I Am Azure Sun

Within his Qi Sea, truefire blazed.

Blue-green and red light filled nearly the entire Qi Sea.

It was a scene of boundless vitality, as though all things were bursting into growth.

The Golden Core and the pair of fire-attribute Breaking Moon Wings flourished in that vibrant environment, like fish in water.

The Breaking Moon Wings became flowing moonlight, wheeling and soaring without cease.

The red Golden Core spun faster and faster on its own, greedily trying to absorb the immense vitality held within the Flourishing Decay True Fire.

As though it had a mind of its own, the Flourishing Decay True Fire was reluctant to share the vitality it had gained from burning and refining over ten thousand sea snakes with the Golden Core and Breaking Moon Wings.

But immersed in it as they were, they still claimed a portion.

The Flourishing Decay True Fire, of course, kept most of it.

Faintly, it seemed to be transforming in some way.

Luo Chen closed his eyes and sensed the changes within his Qi Sea. He caught that trace of reluctance from the Flourishing Decay True Fire at once.

"Is that... spiritual awareness?"

Surprise appeared on Luo Chen's face.

Heaven and earth held wondrous flames, most born in places of extraordinary peril. Once formed, they could exist apart from their source.

Thus, such flames were often called Source-less Fire!

When cultivators refined them into truefire, Source-less Fire gained a vessel and a new source. It then became Source True Fire.

But among the Source-less Fires as numerous as stars, not all were powerful or unique.

They were merely another kind of cultivator, akin to plants becoming spirits or stubborn stones awakening souls.

At first, they possessed virtually no intelligence and acted purely on instinct.

Nor were these beings like Demon Beasts evolved