After
He hadn't been able to feel the extreme temperature before, but now he experienced it firsthand. He tried to store the fire in his backpack space, but no matter what he did, the Ice Blue Demonic Flame refused to respond.
Instead, a fusion bar appeared, slowly filling up.
Fused: 3%... 4%... 5%...
"I thought it was binding? How did it turn into fusion?" Seeing the green fusion progress bar, Shi Feng felt uneasy. The current pain was still manageable, but the temperature kept climbing while the fusion speed was agonizingly slow — at this rate, he'd be tortured to death.
Just as Shi Feng pulled up the pain system panel, intending to temporarily disable pain feedback, his burning palm suddenly stopped burning. Instead, it turned pleasantly cool, as though he had submerged it in cold water.
"Is the fusion complete?"
Shi Feng checked the fusion bar again — 8%, still a long way from 100%. But since the burning had stopped, he abandoned the idea of disabling pain feedback.
However, after a while, his palm grew increasingly cold, as if frozen inside a block of ice, making his whole body shiver.
Just when he could barely endure it, the heat returned. The constant cycling between hot and cold finally made Shi Feng understand the reason — true to the Ice Blue Demonic Flame's name, it contained both ice and fire. But he had no intention of being tormented by the flame any longer. He pulled up the pain system and selected disable.
System: During the fusion of the Ice Blue Demonic Flame, if pain feedback is reduced below 20%, the fusion will fail and cause certain damage to the player. Confirm disabling the pain system?
"Damn it!" Shi Feng couldn't help but curse the system's despicable design.
This was clearly meant to screw him over, and "certain damage" didn't even specify what kind.
Fusion had already reached 30% — he couldn't just give up halfway. Shi Feng reluctantly lowered pain feedback from 40% to 20%, a level he could still endure.
But the ordeal was far from over. Once fusion hit 50%, the Ice Blue Demonic Flame began spreading throughout his body. Shi Feng transformed into a living inferno, his entire form wreathed in deep blue flames, like a Ghost Rider.
Compared to a Ghost Rider's flames, the fire blazing across Shi Feng's body was purer and more dazzling. Even the ground beneath his feet had begun to show signs of melting.
The Forging Room's floor had been specially reinforced to resist extreme heat — far more durable than even Mythril Rank weapons. Yet it could not withstand the flames burning on Shi Feng's body. One could only imagine how terrifying that temperature must have been.
If someone had struck Shi Feng with a Bronze Rank weapon at that moment, they would likely have been melted into a puddle of molten iron before they even got close.
Fortunately, Shi Feng had long since grown accustomed to pain and had already lowered pain feedback to 20%. Otherwise, he never could have survived this sensation of nine levels of ice and fire.
After twenty minutes, the fusion finally completed.
System: Ice Blue Demonic Flame has been bound as player Ye Feng's personal item.
System: Fusion of the Ice Blue Demonic Flame complete. The player's body has been tempered by the Ice Blue Demonic Flame. Constitution increased. Strength permanently +10, Stamina permanently +10, Agility permanently +10, Ice Resistance +20, Fire Resistance +20, and full control over the Ice Blue Demonic Flame has been achieved.
"Even that works." Shi Feng stared blankly in disbelief.