke a backlash from the cold energy. Li Hanshan could only proceed little by little, like snow melting in spring.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Hanshan suddenly felt a throbbing sensation in his dantian. The extremely cold yin energy collided violently with his pure yang energy within his body, the yin and yang clashing and unleashing a powerful surge of energy.

It's now!

He guided this energy, rushing towards the bottleneck of the third level of Foundation Establishment.

Once, twice, three times.

boom!

A muffled thud came from inside the body.

The barrier that had troubled him for so long was finally broken through!

Three layers of foundation!

The spiritual energy in his dantian surged once more, and his pure yang meridians became even more resilient under the tempering of this energy. Li Hanshan felt his entire body brimming with power, and every movement he made felt like a complete transformation.

He didn't stop, but instead transferred all the excess pure yang energy he had gained after the breakthrough into Liu Ruoxue's body.

Liu Ruoxue trembled. The extremely yin and cold energy within her body was stirred by this pure yang energy, and it began to stir. Her cultivation had only recently broken through to the first level of Foundation Establishment, and it would take at least one or two years to break through to the second level.

Unexpectedly, with the help of Li Hanshan, her cultivation level advanced by leaps and bounds, reaching the peak of the first level of Foundation Establishment.

After a long while, a soft sound came from inside Liu Ruoxue's body.

The foundation is on the second floor.

She also made a breakthrough.

Li Hanshan released her and casually removed the restraints from her body.

Liu Ruoxue suddenly sat up, grabbed the jade pillow next to her, and threw it at him.

"I kill you!"

Her voice was choked with sobs, and the hatred in her eyes was almost tangible. The jade pillow smashed into Li Hanshan, shattering into pieces, but he did not flinch.

"Kill me, and who will avenge you?" he said calmly.

Liu Ruoxue's hand froze in mid-air.

"I don't need your help!" she gritted her teeth. "I'll take my own revenge!"

"You'll report it yourself?" Li Hanshan looked at her. "How long will it take you to cultivate from the first level of Foundation Establishment to the second level on your own? A year? Two years? Will Meng Xinghan wait for you?"

Liu Ruoxue trembled all over.

Meng Xinghan.

This name is like a knife, each time it's mentioned it stabs her in the heart. It's the same person who killed her mother right before her eyes.

If Liu Ruoxue hadn't been fortunate enough to be in a better position back then, as her Ice Spirit Root, like Xu Lingxi's Extreme Yin Body, was latent, she probably would have been kept by the other party until she grew up and became a furnace cauldron.

"He was already a Golden Core cultivator," Li Hanshan continued, "while you've only just broken through to Foundation Establishment. What makes you think you can take revenge?"

Liu Ruoxue bit her lip until it turned white.

"I can wait." Her voice seemed to be squeezed out from between her teeth. "Ten years, twenty years, I can wait."

"But your body can't wait."

Li Hanshan's words struck a nerve: "Your extreme yin energy is growing stronger and stronger, and you can't suppress it on your own. If you don't rely on my pure yang energy, you'll be devoured by the cold energy in less than three years and become a cripple. What will you use to take revenge then?"

Liu Ruoxue fell silent.

She knew that what Li Hanshan said was true.

While a top-grade ice spiritual root is powerful, its very high quality has a fatal flaw. The extreme yin coldness will grow stronger with increasing cultivation level, and without a pure yang substance to neutralize it, it will eventually backfire on its master. The reason her cultivation speed is slower than Hua Nongying's is because most of her spiritual power is used to suppress the coldness.

"So, you need me," Li Hanshan concluded.

"I don't need it," Liu Ruoxue said coldly. "I'd rather die from the backlash of the cold than accept your charity."

"This isn't charity," Li Hanshan shook his head. "This is a transaction."

Liu Ruoxue stared at him.

"I need your extreme yin energy to break through my bottleneck, and you need my pure yang energy to suppress the cold energy and improve your cultivation." Li Hanshan said slowly and deliberately, "Each takes what they need, and neither owes the other anything."

He paused, then said, "As for me saying I'll help you get revenge, that's another matter. Believe it or not."

Liu Ruoxue stared at him for a long time, the hatred in her eyes gradually replaced by coldness.

"You said it was a deal," she said coldly, "that's all."

"That's all." Li Hanshan nodded.

Liu Ruoxue turned her head away and refused to look at him again.

Li Hanshan knew that this was the limit she could accept.

This enchantress is like a block of ice that has stood for millennia. Melting her won't be a matter of a day or two. Getting her to accept the idea of ​​a "deal" today is already a significant step forward.

"There's a problem with how your body's cold energy flows."

He suddenly spoke.

Liu Ruoxue frowned.

"You've been trying to suppress the cold energy with your spiritual power, which is wrong," Li Hanshan said. "The cold energy is part of your body. The more you suppress it, the stronger it will rebound. You should guide it and let it flow along the pure Yin meridian."

"I don't have a pure Yin meridian," Liu Ruoxue said coldly.

"You have a Yin Meridian," Li Hanshan said. "The opposite of a Pure Yang Meridian is a Pure Yin Meridian. You can use a top-grade Ice Spirit Root to refine a Pure Yin Meridian. It's just that you don't know how to use it."

Liu Ruoxue's eyes finally showed a slight change.

How did you know?

"Because my pure Yang meridian was cultivated under someone's guidance," Li Hanshan didn't hide anything. "I can teach you how to guide the cold energy so that it can be used for your benefit, rather than becoming a burden."

Liu Ruoxue remained silent for a long while.

"condition?"

"No conditions." Li Hanshan stood up. "I told you, you're my woman. Helping you doesn't require any conditions."

"I am not your woman," Liu Ruoxue said coldly.

"Say what you will." Li Hanshan smiled. "I will come to you again when I break through the bottleneck next time. If you don't want to, you can change the restrictions on the cave in advance."

After saying that, he turned and walked out of the cave.

As he reached the door, he suddenly stopped and said something without turning his head.

"I'm not joking about Meng Xinghan. The day I reach the Core Formation stage will be the day he dies."

After saying that, he strode away.

As Liu Ruoxue watched his figure disappear into the cave entrance, her cold eyes held a complex mix of hatred, humiliation, and resentment.

She wanted to kill him.

But she couldn't kill him.

She wanted to hate him.

But he did help her.

Not only did he help her break through to the second level of Foundation Establishment, but he also taught her how to guide cold energy and even promised to help her take revenge.

Why?

Just because she's the ridiculous "woman" he talks about?

She was clearly forced by him.

From the first time to this time, not a single time was it voluntary on her part.

But why, for some reason, did she even want to believe what he said?

Liu Ruoxue closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

When she opened her eyes again, they had regained their coldness.

She won't believe him.

Men, not one of them is any good.

Meng Xinghan is not, and neither is Li Hanshan.

transaction.

It's just a transaction.

She told herself this over and over again.

But tears still fell uncontrollably.