Several days later, Xiao Yan finally emerged from that peculiar prolonged meditation. Having gone so long without food, combined with the stiffness in his body, it took him a full two days to fully readjust.
The benefits of meditation were immense. Not only had Xiao Yan's cultivation broken through three stars in succession, but a tiny droplet of liquid Dou Qi had also condensed within his vortex.
One had to know that liquid Dou Qi was the hallmark of a Dou Shi. Whether in terms of power or sheer abundance, it far surpassed gaseous Dou Qi. Such an unbelievably solid foundation would become Xiao Yan's greatest assurance for accelerating his cultivation in the future.
At the same time, after the Fierce Heaven Art absorbed the mutated Void Child Flame, it had only advanced to a level close to the Profound Rank. Even knowing how difficult the Fierce Heaven Art was to cultivate, Xiao Yan could not help finding this exceedingly strange.
Though it was only a child flame, after undergoing mutation, its capabilities in every regard had already fully reached the level of a flame at the bottom of the Heavenly Flame Ranking. Even so, it had only raised the Fierce Heaven Art by two levels. That was somewhat unreasonable.
Only after asking did Xiao Yan finally learn that the destructive clash between the Heavenly Flames earlier, along with Hun Ruoruo's relentless water wave attacks, had caused the child flame—whose foundation had yet to stabilize after devouring—to suffer a major decline in all aspects for a short period.
Fortunately, for the Nihility Devouring Flame, which possessed the power to devour, this was not an unbearable blow. As long as it was fed suitable things to devour, the Void Child Flame could gradually recover its previous power, perhaps even surpassing it.