Chapter 154 - Nether Fire True Qi!

Subsequently, Zhou Yu channeled his True Qi to envelop the Nether Fire Lotus Platform.

This Nether Fire Lotus Platform survived after being scorched by the underground Nether Fire.

Logically speaking, given the high temperature of the underground Nether Fire, it would be impossible for a plant like the lotus platform to withstand it, but nature is so miraculous that it can always nurture miracles in special environments.

Once this lotus platform survived, it could continually absorb the essence of Nether Fire until it turned entirely black.

What Zhou Yu had to do was to absorb the essence of Nether Fire within the lotus platform so that it could merge with his True Qi, endowing it with the Nether Fire Attribute.

Zhou Yu constantly injected True Qi into the lotus platform, and then, using the method the old man taught him, he executed a set of complicated seal formations.

The moment the seal formations were completed.

Boom!

In the darkness, a cluster of deep blue Nether Fire suddenly erupted, enveloping Zhou Yu entirely.

Fortunately, the area was secluded enough that, apart from the Lin Family, no one would come here.

Therefore, it did not cause a sensation.

Zhou Yu circulated his True Qi with all his might, slowly absorbing the Nether Fire surrounding him.

By dawn the next day, the Nether Fire wrapped around Zhou Yu had been gradually absorbed by him.

Zhou Yu slowly opened his eyes.

After a brief muddiness, his eyes gradually regained clarity, and then Zhou Yu extended his palm forward and pushed out with a palm strike.

Boom!

A large area of the bamboo forest in front of him instantly burst into flames.

A flash of excitement passed through Zhou Yu’s eyes.

“I didn’t expect the essence of Nether Fire contained within the Nether Fire Lotus Platform to far exceed my expectations.”

“This time, I really stumbled upon a treasure.”

Now that his True Qi had acquired the Nether Fire Attribute, one could say his strength had taken a significant step upward.

The most critical point was that with Nether Fire True Qi, he could now cultivate a martial technique—the True Fire Three Mystery Explosion.

What he lacked most now was a powerful martial technique.

As long as he successfully cultivated it, in the realm of the Great Innate, he would have no rival.

However, the day had already dawned, and Zhou Yu did not want to cultivate during the daytime to avoid making too much commotion; he decided to wait until night to continue his cultivation.

He extinguished the flames burning in the bamboo forest, then stretched lazily and walked out.

Just as he entered the living room, he saw Lin Luoluo tidying up and coming downstairs.

With a smiling face, Zhou Yu prepared to greet her, but Lin Luoluo coldly glared at him, then brushed past his shoulder and strode out.

“Eh…”

Zhou Yu was speechless.

After breakfast, Zhou Yu went to the courtyard.

Lin Chaodong and Hou Baoguo were drinking tea in the yard.

Zhou Yu smiled and said,

“Master Hou, how have you been feeling lately?”

Hou Baoguo laughed and said,

“Haha, other than not being able to use my right hand, I’m completely fine.”

“Master Hou, do you remember that I mentioned before that to completely cure the evil Qi in your right hand, we needed to wait for the right moment?”

“Now, the time has come.”

“Really?” Hou Baoguo suddenly stood up, his face filled with disbelief.

He had thought that Zhou Yu’s words were just an excuse, believing that Zhou Yu was out of options for his right hand and had said that to save face.

He hadn’t expected the time to come so soon.

“Of course,” Zhou Yu said with a smile.

“Master Hou, I will now completely cure you.”

Lin Chaodong quickly got up.

“Xiaoyu, are you going to do it here?

Do you need me to do anything?”

Zhou Yu smiled slightly.

“Grandfather, you go back first, don’t let anyone disturb me.”

“Alright, no problem.”

After Lin Chaodong left, Zhou Yu asked Hou Baoguo to sit down, and then he began to expel the evil Qi from him.

The evil Qi in Hou Baoguo’s body had already been driven into his right hand by Zhou Yu, but because this part of the evil Qi had fused with Hou Baoguo’s inner True Qi, it was extremely difficult to expel.

But now, it was different.

Zhou Yu had Nether Fire True Qi, and he could use it to smelt and completely purify the evil Qi.

“Master Hou, bear with it a bit!”

After saying that, Zhou Yu directly grabbed Hou Baoguo’s right hand.

Hissss—

Hou Baoguo’s right palm started to smoke as if it were being roasted.

Hou Baoguo’s body trembled, showing a look of agony.

This intense pain persisted for nearly three hours before gradually subsiding.

By then, Hou Baoguo’s previously pitch-black right palm had returned to a normal appearance.

Clearly, the evil Qi accumulated in his palm had been completely eliminated.

Zhou Yu withdrew his hand and said with a light smile,

“Master Hou, try to feel it and see how it is.”

At this moment, Hou Baoguo, though his face was extremely pale from the pain, the excitement and exhilaration in his eyes were unmistakable.

He could clearly feel that the evil Qi inside him had vanished.

Hou Baoguo slowly closed his eyes, and after a moment, he opened them incredulously.

“The evil Qi has been completely purged, and my level of cultivation has also…”

“I’m nearly just one step away from entering the Grand Innate realm.”

“How did this happen?”

Injured for ten years, and suddenly cured in one day, not only had his cultivation not regressed, but it had even advanced.

Was there really such good fortune under the heavens?

Zhou Yu said with a smile,

“Master Hou, although you have been troubled by evil Qi for ten years, good and bad fortune depend on each other.

The quality of your True Qi has greatly improved as it struggled against the evil Qi.”

“Now that the evil Qi has been completely purified, the True Qi inside you has lost the suppression of the evil Qi and has naturally erupted, thus significantly increasing your cultivation level.”

Hou Baoguo was no novice in Qi Refinement; he was, in fact, a Grandmaster-level figure.

He was very clear that the process was far from being as simple as Zhou Yu described.

The key lay in purification.

During the treatment by Zhou Yu, Hou Baoguo’s True Qi was not damaged, but had even absorbed the purified evil Qi, which caused his level of cultivation to rise instead of fall.

And the key to purification was Zhou Yu’s fearsome Flame True Qi.

“Zhou Yu, may I ask, why does your True Qi have a flame attribute?” Hou Baoguo inquired.

Zhou Yu smiled lightly.

“On this trip to Wucheng, I fortuitously obtained a Nether Fire Lotus Platform.”

“Could it be the Nether Fire Lotus Platform auctioned by Bamboo Pavilion?” Hou Baoguo asked.

“Oh?” Zhou Yu was taken aback.

“Master Hou, how do you know?

Does Bamboo Pavilion often auction such things?”