This was also the unprecedented enormous change that had occurred after Xiao Yan absorbed the Nihility Devouring Flame: unlike the previous Heavenly Flames, which had fused through the power of the Burning Mantra, the Nihility Devouring Flame had instead become an entirely new individual entity.
Xiao Yan could only assume that its rank was too high, allowing it to remain independent. Moreover, through the power of the Burning Mantra, Little Scale possessed an extremely high degree of control over the other Heavenly Flames. This control was second only to Xiao Yan's. In some aspects, Little Scale's control even surpassed Xiao Yan's, since Xiao Yan was human by nature, not flame.
Previously, Xiao Yan had been able to fuse multiple Heavenly Flames at once, forming a fused Heavenly Flame with greater individual power. Yet during this process, many of the Heavenly Flames' traits had to be restrained, preventing them from unleashing their full might.
Xiao Yan had fought alongside Yan Jin many times, and he could clearly sense that the power of Yan Jin's two Heavenly Flames had not been affected. That was because Yan Jin relied on his own formidable strength to absorb and refine two Heavenly Flames simultaneously.
Xiao Yan's Burning Mantra, which was close to taking a shortcut, had allowed him to possess multiple Heavenly Flames, but their power had ultimately still suffered some loss.
More precisely, Xiao Yan's Fire Lotus Dou Technique, which fused multiple Heavenly Flames, was what truly did not affect the Heavenly Flames' innate power. It used the repulsion between the Heavenly Flames, with the Burning Mantra serving as a temporary controller, to fuse them directly together. Thus, whenever the Fire Lotus erupted, it was the moment when the major Heavenly Flames completely unleashed their own power.
Now that the Heavenly Flames no longer