Langgan Pavilion.
Ye Zizhen's eyes brimmed with surprise as she gazed at that ash-white flame shadow and softly praised:
"It is actually the 'Burning Silence Ashflame'... What a stroke of fortune. That boy truly has good luck."
"Miss, is this treasure flame so rare?"
Zhu'er tilted her head, blinking in confusion:
"Your 'Phoenix Crying at Qiyang,' 'Wutong Bright Flame,' and 'Golden Phoenix Flowing Clouds' are all fourth-grade high-grade treasure flames. The 'Fire Phoenix Scorching Flame' nurtured within the Blessed Land is even about to transform into the fifth-grade spirit flame, 'Azure Luan's Blood-Cry World-Illuminating Flame'... This 'Burning Silence Ashflame' is merely fourth-grade high-grade. Could it possess some exceptional quality?"
"Of course."
Ye Zizhen gently turned her feather fan. The fire-bathing phoenix upon its surface seemed to spread its wings with the shifting light and shadows. Her voice was calm and unhurried as she explained:
"This 'Burning Silence Ashflame' is neither for pills nor artifacts, neither arrays nor talismans. It specializes in one thing: burning and killing!"
"Although it is only fourth-grade and poses no concern to Innate divine abilities, if it should... by some fortuitous chance advance into the legendary fifth-grade spirit flame—the 'Life-Ending Evil-Expunging Twin Flame'."
She paused, a trace of gravity flashing through her eyes:
"Then it would be an entirely different matter!"
Zhu'er murmured:
"'Life-Ending Evil-Expunging Twin Flame'... Just hearing that name, it sounds utterly tyrannical..."
"Of course it is tyrannical..."
Ye Zizhen said quietly:
"This spirit flame is said to 'invade body and mind alike, burn even the soul.' Even among the many fifth-grade spirit flames, its power to burn and slaughter ranks among the very best."
"Even the 'Azure Luan's Blood-Cry World-Illuminating Flame' in the Blessed Land, once it fully matures, would have to yield three parts before its edge."
"However..."
At this point, Ye