Flame Flower City-Burning was one of the highly representative Dao arts of Zuo Guanglie, Great Chu's prodigy.
Jiang Wang had lost count of how many times he had read Detailed Explanation of Flame Flower City-Burning, written in Zuo Guanglie's own hand, until it was nearly worn to pieces.
Being able to use it in advance at the Outer Tower level was precisely because he had gained a thorough understanding of this Dao art.
But without attaining Divine Presence, one could never fully display its might.
The four-grade, twelve-rank Dao art system existed only for those below Divine Presence.
Only after one's spirit had attained understanding could one truly wield the power of beyond-grade Dao arts.
The chief reason for this lay in spiritual awareness.
Take Flame Flower City-Burning as an example. Its complexity and profundity required the power of the Divine Soul to carry out extraordinarily precise guidance among fire essence. But before Divine Presence, Divine Soul power simply could not be projected outward.
Only after Divine Presence, when Divine Soul power condensed into spiritual awareness, could it interfere with the Present World.
Thus, the Flame Flower City-Burning Jiang Wang had unleashed at the Outer Tower level had in fact still relied on his extraordinary control over fire essence, guided and completed with Dao Essence. It could be said to possess only the outline.
In terms of actual might, it was merely somewhat stronger than a Grade A Top-tier Dao Art—not powerful enough to cross the boundary of ranks.
Today, things were naturally different.
Jiang Wang's Divine Soul power far surpassed that of cultivators at the same level, and the spiritual awareness condensed from it was incomparably powerful. He perfectly controlled every detail of Flame Flower City-Burning.
And with the Samadhi True Fire, which revealed its fundamental nature even more