Inside the cave.
Xiao Yan popped the dragon-eye-sized blood lotus pill into his mouth.
Within just a few breaths, wisps of fresh blood began to seep out along Xiao Yan’s capillaries, completely wrapping him in blood.
Then, the blood solidified, turning into a solid blood armor.
This blood armor was a necessary item for extracting the strange fire’s seed.
This was because the strange fire’s seed was hidden within the core of the strange fire, and wanting to extract it required close-range contact.
With the high temperature of the strange fire, ordinary items would melt upon a single touch.
Without the protection of the blood armor, it could turn a person into thick water in the blink of an eye.
Xiao Yan prepared himself and probed his hand into the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire, but the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire did not riot.
However, just when he thought everything was going smoothly, the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire suddenly produced an unhappy emotion, abruptly increasing the flame’s power and completely burning away the blood armor on the surface of his body.
Xiao Yan was startled and instinctively moved to pull his hand back, but the imagined burning sensation did not arrive; instead, a reluctant, tightly wrapping sensation washed over him.
The Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire burned the blood armor to ashes just to personally touch his skin?!
Realizing this, Xiao Yan actually didn’t know what to say.
He continued to delve deeper, bizarrely feeling “pleasure” and “shyness” from a strange fire.
Suppressing this bizarre feeling, Xiao Yan kept a straight face as he touched the core seed of the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire.
Without encountering any obstacles, that core seed was easily pulled out by him.
Looking at the strange fire’s seed, Xiao Yan swallowed continuously, licked his lips, and unhesitatingly tossed it into his mouth.
The flame was like a warm pudding.
After swallowing it, his brain continuously signaled the secretion of dopamine.
“Use the circulation path of the Burning Technique, let this seed circulate along with it once, and then begin devouring!” Yao Lao reminded from the side.
Xiao Yan did as he was told, immediately starting to Cultivate the Burning Technique, cautiously guiding the flames to circulate within his Meridians.
The Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire was extremely obedient.
Once inside Xiao Yan’s body, it was like a child returning home, guided smoothly by Xiao Yan to circulate once inside his body.
Sensing that it might cause harm to Xiao Yan, the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire instinctively reduced its power.
After completing one circulation, the already obedient Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire seemed even more submissive.
Xiao Yan understood that this was the Burning Technique showing its might, but compared to his Fire Spirit Body, it was still quite a bit lacking.
“Brat, your Physique really makes this old man extremely envious.
I’ve never seen anyone absorb a strange fire as effortlessly as you.
Hurry up and inhale this spirit receptor into your body, then let this Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire enter the spirit receptor.
Only then can you be considered to have completely subdued it.” Yao Lao looked at Xiao Yan enviously, taking out a precious piece of spirit receptor from his storage ring.
“This old man only has this one piece of spirit receptor, and it is incomparably precious.
You brat must remember to compensate your teacher in the future.” Yao Lao joked.
Xiao Yan knew Yao Lao was joking, but he still took it to heart.
Although both sides had calculations at the very beginning, after years of getting along, the bond between the two was far more than just master and apprentice; calling them family was by no means an exaggeration.
“Teacher, I dare not say that I can make your ending better than the original work, but at the very least, halfway through, I won’t let you be abducted by the Hall of Souls and suffer those torments and hardships.” Xiao Yan muttered silently in his heart.
Afterwards, he cast his gaze toward a small stone beside him.
The stone was only the size of a thumb, with an extremely smooth exterior.
Inside the stone, there was a light blue faint glow swimming around like a small bug.
Picking it up and injecting Dou Qi into it, the spirit receptor turned into a stream of light, shooting into Xiao Yan’s body, firmly taking root, and transforming into a tiny gray dot.
Looking inward, it seemed as though there was a boundless space within the tiny dot, which was truly miraculous and extraordinary.
Just as Xiao Yan was manipulating the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire to send it into the spirit receptor,
suddenly two strands of suction force came over.
The Spirit-Devouring Body-Refining Technique automatically operated, and the Fire Spirit Body also responded immediately.
Xiao Yan’s entire body abruptly turned red, and the seed of the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire inside his body was instantly split into three:
One escaped into the spirit receptor space and was controlled by the Burning Technique;
The second was transformed by the Spirit-Devouring Body-Refining Technique, turning into pure energy to begin tempering his flesh, causing his skin, flesh, and bones to collapse and shatter once again.
The third was digested by the Fire Spirit Body on its own, with all the energy used to improve his cultivation level.
Yao Lao, who was at the side, saw this sudden abnormal condition appear on Xiao Yan’s body and immediately put on a serious expression: “Yan Xiaozi, what’s wrong with you?
The strange fire suddenly went out of control?!”
Xiao Yan’s brows knitted tightly together, and he simply had no time to answer Yao Lao’s words.
His skin, flesh, and bones were all cracking apart, but they quickly began to repair themselves automatically.
His bones began to be recast, his flesh reattached, and his skin grew back once more.
A brand new Xiao Yan thus appeared.
However, the energy of the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire was not yet exhausted.
The brand-new Xiao Yan immediately collapsed again, and once more, his skin, flesh, and bones cracked apart, only to be recast, reattached, and regrown…
Time passed minute by minute.
Xiao Yan did not know how many times he had experienced collapse and recasting.
When the energy of the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire was finally exhausted, his body finally stabilized.
He opened his eyes and wanted to support himself against the wall to stand up.
Feeling that he hadn’t used any strength at all, the wall felt like freshly baked tender tofu, leaving a deep handprint on it.
Xiao Yan withdrew his hand and felt the explosive power inside his body that he could hardly master in a short time.
Joy overflowed from his words: “Peak Fifth Order!
And I feel like there’s almost no gap to the Sixth Order.
Next, as long as I absorb the essential blood of that half-step Seventh Order Silver Moon Wolf King outside, I should be able to step directly into the Sixth Order!”
The light in Yao Lao’s eyes flared brightly as he exclaimed in astonishment: “That’s merely a strange fire from the bottom of the strange fire ranking list, yet you’ve gained such a huge improvement?
The Body Refining Cultivation Technique you brat Cultivates is probably a Heaven Rank High-Tier one, right?”
Xiao Yan smiled and didn’t answer, instead saying: “Teacher, this physical improvement of mine only consumed one-third of the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire’s power.
Otherwise, breaking through directly to the Sixth Order wouldn’t be impossible.”
“However, I feel that the other two portions of power were not used in vain either.”
Speaking of this, Xiao Yan closed his mouth and stopped talking, clearly putting on a look that kept people in suspense.
Yao Lao directly gave Xiao Yan’s forehead a tap: “You brat, if you keep keeping your teacher in suspense, don’t treat your teacher like a coolie in the future and make me do Alchemy!”
“Aiyo, Teacher, what are you rushing for?
I’ll talk.” Feeling quite pleased after acting a bit cheeky, Xiao Yan continued:
“Body, cultivation level, Cultivation Technique.”
“The Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire was split into three.
Teacher, you already know about the improvement in terms of the body.”
“In terms of cultivation level, I was originally a Nine-Star Great Dou Master, but now I am already a Three-Star Dou Ling.
Coupled with Teacher your possession, I can even trade blows with ordinary high-tier Dou Zongs!”
Yao Lao nodded repeatedly, astonished: “That Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire is merely a strange fire ranked at the bottom, yet you only used one-third of it to boost your cultivation, and it actually improved by this much.
This Physique of yours, this old man has truly never even heard of it.”
“It’s alright.” Xiao Yan smiled proudly, then said: “As for the Cultivation Technique, I won’t say much more; it barely upgraded to the Profound Rank Elementary level, barely enough to use.”
He added another sentence in his heart: “However, with my Physique, the blessing it gives to fire-attribute Cultivation Techniques—disregarding the Dou Qi storage capacity—should not be inferior to a Profound Rank High-Tier Cultivation Technique purely in terms of Cultivation speed.”
“Profound Rank Cultivation Technique, not bad, not bad.
It’s already enough for you to use for a long time.” The more Yao Lao listened, the more satisfied he became.
“Let’s go.
These gains are enough for you to digest for a long time.
Recently you’ve been busy improving your cultivation so your teacher hasn’t said much, but after going back this time, you must pick up your Dou Technique cultivation and Alchemy learning again…”
Xiao Yan raised his hand, interrupting Yao Lao: “Teacher, when did I ever say that these were all my gains.”
(End of Chapter)