The water splashed softly.
There was no world-shaking commotion as one might have imagined.
Li Yifei simply raised his hand, and an invisible spatial force wrapped around Dugu Yan, letting her slowly sink into the spring water where the red and blue met.
This power was gentle and steady, preventing her from struggling violently out of panic and ensuring her body could face the impending transformation in the most stable posture possible.
The next second.
Sizzle~!
A sound that was extremely faint, yet extremely terrifying, rang out.
In an instant, the clothing on Dugu Yan's body didn't even have time to turn to ash; it was directly decomposed, annihilated, and completely disappeared from space.
An exquisite, snow-white, and perfect body was thus revealed without reservation in the spring water, and also within the constantly swaying camera lens of the livestream.
The Chat Group fell dead silent for three seconds.
Then, it completely boiled over!
[Worlds Number One Princess: Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!!! It's gone! It's really gone! See no evil! See no evil! But I can't control my hands! Screenshots! Frenzied screenshots!]
[Is Jade Not Jade: Hiss~ This figure~ even I, a woman, am getting turned on~ No! That's not the point! Ahhhhhhh!]
[Little Fox Demon: Is~ is this the power of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well? It's too terrifying! If it were a person—]
Before Hu Liena could finish her sentence, Dugu Yan in the livestream suddenly tensed her body.
"Ugh~ ah~!"
An extremely suppressed groan of pain squeezed out from the depths of her throat.
It wasn't a shrill scream, but more like a tremolo erupting from the depths of the Soul when the body endured a load far beyond its limit.
On her interface, red and blue light flowed frantically. It wasn't flesh melting, but the two extreme energies of ice and fire, guided by the medicinal power of the Immortal Herb, were being forcibly poured into her limbs and bones in the most domineering and thorough way, breaking through her Mortal Meridians and recasting her flesh and blood body!
Every inch of skin, every single bone, was undergoing a cycle of tearing and restructuring.
The livestream camera shook wildly with her violent trembling, the image blurring. One could only vaguely see the body floating in the ice and fire, and hear those continuous, heart-palpitating groans of pain.
[A Little Wild Goose: It hurts~ it hurts so much~ Brother Yi Fei~ I... I can't hold on much longer~]
Dugu Yan's chaotic thoughts sent out intermittent cries for help in the group.
[Worlds Number One Princess: Brother Yi Fei! Quickly think of something! Turn around and look! Yanzi is about to die!]
[Bunny is So Cute: Wuwuwu~ How pitiful~ Brother Yi Fei, quickly save Sister Yanzi!]
Li Yifei stood with his back to the boiling spring, watching the flood of pleas and accusations on the watch's projection. His expression was calm, but a trace of helplessness flashed through his heart.
Turn around?
What could I even do if I turned around? Comfort her with words?
He complained silently in his heart.
Pain is the inevitable price for this level of genetic remodeling.
Any form of external intervention would only disrupt the energy balance, causing all previous efforts to go to waste, or even causing her to explode and die on the spot.
The act of turning his back was merely to soothe the young girl's collapsing sense of shame, lest her spirit break first and affect the subsequent physical transformation.
Did they really think that because I turned my back, I couldn't see anything?
mental force scanning, energy field feedback, high-precision vital sign monitoring from the smart watch... To "see" everything happening here clearly, he had a hundred methods, each one clearer and ten thousand times more precise than direct observation with the naked eye.
A group of naive little girls.
[Vital signs fluctuating violently, cellular structure undergoing high-intensity energy replacement...]
[mental force threshold reached critical point, willpower beginning to show signs of dissipation...]
The data stream projected by the watch saw everything more clearly than anyone's eyes.
He watched all this calmly, like an experienced surgeon watching a high-risk but necessary surgery.
The patient's wailing and the family's tears could not make him waver in the slightest.
Because he knew that any softheartedness at this moment would be the greatest irresponsibility toward life itself.
True tenderness isn't cheap comfort.
It's ensuring that she can walk off this "operating table" alive.
Spirit Hall.
Bibi Dong gripped the armrest tightly. Watching the figure tortured by pain in the image, and then looking at that indifferent back, the flame of jealousy in her heart strangely subsided a little.
She suddenly understood.
That man wasn't torturing her; he was granting her a new life.
A new life that she herself had spent a lifetime, sacrificing everything, yet had never obtained.
This realization made her feel more frustrated and powerless than a simple crushing of strength.
Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
Qian Renxue's breathing became hot.
From that indifferent back, she read an extreme confidence and control.
"He knows the result... He knew from the beginning what the result would be."
"Therefore, all the pain and struggle in the process are, in his calculations, merely the necessary path to that perfect result."
This posture of seeing through everything and controlling everything was the true "divinity" in her eyes.
In the valley.
Dugu Yan's consciousness had begun to blur, and her body's trembling gradually weakened.
She felt herself sinking into a boundless, cold darkness.
[Worlds Number One Princess: She's not moving! Why isn't she moving! Could it be...]
[Ghost Cat: Life aura... is rapidly disappearing.]
Just as the Chat Group fell into a dead silence and everyone thought a tragedy had occurred.
The man who had always kept his back to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well finally moved.
"That's about enough."
Li Yifei whispered to himself.
He sensed that Dugu Yan's body and will had been tempered to the critical point of collapse.
That was the limit of what a Mortal body could endure.
It was also... the best time for a miracle to descend.
He still didn't turn around.
He just slowly raised his right hand.
Then, under the gaze of everyone in the Chat Group, a drop of liquid appeared out of thin air at the tip of his index finger.
It was a green droplet that was impossible to describe in words.
It seemed to condense the life of the entire world, and the light it emitted even outshone the red and blue glow of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well itself.
Just looking at it made one feel their parched Soul being nourished.
He flicked his finger.
That drop of "water of life" traced a perfect parabola and silently, accurately fell toward the dying girl who was about to sink to the bottom of the spring.
The emerald liquid traced a nearly invisible arc in the air, accurately submerging into the red and blue interwoven spring water.
There was no sound, no ripples.
It was like a drop of ink falling into the ocean, instantly dissolving.
But in the next second, the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well came to a standstill.