Within the pitch-black space, at the center of the figure whose entire body was pierced by mysterious chains, a bright red object slowly throbbed!
It was as strong and vigorous as a heart!
Yet at this moment, Xiao Yan's soul body was strikingly aware that this object was precisely the Holy Flame Power!
Furthermore, although Xiao Yan's soul body had only left his physical body for now, he could clearly sense that the figure before him was identical to the Holy Flame Soul Seed he had previously obtained in the Yin Shi Forest!
This meant that the Holy Flame before his eyes was undoubtedly that very same Holy Flame from which he had acquired the Holy Flame Soul Seed in the Yin Shi Forest back then!
The next instant, however, Xiao Yan's brief pleasant surprise was decisively replaced by doubt.
"Generally speaking, Holy Flames do not give birth to Holy Flame Soul Seeds unless they are controlled by the Outer Realm Evil Clan or some evil scoundrels; otherwise..."
"Could this Holy Flame..." Xiao Yan stared closely at that figure.
He discovered that all over the figure's body, streams of gloomy, eerie black gas were flowing. If not for the bright red Holy Flame Power at the heart, the body would likely have long since been corroded into a thousand holes and tattered!
"Elder Xuan, I must trouble you to keep watch here all these years. His Majesty also misses you dearly..." Not far from Xiao Yan, two figures slowly appeared.
Among these two figures, Xiao Yan was not unfamiliar with one of them-he was none other than Wen Zi, the current Grand Preceptor of the Xuan Ling Imperial Family!
Wen Zi was staring with immense reverence at the elder walking toward them from the opposite direction. As for that elder,