Sect Leader Zhu sensed Xu Yi's wariness. He took no offense; instead, he secretly admired him.
Good Samaritans and those who blindly trusted others were destined not to get far on the treacherous, ever-shifting path of cultivation.
The wisp of Sect Leader Zhu's divided soul had barely entered Xu Yi's spiritual platform when it was drawn toward the fiery-red tub and refined directly into a wisp of green smoke.
Sect Leader Zhu spat out a mouthful of blood, his complexion visibly fading by the second. Ignoring Sect Leader Zhu's attempt to stop him, Xu Yi activated the Sheep Fat Jade Pure Bottle again and lightly shook the willow branch. A few drops of spiritual liquid soaked into Sect Leader Zhu's body.
Sect Leader Zhu barely managed to catch his breath, yet his eyes were full of excitement. "What pure Soul Fire. I can't imagine what sort of opportunity you came across."
"Under normal circumstances, the Heavenly Origin Seed passes through the True Spirit Circle and merges with the true soul. Once the True Spirit Circle shatters, the true soul fused with the Heavenly Origin Seed and the True Spirit Circle embrace one another, and a core can form."
"But you absorbed far more fire-element Heavenly Origin Seeds than I expected. They even caused your Primal Soul to give birth to Soul Fire. This is the sort of thing you'd only find in some ancient texts."
"The soul is yin, while fire is yang; by nature, they're difficult to coexist. Yet your Primal Soul can be tempered in fire. Although that Soul Fire arose from the immense quantity of fire-element Heavenly Origin Seeds fused into your Primal Soul, it ultimately wasn't born from the soul itself. Now your Primal Soul can be tempered day and night in such pure Soul Fire