Samadhi True Fire

On the way to the Yin Yang School, they passed through a Small City. It was already evening.

Wang Shu, Flame Spirit Ji, and Yan Fei found an inn in the Small City to rest.

Late at night, all was silent. Wang Shu sensed that the two women in the neighboring room had fallen asleep, so he pushed open the window and left the inn.

At the summit of a Green Mountain several li away, space rippled faintly, and a blurred figure appeared.

Standing atop the mountain, Wang Shu could see the Small City stretching for several li below.

It lay there as peacefully as a sleeping person, quiet and serene.

Feeling the refreshing coolness brought by the night wind on the mountaintop, Wang Shu took a deep breath and pulled out the Yellow Stone Book from Heaven that he had borrowed from Chu Nan Gong.

His intuition told him that if he truly comprehended the Yellow Stone Book from Heaven's secrets, it would likely cause an enormous phenomenon. That was why he had left the inn and come to these desolate mountains.

"I hope this won't disappoint me."

Wang Shu opened the yellowed, ancient bamboo slips. As expected, the Yellow Stone Book from Heaven did not contain a single word. It was completely blank.

"001, can you unlock the Yellow Stone Book from Heaven's secrets?" Wang Shu asked.

"It can be done, but this object is a treasure of this world's origin. Its wonders can only manifest through specific people.

There is a time limit for the host's use. If you fail to comprehend the power within it within that period, you must sever the connection and will never be able to use it again.

If you force its use, you will suffer the backlash of this world's will and fall into danger," 001 said.

"No problem. If I can't comprehend it, then I truly have no affinity with it." Wang Shu did not mind.

"Would you like to spend 1000M of data to analyze the Yellow Stone Book from Heaven?" 001 asked.

"Yes!" Wang Shu's gaze was resolute.

"1000M of data consumed. Balance: 51000M. Beginning analysis. Perceiving medium: one percent, two percent... one hundred percent."

"Host, the internal lock of the Yellow Stone Book from Heaven has been temporarily unlocked. You have three shichen to comprehend its mysteries," 001 said.

Hearing this, Wang Shu turned his gaze back to the Yellow Stone Book from Heaven. Though the bamboo slips' surface still bore no writing,

they no longer felt as utterly blank and incomprehensible as before.

A faint golden glow enveloped the Yellow Stone Book from Heaven. Tiny ripples spread outward one after another, washing away like circles across the center of a lake.

A wisp of flame appeared in Wang Shu's pupils, dazzling and brilliant.

That tiny spark gradually expanded, eventually turning into a raging inferno that burned heaven and earth.

Wherever the flames passed, nothing remained unburned, nothing remained unshattered. They could burn mountains and boil the sea, their power boundless.

In the end, the entire world—even the universe—turned into a vast ocean of fire!

At that moment, only flames remained in Wang Shu's eyes and in his world: flames that reached the true origin of all things.

The Yellow Stone Book from Heaven was no longer empty. An image of a flame appeared upon it.

It was a character, yet not quite fire. It was origin!

An inexplicably scorching power appeared in Wang Shu's abdomen and surged wildly through his body, burning his five viscera and six bowels as his consciousness began to blur with unbearable pain.

Yet Wang Shu did not make a sound. He clenched his teeth and endured, beads of cold sweat dripping constantly from his face. He bit his lips until they bled, his nails digging deep into his flesh until blood flowed.

A vast, violent, scorching power had accumulated within him.

It seemed ready to burst him apart, racing wildly through his body as if seeking an outlet through which to erupt.

"A god who plays with fire being burned to death by fire... that's just ridiculous."

With the last shred of consciousness he had left, Wang Shu could not help but mock himself.

He knew that the suddenly appearing power was about to use destructive flames to burn away his consciousness and reason, plunging him completely into chaos.

Just then, a soothing fragrance drifted into his nose.

In an instant, Wang Shu felt as though he had gone from hell to heaven, relentlessly chasing that sensation born from his body's instincts.

Hiss!

A burst of refreshing coolness swept over him. Wang Shu opened his eyes in a daze, blinking repeatedly as though he were trying to think, looking utterly bewildered like someone who had just woken up.

Unable to resist, he raised a hand and slapped himself. The crisp smack against his face told him this was not a dream.

Sitting up, he looked around. His clothes were perfectly intact, with no sign of anything being wrong.

Other than feeling a little parched, he felt nothing else.

"Right, the Yellow Stone Book from Heaven!"

Wang Shu suddenly came to his senses and felt around beside him. The cool Yellow Stone Book from Heaven, damp with morning dew, fell into his hand. It was no different from an ordinary bamboo slip.

"Last night, it seemed like I comprehended something, then I exploded... and after that..."

Holding the Yellow Stone Book from Heaven, Wang Shu kept trying to recall what had happened the night before, but he could not remember even the slightest bit.

The only thing he remembered was that he seemed to have comprehended some incredible divine ability.

With a thought, Wang Shu spread open his palm. With a soft whoosh, a wisp of red Core Flame emerged.

The red Core Flame was deeper in color than ordinary flames. Though the flame was small, it gave off a scorching heat too intense to look at directly.

That heat did not merely affect the flesh; even one's soul would feel seared by it.

"Samadhi True Fire!"

The glow of the flame reflected in Wang Shu's eyes as he murmured the words.

What each person obtained from the Yellow Stone Book from Heaven was different.

For example, the Yellow Emperor gained the power to reshape heaven and earth. With it, he defeated Chi You, fought across the Central Plains, and became the ancestor of human civilization.

Jiang Shang comprehended the arts of Qimen Dunjia, the I Ching, and Bagua from it. He attained the Dao at Qi Mountain, assisted Zhou Wu Wang in seizing the Shang Dynasty's fate, established the realm, and founded an eight-hundred-year dynasty that never fell.

As for himself, he had comprehended the power of flames. Perhaps his innate nature was compatible with fire, which was why he had awakened the Samadhi True Fire.

The Yellow Stone Book from Heaven was like a key that opened the mysteries of heaven and earth, even the mysteries of the entire universe.

What those who held this key could obtain from it depended entirely on their own fortune.

But most people gained nothing at all!

Without 001's help, Wang Shu might not have been able to comprehend the Samadhi True Fire from it either.

In the past, as a man of Lieyang Star, controlling flames had been as easy as breathing for Wang Shu. It was hardly worth mentioning.

But the Samadhi True Fire was different. It was a Core Flame imbued with attributes, an immortal seedling.

Not only was its temperature higher, it also possessed far greater malleability than ordinary flames.

Perhaps after further growth in the future, it would become a powerful immortal fire capable of burning away the sun, moon, and firmament, of burning mountains and boiling the sea.

The Samadhi True Fire was only the beginning. What he had comprehended from the Yellow Stone Book from Heaven was the origin of fire!

And the simplest way to evolve the Samadhi True Fire was to devour other flames!

Wang Shu looked at the still-weak flame of "Samadhi True Fire" in his palm, his gaze blazing.

He rose to his feet and looked at the misty clouds winding around the mountains below. His chest brimmed with uncontainable heroic spirit.

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