Heavenly Flame

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Power Progression

Yao Xuan's Fused Heavenly Flame

Nature and Classification

Heavenly Flames are regarded as the strongest fires of heaven and earth and as sovereigns over ordinary flames. Their origins can burn matter, temper bodies, refine souls, strengthen Dou Skills, and help cultivators break through bottlenecks. For this reason, they are coveted by alchemists and fire-attributed cultivators alike 79.

Each Heavenly Flame possesses innate spirituality and does not naturally become one with its wielder. Under ordinary methods, an alchemist suppresses a flame with soul pressure and borrows its power while the flame remains an external force 28.

Heavenly Flames are inherently domineering and exclusive toward one another. Yao Xuan exploits this trait by sending a spark of his Three-Colored Heavenly Flame into Falling Heart Flame's seal, provoking the sealed flame into a riot 82.

Even a Child Flame retains Heavenly Flame pressure: Xiao Yan's seven-colored Child Flame suppresses nearby Beast Flames at the Pill Assembly. When Yao Xuan releases eight complete fused origins, ordinary flames across the arena are extinguished and the display triggers gathering clouds, thunder, and wind 203.

Heavenly Flame Ranking

The ranking reflects the known standing of individual flames, but cultivation and long-term nourishment can raise a flame beyond its original listed limit. Flame Ancestor's Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame, originally ranked twelfth, is said to have been strengthened until it could rival the sixth-ranked Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame 188.

Properties

Origin Power

Heavenly Flames possess tyrannical natural origins that can overwhelm or erase incompatible attribute energies. Yao Xuan's flames gradually cleanse a thousand years of wind essence from the Wind Spirit Treasure Pearl without damaging the pearl's core 58.

• Their fire can refine foreign energies and preserve a target's original foundation when handled with sufficient precision 58.
• A flame's origin may be extracted as a seed or source flame for later refinement 89 107.
• Complete flame origins provide immense energy capable of driving major cultivation breakthroughs 60 112.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame's accumulated stellar origin raises Yao Xuan from Eight-Star to peak Nine-Star Battle Venerable upon refinement 208.
• The Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame origin can absorb Black Demon Lightning and mutate. Its transformed source gains explosive power comparable to the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, although its source remains weaker and its lightning-infused violence makes it harder to control 246.

Spirituality and Resistance

Even seemingly docile Heavenly Flames retain will and resistance. The Yellow Mysterious Flame, though considered the easiest to subdue due to its stable temperament, still resists Yao Xuan's refinement attempt 14.

• The Wind Fury Dragon Flame manifests a dragon phantom and struggles violently against containment by three Heavenly Flames 60.
• Falling Heart Flame displays intelligence and intense malice toward humans while taking the form of a thousand-zhang fire python 112.
• Ordinary flames can develop intelligence only after extremely long periods of nurturing and absorbing natural origin power 188.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame takes the form of a violet-gold fire dragon in its soul world. Its Fire Spirit resists Yao Xuan with starfire, its Star Origin, and an Ancient Dragon Imprint before accepting a master-servant pact 207.
• Yao Xuan's Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame origin responds independently to Black Demon Lightning in the Void Thunder Pool; after mutating, it resists his control until he draws it back into himself 246.

Flame Fusion

The Flame Mantra overturns ordinary flame-control methods by devouring and fusing flames rather than merely suppressing them. It allows Heavenly Flames to assimilate with its cultivator and coexist within their body 28.

• Fused flames combine the properties and foundations of their component origins 89 107.
• A fusion of multiple lower-ranked flames can surpass a single higher-ranked Heavenly Flame in grade and pressure 82 112.
• The process is dangerous: incompatible origins may throw a cultivator's Fire Dao into chaos and damage their foundation 188.
• The Flame Mantra can harmonize otherwise conflicting attributes, including the yin and yang of the Yin-Yang Twin Flame 179.
• Against Three Thousand Burning Flame, Yao Xuan combines his eight origins into a Myriad Flame Domain, suppresses its Fire Spirit with his soul, and uses the Flame Mantra to assimilate its stellar origin. The resulting nine-origin fusion advances the Flame Mantra from peak Initial Heaven Rank to Mid Heaven Rank 207 208.

Manifestation

Under skilled control, Heavenly Flames can be shaped into large-scale constructs and combat techniques rather than remaining simple fire.

• The Wind Fury Dragon Flame and Yellow Mysterious Flame are manifested as a wind-fire tornado and a golden flame dragon 85.
• The Dragon Lotus Profound Sea Flame takes the form of a colossal dragon emerging from a sea of fire 107.
• The Eight-Colored Fused Heavenly Flame supports the Heaven Rank high-level Thunderflame Rakshasa Palm, creating a sky-covering net of lightning and fire that suppresses souls and burns bodies 191.
• At the Pill Assembly, Yao Xuan manifests his eight complete origins as a flaming dragon thousands of zhang long, then reins in their heat precisely for alchemy 203.
• The nine-colored flame dragon can act independently through its awakened spirit, expand into a massive dragon, and release a destructive dragon breath stronger than Yao Xuan's Nine-Colored Fire Lotus 208.

Heavenly Flame Spirit

The eight-origin fusion creates a Heavenly Flame Spirit directly, rather than requiring the vast time ordinarily needed for a flame to develop intelligence 188.

• The spirit is connected to Yao Xuan's mind and shares his aura 188.
• It has a humanoid form with dragon horns and a dragon tail, giving it the appearance of a little dragon person 188.
• At the eight-origin stage, it remains embryonic and asleep; Yao Xuan judges that it needs at least one additional Heavenly Flame to fully form 188.
• The addition of Three Thousand Burning Flame fulfills that requirement. The fully awakened Nine-Flame Heavenly Flame Spirit appears as a miniature dragon person with nine-colored flame markings, is mentally linked to Yao Xuan, and willingly acts without direct commands 208.
• It can fight independently, take the form of a large fire dragon, and temper Yao Xuan's flesh and soul with its firelight 208.

Refinement and Limitations

• Ordinary alchemists use pure soul pressure to restrain a Heavenly Flame, but this only permits temporary use of its power rather than true integration 28.
• Heavenly Flame refinement can inflict extreme bodily pain, fire poisoning, origin erosion, or backlash if the flame and cultivator are incompatible 48 71.
• The Netherworld Poison Flame is unusually docile toward Little Fairy Doctor because her Calamity Poison Body shares its poisonous origin, but absorbing its full origin still causes a dangerous backlash by drawing surrounding poisonous vapors into her body 71.
• Even a Battle Emperor Realm cultivator entering the Wind Fury Dragon Flame's domain may be torn apart by wind and fire, with their origin burned away 48.
• A higher-grade flame can suppress a weaker one: Lotus Hell Vast Dragon Flame overwhelms Falling Heart Flame through its superior fused foundation 112.
• Yao Xuan subdues Three Thousand Burning Flame without relying on an Ancient Void Dragon's Dragon Seal, instead using eight fused flames, soul suppression, and the Flame Mantra. Subjugation precedes the separate process of fully refining its origin 207 208.
• Mutation does not guarantee easy control: after absorbing Black Demon Lightning, the Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame becomes more violent and difficult for Yao Xuan to command 246.

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Yao Xuan begins his pursuit by refining the Yellow Mysterious Flame in the Falling Wild Goose Empire, establishing Heavenly Flames as the central resource required for the Flame Mantra's evolution 14 29.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame, Wind Fury Dragon Flame, and Heart of the Sea Flame successively expand Yao Xuan's fused flame, allowing him to contest stronger opponents and defeat Han Feng's Heavenly Flame techniques 43 60 85 89.
• Falling Heart Flame becomes the focus of the Jia Nan Academy conflict after Yao Xuan deliberately provokes it into breaking its seal, drawing Han Feng and other factions into battle 82 83.
• Turtle Spirit Earthfire and Falling Heart Flame elevate Yao Xuan's fusion to five and then six colors, while the latter pushes the Flame Mantra into the Heaven Rank 107 112.
• The nascent Falling Heart Flame is offered by Heavenly Flame Venerable as part of a deal for help restoring his remnant soul; the Venerable also passes on the Five-Wheel Separation Flame Method 118 119.
• The seven-colored Mystic Dragon Firmament Ember Flame proves Yao Xuan's unmatched Fire Dao compatibility during Flame Valley's inheritance trial 180 182 183.
• Flame Ancestor's complete Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame origin becomes the eighth component of Yao Xuan's fusion and causes the birth of the Heavenly Flame Spirit 187 188.
• During the Pill Assembly, Xiao Yan's seven-colored Child Flame suppresses Beast Flames, while Yao Xuan's eight complete fused origins extinguish ordinary flames across the arena 203.
• Yao Xuan subdues Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Pill Tower's Star Domain and refines it as his ninth origin. The fusion awakens the Heavenly Flame Spirit and advances the Flame Mantra to Mid Heaven Rank 207 208.
• In the Void Thunder Pool, Black Demon Lightning transforms the Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame origin into the Nine-Chen Demon Lightning Flame. Reabsorbing its accumulated power helps Yao Xuan reach peak Nine-Revolution Battle Venerable, though the mutated flame proves more difficult to control 246.