A Core Formation Expert! His Method Failed!

Xiao Tianlin asked, "Well? Did you find anything?"

Li Bufan shook his head. "Your Majesty's body is as strong as a flood dragon's. I found nothing amiss. Your meridians, organs, and bones—everything is flawless. I am incapable of finding the problem."

Xiao Tianlin raised an eyebrow. "Oh? Is that so? Then look again." He held out his hand, palm up. With a thought, a ball of flame surged from it.

The flame was gold-red, dazzling and fiercely hot. It danced above his palm, radiating astonishing heat. The moment it appeared, the temperature throughout the hall soared.

Li Bufan's pupils contracted. He had possessed several kinds of flame himself. Crimson Fire Flowing Paste, Great Sun Golden Yang Flame, and Heartburning Fire were all high-grade Spiritual Fires.

Yet even the Great Sun Golden Yang Flame fell slightly short of the flame in Xiao Tianlin's hand.

That alone showed how powerful and high-grade the flame was.

"Your Majesty, is that Heavenly Fire?" Li Bufan asked.

Xiao Tianlin nodded. He gazed at the flame in his palm, a trace of remembrance in his eyes. "Yes. This is Heavenly Fire. I awakened a Heavenly Fire Spiritual Body back then, too."

He paused, then continued, "It brought me no end of suffering. The Heavenly Fire ran out of control, scorching my meridians and damaging my organs. It was exactly what you saw happening to Ling'er in those records."

"Fortunately, I endured it. Later, I joined Songhe Gate and became one of its True Disciples."

A note of wistfulness entered his voice. "My master later told me that if he had discovered my Spiritual Body earlier, he could have corrected it. Once corrected, it might have been even more powerful. But by the time he met me, my Spiritual Body had already taken shape. It was too