The more frantic thing is that while Lu Yu was operating his Qi Blood with full force to resist the erosion of the Yinming Cold Qi, he simultaneously ran the Ice and Fire Seven Layers Cultivation Technique to actively absorb the Yinming Cold Qi into his body.

Lu Yu's Qi Blood was simultaneously resisting the internal and external erosion of the Yinming Cold Qi, causing the consumption rate of Qi Blood to accelerate by three or four times, forcing Lu Yu to activate the Celestial Falling Bright Flame within his body to resist the erosion of the Yinming Cold Qi together.

The Celestial Falling Bright Flame guarded the exterior, preventing a large amount of Yinming Cold Qi from invading the body, but in the cold pool, the power of the Celestial Falling Bright Flame was severely suppressed and could extinguish at any moment.

The Qi Blood protected the interior, continuously dissolving the erosion of the Yinming Cold Qi, preventing the freezing of flesh and necrosis of tissues. The rapidly circulating Qi Blood made Lu Yu's whole body emit heat, but the heat was absorbed by the water of the cold pool the moment it reached his skin.

The pores were already closed, yet the heat continued to escape from Lu Yu's body. As the consumption of Qi Blood increased significantly, the circulation speed slowed down, and when his body was about to freeze.

The Celestial Falling Bright Flame flared up, like a strong stimulant injected into it, bursting out with renewed power. This was not a sign of Lu Yu's last-ditch effort but the power of the dual polar transformation of the Ice and Fire Dual Polar Body.

After cultivating the Ice and Fire Dual Polar Body, Lu Yu could transform Ice Spiritual Power and Fire Spiritual Power into each other. Now, Lu Yu was continuously absorbing and refining the Yinming Cold Qi, converting the refined Ice Spiritual Power into Fire Spiritual Power to enhance the Celestial Falling Bright Flame.

At the same time, as the Ice and Fire Seven_layers operated, new Qi Blood was continuously being born within Lu Yu's body. The Qi Blood, which had slowed in circulation, accelerated once more with the push of new Qi Blood to maintain the balance against the erosion of the Yinming Cold Qi.

[Absorbed a small amount of Yinming Cold Qi, Ice Spirit Body Tier Two cultivation progress +4%, Qi Blood +10, Ice Spiritual Qi +5]

[Ice and Fire Dual Polar Body transformation complete, Celestial Falling Bright Flame +2%, Qi Blood +5]

[Successfully resisted the erosion of Yinming Cold Qi, Qi Blood +1]

...

Lu Yu felt his body alternating between cold and hot. When the Celestial Falling Bright Flame was suppressed by the Yinming Cold Qi in the cold pool, he felt a bone-chilling cold. When the Yinming Cold Qi was absorbed and converted to enhance the Celestial Falling Bright Flame, he felt unbearably hot throughout his body.

Yu Xiaoman stood outside the small valley and watched as Lu Yu jumped into the cold pool. She soon saw flames bursting from beneath the water, only to disappear quickly, and after a while, they would appear again, repeating this cycle.

She roughly understood that the flames represented Lu Yu. As long as the flames didn't extinguish, Lu Yu was still alive.

While Lu Yu was refining his body with the Yinming Cold Pool, the battle at the Yin Wind Mouth was about to conclude.

The fire feather pheasant, which had reached the peak of the Sea of Qi realm and formed a pseudo-core, was unmatched in power. Unfortunately, it had previously been severely injured by a Core Formation Realm expert and was now besieged by human Martial Cultivators who desired her Demon Core, leaving it in a precarious situation.

As the fire feather pheasant faltered, it was only a matter of time before the other monsters were swept away. Many monsters realized this and began to exercise their innate abilities to break free from the human encirclement and flee in all directions.

Truly escaping the humans, the number of monsters making their getaway was less than one-tenth of the total.

"Damn humans! Even if I die, you will not get my Demon Core."

The fire feather pheasant was furiously angry, as the flames within its Demon Core had almost been exhausted under the collective assault, unable to cause fatal harm to the surrounding humans.

The fire feather pheasant withdrew its Demon Core, causing flames to surge across its body, rapidly swelling in size.

"Damn it, it's going to self-destruct! Stop it quickly!" someone shouted urgently upon witnessing the fire feather pheasant's actions.

A man in blue swiftly made his move, sending a spiritual power-formed azure serpent shooting swiftly to intercept the flying Demon Core, encircling it halfway before returning. With the demon fire within the Demon Core nearly depleted, he dared to directly seize it.

Seeing the Demon Core snatched, the fire feather pheasant was taken aback and urgently suppressed the rampant demonic energy within its body, flying towards the Demon Core. It only intended to intimidate the surrounding people with a self-explosion, retrieve the Demon Core, then flee into the wilderness.

Unexpectedly, these humans were so greedy that they would endure its self-destruction just to get its Demon Core.

The primary reason was that the Demon Core contained over seventy percent of the fire feather pheasant's demonic power. In the absence of the Demon Core, the power of the fire feather pheasant's self-destruction wasn't beyond what others could endure.

The fire feather pheasant summoned the Demon Core to fly towards it and closed the distance with the Demon Core.

The person felt the Demon Core in the azure snake's mouth trembling uncontrollably and decisively detonated the azure snake, causing the Demon Core to be blasted away, severing the fire feather pheasant's connection with the Demon Core.

Witnessing the red, translucent orb flying away, everyone chased after the Demon Core.

"Haha! The Demon Core is mine now." A burly bearded man grabbed the Demon Core, laughing proudly as he tried to escape into the distance.

"Ah!" He didn't fly far before a silver stream of light pierced through him, severely injuring him and causing him to fall in mid-air. The Demon Core slipped from his grasp.

The silver stream of light looped around, catching the Demon Core and flying into the distance.

"Don't even think about it! Celestial Thunder Order!" a female Martial Cultivator shouted loudly, swiftly forming a seal, summoning a thunderbolt from thin air that struck the silver stream of light.

The silver stream of light struggled for a moment, before finally emitting black smoke and falling weakly. It was an arc-shaped spiritual weapon, its hook carrying the Demon Core. Having been struck by the thunderbolt, it lost its power and fell halfway.

Whoosh~ The figure of the fire feather pheasant rapidly flew towards the Demon Core, and upon reaching a certain distance, it managed to regain control of the Demon Core, pulling it back towards herself as she opened her beak to swallow it, eyes glinting with joy.

As long as she swallowed the Demon Core, she could leave here immediately.

But as the Demon Core approached the fire feather pheasant's mouth, it suddenly curved and flew towards the man in blue, carried off by a thin, hair-thin strand of spiritual power formed as an azure serpent.

"It's mine!" said the man in blue, grabbing the Demon Core with a smiling face.

A fierce intent gleamed in the fire feather pheasant's eyes. The man in blue felt the Demon Core in his hand become scorching hot, its red flame reflecting off his face, giving it an extremely eerie look. His face turned to horror as he tried to discard the Demon Core.

Whoosh~ A demon fire erupted from the Demon Core, and the man in blue's entire body emitted a blinding azure light to fend off the demon fire.

When the demon fire was consumed, half of the man in blue's body was gone, and the life force rapidly dissipated from him. With the demon fire within the Demon Core depleted, the fire feather pheasant could no longer control the Demon Core, letting it fall along with the man in blue's lifeless body.

Spotting the falling Demon Core, an early-stage Demon Spirit Level monster excitedly took flight, intending to swallow the Demon Core. Several large spiritual powerformed hands, in different colors, crushed down from afar, enveloping the Demon Core and the Demon Spirit Level monster in their attack.

Boom~ Various natures of spiritual power collided, causing a massive explosion. The monster at the center of the explosion was instantly killed, and the Demon Core vanished.

"Where's the Demon Core?"

"It's gone, could it have been destroyed in the attack just now?"

"It's possible, once the Demon Core loses power, it can't handle our attacks."

The group turned to watch the fleeing fire feather pheasant, hastily pursuing it.

"With the Demon Core destroyed, leave your fiery feathers!"

"I heard this fire feather pheasant also has a fire phoenix lineage. Extracting that bloodline would be worth a lot!"

"Stop running. You're already severely injured and can't outrun us."

Ling Yuyan, watching the fire feather pheasant chased by humans in the distance, showed a look of sadness. She also didn't want things to turn out this way.

Boom~ The fire feather pheasant finally chose self-destruction, leaving nothing for the humans. At its level, unless there was absolute power to suppress it, no one could stop its self-destruction.

"Damn it, nothing's left!"

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