Cultivating the Heaven-Burning Furnace Fire Art

"Yin Wood gives rise to Bing Fire; Mao kindling ignites the Ding heart; the dantian transforms into a vast furnace..."

Ye Yan silently recited the incantation in his heart.

This cultivation art centered on the concept of fire within a furnace. It involved visualizing a Life-Bound Cauldron within the dantian, drawing upon Earth Vein Fire with each breath to naturally kindle a fire seed within the cauldron, then extracting Wood Qi from vegetation to gently nourish it. It could also prevent the flames from violently injuring his meridians.

This was only the first stage.

Once the fire seed he nurtured could withstand other flames, he could refine all kinds of fire to strengthen it.

Eventually, he could even absorb Heavenly Flames to strengthen his Life Fire Seed.

By then, the Life-Bound Cauldron and Life Fire Seed in his dantian would be powerful enough to possess countless marvelous uses!

Refining all things, absorbing flames, evolving the cultivation art...

Ye Yan visualized the image of the Bronze Small Furnace in his mind, his heart surging with excitement.

This cultivation art was probably far better than even the Burning Art.

Moreover, once the cauldron in his dantian had grown further, it could materialize outside his body and be used for pill refinement.

"This system really solved my most pressing problem."

Ye Yan muttered to himself.

He began considering how to visualize the cauldron in his dantian, as well as what flame he should first draw into it and transform into a fire seed.

If it was to become a fire seed, he could not use Beast Fire bearing the spiritual imprint of a magical beast. It would be best to use Earth Vein Fire.

After all, this Life Fire Seed would accompany him for the rest of his life. He absolutely could not be careless.

He even hoped that one day, his Life Fire Seed would stand shoulder to shoulder with the Emperor Flame!

After fantasizing for a while, Ye Yan suddenly thought of a target.

It seemed the Ye Family possessed Yang Fire, a flame condensed from the Earth Core Fire Seed and sunlight.

It was more than sufficient for initially nurturing his Life Fire Seed.

As for the Wood Qi that would nourish the fire seed, he would also need to choose suitable medicinal herbs from which to extract it.

The next day, as the rising sun first emerged.

At the Ye Family's Gravel Square, surrounded by stone walls.

At the center of the square stood a somewhat ancient-looking altar, its massive stones marked by the passage of time.

At the center of the altar stood a pitch-black stone stele.

Ye Yan sat beneath the stele. The light reflected from the stone walls across the altar all converged upon it.

"I made some adjustments to this altar and weakened the Yang Fire's power. It should be enough for you to use."

"But do you really have a cultivation art now?"

Ye Zhong stood nearby, watching the cross-legged Ye Yan with a puzzled expression.

That morning, Ye Yan had told him that he already possessed a cultivation art and did not need the family to pay a great price to exchange for one from the Pill Tower.

He also wanted to use the Yang Fire of the Sun Fire Ancient Altar to cultivate.

That was why Ye Zhong had hurriedly made preparations here to weaken part of the Yang Fire's power.

"This concerns my future. Would I joke about something like this?"

Ye Yan's expression did not change.

Ye Zhong nodded slightly and said no more.

Instead, he took out the ice-attribute resources collected during this time from his storage ring, along with a jade box over a foot tall, and placed them before Ye Yan.

"These are the ice-attribute resources collected by the family, as well as the Mystic Ice Cold Bird's Beast Fire we prepared for you earlier."

They were all resources intended to trade for a Child Fire from the Azure Ice Flame.

"Fine. Once I've cultivated this art, I'll try to separate a Child Fire."

Ye Yan nodded, then took several medicinal herbs capable of extracting Wood Qi from his own storage ring.

These second- and third-tier medicinal herbs did not require Ye Zhong's approval. Ye Yan could take as many as he wanted from the family treasury.

Ye Zhong retreated several steps, putting dozens of meters between himself and Ye Yan.

This distance was enough for him to stand guard.

If he got too close, he feared he might interfere with Ye Yan's cultivation of that mysterious art.

Ye Yan focused his mind. Facing the black stone stele, he mobilized the Battle Qi in his body and circulated it through the meridians described in the Heaven-Burning Furnace Fire Art.

As Ye Yan's Battle Qi completed a major circulation within his body, the fire-attribute Battle Qi within roughly a meter around him began flooding toward him.

The dense Battle Qi entered his body through his mouth and nose before finally flowing into his dantian.

"The cultivation art this kid is practicing seems even worse than a Yellow-tier art."

Seeing the Battle Qi Ye Yan had drawn in, Ye Zhong could not help but worry.

"What is this kid doing? Even if he doesn't want to cultivate the Pill Tower's art, he could at least practice the family's Yang Flame Spirit Art."

Yet he was cultivating an art inferior to an Earth-tier one, perhaps even only a low-grade Yellow-tier art.

Ye Zhong looked troubled and even considered interrupting Ye Yan's cultivation.

But after thinking it over repeatedly, he decided to follow Ye Yan's wishes.

Meanwhile.

After sensing the circulation of his Battle Qi, Ye Yan reached out and gently pushed the black stone stele before him.

A scorching sensation immediately surged up his arm, turning his palm slightly red.

Without further hesitation, he exerted a little force. Amid a series of cracking sounds, the stone stele was pushed aside.

What appeared behind it was a black opening roughly the size of a human head.

Crack! Crack!

As the stone stele moved aside, the entire altar seemed to activate some mechanism. The surrounding stone walls slowly shifted, forming a circular stone enclosure.

The stone wall sealed Ye Yan and Ye Zhong, dozens of meters away, inside without the slightest gap.

At this moment, the stone walls became even smoother, reflecting all the sunlight across the altar toward the earth opening.

The area turned blindingly white.

As the sunlight gathered, a crimson Earth Core Fire Seed drifted out from the opening.

The seed was no larger than a mung bean. The moment it touched the sunlight, it instantly boiled and condensed into a crimson-gold Pure Yang Flame with bright white edges, floating ten meters away from him.

The flame burned at an extremely high temperature. Even after Ye Zhong had weakened it considerably, Ye Yan's hair became dry and curled.

Ye Yan hesitated no longer and took out the Blood Lotus Pill and Pulse Protecting Pill he had long since asked Ye Zhong to refine.

He had originally intended to use these two pills on the Green Lotus Core Flame in the future.

But after seeing the Yang Fire's power, he feared it would be difficult to draw the Yang Fire into his dantian without taking them.

Ye Yan took out a pill the size of a longan from a jade bottle. It was entirely blood-red, smooth, and plump.

It was the Blood Lotus Pill!

Ye Yan's expression remained calm as he swallowed the Blood Lotus Pill.

The Blood Lotus Pill transformed into a wave of icy energy the moment it entered his mouth, sweeping through his entire body. It formed a layer of blood film over his meridians and bones, then another layer of blood-red energy crust outside his body.

The instant the blood crust formed, the scorching heat and burning sensation Ye Yan had felt vanished completely.

With his cultivation state stabilized, Ye Yan did not rush to absorb the Yang Fire.

While circulating the Heaven-Burning Furnace Fire Art, he began constructing the image of a cauldron in his mind.

Following his will, the Battle Qi in his body formed a blurry bronze cauldron with three legs and two handles within his dantian.

After forming, this simple bronze cauldron, devoid of any details, began to disperse again and again.

Just then.

Ye Yan opened his mouth slightly. A powerful suction force instantly erupted from within, pulling the floating Yang Fire toward him.

The Yang Fire seemed to sense the danger and began resisting.

As Ye Yan circulated the cultivation art within his body, the suction only grew stronger. The burning Yang Fire was drawn away strand by strand.

With each breath Ye Yan took, the Yang Fire entered his body through his mouth and nose.

The instant the Yang Fire's scorching, rigid energy entered Ye Yan's body, it exploded like gunpowder, erupting with overwhelming power.

Strands of Yang Fire scorched the blood film and blood crust, producing hissing sounds.

After all, it was a fifth-grade pill. It could still resist the Yang Fire for quite a long while.

That time was enough for him to circulate the Heaven-Burning Furnace Fire Art and refine it with the cauldron in his dantian.