"Kehehehe..."
Grandpa Lu's wicked chuckle was full of gloating, lecherous old-man energy, like some ancient monster from the Soul Hall. It echoed wildly through Xiao Yao's mind.
"Kid, did you forget so quickly? I told you long ago that while refining Heavenly Flames brings countless benefits, the wild and violent aura of heaven and earth contained within a Heavenly Flame's origin will also subtly affect your own Heart Fire!"
"When the Heart Fire burns strong, the Kidney Fire is bound to rise! Your reaction is perfectly normal!"
Xiao Yao froze at those words, then pondered, "What I refined this time was only the Green Lotus Core Flame, ranked nineteenth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking. And I refined it incredibly easily under the dual suppression of you and the Samadhi True Fire! Logically speaking, that should not have been enough to cause this, right?"
"Heh, kid, you've let a leaf blind your eyes!" Grandpa Lu explained with a chuckle. "You relied on absolute strength to directly and completely refine and absorb its origin while the Heavenly Flame was at its peak!
"Although there were no signs of losing control, the most primal properties of that flame were likewise incorporated whole into your body and mana!"
"Thus, the Ming Xin Jian Xing Jue could only keep you from losing your reason. As for the hot blood and impulses of your youth, like oil poured onto blazing flames... it would not suppress those!"
Hearing this, Xiao Yao finally understood. Then, he figured out a few things.
No wonder Xiao Yan was so weak in the original plot, yet after refining a Heavenly Flame for the first time, he never seemed to suffer the aftereffects of taking an aphrodisiac?
*Back then, Medusa had already weakened the Green Lotus Core Flame's origin with things like