(Finally...)
At this moment, Xiao Changge had finally obtained a Sixth-Order Beast Flame: Purple Flame.
Purple Flame was not one of the Heavenly Flames naturally born between heaven and earth, but the companion Beast Flame of the sixth-order magical beast, the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
Though it was merely a Beast Flame at the Dou Emperor level, it was already considered an exceptionally powerful flame in the Douluo Universe.
Its core characteristics and uses were:
High temperature and destructive power: Purple Flame possessed an extremely high temperature. As a flame produced within the Amethyst Winged Lion King, which possessed Dou Emperor strength, its combat lethality far surpassed ordinary Dou Qi flames.
Pill refinement assistance: Purple Flame had excellent medicinal refinement properties. It could not only increase the success rate of pill refinement but could also be used to refine other Core Flames.
Purifying Dou Qi: Purple Flame could burn away impurities in the energy of heaven and earth, transforming it into pure liquid energy and making a cultivator's Dou Qi more condensed.
Purple Flame was the first flame Xiao Yan devoured using the Mantra of Burning, setting that cultivation method upon its evolutionary path.
After Xiao Yan devoured Purple Flame, the Mantra of Burning evolved from low Yellow Tier to mid Yellow Tier, and he naturally broke through to the Dou Practitioner level.
Moreover, Purple Flame had been an important source of Xiao Yan's combat strength in his early days. After devouring the Green Lotus Core Flame, he used specially made Purple Flame Pills to summon Purple Flame again, fusing the two flames and unleashing his powerful self-created Dou Technique, the Buddha Fury Fire Lotus.
The Buddha Fury Fire Lotus could be called Xiao Yan's trump card. Before even reaching the Dou Wang level, he had used this move to severely wound Yun Shan. Among Dou Techniques, the Buddha Fury Fire Lotus was essentially one whose power increased with the number of flames used.
If there were enough flames, it could even injure a peak Dou Sheng. If all the Heavenly Flames were fused together, it could even defeat a Dou Di.
It could be said that, just like the Mantra of Burning, the more flames it contained, the more powerful this Dou Technique became.
"Changge, this ring is..." At that moment, Electrolux noticed the ring—or rather, the Storage Ring.
"Teacher, you could consider it a gift and a gesture of goodwill from the world." Xiao Changge could not exactly say it had been given to him by a system. After all, people in a fantasy world would probably find such a thing difficult to understand; even people from a Western fantasy world would struggle to comprehend it.
"Now I only need to refine this Purple Flame... But for the Buddha Fury Fire Lotus, I need at least two flames..." As long as he refined this Purple Flame, he would possess a Sixth-Order Beast Flame. On this dangerous continent, that would count as gaining a formidable move capable of protecting him. Yet Xiao Changge wanted the Buddha Fury Fire Lotus even more.
After all, this was Xiao Yan's ultimate move, a top-tier ultimate technique created through cultivating the Mantra of Burning.
"I don't have two flames yet... Wait, the Four-Winged Fire Phosphorus Bird!" Xiao Changge looked at the Soul Beast he had defeated. He had already absorbed its Soul Ring, but its source flame seemed not to have vanished yet.
"The Four-Winged Fire Phosphorus Bird... If its strength were converted to the standards of the Dou Qi Continent, it should be at the peak of the second order or close to the third order... A near-third-order Beast Flame should also be able to unleash the Buddha Fury Fire Lotus. Its power might be far weaker, but having a move is still better than having none."
At that moment, Xiao Changge had already decided to obtain the Four-Winged Fire Phosphorus Bird's Beast Flame.
"Teacher, may I trouble you to help me with something?"
"If there's something you need, just say it. Do you want me to conduct some sort of experiment on this dead Soul Beast? Are you trying to seize some kind of flame?"
"Teacher, have you ever heard of Beast Flames?"
"What is a Beast Flame? A flame inside a beast's body?" Although Electrolux did not really understand what a Beast Flame was, he could tell from its name that it had something to do with the flames of beastkind—most likely flames within a beast's body.
"You can understand it that way. I want to seize the flame inside this Soul Beast's body. Though it is dead, the flame within it should still remain. If I can obtain that flame, I should gain some combat strength as well. It can also count as making use of this dead Soul Beast instead of wasting it."
"So that's how it is. This is related to that mysterious cultivation method you practice, isn't it? Fine, I'll help you right away." Electrolux knew that Xiao Changge cultivated a mysterious method, the Mantra of Burning, but he would not pry into it. As long as Xiao Changge did not betray him, that was enough.
At the same time, Electrolux suspected that the will of this plane might be helping Xiao Changge. Based on what Xiao Changge had said before, this world seemed to favor him greatly. Could he be the chosen son of fate?
Still, if Xiao Changge was the chosen son of fate of this plane, that was a good thing. It should allow him the best possible growth.
But the most important matter now was extracting the flame from the Four-Winged Fire Phosphorus Bird.
Electrolux then appeared directly and used the hands of his soul body to cast Necromantic Magic, extracting the Four-Winged Fire Phosphorus Bird's flame.
He then took out a specially made bottle, which could be understood as a magic bottle, and stored the flame inside it.
"You intend to absorb the power of this flame and make yourself stronger. I have no objection to that, but you must be careful."
"Understood." Xiao Changge looked at the Beast Flame. Its quality was at the peak of the second order. It seemed that even a forty-thousand-year Soul Beast only corresponded to a magical beast of roughly the second order.
"It's already good enough that it has a flame. Don't be so picky."
Afterward, Xiao Changge and Electrolux returned.
Soon, night fell.
Xiao Changge returned to his residence and carefully shut the doors to his room. It was nighttime, and no one would come to disturb them.
Xiao Changge then directly took out both Beast Flames: Purple Flame and the Four-Winged Fire Phosphorus Bird's flame.
"This purple flame is the gift this plane gave you, right? But honestly, this flame looks incredibly powerful. I feel like it is at least far stronger than the power of those Titled Douluo," Electrolux said.
After all, Purple Flame was a Sixth-Order Beast Flame, and its power was equivalent to that of a Dou Emperor-level expert. Whether the Titled Douluo of this world, the Douluo Continent, could even reach the level of a Dou Wang was questionable, since the levels of their planes were different.
It was absurd that top-tier experts could be killed by hidden weapons. Hidden weapons were made from gunpowder and metal, yet many experts in the first part of Douluo Continent had died at their hands.
If this were the Dou Qi Continent, it would be absolutely impossible for an expert to die to a hidden weapon.
"As long as I absorb these two flames, my strength will become even greater. And I want to use a powerful ultimate move."
"Should I first draw a magic array for you? That would make it easier for you to absorb and refine these two flames."
"Then I'll trouble you, Teacher. I want to become stronger as quickly as possible. After refining these two flames, I can create an ultimate move. I'll tell you about it slowly when the time comes."
"Then I look forward to it." Electrolux was also curious about just how powerful Xiao Changge would become after absorbing these two flames.
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