Heavenly Flame Reappears

The cave passed the night in silence. The next day, Yun Yun got up in satisfaction and tidied her appearance, her face carrying a faint trace of regret and tenderness.

"What a shame I didn't sleep with him last night."

After a night of regulating his breath, Zhang Tian's body had recovered a great deal. Speechless, he closed the front of his robe. Yun Yun, that hooligan, was seriously insane. She had touched him all night.

"I was injured pretty badly this time. I'll probably need ten days to half a month to recover." Zhang Tian shook his head. If he had not comprehended the level above Control Sword with Qi—Control Sword with Spirit—at the final moment, merged with the Phoenix Cry Sword in Man-Sword Unity, and turned into a streak of flowing sword-light to escape, he feared he really would have perished body and soul.

"No, I have to find a time to go back and snatch that Saint Weapon back." Rubbing his smooth chin, the more Zhang Tian thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. He had never suffered such a huge loss before. Since he was going to be the villain, he had to see it through to the end. In any case, he could not take a loss.

Yun Yun giggled as she looked at Zhang Tian, unable to stop a feeling from rising in her heart: how could this boy be so adorable?

"Move away." Pressing a hand against Yun Yun's face, pushing back the red lips she wanted to lean in and kiss him with, Zhang Tian was speechless. Was that supposed to be liking him? One after another, they were all just coveting his body. Bah.

Yun Yun did not mind either. In any case, now that Zhang Tian was injured, he was already a lamb waiting for slaughter. As for what came next, would that not be entirely up to her?

Her autumn-water-like eyes rippled with emerald waves as she glanced at Qing Lin, no one knowing what wicked thing she was thinking about.

"Oh, oh, right, I think I still have a piece of Symbiotic Amethyst Source." Yun Yun seemed to remember something and took out a small piece of deep-purple Symbiotic Amethyst Source. Clearly, it had not been refined yet.

"Oh? Thanks." Zhang Tian thanked her. This Symbiotic Amethyst Source seemed to be quite effective for refining and healing injuries, but why had his hands been so cheap back then? He had only given Yun Yun a little. If only he had known, if only he had known.

After taking the Symbiotic Amethyst Source, Zhang Tian thought it over, then handed it back to Yun Yun, only to have her take the opportunity to grope him.

Yun Yun acted as though nothing had happened and asked with a puzzled expression.

"What's wrong?"

The corner of his mouth twitched slightly. Yun Yun's blatant behavior of taking advantage of him was going too far, right? Helpless, Zhang Tian could only roll his eyes and pretend nothing had happened, speaking irritably.

"You should keep the Symbiotic Amethyst Source."

"Then what about you?" A hint of sweetness rose in Yun Yun's heart. She only felt incomparably happy and subconsciously asked.

"Me? I'll make do." Zhang Tian turned around and rummaged through his storage ring, finally seeming to find something.

"Oh, so it was here."

Taking out a huge piece of Symbiotic Amethyst Source, Zhang Tian revealed a satisfied expression, nodded, and prepared to begin refining it.

Yun Yun looked at the nearly one-foot-large Symbiotic Amethyst Source, and the expression on her face stiffened as though she had turned to stone.

"This is what you call making do?"

Bang!

A fist smashed directly onto Zhang Tian's head, making him nearly fail to hold on to the Symbiotic Amethyst Source in his hands.

Half an hour later, Zhang Tian innocently rubbed his head, a faint ache rising in his heart.

That kid Xiao Yan had not had time to absorb the Symbiotic Amethyst Source yet, and Yao Lao had used the excuse that he was still missing a few materials and had not helped him refine it. So, after going around in a circle, it had ultimately returned to Zhang Tian's storage ring for him to keep temporarily.

"You didn't even wash up last night. You stink. Come, come, I'll help you bathe." Yun Yun pounced over with an excited expression, reaching out to strip off Zhang Tian's clothes.

"Hm? What's this?" Yun Yun pointed at a small purple mark on Zhang Tian's waist and said.

The mark was in the shape of a cluster of purple flames. It seemed to have come alive, and was even burning.

"Let me see... This seems to be... what Cang Er threw to me at the end, right?" Zhang Tian had also somewhat forgotten the situation that day. He had been unconscious at the time.

"Doesn't this look like a Strange Fire to you?" The more Yun Yun looked, the more familiar it seemed. Her slender jade finger tapped Zhang Tian's waist.

"It does look a little like one." Only now did Zhang Tian belatedly react, and the Strange Fire Plaza inside his body also showed a slight response.

"This is..."

"Ranked tenth on the Strange Fire Ranking, the Nine Nether Wind Flame?!" Yun Yun and Zhang Tian looked at each other, both finding it somewhat unbelievable.

The Nine Nether Wind Flame was born within the Endless Abyss of the Land of Extreme Yin. How could Cang Er possess it?

"No, this seems to be a seed of a Child Flame, not the source Strange Fire of the Nine Nether Wind Flame." After looking for a while, they could still distinguish the difference between the two. This Purple Flame mark merely possessed its semblance.

"This seems to be the key to a certain gateway. Inside, there also seems to be a map recording the way to the Endless Abyss in the Land of Extreme Yin... as well as a high-grade Di-class cultivation method." Zhang Tian tried touching the mark and carefully sensed the information within. A stream of information that had not existed before directly entered his mind.

"The Land of Extreme Yin seems to be within Demonic Sky Swamp in the Southeast Continent." Yun Yun was extremely unfamiliar with the Southeast Continent. In fact, if she had not come here, she would never have believed the rumors recorded in the ancient texts of the Yun Lan Sect.

How could the continent possibly be so vast? What kind of expert would it take to travel across it all?

"In that case, let's go find someone and ask for directions." Zhang Tian nodded. His understanding of the Southeast Continent was even more superficial.

Three days later, before the ruins of a broken sect, Yun Yun's delicate cry made a chill suddenly rise in people's hearts.

Wind Extreme Meteor Kill!

A wind blade directly sliced apart the plaque engraved with the three large characters "Hantian Sect." The enormous gateway collapsed, and the sect's "gate" no longer existed.

"Damn it!" A one-armed Dou Wang struggled to break free, staring fixedly at Yun Yun, who was dyed red with blood. That was the blood of his dead disciples.

The corpse of the seven-star Dou Wang sect master lay mutilated on the open ground. The various elders and protectors had died miserable deaths, and even the Supreme Elder, who was at the half-step Dou Emperor realm, had been killed with a flick of the finger by that young man who looked pale as snow, almost like a sick ghost.

The fire lotus that had abruptly risen had instantly incinerated the Supreme Elder, who cultivated an ice-attribute technique. This assault and defense battle had only lasted half a quarter of an hour before ending with the destruction of the Hantian Sect.

"There's no route recorded on this Purple Flame." Zhang Tian shook his head. In truth, he had never given up on exploring the purple mark. From time to time, he had tested it with Soul Power and the Azure Lotus Core Flame, but in the end, there had been no reaction.

"Why wouldn't they tell me where the Endless Abyss is?" Zhang Tian looked at the ruins and broken walls all around him, and a faint sigh rose in his heart. Yun Yun's methods were not as beautiful and gentle as her appearance. She showed not the slightest softness.

A name like Endless Abyss sounded terrifying just from hearing it. How could a dangerous place hiding the Nine Nether Wind Flame, ranked tenth on the Strange Fire Ranking, be simple? Even a Dou Zong going there would face almost certain death.

Back then, in order to refine the eleventh-ranked Bone Spirit Cold Flame, Yao Lao had personally gone to the Land of the Far North. With his Dou Zong strength, as well as his formidable Soul Power and control, he had still nearly failed, surviving by the narrowest margin.

If not for the Flame Emperor Mantra's effect of suppressing Strange Fires, Zhang Tian would not have dared to set his sights on this Strange Fire even after reaching Dou Zong.

Strange Fires were originally among the strongest natural wonders of the Dou Qi Continent. Their might was unpredictable and incomparably berserk. For ordinary alchemists, obtaining one was fraught with countless difficulties.

"Finally willing to talk?" Zhang Tian looked at a Dou Ling old man crawling out from the ruins. Although this person's cultivation was not high, he was the father of the current sect master.

Although he already had no more than a dozen years to live, he clearly did not possess his son's courage or ambition. The longer people lived, the more they feared death.