The Blazing Red Lotus (4)
"Adonis, you've used the Blazing Red Lotus before, haven't you?" Lincoln asked with a light chuckle.
"Yes, my lord." Adonis quickly recalled when the Blazing Red Lotus had last appeared and understood what Lincoln was getting at. He answered with a smile, "That was countless years ago. The Sovereigns had only just been born, and the world went through an extremely chaotic period. Low Sovereigns like me lived in constant fear, never knowing when we might be killed. Later, the Faith War broke out. Fortunately, under the leadership of the Sovereigns of each element, the fighting continued, but far fewer Sovereigns fell than in that earlier conflict."
"It was a long time after that before we learned that the Fire Divine Plane held a treasure called the Blazing Red Lotus. Back then, only a few Asuras had used one. Gradually, we worked out the pattern behind its appearances. Starting with the Sovereigns, the Sovereigns took turns using the Blazing Red Lotus. Unfortunately, though some of us made greater gains than others, no one ever reached the legendary realm of Paragon."
"As for Bamo, he was simply born tens of thousands of billions of years ago and then cultivated to become a Paragon."
Adonis described a little of his distant memories before finally getting to the point Lincoln wanted to know. "The Blazing Red Lotus is very peculiar. Its place of origin is fraught with danger, and only an Asura has any chance of harvesting one. Once, a Sovereign wanted to bring one back for a family member, but for some reason, a Saint-level being couldn't use it. It seemed to be drawn not to the soul, but to the God Spark! Of course, that was only our conjecture. Later, the Sovereign tried to give one