Pauper

After going through the process several times, Aaron understood that embezzling spirit mines was highly dangerous unless all three Core Formation cultivators rebelled together. One slip, and it would be exposed.

Not to mention that the Void Divine Crystal was of grave importance. Of the three Core Formation cultivators, one was bound to be a die-hard loyalist of Book Mountain Sword Pavilion!

Having seen this clearly, he honestly settled down and lay low.

Same as always—he ignored idle matters, clocked out to slack off once he had finished his daily work, then returned to his cave abode to cultivate.

No spy operated like this!

Given enough time, those two Core Formation cultivators would probably lower their guard around him.

Inside the cave abode.

After completing his daily cultivation, Aaron began practicing the Fire Sacrifice Art!

He had spent ninety merit points to exchange for this secret art from the third floor of the Scripture Repository.

A Core Formation cultivator had to work for twenty years just to exchange for a single cultivation art.

The pace left Aaron rather speechless.

Fortunately, he did not begrudge the time. As he continuously formed hand seals and chanted incantations, wisps of pitch-black flame emerged from the center of his palm—it was none other than the Black Sun Demonic Fire!

The Fire Sacrifice Art was an art for nurturing spirit fire. The higher the grade of spirit fire used at the beginning, the greater its power would naturally be in the future.

Aaron had not considered any other options. He directly used the Black Sun Demonic Fire.

As he muttered incantations, he continuously spawned more Black Sun Demonic Fire for a refined origin fire seed to devour...

As that origin fire seed kept devouring flames of its own kind, its color began to change.