As the Gathering Spirit Array activated, a sudden strong wind arose around the mountain valley, as if all the Spiritual Qi of the world was converging towards it!

To ordinary people, this might just feel like an ordinary breeze.

But at this moment, Sun Zhe closed his eyes to sense with his Divine Sense and discovered that this wind was multicolored, dazzling, and dreamlike, with countless tiny colorful particles floating within.

Those colorful particles represented various elements, and under the guidance of the Gathering Spirit Array, they formed ribbons of light that swirled above Sun Zhe’s head, each distinctly separate and easy to distinguish.

The golden sphere of light was the gathered Metal Attribute.

The green was the Wood Attribute.

The azure blue was the Water Attribute.

The yellow was the Fire Attribute.

The earthy color was the Earth Attribute.

...

Little Dragon Girl observed for a while and then said, "The Spiritual Qi in this Spirit Realm is denser than I imagined."

Yao Yuelong held her staff in one hand, maintaining the Gathering Spirit Array while observing the gathered Spiritual Qi, and said slowly, "The common five elements, except for the Fire, don’t seem to be close to Ah Zhe."

Little Dragon Girl chuckled, "Then what are we waiting for? Just let him choose the Fire Attribute!"

With that, she waved her dragon claw, forcibly directing the Fire Attribute Spiritual Qi closer to Sun Zhe.

She wanted to awaken Sun Zhe’s Fire Attribute before Yao Yuelong could act, so that by then it would be too late for Yao Yuelong to do anything but watch.

Seeing this, Yao Yuelong’s face slightly darkened, silently cursing Little Dragon Girl as a rogue. She immediately retrieved the Crocodile Python Inner Core that Sun Zhe had entrusted to her from her Storage Treasure and tossed it into the air.

Immediately after, under the influence of the Gathering Spirit Array, the Thunder Attribute Spiritual Qi within the Inner Core was extracted, transforming into a thick electric serpent that coiled above Sun Zhe’s head, forming a massive deep blue thunderball.

"Ah Zhe, quick!"

"Xiao Zhezi, don’t listen to her!"

"..."

At this point, Sun Zhe had already lost all his senses, his mind only clear and Divine Sense active, unaware of what the two girls were saying.

When that deep blue thunder fell, he felt as if his whole body was wrapped in slime, with every pore becoming extraordinarily sensitive, instinctively beginning to absorb it.

"This should be the Thunder Attribute."

He attempted to guide it with his Divine Sense, channeling the countless thunder particles into his body.

Awakening an attribute involved letting the elemental particles modify one’s cells, ultimately transforming the Dantian.

Though the duration varied for everyone, this process was undoubtedly painful.

As the countless fine thunder particles pierced into his skin, he felt every inch of his flesh being viciously pierced by needles, the pain causing his body to tremble, nearly suffocating him.

"Is this damned thing... photon rejuvenation?"

"It hurts too much!"

Sun Zhe gritted his teeth, opened his eyes to look at Yao Yuelong in front of him, and saw her looking troubled, guessing it was extremely exhausting to maintain this Gathering Spirit Array.

Determined not to let her down, Sun Zhe closed his eyes again, bracing against the pain to calmly absorb it.

However, just as he was absorbing it steadily, an unexpected searing pain surged through his body, as if he had been suddenly thrown into a furnace.

Upon careful sensing, he discovered it was the Fire Attribute Spiritual Qi forcibly flooding into his body.

With Thunder and Fire both upon him, the indescribable agony caused Sun Zhe to instantly collapse, emitting a scream before falling to the ground.

...

...

"Yao Yueqing, look at what you’ve done!"

In the stream within the mountain valley.

Yao Yuelong, drenched in fragrant sweat, glared angrily at the small silver dragon floating in the air ahead.

Known for her composed nature, even she rarely got this angry.

Little Dragon Girl hung her head in grievance, her dragon claws resembling human hands meeting at the fingers, murmuring softly, "I’m sorry... I didn’t mean to."

"Don’t say that, you obviously did it on purpose!"

Yao Yuelong was almost fuming, "We clearly decided on the Thunder Attribute, so why did you interfere at the critical moment?"

"Hmph, what’s the fuss... Fire Attribute is impressive too, okay."

Yao Yuelong sighed, ignoring Little Dragon Girl, turning to look at Sun Zhe, who lay on the ground covered in a mix of Thunder and Fire Spiritual Qi, his body nearly charred, tears welling up in her eyes.

Both the Thunder and Fire Attributes are filled with destructive and damaging properties, and with Sun Zhe’s Nascent Soul Realm body, he couldn’t possibly endure them both.

Even historically, the rare dual-attribute Martial Artists wouldn’t choose to awaken two similar attributes but instead choose two complementary ones.

Sun Zhe simultaneously awakening Thunder and Fire was utterly unprecedented!

Little Dragon Girl sighed as well and asked, "Sister... what do we do now?"

Perhaps out of guilt, she called her sister in a rare moment.

Had it been any other time, Yao Yuelong might’ve been touched by her calling her sister, but at that moment, her mind was filled with Sun Zhe.

"I don’t know what to do. At this point, nothing we do will change things; we can only leave it to his fate."

Little Dragon Girl said, "Don’t worry, Xiao Zhezi is my chosen one! Don’t forget, he has a Pure Yang Holy Body, and my Essence Blood is also hidden within him."

"..."

As time passed, threads of Spiritual Qi emerged from Sun Zhe.

Those threads, yellow and deep blue, began intertwining under some mysterious force, gradually forming a large cocoon that enveloped Sun Zhe entirely.

Despite Sun Zhe’s body becoming nearly unrecognizable, his life force persisted, so Yao Yuelong and Little Dragon Girl did not completely lose hope, always holding onto a glimmer of it.

Yao Yuelong continued to maintain the Gathering Spirit Array, taking out various Spirit Medicines and Elixirs, decomposing them into pure energy with the array, and injecting it into the cocoon for Sun Zhe to absorb.

Little Dragon Girl was also generous, providing all sorts of rare treasures she had prepared for Sun Zhe to absorb.

"Xiao Zhezi, I’ve given you all the good stuff, so you must pull through."

"..."

At the same time.

In the depths of the Spirit Realm, about twenty kilometers away in a straight line from Sun Zhe and the others.

In a pitch-black valley.

An old white-haired man, sitting cross-legged in mid-air, slowly opened his eyes, a hint of astonishment in his expression.

"Why has the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth suddenly weakened?"

The elder looked towards the bronze cauldron standing on the altar, his expression contemplative, quietly releasing his Divine Sense.

A moment later, the elder’s gaze sank, abruptly turning to the sky outside the canyon, "It’s over there, someone is seizing the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth!"

Saying so, he looked at the few middle-aged men in front of the altar, "You stay here to maintain the great array, and I will go over there to see what’s happening!"

"Yes, ancestor!"

Several middle-aged men nodded resolutely, responding in unison.

The elder took a deep breath, his Spiritual Qi rippling around him, shooting off like an arrow towards the distance.

"What kind of monster dare seize the Spiritual Qi in my Yellow Dragon Spirit Realm!"

"I, Huang Tianjing, will surely slay you!"

"..."