Top-Grade Spirit Flame, Given Away Just Like That

Unexpected! Lin Yan Runs Away

A calamity of annihilation?

Looking at Wang Mu, who seemed utterly serious, Lin Yan asked skeptically, "Holy Son, aren't your words a little too alarmist?"

Wang Mu shook his head. "I'm not being alarmist. Heaven gave me a warning."

"Brother Zhao should have heard that I was born within a forbidden zone. From the moment I was born, I was entangled by the forbidden zone's curse, unable to cultivate."

"However."

"The world knows that this curse prevented me from cultivating, but they do not know that it also granted me a special ability—foreseeing the future."

"These eighteen years."

"I often glimpsed fragments of the future in my dreams."

"I saw a devastating calamity descend. The entire Azure Yuan Realm fell, and aristocratic clans and Sacred Lands that had stood unshaken for ages were destroyed one after another."

"Countless experts rushed to the battlefield, only to be wiped out like ants with a casual wave of the enemy's hand, turning into a rain of blood."

"I saw all Five Regions plunged into war, nine out of every ten homes emptied, misery everywhere. Hundreds of millions of corpses lay strewn across the battlefield, entire armies were annihilated, and only a handful of peerless Great Emperors struggled to hold on."

"And you, Lin Yan!"

"Were one of them—the hero of the future dark battlefield, the Emperor Yan, who turned his blood into fire and his bones into kindling, lighting the last ember of the Human Race with his life!"

Lin Yan: ???

Who?

Me?

Emperor Yan?

For real?

Wang Mu's words contained too much explosive information, leaving Lin Yan numb for a moment.

Lin Yan asked, "A disaster will descend in the future? Are you sure?"

Obviously.

Wang Mu rolled his eyes. A fallen genius, a youth whose Supreme Bone had been dug out, the Heavenly Wasteland Saint Physique—so many protagonist templates had appeared together.

If there were no crisis in the future, how was this story supposed to be written? Were the protagonists supposed to gather around and play mahjong?

There had to be some overwhelmingly powerful villain for them to gang up and hammer!

Besides.

I only said a disaster would descend in the future. I never said when it would happen. I just need to fool this guy first.

"Absolutely true."

Wang Mu sighed. "Brother Lin, in the fragment of the future I glimpsed."

"Emperor Yan lit the Human Race's flame with his life, dragging several powerful enemies from beyond the domain down with him. The heavens wept blood, and heaven and earth mourned together."

"Before his death."

"He once sighed that if he had not wallowed in a land of tenderness in his youth, shackled by love and wasting his years, squandering the most precious time for growth, he could have taken another step forward before the final battle."

"If that had been the case, his parents, his comrades, and his brothers would not have fallen before his eyes one by one."

Parents.

Comrades.

Brothers.

Lin Yan muttered to himself as figures surfaced one after another in his mind.

If powerful enemies truly descended in the future, and he could only watch his parents and brothers fall before him while being powerless to save them.

Then.

How painful would that be? It would probably hurt a hundred, a thousand times more than having his cultivation completely crippled or his Dao Companion stolen away!

"So."

Lin Yan looked at Wang Mu in disbelief. "You crippled my cultivation and stole my Dao Companion—was it really for my own good?"

Wang Mu nodded heavily. "Yes."

"Although you were exceptionally gifted three years ago and had reached the Foundation Establishment Realm at merely fifteen, your foundation was unstable, your Dao Heart wavered, and your realm was like duckweed with no roots."

"Your Dao Companion was even more vain and indolent. She only valued your talent and status; she never truly loved you."

"Brother Zhao, you carry the future of the entire Azure Yuan Realm and the whole Human Race upon your shoulders."

"So I could no longer allow you to drown in illusory glory, much less sink into that laughable so-called love."

"Therefore."

"I will be the villain. Even if I must bear infamy, even if I must draw close to that stinking woman I despise, I will not hesitate!"

After saying that.

Wang Mu gently wiped away a tear from the corner of his eye, looking like a tragic hero singing a sorrowful song.

"This..."

"I carry the future of the Human Race?"

Looking at Wang Mu's resolute face, Lin Yan was numb. He always felt that something was off.

But.

What this guy said did seem to make a bit of sense. The logic matched up!

Most importantly.

If what he said was true, then I would become a hero of the Human Race someday, an existence that became a peerless Great Emperor!

Just thinking about it was thrilling. Just thinking about it got his blood pumping. It was downright exhilarating, wasn't it?!

"Could it be."

Lin Yan's face was full of confusion as he could not help muttering inwardly, Was he really doing this for my own good?

Seeing Lin Yan's attitude soften, Wang Mu struck while the iron was hot and spread open his palm.

A treasure box forged entirely from cold jade abruptly appeared.

The temperature of heaven and earth suddenly plummeted.

Even the spirit herbs were instantly coated in a layer of frost.

"Inside this millennium cold jade box is a gift I prepared for Brother Lin. Originally... I should have given it to you three years ago!"

"Giving it to you now can be considered some compensation for what I have owed you these years, Brother Lin!"

Hearing this.

Lin Yan was completely stunned. He unconsciously stretched out both hands and accepted the cold jade box.

He slowly opened it.

The next moment, a blue flame sealed in frigid cold appeared before Lin Yan's eyes.

"Sea Spirit Flame!"

In Lin Yan's mind, Dan Xuan cried out, "The spirit flame ranked thirty-sixth on the Spirit Flame Ranking! This kid is serious?"

Lin Yan asked in confusion, "Teacher, what is the Spirit Flame Ranking?"

Dan Xuan explained, "It is a ranking dedicated to recording the spirit flames between heaven and earth, with ninety-nine places in total! Above the Spirit Flame Ranking, there is also the Immortal Fire Ranking!"

Lin Yan curled his lip. "Wouldn't that make it second-rate? It doesn't seem very valuable!"

Dan Xuan said, "Nonsense! The flames on the Immortal Fire Ranking may be more precious, but they are exceedingly rare, almost impossible to find in the mortal world! There are only a little over twenty of them in total!"

"Even when they appear, nearly all are born with intelligence. They can cultivate just like cultivators, and their strength is formidable!"

"With your current strength, even if you encountered one, death would be your only path, let alone refining it!"

"On the other hand, although the Spirit Flame Ranking is a tier below the Immortal Fire Ranking, its flames are likewise treasures formed from the gathered fortune of heaven and earth, with immense power!"

"They are of great help even to Nascent Soul and Spirit Severing Stage experts."

"This Sea Spirit Flame not only ranks highly on the Spirit Flame Ranking, but more importantly, compared to other flames, it is gentle by nature!

"The risks of devouring it are far lower!

"It could even be said that, compared to the Exotic Fires on the Immortal Fire Ranking, this is more suitable for your current Foundation Establishment cultivation!"

Lin Yan's expression finally changed.

Could it be.

That Wang Mu was telling the truth?

Perhaps he had even begun laying out his plans years ago.

Otherwise, how could he have brought out a spirit flame so perfectly suited to him?

Wang Mu did not know what Lin Yan was thinking.

If he had known.

He could only have said—it was truly too much of a coincidence!

The Northern Darkness Sacred Ground controlled an ocean stretching hundreds of millions of li.

There were countless spirit veins beneath the sea.

Naturally, rare treasures and exotic gems were plentiful.

And this was precisely the ideal natural environment for nurturing extraordinary flames like the Sea Spirit Flame.

Other flames.

They did not like running into the sea either!

"Thank you, Holy Son!"

Lin Yan accepted the cold jade box and cupped his hands in thanks, his gaze complicated.

Faced with a treasure so suited to him.

He truly could not refuse.

At the same time.

A voice rang out in Wang Mu's mind.

[Congratulations, you have successfully invested Sea Spirit Flame ×1 in Lin Yan. Investment progress has reached 30%!]

[You will receive a 30% return on all of Lin Yan's subsequent cultivation achievements!]