"What a vast Heavenly Flame Origin! It pushed me all the way to Nine-Transformation Peak Dou Venerable in one go! No, it wasn't just the size of the Heavenly Flame Origin. There was also my compatibility with the Three Thousand Burning Flame!"
Xiao Lin clenched his fist and felt the surging Dou Qi within him. Even he could not hide the delight on his face.
After all, in the original story, Xiao Yan had risen five stars after devouring the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
But he had only gone from Four-Star Dou Zong to Nine-Star Dou Zong.
Xiao Lin, on the other hand, had broken through from Five-Turn Dou Venerable to Nine-Transformation Dou Venerable!
The two were not comparable at all!
It was no exaggeration to say that breaking through from Five-Turn Dou Venerable to Six-Star Dou Venerable required more energy than rising from Four-Star Dou Zong to Nine-Star Dou Zong.
Besides, the strength the Three Thousand Burning Flame had displayed was only that of an ordinary Dou Venerable.
In a straightforward fight, even a One-Turn Dou Venerable could have suppressed it.
But refining the Three Thousand Burning Flame still required special means.
A higher cultivation level alone did not mean you could refine it.
Otherwise, given the Three Thousand Burning Flame's ninth-place ranking on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, it would have been of great use even to Pill Tower's Three Giants.
Yet even Pill Tower's Three Giants had failed to subdue it.
That said plenty.
Strength mattered when subduing a Heavenly Flame, but it was not everything!
Sometimes, the right methods mattered more than strength!
Take Xiao Yan in the original story. When had he ever been stronger than a Heavenly Flame he subdued?
Greater strength merely gave a person more room for error.
If you failed to subdue