Jing Province City, City Lord's Mansion.
Outside the main hall, Lingxi and Fang Xuan walked side by side along the bluestone path.
Lingxi bared his teeth and rubbed every joint in his body. Though there were no wounds anywhere on him, he still felt excruciating pain all over. It was the agony of being scorched by blazing flames, and even pills did nothing to ease it.
"Fang Xuan, what divine ability did you just use? How could it be so wicked?"
"Did you deliberately cultivate some wicked divine ability just to deal with me?"
Fang Xuan smiled faintly and gently raised his right hand. A cluster of black flames gathered at his fingertips.
"When I broke through, the Samadhi True Fire underwent a new advancement. A ball of Essence Fire was newly nurtured within my body, capable of burning souls."
"A ball of Essence Fire?" Lingxi paused, instantly noticing what was unusual about it. He cried out, "It can burn souls? Then does that mean—"
Facing Lingxi's simple, honest look of shock, Fang Xuan smiled and nodded. "The Essence Fire can follow Divine Soul Power and burn the soul. So long as a Spirit Wandering Realm martial artist's Divine Soul Power comes into contact with this Essence Fire of mine, his soul will be scorched."
With that, Fang Xuan drew the Essence Fire back into his body.
Lingxi suddenly stopped where he was. Looking at Fang Xuan's back, he cried out, "This is outrageous, Fang Xuan—you weren't targeting me!"
"You're targeting every Spirit Wandering Realm martial artist under heaven!"
After crying out, Lingxi hurried forward two steps to catch up with Fang Xuan. A trace of fawning appeared on his face. "Um... Fang Xuan, could you teach me this divine ability?"
Fang Xuan did not refuse. He merely said calmly,