Deathless Temple.
"Damn it. I knew [Kui Wood] was good at hiding things, but I never imagined Wu Qishen had hidden something this big... He had treasure like that and never thought to offer it to this Buddha? He deserved to die!"
A crow descended and transformed into a guardian, chattering away.
After listening for a few moments, Miaofeng Bright Son cursed, summoned a howling wind, and vanished.
"What... happened?"
Fang Qing emerged from the seclusion chamber. At the sight of the commotion, he could not help asking.
"Bright Son, it was only a minor matter at first... Cloud-Touching Cliff was recruiting cultivators, and several Dao Foundation factions that had moved to our Xituo Commandery were thinking of leaving again..." Wisdom Consort Miao Shui smiled. "Once they enter our Brahma Sect, do they think they can leave with every scrap of flesh, skin, and bone intact? Miao Feng dropped a few hints, and the Zeng Clan took action... Several clans joined forces and killed the Wu Family's Dao Foundation cultivator. That alone was nothing serious. But when Wu Qishen died, the mysteries of the Dao Foundation within his storage artifact unraveled, and a Heavenly Earth Spirit Fire appeared!"
Wisdom Consort Miao Shui had evidently just spoken with the crow guardian too. "The flame is dark azure. Touch it, and your flesh vanishes instantly, leaving only bones... It's the Withered-Bone Jade Flame, ranked ninety-first on the Heavenly Earth Spirit Fire rankings. This flame has quite the affinity with our White Bone Way! Miao Feng has gone to welcome it back..." "A Heavenly Earth Spirit Fire?"
Fang Qing nodded. The Golden Fire Orthodoxy's prominence in this world lay not only in its ability to counter other orthodoxies, but also in flying swords and Variant Flames!
If a Fire Virtue cultivator could consume