Female Protagonist Assistance System

Chapter 73 : . Han Yue

"Enter the tower!"

The aged voice resounded once again. Instantly, all those sitting cross-legged with closed eyes on the open ground suddenly opened their eyes and stood up. With a whooshing sound, numerous figures shot towards the tower entrance like a cloud covering the sky.

"Let's go, we'll enter as well," Hun Jin beckoned to the group, transforming into a streak of white light and leading Xiao Mei towards the tower entrance.

Xiao Han nodded and followed them along with Gu Xun'er and the others.

As they approached, Xiao Han truly realized the immense size of this black tower. Just the single level exposed above ground was equivalent to a two or three-story building. It was difficult to imagine how massive the tower body hidden underground must be.

Carefully examining this seemingly ancient black tower, the group discovered that the tower's material was unknown, yet it exuded a sense of heaviness and coldness.

"What a strange place. The inside of the tower is filled with heat, yet they used materials that emit coldness to build the tower body. This... is quite peculiar," Gu Xun'er's voice sounded beside them.

"It's probably to suppress certain things," Xiao Han explained softly.

After all, Heterogeneous Flames wouldn't willingly stay here to assist humans.

Hearing this and recalling what Xiao Han had said about the Fallen Heart Flame, Gu Xun'er suddenly understood. Could it be that this Fallen Heart Flame was actually beneath this Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower?

"Pay attention, everyone. When we enter the tower, remember to circulate your Dou Qi for protection," Hun Jin, walking in front, suddenly spoke. "After entering the tower, an invisible flame will enter your body to refine your Dou Qi. However, if you let the flame enter your body without any defense, you'll be burned to ashes from the inside out."

Hearing this, Hu Jia drew a sharp breath, saying, "That's terrifying!"

Hun Jin smiled faintly, "It's not that scary. As long as you're prepared, this flame will only have the effect of refining your Dou Qi."

Gu Xun'er nodded and smiled, "Thanks to Senior Hun Jin. If we had gone in blindly, we might have suffered greatly."

Wu Hao also nodded and mumbled a word of thanks.

As soon as they entered the tower, a scorching sensation appeared in everyone's body. This flame was somewhat overbearing; without any preparation, it would certainly burn one's internal organs and meridians.

"Formless and colorless, manifesting through the heart, leaving no trace," Xiao Han's lips curved slightly upward. "It truly is the Fallen Heart Flame."

Gu Xun'er could hardly believe it: "This is the Fallen Heart Flame?"

Xiao Han replied, "Not entirely. If I had to say, it should be an extremely weak avatar of the Fallen Heart Flame. The power of this avatar is not even one ten-thousandth of the original body, but it can help people refine their Dou Qi."

She paused, then continued, "However, we can be certain that the Fallen Heart Flame is within the tower."

Their voices were very low, and with Xiao Han's intentional spiritual sense concealment, even Hu Jia and Wu Hao, who were closest to them, couldn't hear clearly what they were saying.

Suddenly, Hu Jia poked Xiao Han beside her. Xiao Han turned her head to see the other's bright eyes, looking like a dog that had seen a bone.

"Xiao Han, look, look! Look at that Senior Sister!" Hu Jia said in a suppressed voice, yet unable to hide her excitement.

Following her gaze, Xiao Han saw a young woman in a silver robe. The woman was tall, with a slightly thin face, but it was a rare beauty. Her skin was as white as snow, with picturesque eyebrows and eyes. Most surprisingly, her waist-length hair was an unusual silver color. The silver hair combined with the silver clothing gave her an aloof aura that made people feel she was unapproachable, creating a sense of "can be admired from afar but not to be trifled with."

As soon as Xiao Han saw that almost iconic silver hair, she knew the other's identity.

This should be the Senior Sister Han Yue from the original story.

"Don't you think this Senior Sister looks exceptionally attractive?!" Hu Jia exclaimed quietly beside her.

Xiao Mei looked at her with some helplessness: "Can't you be a bit more reserved? Really, you fall for everyone you see."

Hu Jia retorted dissatisfied, "Is it my fault? Almost all the girls I've met who make my heart flutter already have partners. Am I not allowed to find other girls who can make my heart race?"

Xiao Mei's lips twitched slightly, no longer wanting to say anything.

"Senior Hun Jin, who is that Senior Sister?" Hu Jia asked Hun Jin, who was walking in front.

Hearing this, Hun Jin stopped, looked up, followed Hu Jia's gaze, and upon seeing the person Hu Jia was inquiring about, she couldn't help but smile and said, "You have good taste. That's a very famous Senior Sister in the Inner Court, named Han Yue. She's one year ahead of me and is currently a six-star Dou Spirit. She has formed a force called 'Moon Spirit' in the Inner Court, which is a first-class force and one that few dare to provoke in the Inner Court."

Hu Jia drew in a sharp breath, "Wow, that's impressive."

Hun Jin glanced at her and smiled, "In this Inner Court, Senior Han Yue has quite a few pursuers. If you want to win her over, you'll have to put in a lot of effort."

Perhaps because her gaze lingered on the other for too long, Han Yue seemed to sense this look and turned her head, immediately seeing Hu Jia looking in her direction.

Unexpectedly meeting Han Yue's indifferent eyes, Hu Jia was stunned for a moment, then showed a friendly smile. However, this smile, in Han Yue's eyes, looked indescribably foolish.

Xiao Han glanced at Han Yue. She didn't remember if this person had provided any help to Xiao Yan in the original text, after all, she hadn't appeared many times in the story. However, if Hu Jia could really win over this Senior Sister, she wouldn't have to worry about Han Yue's side.

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The interior space of this Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, deeply buried underground with only the tip exposed above ground, was unexpectedly spacious, beyond Xiao Han's expectations. As they walked along, Xiao Han discovered that probably just the space on this first floor was enough for five hundred people to cultivate simultaneously.

In the circular layout of the tower's interior space, there were training rooms of various sizes. However, at this time, most of these training rooms were already fully occupied, and there were small red signs hanging above the doors of these rooms. The words written on these signs were not all the same. Xiao Han stopped to take a look and found that these small red signs were marked with three levels: advanced, intermediate, and basic.

Hun Jin turned back and said, "The training rooms in the tower are divided into different levels, and different floors have different levels. Xiao Han, junior sister, what level are you?"

Xiao Han thought for a moment and said, "Seven-star Dou Spirit."

Hun Jin's expression changed slightly, and she sighed, "Tsk, that's really... When I was your age, I was probably only a seven-star Dou Great Master."

Xiao Han said nothing.

"For a seven-star Dou Great Master, you can go to the sixth floor," Hun Jin said. "This floor is almost useless for us Dou Spirit, but Mei'er and the others can only go to the first floor. Given their strength, if they directly ascend to the higher levels, they would be consumed by this flame."

Xiao Han frowned slightly and looked at Gu Xun'er.

She didn't want to be separated from Gu Xun'er, after all, this Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower was almost useless for her. The refining effect of Tribulation Lightning on Dou Qi was definitely much stronger than this Heterogeneous Flame avatar.

Gu Xun'er smiled and tugged at Xiao Han's sleeve, saying, "Senior Sister should go with Senior Hun Jin. Xun'er will cultivate on the first floor first, and later I can go to the higher levels with Senior Sister."

Hun Jin chuckled lightly, "Already can't bear to be apart?"

Xiao Han nodded, "Alright."

"In this Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, these advanced, intermediate, and basic level training rooms generally have to be competed for based on one's own strength. If you're strong, you can get the best training conditions. If you're weak, you can only train in the outermost basic training rooms," Hun Jin said calmly, pointing to a training room with an advanced sign.

"On the same floor of the tower, regardless of the level of the training room, they all have the same training fee. For example, on this first floor, a basic training room costs one fire energy to train for one day, and it's the same for an advanced training room."

"Spending the same fee but getting vastly different results, wouldn't this create a situation where the strong get stronger and the weak find it hard to catch up?" Xiao Mei asked puzzledly.

"Without facing difficulties, people's potential won't be fully unleashed. When the pressure reaches its peak, there will always be some students who completely explode with potential and catch up to previously untouchable strong ones at an extremely fast pace. In the Inner Court, this kind of thing happens almost every year," Hun Jin shook her head and smiled.

Hu Jia thought for a moment and said, "If that's the case, shall we try to seize an advanced training room?"

Hun Jin nodded, "Of course we can."

With two Dou Spirit on their side, they could almost walk sideways through the entire Inner Court, let alone just seizing a first-floor training room.

However, Xiao Mei frowned slightly, "We've just established the Gate of Transmigration. Wouldn't it be inappropriate to seize an advanced training room so boldly?"

Gu Xun'er and Hu Jia also nodded, clearly having similar concerns.

Wu Hao had no reaction. For him, the most important thing in life was cultivation, and the struggles between forces were not within his realm of consideration.

Hun Jin smiled and said, "What's there to worry about? In this Inner Court, if you worry about this and that, it's impossible to become stronger. Generally, if a force can have three to four low-level Dou Spirit strong ones, it can be considered a first-class force. Although our Gate of Transmigration has a low average strength, we have two seven-star Dou Spirit as our pillars. With this configuration, we're much stronger than other first-class forces. Even the strongest White Gang only has one seven-star Dou Spirit."

She paused, then looked at Gu Xun'er and the others, saying, "You're all about to break through to Dou Spirit. This is not the time to retreat. If you can seize an advanced training room, you can break through to Dou Spirit earlier. That's when you can truly help the force."

Hearing this, everyone was slightly stunned, then nodded in agreement.

This Inner Court was indeed different from other places, and they couldn't use ordinary thinking to measure the behavior here.

With their seven-star Dou Spirit strength, Xiao Han and Hun Jin easily seized an advanced training room. In fact, they didn't do anything; Hun Jin just stood there and expressed her desire for this training room, and the people inside obediently gave up the training room.

There was no other reason; they simply didn't dare to resist a seven-star Dou Spirit.

After explaining some precautions, Hun Jin and Xiao Han temporarily bid farewell to Gu Xun'er and the others, heading towards the deeper part of the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower.

Feeling this stuffy heat, Xiao Han looked up at the depths of the tower, narrowing her eyes slightly.

Then, without saying anything, she continued to follow Hun Jin forward.