Heart Flame Tempers the Heart (3.4k, Bonus Chapter)

Jia Nan Academy truly was a place that had brought her joy.

Thinking back to the recruitment assembly, Xiao Yan had not harbored many distracting thoughts at the time. He had merely wanted to give that girl, who hid behind a smile, a relatively carefree period of time. That was how they had ultimately formed an unbreakable bond.

A gift of peachwood was repaid with fine jade.

Every drink and every peck had been ordained by fate.

Xiao Yan seemed to gain some insight.

When he had fought Venerable Huangquan, he had used the Flame Splitting Wave Devourer Ruler, successfully knocking his opponent down a realm with an attack far beyond his own strength.

Yet afterward, no matter how Xiao Yan contemplated or experimented, he could no longer recreate that moment of sudden inspiration. That frustrating feeling of being neither here nor there had even made him believe it was merely an illusion.

But now, he had unexpectedly discovered this opportunity within Jia Nan Academy. It truly had been an accidental stroke of fortune.

"I originally believed that the path of creation and destruction contained within the Yin-Yang Twin Flames was the supreme path. But apparently, that is not the case."

"If the path of creation and destruction was the reason the Yin-Yang Twin Flames were born, then the Myriad Beasts Spirit Flame represented the path of body refinement, while the Nihility Devouring Flame represented the path of devouring. They held no superiority over one another, yet they differed in strength. This endless cycle was what laid the foundation for the current Heavenly Flame Ranking."

"And if reality truly is as I suspect, then the Fierce Heaven Art is not merely a cultivation method—it is a tool for fusing paths!"

As these thoughts flashed through his mind, Xiao Yan's pupils