With the deal complete, neither Su Xin nor Bai Ling hesitated. They reached for the Heavenly Fire Essences, which had nearly finished condensing.
There were so many Heavenly Fire Essences that Su Xin had no intention of refining them all at once. He planned to store them in his Mustard Seed Bag and refine them later, when he went into seclusion.
Bai Ling, meanwhile, took one of the essences and shoved it into Ning Qing's mouth. Then she picked Ning Qing up and tossed her straight into the blazing Heavenly Fire.
Su Xin watched them from the corner of his eye. At the sight, his brows knitted together.
The Heavenly Fire was the mightiest flame born between heaven and earth. Aside from those at the True Martial Realm, even experts at the Yang Spirit Realm probably couldn't touch it.
And yet Bai Ling had just thrown Ning Qing into the flames. Was she trying to cultivate her—or kill her?
What happened next startled Su Xin even more.
Ning Qing didn't die in the Heavenly Fire. Terror still showed on her face, but an eerie blue-green flame now burned around her.
Su Xin only vaguely remembered Bai Ling mentioning the Green Lotus Envoy. He recalled that the White Lotus Sect had positions such as Green Lotus Envoy, Red Lotus Envoy, and Black Lotus Envoy.
At first, Su Xin had thought Bai Ling intended to cultivate Ning Qing into a Green Lotus Envoy. But now, it seemed that wasn't what was happening.
Bai Ling had planted a Green Lotus Seed in Ning Qing earlier, and now the seed was sprouting in the Heavenly Fire.
The blue-green flames burning around Ning Qing resembled a lotus petal on the verge of blooming. Between the Heavenly Fire Essence inside her and the Heavenly Fire roasting