The pure white bones were turning charred black at a speed visible to the naked eye. If left unattended, they would be completely incinerated before long.
Even with its ultimate attributes, Fire Dance's phoenix bone wings exhibited such a violent reaction upon contacting the spring water.
Fire Dance's physical body had long since fully adapted to the extremely hot elemental force permeating the spring water's surroundings.
However, there was a world of difference between warming one's hands by a fire and placing them directly into the flames.
Although the phoenix bone wings weren't completely immune to fire, they possessed extreme fire resistance. Even so, they were on the verge of collapse when faced with the blazing Yang Spring.
Quan Yi could feel the power of the phoenix hidden within the phoenix bones, erupting with powerful vitality and explosiveness at the boundary between life and death.
This power demonstrated a tenacious resistance when faced with the high-temperature invasion of the blazing Yang Spring.
The golden-red纹路 on the surface of the intact bone wings that hadn't submerged into the Yang Spring began to bloom with brilliant light from the tips, spreading upwards at an extremely fast speed.
This was the Yang Spring's heat rapidly conducting along the bone wings, causing the bone wings' energy to be passively activated to resist the high-temperature invasion.
However, this passive resistance relying solely on the phoenix bone wings was insufficient to effectively defend against the Yang Spring.
When the golden纹路 spread to the roots, the sound of red-hot iron touching flesh rang out from Fire Dance's back.
"Hiss~!"
The clothing on Fire Dance's back was instantly incinerated, but the exposed back didn't evoke any alluring atmosphere.
Because Fire Dance's originally smooth, fair, and delicate skin was now covered with burn scars, with traces of carbonization near the roots of the bone wings.
This was only the surface damage; the more serious issue was actually the extensive burns inside the body.
The phoenix bone wings were completely integrated with the bones of Fire Dance's upper body.
Quan Yi could see that the areas covered by soul bones on her upper body were beginning to glow with a golden-red light.
Accompanying this was the invasion of high temperatures throughout her upper body.
It was important to know that bones like the sternum and ribs were very close to vital human organs.
If her back was already in such a state, the miserable condition of these internal human organs could be imagined.
"Activate soul skills!"
Quan Yi prompted loudly, preventing Fire Dance from losing consciousness due to the pain. Quan Yi's shout contained a considerable mental impact.
Due to the rapid increase in internal body temperature, Fire Dance's consciousness was indeed beginning to blur.
Fortunately, Quan Yi's reminder worked, making Fire Dance realize the seriousness of the situation.
"Sixth Soul Skill, Phoenix's Protection."
An ancient phoenix cry echoed in the void, and a rose-red soul ring lit up beneath Fire Dance's feet.
A golden-red vitality, almost materialized, surged from within Fire Dance's body.
At the moment the life energy surged forth, the various organs of her body, which were gradually collapsing due to the high temperature, returned to normal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Moreover, with the surge of a large amount of vitality, the resistance of the phoenix bone wings suddenly strengthened.
Blinding golden-red light spread from Fire Dance's body back to the tips of the bone wings.
The bones that were about to turn into coke and completely disintegrate burst forth with a strange vitality.
Quan Yi could clearly see that the damaged bones were regenerating at an extremely fast speed, and during the regeneration process, a trace of the Yang Spring's energy was also stripped away and integrated into the bones.
The completely dead bones, like dead skin, fell off the bone wings, replaced by new, pure white bone material.
Moreover, more importantly, the regenerated parts were stronger in terms of bone density and energy intensity than before regeneration.
The high temperature of the Yang Spring brought not only destruction to the phoenix bone wings but also the power of rebirth after destruction.
However, these regenerated bones didn't last long before being covered with a layer of shallow scorch marks again.
However, this time, the vigorous vitality erupted by Fire Dance entered a stalemate with the destructive power of the Yang Spring.
The destruction of the flesh by the high temperature was still ongoing, but the speed of destruction and the speed of recovery were basically the same, ensuring Fire Dance's resistance.
At the same time, this would be an extraordinary tempering of Fire Dance's physical body.
"Huff."
Seeing this, Quan Yi also breathed a sigh of relief.
From now on, Fire Dance only needed to maintain the status quo and continue to 'temper' the phoenix bone wings with the Yang Spring.
And this was the brand-new training method proposed by Fire Dance.
The phoenix bone wings had clearly undergone a significant improvement after fusing with the torso bone of the Azure Flame Phoenix.
During the process of absorbing the soul bone—no, actually, even before that, Fire Dance had discovered that her phoenix bone wings could be continuously strengthened by using external high-temperature flames.
However, the flames that could affect the phoenix bone wings were rare in the world.
The easiest to find was the blazing Yang Spring in front of her.
However, the power of the Yang Spring was too great, and it would only bring devastating damage to Fire Dance before she broke through to the Soul Sage realm.
However, as her strength increased, Fire Dance's phoenix bone wings could barely withstand the high-temperature invasion for a period of time.
On this basis, if she also used the Phoenix's Protection, this powerful recovery skill, her bone wings could also continuously become stronger during the process of high-speed regeneration.
Of course, as an external soul bone, the regeneration of the phoenix bone wings required dozens of times more soul power than the regeneration of the physical body.
Fortunately, this space contained an almost endless supply of extremely hot elemental force, and Fire Dance could quickly replenish the consumed soul power for long-term training.
When the phoenix bone wings could completely adapt to the temperature of the blazing Yang Spring, at that time, the phoenix bone wings, and other soul bones connected to it, would also receive a huge boost.
And this was only Fire Dance's initial goal; she wasn't satisfied with this.
Her ultimate goal was to walk into the Yang Spring with her physical body and temper her physical body with the Yang Spring.
What was terrifying was that Quan Yi didn't have any doubts about the scene Fire Dance described in his heart.
Because, according to the current trend, it seemed that it was only a matter of time before Fire Dance achieved this goal.
"Alas, the gap I finally managed to widen seems to be closed in an instant.
I have to continue to work hard too!"
Quan Yi didn't continue to stay by Fire Dance's side either.
The Dark Gold Yang Dragon Armor covered Quan Yi's body, and he tore off the martial soul of his entire right arm.
The armor of his right arm turned into a slender little dragon, guarding Fire Dance in Quan Yi's place.
And Quan Yi himself left the spring water and walked into Dugu Bo's herb garden.
Even though Quan Yi thought he was very familiar with this herb garden, today, when he came here, he felt a charm that he had never felt before.
That special feeling of being able to communicate with plants made Quan Yi feel close to these plants.
Similarly, he could also feel these plants conveying a sense of closeness to him.
