Tainted will

The middle-aged man sat on the ground and faced Bai Ming with a smile on his face.

"Greetings Elder," Bai Ming stood up and greeted respectfully.

The elder nodded and gestured Bai Ming to sit down as he spoke in a mild tone, "If I am not mistaken, you're Elder Teng's personal disciple right?"

"Yes, Lord Teng Zhe is my teacher." Bai Ming replied politely.

"Oh, is that so.." the elder's eyes shone momentarily, "Okay, let us not waste time and jump straight right into it."

The elder then started giving lessons.

Since Bai Ming was a blank canvas in the fire path area, The elder had to begin teaching him from the rudimentary and gradually make his way up. What he taught were some concepts and experiences. He occasionally performed a few movements with the Flame essence.

Bai Ming listened intently, he occasionally asked questions. Most of the time, he comprehended the concepts due to his ridiculously high comprehension talent and the elder's superb teaching style.

Soon, Bai Ming's brain was crammed with myriad new thoughts and hypotheses about the lessons. He fell into deep reflection.

After three educational hours, the man stopped teaching and signaled Bai Ming to leave.

Bai Ming rose to walk out of the palace slowly. He was in deep contemplation.

But suddenly his footsteps paused as heard the elder call out to him.

The elder gulped a mouthful of wine and said, "Child, a word of advice from this old man. Would you like to hear it?"

"Elder, I wouldn't dare refuse please show this junior the way." Bai Ming replied politely.

The elder smiled lightly and said, "I suppose this won't be your last visit to the fire temple."

"No,"

"Then, when you come for lessons in the future remember to only book the class for a single-hour time slot."

To this Bai Ming showed a puzzled look.

The elder took one look at Bai Ming's face and patiently said, "Even though you have an extremely high comprehension affinity for the fire path, you were only able to comprehend practically everything because the class is in its elementary stage, the next time you visit here the things I'll teach you will be a tier higher."

"Even considering you're top-class comprehension skills, If you were to book longer classes from now you will miss many of the finer details but that's not all. It'll also affect your attainment progress because of your inability to keep up. Which will not only burden your mind but is also a waste of you're sect points."

Bai Ming's eyes lit up, he politely thanked the elder before taking his leave.

Bai Ming once again headed towards the Secret land of Heaven and Earth, paying ten thousand sect points he booked a chamber for the following four hours.

'I have already gained immense understanding of the fire element, but I have numerous theories running a muck in my brain I need to completely absorb this newfound knowledge and capsulize them. I also need to develop my own viewpoint regarding that old man's theories, otherwise my comprehension will just be a second copy product of his, which isn't the right path to tread on and this is the best place to do just that.' Bai Ming thought as he commenced his fire path cultivation.

.....

A massive boom echoed, followed by the sky splitting in half. One side was filled with a raging inferno to burn the world asunder, while the other was a fierce blizzard capable of freezing everything.

Four miserable figures were sent flying hundreds of meters coughing out blood and ice fragments as they fiercely smashed into the ground like a meteor, picking up a cloud of dust.

The four naked Yang realm cultivators painstakingly stood up, burnt marks and deep cuts spanned all over their bodies, the spiritual essence in their bodies was nearly frozen solid.

"Are we done playing?"

An arrogant voice resounded throughout the battlefield, the Yang realm cultivators secretly clenched their teeth and raised their heads to look at the blessed twins of heaven.

High above the ground a gigantic pair of contrasting yet domineering dragons coiled around each other, one radiated scorching hot flames while the other emitted a profound yin arua.

Su Yang and Su Yin were seated on top of the humongous dragon heads staring down coldly.

"I said, are we done playing?" Su Yang snickered coldly.

The Yang realm cultivators exchanged glances, and the next second their Yang realm aura suddenly erupted like wildfire.

"We are not done!" With crazed looks on their faces the four of them moved in sync and formed a square formation, they curled up their fists before slamming them against their chests and spitting out golden blood essence. Using the golden blood essence they swiftly drew an intricate symbol on the ground and madly poured their spiritual essence into it.

"It's the four crimson moon combination" Su Yin uttered softly, her eyes shined brilliantly.

The Four crimson moon combination was a famous combination move of the second-tier Moon Light sect, which was exterminated by the red lotus sect nearly a hundred years ago. It could allow four cultivators who cultivate the same cultivation mantra to fuse their Spiritual essence into one temporarily, going into a state where all four work as one, regardless of defending or attacking.

"Hmph! They have been leaching to teacher all this time, it is only natural for them to have a few tricks up their sleeve. But...is that it?" Su Yang's gaze was cold, but his heart was relaxed.

"Don't look down on it, we also need to go all out to come out victorious from this." Su Yin chided.

Su Yang let out a grunt of acknowledgment, he was arrogant but not stupid. He quickly glided toward Su Yin and stood behind her, placing both of his palms on her plump ass.

"Ahh!" Su Yin was startled, she wanted to reprimand Su Yang, But he quickly began transferring his essence into her body.

"Quickly, they are almost done preparing. Let's end this play with a grand spectacle." Su Yang devilishly whispered in her ears as his hold on her smooth buns tightened, Su Yin groaned softly but she quickly began focusing on the task ahead.

Eight thousand meters away, two figures quietly hovered in the sky casually watching the ongoing battle.

"So, what do you think of you're senior brother and sister?" Zhou Yi asked plainly as he observed the battle.

"Weak," An cold and emotionless voice answered.

Hearing this Zhou Yi laughed heartily before he slightly tilted his head to glance at his youngest disciple.

Dressed in white robes, whose face was covered with a red fabric. Even his hair had been wrapped inside. He did not show his eyes, nose, or mouth at all, appearing extremely bizarre.

Moreover, his white robes were exceptionally spacious, so there was no way to discern whether he was a man or woman from the figure alone. Only from his boyish voice could one make out his gender.

"That is because Zhi Yan, you are special." Zhou Yi stated with a slight smile on his face.

'Special, huh' Zhi Yan sneered inwardly, but on the surface, he said in a tone filled with arrogance and hidden meaning, "Of course, I am extremely special. I am one in a million after all, one in a million."

Zhou Yi stared at Zhi Yan expressionlessly, he said word for word; "Zhi Yan, you do understand that I am the one who granted you strength right. You have only me to thank for your achievements, why don't you thank me?" Saying this Zhou Yi paused. Zhi Yan was silent, a eerie silence engulfed the surroundings only to be broken by Zhou Yi's muffled laughter.

"Hehe, I am just kidding. Now, go and make a good impression on your fellow apprentices. You'll need them to obey you when you enter the mystic realm." Zhou Yi instructed, his gaze once again shifted toward the battlefield.

Zhi Yan soundlessly vanished from his spot and speedily approached the battlefield.

On the battlefield,

"Huff, Done! The preparations are finally complete."

"Let's see if these brats can be still so haughty!"

"Hahaha..." The four Yang realm experts laughed, having unwavering confidence in their combination move.

At this moment.

Hum~~

Su Yin had both of her palms spread out, in the void above her soft palms an azure petal soundlessly floated in a circular motion. Thick white flames writhed out from the azure petal. The transcendent flame burned the air until it became slightly distorted and illusionary.

The group's wild laughter abruptly came to an end and beads of sweat immediately formed on their foreheads, they began shouting profanities in their hearts.

"Idiots, did you actually assume you were the only people with a combination technique." Su Yang mocked, but his eyes showed exhaustion. This combination move was the duo's ultimate move, the expenditure on spiritual essence was tremendous and along with a high rate of consumption of mental energy to combine foreign spiritual essences.

The Yang realm cultivators could feel the horrifying essence leaking out from the petal, it was enough to make their blood run cold.

"Attack!" The Yang realm cultivators roared frantically, as they made a seal.

Whoosh…

A stream of Scarlet essence rose into the air from the golden symbols and spiraled wildly.

Following, the second stream, third stream, fourth stream…

In a blink of an eye, large numbers of blood-red streams were created one after another and converged in the air, creating a wild gale.

These finger-sized scarlet streams pressed at each other and formed a deep red speck of light, the deep speck of light gradually inflated, forming a head-sized bloody sphere. The Scarlet sphere seemed to have immeasurable depth in it as if the ocean was condensed into it, even the light around it was terrifying.

One of the Yang realm cultivator held the scarlet sphere his hands, a mad killing intent radiated from his body when he looked at this bloody sphere.

"Uneducated brats! Take this!!" The Yang realm cultivator's eyes were bloodshot, he suddenly shouted and disappeared from his place.

The next moment, he appeared four hundred meters above the enemy.

"Go and die!" The man let out a burst of crazed laughter and flipped over his wrist; as if he was holding a thousand pounds of weight, he exerted all his strength to slowly push the scarlet sphere towards Su Yang and Su Yin.

Following his movement, that small red sphere madly expanded and in several breaths of time, it had expanded to the size of a small hill.

The twins looked at the pressing giant sphere and felt heaviness as if lead was poured into their bodies

However, the corners of Su Yang and Su Yin's lips curled up forming a smirk.

Su Yin looked towards the sky, the sphere growing bigger and bigger in her sight, but her expression was a scene of calmness: "Sure enough like I expected, the four crimson moon combination is indeed is worthy of its fame. But it's still not enough.."

Su Yin unhurriedly pointed her index finger at the crashing sphere, the flaming petal stopped radiating energy and sucked in huge amounts of heaven and earth essence as it suddenly dashed toward the red sphere in a seemingly slow speed but was actually very fast.

"Let me teach you, this is the combination move I and sister have spent two years of our life to perfect, it was specially made to fight against cultivators of higher realms. Today let us spirit realm juniors show you Yang realm seniors you're true place." Su Yang proclaimed his victory as he and Su Yin retreated back.

The four Yang realm cultivators had bloodshot eyes and anxiousness etched on their faces. If they were to lose this confrontation, they would have to hunt 200 Yin-Yang cultivators the difficulty of achieving this task was extraordinarily high, and failure in completing this task meant certain death for themselves and their family members.

The horrifying blood-red sphere and the mystical flaming petal were just inches away from colliding, six pairs of eyes intently stared and braced themselves for the upcoming spiritual outburst.

But the expected explosion never came, instead a figure dressed in white robes stood between the flaming petal and the crimson sphere. This change made the participants open their eyes wide open till the point of their eyeballs popping out.

Zhi Yan slightly raised his right foot and lightly pressed on the white cloud below his feet.

The originally tranquil cloud crazily surged as clouds and mists burst out in blink of an eye like boiling water, and formed into a humongous vortex.

The vortex immediately rose up like a giant opened mouth and swallowed the dark sphere whole.

"This is?!" The Yang realm cultivators were shocked before turning furious. The blessed twins of heaven were equally shocked.

Zhi Yan soundlessly made a grabbing action at the the petal as an eerie green light swept out from his hand and turned into a monstrous claw as it tried to forcefully grasp the petal and crush it.

The domineering claw tightly held the petal for a few breaths before it started to tremble, the snow white flames on the petal engulfed the demonic claw and right away froze it into a massive chuck of ice.

Crack, crack..

Spider web-like cracks formed on the claw before it quickly shattered apart, the petal continued to make its way toward Zhi Yan.

Zhi Yan's expression couldn't be made out due to the red fabric covering his entire face, but he was still soundless as he made a hand sign.

Following his hand sign otherworldly green flames erupted from his entire body, and actually warped the void. He then waved both arms in attack, green wings suddenly grew out, these wings were covered with closely woven patterns that shone with glorious light and looked to be extremely terrifying in might. The dreadful green flames made their way into the wings and soon the wings were also wrapped in a layer of flames.

A pair of hundred feet long blazing wings detached themselves from Zhi Yan's body and freely charged at the petal, the scorching petal was greedily captured by the pair of flaming wings.

Three breaths of time passed, a muffled bang was heard from inside the cocoon formed by the wings. The wings slowly deteriorated and the battlefield fell into an odd silence.

Su Yang and Su Yin stared with extreme shock in their gazes and their mouths were slightly open.

Zhi Yan waved his hands as the flames coating his body vanished, he faced the twins who were blankly staring at him.

"Uhhh, nice to meet you I guess."