"Teacher, once you've subdued a heavenly flame, is refining it really this easy?"
After a long silence, Xiao Yan finally spoke.
Even now, it all still felt somewhat unreal to him.
He remembered his teacher saying that refining a heavenly flame meant facing nine chances of death and one chance of survival. Why hadn't he felt anything?
This was what they called nine chances of death and one chance of survival?
Then surviving those nine chances of death had been far too easy!
Couldn't anyone whose cultivation surpassed a heavenly flame refine it, then?
Yao Lao said, "Well... well..."
Faced with his disciple's question, Yao Lao had no idea how to answer.
Had he been dead for so long that refining heavenly flames had become this easy?
Although he had forgotten how he had subdued the bone spirit cold flame back then, Yao Lao had always known that even he had only succeeded after facing nine chances of death and one chance of survival!
Seeing Xiao Yan refine a heavenly flame so easily left Yao Lao feeling as though none of this was real.
Truthfully, he had never encountered anything like this before!
For the moment, he could offer Xiao Yan no explanation.
Where exactly did things go wrong?
Yao Lao was asking himself that very question.
Unfortunately, even with his vast knowledge, he could not make sense of it.
"Teacher, what's wrong? Are you all right?"
Seeing Yao Lao stammer for so long without answering, Xiao Yan asked nervously.
He had even wondered whether Yao Lao had taken all the damage for him.
In fact, even though Xiao Yan had successfully refined the myriad beast spirit flame, he knew perfectly well that this had to be the result of some coincidence he knew nothing about!
Xiao Yan was not