Minor Success in the Dao of Fire
After Ye Zichen pushed the flames away, they didn't disappear. Instead, they burned even more fiercely.
The flames seemed to want to swallow him whole. Waves of heat washed over him, causing him to sweat profusely.
In his dreams, he ran madly, until ….
Sniff.
Ye Zichen's nose twitched. As he sprinted through his dreams, he seemed to smell the scent of roast meat. Naturally, a plate of steaming roast chicken appeared in his dreams.
His mouth watered uncontrollably. Even though the flames were right in front of him, he had to snatch the roast chicken from the flames.
"That damned bastard!"
Xue Honghong rushed to the woodshed and looked at the raging flames. Her heart burned with fury, and she gnashed her teeth so hard that they creaked.
Some of her attendants had already taken to the skies and started raining rain. However, these weren't ordinary flames; they were magical flames. Ordinary rain wouldn't affect them in the slightest.
"Fetch the Sea of Innocence!"
Shouted Xue Honghong from outside. She scanned her surroundings a few times, but discovered that the fellow she'd locked up in the woodshed wasn't outside.
"Control the flames! Don't let them spread! I'm going in to take a look!"
"First Miss ….."
Xue Honghong ignored her attendants and servants. She silently muttered an incantation, and a fiery red light ignited around her. She kicked the woodshed's wooden door, smashed it to pieces, and barged in.
The fire in the woodshed burned far more intensely than outside. Even Xue Honghong found it hard to endure the waves of heat that assaulted her senses. She felt as if all the water and essence in her body were about to evaporate into nothingness.
"Hey, are you still there?"
The thick black smoke made it impossible for her to open her eyes. All she could do was frantically circulate her spiritual energy to separate herself from the flames. However, the flames were simply too hot. All she could do was carefully move around in places where the flames hadn't yet reached.
"Chicken drumstick, my chicken drumstick ….."
A delirious murmur rang out from within the blazing firewood shed. Clearly, it was about to recede in the heat of the flames. When Xue Honghong heard this, she steeled her heart and dove into the sea of flames.
"Chicken drumstick …"
Ye Zichen lay on the straw mat, drooling. To Xue Honghong's astonishment, even though the flames had swallowed up the entire woodshed, Ye Zichen wasn't affected in the slightest. Even the straw mat he was lying on was completely undamaged.
When Xue Honghong saw that Ye Zichen hadn't been injured, she instinctively sighed in relief. Of course, it wasn't that she was worried about Ye Zichen's safety. It was purely because he'd locked her up in the woodshed, and she didn't want to see him die there.
If he was somewhere else, he wouldn't care if he died or not …
When she saw Ye Zichen's strange behavior in the woodshed, Xue Honghong was certain that the fire had something to do with him. Otherwise, why would he be completely fine?
This guy was a scourge!
Xue Honghong gnashed her teeth and cursed, then looked at Ye Zichen, who was still asleep and drooling. She directly kicked him.
"Still sleeping!"
"Chicken …. Chicken …."
The kick woke Ye Zichen up with a start. He yelled and scrambled to his feet. When he saw the raging flames in the woodshed, he calmly sat back down, a hint of pleasant surprise in his eyes.
"I've achieved initial success in the Dao of the Five Elements. I never would have guessed I'd break through in my sleep. I really am a genius. I've converted my immortal spiritual power to divine spiritual power by more than thirty percent. Once I reach initial success in the Dao of the Five Elements, my divine spiritual power should be complete as well. "
Just as he was feeling smug about himself, he sensed a bone-piercing cold in the middle of the flames.
Through the raging flames, he saw Xue Honghong standing there, eyeing him coldly ….
"Fire!"
In an instant, Ye Zichen's previously smug expression was filled with panic. He curled up like a frightened rabbit, gulped, and looked at the flames around him.
He'd started the fire; there was no way he could escape. Was he supposed to pat himself on the chest and say ….
I started the fire, so I'll bear all the damage.
That's impossible!
Not to mention anything else, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to make up for the loss even if he sold himself. Just now, he'd secretly used his immortal awareness to take a look. It wasn't just the woodshed that was on fire; practically the entire backyard was on fire.
He absolutely couldn't take the blame for this. If he did, he'd die here for the rest of his life!
"Honey, even if you wanted to kill me, you didn't have to set me on fire, did you? Hey, wait …. You're here too. Could it be that your family doesn't want us to be together? Do you want to die with me? I don't want to! I haven't lived long enough! I haven't seen the God Realm's great rivers and mountains! I still have too many unfulfilled wishes! I can't die here! "
It could be said that Ye Zichen had perfectly displayed the despair and unwillingness of someone on the verge of death. If Xue Honghong didn't know who he really was, she really might have been fooled by his acting.
"Don't play the fool here. Hurry up and tell me how to put out the fire. The flames are too fierce. Even though I've already sent everyone to fetch water from the Sea of Innocence, it'll be very difficult to put them out. "
"How could I possibly know? You're not suspecting me, are you?"
She wanted him to take the blame? No way! Ye Zichen was determined to play dumb until the very end. In any case, there was no lie detector, nor were there any criminal psychologists to interrogate him. As long as he didn't admit it, who could say he was the culprit?
After all, he was a victim of the flames!
"You …."
Xue Honghong was furious. Although she was in the woodshed, her immortal awareness kept an eye on the situation outside.
The flames spread with the wind, and the entire residence was now engulfed in a sea of flames.
The servants and attendants had brought water from the Sea of Innocence, but it didn't have much effect on the flames.
"Come with me."
It was hard to imagine what kind of internal struggle Xue Honghong had gone through. In the end, she'd still decided to save Ye Zichen.
Even Ye Zichen, who was standing on the straw mat, was stunned by this choice.
He looked at Xue Honghong, who'd disregarded the fact that he was her benefactor, attacked him, and locked him in the woodshed. Ye Zichen's expression was one of stubbornness ….
Ye Zichen's resistance to her softened somewhat.
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