Ziyan Takes a Loss

As time slowly passed.

Half the days required for the system to devour the Heavenly Flame had already gone by.

I still have to stay in this place for several more months. It really isn't easy for someone from Blue Star like me.

Looking at the boundless sea of flames around him, Xie Tianxiao sighed helplessly.

Having the system was certainly good, but at this rate, devouring the top ten Primordial Heavenly Flames in the future would likely take even longer.

Forget it. Trading some time for the most primal power of the Heavenly Flames, as well as complete control over them, isn't a loss.

Xie Tianxiao pondered silently before saying, "I should bring Ziyan down to meet her father first. Otherwise, if she doesn't see me for more than half a year, she might think I was fooling her."

"But before that..."

A glint flashed through Xie Tianxiao's eyes, and powerful Dou Qi surged within him, instantly enveloping his entire body.

The next moment.

The Dou Qi trembled gently, then peeled away from his shrouded body, transforming into a strange black energy afterimage.

"Mm, it can barely wield the strength of a Junior Half-Saint. That's enough to bring Ziyan down."

Looking at the figure before him, identical to himself in shape, with only a pair of eerie pale-white eyes while everything else was utterly insubstantial, Xie Tianxiao nodded in satisfaction.

He did not know any miraculous cloning technique. This thing was merely an afterimage formed from the Dou Qi energy condensed from his entire body.

It was not a real body and could only be used for a short time. If maintained too long, it would dissipate.

The reason he had done this was to deal with the Dragon Emperor at the deepest point beneath the endless underground lava,