Within his visualization, the scattered, tiny pure white sparks inside the "furnace" of his heart began gathering and merging, gradually forming larger flames.
A trace of doubt arose in Xiao Fan's heart. The color of this "Heart Flame"... why was it exactly the same as the Pure White Sacred Flame?
Is this normal?
Did everyone cultivating the Fire Element Art have a pure white "Heart Flame" while in a state of visualization?
Having encountered a question so soon after beginning cultivation, Xiao Fan felt somewhat apprehensive.
There were many folk explanations for the origin of the Pure White Sacred Flame. The most widespread ancient legend was that it was Radiance's blessing.
Yet in Great Liang's earliest recorded history, the one who had used the Sacred Flame to illuminate the human world and drive away Night Erosion was not the legendary Radiance... but the Sacred Fire Sect's saintess.
Strangely, the Sacred Fire Sect, which had brought the flame to the human world, did not acknowledge the name Radiance. The true god they worshipped was the Flame Sovereign.
Thus, among the common folk, many believed that the Flame Sovereign was Radiance—that the two referred to one and the same being... only under different names.
It was like the names "Heaven" and "God." To different groups, the two names might indeed carry distinctions, and even be understood from entirely different angles, but at their core, they referred to the same existence... an unknown whole beyond the boundaries of human understanding.
But whether it was Radiance or the Flame Sovereign, the pure white Sacred Flame represented "His" blessing and status. It was anything but ordinary.
The sun nurtured the vitality of all things... but at the same time, the sun was not to be looked upon directly!
As Xiao Fan's calm state of mind