Chapter 125 - Genuine Gold Fears No Fire (1/2)

A Chinese saying goes like this, “Genuine Gold Fears No Fire”. It means that if you put gold in fire, it will not be destroyed; rather, fire will destroy the impurities in gold and make the gold more purified, brighter and s.h.i.+ner.

It is said that one phoenix, the mythical bird, only raises one baby bird in its entire life. They lay eggs in the raging fire. Baby phoenixes will suffer constant burning and pain before they finally break the sh.e.l.l and reborn.

Lin Luoran was caught in the big net. She felt pain all over her body as her spiritual mind was being burnt by fire. At first, the pain is on her body, but later, the dead woman took control of the body, so the pain was only on her spiritual mind and she now feels hundreds of times more painful than before.

Fortunately, she is strong in mind and she will never admit defeat. If she had the slightest idea of giving up, the dead woman’s spirit fire would have taken the advantage and burnt her into ashes.

However, the more Lin Luoran struggles, the more painful she feels. Gradually, she feels that she is losing her consciousness and she can just curl up on the ground.

At first, she can hear the conversation between Wen Guanjing and the dead woman who wants to rob her body. Gradually, she feels that the sound outside is becoming lower and lower and she can remember nothing but her name. Finally, as the spirit fire keeps burning, she cannot remember how she ends up like this.

“Smaller, much smaller. Will the pain go away if I become small enough?”

Lin Luoran’s spiritual mind shrinks and it is compressed to the size of a walnut, but that is just self-protection out of instinct. In fact, her spiritual mind is not that weak. With the help of the black epiphyllum on the cliff, her spiritual mind is stronger than that of other cultivators at her level since the beginning. After everything she has gone through, she becomes more and more suitable for cultivation. Very few cultivators at the level of Training Qi can match her in terms of the spiritual mind.

Her problem is that she owns a large treasure-house but she doesn’t know how to make use of it. Even though she is inside her own ocean of consciousness, she doesn’t know how to take the home advantage to fight back. She is forced to step back again and again and finally trapped and becomes unable to escape.

She feels drowsy. Suddenly, she hears a clear chirp of phoenix. The chirp is like a wakeup call: it strikes so loud that Lin Luoran’s scattering spiritual mind is awaken a little.

Sobering up, she naturally feels a burning pain. The spirit fire of the dead woman keeps burning her. The pain going deeply into spirit is more painful than the pain on the body.

Lin Luoran is now in a quandary. Suddenly she hears the clear phoenix chirp again. She has no time to think about why there is phoenix chirp and she suddenly recalls the legend of phoenix’s rebirth in the fire.

Why do baby phoenixes not fear of the pain when they are born in fire?

Lin Luoran used to be contemptuous of such a legend. However, she is now in the world of cultivation. Judging from a cultivator’s point of view, is it possible that phoenixes belong to the nature of fire, and that’s why they are not afraid of fire?

She now seems to be in the same situation, surrounded by endless fire. In the same environment, phoenix can reborn from fire, but she only feels endless pain. Is it because she’s not as n.o.ble as the mythical bird, or is there another story?

If I belong to the nature of fire as well… Lin Luoran is shocked by this idea. For a moment, she forgets the pain and just thinks about the possibility of implementing this idea.

She immediately thinks of the separated fire Reiki in her body, and then she recalls its origin.

Lin Luoran remembers that it happened on the rooftop of Baojia’s house. She knew nothing about cultivation at that time so she was hiding there, studying the Fire Ball Spell Wen Guanjing casted. She coincidentally returned tranquility and felt Reiki molecules with different natures.

Fire Reiki molecules with small tails were the naughtiest. Lin Luoran’s spiritual mind was injured at that time, so those Reiki molecules thought she was easy to be bullied and they came to play with her.

She was intoxicated by the beautiful starry sky, and when she woke up, fire Reiki appeared in her body… Is this what happened last time?

Spirit fire is still burning. The time is actually very short, but Lin Luoran feels that it has been burning for so long that she only feels pain and she becomes stubborn and swears to suppress the fire.