Attempting a Seal

Any living creature touched by it would ignite at once; water could not extinguish it, nor could earth smother it.

Where it burned, no scorch wounds remained, yet the corpse's spirit and vitality would be damaged, leaving it like a dried mummy.

These were all characteristics left behind after the Divine Flame within Samadhi True Fire had burned.

"Spirit resembles fire, qi resembles smoke; essence-fire bursts forth while intent flows unbroken. Refine the wondrous secret of the three samadhis within, balance the dragon and tiger, and turn the elixir back."

This was the Samadhi True Fire of the Internal Elixir Dao, refined from Divine Essence, Qi Essence, and Vital Essence. It was a necessary path for refining a Primordial Elixir into a Golden Core and had not the slightest damn thing to do with the Six-Ding Divine Fire inside Lord Lao's Furnace.

External Elixir Art, on the other hand, used Stone Fire, Wood Fire, and Void Fire to imitate Samadhi True Fire, refining a metal Primordial Elixir into a Golden Core outside the body.

Both could be called Samadhi True Fire, but only the former deserved the word "true."

"But even Samadhi True Fire isn't supposed to come with an instant cremation effect, is it?"

Starting with cremation—and using Samadhi True Fire, no less—truly left the enemy without the slightest chance to save themselves.

Yin Ming frowned and pondered for a moment.

He guessed it might be related to the wizard's Meditation Method.

After all, although a wizard's mental power was incomparably vast, it did not bring about a qualitative improvement. It was not that wizards could not devise a way to improve its "quality," but that the two fundamentally conflicted.

Using sorcery consumed mental power without restoring it. Instead, the Permanent Mental Rune generated a nearly equal amount of