Fallen Heart Flame, a Gift for Little Sister

Watching the hurried Xiao Xuan, Dan Chengzi shook his head.

"Ah, it seems the continent will not be peaceful anytime soon. For Brother Xiao Xuan, who remained unflustered even with Mount Tai collapsing before him, to be in such a hurry...

Sister-in-law, Little Sister Ruoruo, I'll have my disciples guide you there. Choose rooms for yourselves and settle in.

Starting tomorrow, you will all cultivate with me and learn alchemy.

Since Brother Xiao entrusted you to me, I cannot simply do nothing."

Northern Domain of Central Plains, in a small village called Nether Town...

The place was littered with blackened corpses. Everyone kept their distance and did not dare approach.

Those who knew of the matter had even sealed off the area to prevent it from spreading.

In their eyes, this was merely an exceptionally terrible plague.

Among the corpses lay a young boy of around four or five years old. His face was pale, and he had collapsed amid the bodies.

The difference was that the child still had a faint trace of breath.

The boy had handsome features and long black hair, simply tied behind his back with a white ribbon.

He wore a very plain white garment. Anyone who saw him would praise him as an adorable child.

However, those clothes were truly unsuitable for a child to wear.

A figure suddenly appeared in the distance, unnoticed by anyone.

It was Xiao Xuan. Looking at the crowd keeping their distance, he asked curiously, "Sir, what happened here?

Why is that child dressed in mourning clothes?"

The middle-aged man sighed mournfully. "Ah, how pitiful.

No one knows what happened, but overnight, they all died in such a strange manner.

At first, some people could not bear to leave their bodies exposed in the wilderness and wanted to bury them.

But before they could even touch them, they died without explanation, and just as strangely.

That child is the only one still alive, and he has not been affected.

Perhaps an elder here passed away before, and he saw adults wearing white.

The child neither speaks nor eats or drinks. He must have been scared senseless. He only fainted a short while ago.

If this continues, ah, he will not be far from death.

Heavens have no eyes! Ah... Little brother, don't go over there. It's dangerous!"

"Thank you for the warning, sir. It is nothing."

Xiao Xuan walked toward the pile of corpses and picked up the child.

He lifted the clothes over the child's lower abdomen, revealing an inconspicuous seven-colored thread.

Sure enough. Who would have thought that flowers planted with care would not bloom, while willows planted by accident would flourish?

He then looked at those who had died in vain. With a slight circulation of Dou Qi and a forceful push, the ground collapsed and buried the corpses.

"A... a powerhouse?"

Ignoring the others, Xiao Xuan took a single step while holding the child and arrived directly in the Eastern Region of Central Plains. As he appeared, another man in black appeared as well.

It was Xiao Li, one of his two avatars. He took the child from Xiao Xuan's hands without a word and vanished directly into the barrier.

Xiao Xuan did not enter. As the true body, he knew everything here perfectly well.

Whatever the avatar knew, he knew as well. Even what the avatar did not know, he knew.

He turned and left, his destination the Black-Corner Region.

After Xiao Li carried the child into the palace within the secret realm behind the barrier, he woke him up.

"Who... are you? Where are Father and Mother's... bodies?"

Xiao Li said, "I happened to discover the village where you lived. I have already buried them where they were.

You cannot yet support yourself. I could not bear to leave a child like you outside alone, helpless and starving, so I brought you back.

Your constitution is very special, and you cannot yet control it. You are still weak, so the harm you cause is limited.

But if you grow powerful in the future and still do not know how to control it, the dead will not be merely dozens of people, but thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.

You need not feel guilty. After all, you did not cause this intentionally. One could only say that heaven has played an incomparably cruel joke on you.

From now on, you will stay here. I will teach you how to cultivate and how to control your special constitution.

By the way, what is your name?"

"Feng Yu!"

"Good. Here, you will have many companions. You will cultivate and play together.

And your goal is to surpass them as quickly as possible and become the strongest.

As for your hometown, once your cultivation has grown strong and you are capable of returning on your own, then you may go back."

With his immense soul power, Xiao Xuan covered the Black-Corner Region in a sweeping search as soon as he arrived.

Even so, it took nearly a month before he discovered something unusual.

The moment he stood on the ground, the temperature surged rapidly. A strange flame inexplicably appeared within his body. It was so bizarre that it defied all reason, as though it had appeared inside him out of thin air.

The flame was only a tiny spark, yet it was formless and incorporeal. It was called Heart Flame for that very reason. It radiated terrifying heat, burning Xiao Xuan's internal organs.

Fallen Heart Flame! Xiao Xuan's face lit up with joy. If Fallen Heart Flame was nearby, then could the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode be far away?

With a casual slash of his hand, his figure plunged a hundred zhang underground and landed in an intensely scorching subterranean cavern.

The cavern was extremely spacious, with a lava river more than a thousand zhang wide running through it.

Both ends of the lava river stretched endlessly. No one knew where it came from or where it flowed.

The temperature in this cavern was extremely high. If an ordinary person came here, they would likely spontaneously combust and die in an instant.

"Rumble!"

Just as he was surveying his surroundings, an earthshaking roar came from within the lava river.

The quietly flowing lava river immediately began to churn violently, forming a massive lava vortex in moments.

A fiery python more than a hundred zhang long suddenly shot out of the lava vortex. It was Fallen Heart Flame.

"I was just worrying about what gift to give Little Sister, and you came right to my door.

You are just right for her. She is currently at the stage of tempering her Dou Qi."

All things possessed spirituality, and Heavenly Flames were no exception. Back then, the Tou She Ancient God had cultivated from a Heavenly Flame.

"Roar!"

The flaming python let out an angry roar. Its enormous head then rose as it lunged fiercely at Xiao Xuan, seemingly intending to devour him.

The python formed by Fallen Heart Flame was very powerful, but it had only just entered the Dou Zong level.

How could it resist before his strength as a Dou Saint?

With a light wave of his hand, a thunderous explosion sounded. The flaming python's enormous body shattered and dispersed, leaving only a basin-sized ball of milky-white flame floating in the air.

That milky-white flame was the source flame of Fallen Heart Flame.

With a beckoning gesture, the source of Fallen Heart Flame appeared directly in his hand.

"Hm... another newly born Fallen Heart Flame?"

With a light slash, one-tenth of the source entered the newly born Fallen Heart Flame, and it rapidly began to grow.

Xiao Xuan no longer paid attention to it. He absorbed the Heavenly Flame into his body and headed deeper into the Magma World. Here, lava rolled in waves and scorching flames surged, while a vast population of mysterious creatures resembling fire lizards dwelled within.

However, none of this was a concern to him, a Seven-Star Dou Saint.