By all rights, Lu Ye did not need to do this. Since the Talent Tree was both his Dao Foundation and Dao Bone, but the Talent Tree was not, after all, a part of his own body.
His ability to wield Dao Power was entirely thanks to the Talent Tree. Strictly speaking, he was not truly in the Dao Realm.
So he felt it was better to be honest and do things properly.
His essence, qi, and spirit slowly stirred and poured into the Dao Fire. The Illusory Dao Fire abruptly blazed with incomparable ferocity. If the Dao Fire he had first ignited had been a tiny flame, then it had now become a great fireball.
Lu Ye was slightly stunned.
Something about his Dao Fire felt wrong. In the Star Abyss, he had asked Nine Radiance and the others about every detail of forging their Dao Foundations. Though he did not know what other people's ignited Dao Fires looked like, according to their descriptions, a Dao Fire should not burn this fiercely when first ignited. This was practically the state of Nine Radiance's Dao Fire in its final stages.
An intense scorching sensation spread out from within his body, and Lu Ye seemed to steam all over.
Although he sensed that something was amiss, the arrow was already on the string, with no road back. He could only continue pouring the reserves of his essence, qi, and spirit into the Dao Fire without pause.
The Dao Fire burned even more fiercely.
A faint fiery glow seeped from where he sat, as though his entire body had caught fire. Even the omnipresent Star Abyss aura around him was burned away completely.
Something was indeed wrong. By this point, Lu Ye could finally be certain of it.
His Dao Fire was