Yin-Yang Dual Flame

After learning this item's origins, it explained why that old fellow had vanished without a trace overnight.

Did he really think the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan was so easy to provoke?

Just look at how, later on, the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan's wings were put up for auction at the Space Trading Fair.

Those qualified to attend the Space Trading Fair were, at minimum, major figures at the level of nine-star Dou Zuns.

Even peak Dou Zuns who had undergone nine transformations were not uncommon.

To guarantee capturing someone and bringing them back, at least a Ban Sheng elder would have to take action.

Not to mention that those old Ban Sheng monsters were all busy in seclusion, striving to break through to Dou Saint.

When had anyone ever seen a leader run errands and do the underlings' work?

Judging from the original work, the elders of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan responsible for daily affairs were merely five-star Dou Zuns.

At that level, one could even earn the title of Heavenly Venerable in the Soul Hall.

Among the major factions, this was basically the default level for those sent out to handle matters. Their potential had already been exhausted, and since no one expected them to advance any further, they were sent out to work.

This was also why the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan failed in the matter of the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit in the original work.

The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's thinking was: I'll send three five-star Dou Zuns. Even if you send four or five five-star Dou Zuns, I can always call for reinforcements.

Who would have thought that the Void Ancient Dragon Clan would be so unscrupulous? They sent an eight-star Dou Zun right away and instantly crushed them before they even had time to call for backup.

Now that was the prestige of the Void Ancient Dragon Clan's little princess!

But the old fellow who had just tried to possess him was probably only at the level of a four- or five-star Dou Zun. Any elder the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan openly sent out to handle affairs could have taken him down directly.

If not for the fact that this guy was an alchemist and could call for help, he probably would never have escaped.

Even so, he had been reduced to such a miserable state that not even his corpse remained. Only a remnant soul was left, hiding inside and barely clinging to existence.

Inside that blood-jade box, aside from the pair of Heavenly Demon Blood Eyes, there was also a pale golden scroll—a mid-tier Earth-class Flight Dou Technique.

Xiao Yang estimated that if this Dou Technique had been crafted from the wings of an eighth-rank Heaven Demon Emperor at the Dou Zun level, it should have reached high-tier Earth-class.

Xiao Yang took out the Heavenly Demon Blood Eyes and pressed them into his eye sockets. As he wrapped them in Douqi, two scorching currents immediately surged toward his eyes.

However, the heat came quickly and vanished just as fast. Yet at the instant it disappeared, Xiao Yang felt as though the world before his eyes had changed completely.

It was like a view that had once been covered in mosaic censoring suddenly becoming ultra-high-definition 4K.

Afterward, Xiao Yang reached for the purple jade bottle beside him.

Earlier, after killing and absorbing the remnant soul of the old monster who had tried to possess him within his spiritual world, Xiao Yang had already learned what was inside this purple jade bottle.

Within it was a Mystic Bodhi Foundation Pill, a peak seventh-grade pill.

It was also something that old fellow had prepared back then.

Ever since discovering that his potential had been exhausted and that he was destined to remain a five-star Dou Zun for the rest of his life, the old fellow had resolved to find a young body with exceptional talent and possess it.

Although the Mystic Bodhi Foundation Pill could improve one's innate physique and aptitude, it had a condition for use: the recipient had to be under fifteen years old, while their bones, meridians, and acupoints had yet to fully take shape. Now, it had benefited Xiao Yang instead.

Although Xiao Yang had previously taken the Nine Apertures Golden Pill, after the system's modifications, the Nine Apertures Golden Pill's main effects were to enhance Xiao Yang's physical strength and activate his Battle Emperor Bloodline in the future.

Without the Nine Apertures Golden Pill, how could Xiao Yang have cultivated the "Vajra Glazed Body"? He would have exploded first.

Xiao Yang's aptitude for Douqi cultivation itself could still be improved further.

Take Cao Ying, the Pill Tower's enchantress from the original work. At birth, her Soul Power nearly shook her mother to death. At seven, she officially became an alchemist. At fifteen, the Pill Tower took notice of her and made her an exception, accepting her as a core disciple. After five years of secluded cultivation in the Pill Tower, she became the Cao Clan's youngest seventh-grade alchemist at twenty. At twenty-two, she participated in the Pill Gathering as an Eighth-Grade Alchemist, with at least the cultivation of a high-level Dou Zong above five stars.

Do not forget: the prerequisite for becoming an alchemist was becoming a Dou Zhe.

In other words, Cao Ying had become a Dou Zhe at the age of seven—two years earlier than Xiao Yang.

But now, Xiao Yang had devoured the soul of an Eighth-Grade Alchemist and likewise met the requirement of possessing both fire and wood attributes.

Chapter Six of the original work, "Alchemist," stated it clearly—

"On the Douqi Continent, a person's attributes are determined by their soul. A single soul will forever possess only one attribute; it is impossible for other attributes to be mixed in. Thus, for one body to possess two attributes of differing strengths is basically impossible.

Of course, nothing is absolute. Among billions of people, there will always be some with mutated souls. Those who possess mutated souls have the potential to become alchemists!"

Of course, strictly speaking, neither Xiao Yang nor his older brother Xiao Yan in this life counted as a single soul. Both of them were transmigrators, each with two souls.

It was merely that one of those souls belonged to an unborn infant and had no consciousness. But it still possessed an attribute.

Xiao Yang guessed that his previous life's attribute had probably been metal, which, combined with this life's fire attribute, happened to perfectly meet the requirements for cultivating the "Vajra Glazed Body."

He simply was not as lucky as Xiao Yan, whose attributes happened to satisfy the fire-and-wood requirement for becoming an alchemist.

Then, Xiao Yang took the black-and-white ring from within the Medicine Cauldron. With a draw of Soul Power into it, a strange black-and-white flame flew out.

Ranked twenty-first on the Heavenly Flame Ranking—the Yin-Yang Dual Flame!

The ring itself had been forged using Yin-Yang Profound Iron, a material born alongside the Yin-Yang Dual Flame where it resided, together with a Spirit-Containing component. Only then could it withstand the power of a Heavenly Flame and seal it within.

Born in the void of the universe, the black-and-white flames intertwined like a pair of yin-yang fish.

Yin and yang were natural laws, the origin that gave birth to all things in the world.

The Yin-Yang Dual Flame, born from that origin, was one of the forms of flame manifested by the origin itself.

It contained the dual powers of life and death. The yang flame saved lives and endlessly renewed them; the yin flame killed, leaving not even bones behind.

It was precisely because he had obtained the Yin-Yang Dual Flame that the old man had been able to create the Life Devouring Pill, which devoured life force, converted it into his own battle qi, and forcibly raised his rank.

Having devoured the old man's soul, Xiao Yang had not only greatly increased his own Soul Power, but had also gained a lifetime of experience in pill refinement. At the same time, he had become extremely familiar with controlling the Yin-Yang Dual Flame.

What Xiao Yang intended to do next was use the secret art within the Great Sun Glazed Art to merge the power of Heavenly Flames and elevate his own Source Fire, the Great Sun Glazed True Fire, to the level of a Heavenly Flame.

This was the first stage of transformation, and also the most crucial one.

As long as he completed this step, he could truly raise his Source True Fire to the level of a Heavenly Flame and erase the fundamental gap between them.

Then, he could continuously increase its power, even devouring other Heavenly Flames to greatly accelerate the process.