Six Ding Divine Fire, Blazing Ash Incineration

"You've got an interesting idea, but unfortunately... you've gone in the wrong direction!"

As Xuan Yin pondered the divine ability, an ill-timed voice suddenly sounded by his ear. "Although the Great Dao of Wind can enhance the power of the Great Dao of Fire, your control is insufficient. You can only use wind to fuel the flames and expand the divine ability's range, but you cannot bring about a fundamental change in its power!"

The speaker was none other than the Fire Kirin within the Water-Fire Gourd. As a sacred being born of fire, he naturally had considerable authority on such matters.

Xuan Yin was taken aback, then promptly asked for guidance. "That is indeed a problem! Then, Senior, which direction do you think I should explore?"

He knew that this Fire Kirin was the father of the Water-Fire Boy and possessed peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal cultivation. Naturally, he would not let this opportunity for guidance slip by.

"Compression, of course!"

The Fire Kirin slowly said, "You may call me Yan Lin! Fire is the ultimate heat, and heat is the gradual manifestation of fire. Your divine ability uses fire as its foundation and wind as its support, but both are formless and intangible. Compression and fusion are the best ways to enhance this divine ability's power!"

As he spoke, he demonstrated for Xuan Yin. With a single breath, three types of innate divine fire gathered in the void and formed a fire lotus. Extreme light and heat instantly erupted from it.

"Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus?"

Seeing this, Xuan Yin could not help but think of a certain Flame Emperor's technique.

"Hm?"

Yan Lin revealed a trace of astonishment. "You actually recognize it? Could it be that your Other-Self Incarnation has also descended into that world?"

"Huh?"

Xuan Yin froze. He had only said it casually—there really was a Fighter Qi Continent?

At the Heavenly Immortal Realm, he had once divided himself into one hundred and eight thousand Other-Self Incarnations, yet he had never encountered the Fighter Qi Continent among the countless worlds.

Yan Lin paid that no mind and continued, "Since you understand this Fighting Skill, you must understand its principles as well!"

"Samadhi True Fire is essentially divine fire fueled by one's essence, qi, and spirit, while Samadhi Divine Wind transforms them into the nature of wind!"

"But in the end, they are still the three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit. No matter how they change, they never depart from their origin!"

"If you wish to fuse these two divine abilities and maximize their power, balance is the most important thing. In truth, that is precisely the compression and fusion I spoke of!"

Xuan Yin suddenly understood. His approach had been to make fire primary and wind supplementary. While it could work, the increase in power was extremely limited.

"Balance!"

He could not help recalling the time he had sought Duobao Daoist's advice on lightning techniques.

Lightning techniques united creation and destruction, containing both annihilation and genesis. What mattered most was balance—but balance was not so easily grasped!

He had been too impatient!

With that thought, he immediately bowed to Yan Lin. "Thank you for your guidance, Senior Yan Lin!"

Having a Grand Unity Golden Immortal at his side truly could help him avoid many detours.

"You're welcome!"

Yan Lin smiled. "Since Sage Tongtian bestowed the Water-Fire Gourd upon you, Xuan Shuang and I naturally hope your cultivation can reach greater heights! That way, my wife and I can occasionally go out for some fresh air!"

Xuan Shuang was the name of the Water Kirin. She was Yan Lin's Dao companion, the Water-Fire Boy's birth mother, and likewise a peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

Of the two Kirin, however, Xuan Shuang held the higher position in the family. Water countered fire, and the Fire Kirin most likely could not defeat the Water Kirin.

Otherwise, Xuan Shuang would not have been the first to go out for fresh air at this very moment!

The two of them had also accumulated considerable karmic burden. They had sought shelter under Sect Master Tongtian and borrowed the Sage's providence, allowing them to avoid Dao Integration beneath their karmic burden like the other Qilin Race cultivators who had participated in the Dragon-Han Calamity. In exchange, they had become the artifact spirits of the Water-Fire Gourd.

When Sect Master Tongtian bestowed the Water-Fire Gourd upon Xuan Yin, he had also intended for the pair to protect him and occasionally answer his questions about cultivation.

However, under the Sage's watchful eye, there was little danger. After obtaining Xuan Yin's consent, the married couple often took turns going out for fresh air.

Xuan Yin did not refuse.

After all, he understood well that although the Water-Fire Gourd contained a world of its own, no one wished to remain cooped up in such a world forever.

To a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, such a world was merely a small pond. Only the Primordial True Realm could barely be considered a vast ocean.

Besides, he also intended for the two Kirin to spend more time with the Water-Fire Boy.

With Yan Lin's guidance, Xuan Yin immediately found a direction. Samadhi True Fire manifested from nothingness and, under his control, transformed into a Taiji Diagram.

The Taiji Diagram contained the principle of yin-yang balance. One yin and one yang, one still and one moving, one civil and one martial—it actually transformed the Samadhi True Fire into Six Ding Divine Fire.

"What a fortunate coincidence!"

In the Journey to the West World, Taishang Laojun's Eight Trigrams Furnace contained Six Ding Divine Fire.

Though it had likewise evolved from Samadhi True Fire, Six Ding Divine Fire possessed a gentler nature and was more suitable than Samadhi True Fire for Pill Refining and artifact refinement.

[Six Ding Divine Fire]

[Samadhi Divine Wind]

After evolving Six Ding Divine Fire, Xuan Yin activated Samadhi Divine Wind again, continuously compressing the divine fire and concentrating its power within the divine wind.

At that moment, the Samadhi Divine Wind resembled a pill furnace. It restrained the Six Ding Divine Fire while merging its own contained power into the divine fire.

Boom!

In less than a moment, the flames in Xuan Yin's hand transformed into a blazing sun, radiating an endless vitality along with extreme light and heat.

[Blazing Ash Incineration]

Though it still had some flaws, Xuan Yin's divine ability had already taken its initial form. Compared to pure Samadhi True Fire, Samadhi Divine Wind, or Six Ding Divine Fire, its power had increased by an unknown number of times.

This divine ability possessed the traits of all three divine abilities and endless transformations. It could refine pills and artifacts, yet it also contained the terrifying might to destroy heaven and earth.

With a thought from Xuan Yin, the divine ability transformed into a Heaven and Earth Furnace.

After devouring vast amounts of heaven and earth essence qi, the Heaven and Earth Furnace transformed once more into a blazing sun, instantly erupting with terrifying power capable of burning the heavens and boiling the seas.

"Wonderful!"

Xuan Yin could not help but rejoice. This could be considered drawing on the strengths of many others—by learning from the wisdom of others, he had taken a crucial step on his own path of cultivation.

If one walked another's path, it would be difficult to surpass its founder even after a lifetime. But if one walked one's own path, though it might be more difficult, the future would be bright, and one would not be bound by another's Dao!

Boom!

As Xuan Yin created a divine ability unique to himself, his True Immortal Dao Fruit also became somewhat more complete and solid without him realizing it.

Cultivation in the True Immortal Realm meant seeing through the transformations between falsehood and reality, comprehending the principles of existence and nonexistence. Only then could one turn the unreal into the real and refine false into true.

Xuan Yin's creation of his own divine ability was undoubtedly a transformation from nothing into something.

After sensing the changes in his Dao Fruit, Xuan Yin was overjoyed. He immediately immersed his mind in comprehending the principles of existence and nonexistence.

Cultivation knew no years. As the stars shifted and all things changed, thirty thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.

Over those thirty thousand years, aside from comprehending the principles of existence and nonexistence, Xuan Yin had spent most of his time deducing and cultivating divine abilities.

Several of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Divine Abilities had already been comprehended by him to the Divine Transformation Realm.

[Penetrating Walls Insight]

[Carrying Mountains and Crossing Seas]

[Shifting Stars and Changing Constellations]

[Shrinking the Abyss and Contracting the Earth]

The first three divine abilities shared many similarities with the abilities of the Four Mixed Monkeys. Thanks to the insights he had gained by exchanging bodies with Sun Wukong and the others in the Journey to the West World, cultivating them produced twice the result with half the effort.

As for the final divine ability, it benefited from First Kirin's Earthly Origin Dao Fruit. Since First Kirin controlled the earth, he naturally did not lack insights in this regard.

This seclusion had yielded abundant gains. Though he still had many divine abilities left to sort through, after some thought, he decided to leave seclusion first and take a look.

After all...

Cultivation was important, but he could not neglect exchanges with his fellow disciples because of it!