After a while, Vishdair woke up and clenched his fist: "Huh?"

Seeing this, Lin Guang couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.

The acquisition of the Water and Fire Body did not surprise him. It was a reward that was sure to come after investing the most favored spiritual materials of the Water Separation Essence, and it was only a temporary status, one that would eventually expire.

It was the latter that was the main reason for his joy.

The two-star Water/Fire Dual Attribute Spirit Pattern "Burning Water" was the greatest benefit a "player" could obtain in the Flame Turtle Secret Realm during the early stages of the game, and it even held further potential and possibilities for advancement in the future.

Apart from the inherent stat boost of attribute spirit patterns, their abilities were not very versatile, being quite specialized. However, this domineering specialized ability could compensate for the shortcomings of water/fire attribute spirit beasts.

It could allow the "water" and "fire" attributes to not conflict to a certain extent, something that only some extremely special spirit beasts—such as the Water Separation Essence—could do.

It's well known that water and fire are two mutually restraining attributes that produce intense reactions when they collide.

However, under the enhancement of "Burning Water," the traits between water and fire change.

To give two specific examples: When attacking water attribute spirit beasts, Vishdair's fire attribute ether could exert its normal power, whereas when attacked by water attribute spirit beasts, the fire attribute ether within Vishdair's body could also exert its expected defense power.

Moreover, neither the water attribute skills nor water-rich environments could affect Vishdair.

If a Spirit Master possesses spirit beasts of both water and fire attributes, they can also train to perfectly combine the skills of both to create a more powerful "Combined Technique."

...

In a certain volcano, Huai Shouren was lying in a hot spring, accompanied by his two spirit beasts, the Blue Elite Level sea fog shark and the blue crevice lizard, both having the potential for advancement to the Purple Legend level.

Boom...

A rumbling sound came from afar, Huai Shouren slightly raised his eyebrows and glanced at the time, "It seems a bit early this year."

Over the years, the three major families have commonly thrown in spiritual materials with only forty or fifty minutes remaining, and it has become customary, but Huai Shouren didn't think much of it, got up from the hot spring, and changed his clothes.

Huai Shouren flipped his wrist and took out pieces of glowing water/fire attribute spiritual materials from his spatial spiritual artifact, casually tossing them into the hot spring, some of which were Tier Two or even Tier Three.

As one of the families actually controlling the secret realm, he naturally knew that the true nature of this hot spring was actually a rare spirit beast with Purple Legend level potential, the "Water Separation Essence," such spirit beasts have quirky and unpredictable temperaments like water and fire, very difficult to capture, and most dislike restraints, so both sides only reached a minimal cooperation, exchanging spiritual materials for one annual opportunity to observe the "spectacle."

The more magnificent the spectacle, the higher the chance of comprehending a natural spirit pattern, even influencing the strength of the natural spirit pattern, and the magnificence of the spectacle "Heaven-Burning Water" is determined by the Water Separation Essence, which means needing to earn its favor.

The Water Separation Essence is quite a rare spirit beast, with little study done on it, even though the Huai Family has controlled the secret realm for years, they haven't figured out its preferences, only constantly throwing in middle-tier spiritual materials.

Exchanging these middle-tier spiritual materials for a natural spirit pattern of one-star to two-star—most are one-star spirit patterns—seems quite uneconomical.

After all, artificial spirit patterns, as the crystallization of human wisdom, most chosen for transformation are versatile and effective, capable of reaching similar or even superior effects through different combinations.

But the issue is, natural spirit patterns are the crucial keys for Five-star Spirit Masters to complete breakthroughs and advance to "True Man!"

The reason for the "strangeness" in spectacle is firstly its grandeur and splendor, and secondly its rarity with unreplicable formation, some high-tier spectacles have appeared only two or three times in human history.

More than three hundred years ago, at the bottom of the Deep Sea Grand Canyon in the east of Great Xia, a Desolate Beast—the Desolate Sea Dragon—advanced to Tier Eight as the Secret Realm Master, causing abrupt environmental changes.

The environmental changes brought by the evolution of such high-level life forms have both positive and negative sides, and the advancement of the Desolate Sea Dragon apparently brought a bad end for humanity, not only did the normal ocean environment completely turn into a domain of the evil and poison elements, but it also became a complete human forbidden zone, all sailing routes must detour around it.

Not only that, but it also awakens and surfaces every hundred years during the spectacle Great Demon Yin Thunder Heaven, wreaking havoc and polluting the surrounding ecological environment, even indiscriminately attacking all spirit beasts in nearby waters causing devastating damages.

This spectacle, in essence, is watching the Desolate Sea Dragon's moves, even bearing its aftermath.

It's said that more than ninety years ago, several Eight-Star Spirit Masters planned to hunt this Secret Realm Master during its hundred-year departure from the secret realm, yet couldn't due to changes on the demon race's battlefield, leaving great regret.

For the family descendants with abundant resources and enough ambition, attaining natural spirit patterns becomes quite crucial.

A secret realm capable of "producing" natural spirit patterns annually without risk, even if Heaven-Burning Water is merely a low-tier spectacle of the water/fire attributes, is worthy of negotiation between the families and the Great Xia's official, they not only secured three annual permanent usage rights but also spent a fortune monopolizing its information.

——This is the reason behind the confidentiality agreement before entering the secret realm!

After tossing approximately a cubic amount of spiritual materials, Huai Shouren stopped his actions, and together with the blue crevice lizard and sea fog shark ascended to the mountain top—utilizing the Tier Two power of the sea fog shark to control the surrounding water attribute ether to achieve levitation—and gazed at the hot spring with some heat and anticipation in his eyes.

Rumble Rumble...

At this point, two successive rumbling noises came, causing Huai Shouren a slight shock; he turned his head, although it was too far to see clearly, he confirmed that light columns representing Heaven-Burning Water rose atop all three volcanoes.

"What's going on, too many people?!"

There have already been three volcanic eruptions, who is this extra one?

No way!

Huai Shouren frowned deeply. He suddenly noticed that these three beams of light were peculiar—rising at almost identical heights and thicknesses; he didn't believe this was a coincidence and deduced that the spiritual materials invested in these three volcanoes were the same.

If the Jiang and Wang families wanted to make friends or collaborate with a "third party," they wouldn't need to keep it from the Huai Family, but Huai Shouren hadn't heard of them revealing any information to a third party, let alone preparing identical spiritual materials.

From this, one can conclude that there are no people from the other two major families in these three volcanoes.

In other words, could the Great Xia officials have discovered the secret and broken the agreement?

Huai Shouren immediately fell into contemplation.

But quickly, a loud sound pulled him back to reality. Huai Shouren instinctively turned his head to see an unforgettable scene—a massive beam of light rose into the sky from a volcano dozens of kilometers away, directly piercing through the clouds with unstoppable momentum.

"How is this possible?!!!"

Huai Shouren's pupils shrank, and he couldn't help but shout.

To preserve the initial shock and emotion felt upon witnessing it firsthand, aiding in the understanding of the Natural Spirit Pattern, the Huai Family didn't record this spectacle on film, but data recordings existed. He clearly remembered that throughout the Huai Family's 31-year control of the Secret Realm, even with investments of Tier Four or Tier Five Spiritual Materials, "Heaven-Burning Water" never had such grandeur, being only half or even smaller than the one before him.

Could it be that someone knows what spiritual material pleases the Water Separation Essence the most?

The Jiang Family? Or the Wang Family?

After the surprise, Huai Shouren realized something and suddenly became furious.

The three major families may not be completely united, but they share interests to a great extent. Such a trivial secret of "Heaven-Burning Water" would inevitably be shared with the Huai Family— but the problem is, Huai Shouren had already been here once; the opportunity was no longer his.

It's not scary that everyone doesn't have it, what's scary is if others have it, and I don't!

Boom...

At this moment, the Water Separation Essence in Huai Shouren's volcano had accumulated enough energy, and a red-blue column of fire spewed upwards. He quickly turned back, eyes wide, wanting to engrave this spectacular scene in his mind, but his mind was filled with the unprecedented eruption, subconsciously comparing it with his own, desperately realizing that the spectacle before him was less than one-third of its thickness and length.

Small and cute too.

For some reason, this phrase popped into Huai Shouren's mind.

With his proficiency at the Entering the Hall level of the Meditation Contract Technique, he gritted his teeth and steadied his spirit, drinking a potion and forcibly starting to comprehend and outline the Natural Spirit Pattern in the Water Separation Essence's domain.

He wasn't without inspiration, but he couldn't completely empty his mind. Although he could invest in understanding nature and wonders, a vague impatience and urgency in his heart repeatedly caused errors in his pen.

It wasn't until the eruption ended that Huai Shouren barely managed to outline two-thirds of the pattern.

However, at this point, the inspiration in his mind began to dry up.

He could only watch helplessly as the pattern he outlined up to two-thirds gradually faded, ultimately dispersing.

"No... No, no, no!!"

"Whimper?"

He felt the Water Separation Essence before him, shrinking back to its original form, was taunting him. After venting by slapping the tail of the sea mist shark, he turned his head away hopelessly.

"Hmm?"

Huai Shouren's eyes widened.

The three beams of light that erupted before, along with the one piercing the sky, still existed, but the key point was, aside from these, two more beams rose—that he hadn't noticed during eruption as his heart power was focused within the Sea of Spirit.

This means, there were a total of seven volcanic eruptions within the Secret Realm.

Upon comparison, Huai Shouren found that the length and thickness of the final two beams were similar to the one before him, leading him to suspect that these two water-fire columns actually belonged to the Jiang and Wang families.

In other words, that awe-inspiring "Heaven-Burning Water" belonged to none of the two major families.

Though unclear about the Great Xia officials' situation, at this point, Huai Shouren's mindset surprisingly returned to a state of balance.

The Jiang and Wang families triggered the spectacle after Huai Shouren.

Huai Shouren didn't believe that after witnessing the jaw-dropping, unprecedented "Heaven-Burning Water," the two families could still maintain a perfect mindset to envision nature.

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