After finishing all this, the Law Enforcement Elder saw Zhou Yan in the Soul Refining Ground living so comfortably, and he was unhappy. He needed to make Zhou Yan taste some bitterness.
He changed his hand seals, conjuring mysterious array formations, and then released them towards the entire Soul Refining Ground.
Then, the Law Enforcement Elder chuckled, saying, "Since you've come here, it would be a shame not to let you experience the taste of soul refining."
With that, the Law Enforcement Elder burst into hearty laughter.
Zhou Yan, who was in the soul refining space, wanted to contact others to share his inner suffering. Unfortunately, everything was blocked here, even his communicator.
At that moment, he felt a sense of unease, as if the entire space had become different.
"What's going on? It feels a bit hotter."
Zhou Yan looked around and saw that the sky and earth were filled with more and more flames. The crucial point was that the spiritual energy here had been suppressed to a very low level. Relying on absorbing external spiritual energy to sustain his consumption would be very difficult.
"Holy cow, are they trying to refine me?"
Zhou Yan was completely demoralized. This was clearly a path to his death.
He just accidentally stumbled in here, so why were they trying to refine him?
Was there any justice?
Did he have any human rights?
Report! This Law Enforcement Elder is trying to commit murder!
All the spiritual energy in the air had been absorbed by him, leaving not a single trace. Next, he would have to rely on his own spiritual energy to sustain his consumption.
Fortunately, his Tai Chi Diagram was no ordinary item. It could still resist these flames, but his consumption was also huge.
Once he completely depleted his spiritual energy, he would have to endure the burning of these flames.
His treasures were all within his territory. Unfortunately, everything was isolated here, and even spatial items could not be used. He could only rely on his own strength to endure everything that followed.
"Damn it, what should I do? Waiting online, it's urgent."
For the first time, he started to panic. After all, he had never truly come into contact with these flames before, but he never wanted to experience their power. He always felt like these flames were after his body.
He couldn't let these flames succeed.
One hour, two hours...
As the spiritual energy within him began to dwindle, he felt that he was about to face a crisis.
He finally had no spiritual energy left to maintain the Innate Tai Chi Diagram, and the Tai Chi Diagram returned to his body.
"It's over!"
Zhou Yan watched as the sky-filling flames surged towards him and said, "Fellow Flame Brothers, can you be gentle? This is my first time..."
"Roar~~~"
The flames engulfed him completely. He did feel a sense of pain, but the pain was much less than he had imagined.
Zhou Yan: "???"
He found that these flames were indeed burning his soul and his mental power, causing no damage to his body.
"Uh... this, could it be because my mental attribute is as high as eight thousand?"
He could only think so.
As people successfully transferred their jobs from the [Inheritance Temple] every day, he gained quite a few attribute points daily. Powerful mental attributes were equivalent to powerful spiritual power.
He quickly opened his attribute list and was shocked to find that as these flames burned his soul, his mental attribute was actually decreasing.
"Holy crap, these flames are toxic, they're eating my mental attributes!"
He quickly began to meditate and observe internally, but he discovered something else that surprised him greatly.
Although his mental power was indeed decreasing, it was becoming much stronger than before.
"This... this is actually a good thing." Zhou Yan was shocked.
His mental attribute was indeed very powerful, reaching a terrifying eight thousand points.
Now, these flames were like tempering these mental attributes, fusing two points of mental power into one, and then continuously merging and refining like this.
This caused his mental power to undergo a qualitative change.
Perhaps due to the strength of his mental power, the pain he endured was not overwhelmingly immense. But as his mental power was refined into smaller and smaller quantities, he began to feel a greater degree of pain.
His mental power had decreased by over a hundred points. If this continued, he didn't know how much of his eight thousand-plus mental power would remain in the end.
He discovered that his free attribute points would occasionally increase by a small amount. Without hesitation, he added all these attributes to his mental power.
Although it was a drop in the bucket, it could hold him off for a while.
Outside, the Law Enforcement Elder saw Zhou Yan engulfed by the soul refining flames and was a bit surprised that he didn't cry out in agony.
"Just how far has this brat's mental power reached?" The Law Enforcement Elder was greatly astonished.
"His realm is still low. His mental power has grown so rapidly, it must be due to consuming too many spirit pills and elixirs that increase attributes. This is not a good thing. External things are, after all, not cultivated by oneself."
The Law Enforcement Elder condensed more black hand seals and further intensified the temperature and quantity of the flames in the Soul Refining Ground.
"Hiss!"
Zhou Yan felt a piercing pain again. This time, he truly felt a pain akin to being burned by ants.
This time, not only were his mental attributes starting to decrease, but his strength, physique, and agility attributes also began to slowly diminish.
Although his attributes had decreased, it did not mean his strength had weakened. Instead, he had become stronger.
It was as if he was a cup of water before, and now this cup of water was turning into a block of ice with greater density, and then the ice block was turning into an even denser substance.
Zhou Yan had to endure this process of constant compression, grinding, tempering, and burning.
This was not something ordinary people could endure, but because his mental attribute was so strong, he couldn't even faint.
Seeing Zhou Yan cry out in pain, the Law Enforcement Elder outside revealed a satisfied smile.
No one had ever had an easy time under his hands.
Except for himself.
After a long while, he finally opened his communicator and saw that it was Chu Luoyan. He replied, "My dear girl, why do you have time to message me?"
"Is that Zhou Yan in your hands?" Chu Luoyan stated her purpose directly.
Zhou Yan? The Law Enforcement Elder was stunned, and soon he knew this fellow's name was Zhou Yan.
He just didn't expect Chu Luoyan to be here for this guy. It must have been Wu Qingfeng who sent her to act on his behalf.
"No, I have nothing in my hands." He wore a ring, but it wasn't called Zhou Yan.
"Old man, you're trying to fool even me? Do you take me for a three-year-old? No one can contact him, so it must be your doing."
Chu Luoyan paid no heed to the Law Enforcement Elder's status and began to scold him.
If others knew, they would be dumbfounded. Chu Luoyan actually dared to scold the Law Enforcement Elder, truly audacious.
"Little girl, if I say no, then it's no," the Law Enforcement Elder obviously didn't care about Chu Luoyan's address.
"I've already come in. You're in the Soul Refining Ground, aren't you?" Chu Luoyan said.
The Law Enforcement Elder was stunned, and then he became furious, "You're barging in again! Aren't you afraid I'll throw you into the Soul Refining Ground and refine you again!"
"It just so happens that I want to experience it again. Hurry up and throw me in," Chu Luoyan replied.
The Law Enforcement Elder: "......"