Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map

Following Xiao Yi Xian's directions, Xiao Jin quickly found the cave mansion.

"It's pretty well hidden. If you weren't observing carefully, you wouldn't even notice the entrance." Looking at the cave that blended into its surroundings, Xiao Jin couldn't help praising it.

Although the person who had left this cave mansion behind wasn't very powerful—at most, he had been around the Dou Ling level—his talent for design had still been quite outstanding.

Xiao Yi Xian left Xiao Jin's warm embrace. After fumbling around for a moment, she pulled a fire starter from her clothes.

Xiao Jin smiled and pressed her hand back down. "With me here, why would we need that thing?"

He flicked his finger, and a spark ignited a nearby branch.

Xiao Jin picked up the branch, illuminating the entire cave.

An ancient, unadorned gate separated the cave mansion from the cavern. Xiao Jin gave it a gentle push, only to find that it didn't move.

"Huh? Is this some kind of mechanism?" Although he asked the question aloud, his hand didn't stop. With one slap, he shattered the gate into powder.

"Must you be so simple and violent? We only needed to find the mechanism."

Xiao Jin smiled. "This is called overwhelming ten skills with a single force. I don't have that much time to patiently search."

Beyond the stone gate was a rather spacious stone chamber. Moonlight Stones had been embedded in the walls for illumination, making the torch in Xiao Jin's hand useless.

After extinguishing the torch, he examined the surrounding arrangements and discovered a chair in the very center of the chamber. A skeleton sat on it.

Somewhat frightened, Xiao Yi Xian edged closer to Xiao Jin, half her body shrinking into his embrace.

"It's fine. It's just a dead person, and who knows how many years ago he died. You're a dignified Dou Ling expert. Are you really afraid of this sort of thing?"

Hearing Xiao Jin's tactless words, Xiao Yi Xian not only didn't get angry, but also smiled where he couldn't see.

Thank you for being so tactless. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to take advantage of you so openly.

In front of the withered bones was a Stone Platform. Three locked stone boxes sat on it. The three corners of the stone chamber were piled with mountains of gold coins. Judging by the amount, there were at least several hundred thousand.

Xiao Jin's eyes lit up. "Do you want the gold coins?"

"Seriously? You're an Alchemist. Could you really be short of gold coins?"

"Laughable. Who would complain about having too much money?" Facing Xiao Yi Xian's teasing, Xiao Jin showed no shame. Instead, he wore it as a badge of honor.

Compared to these gold coins, he had no interest in those so-called precious materials.

No matter how precious those materials were, could they really compare to the things in his Storage Ring?

"They're all yours, they're all yours. You're such a little miser." Xiao Yi Xian had little interest in these worldly possessions. What she wanted more were the rare medicinal herbs growing in the fourth corner.

Holding a jade shovel, the girl carefully dug up all the medicinal herbs and transferred them into the Storage Ring Xiao Jin had given her earlier that day.

At the same time, Xiao Jin acted like a miser himself, shoveling piles of gold coins into his Storage Ring.

After finishing, Xiao Yi Xian patted the dirt-stained hem of her dress and turned her gaze toward the three stone boxes on the Stone Platform.

Just then, Xiao Jin had also finished collecting all the gold coins and noticed the three keys hanging from the skeleton's palm.

He stepped forward and yanked the keys off in one motion.

Because he had used too much force, the skeleton's entire left arm came off with them and landed on the floor with a tremendous crash.

Xiao Yi Xian jumped in fright. After looking at the skeleton guiltily, she couldn't help complaining, "Can't you show the dead at least some basic respect?"

Xiao Jin shrugged indifferently. He stuffed the keys into Xiao Yi Xian's palm, then picked up the skeleton's fallen left arm and jammed it back into the skeleton's torso.

"Is that respectful enough now?"

Xiao Yi Xian: "..."

Sorry. I was talking to a brick wall.

She rolled her eyes in exasperation and went straight to the stone boxes to try the keys.

The three boxes soon opened. Inside were two scrolls and a Fragmented Map.

The moment he saw the Fragmented Map, Xiao Jin's heart sank.

He knew that this was the Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Ever since he had begun cultivating and gained the ability to inspect his Storage Ring, he had always had a question in his heart.

Where exactly had all the natural treasures in his Storage Ring come from?

The others were still explainable. Even a Heavenly Spirit Object like the Nine Profound Golden Lightning wasn't completely impossible to find.

There had been countless powerful experts in ancient times. Not to mention Nine-Star Dou Saints, there had even been quite a few Dou Emperors.

Otherwise, where had the current Ancient Emperor Clans come from? Weren't they the result of someone breaking through to become a Dou Emperor and awakening the Dou Emperor Bloodline?

Since Dou Emperors had existed, refining a Ninth-Grade Golden Pill wouldn't have been difficult. Thus, he could completely regard the collection in his Storage Ring as the treasures of some super faction from ancient times.

They had merely fallen into his hands by some stroke of luck.

But Heavenly Flames were different!

Yao Chen had explicitly mentioned in the original story that the top three Heavenly Flames on the Heavenly Flame Ranking were treasures created by the mysteries of heaven and earth. There was only one of each in existence.

In other words, the lower-ranked Heavenly Flames might have more than one blossom appear at the same time, but there was only one Nihility Devouring Flame and one Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Xiao Jin had found the Nihility Devouring Flame and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame in his Storage Ring. Logically speaking, there shouldn't have been any trace of these two Heavenly Flames left on the continent.

But now he had found a Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame here. What did that mean?

It meant that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame wasn't unique.

Others might not know, but as a transmigrator, Xiao Jin understood this far too well.

After the Nihility Devouring Flame and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had escaped the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion with the help of the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill, they soon encountered opportunities of their own.

The Nihility Devouring Flame encountered people from the Soul Clan, while the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame encountered the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint.

Later, before the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint died, he suffered backlash from the Heavenly Flame. To prevent the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame from wreaking havoc in the world, the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint had simply established a seal, completely cutting off the possibility of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame escaping.

This Fragmented Map was the clue the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint had left behind to guide those who came after him.

In other words, since the Purifying Lotus Demonic Saint had left behind this Fragmented Map, it meant that a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame definitely existed within the Demonic Flame Space.

That raised the question: if the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame still existed, where had the Heavenly Flame in his Storage Ring come from?

It couldn't have just fallen from the sky, could it?

Moreover, before seeing this Fragmented Map, Xiao Jin had always harbored a sliver of wishful thinking.

Since the Nihility Devouring Flame was the only one of its kind in the world, and that sole flame was with him, did that mean the Soul Clan no longer possessed the Nihility Devouring Flame?

Never underestimate the Nihility Devouring Flame. Although its strength was inferior to Soul Heaven Emperor's, its position in the Soul Clan was even higher than that of Soul Heaven Emperor, the clan leader.

If not for the existence of the Nihility Devouring Flame, then even if the Soul Clan's bloodline had not yet withered like the Ancient Clan's, it certainly wouldn't have flourished to its current level.

Moreover, without the Nihility Devouring Flame, they would have directly lost a Nine-Star Dou Saint enemy.

But after seeing the Fragmented Map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, that last bit of wishful thinking was shattered.

He still had to face a Soul Clan with two Nine-Star Dou Saints, a clan whose bloodline had been continuously preserved through the Nihility Devouring Flame.

Things seemed to have become a damn mess again.