Fire Python

The Fallen Heart Flame refines and solidifies Dou Qi, a process that consumes the Heart Flame's energy. However, as long as enough Dou Qi passes through, the Heart Flame will immediately disappear.

However, Xiao Ming did not do that.

Because he has a faster way.

With a thought, he commanded the spirit within the Qi Cyclone to rush to the side of the Heart Flame. With a sudden inhale, the so-called formless and intangible Fallen Heart Flame Sub-Flame was swallowed into the spirit's body.

Feeling that his spirit hadn't grown much after swallowing the Fallen Heart Flame Sub-Flame, Xiao Ming was somewhat disappointed.

"As expected, even if this flame is indeed Split Flame of the Fallen Heart Flame, it contains too little energy and has no effect on a spirit that has already absorbed a Heavenly Flames."

With a sigh, Xiao Ming opened his eyes.

In the softly lit ancient tower, Xiao Ming's movements were noticed by the students who had been surrounding him, whispering and laughing among themselves.

"How could he have opened his eyes in less than a minute?!"

"Could it be that he's finally regained his senses after being consumed by Heart Flame turmoil?"

Ignoring the surprised students, Xiao Ming stepped directly into the deeper part of the tower.

"Make way, make way, Elder Liu is coming." Not long after Xiao Ming left, a shout suddenly rang out from outside the crowd.

Immediately, a narrow path was split up, and in this "Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda", the elders on each floor of the tower held the highest status.

Anyone who offends them here will suffer the consequences. They can easily use their positions to trip you up, leaving you feeling utterly miserable.

As the crowd parted, a simply dressed elderly man slowly walked in, his smiling eyes sweeping across the room, but he did not find any so-called new students.

This made him frown, thinking he had been tricked.

But he didn't get angry immediately. Instead, he said to the student who had called him over:

"What's going on? What happened to the newborn you spoke of, scorched by Heart Flame?"

"I... I don't know."

The student was dumbfounded when he saw that Xiao Ming had disappeared from the entrance. How did he know where the freshman had gone? He was clearly there just a moment ago.

At that moment, someone nearby came to his rescue.

"Elder Liu, that new student has already entered the tower."

"He's inside the tower?" Elder Liu asked, puzzled. "Isn't he a freshman? How did he break free from the tempering of the Heart Flame?"

"Could it be that he knows how to deplete his Heart Flame? But depleting Heart Flame shouldn't be this quick; it would take at least ten minutes!"

Puzzled, Elder Liu asked again, "How long did he wait at the door?"

"Xiao Ming stayed for about a minute."

"One minute! Wait, that freshman is Xiao Ming?!"

"Yes, I watched his match against Wu Tao and the others yesterday, I can't be mistaken. Is there a problem?"

"No problem. This kid has always been abnormal. If it's him, breaking free from the Heart Flame doesn't seem impossible," Elder Liu chuckled.

Judging from their white hair and beards, the elders of the Jia Nan Academy have spent many years there.

There are only so many elders in the Outer Academy, and everyone actually Recognize Each Other. Xiao Ming's teacher, Elder Huo, is also the head of the Alchemy Department, a Fifth Rank Alchemist.

Therefore, Elder Liu naturally knew Elder Huo as well.

In addition, Xiao Ming's outrageous move of snatching all the senior students in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition already made his name widely known.

When Xiao Ming first arrived at the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda, which was buried deep underground with only its tip showing, the spaciousness inside the tower was somewhat beyond his expectations.

As he walked along, Xiao Ming discovered that the space inside the first level of the tower alone was probably enough for five hundred people to cultivate at the same time.

Inside the circular tower, there are cultivation rooms of varying sizes, but most of these rooms are already occupied.

Moreover, above the doors of these rooms, there are small red signs, but the words written on the signs are not all the same.

Xiao Ming stopped and took a look. It turned out that these small red signs were labeled with three levels: high, medium, and low. Presumably, these were the different levels of the cultivation rooms in the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda.

As Xiao Ming slowly walked from east to south, he discovered that all the Advanced Cultivation Room were located near the center of the tower, while the Intermediate Cultivation Room and the Low-level Cultivation Room were distributed around them.

Looking at these training rooms, Xiao Ming thought to himself, "The Fire Energy cost is the same on the first floor, yet the academy divides the training rooms into different levels here. To compete for the best training rooms, there will probably be a lot of fighting here every day."

As he strolled around, Xiao Ming suddenly stopped, realizing he had reached the center of the tower.

"Is this Fire Well leading to the underground?"

Staring at the bottomless black hole that appeared before him, Xiao Ming pondered for a moment, then looked around and saw that no one seemed to be there.

Driven by curiosity, he slowly took two steps forward, reached the edge of the black hole, and cautiously peered down.

The pitch-black darkness stretched to the very edge of sight.

The eerie darkness, almost devoid of any light, made one feel slightly dizzy.

"Can't see anything? That's true, the Fallen Heart Flame is formless and intangible, so it's impossible to see it with the naked eye. Perhaps we should try using Heavenly Flames."

Xiao Ming stared intently into the deep darkness. After a long while, Red Flame surged from his body into his eyes, instantly transforming his jet-black pupils into dark red ones.

As flames surged into his eyes, the endless darkness below began to fade in a very strange way.

However, as the darkness gradually faded, Xiao Ming's vision was no longer filled with nothingness.

Under the gaze of those red eyes, in the endless darkness, floated an Invisible Giant Fire Python, over ten meters thick, yet its exact length was unknown.

As if sensing Xiao Ming's gaze, Huo Mang suddenly looked up, his eyes, larger than lanterns, meeting Xiao Ming's eyes.

"Oh no, I shouldn't have been so curious. It seems I've gotten myself into trouble."

Realizing something was wrong, Xiao Ming quickly retreated more than ten meters away.

Xiao Ming stepped back, the Invisible Giant Fire Python, which was at least ten meters thick but whose exact length was unknown, appeared at the Fire Well.

The Fire Python was enveloped in somewhat distorted flames, its huge mouth wide open, its fangs, as thick as an adult's thigh, gleaming with a twisted ripple.

A pair of huge triangular eyes constantly spewed out invisible flames. Sensing the intensity of the flames on the Fire Python's body, Xiao Ming felt that even a Dou Huang Expert would probably be reduced to ashes in an instant if touched by them!

The Fire Python roared angrily as it burst out of the darkness, but just as it was about to reach a position five meters above the Pitch Black Deep Cave, the surrounding space suddenly rippled.

With the help of the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, Xiao Ming could vaguely perceive that at this moment, the space around the black hole was strangely distorted, constructing a Space Cage.

The Invisible Fire Python, despite its imposing presence, only caused the Space Cage to tremble briefly upon impact, and then had no other effect.

Realizing there was no hope of breaking through, the Fire Python went somewhat mad. Formless Flame spewed out from its giant mouth, burning the Space Cage relentlessly. Unfortunately, no matter how much it burned, the Space Cage remained firmly in place!

After struggling frantically for a while, the Invisible Fire Python finally became exhausted. It roared to the sky with a furious expression, and then the space twisted and distorted as the Fire Python disappeared again, disappearing back into the dark cave.

As the Fire Python disappeared, the Space Cage gradually faded until it finally vanished.

"The Fallen Heart Flame's Fire Spirit is truly ferocious. Unless you have the strength of Dou Emperor, it's best not to even think about attacking it. Xiao Yan died once when he devoured it, but he was able to revive. I don't have that ability."

Wiping the sweat from his brow, Xiao Ming thought to himself.

"Little girl, what are you doing here?" A clear, childish voice suddenly rang out from behind Xiao Ming.

Judging from the volume of the sound, the person should be two or three meters behind Xiao Ming.