Top-Grade Cauldron

Moreover, even the other two peak fifth-grade Soul Tools Lin Yan had crafted, thanks to his improvements and optimization of their core formations, were absolutely no weaker than ordinary sixth-grade Soul Tools!

Perhaps because she had witnessed the formidable power of Soul Tools firsthand, or perhaps because the words had come from Lin Yan himself, Wang Dong seemed to have taken what he had said to heart.

She did not know what she was thinking about along the way and remained silent.

Amid the silence, the two of them soon arrived outside Yan Shaozhe's office.

Although they had come to demand an explanation, Lin Yan did not kick the door in. Instead, he knocked first.

This had nothing to do with manners. It was purely because Yan Shaozhe was a level ninety-five Titled Douluo, and Lin Yan could not beat him yet.

If he could beat him, then heh heh!

Old geezer! Open the door!

"Come in."

Hearing the voice from inside, Lin Yan pushed open the office door while carrying Ma Xiaotao, whose head was currently covered.

As for why he had covered Ma Xiaotao's head, naturally, it was because he did not want to look at her unbearably foul face.

"Dean, you really know how to find trouble for me."

Meeting Yan Shaozhe's faintly amused gaze, Lin Yan was the first to press the issue. He set Ma Xiaotao down and casually removed the cloth hood from her head.

Yan Shaozhe had originally been full of curiosity, wondering what kind of perverted game Lin Yan was playing by bringing in a bound woman. But the more he looked, the more familiar she seemed, until Lin Yan removed Ma Xiaotao's hood.

Yan Shaozhe was stunned. Damn, isn't that my disciple?!

No, bro!

I was planning to create an opportunity for you two to get acquainted, but I didn't tell you to start playing such perverted games the moment you met!

Hmm?

But Yan Shaozhe quickly noticed something was wrong. Looking at the bloodstains on Ma Xiaotao, her disheveled face, and her pink eyes that seemed ready to spit fire, his brows abruptly knitted together. His tone darkened as he asked, "What exactly happened?"

"What happened? You'll have to ask your fine disciple. If I hadn't happened to run into her today, your disciple would have killed someone in broad daylight."

As soon as he finished speaking, the chains binding Ma Xiaotao slowly loosened, turning into crimson streaks of light that all flew back into Lin Yan's hand.

Freed from her restraints, Ma Xiaotao, who was nearly mad with rage, immediately lost control of her anger upon seeing Yan Shaozhe. She roared at Lin Yan, "Lin Yan, you bastard, I'm going to kill you!"

Ma Xiaotao's Soul Power was exhausted at the moment, and Lin Yan easily caught the punch she threw at him with one hand.

Turning to Yan Shaozhe, Lin Yan reminded him coldly, "Dean, if you don't control her soon, I'll have to make a move."

Looking at the chaotic scene before him and then meeting Lin Yan's icy expression, Yan Shaozhe felt his head throb.

With a slight stir of his Soul Power, he raised a hand and directly pulled the out-of-control Ma Xiaotao before him. Looking at his disciple, whose mind had been clouded by rage, Yan Shaozhe said helplessly to Lin Yan, "Tell me. What happened?"

"What else could it be? You know what kind of Martial Soul your disciple has, don't you?"

Yan Shaozhe's expression abruptly changed. He urgently asked, "Are you saying Xiaotao's Evil Fire erupted?"

Yet before Lin Yan could answer, Yan Shaozhe sensed Ma Xiaotao's condition and frowned again, his face filled with shock and disbelief. "No! How has the Evil Fire accumulated inside Xiaotao completely disappeared?!"

Lin Yan shrugged and spoke calmly. "Her Evil Fire went berserk, so I used a little method to refine it for her. Otherwise, how could I have woken her up?"

As his words fell, Lin Yan's mind stirred slightly. The Emperor Flame Seed he had left within Ma Xiaotao flew out from her lower abdomen along with a muffled groan, then instantly merged into Lin Yan's body and returned to his Martial Soul.

At the same time, the pure Soul Power produced by refining and devouring the Evil Fire flowed back to him, quietly floating in his dantian. With only a little refinement, he could absorb it completely, saving him several days of arduous cultivation.

This method of separating a trace of Martial Soul Origin to create an Emperor Flame Seed was merely one of the "small tricks" Lin Yan had developed over the years while comprehending his Martial Soul. It was not worth mentioning.

The reason he had developed this method in the first place was actually to open up a new shortcut for accelerating his cultivation.

When extracting Origin Beast Fire, under normal circumstances, the soul beast's flesh, Soul Power, and soul were all turned into fuel. Thus, the extracted Origin Beast Fire retained only pure flame origin and had no surplus energy for Lin Yan to raise his Soul Power.

However, thinking of how Xiao Huohuo from next door's Battle Through the Heavens could refine Heavenly Flames to improve his cultivation, Lin Yan naturally conducted related tests on his own Douluo version of the Burning Art.

The final answer was naturally yes. He only needed to separately collect the Beast Fire generated by soul beasts and have Emperor Flame refine it. Although it could not evolve Emperor Flame due to lacking flame origin, it could feed back extremely pure Soul Power to Lin Yan.

As for whether cultivation gained through this method would taint his own Soul Power?

Regarding this, Lin Yan had spared no expense to fully ignite the Prajna Heart Lamp and observe the process of devouring Beast Fire once, completely dispelling that concern.

In his observation, Emperor Flame's refinement of Beast Fire was less like devouring and more like burning!

Violent burning!

Burning away everything combustible!

Burning away all filth and impurities!

After such extreme incineration, everything within the Beast Fire, including the Beast Fire itself, had already been burned to nothing.

And once every "impurity" had been burned clean by a single blaze, what remained was naturally the purest, most refined primal energy of heaven and earth.

Still, unfortunately, this method was too domineering, and the primal energy of heaven and earth left behind after each refinement was pitifully scarce.

Take the Evil Fire accumulated within a Soul Emperor like Ma Xiaotao. Even after Lin Yan refined all of it, it only equaled several days of his arduous cultivation.

Later, Lin Yan developed the technique of splitting Emperor Flame Seeds. He had intended to plant them inside soul beasts, continuously extract and harvest Beast Fire, and achieve automated cultivation.

That way, even if the gain from each instance was meager, the accumulated gains over time could greatly increase his cultivation speed.

But after repeated experiments, he discovered that this method still required Lin Yan to consciously control the flame seeds. Otherwise, with the slightest mishap, the flame seeds would go berserk and directly burn the soul beast into ash, leaving him with nothing.

Therefore, because controlling them was cumbersome and the cost-effectiveness was extremely low, Lin Yan ultimately had no choice but to abandon this path of supplementary cultivation.

However, Lin Yan had never expected that this method he had developed for soul beasts would be used on Ma Xiaotao today—and work unexpectedly well!

Looking at it this way, didn't Ma Xiaotao, who could naturally accumulate Evil Fire at a rapid rate, have the potential to be put to use as his cauldron?!