At 3:00 AM that day, eight masses of multicolored Cloud Qi floated before Xu Yunfan, arranged according to the positions of the Eight Trigrams.
Xu Yunfan held his breath and focused his mind, the Spells at his fingertips shifting like dancing butterflies.
The eight masses of Cloud Qi floated and swirled before him. The Kan Water Cloud was an abyssal blue, like deep-sea ice, while the Li Fire Cloud was a crimson red, like boiling magma.
But as he used the "Water and Fire in Harmony" technique from the *Profound Capital Eight Sceneries Celestial Refining Creation Cloud Scripture* to simultaneously pierce two strands of his Divine Sense into the cloud cores, something went terribly wrong.
The Kan Water Cloud suddenly erupted with a frosty glare. The temperature in the cave plummeted, and a spiderweb of Ice Crystals instantly crept across the rock walls.
The Li Fire Cloud, in turn, exploded into a myriad of sparks, vaporizing the Ice Crystals into a white mist.
