Infant Fallen Heart Flame

After killing this group of Flame Lizards, Jiang Xing and Lin Shan began a carpet search for more Flame Lizards within the magma.

However, Jiang Xing later felt that it was too dangerous, so he left the magma directly and had Lin Shan search below on his own, killing the creatures and taking their beads once he found them.

These Flame Lizards could only live in magma. Leaving it was like a fish leaving water—they would die immediately.

Thus, whenever Lin Shan had nearly exhausted his Dou Qi, he would come up to recover it before going back down again.

Even though Lin Shan was already an Advanced Half-Saint, it still took him two days to kill all the lizards beneath the magma.

In the end, Jiang Xing took stock. There were more than ten Dou Venerate-level beads, one Half-Saint-level bead, and as many as four hundred beads below the Dou Zong level.

One Half-Saint, more than ten Dou Venerates, and nearly a hundred Dou Zongs—if such a lineup were placed in the Beast Domain, few forces besides the Three Great Magical Beast Families could likely rival them.

Fortunately, these Flame Lizards were not particularly united. Even the largest group contained no more than a hundred of them.

Otherwise, if they had banded together, even Lin Shan would not have dared provoke them lightly.

Jiang Xing was delighted to obtain these beads. They contained exceptionally rich fire-attributed energy, and it was especially violent. Others might not dare consume them, but he was different. He cultivated the Flame Mantra and had absorbed Heavenly Flames—could the energy in these beads possibly be more violent than Heavenly Flames? Refining these beads would be as easy as turning over his hand!

Jiang Xing could not wait to refine one and test its effects.

Thus, Jiang Xing selected a Dou Ling-level bead from the pile and swallowed it.

That was right, a Dou Ling-level bead. It was safer this way!

The moment the bead entered his stomach, it was like a ball of flame, shooting fiercely down Jiang Xing's throat and into his body. Soon after, Jiang Xing's skin gradually began to redden.

At first, he felt a burning pain, but as Jiang Xing refined it, the fire-attributed energy within the bead was gradually absorbed by him until it was completely refined.

Refining a Dou Ling-level bead completely was quite fast, taking Jiang Xing only five minutes.

Feeling the Dou Qi in his body become much fuller, Jiang Xing was extremely excited.

Refining just this one bead was equivalent to half a day of his usual cultivation!

And this was only a Dou Ling-level bead. The Dou Emperor, Dou Zong, Dou Venerate, and Half-Saint-level beads would surely have even better effects!

Jiang Xing estimated that even without absorbing Heavenly Flames, merely refining these beads would be enough for him to break through to a Five-Star Dou Venerate.

For the first time, Jiang Xing felt that he had a protagonist's halo.

After dealing with these magma lizards, Jiang Xing and Lin Shan arrived before a transparent barrier beneath the magma.

Jiang Xing and Lin Shan had discovered this barrier while searching for Flame Lizards. There was a space inside it.

Jiang Xing guessed that this was where Venerable Tianhuo, Yao Tianhuo's soul resided.

Jiang Xing had not forgotten that Yao Tianhuo possessed an infant Fallen Heart Flame.

Jiang Xing wanted to leave the infant Fallen Heart Flame at Jia Nan Academy.

One reason was that the Fallen Heart Flame was still in its infancy. Even if he absorbed it, it would not improve his strength much.

The other reason was that if he took away both Fallen Heart Flames, Jiang Xing feared that Mang Qianchi would trace it back to him.

Although Half-Saint Mang Qianchi did not hold much status within the Lei Clan and could not do anything to Jiang Xing, who had a Six-Star Dou Saint grandfather, Jiang Xing did not want to attract the attention of that ancient Dou God Clan so early. Keeping a low profile while growing stronger was the way to go!

Entering the barrier with Lin Shan, they found themselves in a fairly spacious area. At its center floated a skeleton, with an invisible flame attached to the bones.

Jiang Xing could sense that the energy contained within this flame was far weaker than that of the mature Fallen Heart Flame.

Heavenly Flames were not all unique. Only the top three-ranked Heavenly Flames were one-of-a-kind existences on the Dou Qi Continent. As for the others, as long as there was sufficient energy of heaven and earth, a suitable environment, and the accumulation of countless years, such wondrous treasures of heaven and earth could be born.

For example, the first Heavenly Flame Jiang Xing had subdued, the Green Lotus Core Flame—so long as the roots of that fire lotus were not damaged, it would eventually nurture another identical Heavenly Flame. It was just that the process would take several thousand years.

The infant Fallen Heart Flame before them had formed in this manner, except that it was still in its juvenile stage.

The previous owner of the Fallen Heart Flame above was Venerable Tianhuo.

When Venerable Tianhuo had come here to travel in the past, he had accidentally discovered this second Fallen Heart Flame and intended to claim it for himself.

Yet after the two Heavenly Flames merged within his body, not only did they fail to fuse perfectly, they instead repelled each other like mortal enemies. This left Yao Tianhuo severely injured. He was then attacked by Flame Lizards, ultimately causing Venerable Tianhuo to perish, with only a trace of his soul remaining in this space.

Lin Shan immediately sensed that there was something strange about the skeleton and shouted in its direction.

"Now that I'm here, why haven't you shown yourself? Are you planning to ambush us?"

Venerable Tianhuo was startled by Lin Shan's shout. Knowing that he could not escape Lin Shan's detection and fearing that Lin Shan would attack him directly, he hurriedly revealed himself.

Suddenly, the skeleton emitted a dazzling white light. The light slowly writhed before finally transforming into the phantom of an old man clad in white robes, with white hair and beard.

The moment Venerable Tianhuo appeared, Jiang Xing immediately threatened him.

"Robbery! Hand over everything you have."

"If you don't, I'll kill you and search for it myself."

"And before I kill you, I'll slowly roast your soul with Heavenly Flames...?"

Yao Tianhuo trembled as he listened to Jiang Xing's words.

He had waited so long for someone to arrive, only to find that the person who came was a living King of Hell!

"Don't kill me. I'll hand them over... I'll hand them over."

Although his current state could not last much longer anyway, who would want to die if they could live?

Thus, Venerable Tianhuo handed the infant Fallen Heart Flame and a snow-white Storage Ring to Jiang Xing.

After obtaining the Storage Ring, Jiang Xing sent his Soul Strength into it and discovered the pale white scroll within. Written on the scroll were the words "Five Round Li Fire Method."

After putting away the Fallen Heart Flame and the Storage Ring, Jiang Xing nodded in satisfaction and left the space with Lin Shan.

Seeing that the two of them had not killed him, Venerable Tianhuo let out a sigh of relief.

After leaving that space, Jiang Xing pointed at the transparent halo and said, "Lin Shan, use your full strength to blast that space apart!"

Venerable Tianhuo had survived only by attaching his soul to a Heavenly Flame. After all these years, his soul could not hold on much longer. Now that he had lost the Heavenly Flame as well, he would likely dissipate completely within less than a year.

Since that was the case, it would be better to have Lin Shan send him on his way, lest something unexpected happen and Venerable Tianhuo ended up helping Xiao Yan again.

"Yes, Young Master!"

Although Lin Shan was surprised by Jiang Xing's order, he still complied. After gathering his Dou Qi with all his strength, he viciously smashed it toward the transparent halo.

The transparent halo could not withstand Lin Shan's attack at all. The instant they came into contact, it exploded.

Seeing the halo explode, Jiang Xing nodded in satisfaction.

Mm, that settled it!