Developing the Green Lotus Core Flame, Impacting Dou Wang (Seeking Collections, Seeking Free Recommendation Tickets~)

"You... you lost, and you're still this happy?"

Han Yue's brows furrowed slightly as she tossed him two Healing Pills.

Qin Han casually threw them into his mouth, looking helpless. "Sigh, I told you, I came to gauge things out for Moon Spirit. If I beat all the junior brothers and sisters, wouldn't that leave a terrible impression?"

"Can't you see my good intentions?"

With the Green Lotus Core Flame in hand, Qin Han was in a very good mood and could not resist teasing Han Yue a little.

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"Cut it out."

"If you really cared about Moon Spirit, you'd stay in the Inner Academy and help out properly."

Qin Han smiled sheepishly. "Well... after I return, I want to enter seclusion for a while first. I've been stuck at Half-Step Dou King for some time now, and I want to try making a breakthrough."

Han Yue rolled her beautiful eyes at him. She had known this would be the outcome.

With a flick of her jade-like hand—

"Here, your Fire Crystal Card."

"I guarantee that I'll come out the moment I break through. By then, if Moon'er Sect Leader has any orders, I'll be at your beck and call!"

Qin Han made his declaration with an eager expression.

"I never expected you to be much help anyway. Just focus on your secluded cultivation and breakthrough first." Han Yue's tone carried a trace of helplessness.

After hesitating for a moment, she added, "Also, the information I was looking into for you has yielded results."

"Really?!"

Han Yue nodded slightly. "The Seventh Rank Flames in the Black Corner Region are almost all claimed, and every one of their owners is difficult to deal with. Except for... the Myriad Stars Flame of the Fallen Fire Sect."

"The Fallen Fire Sect?!"

"That sect that declined a hundred years ago? Wasn't the site of their sect sealed all this time?"

Qin Han asked in astonishment.

"I heard the seal is about to be broken. The Earthflame Gate is desperately trying to keep the news under wraps, but you know how quickly information spreads in the Black Corner Region."

Qin Han nodded. There were no walls in this world that did not let the wind through.

Especially in a place as chaotic as the Black Corner Region, so long as the profit was great enough, there was no intelligence that could not be bought.

A juicy prize like the Fallen Fire Sect had caught the attention of many factions.

"Do we know when the seal will be broken?"

"The news has only just spread. According to the elders, it won't be resolved in two or three months."

Qin Han calculated inwardly. "Alright. I'll complete my breakthrough as soon as possible. I hope I can make it in time."

Qin Han did not waste any more time and hurried down the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower.

If it had merely been a Seventh Rank Man-made Flame, it would not have stirred Qin Han so much, especially now that he had recorded the Green Lotus Core Flame and the Bone Chilling Fire was also within reach.

But the Fallen Fire Sect was an ancient sect with a history comparable to Jia Nan Academy. Any one of its ancient inheritances would be worth far more than a Seventh Rank Flame.

That was why Qin Han did not want to miss this trip to the Fallen Fire Sect.

Qin Han went all the way down to the bottom floor and stopped before Training Room 46, following the ranking Han Yue had told him.

Having not accepted a challenge from a Strong Ranking expert for a year, Qin Han's name had been pushed all the way to the bottom of the rankings.

Seeing the number on the door, Qin Han curled his lips. He swiped his card and pushed open the heavy black iron door before him. Right now, he had no mood to challenge anyone.

Qin Han did not insert his card to activate the training room's Heart Fire. He had come into the tower purely to find a quiet training room that would be convenient for making his breakthrough.

[Myriad Flames Compendium] slowly unfolded in the air.

On the first page, the image of the Green Lotus Core Flame had already lit up completely. Beneath it was a line of tiny text: Development Progress 10%.

After the first page came the densely arranged images of other flames.

There were more than fifty types of fire seeds in all—Qin Han's accumulated assets from nearly a year.

Qin Han took a deep breath and gave the command.

"Infuse."

The instant the command was issued, the Origin Fire Seed of the Purple Crystal Winged Lion Flame was the first to turn into purple points of light and pour into the image of the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Then came the Candlelight Demon Dragon Flame, the Green Demon Flame... Golden motes formed into a thin stream as one flame image after another on the compendium dimmed.

10%... 15%... 20%...

The development progress of the Green Lotus Core Flame continued to climb.

Qin Han noticed that the increase in development progress brought by each flame origin was different.

Some increased its development progress by 7%, while others only increased it by 3%. This was determined by the energy contained within the fire seed itself.

70%... 75%... 80%...

The golden stream began to thin as the final fire seed turned into a stream of light and flowed in.

The Green Lotus Core Flame emblem suddenly lit up, radiating brilliant green light. The number beneath it finally settled at 87%!

On the compendium, aside from Fallen Heart Flame and the two Seventh Rank Beast Flames, all the other emblems had already dimmed.

More than fifty flame seeds still hadn't been enough to fill the Green Lotus Core Flame's development progress.

Qin Han opened his eyes.

A flicker of green flame flashed through the depths of his pupils and vanished.

He raised his right hand. With a slight thought, a cluster of Green Flame rose from his palm with a hiss.

The flame burned steadily, its core shaped like layered lotus petals.

Yet compared to the Green Lotus Core Flame Xiao Yan had used in the forest, this flame was somewhat less violent and somewhat more docile.

This was a characteristic of flames recorded in the compendium. All recorded flames began in their purest, most easily controlled juvenile state.

Even once a flame reached 100% development and grew stronger, it would remain utterly obedient to the host who had nurtured it.

Qin Han gazed at the Green Flame in his palm, then turned his hand over. The flame dispersed.

In its place appeared a completely transparent flame, formless and intangible.

The two flames burned separately in his left and right palms—one green, one transparent. Their properties were entirely different, yet both meekly obeyed his command.

"Still 13% short..."

Based on Qin Han's previous experience, the Green Lotus Core Flame would need at least another dozen or so flame seeds to reach 100% development. That meant he had to speed up his collection of flames.

"Ah, looks like I'll still have to go out and try my luck..."

Qin Han had already thoroughly harvested every high-grade flame in Jia Nan Academy's Outer and Inner Academies. If he wanted to rapidly develop the Green Lotus Core Flame and achieve the fusion of Dual Different Flames, he could only search outside the academy.

But over the past two years, Qin Han had already visited most places in the Black Corner Region that Enforcement Team Members could enter. How could it be easy to replicate another dozen or so flames of at least the fifth rank?

Qin Han's gaze could not help drifting downward. There was still a complete Fallen Heart Flame at the bottom of the tower.

If he could devour it...

The moment the thought arose, Qin Han shuddered. With his current strength, he couldn't afford to provoke the monster below.

As for the deeper Lava World, his current strength still wasn't enough to descend into it...

Looking at it that way, the Fallen Fire Sect really was an opportunity.

But before that, Qin Han first had to break through. The flame seeds' infusion into the Green Lotus Core Flame had been completed, yet a great deal of pure energy feedback still surged and churned within his body.

Qin Han inserted his Fire Crystal Card into the slot, and surging heartfire burst forth.

Pure fire-attribute energy flooded into his limbs and bones like a breached dam.

Qin Han immediately sat cross-legged, forming seals before him with both hands.

"Devouring Flame Technique, circulate."

The Cultivation Method moved at his command.

The Devouring Flame Technique was a mid-grade Xuan-rank Cultivation Method.

Its core principle was simple and domineering: devour all flames and feed them back to oneself. It complemented the Myriad Flames Compendium's method of nurturing flames perfectly.

The instant the Cultivation Method began circulating, the rampaging energy in his body seemed to find a flood channel and began rushing along a specific route through his Meridians.

With every cycle, a portion of the violent energy was refined and sank into his Dantian, turning into reserves of liquid Dou Qi.

Qin Han's Meridians expanded again and again beneath the repeated impacts, then were repaired and reinforced again and again by the heartfire...

Days passed one after another.

There was no day or night in the cultivation chamber. Qin Han's meditating figure was gradually enveloped by a cocoon of green and gold light. Across its surface, phantom lotus blossoms and ripples of Heart Flame alternately emerged...

Before he knew it, two months had passed in a flash.

During that time, Jia Nan Academy entered the liveliest period in its history.

The future Flame Emperor repeatedly stirred up storms in the Inner Academy. As one of the New Students, he established a faction, crushed the Medicine Gang in an alchemy contest, and formed a grudge with Liu Qing...

In less than two months, Xiao Yan became the most prominent of all the New Students in the academy, as well as someone many people favored and even sought to recruit.

But the person he most wanted to meet was still Qin Han, whom he had not seen even once since entering the academy.