The Might of the Devouring Ancestral Symbol-Refined in an Instant (Please Bookmark and Recommend!)

"You can first nourish this Seventh-tier Beast Flame with your soul power for a while. Once it's more attuned to you, you can refine and absorb it."

Whether Beast Flames or Heavenly Flames, they were all inherently violent things.

Even the most docile Beast Flame was not easy to refine.

However, Alchemists could nourish Beast Flames and certain mindless Heavenly Flames with their soul power and Dou Qi, making them easier to refine.

In that respect, Alchemists did have an innate advantage when refining different kinds of flames.

"Thank you, Teacher, but... I don't know how to nourish a flame."

Ling Xi sheepishly scratched his head.

At the Clan Academy, he had learned only the most basic knowledge. He had never been taught this.

"What's so difficult about that?"

Ling You reached out and made a distant grasp toward the glass bottle containing the Crimson Sun Fire seed.

Crack!

A crisp shattering sound rang out, and the glass bottle instantly crumbled to dust under an invisible force.

"Go!"

Ling You pointed into the air. As if under some kind of control, the Crimson Sun Fire seed flew straight into the space between Ling Xi's brows.

"Mm!"

Ling Xi felt a sudden warmth between his brows. The next moment, his soul power showed him the Beast Flame resting there.

But the Spirit Platform between Ling Xi's brows had never held only his soul power and the newly arrived Crimson Sun Fire.

"Teacher..."

Ling Xi had just started to say something when the Devouring Ancestral Symbol, already fused with his soul, suddenly unleashed a burst of Devouring Power.

The cultivation system of the Dou Qi Continent was actually quite interesting.

Dou Qi, the basic form of cultivation on the Dou Qi Continent, was stored in a Dou Zhe's lower abdomen, in the area known as the dantian.

Soul power, the foundation of an Alchemist, resided in the Spirit Platform between an Alchemist's brows.

To refine a Heavenly Flame, one needed to use Naling to create a space for storing fire in the dantian.

Then, after circulating the source flame along the routes specified by the cultivation method, one drew it into the Naling within the body. Only then was the refinement complete.

Alchemists had the greatest affinity with flames, yet soul power did not play a particularly significant role in the process of refining them.

Under the Devouring Power of the Devouring Ancestral Symbol, the Seventh-tier Crimson Flame seed could barely put up any resistance.

Even though Ling Xi was only a lowly One-star Dou Practitioner, his soul power far surpassed what his Dou Qi rank would suggest.

Under the Devouring Power of the Devouring Ancestral Symbol, the Crimson Sun Fire seed couldn't even maintain its flame form. It was forcibly dragged into a golden-red stream of fire that surged into the meridians within Ling Xi's body.

The flame entered his body, but there was none of the burning pain he had expected.

As the Myriad Origin Returning Spirit Art circulated, a warm, soothing sensation spread through every part of Ling Xi's body.

Refined by the cultivation method, the golden-red fire seed flowed straight into the Qi Vortex in Ling Xi's dantian.

At the very center of the vortex, it transformed back into a golden-red flame.

Illuminated by the fire, the Qi Vortex within Ling Xi's body turned golden-red as well.

All of this was happening inside Ling Xi. Even Ling You, standing nearby, had no idea what was going on.

He saw Ling Xi's expression change. Then Ling Xi closed his eyes, and the energy between heaven and earth began to gather inside his body.

"Is this kid... refining a Beast Flame?"

As a Dou Venerate and an Eighth-grade Alchemist, Ling You was naturally a man of considerable experience.

Even so, the sight before him left his eyes wide with astonishment.

"This is freaking strange. It doesn't look like Ling Xi is refining the Beast Flame. It looks more like the Beast Flame is refining itself..."

Ling You swore that in his more than a hundred years of experience, he had never seen anything so absurd.

No matter how he looked at it, Ling Xi seemed to be the passive one.

Ling Xi really was passive. He had underestimated the domineering nature of the Devouring Ancestral Symbol.

What a joke.

What was a mere Seventh-tier Beast Flame? How could it possibly be worthy of sharing space with it in Ling Xi's Spirit Platform Sea of Consciousness?

Although the Myriad Spirits Returning to Origin Art had all kinds of wondrous effects, it was still no Flame Mantra.

Refining a Beast Flame wouldn't make the cultivation method evolve, nor would it raise Ling Xi's rank.

It simply allowed Ling Xi to fully control the Seventh-tier Crimson Sun Fire, and nothing more.

Perhaps because the Devouring Ancestral Symbol was so powerful, the Seventh-tier Crimson Sun Fire offered no resistance, and the refinement proceeded incredibly quickly.

A few hours later, Ling Xi's eyes suddenly snapped open.

A golden-red glint flashed across his eyes, then vanished.

"Y-you refined the Crimson Sun Fire?"

Ling You looked Ling Xi up and down and asked, sounding uncertain.

"I think I did?"

Ling Xi held out his right hand. A golden-red flame appeared at his fingertip.

"You little rascal... What exactly happened just now?"

Looking at the flame on Ling Xi's fingertip, Ling You's mouth twitched slightly.

"I don't know either."

Ling Xi scratched his head, his face showing a naive, bewildered expression.

"As soon as the Beast Flame entered my body, it started circulating along the routes of the Myriad Spirits Returning to Origin Art on its own."

"And then... then it just turned out like this."

Since his teacher hadn't noticed the Devouring Ancestral Symbol, Ling Xi had full control over how to explain what had happened.

Ling You fell silent.

He certainly didn't believe everything Ling Xi had said, but he had thoroughly investigated Ling Xi's past.

This was a Descendant Citizen of the Ling Clan with a past as clean as a blank sheet of paper.

If the kid really had some ulterior motive, there was no reason for him to reveal so many openings in front of Ling You.

"You little rascal... You really are blessed with extraordinary talent."

After a long while, Ling You sighed helplessly.

Apart from extraordinary talent, he could find no other explanation.

Besides, as a dying man, he had no desire to pry into the matter. He only wanted to pass on his legacy.

"Heh heh."

Ling Xi sheepishly scratched his head.

Refining the Beast Flame had been beyond his expectations too, and he himself had been caught completely off guard.

"These two scrolls contain two different Dou Techniques."

"One is a Mysterious Tier Mid-grade Movement Dou Technique called Flowing Fire Afterimage Steps. Once mastered, it lets you move like flowing fire and leave behind afterimages to confuse your opponent."

Ling You paused, then pointed to the other scroll. His tone grew more serious.

"This scroll contains one of the Ling Clan's inherited Dou Techniques. It's called the Myriad Spirits Annihilation Finger."

"Though this Dou Technique is only Earth Tier Mid-grade, using it requires you to combine soul power with Dou Qi, so it places extremely high demands on the cultivator's soul power."

"This Dou Technique is incredibly powerful. Once mastered, a single finger can even annihilate an opponent's soul and life force."

Looking at the two scrolls before him, Ling Xi couldn't help swallowing.

It had to be said: with a good teacher, a lot of things really did become much easier.

Dou Techniques of this level—especially an Earth Tier Mid-grade Dou Technique like the Myriad Spirits Annihilation Finger—would have people fighting tooth and nail for them out in the wider world!