Several times stronger?
Of course not. More than ten times stronger!
The lotus flame slowly revolved before Qin He, its interwoven red and blue radiance lighting up the depths of his eyes.
The power of this fused demon flame far exceeded his initial estimate.
His fingertip stirred, and a thread of flame drifted onto what remained of the chamber's rock wall. There was no earth-shattering boom, yet the wall instantly vanished into nothingness, leaving not even ash behind—the fusion of the life-and-death law had attained a tyranny as silent as rain nourishing all things.
Qin He brushed his fingertips over the lotus flame as the classifications of strange flames passed through his mind.
Strange flames fell into two categories. The first was alchemical flame refined by cultivators themselves, also known as inner flame.
Abyssal fire, Samadhi true fire, and Purple Sun extreme fire all belonged to this category. They were mostly cultivated by fire-attribute cultivators or alchemists, and their properties varied according to their owners' comprehension of the Dao.
These flames had no fixed ranking of strength; everything depended on the cultivator's realm and understanding of laws. Samadhi true fire condensed by a top cultivator, for instance, could overpower even a demon flame such as Southern Ming Li fire.
The other category was heaven-earth origin flame, of which demon flames were a branch.
Legend held that the Nine Great Demonic Fires all originated from the chaos fire seed, but no one could prove whether that seed truly existed.
Legends in the cultivation world had always been difficult to separate into truth and falsehood. Most were distorted tales passed from mouth to mouth, and the Divine Court's failure to fuse demon flames was clear proof.
Qin He could not be bothered to delve deeper. For now, this fused demon flame was