Chapter 617: Chapter 617

Acting isn’t as simple as everyone imagines; scenes can be categorized by the difficulty of performance, and the harder the role, the more energy it consumes.

For instance, some actors feel an overwhelming urge to sleep after shooting an emotionally explosive scene, which stems from this reason.

An occasional push to the limits is tolerable, but being in a constant state of fatigue can be a lethal threat to an actor’s life.

If Director Liu hadn’t sought them out privately, they might not have decided to push themselves to the brink with such a swift and decisive approach today.

By the time they wrapped up the lakeside scene, it was already evening, and He Jinxia was engaged in the final fight scene with Bai Ze.

He Jinxia only needed to stand still, gesturing with a grave expression, and shout the battle cry unique to a young soul in the throes of adolescence, "Come forth, Power of Nature!" With that, her first round of combat ended, and she promptly embarked on the second.

On the set, He Jinxia was still dressed in male Confucian clothes. In the Mirror World, she maintained her male disguise throughout, but this time she was able to remove the mustache below her nose.

To cater to different roles in the lakeside scene, Qiu Zhenze had changed into two different outfits in the afternoon, one female and naturally, the other male. At this moment, he was in male attire.

What they were shooting now was a scene where, just as they were about to leave the Reincarnation Mirror, Yu Yin’s arm was accidentally cut by the cannibal grass along the way, and a drop of blood fell.

Lured by the scent of fresh blood, monsters lurking in the mirror swarmed to attack Yu Yin, eager to obtain her blood.

Bai Ze stood aside, not intervening in Yu Yin’s battle. With him present, he could ensure that Yu Yin wouldn’t face any life-threatening dangers. The reason he watched from afar was to hone Yu Yin’s combat skills. This update ıs available on novelꜰire.net

Strictly speaking, Yu Yin wasn’t a newly transformed elf; she had three thousand years of cultivation experience, two thousand of which were spent achieving transformation, and a thousand years ago, after being severely injured and unable to maintain her human form, she began to cultivate anew.

This new round of cultivation not only reinforced her previous achievements, making the spiritual power in her body more robust and profound, but it also had no other downsides.

Yu Yin’s innate talent was undoubtedly excellent. The laws of the Mirror World in the Kunlun Mirror were not complete, and the elves there were limited in their daily absorption of the essence of life.

Unless an elf with a defy-the-heavens talent was born, it was theoretically impossible for any elf to transform within it.

According to Yu Yin, she only took two thousand years to cultivate from the awakening of her consciousness to a human form, which was an incredibly defy-the-heavens talent within the limited spiritual energy of the Mirror World, and this was part of the reason why Bai Ze held her in high regard.

Another part was sheer curiosity about Yu Yin, an elf who had nearly been killed for the desire to learn knowledge. It struck everyone as bizarre.

Emperor Qingmu, who controlled all things natural, was even more keenly aware of this peculiarity.

Typically, an elf born in the natural world, if not guided by someone, would not have the desire to learn. An elf’s priorities lie more in how to survive better and how to obtain more of the nutrients they need, which is an elf’s instinct.

In Yu Yin, he saw this instinct, but he also noted other innate tendencies.

For an elf who had awakened in the Mirror World, Yu Yin was not at all pure, unlike a native, simple elf.

As Bai Ze was lost in thought, a new breakthrough occurred in the battle on the set.

Yu Yin was slapped into the lake waters by the monsters of the Mirror World; in reality, He Jinxia, suspended by wires, was thrown into the lake.

As she sank into the waters, a surge of turmoil, suffocation, and tension rose. He Jinxia struggled to suppress this unease and stabilize herself.

Although the entire area was enclosed by green screens, a pool had been specifically constructed to meet the needs of the lake scene.

The water in the pool was shallow; as long as she stood straight, her whole body wouldn’t be submerged, and the water reached only up to her chest.

He Jinxia took a deep breath, silently chanting to herself, "Stay steady, keep trying to stay steady, Jinxia you can do it," as she mustered her courage. In a sensation of weightlessness, her feet finally touched the bottom of the pool, steadying her body!

The pool was surrounded by staff members, who would immediately jump in to pull her up if there was any sign that He Jinxia couldn’t stand steady in the water.

Fortunately, He Jinxia was in good physical condition and didn’t panic in critical moments, managing to stand up on her own.

The director didn’t dare delay for too long, as, after all, the actress’s entire body was submerged in the water. If she soaked for too long, she would catch a cold, and delaying could also increase the difficulty of filming.

After capturing the scene of He Jinxia standing in the pool, Director Liu immediately had the crew jump into the water to adjust the wires attached to her. Shortly after the wires were adjusted, Director Liu shouted loudly on set:

"Three, two, one, lift—"

He Jinxia’s body swiftly floated up from the pool, not drifting towards land but remaining suspended in mid-air.

Her expression was serious as her hands sketched a different gesture in the air. In post-production, thunder would wrap around her, and her eyes would flicker with an eerie blue color.

As if controlled by someone, Yu Yin unconsciously uttered a few words: "Thunder, go!"

Everyone mentally filled in a bolt of lightning, wrapped in blue light, striking the monster in the blink of an eye with a thunderous boom. The monsters all lay on the ground as smoke rose, and the scent of scorched air filled the surroundings.

Switching angles, the director changed the focus from He Jinxia to Qiu Zhenze on the screen.

The character Bai Ze, played by Qiu Zhenze, had a sharp gleam in his eyes. Then his brows furrowed, and a look of shock crossed his face as he exclaimed, "This is... Lightning Punishment!"

He immediately turned his head toward Yu Yin, his eyes not only shocked but also confused. He couldn’t understand when Yu Yin had mastered Lightning Power.

However, perhaps even Yu Yin himself couldn’t figure this out.

Suspended in the air for a full minute, He Jinxia was finally "rescued" after the director finished filming Qiu Zhenze’s scenes.

She didn’t need to act; her genuinely exhausted state already matched the expression needed for the final scene—

Her eyes closed, weary and on the verge of passing out.

Of course, fainting for real was out of the question, and the crew would never actually allow He Jinxia to crash back into the water. Instead, they stopped as soon as her feet touched the water.

This scene was thoroughly completed!

Fortunately, this water scene didn’t require retakes, sparing He Jinxia’s body some unnecessary suffering.

Unfortunately, He Jinxia found herself sneezing several times...

And often, the precursor to sneezing is the onset of a cold.

Just to be safe, He Jinxia mentioned it to the director on the set and without waiting for the final wrap-up, she hurriedly ran to the changing room to take a hot shower and change into a set of warm clothes.

Seeing this, Qiu Zhenze couldn’t help turning to ask the director, "Why did Teacher Jinxia leave in such a hurry?"