As the rainwater pools on the ground recede over time, the trees and flowers in the flowerbeds, nourished by the spring breeze and rain, gradually sprout new branches.

Seven days later, on a sunny day, Xi Heng was still focused on his cultivation.

Suddenly a knock on the door brought her back to reality.

The girl stabilized the flow of spiritual energy within her body, broke out of her cultivation state, opened her eyes, and directed her spiritual sense toward the courtyard gate.

The person outside the door was dressed in a thick white robe, and beneath the shadow of the hood was a figure and face that Xi Heng had recently become very familiar with.

"Are you finally done with work...?"

The moment Xi Heng saw her, he subconsciously wondered if he should cultivate with her again.

But after thinking about it, I decided against it.

I can't let the idea of ​​dual cultivation fill my mind.

She dispersed the spirit-gathering array that had been in her seclusion, took out the Purifying Fire Emblem from her storage bag at her waist, and opened the door.

A warm spring breeze swept by, stirring her long hair and blowing past the white robes of the woman outside the courtyard gate.

Yin Wanluan pulled down her hood with both hands, revealing strands of pure, pale golden hair and crystal-clear golden eyes beneath, and a slight smile appeared on her lips.

"Long time no see."

I walked briskly across the flowerbed in the front yard, onto the corridor, and arrived at Xiheng's long pavilion.

A hand reached out and asked in a friendly manner, "Have you been thinking of me lately?"

"I think so?" the girl asked, feigning thought.

"What an honor."

Yin Wanluan skillfully extended a finger from under her robe and touched Xi Heng's chin.

Then it glides across the delicate skin of the neck, and gently falls down to the chest where the blessing of the pure fire resides.

"All the preconditions are in place. I am about to go to the altar to steal the fire... Today, I will entrust the flame within you to me."

Her voice was gentle, yet firm.

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Volume 1: Chapter 203 (Chapter 195), Merging Bodies

Inside the dark, secret chamber within the underground gate.

A few candles were placed in eight directions, casting a faint and weak light that barely illuminated the extremely enclosed room.

Besides the candlelight, the ground was also covered with strange talismanic characters, emitting a faint glow.

Its strokes and font have a wild, cursive style, with many characters connected by smooth strokes.

The font's style and specifications are still discernible from the outer edges, but it becomes increasingly chaotic towards the center.

The lines of the text in the very center are like tentacles that stick together and merge, growing irregularly like tree roots, yet strangely creating an orderly appearance.

Many spirit stones were placed around the two girls in the formation.

Among them, the white-haired girl's upper body was dressed like flower petals scattered around her waist, revealing half of her body.

Before her, Yin Wanluan was extending a finger, drawing characters corresponding to the array patterns onto her skin with spiritual light.

"It's so itchy." Xi Heng wasn't used to it.

There's always a feeling that I'm being used as a canvas, being painted on at will.

"It will be fine in a moment."

First, write the characters for the rounded shoulders, then move downwards to draw towards the firm waist and abdomen.

"Really?" The girl glanced at it.

The tone of voice was like the light, soft voice a doctor would use when saying it doesn't hurt after a shot at the hospital.

Subconsciously, I don't really believe it.

"It won't be long."

Yin Wanluan gently traced Xi Heng's ribs with her fingernail, outlining a slightly curved line.

Gradually, the patterns on her body began to correspond with the array below.

"This formation is a method of combining two bodies into one, which can enhance the compatibility between two people's bodies. I also have similar inscriptions drawn on my body..." To keep Xi Heng from getting bored, she began to explain.

"What's the use of physical affinity?" the girl blinked.

Her first thought upon hearing those words was whether it would affect dual cultivation.

Yin Wanluan and Xi Heng exchanged a glance, and Yin Wanluan said with a smirk:

"After the ritual is completed, in the perception of divine and spiritual senses, our two bodies will be recognized as the same one... Although on the surface our figures and appearances are still different, a certain essence valued by spiritual energy has already tightly outlined our two bodies together."

Xi Heng wanted to say that there was no need to add the phrase "different body shape and appearance".

Although she was relatively flat-chested, the other person wasn't that big either—though her exact age was unknown, she appeared to be just a young girl.

When it comes to curvaceous figures, the more developed senior and junior students are more obvious.

However, in the end, not wanting to reveal his thoughts, he swallowed the words that were about to come out.

Yin Wanluan's gaze swept over Xi Heng's body, and he continued:

"Once our bodies are connected and similar, I can draw the pure fire within you to bestow blessings."

"However, the effects of this formation last for a long time, perhaps decades, before our physical compatibility gradually weakens... This has both advantages and disadvantages."

"How so?" Xi Heng also chimed in.

"The advantage is that dual cultivation can be smoother, and the cultivation level gained will also increase."

Yin Wanluan hesitated for a moment, then said, "The downside is that when using some transformation techniques later, some unexpected mistakes may occur."

"What is the method of transformation?" Xi Heng had a strange premonition.

"For example, demon transformation, body swapping, and spirit body techniques are all forms of transformation," Yin Wanluan mentioned.

"Among them, the one most similar to yours should be the Illusionary Fire Phoenix Technique learned when you reach the mid-Foundation Establishment stage in the Crimson Phoenix Heaven-Bearing Sword Scripture."

The girl blinked her eyes.

She felt that the most significant impact should be on her dragon transformation technique.

"Specifically... what kind of mistakes might occur?"

"For example, if the transformation is incomplete or the distance is close, one person's change of body shape will also partially affect the other person, or when the transformation is reversed, some traces of the transformation will remain on the body surface."

That sounds a bit scary.

Xi Heng didn't really want to cause the other party to change along with him when he later consumed the Dragon Transformation Pill.

"However, the impact will fade in a few decades, so there's no need to worry." Yin Wanluan raised a finger and casually brushed the white hair from the girl's shoulder.

Decades later, Hellfire would have long since been destroyed...

"Never mind, it's alright."

At worst, we won't use the Dragon Transformation Pill unless it's an emergency.

Her goal in this life is to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage, so she doesn't actually need to transform into a dragon.

"As compensation," the other person said, stroking the hand comfortingly.

"I will teach you a cultivation method that can only be practiced by direct descendants of the Pure Fire Sect... Besides me, the only other practitioners are my father and the sect leader himself."

"Huh? Are you alright?"

"Our goal as the Netherworld Sect is to overthrow the Infernal Fire, so what's the harm in doing this small thing?" the other party said simply.

"Furthermore, our Yin family has never had a rule that cultivation techniques cannot be passed on to outsiders—because such techniques require the bloodline of the Yin family and can only be learned by those who are constantly accompanied by the Pure Fire."

"Now that you have passed through this formation, your body is close to mine. Once I steal a ball of pure fire, you can try to cultivate it."

Yin Wanluan explained for a while, and the girl who was standing there nodded repeatedly.

This technique sounds like a very precious treasure from the fiery hell.

In that case, it would indeed be considered a decent compensation.

As they were talking, Yin Wanluan had already finished drawing the inscription.

As her fingers traced the final stroke on Xi Heng's waist, a sudden burst of inspiration shone, making the patterns on his body glow.

As the patterns became more and more distinct, they outshone the light of the torches in the room.

The ground magic array also lit up with fluorescence and iridescent light.

Several different amplitudes of light rippled together, scattering into the air in the form of silk and smoke-like shimmering light.

The faces and bodies of the two girls were clearly visible in the dimly lit secret room.

After spreading the spiritual light, Yin Wanluan, like Xi Heng, took off her upper body clothes.

The white robes were scattered, and the hoods were slapped onto the clean ground.

Her inner white-gold garment was slowly untied by her hands and slid down her smooth skin.

When her upper body was also exposed, similar light patterns appeared on her body surface, just like Xi Heng's.

The patterns painted on the surfaces of the two bodies correspond to each other symmetrically. At a glance, the two clusters of light are connected, like a butterfly with outstretched wings, floating above the formation.

A pair of butterfly wings are formed from the hair patterns on the two girls' bodies.

Yin Wanluan approached lightly, connecting the base of the butterfly's wings together, and a few rays of light bloomed from the middle.

"Don't move, it won't hurt much," she whispered, her right hand, its fingertips glowing with spiritual light, reaching towards Xi Heng's chest and ribs.

The more I listened, the more it sounded like what a doctor would say before surgery.

Xi Heng subconsciously thought this was definitely a lie, and became slightly nervous.

However, he still obediently remained still, letting the other person touch him.

Gradually, fingertips touched the skin again.

The girl thought the other person was going to touch her chest, but to her surprise, he directly pierced her body with his fingertips under her ribs with a hiss.

An extremely strange feeling immediately arose, enveloping her chest and suffocating her for a moment; her heart seemed to stop beating a few times.

However... it really doesn't hurt.

The other party wasn't lying. Amidst the continuous stream of strange sensations, there was no pain at all. It was as if an extra organ had suddenly appeared inside the body, starting to stir up and reject the other organs, exhibiting a strange sense of chaos.

Yin Wanluan's hand melted into her body, caressing her heart, bypassing her chest and lungs, following the uncontrollably contracting organs, and touching the inch of pure fire beneath her sternum.

'I can't breathe.'

Xi Heng wanted to pull away, yet he also wanted to continue feeling the fullness in his chest.

An indescribable contradiction surged into her mind, leaving her in a daze.

Ultimately, all that was on my mind was:

'You cultivators are really playing hard to get.'

I don't know how much time passed, maybe only a few tens of seconds, or maybe three or four minutes.

The hand, still sticky, was finally withdrawn from her chest.

The fingertips, glowing with spiritual light, had already grasped a white flame the size of a thumb.

However, Xi Heng's chest and abdomen simply returned to their original neat and clean appearance after a brief thumping.

It's unclear what special method was used, but although the other party reached into her body, they didn't leave a single mark.

The white-haired girl subconsciously clutched her chest and abdomen, taking several deep breaths. Just as she looked up, she saw Yin Wanluan inserting his fingers into her body again, closing his eyes and frowning as he slowly began to bestow the blessing of the Pure Fire.

"Is it really that simple and brutal..." the girl muttered to herself.

After a while, Yin Wanluan, whose body was radiant with spiritual patterns, covered his chest and abdomen with one hand, pulled the other hand out from there, and then folded both hands together to tightly protect his heart.

The light breathing turned into panting, which gradually calmed down, and I regained my footing.

The fluorescent glow of the surrounding array gradually faded, and the radiance on the two people's bodies also gradually dimmed, revealing their smooth and tender skin beneath.

Xi Heng tried to put his clothes back on and asked softly, "Is it finished?"

But just as she put on one sleeve, a hand suddenly pressed down on her arm, forcing her to stop.

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