Xiao Yifei laughed awkwardly, trying to ease the tense atmosphere before saying seriously, "If I succeed in walking out of the Magma Pool, will you allow me to treat your illness, senior?" After much thought, this was the matter weighing most heavily on his mind. After all, only by curing the owner of the Holy Mountain could he hope to leave; otherwise, even if he rebuilt his body a hundred times, he would still be trapped here, with no place to use his skills.

"Let's talk about it when you make it out." The Sunflame Qilin was already somewhat impatient.

"Alright!" Xiao Yifei dared not speak further, clasped his fists toward the air, and turned to walk in the direction of the Magma Pool.

At this moment, the Sunflame Qilin had withdrawn the protective shield previously promised to Xiao Yifei. An intense, dry heat surged up immediately, prompting Xiao Yifei to quickly use his Qi to protect himself, barely resisting a bit while he walked and thought of a strategy for survival in the Magma Pool.

"The Magma Pool in this Holy Mountain is formed from the Purple Flames of my body. It represents the divine power of the Holy Mountain and the dignity of the Xiao Family's Supreme Fire. Once inside, grasp its essence well, and don't embarrass the flames of the Holy Mountain." The Sunflame Qilin did not forget to remind.

Xiao Yifei secretly curled his lips, thinking: "It's good enough if I don't end up as stewed meat, where would I find time to grasp any essence?"

The further he walked toward the direction mentioned earlier, the thicker the feeling became. Within just ten steps, all the moisture in Xiao Yifei's body had evaporated again. Although the Qi within him was abundant, he did not want to consume too much of it, as it was still needed for use in the Magma Pool, leaving him with no choice but to let his skin gradually crack open under the searing heat.

"Ugh, so uncomfortable, the temperature is way too high." Xiao Yifei muttered, trying to endure the pain as his body crumbled bit by bit.

Sssss! Xiao Yifei watched as the blood on his arm seeped through the skin, evaporating into the air with a sizzling sound, then dissipating into a plume of blood mist.

A short journey of mere dozens of meters made Xiao Yifei feel as if he were walking on a path to hell. If he hadn't used all his Qi to protect his body during the frog jumps earlier, he might have died directly atop the Magma Pool.

Finally, enduring the pain, Xiao Yifei walked step by step back to the Magma Pool, while his physical state returned to how he was when he collapsed earlier: cracked skin, with blood seeping out, his body unbearably hot, and the intense Fire Poison beginning to erode Xiao Yifei's consciousness.

Purple-red flames continued to rise from the Magma Pool, with solidified chunks surging upward only to dissolve due to the extreme heat, transforming into fiery bubbles that exploded on the surface. Occasional stones falling into the pool would dissolve upon contact, becoming part of the Magma Pool in a fearsome scene that instills dread. Xiao Yifei would soon soak here as if in a hot spring for who knows how long.

"Jump, whether you live or die will depend on your luck. I will absolutely not intervene." The voice of the Sunflame Qilin echoed from the sky, but Xiao Yifei no longer cared to listen, his mind solely focused on surviving.

"I, Xiao Yifei, will surely come out alive!" With every ounce of strength remaining, Xiao Yifei leaped into the Magma Pool.

With a splash, Xiao Yifei plunged into the Magma Pool. The moment his legs touched the magma, he felt his skin and muscles instantly melting away, followed by his bones, which could not escape the devastation of the magma.

Before Xiao Yifei could experience any pain, his entire body was already immersed in the Magma Pool. In that instant, he felt as though he had lost sensation in every part of his body, his Qi instinctively enveloping his gradually dissolving body, trying to salvage what was lost.

However, Xiao Yifei, against all odds, used his last bit of consciousness to retract his command, gathering all his Qi above the Dantian, tightly wrapping it.

Because he had already realized before jumping into the Magma Pool that rebuilding the body meant destroying the original body and growing anew, one strong enough to withstand the burning magma—this was the true meaning of rebuilding the body as told by the Sunflame Qilin.

So, Xiao Yifei never intended to protect his body to start with; he withdrew the instinctive, futile resistance of his body, allowing it to protect only the most crucial area.

This was the strategy Xiao Yifei thought out, believing it to be the only viable method. Otherwise, regardless of how he treats his body, it would still fail to resist the erosion of the Purple Flames in the magma; any resistance was futile.

All the flesh, bones, and blood of his limbs dissolved away. Due to the higher density of blood compared to magma, the former quickly integrated into the bottom of the Magma Pool, followed by the hardest part—his head—slowly being eroded by the magma as well.

Xiao Yifei also gathered his consciousness and thoughts into the Dantian, thanks to his days of meditation in the cave, which allowed him not only to materialize Qi but also to have his thoughts and consciousness roam within his body and around its surface, which is why he could converse with the Sunflame Qilin.

After completing these preparations, all of Xiao Yifei's body had dissolved, leaving just a round Dantian floating in the magma.

Within the Dantian, Xiao Yifei cautiously observed the scene inside the magma; purple-red magma was everywhere, deepening in purple as it goes deeper, in the deepest part, it even showed a dark black scene. Other than that, there was nothing else.

It seemed the foreign object was sensed in the Magma Pool, and upon discovering Xiao Yifei's Dantian, all the magma swiftly surged, enveloping it, determined to dissolve the Dantian that Xiao Yifei protected with all his might. The temperature suddenly rose to an unprecedented height.

"Damn!" Xiao Yifei inwardly cursed, realizing the magma appeared as if alive, intolerable to foreign presence, instantly attacking the exposed Dantian, while the protective shield formed by Qi within him barely maintained the ordinary temperature level in the Magma Pool.

This sudden onslaught from the magma rapidly dissolved the Qi wrapped around the Dantian. Xiao Yifei started directing Qi from the Dantian to cover outward, continually replenishing the dissolving protective shield, lest the destruction of the Dantian signifies the end of everything!

The Qi within the Dantian continually wrapped outward, yet the external Qi quickly dissolved by the magma. Xiao Yifei quickly realized the dissolution rate of Qi on the protective shield was much faster than the speed at which he injected Qi into it, indicating that if the Qi stored within the Dantian were not replenished, it would eventually be exhausted by the magma in the pool.

It was practically a battle of Qi quantity against the magma capacity of the pool, an unwinnable match. If it continued, the depletion day of the Dantian's Qi would become the day of his demise, and the moment the unheat-guarded Dantian would dissolve instantly in the scorching magma, nothing could save him then, as the Sunflame Qilin had said.

Xiao Yifei, anxious within the Dantian, began thinking of strategies; judging by the current extent, he had at most one hour left. Within this hour, a plan must be devised to replenish the consumed Qi inside the Dantian.

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