Chapter 869: Chapter 869: Magic Flame Melting Gold
After the Fire Ring in the mirror had completely vanished, the real Teacher Huo Huan turned around and looked at the students, saying, "Did you all understand? This is Magic Flame Melting Gold, very powerful. Remember, the incantation gestures I just made are very important, you cannot make a single mistake, otherwise, you will definitely fail. Begin practicing now, and once you can use Magic Flame Melting Gold to kill your reflection in the mirror, it will prove that you have learned it. After you’ve learned it, we will use iron weights for practical exercises."
The students, upon hearing Teacher Huo Huan’s serious instructions, also became serious in their expressions, and positioned themselves an appropriate safety distance apart.
Then, the nine individuals recalled Teacher Huo Huan’s movements from before, summoned the Fire Attribute Magic Power within their bodies, formed incantation gestures with their hands, and then spread open their palms.
However, not a single person succeeded in conjuring a fireball one meter in height; in fact, they didn’t even produce a small spark.
Huo Huan frustratingly covered his eyes, with a face filled with despair.
In the end, he helplessly said, "I’m done with you guys. I shall demonstrate once more, watch carefully, and if you fail again, then I’m going to find a thousand iron weights for you to practice with."
Everyone sharply inhaled, wow, a thousand iron weights, when they would be done with these exercises they’d probably be close to death.
Huo Huan stepped back in front of the mirror, not releasing the skill again, but just slowly demonstrated the incantation gestures once more.
This time, all eyes watched intently, not daring to be distracted in the slightest.
After Teacher Huo Huan finished demonstrating for the second time, he stepped aside again, indicating that the students should try once more.
All of them held their breath, concentrated, and following Teacher Huo Huan’s actions, began to release the "Magic Flame Melting Gold" skill.
This time, Teacher Huo Huan’s threats had an effect. Once the bizarre incantation gestures concluded, flames erupted from everyone’s palms, even though the sizes varied.
The flames in Qin Sisi’s palm were the tallest, about half a meter, while Chu Ming’s were the smallest, only about one centimeter.
Huo Huan approvingly glanced at Qin Sisi and said, "There’s improvement, but it’s still not up to the standard, start over."
The group extinguished their flames and started over from the beginning, their energy sinking down into their dantian, arms raised, hands forming incantation gestures, palms spread open—a series of actions that were performed once again, with no further progress occurring.
Chu Ming and Wen Xuan didn’t even produce flames this time, and the flames of the others had not changed compared to before.
Huo Huan sighed and said, "Alright, you guys practice on your own for now. Without even producing flames, we can’t even talk about using the skill!"
Having said that, he simply sat down on the floor, leaning against the wall and began to meditate.
The nine individuals looked at one another, none daring to say anything further, and began to practice on their own.
The first step in their exercises was to create flames in their palms as high as Teacher Huo Huan’s meter-tall fire. The group practiced the moves over and over again, and indeed, obtaining such a height was proving difficult.
Two hours later, Qin Sisi was the first to achieve the goal.
After a series of complex incantation gestures, her palm finally conjured up a meter-high flame, as the golden flames soared up, exceptionally bright and splendid.
Qin Sisi was overjoyed in her heart and wanted to call Teacher Huo Huan over to see, but turning her head, she saw his head tilted to the side, seemingly asleep.
Not knowing whether her flame would extinguish the moment she was distracted, Qin Sisi hesitated for a split second, then gritted her teeth and decided to make the last move, pushing out forcefully with both palms.
The golden fireball, like a dazzling mini sun, charged toward the reflection of Qin Sisi in the mirror.
Qin Sisi’s eyes did not blink, staring intently at the mirror as the flames pierced through the illusory fire in the glass and struck the illusory version of herself.
The phantom of Qin Sisi immediately stiffened, ceased moving, and then, just like Teacher Huohuan’s phantom earlier, began to melt away bit by bit like an ice cream under the sun.
However, the melting of Qin Sisi’s phantom seemed slower, taking about ten minutes before it completely vanished without a trace.
The people around her stopped practicing and stared blankly at the dissolving phantom of Qin Sisi. It was evident that Qin Sisi’s fire magic was formidable; while they had yet to conjure a satisfactory fireball, she had already officially mastered this skill.
"Wow! Sister Sisi, you’re amazing!" Xiao Meng exclaimed with delight.
Teacher Huohuan woke up with a start, "Who? Who’s amazing?"
Xiao Meng rushed to say, "Teacher Huohuan, Qin Sisi is amazing; she just killed her reflection in the mirror."
Teacher Huohuan rubbed his eyes, slowly stood up, walked over to the mirror in front of Qin Sisi, checked it, then touched it and nodded slightly before turning to Sisi and saying, "It’s not bad, but the intensity of the flame is a bit weak. You need to keep strengthening it."
"Yes," replied Qin Sisi earnestly. She didn’t need Teacher Huohuan to tell her, she could feel the difference in power between her flames and those Teacher Huohuan produced.
Teacher Huohuan took a sigh of relief, his tone lightening a bit, "Not bad, not bad, at least we have one who’s made the grade. The rest of you, put some more effort into it; do you not want to sleep tonight?"
The others quickly turned their heads back to the mirrors to continue practicing.
Teacher Huohuan led Qin Sisi to a more spacious area at the back of the classroom where several iron weights had already been set up.
Teacher Huohuan told Qin Sisi, "The next practical exercise is to completely melt these iron weights using Magic Flame Melting Gold that you’ve just learned. Remember, it has to be complete, not even a small piece of iron slag can be left. You now have four times the task, so you need to melt four iron weights."
"I understand," Qin Sisi responded, her gaze shifting to the iron weights that stood about a meter tall by half a meter thick.
It was certain that melting these solid iron objects would be much more difficult than dealing with her reflection in the mirror.
Teacher Huohuan patted Qin Sisi on the shoulder, encouraging, "Start then, true gold isn’t afraid of fire—you know what, true fire isn’t afraid of tough iron."
Qin Sisi suppressed a laugh and moved an iron weight to a corner.
She calmed her mind, took a deep breath, and seriously recalled Teacher Huohuan’s movements, then began to replicate them step by step.
Sink the breath into the dantian, raise the arms, form seals with the hands, palms open, and push forward with both palms.
The practice of magic was a process full of setbacks and greatly dependent on the practitioner’s state at the moment; the fire Qin Sisi conjured this time was not as powerful as the one that had killed her reflection in the mirror.
Still, not wanting to waste the hard-earned fire, she pushed the fireball out with force.
The golden fireball struck the heavy and hard iron weight, and under the burning and roasting of the flames, the surface of the iron weight indeed began to ooze with scorching molten iron.
However, the fire didn’t last too long, extinguishing after a few minutes, the iron weight only melted on a thin surface layer, a long way off from being completely melted.
