Meridian Cleansing and Marrow Washing, Thousand Year Earth Core Flame? A Weakened Version of the Green Lotus Core Flame!

In the fifth month, because you had killed Liu Mu Bai, you were expelled from the Northern Spiritual Academy. The master of Liu Domain flew into a rage and issued a wanted order for your capture throughout the entire Northern Spirit Region, forcing you to begin a life on the run.

In the sixth month, relying on the resources of the Blood Slaughter Mercenary Group and the young master of the Liu Family, your cultivation broke through to the late Spirit Wheel Stage. You also became a First-grade Alchemist, using the poisons you refined to kill a group of pursuers and flee into the forbidden land of the Northern Spirit Region—the Black Nether Abyss.

In the seventh month, guided by the hiding map of the Nine Nether Sparrow, you arrived at a region swarming with Spirit Devouring Bees and stopped there instead of continuing onward. In a mysterious mountain cave, you obtained the inheritance of the Spirit Insect Tribe.

Relying on the memories of your past life, you knew that this prodigy of the Spirit Insect Tribe had most likely come to track the Nine Nether Sparrow. Unfortunately, he had stumbled in a ditch and ended up making things convenient for you.

After obtaining the inheritance of the Spirit Insect Tribe, you swiftly left the Black Nether Abyss, without the slightest intention of capturing the Nine Nether Sparrow—even though it was a young sparrow that had failed to break through to the Supreme realm.

In the eighth month, you began learning the ways of Spirit Insect Masters. Relying on your decent soul talent, you quickly digested what you had gained. You then returned to the Black Nether Abyss, took control of the Spirit Devouring Bee swarm, and officially became a First-grade Spirit Insect Master!

In the ninth month, the master of Liu Domain personally led people to the Black Nether Abyss to hunt you down in revenge for his son's death. Relying on tens of thousands of Spirit Devouring Bees, you ground this late Divine Soul Stage expert to death, becoming famous in a single battle!

After this battle, your name shook the Northern Spirit Region. People respectfully called you the "Bee Emperor," and for a time, the various forces of the Northern Spirit Region all avoided you.

In the fifth year, the ancestor of Liu Domain—Liu Jingshan—emerged from seclusion. After learning of his grandson's death, he joined forces with several Divine Soul Stage experts to hunt you down. Having already reached the Heaven Melting Stage, he was too powerful for you to defeat. Seriously wounded, you fled into the depths of the Black Nether Abyss and vanished without a trace.

In the sixth year, you nurtured the Spirit Devouring Bee King into a Spirit Devouring Bee Emperor. This single bee was enough to rival a Heaven Melting Stage expert, and you officially became a Third-grade Spirit Insect Master!

Afterward, you led the Spirit Devouring Bee Emperor and a swarm of one hundred thousand Spirit Devouring Bees in an attack on Liu Domain. Liu Jingshan was defeated, and the Liu Family was destroyed soon afterward. The Northern Spirit Region was shaken, and the name Bee Emperor truly lived up to itself!

In the seventh year, relying on the resources of the Liu Family, you cultivated to the late Divine Soul Stage. With no room for further advancement, you decided to leave the Northern Spirit Region and travel to other parts of the Hundred Spirits Continent in search of greater opportunities...

In the eighth year, relying on your dual identities as a Spirit Insect Master and an Alchemist, you became a retainer under the Ninth Prince of the Hundred Spirits King. You obtained a massive amount of resources and broke through to the Heaven Melting Stage.

In the ninth year, the Ninth Prince and the Eighth Prince began a war to seize territory. Relying on your Fourth-grade Spirit Insect Master status, you commanded two hundred thousand Spirit Devouring Bees, enough to rival a Heaven Transformation Stage expert. You seized three cities for him, earning the Ninth Prince's reward and obtaining a God-tier low-grade offensive Spirit Art—the Heavenly Dragon Flame Finger!

In the tenth year, you devoted yourself to studying the ways of Spirit Insect Masters. Relying on the massive amount of resources bestowed by the Ninth Prince, you broke through to become a Fifth-grade Spirit Insect Master, gaining enough power to rival a Heaven Piercing Stage expert. You became the foremost Spirit Insect Master under the Ninth Prince, earning his deep trust, and began attempting the first stage of the Minor Tribulation of the Supreme—the Body Tribulation.

Because you had previously devoured a large number of pills and spirit items, your foundation was unstable. Your attempt at the Body Tribulation failed. After learning of this, the Ninth Prince sent you a bottle of Earth Core Flame Spirit Liquid to help stabilize your foundation.

Earth Core Flame Spirit Liquid: A rare fire-attributed spirit liquid from the Great Thousand World. It was produced deep within the earth's magma and formed through a thousand years of tempering. It contained pure earthfire power, which could burn away impurities within the body, cleanse the meridians and marrow, and help cultivators break through the shackles of the physical body.

After taking it, low-level Alchemists could also greatly increase their fire-attributed affinity, dramatically improve their precision in controlling flames, and substantially raise their success rate when refining high-grade pills. It was a rare treasure seldom seen in the world.

You consumed the Earth Core Flame Spirit Liquid, cleared the impurities from your body, cleansed your meridians and marrow, and entered seclusion for three years. In the end, you successfully broke through the Body Tribulation!

This simulation has ended—

You may choose one of the following three items

One, Mustard Seed Bracelet (Low-grade Spirit Tool)

Two, Heavenly Dragon Flame Finger (God-tier low-grade offensive Spirit Art)

Three, Earth Core Flame Spirit Liquid

Lu Yu stared at the simulation results frozen on the light screen. A trace of smugness flashed through his eyes. "To ultimately set foot into the realm of the Minor Tribulation of the Supreme while starting as nothing more than a horse slave—such an achievement means that all this planning wasn't in vain."

He gently rubbed his chin and thought, I can play things this way in the simulation, but there's no need to be so reckless in reality.

"I already have a Storage Ring for storing things, so I don't need the Mustard Seed Bracelet."

"As for the Heavenly Dragon Flame Finger and the Earth Core Flame Spirit Liquid, I'll naturally choose the Earth Core Flame Spirit Liquid, since it can increase fire-attributed affinity."

"According to the simulator's classification, the Profound-tier high-grade Flame Manipulation Art belongs to the High-grade Spirit Tier Spirit Art category. Then, converted to the cultivation grades of the Dou Qi Continent, that God-tier low-grade offensive Spirit Art should be equivalent to an Earth-tier low-grade battle technique. In terms of value, it still can't compare to the Earth Core Flame Spirit Liquid."

"Since that's the case, there's nothing to hesitate about."

With a thought from Lu Yu, he selected the third option. Immediately afterward, a flash of blue light passed, and an exquisite little bottle carved from cold jade suddenly appeared in his palm.

The bottle felt icy to the touch, yet he could faintly sense a scorching fluctuation coming from within.

"So this is the Earth Core Flame Spirit Liquid..." He carefully removed the stopper. A wisp of crimson mist immediately rose and condensed into the shape of a lotus in the air. Even the escaping aura caused the temperature in the room to rise sharply, and the candle flame on the table suddenly leaped three feet high.

"What pure fire-attributed energy..."

A hint of delight flashed through Lu Yu's eyes. Without the slightest hesitation, he dripped a drop of liquid as crimson as magma into his mouth.

Boom—

The violent fire-attributed energy instantly exploded within his body. Lu Yu's meridians felt as though they were being scorched by raging flames, while his skin turned crimson, making him resemble a boiled red shrimp. He endured the unbearable pain and circulated the Great Pagoda Art, guiding the energy through his meridians.

Hiss—

The impurities accumulated within his body were burned away completely by the Earth Core Flame Spirit Liquid, transforming into black smoke that was expelled through his pores. Lu Yu's bones gave off crisp popping sounds, and the aura around him surged higher and higher!

Late Two-star Dou Shi!

Peak Two-star Dou Shi!

Three-star Dou Master!

Four-star Dou Master!

Whoosh—

Lu Yu suddenly opened his eyes, crimson light flickering within his pupils. A condensed stream of white air shot from his mouth, instantly melting a fist-sized hole in the bluestone floor three zhang away.

Looking inward at his dantian, he discovered that the remaining energy of the Earth Core Flame Spirit Liquid within his body had not dissipated. Instead, it had gathered in his dantian into a cluster of dancing crimson flames!

This was the Thousand Year Earth Core Flame!

Looking at the cluster of crimson flames in his dantian, Lu Yu was stunned at first, then suddenly understood.

"So that's how it is. This is the secret behind the Earth Core Flame Spirit Liquid's body-tempering effect. The liquid actually contains a trace of the Thousand Year Earth Core Flame. Although it can't compare to the Green Lotus Core Flame, a magma flame compressed and tempered for a thousand years, it still counts as a weakened version of a Heavenly Flame."

"If I absorb a Heavenly Flame, wouldn't that naturally expel the impurities from my body and stabilize my foundation?"

"If I absorb a Heavenly Flame, wouldn't that naturally greatly increase my fire-attributed affinity?"

"I just don't know which rank on the Heavenly Flame Ranking this Thousand Year Earth Core Flame of mine would correspond to."

With a thought from Lu Yu, a wisp of crimson flame leaped above it, illuminating his thoughtful face.