"Is it here?" Ma Xiaotao looked back at her room.
"We're going to the Sea God Pavilion," Wang Nan said. "The aura of the Golden Tree there can also suppress your Evil Fire to some extent. With the elders watching, we'll have a safeguard in case of any accidents."
"Okay, do I need to bring anything else?"
Wang Nan thought carefully. His ability to help Ma Xiaotao relied entirely on the Evil Breaking Dragon, so there was nothing else to prepare. He gently shook his head. "Just adjust your state."
"Then let's go over there first." Ma Xiaotao closed her door and reached out to grasp Wang Nan's wrist.
Wang Nan paused slightly but allowed her to take his wrist.
His Spirit was the Coiling Dragon Staff, and for him, the most important part of combat was his hands. So, this was the first time he had been "restrained" in such a way.
Ma Xiaotao walked ahead, turning her head slightly so Wang Nan couldn't see her expression. The two walked out of the dormitory building like this.
"Elder Mu."
"Grandmaster."
In a short while, the two arrived in front of the Sea God Pavilion.
"You two came together? That's a rare sight," Mu En's eyes showed a bit of complexity when he saw them.
"Grandmaster, is Teacher still in seclusion?" Ma Xiaotao glanced into the Sea God Pavilion.
"Yes, if you have anything, just tell me."
"Elder Mu, we came this time to completely resolve the issue with Xiaotao's Spirit."
Hearing this, Mu En's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at Wang Nan. "How confident are you?"
"I'll do my best."
Mu En suddenly laughed. "Good, good for 'doing your best.' You can ask for anything you need."
Wang Nan shook his head. Although coming empty-handed made him seem unprofessional, the most important thing was actually in his mental force sea.
"Elder Mu, I just need to borrow the aura of the Golden Tree to slightly suppress Xiaotao's Evil Fire."
"In that case, I'll take you to the quiet room."
Just like last time, with a flash, they were in another room. However, ever since acquiring the left leg bone, Wang Nan had completely adapted to such sudden changes in his surroundings.
Mu En led Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao to a quiet room within the Sea God Pavilion. The room's layout was extremely simple, with no decorations, only a large white bed in the center. Under the illumination of the surrounding lights, a faint icy mist seemed to rise from it.
"This is the Ten-Thousand Year Profound Ice Bed." Mu En's reclining chair was not here; instead, he stood hunched by the bed. "This is where Xiaotao used to come most often when she was little. I watched her grow up. When she was young, she couldn't fully control her Spirit, and she spent most of her time here."
"Shao Zhe and I tried various methods, but none were effective. We could only use external forces to help her suppress it. But similarly, the more intensely it was suppressed, the more violent the rebound. At its worst, she couldn't cultivate at all."
"I remember that ten thousand years ago, one of the Shrek Seven Devils also had the Evil Fire Phoenix Spirit. How did he resolve it? Is there no record in the academy?" Wang Nan asked tentatively.
"There are records, but Shao Zhe and I searched the entire Douluo Continent and couldn't find the things mentioned in them," Mu En shook his head and sighed. "Perhaps this is just her destiny."
Silence fell in the room for a moment. Ma Xiaotao was the first to act, sitting on the Ten-Thousand Year Profound Ice Bed with great familiarity and beginning to meditate. Flames subtly appeared around her, but they were suppressed to the surface of her body by the Ten-Thousand Year Profound Ice Bed.
Wang Nan also sat on the Ten-Thousand Year Profound Ice Bed. As soon as he sat down, a chill swept up from beneath him, penetrating deep into his bones. He hurriedly circulated his spirit power to dispel the cold from his body. Only then did Wang Nan summon his Coiling Dragon Staff and hold it in his hand.
Sensing Wang Nan sit down, Ma Xiaotao's eyelashes fluttered slightly, but in the end, she didn't open her eyes and simply waited quietly.
Vast mental force, wrapped in pale golden spirit power, made contact with Ma Xiaotao, and a violent, fiery sensation surged forth.
Over the past few years, Wang Nan had fought Ma Xiaotao no less than a hundred times, and he was quite familiar with this aura—it was precisely the Evil Fire within Ma Xiaotao.
In fact, for Ma Xiaotao, what troubled her was not the "fire," but the "evil." Therefore, relying solely on ice attributes could not completely solve her problem. Even ultimate ice would require external objects to achieve this step.
Besides Wang Nan, perhaps only a Spirit with "purification" abilities, like the Sacred Angel, could help her.
Wang Nan quickly cleared other distracting thoughts from his mind. In his mental force sea, the Evil Breaking Dragon let out a long cry, and golden light began to envelop his entire body from his brow. Then, the golden light spread towards Ma Xiaotao along with his spirit power.
"Hmmph~"
Ma Xiaotao grunted. The power of the Evil Breaking Dragon made contact with her spirit power, causing her slight discomfort.
Before the Dragon Spirit Awakening, the ball of light in Wang Nan's mental force sea merely instinctively neutralized the evil energy that invaded his body. Now, the figure of the Evil Breaking Dragon slowly emerged beside him, continuously swimming around him. The golden light intensified, enveloping Ma Xiaotao as well.
Time passed. Every so often, the Evil Breaking Dragon would slightly open its mouth, as if letting out a satisfied burp. At the same time, Wang Nan's mental force sea would continuously churn, and his mental force would grow accordingly.
The boundless ocean symbolizing mental force, with its surging waves, gradually saw a circle of shadows appear around the island in its center. Slowly, the shadows became clearer, the island gradually rose, and the outline of a mountain peak began to emerge. The mountain body was covered with lush vegetation, and clouds and mist encircled its waist, as if faint, heavenly music emanated from it.
The flames on Ma Xiaotao's body became purer, their color gradually brightening, slowly changing from dark red to golden-red. The Ten-Thousand Year Profound Ice Bed beneath her could no longer suppress them, and a Phoenix phantom rose from behind her.
Yan Shaozhe, who was meditating in the Sea God Pavilion, was awakened by this aura. When he rushed here, he saw Wang Nan and Ma Xiaotao sitting on the ice bed, surrounded by a golden-yellow light shield filled with a bright aura. Mu En was standing hunched by the bed.
"Teacher, this…"
Mu En waved his hand, interrupting Yan Shaozhe.
Yan Shaozhe stopped speaking and looked at the two with Mu En.
The Phoenix phantom behind Ma Xiaotao gradually solidified, its entire body covered in feathers like flowing flames. Its broad wings spread, carving a brilliant trajectory in the air, and each tail feather behind it shimmered with a golden-red luster.
A monstrous heat wave erupted from within her body, and the Ten-Thousand Year Profound Ice Bed beneath her actually couldn't withstand such high temperatures and began to slowly melt.