"Teacher, is there a big difference between Beast Fires?"
Phoenix King had also read Battle Through the Heavens back in middle school long ago, and he had forgotten quite a few of its settings.
"There is a vast gap between artificial flames, Battle Qi flames, Beast Fires, and Heavenly Flames. Honestly, as my disciple—and a Heavenly Demon Phoenix, one of the Three Great Magical Beast Clans—the flame you use should at the very least be an eighth-tier Beast Fire... Sigh... I'll explain it to you slowly."
Phoenix King then listened carefully to Medicine Elder's teachings and explanations, gradually coming to understand.
Phoenix King had read Battle Through the Heavens in junior high, so he had forgotten some of the plot and settings. This was a good chance to refresh his memory.
Using Battle Through the Heavens as the mainstream reference, Beast Fires, artificial flames—such as Life Transformation Flame—and Heavenly Flames could be placed on the same scale. Their gaps mainly lay across five dimensions: "essential origin → temperature limit → special abilities → growth potential → suppressive power."
I. Essential origin—the most fundamental difference:
Beast Fire: Biological energy within magical beasts, a product of bloodline and Battle Qi. It existed dependent on a magical beast's life and had a hard upper limit.
Artificial flames, such as Life Transformation Flame: "Artificial flame seeds" created by humans using secret techniques—such as the Flame Manipulation Formula—to repeatedly refine and compress multiple Beast Fires and Battle Qi. They shed some of the mixed impurities of Beast Fires, but possessed no origin of heaven and earth and could not develop intelligence on their own.
Heavenly Flames: Origin flames of the laws of heaven and earth, naturally nurtured for tens of millions of years. They could develop intelligence—Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and Nihility Devouring Flame could