The pale-blue Nine-Li Cold Flame hung in the void, its faint light flickering.
Qin He sat motionless among the ruins, his gaze resting on the Fire Seed at his fingertips as his mind sank deep.
With a slight movement of his will, the power throughout his body rose in unison.
The fierce flame energy he had built up over years formed the foundation, sweeping forth with tyrannical force to burn away all illusion; True Demonic Qi served as the medium, embracing myriad Daos and melding disparate powers.
His soul's Thought Power unfurled into an invisible framework that held the restless rhythms in check.
And above those three powers, at the very core, stood the source power he had long since mastered: the Source-Birth Law.
The Source-Birth Law was the art of harmonizing the origins of heaven and earth, one of the highest principles of balance in the world. No matter how utterly opposed two forces were, how incompatible as fire and water, it could find the seams between them, dissolve their opposition, and unite them as one. That was its most heaven-defying wonder.
With the three powers in support and the Source-Birth Law in command, four forces intertwined, revolved, and drew together. Half a foot before him, they formed an invisible refining domain that could anchor, meld, restrain, and harmonize.
Qin He gently reached out with his soul to touch the Nine-Li Cold Flame. He had expected nothing more than an ordinary melding of different fire rhythms. But the instant the Cold Flame's Fire Seed touched the furnace's boundary, a violent repulsion erupted.
The Lotus Flame shuddered. The rhythms of the four Demon Flames, long since fused into one, grew restless together, instinctively resisting this wisp of frigid flame.
The Nine-Li Cold Flame, however, had been born against the Dao.