"I should give it a try. There's no harm in trying. If I just gave up like this, I wouldn't be willing to accept it!"
After hesitating in the courtyard for a long time, Yan Kuan made his decision. Carrying the Fire Seed of the Empyrean Flame, he knew this cultivation method possessed limitless potential. Of course he would not be willing to abandon it so easily. Besides, the idea that the Burning Art could forge its own path was merely his own speculation. Perhaps it really could be cultivated.
Having made up his mind, Yan Kuan stopped overthinking. He emptied his mind of distractions and immersed himself in cultivation. Information on the Burning Art and its battle qi pathways emerged in his mind, while the battle qi within his Battle Qi Cyclone began transforming according to the technique.
According to the memories within the inheritance, a Dou Zhe of the Battle Qi Continent did not need much time for their first battle qi transformation. Even the Flame Emperor had taken only two hours, and no unusual phenomena had appeared during the process.
Yet when it came to Yan Kuan, the situation seemed to change. After he had circulated the Burning Art through a single cycle, the Wheel Sea Scroll of the Eight Trigrams Sect's cultivation method suddenly surfaced in his mind. Specks of information fused together in his thoughts, as though some special energy had merged into the Burning Art's battle qi.
When he entered a deeper state of cultivation, an instant later, the phenomenon of ten thousand blazing rays rose once more. Countless Divine Flames shone brilliantly like rainbows, and a crimson sea of fire swept forth. The entire Courtyard House seemed on the verge of disaster.
The previously dormant Trigram Treasure Box spun into the air once again. Strands of glowing patterns interwove throughout the courtyard, completely concealing the astonishing phenomenon.
Yan Kuan sat cross-legged, utterly still. Brilliant divine radiance bloomed within his Sea of Bitterness, while flames roared without end. Blazing light flashed, scorching heaven and earth.
The crimson sea of fire seemed almost real. Many plants in the courtyard gradually withered and yellowed, while an invisible pressure forced them to collapse to the ground.
"Roar..."
Yan Kuan, at the center of the sea of fire, resembled the sovereign of all flames. The astonishing phenomenon turned the sealed space into a world of blazing heat, filled everywhere with dazzling firelight.
Such a tremendous disturbance did not affect Yan Kuan's meditation at all. He seemed to feel nothing, remaining silent as he quietly circulated the transformed profound method of the Burning Art.
His meditation lasted until dusk. Only then did the heaven-shaking firelight slowly recede, and the commotion gradually diminished. More than half an hour passed before everything truly fell silent. Yan Kuan's Sea of Bitterness returned to calm, its radiance withdrawing as the flames vanished.
More than ten minutes later, he awakened. The moment his eyes opened, they displayed Fiery Golden Eyes once more. As he rose to his feet, his entire body seemed far more lively, carrying an ethereal aura of the immortal path.
He appeared more energetic than before. A faint glow, like warm jade, shone across his handsome face, making him look exceptionally spirited.
Though dusk was approaching, everything around him seemed clearer than it had even at noon. Yan Kuan smiled slightly. He knew this was one of the sensory enhancements brought about by cultivating a technique.
"The Burning Art actually fused with some of the profound mysteries of the Wheel Sea scripture from Shrouding the Heavens. What a pity—the Dao Scripture Wheel Sea Chapter inherited by the Eight Trigrams Sect is incomplete."
Yan Kuan raised his fair palm. Power flowed swiftly through his body, and a scorching crimson flame appeared in his palm.
"Transforming battle qi into flame—or rather, transforming energy or divine power into flame—is something only the very best techniques or secret arts can accomplish on the Battle Qi Continent. Yet I can do it now with this transformed and special Burning Art. The Burning Art truly has limitless potential!"
Yan Kuan looked at the flame in his palm, satisfaction gleaming in his eyes. He had never expected cultivating the Burning Art to bring such a pleasant surprise.
While circulating the Burning Art, he had naturally completed the fusion of this technique with the Shrouding the Heavens Method. More precisely, what he cultivated now was a Shrouding the Heavens Method bearing the characteristics of the Burning Art.
He did not know whether this was the Burning Art evolving on its own or the result of some other cause. In any case, it was a good thing for him. The Burning Art had retained its trait of endlessly evolving by devouring Heavenly Flames. This was equivalent to setting foot upon a special path, one with infinite possibilities.
After the Burning Art became Shrouding the Heavens-based, he no longer needed to worry about the technique's exclusivity. He could also actively gather more advanced cultivation methods as nourishment to perfect the current evolved version of the Burning Art.
The Wheel Sea Chapter of the Burning Art that he cultivated now had evolved through the fusion of the Wheel Sea cultivation method and cultivation knowledge from the Trigram Esoteric Sect's inheritance. It still had room for improvement, because the Trigram Esoteric Sect's techniques could only be considered decent in the entire Shrouding the Heavens universe.
The finest techniques in the Shrouding the Heavens universe were naturally the Immortal Emperor Scriptures. Great Emperors dominated an era, and their understanding of the Dao was beyond the imagination of ordinary cultivators. By cultivating the methods they created, one could generally cultivate every Secret Realm to an extremely high level.
Countless powerful figures had been born throughout the millions of years of cultivation history in the Shrouding the Heavens universe, and the cultivation of the Five Great Secret Realms had always been endlessly debated. Yet the universally acknowledged strongest scripture for the Wheel Sea Secret Realm was the Wheel Sea Chapter of the Dao Scripture.
The Dao Scripture recorded the scripture of the Great Dao, a supreme method originating from the Mythological Era. Legend had it that it was an Immortal Scripture created by the Nine Mythical Heavenly Lords. Only a few Ancient Scriptures could stand alongside it, and none could completely surpass it.
The complete Dao Scripture had long since been lost, while its various chapters naturally spread throughout the world. Of these, the most widely circulated was naturally the Wheel Sea Chapter of the Dao Scripture.
Even low-ranking sects on the Big Dipper Ancient Star could collect the opening chapter of this foundational method, hailed as the strongest in the world. As a sect founded by a Great Ability, the Eight Trigrams Sect naturally possessed some of this technique's contents as well.
Aside from the incomplete Dao Scripture chapters, the Eight Trigrams Sect's primary Wheel Sea cultivation method came from that Founding Great Power. The technique of a Great Ability at the Second Heaven of Immortal Platform might not rank among the universe's finest, but it could at least be cultivated completely up to the Immortal Platform. However, Yan Kuan had currently obtained only the complete Wheel Sea Chapter inheritance.
This Trigram Treasure Box in his possession had many wondrous uses. It contained a special internal space that stored the Eight Trigrams Sect's remaining foundations, such as cultivation methods and secret techniques. As for resources, if there had still been cultivation resources, would the Eight Trigrams Sect have suffered a broken lineage and let him pick up such a bargain?
"Maybe I should pin the mess here on Old Yan!"
After settling his emotions, Yan Kuan placed the Golden Book Jade Scroll into the Trigram Treasure Box. He then circulated the divine power of his Sea of Bitterness and stored this Great Power Supreme Treasure within it. Looking at the utterly ravaged courtyard, he began considering how to shirk responsibility and set his father up.
After returning to his room, he took out a booklet and began writing down his foreknowledge memories concerning this world.
There were many opportunities in the Shrouding the Heavens universe, and many valuable things could be snatched away first. However, if he wanted to obtain those benefits successfully, he needed to make careful plans.
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