A Typical Reincarnation

Chapter 22 - Subdue, Refine!

Right as Xu Qi felt all hope was lost, he looked down at himself, accepting his death. He realized a ball of rainbow light had suddenly appeared. It enveloped Xu Qi's entire body in an instant. After the light appeared, Xu Qi no longer felt any burning pain from the golden flame.

Not only that, the golden fire immediately retracted all its flames from Xu Qi's body as the rainbow light shone. In the blink of an eye, it returned to the initial tiny ball of golden flame as when it first appeared. Then, it slowly changed its form into a flaming shortsword and launched itself towards Xu Qi's heart, much to his surprise. Feeling the horror, he shut his eyes in fear of the imminent penetration.

At that moment, millions of thoughts flew through Xu Qi's mind. But after a while, Xu Qi didn't feel any of the anticipated pain. He slowly reopened his eyes and saw the golden flaming shortsword located a fist's span away from his heart. The sword strike was blocked by a rainbow energy protective barrier!

Looking at the situation, Xu Qi finally relaxed a little. He looked on with interest at the confrontation between his rainbow energy and the golden flame, without a care about his predicament.

Alas, the flaming shortsword was unable to break through the rainbow energy barrier. It retreated a little, then transformed into a longsword. With that, it stabbed towards the rainbow barrier once more, causing Xu Qi's heart to tighten as he watched. The reason was the flaming longsword was actually slowly penetrating the rainbow barrier!

Hang in there, Xu Qi pleaded in his heart. In his current circumstances, he couldn't dodge, even if he wanted to. He could only pin his hopes on the rainbow energy.

The flaming longsword was slowly inching through the rainbow energy; it almost touched Xu Qi's skin over his heart. At that moment, the rainbow energy enveloping the entirety of Xu Qi's body all gathered towards the flaming longsword and wrapped around the flame in a flash instead. The flaming longsword swayed for a second, and the rainbow energy grew brighter. What happened was the latter was actually compressing the flaming longsword.

Following the pressure exerted by the rainbow energy, the golden flaming longsword gradually lost its form and disappeared. What remained of it was only a tiny sphere of rainbow energy with a flame the size of a candle wick jumping about in it.

Xu Qi knew this rainbow colored energy was the energy from Celestial Core Pill. It saved his life once before and once more now. Items from Goddess Nuwa are useful indeed! Xu Qi couldn't help but praise Nuwa inwardly.

Back to the golden flame, it was prancing about within the rainbow energy sphere, gradually calming down. When it was finally completely still, the rainbow sphere of energy quickly found its way into Xu Qi's body, together with the wick of golden flame.

Just as Xu Qi was feeling fortunate to have survived, he saw both the rainbow energy and golden flame slip into his body. He immediately felt uptight once more, pleading with a saddened look, "Please, the two of you. My body would not be able to take it if you decided to go for another round."

In fact, the fear Xu Qi had just shown was not an act; his energy was emptied by the book of All-tempering Flame, followed by getting burned by the golden flame. Even his stark naked body was somewhat burnt now. Talk about a sorry figure. If the rainbow energy struggled with the golden flame again, Xu Qi would truly be done for.

Just when Xu Qi was pleading for the two entities not to collide in his body, he suddenly felt some warmth around his heart. The warmth spread through his body, which started recovering Xu Qi's weakened state. A look of happiness returned to his face as he realized the phenomenon. Xu Qi waited for his body to have enough strength to move, then sat on the ground in meditation.