Devouring the Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame Seed

Devouring the Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame Seed

The next morning.

The newly risen sun gradually climbed higher, and a ray of sunlight passed through the living room window, falling across Xiao Ling's profile.

Slowly opening his eyes, Xiao Ling awoke from his sleep to welcome a brand-new day. He glanced at the sun outside. It had only just risen above the horizon, while most people were still asleep.

Lowering his gaze to Xun'er in his arms, he saw that her eyes were tightly shut, as though she were still immersed in sleep.

The warm sunlight shining through the window made her gentle profile even more beautiful and moving. Her lips parted faintly as she breathed, her breath fragrant as orchids. Sleeping soundly, she resembled a newborn pure spirit basking in the candlelight of a greenhouse. It gave one the urge to step forward and have a taste.

Xiao Ling slowly raised his left hand and brushed several strands of hair from Xun'er's cheek behind her ear. He carefully caressed her smooth, jade-like face, gently kissed her forehead, then slowly laid her flat on the sofa.

Taking a blanket made from fire fox fur from his Storage Ring, Xiao Ling gently covered Xun'er with it.

He picked up the porcelain bottle containing the Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame Seed from the tea table in the living room. After turning back to take one more serious look at Xun'er, Xiao Ling quietly left the room and headed toward his dormitory.

Xiao Ling was not very good at parting. After being with someone for so many years, suddenly having her no longer by his side would probably feel somewhat strange. Leaving quietly also spared them too much reluctance. That was not so bad either.

After Xiao Ling left the room, Xun'er, who was lying on the living room sofa, slowly opened her eyes. Having slept in Xiao Ling's embrace, she had awakened the moment he made even the slightest movement. She simply did not know how to speak, so she pretended to be deeply asleep.

Touching her forehead, where a trace of lingering warmth remained, she felt a little empty and unaccustomed to it.

Letting out a long sigh, Xun'er softly murmured, "Brother Xiao Ling, Xun'er will wait for you to return here."

Returning to his dormitory, Xiao Ling entered the cultivation room, sat down cross-legged, and released the Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame Seed from the porcelain bottle.

At once, a scorching temperature surged toward him. Its heat seemed capable of destroying the void, burning all things to nothing.

After leaving the porcelain bottle, the flame did not recklessly release its temperature. Instead, it quietly floated in the air, appearing incomparably docile. Xun'er must have instructed it beforehand, which was why it was so obedient. Inherited Heavenly Flames truly possessed some strange qualities. Without the cooperation of the Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame, even Gu Yuan, with cultivation at the Nine Star Dou Sheng Peak, would likely have been unable to seal it within Xun'er's body when she was young.

Feeling the temperature rise sharply in an instant, Xiao Ling could not help sighing. "As expected of the Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame, ranked fourth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking. Even a mere seed flame possesses such extraordinary might. Without the strength of a Dou Wang, I would not even be qualified to absorb and refine it."

Drawing his gaze away from the Heavenly Flame, Xiao Ling had no intention of directly absorbing and refining it. Even if this Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame Seed did not resist, he would still have to endure considerable torment to complete the absorption. Xiao Ling was not afraid of pain, but if suffering could be avoided, it was better to avoid it.

Xiao Ling lightly touched his Storage Ring and took out a transparent little jade bottle. Inside lay a blood-red pill the size of a longan, resting quietly. Through the bottle's reflection, faint shadows could be seen within the blood-colored pill. When it was gently shaken, liquid seemed to slosh inside.

This round, blood-red pill was one of the essential items for devouring Heavenly Flames: the Blood Lotus Pill!

Xiao Ling had prepared it long ago. He had originally intended to use it when devouring the Green Lotus Core Flame, but unexpectedly, it was being used first on this Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame Seed. The Green Lotus Core Flame, before being used by Medusa, probably possessed energy around the Dou Huang level. This Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame was only between the Dou Ling and Dou Wang levels. The effects of this Blood Lotus Pill should be sufficient.

After taking out the Blood Lotus Pill, Xiao Ling removed another small jade box from his Storage Ring. He gently placed it on the smooth floor. Immediately, a faint chill condensed into a thin layer of ice across the ground. Opening the jade box revealed a snow-white jade bottle carefully placed inside. Pale white cold mist curled around it, giving off a faintly ethereal and mysterious feeling.

What this snow-white jade bottle contained was the Ice Spirit Cold Spring Xiao Ling had exchanged from Jia Nan Academy's treasury.

Setting these two items aside for the moment, Xiao Ling took another stone from his Storage Ring.

It was a thumb-sized gray stone, smooth as jade and without the slightest flaw. Within its core, a faint blue glow slowly wriggled, like a tiny living worm.

This was Spirit Absorption, an extremely rare natural treasure. Only within High-grade Spirit Absorption Stones was there a tiny chance of excavating it.

Though the Spirit Absorption was only a tiny speck, its value far exceeded that of the Blood Lotus Pill and Ice Spirit Cold Spring. If he had not previously asked Elder Huo for help and relied on Jia Nan Academy's connections, it would have been difficult to obtain it.

After setting aside the belt and Storage Ring on his body, Xiao Ling took a deep breath and calmed his somewhat restless emotions. Once his mind had settled, he prepared to devour this seed flame.

Xiao Ling curled his palm slightly and drew the small jade bottle into his hand with the Absorption Palm. Tilting the bottle, he let the round pill, the size of a longan and faintly lustrous, roll into his palm.

Holding the Blood Lotus Pill, Xiao Ling placed it beneath his nose and sniffed it. A strange scent lingered at his nostrils, and its icy sensation made even his soul tremble slightly.

His gaze fixed tightly on this fifth-tier medicinal pill, Xiao Ling suddenly clenched his fist, shut his eyes, and stuffed it into his mouth.

The moment the Blood Lotus Pill entered his mouth, it transformed into a slightly cold energy that rapidly drilled into every meridian in Xiao Ling's body. In the end, like layers of blood membranes, it slowly seeped into his meridians and bones.

As the blood membranes seeped in, Xiao Ling's body suddenly trembled violently. Threads of blood continuously burst out from his pores. In the blink of an eye, his body was coated in a layer of deep red blood, looking extremely terrifying.

Not long after appearing, the blood rapidly solidified, eventually forming a blood-red keratin layer. This layer not only wrapped Xiao Ling's hands and feet, but completely sealed over even his eyes.

The blood-red keratin layer formed an airtight suit of blood-red armor, protecting Xiao Ling tightly within it.

Slowly extending his hand wrapped in the blood-red keratin layer, Xiao Ling aimed it at the Heavenly Flame in midair and activated the Absorption Palm. A powerful suction force suddenly erupted.

As the suction force appeared, the golden flame in midair flew toward Xiao Ling.

Once the Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame floated before him, Xiao Ling stretched out his hand and thrust it into the golden flame, intending to retrieve the flame seed within.

Even though the Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame did not resist at all, the moment Xiao Ling's palm touched the flame, he still felt an incomparably scorching temperature. The blood-red keratin layer covering his arm began melting rapidly. Drops of liquid resembling blood continuously fell, and every time they left his arm, the golden flame swiftly burned them into nothingness.

Though the blood-red keratin layer melted rapidly within the Heavenly Flame, the medicinal power of the Blood Lotus Pill inside Xiao Ling's body continuously released an endless stream of cold energy as it melted. This energy passed through his meridians and swiftly repaired the melting blood-red keratin layer on his arm.

Gritting his teeth against the intense searing pain, Xiao Ling released Soul Power from between his brows. Since the flame did not resist, he quickly found the precise location of the flame seed and firmly seized it in his hand. His palm tightly gripped an object that felt almost solid. Not daring to waste time, Xiao Ling endured the burning pain in his hand and slowly withdrew his arm from the golden flame.

When his arm emerged from the golden flame, a wisp of golden, block-like matter floated quietly in his palm.

Staring deeply at this origin flame seed, Xiao Ling did not hesitate for long before swallowing it in one gulp.

The flame entered his body. Even without deliberately releasing its power, it burned the surrounding blood vessels into nothingness. Whenever damage appeared within his body, the Hundred Thousand Year Blue Silver Emperor Torso Bone released a clear current that began healing the injuries. Feeling a scorching heat burning within him, Xiao Ling picked up the Ice Spirit Cold Spring beside him and poured all of it into his stomach in one swallow.

The cold current surged into his body, then flowed through his meridians in every direction. Every meridian it passed through was swiftly covered in a milky-white layer of ice, extending over both the meridians and bones.

As the cold current entered his body, its bone-piercing chill perfectly offset the heat brought by the Heavenly Flame. The sudden comfort made Xiao Ling let out a long breath, and his tightly strained nerves relaxed somewhat.

Forming a cultivation seal with his hands, Xiao Ling began circulating the Dou Qi within his body according to the cultivation route of the Fen Jue. His mind guided a wisp of golden flame as it slowly circulated. Wherever the flame passed, the ice layer condensed by the Ice Spirit Cold Spring continuously melted away. Fortunately, the origin Heavenly Flame did not resist, making it quite smooth to control.

When the golden flame flowed out of a major meridian, it finally completed one perfect circulation. At that moment, Xiao Ling could clearly feel that the connection between his mind and the Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame had become slightly more harmonious.

After passing through the cultivation route of the Fen Jue, the Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame's highly destructive heat suddenly began to slowly subside. A moment later, the high temperature had almost completely withdrawn into the flame seed, while a trace of gentleness faintly spread out.

Seeing this, Xiao Ling breathed a sigh of relief and murmured, "Looks like it will succeed soon. Good thing I prepared thoroughly, and this seed flame has no intention of resisting. Unlike Xiao Yan, who had to risk death again and again and suffer terribly before absorbing his Heavenly Flame."

With a beckoning gesture, the tiny Spirit Absorption on the stone surface transformed into a streak of gray light and shot directly into Xiao Ling's body. Under Xiao Ling's control, it entered his Dou Crystal.

The instant Spirit Absorption entered Xiao Ling's body, a dazzling golden flame barrier suddenly shot out from within him and wrapped around him. The scorching golden flames rolling across its surface cut off all light from the outside.

At the center of the Dou Crystal floated a tiny gray point of light. Within it was endless, deep darkness. At the end of that darkness seemed to be another hidden space, appearing exceptionally mysterious.

The final and most crucial step in refining a Heavenly Flame into an origin flame seed was to forcibly compress the Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame into the space formed by the Spirit Absorption. Only by completely storing the Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame inside the Spirit Absorption could the refinement truly be considered perfect!

This step would ordinarily be extremely difficult. After all, the flame spirits within Heavenly Flames possessed a trace of intelligence and instinctively rejected dangerous things. If one failed to force it inside, the Heavenly Flame that had already undergone preliminary refinement might suffer a backlash once more!

However, because Xun'er had instructed it, this Golden Emperor Blazing Heaven Flame Seed showed no intention whatsoever of disobeying Xiao Ling's control. As it neared the Spirit Absorption, it seemed to sense something and voluntarily entered that strange space.

As Xiao Ling successfully refined the flame seed, waves of energy ripples suddenly appeared rapidly across the surface of the golden barrier that had remained still. Immediately after, a powerful aura burst out from within the fiery barrier.

The energy ripples on the barrier fluctuated ever more violently. In the end, fine cracks suddenly appeared across the round barrier. The cracks slowly spread until they covered the entire barrier, making it look like a golden egg covered in fractures.

"Crack." A crisp sound echoed through the cultivation room. A small fragment of energy quietly fell from the golden barrier and landed on the floor. The scorching heat it carried instantly melted a small pit into the ground.

"Crack... crack." After the first energy fragment fell, the golden energy barrier suddenly began trembling violently. The trembling continued for a moment before, at a certain instant, the golden barrier exploded with a bang.

Xiao Ling, seated cross-legged within it, was revealed in his naked form.

Faint golden flames curled within his pitch-black eyes. After a while, they suddenly surged up, completely covering his eyes. In that instant, Xiao Ling's pupils turned golden, giving him a faint air of sovereign majesty.

Opening his eyes, Xiao Ling slightly twisted his neck. Immediately, an incomparably smooth series of crackling sounds rang out from his bones. Listening to those crisp sounds, Xiao Ling took a deep breath, his face filled with comfort and intoxication.