At last, the matter was temporarily brought to a close.
Xiao Fan looked at the pile of mangled corpses on the ground and frowned slightly.
He formed a hand seal with one hand and shouted in a low voice, "Fire Element Art!"
Whoosh!
Several balls of flame sprang into existence out of thin air, landing precisely upon the corpses.
The flames ignited the instant they touched anything, yet strangely skirted the surrounding grass, trees, and houses. In mere moments, they burned the corpses and every trace of blood clean away, leaving only a little ash to be scattered by the night wind.
Free cremation, and seeing Buddha all the way to the west... Wasn't this young master's service considerate enough? Xiao Fan muttered inwardly.
He could now cast simple spells without any "wind-up." This was the greatest difference between an eighth-rank sorcerer and a Ninth-Rank Sorcerer.
Ninth-rank sorcerers could only draw upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, refine it, and release spells. However, since sorcerers themselves had not condensed Spirit Essence, they could not store refined spiritual energy in their bodies for long periods.
Thus, whenever ninth-rank sorcerers cast a spell, unless they relied on special magical artifacts, they needed a lengthy "spell wind-up," drawing in natural spiritual energy on the spot and refining it before casting.
In places where spiritual energy was sparse or cut off entirely, Ninth-Rank Sorcerers would even be reduced to ordinary people.
After reaching the Essence Condensation Realm at eighth rank, sorcerers could store refined natural spiritual energy within their Spirit Essence and use it whenever they pleased.
Unless they were casting a spell that consumed vast amounts of spiritual energy and required borrowing power from heaven and earth, they no longer needed to "wind up" every time.
After dealing with the aftermath,