Caelus paused deliberately, watching Ma Xiaotao's increasingly bewildered face, and then said word by word:
"...Are you trying to make me burn with desire on the spot and explode to death?"
"Huh?"
Ma Xiaotao was completely dumbfounded.
She had consumed thousand-year whale gel before and did indeed feel an unbearable heat, but for her, who had been tormented by evil fire for years, that slight heat was like a mere itch, and she hadn't taken it to heart at all.
She had never thought about it in that way at all.
Caelus looked at her dazed, cute appearance and continued to explain:
"A Soul Master can still suppress the Yang Qi of thousand-year whale gel with willpower, but the masculine power contained within ten-thousand-year whale gel is more than a hundred times stronger! Once that power erupts within the body, it is enough to make any normal male creature lose all reason instantly."
"At that time, with blood flowing in reverse and Meridians boiling, the only thought will be to find an outlet."
Speaking of this, Caelus's gaze meaningfully swept up and down over Ma Xiaotao's hot, alluring figure.
Then, he flashed a mischievous, wicked smile at the petrified Ma Xiaotao.
"When the time comes, who will help me release the fire?"
"You?"
This airy sentence exploded like a thunderclap in Ma Xiaotao's mind.
Her face turned red from her earlobes to her neck, and then from her neck to her collarbone at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It was a deep, ripe red, as if it were about to drip blood.
Her brain went blank.
However, Caelus's follow-up attack continued.
He seemed to be truly considering this question, stroking his chin, looking Ma Xiaotao over again, then nodded thoughtfully and muttered to himself:
"However... if it were you, Sister Xiaotao, I don't think... I would be at a loss."
"You... you..."
Ma Xiaotao finally snapped out of her petrified state. She pointed at Caelus, stuttering for a long time, but couldn't say a single word.
Shame, anger, embarrassment, awkwardness... various emotions intertwined, causing her brain to completely crash.
And right in the midst of this extreme shame and anger, a bolt of lightning flashed across her mind.
Last night, the teacher's old-fox-like smiling face...
"...You must personally help him refine it; this is also a form of sincerity..."
That meaningful admonition...
Combined with what Caelus just said...
A normal male creature... losing reason... looking for an outlet...
Dry wood... raging fire...
Boom!!!
Ma Xiaotao understood everything in an instant.
She had been schemed against, completely and thoroughly schemed against by the teacher she respected the most.
Once Caelus actually consumed the ten-thousand-year whale gel here, he would inevitably be consumed by desire.
And she herself, driven by that extremely rigid and masculine aura, would very likely have her own evil fire go out of control on the spot.
One person having lost all reason, with only instinct remaining.
One person with evil fire burning their heart, craving union.
A lone man and a lone woman in the same room... anyone could guess what would happen.
To make it a done deal—that was the teacher's true purpose.
The moment she realized all this, Ma Xiaotao was so ashamed and angry that she almost spontaneously combusted on the spot.
She gritted her teeth, her pearly whites grinding together to make a "clacking" sound, and in her beautiful phoenix eyes, flames almost seemed to shoot out in reality.
"TEA—CHER—! YOU—SCHEMED—AGAINST—ME!!!"
A roar filled with shame, anger, and rage rose into the sky in this secluded forest by the Sea God Lake.
"YOU—OLD—WRETCH!!!"
Accompanied by this roar, a visible, dark red wave of energy centered on her body suddenly spread out in all directions.
"BOOM—!"
The ground beneath her feet instantly cracked, and the surrounding bushes, under the impact of this violent heatwave, instantly withered, turned charred black, and even ignited with sparks directly.
Caelus's reaction was extremely fast.
The very first moment Ma Xiaotao lost control of her emotions, he had already tapped his toes on the ground and floated back more than ten meters.
At this moment, Ma Xiaotao's entire state was extremely wrong.
Caelus stepped back a few more steps and stood steadily under a large tree, far away from the area that was rapidly heating up, his eyes narrowed slightly, observing with a solemn expression.
He clearly saw that Ma Xiaotao's fire-red Inner Court uniform was moving without wind, and her beautiful long red hair was standing on end, as if invisible electric currents were coursing through it.
Even more terrifyingly, the color of the flames burning on her body was undergoing a strange change.
The originally bright, scorching Phoenix Flame was now being rapidly infected by an ominous dark black color.
The black flame patterns, like poisonous snakes, spread upwards along her limbs and bones, emitting a violent, destructive, and chaotic evil aura.
Her originally bright and moving phoenix eyes were now occupied by an eerie red light, the light of reason rapidly fading, replaced by a nearly insane desire for destruction.
Literally "fuming with rage", that was exactly what she looked like right now.
"Sister Xiaotao, calm down."
The corners of Caelus's mouth twitched slightly, and he couldn't help but speak up to remind her.
"If you keep burning like this, this forest will be set ablaze, and when the academy teachers are alerted, both of us will be punished."
He tried to wake Ma Xiaotao up, but his heart was already raised to twelve points of vigilance.
'Trouble...'
Caelus thought to himself.
'This evil fire is even more unstable than I imagined; just a violent emotional fluctuation is enough to make her lose control to this extent.'
In the few seconds that Caelus was thinking, Ma Xiaotao's situation became even worse.
"Uh... ah..."
She let out a painful roar from her throat, clutching her head with both hands, her body trembling violently due to the immense pain.
"Go... back."
An intermittent sentence squeezed out from between her gritted teeth.
Ma Xiaotao's consciousness was struggling against the evil fire.
She could feel her Sea of Consciousness being swallowed by a sea of black fire.
Countless crazy thoughts, like the whispers of devils, were clamoring wildly in her mind.
'Burn them all.'
'Destroy everything.'
The dam of reason, under the crazy impact of the evil fire, was tottering, and it could completely collapse at any moment.
She knew she was losing control.
Last night, she had just experienced an evil fire rampage.
In the end, it was Yan Shaozhe who personally intervened, using his vigorous Bright Phoenix Soul Power to barely suppress the evil fire.
But that was only suppression, not eradication.
It was like temporarily locking a hungry wolf in a cage without feeding it.
And now, when she discovered she had been schemed against by her teacher, that emotion of shame and anger instantly became the spark that lit the powder keg.
The evil fire that had been forcibly suppressed came back in a posture even more ferocious and violent than last night.
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