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In the Boundless Forbidden Land.

Lin City was completely immersed in cultivation.

The difficulty of refining the azure fire was beyond Lin City's imagination.

He circulated the elemental energy in his body with all his might, and his daily progress was still extremely slow. Seven days had passed, but his elemental energy had yet to enter the core of the azure fire.

However, during the process of refining the azure fire, Lin City had reaped a great harvest.

His control over elemental energy, in particular, had almost reached the limits of his current strength.

Refining the Azure Blue Flames required refining it bit by bit. If one advanced rashly, it could cause the Azure Flame to move. Lin City needed to refine the Azure Flame more meticulously in order to slowly refine it.

As a result, his control over his elemental energy increased rapidly. At the same time, he consumed too much elemental energy every day. Even though he was extremely exhausted, the elemental energy within his body continued to refine under this heavy load, causing his strength to increase.

"I've finally reached the core source energy."

Looking at the blue flame in his hand, a look of joy flashed across Lin Cheng's face.

After nearly ten days of sleepless refining, he finally finished refining all the azure flames. Right now, there was only the core source of the azure fire.

At this point, Lin Feng was not in a hurry.

Refining the core origin energy was the key, there was no rush.

At the same time, in the Boundless Forest, the people from the Eastern Region Academy and the Myriad Sword Sect were going mad with anxiety.

"Still no news?" The First Elder's face was dark as he roared.

No one dared to speak as they all lowered their heads, afraid that the Elders Guild would vent its anger on them.

It had already been almost half a month. Ever since they had learned that someone had killed Shui Ani and taken away the Azure Fire, all the students, including teachers and elders, were sent out to investigate the situation within a circumference of a hundred miles. Even the new students who had just entered the East Region Academy were ordered to participate.

Not only that, when the news of the azure fire being stolen spread, the Myriad Sword Sect even sent a large number of experts to search for the guy who dared to steal the azure fire.

In the sky above Boundless Forest, cultivators on flying swords would occasionally fly by. However, no matter how much they searched, they couldn't find any clues at all. This made the Great Elder extremely anxious and frightened.

Cheng Qin Luo couldn't sit still anymore and personally brought people to search around the area.

Because the experts of the Myriad Sword Sect attacked, even the nearby cities carried out close checks.

Yongan city, outside the city gates.

A young man in a gray jumpsuit was looking at the vicious soldiers at the city gate from afar. These soldiers were meticulously inspecting every single person who entered the city. Even the carriages and horses that they rode had to be inspected as well.

"What happened? Why are there so many people here?" Seeing this scene, Zhu Ziquan was bewildered.

This young man dressed in gray was no other than Bamboo Fork, who had escaped from Boundless Forest.

That day, when she climbed up from the ravine, she immediately left the Boundless Forest. She originally wanted to escape, because she knew that if she was discovered by the people from the Eastern Region Academy, she would definitely be captured and sent to the Myriad Sword Sect to be the so-called Senior Cheng's personal servant.

But Bamboo Gou took the risk to stay behind because Lin City was still in Boundless Forest. She was worried that Lin City would be implicated by her and might even encounter the evil hands of Shui Ang, so she had to think of a way to warn Lin City.

And so, Bamboo Gou quietly hid from the people of the Eastern Region Academy in the Boundless Forest while waiting for the people of the Forest City.

She knew that if Lin City had escaped, she would definitely check where he had left the spirit stones and pills. If the spirit stones and pills were not there, then it meant that she had not died at the bottom of the valley.

But little by little, Bamboo Shoot discovered that it was getting harder and harder to hide because the people from the East State Academy were searching more and more frequently, causing Bamboo Shoot to feel an immense pressure.

When the cultivators of the Myriad Sword Sect flew past her, Bamboo Gou wouldn't be able to hide any longer. Under the cultivators' noses, she definitely wouldn't be able to hide for long.

Luckily, Bamboo Gou was only hiding at the periphery of Boundless Forest, so she managed to leave the forest safely. However, when she arrived at Yongan City, she saw the city gates that were being guarded by the soldiers.

Zhu Ziquan was astonished. She realized that something had happened. Not only were cultivators searching everywhere in the Boundless Forest, but even the nearby cities were doing an intense investigation. This must be an important matter.

"Could it be that the little bandit caused some sort of trouble?"

Zhu Zifu was startled.

Lin City wanted to go to the Boundless Forest to train, so they would certainly discover the evolving azure flames. Could it be that it was because Lin City also wanted to participate in the fight to steal the azure flames, so they angered the people from the Wan Sword Sect and the Eastern Region Academy?

That shouldn't be possible. Although the little thief's strength had increased by leaps and bounds, and his cultivation speed was astonishing, but no matter how talented he was, at most he was at the Arterial Circulation Realm. How could he alert the people of the Myriad Sword Sect?

After thinking about it for a moment, Zhu Ziyang gave up on the idea of entering the city and quietly left.

No matter what had happened, at least she couldn't be discovered now. Otherwise, she would absolutely fall into senior brother Cheng's hands.

Zhu Ziyang didn't think that he would be able to escape from so many cultivators.

However, she couldn't help but raise the question in her heart, was such a large lineup of the Thousand Sword Sect and the Eastern Region Academy related to some little thief?

"Little thief, where are you now?"

"Hu!"

Lin Cheng exhaled a mouthful of impure air, as delight surfaced in his eyes. "I've finally completed the refinement."

After half a month, Lin City was finally able to completely refine the azure fire. Currently, the azure fire was like a part of his body; he did not need to wrap it with elemental energy.

The moment he finished refining the azure fire, the Yuan Power in Lin Cheng's body was also stimulated. It circulated rapidly as his meridians revolved crazily, greedily absorbing the Yuan Qi from the outside world.

Lin City knew that this was because his strength was still shallow, and because the azure fire's energy was too great, it caused his body to have a natural reaction.

This was the best time to cultivate.

Lin City didn't have any time to rejoice and immediately began cultivating.

Only now did he realize that the elemental energy in the depths of the Boundless Valley was actually so dense. It was actually several times richer than outside. His cultivation speed suddenly increased.

By the time Lin Cheng woke up from his cultivation, he had already opened up all the meridians in his body and condensed three more chakras in his body.

At this moment, he was already a cultivator at the 2nd level of the Arterial Circulation Realm.

Lin Cheng stood up, and his spirit was brimming with energy. As he spread out his perception, he discovered that his senses had also greatly strengthened. As he spread out his perception, he could see everything within a hundred meter radius.

"Such rich Essence Qi!"

This caused him to be extremely surprised, "When I first came down, I did not sense such a dense amount of Essence Qi. It seems like, when the Azure Flame erupted, it must have devoured the energy of the outside world, which is why I was unable to feel it."

Now that the azure fire was no longer violent, the outside world's vitality began to slowly recover.

"No wonder the green blue flame is here. Only a place with abundant energy like this can cause the green blue flame to grow stronger." Lin City suddenly thought of that cold pond again. The scorching azure fire and the bone-chilling cold of the cold pond were mutually incompatible, and because of this, the azure fire could safely exist in the deep valleys and not burn this deep valley.

Even if it was the Heaven and Earth Primordial Flame, it could not burn through everything. There was still a cold pond that could counter it, and even the strongest cultivator would have a weakness and be able to restrain it.

Moments later, Lin Cheng came down from the tree, and after determining his direction, he left the valley.

In reality, Lin City had also suspected that there might be a treasure in the depths of the cold pond. Moreover, it was a treasure that could restrain the scorching heat of the azure fire.

This was because he was very clear that the news of the events at the bottom of the valley had definitely spread. The Eastern Region Academy would definitely send people down here to investigate, and there might even be some cultivators who would come down.

Although he was already at the second level of the Arterial Circulation Realm, he had no confidence to win against cultivators.

Furthermore, Lin Chen could faintly feel that there were some changes within the valley. Although he had yet to discover anything, he felt a sense of unease in his heart. Thus, he decisively gave up on investigating the cold pond and directly left.

Lin City was not in a hurry to get up. Instead, they were travelling in a certain direction at the bottom of the valley.

Once the East Region Academy found out that Shui Ani had been killed, they would definitely chase after him crazily. At the same time, they would probably seal off the Boundless forest for miles around. If he went up there now, he would very likely be caught in the East Region Academy's investigation.

However, four hours later, Lin Cheng stopped in his tracks, his countenance turning extremely grim.

He discovered that as he quickly moved forwards, the heaven and earth origin energy in the valley became denser and denser. However, there was also an inexplicable pressure that made his heart palpitate.

"We can't go any further."

Lin City immediately decided to go up from here.

He had great trust in his own intuition. This was a natural reaction of a martial artist to the outside world after they had reached a certain realm. Ordinary people might not be able to sense it, but a martial artist's perception had become extremely keen through cultivation.

Especially after he had refined the azure fire, his perception had become sharper, and his range of perception had increased by a lot.

This kind of palpitation indicated that there was something that made him feel threatened.

Lin Cheng didn't say anything else. He immediately turned and walked towards the precipice. Carefully releasing his perception, he avoided the spatial turbulence as much as possible before finally arriving at the precipice.

"BOOM!"

Suddenly, a low and deep sound that was like the sound of a war drum pierced through, and this low and deep sound seemed to have struck his chest.

Lin Cheng's whole body abruptly tightened, as if he was suffocating.