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This red-haired Black Devil was named Yan Jue. He was a disciple of the Zhurong Sect. In his early years, while still in the Nascent Soul Realm, he had encountered danger during an outing mission and nearly perished before Sima Changqin saved him.

Seeing that Yan Jue possessed decent aptitude and cultivated diligently enough, Sima Changqin took him under his wing, continuously devoting resources to secretly nurture him to this day.

This was everything Yan Jue knew about Sima Changqin.

Yan Jue had spent several hundred years with Sima Changqin. It was impossible for him to know only this much.

"Looks like Yan Jue's memories were tampered with. Sima Changqin truly lives up to being a Boundary Guardian. He has countless methods—even from so far away, with the Heaven-Stealing Cauldron's space standing between them, he could still erase anything unfavorable to himself," Yuan Ming murmured.

That said, Sima Changqin had erased only part of Yan Jue's memories. His remaining memories were still immensely valuable.

For example, the cultivation art this man practiced was called the "Heavenly Fire Scripture," the Zhurong Sect's sect-defending art. It was exquisitely profound, far superior to Yuan Ming's "Primordial Chaos True Art."

The "Heavenly Fire Scripture" had seven levels in total. If one could cultivate all of them to completion, one could reach the pinnacle of fire-controlling arts and command all fires.

Even at merely the sixth level, the cultivator could cast a spell to turn their fleshly body into flames for a brief time, thereby becoming immune to all physical attacks. It was exceedingly troublesome to deal with.

Earlier, after Wulu had heavily injured him with a venomous weapon, Yan Jue had barely managed to use the body-transforming-into-fire technique he had yet to master, only then resisting the poison's corrosion.

Fortunately, Yan Jue had not