Within the slowly unfolding formation, Yao Wan never once looked at Xiao Yan.
Those eyes seemed to be deliberately avoiding Xiao Yan, yet it did not feel like simple estrangement.
Seeing Yao Wan like that, Xiao Yan was about to say something more when he sensed the surrounding temperature rising once again. The ring of fire grew ever more vigorous and immense, soon completely enveloping the two of them within blazing crimson flames.
The Red Emperor's inheritance was about to begin—
That thought pierced through the endlessly surging, tide-like flames and directly emerged in their minds.
Though the Red Emperor's inheritance sounded complicated, in essence, it was merely a portion of the inheritable power left behind by the Red Emperor.
If it had to be given a name, it should be called the Red Emperor's Flame.
However, the Red Emperor's Flame was not a Heavenly Flame. It was merely the Pure Energy left behind by an Earthly Supreme. Ordinary people simply could not inherit such scorching, destructive power. Only those who could defeat the ferocious beast created by the Red Emperor's restrictions and who were likewise closely connected to the fire attribute could inherit it.
As they sensed this Pure Energy stirring, Xiao Yan and Yao Wan closed their eyes, calmed their minds, and began circulating their cultivation methods with a slight movement of thought.
Outside the crimson fire, the Red Emperor carefully observed the changes occurring within their bodies. In his perception, two extraordinary energies within the Red Emperor's Flame had gathered into whirlpools, beginning to absorb—or rather, devour—the Red Emperor's Flame on an astonishing scale.
One of those energies was brilliant and ever-shifting, like a flame formed from countless different flame characteristics. That cultivation method was the foundation of those flames, the two complementing one another as they