Chapter 228: A Moment of Confusion! Special Physique!
"..." Yao Chen, who had been focusing on the cyan magma swirling inside Xiao Yan's body, couldn't help but shift his gaze to Xiao Yan's head when he heard this. The sight of the lush black hair, floating carelessly in the flames, in that moment, felt like a nail, firmly fixing itself in his mind.
That's right! Why is his hair still intact under such high temperatures?!
The flames swirling above Xiao Yan's head immediately caught Yao Chen's full attention, and his brain began to race through logical calculations!
The clothes were burned, indicating the cyan flames were extremely hot! Xiao Yan's body was protected due to the Ice Spirit Cold Spring and the Blood Lotus Pill. However, the Blood Lotus Pill only allowed the blood shackles to form in places where blood flowed! There's blood on his scalp, but not in his hair! And hair is something that should burn at temperatures as low as two to three hundred degrees! Even if Xiao Yan could prevent the strange fire from burning his hair, that could only be done after he has fully subdued the strange fire! So why…?
"Ah, no? Wait, that's wrong?" Just as Yao Chen was falling into a mental breakdown, Jiang Lin, beside him, suddenly rubbed his eyes, not quite believing what he saw. But when he opened his eyes again, he realized he wasn't imagining it!
"Old Yao, look! His hair's gone!" Jiang Lin pointed at Xiao Yan's head, where he was suffering in the cyan flames. He swallowed hard, a feeling of disbelief rising in his heart.
Yao Chen's response left Jiang Lin even more stunned: "It wasn't there to begin with. It was burned by the strange fire... sigh."
"Ah?" Jiang Lin turned to look at Yao Chen, his red eyes showing a trace of unnoticeable shock. However, Yao Chen's expression remained unchanged, and he looked at Jiang Lin strangely and asked, "What? Hair doesn't have blood shackles to protect it, so it's burned away by the strange fire. It's perfectly normal."
Jiang Lin's red-gold eyes instantly became unfocused, and a sense of confusion surged in his heart, as if, in that brief moment, something unnoticed had shifted in the surrounding space-time.
When Jiang Lin's red-gold eyes brightened again, he turned to look at Xiao Yan, who had become completely bald, and a faint smile appeared on his lips: "Yes, without external protection, hair would indeed be burned by the strange fire. That's simply... the rule."
Although he didn't know what had happened, Yao Chen had no memory of Jiang Lin's previous question, but Jiang Lin still remembered. He recalled that just a second ago, Xiao Yan had hair, but as soon as Jiang Lin pointed it out, Xiao Yan instantly became bald.
Xiao Yan, who was struggling in the strange fire: Thanks a lot!!!
It felt like the world had just completed a system update in that moment, but Jiang Lin didn't quite understand why his memory wasn't wiped. Instead, he retained the memory of discovering the world's bug.
Jiang Lin, when researching magic cores and the Winged Scabbard, had been caught in explosions twice, losing his hair both times. So, when he saw Xiao Yan nearly dying in the strange fire, his first focus wasn't on the internal damage to Xiao Yan's meridians but on the absurdity of his hair still being there!
Thankfully, Jiang Lin helped the world discover this bug, and the power of the world activated, automatically correcting the bug of Xiao Yan still having hair. As a reward, Jiang Lin's memory was retained, encouraging him to keep finding hidden bugs in the world.
Alright, the above was all Jiang Lin's interpretation. It could be that his powerful spiritual perception triggered a hallucination at that moment.
"Still, you're something, huh? You arrive and immediately focus on someone else's hair. Can't you see that he's about to burn to death in the strange fire?" Yao Chen's dissatisfied voice echoed in Jiang Lin's mind, breaking his daze as he stared at the now bare-headed Xiao Yan.
"And that expression you had, staring at someone else's bare body, is that proper?" Yao Chen added, slightly annoyed. With Jiang Lin around, Yao Chen couldn't even be tense. Jiang Lin always did things that made no sense in the most unexpected ways.
"Ah, this?" Jiang Lin quickly shook his head, then his red-gold eyes flashed as he observed Xiao Yan on the green lotus platform. He shook his head and said, "It's not a big problem. His physique seems a bit special. While the Green Lotus Earth Heart Flame is burning his meridians, his body seems to be using the energy in the flames to repair itself. Plus, he has already undergone the Fire Forging Technique training... tsk tsk."
Jiang Lin observed the cyan magma in Xiao Yan's meridians and looked somewhat surprised. Because, at this stage, it seemed like… the so-called strange fire body forging?
The more Jiang Lin watched, the more he felt like it resembled the Fire Forging Technique training process.
"Because of you, I almost forgot to guard him. If anything went wrong, it would be over." Though Yao Chen had received Jiang Lin's observations, he still glared at him with annoyance. Then he heard the words that left him speechless: "If it's over, it's over. At least we can find a new host, and we'll be your master."
Jiang Lin's red-gold eyes shone brightly, like two large light bulbs, as he observed the changes within Xiao Yan's body, using his soul power to respond to Yao Chen's words with a smile.
"What master?" Yao Chen, who had been seriously concerned about Xiao Yan, was once again stunned by Jiang Lin's response. His concern for Xiao Yan was once again interrupted.
"It's a language from a small tribe in the western continent. It translates to 'master.'"
"…Stop being silly. Xiao Yan really won't have a problem, right?" Yao Chen sighed slightly. As for his observation of Xiao Yan, his soul power couldn't enter. The strange fire is a special illusory flame, existing between the virtual and real. It can burn the soul but can also be subdued by the soul. That's why even when Yao Chen turned into a ghost, he could take the Bone Spirit Cold Fire and advance to become Ghost Fire Elder.
However, Jiang Lin's spiritual perception was different. That kind of abstract thing almost existed in a different dimension from the strange fire and was a specialized observational ability of the Spirit Tribe. Yao Chen's soul power still operated on the concept of 'touch,' while Jiang Lin's spiritual perception operated on the concept of 'sight.' The strange fire can attach to 'touch' and burn the soul, but it's powerless against 'sight.' There's a dimensional gap between the two.
If the strange fire could directly burn everything it touched from the 'sight' perspective, it wouldn't be called strange fire anymore. It would be renamed Amaterasu.
"Eh, Xiao Yan's physique is a bit special. The Crystal Pill has strengthened his meridians, but the strange fire still burned through them. However, every time he reaches his limit, his physique forcibly absorbs the strange fire's power to repair his body."
A strange light flashed in Jiang Lin's eyes, but it quickly turned into understanding. Everything abnormal he saw in Xiao Yan suddenly felt entirely reasonable, just because he was the protagonist.
Hmm... I just don't know who the final antagonist faction will be?
"Old man, you've struck gold."
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