Beauty and the Bodyguard

Chapter 1462 - Failure

However, one shouldn't underestimate this process of the mentor bringing the student in- without the mentor, and there wouldn't be a whole lot of people that understood how to get into the world of refining.

But Lin Yi had no choice, and a lot fo the things he practiced were done using his own abilities, and even his shifu or his old man were versed in completely different things from the ones Lin Yi trained in, and so they couldn't give him any tips or anything. The only one who could be considered a mentor was maybe Elder Jiao.

But refining was something Elder Jiao couldn't help with, evidently. He had to find his own way.

Thinking about it, he was technically inheriting Zhang Liju's arts- it was pretty much akin to him becoming his student, wasn't it?

After calming his heart down, Lin Yi slowly started chanting the fire element's refinement fire arts- it was a process that turned his qi into a catalyst for creating the refinement fire. It was only after the practitioner was able to freely turn his qi into refinement fire that he was able to refine anything at all.

The chant may just be a few lines, but it was actually a very difficult process to be able to make that refinement fire!

Lin Yi could even feel his qi rapidly being consumed, with no sign whatsoever of any refinement fire. In other words, it was a waste of qi without results!

After continuously going at it, Lin Yi finally understood just why there were so little refiners, and why so many people gave up after a while. This was just the very beginning of making the refinement fire, and the amount of qi he used up already could only be described as horrifying! Just how much qi was required to become a refiner?

No wonder low-level practitioners couldn't become refiners; they simply didn't have enough qi!

Lin Yi didn't even have any results yet, and he had already lost a third of his qi- he had been going at it from morning to night, yes, but this wasn't something anyone could just do!

Other than Lin Yi, everyone else got their qi through time and effort- it took a long time, and now a third of it was gone, just like that? Nobody could take that- if they were to go on like this for a few days, using up all of the qi with no refinement fire coming out and instead of losing all of their strength... It was insane!

But Lin Yi, though, could get qi back at night when practioning- No big deal.

And so, he practiced the refinement fire in the morning and used the Art of Dragon Mastery at night- his qi diminished and replenished, and it did give Lin Yi a sense that his strength was increasing, a faint feeling that he was about to break through middle phase peak to Mystic late phase.

"Fuu..." Lin Yi was a bit disappointed- it had been more than two days of this already, with no results. He'd lost two-thirds of his qi, and nothing had happened- he could get it back, but anybody else wouldn't.

On the third day, Lin Yi finally felt a warmth from his palm- this was a feeling that really shocked him- though, fortunately for him, he had a stronger will and ignored it as he continued refining the fire. Finally, with a low burst, a deep red flame appeared on Lin Yi's palm!

"Ah!" Lin Yi couldn't help but cry out- he wasn't burned or anything, but it was just that this sight really was too mysterious- he had mental preparation, though, and didn't let the fire disappear from his palm. Otherwise, it might very well have been a waste of effort.

But, while the flame was hot, it didn't burn his hand- even with just observation alone, he could tell that this fire had a very big difference between it and normal fires! Normal fires were usually a red, yellow type of ember, and the one in his hand was deep red. It was the color you'd see in a chemist's lab or something.

But this was no chemistry- this was a refinement fire made from the qi inside him. Refiners wouldn't be so precious and rare if chemistry could replace this.

The fire in Lin Yi's hand did seem quite fun though- he tried quickening the qi conversion to let the fire burn brighter, but the result was a cruel one- failure!

Lin Yi still wasn't able to control the conversion of qi to fire- and it extinguished under his impatience!

"..." Lin Yi smiled bitterly- it seemed that he made the mistake of being impatient. The fire he so carefully tried to get out had barely happened, and he was trying to adjust the flame already. Who did he think he was?

"Oink, oink..." The pig seemed to be laughing at Lin Yi's failure.

"Damn pig, what are you laughing at? You don't want to level up anymore? Lin Yi was in the middle of being pissed off, after all. He glared at the pig.

"..." The pig lowered its head and didn't say anything, thinking that this guy was worse than his previous master in the first place. His old master was better both in terms of strength level and talent for practitioning!