The True *Eat My Cauldron*!

Ye Yan, who had been sitting cross-legged all along, suddenly opened his eyes. In an instant, the black hair behind him stirred without wind, and his white robe fluttered loudly.

A fierce aura several times stronger than before burst from his body, spreading outward like a waking beast.

"Phew!"

Ye Yan slowly exhaled a breath of foul air before rising to his feet.

"I've finally broken through to Dou Shi."

Ye Yan clenched his fists, savoring the intoxicating strength within his body. Ever since he had nearly been killed by Zhao Hei, he finally felt a brief sense of security.

Moreover, becoming a Dou Shi meant that in a small place like the Jia Ma Empire, he now had the ability to protect himself.

It was also time to travel and gain experience.

"Bang!"

The door burst open, and Ye Jingheng instantly appeared before Ye Yan.

"Little Yan, you've broken through to Dou Shi?"

"Mm. The time was right, so the breakthrough came naturally."

Ye Yan nodded and extended a hand flat before suddenly clenching it.

Scarlet Battle Qi immediately surfaced across his body.

The Battle Qi then instantly contracted, gradually clinging to the outside of Ye Yan's white robe as though it had formed a layer of Battle Qi Gauze.

"Your Battle Qi Gauze still needs constant practice before it can spread across your entire body. Only then will it be able to assist you in battle!"

Ye Jingheng looked at the scarlet Battle Qi Gauze and explained the things Ye Yan needed to watch out for.

Ye Yan nodded. The books he had read over the years had long recorded such matters.

After saying a few more things and confirming that Ye Yan was safe, Ye Jingheng left.

Ye Yan slowly closed his eyes, his consciousness sinking back into his body as he looked at the cauldron.

"This is the Life Fire Seed?"

Ye Yan recalled the function of the Life Fire Seed during his breakthrough.

When it pulsed, using himself as the bell's clapper and the cauldron as the great bell, the deep sound waves it released spread through his entire body and could refine the energy of heaven and earth.

Over time, those sound waves could also improve his physique and the solidification of his Battle Qi.

In other words, he now had something equivalent to a Fallen Heart Flame within his body!

Ye Yan unconsciously swallowed. This precious flame seed had only just appeared, yet it was already this powerful.

Once the Life Fire Seed grew stronger, its effects would surely continue to strengthen as well.

Thinking about how he would have an automatic cultivation cheat in the future, Ye Yan could not help wanting to burst into laughter.

From now on, he would no longer need to worry much about improving his physique.

"Since you were nurtured by the Heaven Burning Furnace, I'll call you the Heaven Burning Flame. I hope that one day, you'll punch Nihility Devouring Flame and kick Emperor Flame!"

Ye Yan gave the mung-bean-sized Heaven Burning Flame a name.

He also planted a dream within its weak spirituality!

Ye Yan's gaze shifted outward, and he discovered that the Wood Qi on the Heaven Burning Furnace had already vanished.

After the Life Fire Seed appeared, even the Heaven Burning Furnace seemed forged from divine metal. Treasure light naturally flowed across its body, and it hung in his dantian like a tiny sun.

The cauldron's three legs seemed to be supported by clusters of fiery clouds.

Ye Yan carefully examined the changes in the Heaven Burning Furnace. Noticing that the Heaven Burning Flame was pulsing too slowly within it, he thought of the Wood Qi he currently lacked.

With practiced ease, he condensed another Heaven Burning Furnace before him and tossed Green Wood Vine into it to extract Wood Qi.

Before Ye Yan could even mobilize the wood element within his body, the Heaven Burning Flame that had been in his dantian appeared inside the Heaven Burning Furnace before him.

It bounced about freely within the furnace.

Once the wood element in Ye Yan's body entered the Heaven Burning Furnace, the Heaven Burning Flame immediately pounced toward the Green Wood Vine, accelerating the extraction! The wood element in his body acted as a catalyst, while Wood Qi was a newly added setting!

In just over a dozen breaths, the Green Wood Vine withered. Threads of emerald-green gas circled around the mung-bean-sized Heaven Burning Flame.

"That's ten times faster than before!"

Ye Yan was somewhat astonished.

With the appearance of the Life Fire Seed, the Heaven Burning Furnace had finally revealed its hidden edge.

Ye Yan flicked a finger, condensing a mass of Battle Qi at his fingertip and sending it crashing into the Heaven Burning Furnace.

"Clang!"

A sound remarkably similar to colliding metal rang out.

Holy shit, this condensed Heaven Burning Furnace probably can't even be considered a creation of flame anymore!

"With this level of hardness, I could probably pick it up and smash people with it."

Ye Yan pondered the Heaven Burning Furnace's uses.

He suddenly imagined future battles, where others held swords and blades while he wielded a massive cauldron, simply smashing them to death.

Especially the sheer violence of using a cauldron to crush people—the sensation of every blow landing solidly—Ye Yan felt it would be incredibly satisfying!

Just like Ye Heavenly Emperor.

Before the man even appeared, his cauldron would already come crashing down. Then he would slowly stand atop it, his eyes looking down upon his enemies.

The aura would be absolutely overflowing.

What man had never entertained all sorts of thoughts about showing off?

If he had not, it was only because he had never been given a decent chance to do so.

Back to the point.

Ye Yan took dozens more Green Wood Vines from his Storage Ring, grouping them in threes to extract Wood Qi.

After the Heaven Burning Flame had been nurtured into existence, it naturally required far more Wood Qi.

By his estimate, it would absorb one strand a day, five times faster than it had a year ago.

Within Ye Yan's dantian, the cauldron was almost entirely concealed by emerald-green currents.

At the top floor of the black giant tower.

"Over the past year, the young ones from those families have really been cultivating their hearts out."

Xuan Kongzi looked down at the vast giant city, deeply satisfied with the situation during this period.

"I heard Bai Ying broke through to Dou Zhe half a year ago. By now, he has probably reached four-star Dou Zhe."

Speaking of cultivation, Xuan Kongzi turned to look at Xuan Yi again.

"If I remember correctly, isn't that kid about to break through as well?"

"I made him spend some time laying a solid foundation. Otherwise, he should have already broken through to Dou Shi!"

Xuan Yi nodded.

Over the past year, her relationship with Ye Yan had become even closer than that of ordinary master and disciple.

They simply had not established that relationship openly.

Even so, all of Sacred Pill City knew that Ye Yan spent roughly three out of every ten days at the Pill Tower.

Under such circumstances, most families had already given up on competing with Ye Yan.

There was nothing they could do. Their family disciples did not even have the chance to meet the Mysterious Robe Giant face-to-face.

In such a situation, who still had the chance to snatch that spot from Ye Yan?

Those disciples were now cultivating so diligently because, two years from now, they wanted to suppress Ye Yan.

They only wanted to vent that resentment.

Of course, some people felt that after Xuan Yi had made an exception and taken in a disciple, she might not be unwilling to accept another.

"Tian Leizi, have you found Black Nether from the Black Fire Sect?"

Xuan Yi's beautiful eyes shifted. Thinking of Ye Yan's plans, she asked Tian Leizi beside her.

"Since the bounty on Black Nether was issued, many people have sent information. Several Dou Zongs even surrounded him, but he still escaped."

Tian Leizi coughed dryly a few times, not quite daring to look at Xuan Yi.

"Xuan Yi, don't worry. Over this past year, I've also wiped out quite a few Soul Hall strongholds."

"Besides, even if that brat Ye Yan goes out traveling, with how cautious he is, Black Nether might not necessarily target him!"

"It had better be that way!"

Xuan Yi looked toward the northern region of Sacred Pill City, her red lips parting slightly.

"Besides, the day he leaves to travel is not far off."

Meanwhile.

Ye Yan was walking toward the Pill Tower. When he encountered people along the way, he would occasionally stop to exchange greetings.

"Han Kid, heading to the Pill Tower again?"

"Yeah! I'm about to break through a minor realm, so I plan to cultivate properly at the Pill Tower and stabilize it a little more!"

"I'm going to discuss it with the elders!"

"Alright, go ahead first. Come to my house when you have time. My wife keeps telling me to invite you over for dinner!"

"Huh? Forget it, big brother. I've been busy lately!"

After chatting for only a few lines, Ye Yan could no longer keep it together and hurriedly left!