Unlike the white-haired youth, whose eyes burned with jealousy and greed, the little princess, Liu Yu, and the others stared at the Heavenly Flame in Xiao Ling's hand with shock and envy.
If the little princess hadn't been refining a pill, she probably would have rushed over for a closer look.
Envy flickered through Liu Yu's eyes, but he pushed the distraction aside and returned to his pill.
"Is that... the Green Lotus Core Flame?"
The young woman on the other side of the square looked over as well. Envy colored her voice. As she turned back, she sighed. She hadn't expected Hun Tian to possess a Heavenly Flame, and she was no longer quite so confident that her organization could offer him enough to win him over.
Oh, well.
I'll see how things go.
She focused on her pill instead. That moment of distraction had already ruined one medicinal ingredient. Luckily, she had a spare; otherwise, her tournament would have ended there.
At that moment,
up on the viewing platform, Fa Ma recovered from his shock. A complicated look crossed his aged eyes as he gazed at the breathtaking azure lotus and murmured to himself.
"The Green Lotus Core Flame... So this is the Green Lotus Core Flame? It ranks only nineteenth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, yet it's this powerful?"
"Old Fa, is the flame in Hun Tian's hand really the Green Lotus Core Flame, the one ranked nineteenth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking?" Jia Xingtian asked curiously.
"That's right. It's that very flame..."
Jia Xingtian gave Hun Tian another look. The Green Lotus Core Flame was no easy thing to tame, as far as he knew. There had to be someone formidable backing the boy.
At that thought, he glanced at his eldest granddaughter, and a satisfied