Astonishing Power

Li Tianlan hurriedly got dressed and followed Dugu Bo outside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to an open clearing.

Without hesitation, Li Tianlan immediately summoned the Heavenly Flames.

He tried once more, merging the Heavenly Flames to unleash the Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame.

"Buzz!"

Two flames appeared in Li Tianlan's hands, one crimson red and the other black as ink.

With a thought, Li Tianlan slowly brought the two Heavenly Flames closer together.

"Boom!"

Violent energy erupted, and the surrounding temperature suddenly soared. The green grass instantly withered yellow before directly carbonizing.

Even the green stones shattered into fragments.

"Crack! Crack!"

The two Heavenly Flames collided, and the abruptly heated air clashed with itself, producing a sound like thunder.

Li Tianlan suppressed them with all his strength, yet he still could not make the two Heavenly Flames collide again!

They even showed signs of erupting!

From afar, Dugu Bo saw this and cried out, "Kid, don't force it. I can tell you can't control this move."

At the same time, Xiao Yan instructed, "Calm down. Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame is not about fusing the Heavenly Flames. You control them so they mix together without connecting to each other. That requires extremely high control.

"With your current spiritual power, you can do it!"

Hearing this, Li Tianlan took a deep breath and calmed down.

The Heavenly Flames in his hands also stabilized and slowly approached one another.

Under Li Tianlan's control, the Yangquan Fire and Nether Flame gradually drew close. Just as they were about to merge, a sudden change erupted!

A wisp of Yangquan Fire's aura spilled out and landed on the Nether Flame.

Like a drop of water falling into boiling hot oil, it exploded instantly, and the Nether Flame began to boil!

The eruption of the Nether Flame once again provoked the Yangquan Fire!

After all, the Yangquan Fire was of a far higher grade than the Nether Flame. In an instant, the Yangquan Fire erupted!

The rudimentary Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame in Li Tianlan's hand was directly triggered, on the verge of exploding in his hand.

At that moment, Xiao Yan acted.

Powerful Soul Power poured out, briefly stabilizing the originally unstable Heavenly Flames for an instant.

Then, using Soul Power, he flicked them away, sending them flying a hundred zhang away.

"Boom!"

The unstable Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame remained stable for only an instant before erupting in midair.

In an instant, a mushroom cloud ten zhang in diameter, as tall as a three-story building, rose up. The terrifying shockwave directly snapped large trees in half.

Dugu Bo reacted swiftly, stepping directly in front of Li Tianlan and forcefully raising a Soul Power barrier.

The next moment, the shockwave swept past. The sky darkened, sand and stones flew, and debris brushed past them.

Only after a full quarter of an hour did the surroundings finally calm down.

A hundred zhang away, a massive crater half a mu across had formed. Dark red lava was everywhere within the deep crimson pit.

Farther out, the lava had already cooled into dark red obsidian.

Dugu Bo stared in stunned disbelief at the sight and exclaimed, "That power is already close to a Soul Emperor's full-force strike! The destruction it caused... Kid, you must never use that Self-Created Soul Skill again. I'm afraid you'll blow yourself up!"

Li Tianlan was also dumbfounded. Looking at the devastated ground, he felt a trace of fear.

Only Xiao Yan found it strange. "What's there to be afraid of with this little power?"

Li Tianlan was speechless. He remembered.

The first time Xiao Yan had used this was at the Cloud Mist Sect, where a single Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame had directly blown up the Cloud Mist Sect.

Its power had been at least several hundred times greater than his current one!

Compared with the one Xiao Yan had unleashed, his was truly an insignificant little experiment.

There was no helping it. The gap between the high-martial world of Battle Through the Heavens and Douluo Continent was simply too great.

A Dou Di's full-force strike could tear apart millions of li of mountains and rivers. Dou Sheng and Dou Zun experts could move mountains and fill seas.

Yet on Douluo Continent, even the strongest Limit Douluo possessed only 108,000 jin of strength.

The difference was simply enormous!

After adjusting his mindset, Li Tianlan continued to Dugu Bo, "Grandpa Dugu, I want to try once more. I feel that I might succeed this time."

"Try again?" Dugu Bo frowned slightly.

He was not afraid of Li Tianlan's attack. Although Soul Emperor-level power was strong, it would not affect him.

He was afraid that Li Tianlan would fail to handle it and blow himself to death.

That would be a huge loss!

Seeing this, Li Tianlan continued, "Don't worry. I'm confident this time. There won't be any problem."

Dugu Bo thought for a moment before saying, "Fine. I'll stand beside you. If anything goes wrong, I'll pull you away."

"Alright!"

Li Tianlan nodded slightly, and the two Heavenly Flames appeared in his hands once more.

Having learned from the previous attempt, Li Tianlan was clearly much faster this time.

In half a minute, the Yangquan Fire and Nether Flame had already mixed together, forming a lotus with fiery red and black patterns.

It carried a hint of danger amid its bewitching beauty.

"It worked!"

Li Tianlan was overjoyed. He had not expected this attempt to go so smoothly.

But as soon as his emotions fluctuated—

The Buddha's Fury Blue Flame, which had been in a balanced state, became unstable once more!

Li Tianlan's pupils contracted!

He immediately threw the Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame away and said to Dugu Bo, "Grandpa Dugu, raise a Soul Power barrier!"

Dugu Bo had already acted before Li Tianlan could remind him.

"Boom!"

The Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame lost stability twenty zhang away.

It erupted instantly.

Its power was a full two times greater than before!

"Rumble!"

The violent shockwave swept toward them.

Rather than fear, Li Tianlan's eyes were filled with boundless delight.

The Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame truly deserved to be called a Divine Power. In the original story, Xiao Yan had used it more than once to kill enemies above his level.

Especially in the early stages, with the power of Heavenly Flames behind it, its might was even more terrifying.

Watching the shockwave gradually dissipate, Dugu Bo sucked in a breath of cold air. "Kid, the power of this move... is already close to that of a Soul Saint! It's simply inconceivable!"

"Actually, this isn't my power. It's the power of these two flames."

Two Heavenly Flames appeared above Li Tianlan's hands as he explained, "My martial soul is flame, allowing me to control all kinds of fire. I call these unprecedentedly powerful flames Heavenly Flames, and that fire lotus is the power produced by the mutual repulsion and eruption of two Heavenly Flames."

"Heavenly Flames..."

Dugu Bo looked at the flames in Li Tianlan's hands and stroked his chin, seemingly recalling something. He said to Li Tianlan, "Speaking of flames like these, I remember a place that seems to have an extremely terrifying flame. Perhaps... it is one of the Heavenly Flames in your hands!"

"Something like that exists?"

Li Tianlan's face lit up, and he eagerly asked, "Grandpa Dugu, what exactly does that flame look like?"

"A purple flame, shaped like an orchid. It's very strange!"

Dugu Bo thought for a moment before continuing, "I've only seen it once. It was in a canyon at the edge of the Star Dou Great Forest. It isn't particularly dangerous; most of the soul beasts there are only a hundred years old!"