The Might of the Devouring Ancestral Symbol, Refined in an Instant (Seeking Collection, Seeking Recommendation!)

"You can use your Soul Power to nurture this Seventh-tier Beast Fire for a while first. Once its compatibility is high enough, then refine and absorb it."

Whether beast fire or Exotic Flame, both are inherently violent things.

Even the gentlest beast fire is not so easy to refine.

However, alchemists can use their Soul Power and Dou Qi to nurture beast fires and some Exotic Flames without intelligence, thereby reducing the difficulty of refinement.

From this perspective, alchemists do have an innate advantage when refining various flames.

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

Ling Xi rubbed his head a little sheepishly.

Everything he had learned at the Clan Academy was the most basic knowledge—nothing like this.

"What's so hard about that?"

Ling You reached out and grasped the air toward the glass bottle containing the Crimson Sun Fire seed.

Crack!

A crisp shattering sound rang out. Under an invisible force, the glass bottle instantly turned to powder.

"Go!"

Ling You pointed into the void, and the Crimson Sun Fire seed, as if controlled by some command, shot straight into Ling Xi's forehead.

"Hm!"

Ling Xi felt a sudden warmth spread through his forehead. The next moment, his Soul Power saw the beast fire resting there.

But what dwelled in the Spirit Platform at Ling Xi's forehead was never just his Soul Power and the newly arrived Crimson Sun Fire seed.

"Teacher..."

Ling Xi was about to say something, but the next moment, the Devouring Ancestral Symbol, already fused with his soul, erupted with a surge of Devouring Power.

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

Dou Qi, as the basic cultivation system of the Dou Qi Continent, is stored in the lower abdomen of a Dou Practitioner—specifically, the Dantian.

Soul Power, as the foundation of an alchemist, resides in the Spirit Platform at the alchemist's forehead.

Refining an Exotic Flame requires opening a flame storage space in the Dantian through Naling.

Only after guiding the source flame along the technique's path and finally absorbing it into the Naling within the body is the refinement truly complete.

Even though alchemists have the highest affinity with flames, Soul Power plays only a minor role in the refinement process.

The Seventh-tier Crimson Flame seed had almost no resistance against the Devouring Power of the Devouring Ancestral Symbol.

Even though Ling Xi was merely a small One-star Dou Practitioner, his Soul Power far exceeded his Dou Qi level.

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

The fire entered his body, but there was no expected burning pain.

As the Myriad Origin Returning Spirit Art circulated, a warm, moist sensation spread through Ling Xi's limbs and bones.

The golden-red fire seed, refined by the technique, poured straight into the Qi Vortex in Ling Xi's Dantian.

Finally, at the very center of the Qi Vortex, it condensed back into a clump of golden-red flame.

Illuminated by the flame, the Qi Vortex within Ling Xi's body also turned golden-red.

All of this happened inside Ling Xi's body. Even Ling You, standing nearby, couldn't tell what was going on with him.

He only saw Ling Xi's expression shift, then his eyes closed, and the energy of the surrounding world began to converge into Ling Xi's body.

"This kid... is he refining a beast fire?"

As a Dou Venerate-level powerhouse who had reached the level of an Eighth-grade Alchemist, Ling You was certainly not ignorant.

But the scene before him still made his eyes go wide.

"This damn thing doesn't even look like Ling Xi actively refining the beast fire—it's more like the beast fire actively refined itself..."

Ling You swore that in his hundred-plus years of experience, he had never seen anything so absurd.

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

Ling Xi was indeed passive. He had still underestimated the overbearing nature of the Devouring Ancestral Symbol.

What a joke?

A mere Seventh-tier beast fire—what level of thing was it, to think it deserved to stay alongside it in Ling Xi's Spirit Platform Sea of Consciousness?

Although the Myriad Spirits Returning to Origin Art had all sorts of miraculous effects, it was not the Fen Jue.

Refining a beast fire would not evolve the technique, nor would it raise Ling Xi's level.

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

Perhaps because the Devouring Ancestral Symbol was so overwhelmingly powerful, and the Seventh-tier Crimson Sun Fire offered no resistance, this refinement was extremely fast.

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

A flash of golden-red light flickered through his pupils, then vanished without a trace.

"You... you've refined the Crimson Sun Fire?"

Ling You sized up Ling Xi for a moment, asking with some uncertainty.

"I suppose I have?"

Ling Xi extended his right hand, and a strand of golden-red flame immediately appeared at his fingertip.

"You little brat... what exactly happened just now?"

Looking at the flame on Ling Xi's fingertip, the corner of Ling You's mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly.

"I don't know either."

Ling Xi rubbed his head, a look of simple-minded confusion spreading across his face.

"As soon as that beast flame entered my body, it automatically began circulating along the path of the Myriad Spirits Returning to Origin Art."

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

After all, since his teacher hadn't detected the presence of the Devouring Ancestral Symbol, the right to explain this matter rested entirely in Ling Xi's own hands.

Ling You remained silent.

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

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

If this kid really had some ulterior motive, he wouldn't have shown so many flaws right in front of him.

"You little brat... you really are gifted beyond measure."

After a long while, Ling You let out a helpless sigh.

Beyond gifted, he truly couldn't find any other explanation.

Besides, as a man on the verge of death, he had no desire to dig deeper—he only wanted to pass on his legacy.

"Hehe."

Ling Xi rubbed his head a little sheepishly.

The refinement of the beast flame had caught even him off guard, leaving him somewhat unprepared.

"These two scrolls each contain a Dou Technique."

"One is a Mysterious Tier Mid-grade Movement Dou Technique, the Flowing Fire Afterimage Steps. Once mastered, the user can transform their body into flowing fire and leave afterimages to confuse the opponent."

Pausing, Ling You pointed to the other scroll, his tone growing more serious.

"This one is a hereditary Dou Technique of our Ling Clan, named the Myriad Spirits Annihilation Finger."

"Although this technique is only an Earth Tier Mid-grade Dou Technique, executing it requires combining Soul Power with Dou Qi, making it an extreme test of the practitioner's soul force."

"This technique possesses immense power. When mastered, a single finger can even extinguish the opponent's soul and vitality."

Ling Xi looked at the two scrolls before him and couldn't help but swallow hard.

He had to admit, having a good teacher really made some things a lot more convenient.

Dou Techniques of this grade—especially the Myriad Spirits Annihilation Finger, an Earth Tier Mid-grade technique—would surely cause a bloody scramble in the outside world!