Origin Flame Seed

With a spatial traversal, the distance of several dozen yards between him and the Bone Spirit Cold Flame was erased.

Lin Yu waved both hands, and the Spatial Ancestral Talisman blazed brightly. Several Spatial Blades, thin as cicada wings, flew from his fingertips.

Wherever those Spatial Blades passed, even space itself was sliced open with pitch-black rifts.

The Bone Spirit Cold Flame had clearly sensed the threat of this attack.

Its blurred face twisted sharply, and vast pale flames surged from its body, wrapping it layer upon layer.

A Spatial Blade slashed into the flames, tearing apart a large swath of pale fire. Part of the flames at the edge was swallowed by spatial rifts, but with the buffer of that flaming barrier, the Bone Spirit Cold Flame's true body avoided the strike.

However, this was only the beginning.

Lin Yu's figure flickered continuously through the ice pit like a phantom as he drove the Spatial Ancestral Talisman's power to its limit.

Every flicker shifted him to a new position, and every appearance sent several Spatial Blades flying.

The Bone Spirit Cold Flame's white fire was shaved away layer by layer. Once the fragments cut apart by spatial rifts separated from the main body, they quickly dimmed and went out.

The Origin Flame Seed was about to be exposed, and the Bone Spirit Cold Flame grew increasingly agitated.

This human was far more troublesome than it had imagined. He was too fast, his movements too bizarre. Every spatial traversal was utterly unpredictable, leaving it no way to anticipate him.

It kept searching for chances to release soul attacks, trying to catch Lin Yu's soul trail in an instant, seize that damned soul, and burn it to ashes.

But Lin Yu possessed a Spirit-Realm Soul, the Spatial Ancestral Talisman to shift positions at any moment, and fused Beastfire protecting his body.

The Bone Spirit Cold Flame could do nothing to him.

For a time, this eleventh-ranked Heavenly Flame was firmly entangled by Lin Yu, locked in a strange stalemate.

Just then—

Buzz...

A strange hum suddenly rang through Han Shanshan's mind.

After a thunderous roar, something in Han Shanshan's sea of consciousness seemed to be violently torn apart.

In that instant, her awareness was dragged into a chaotic void. The ice pit, black ice, and altar all vanished, replaced by a surging sea of flames.

She saw the birth of the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, as well as another Heavenly Flame—a multicolored Heavenly Flame. It had devoured several Heavenly Flames, including several that were even more powerful than the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, all of which had likewise become nourishment for that black flame.

The illusion receded like a tide, and Han Shanshan suddenly came back to her senses.

In the sky, the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, which had been tightly suppressed by Lin Yu's Spatial Blades, had somehow transformed into a gigantic flaming beast.

The Bone Spirit Cold Flame's pair of cold, hollow eyes looked down from above. Through a gap in the spatial barrier, they locked directly onto Han Shanshan.

"You can synchronize with my soul voice and sense everything within me. You... I should eat you first."

Only Han Shanshan heard that voice.

It came from the will of the Bone Spirit Cold Flame. More precisely, it was neither a sound nor a language, but pure consciousness. A direct contact between souls was enough for everything to be understood.

"Why?!" Han Shanshan instinctively responded in her mind the same way.

"Only by eating can I grow. I want to become it." The Bone Spirit Cold Flame's consciousness flooded into her sea of consciousness again, accompanied by an image.

That multicolored flame appeared once more. The sight of it devouring countless flames was branded deep within the Bone Spirit Cold Flame's memories.

"By eating you, perhaps I will become stronger. You can connect with me. Your soul must be extraordinary."

Before the thought had even faded, the Bone Spirit Cold Flame dove down from midair.

Pale flames erupted wildly from its body, transforming into a colossal fiery maw that blotted out the sky as it descended over Han Shanshan.

Wherever it passed, the air froze and cracked into countless tiny ice crystals that fell with a rustle. Unable to endure the dual pressure of extreme cold and soul-burning heat, the black ice ground cracked inch by inch.

Lin Yu had just recalled a Spatial Blade and was adjusting his stance for the next traversal when he caught sight of this from the corner of his eye.

He saw the flaming beast cross through his defenses and pounce straight at Han Shanshan.

An unprecedented fury erupted from Lin Yu's heart like a volcano, scorching every nerve in his body.

The Spatial Ancestral Talisman shone brilliantly. In one thousandth of an instant, Lin Yu vanished from where he stood, appearing before Han Shanshan almost the moment he disappeared.

Without the slightest hesitation, he clasped his right hand tightly. Dou Qi poured into the Spatial Ancestral Talisman without reserve like floodwaters bursting through a dam, and spatial power erupted from his body, illuminating the entire ice pit.

"Spatial Annihilation!"

With Lin Yu's explosive shout, the space within several dozen yards around him suddenly twisted.

Countless dense spatial rifts emerged from the void, forming a massive silver-white net that enveloped the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.

Unlike the earlier small Spatial Blades, which merely cut open a single seam, these spatial rifts intertwined and pulled upon one another, forming a shrinking spatial killing array.

The Bone Spirit Cold Flame struggled madly within the enormous spatial net, pale flames gushing forth as it tried to burn through the rifts and escape.

Its struggle was futile.

The spatial net drew tighter and tighter. The Sub-Flames surrounding the Bone Spirit Cold Flame's origin were sliced apart and stripped away layer by layer. Each severed layer of Sub-Flame was swallowed by spatial rifts into different layers of the void.

The flaming beast, originally several yards tall, rapidly shrank beneath Spatial Annihilation's cutting force. Like an onion being peeled layer by layer, its outer shell fell away, revealing the most central Origin Flame Seed.

This was the Bone Spirit Cold Flame's true body.

Seizing the moment, Lin Yu sent the Sacred Radiance Cauldron flying. Its mouth faced the Origin Flame Seed, which had been imprisoned by spatial power and could not move.

It slowly drew the Bone Spirit Cold Flame's Origin Flame Seed into the cauldron.

Han Shanshan's legs gave out, and she nearly collapsed to the ground. Having been locked onto by the Bone Spirit Cold Flame's soul, along with that overwhelming will to devour, her soul had suffered a tremendous impact.

She gasped for breath, cold sweat covering her forehead, yet her phoenix eyes remained bright. The gaze she turned toward Lin Yu was filled with complicated emotions.

"Senior Sister, once you recover, refine this Bone Spirit Cold Flame," Lin Yu said as he turned around and held the Sacred Radiance Cauldron out before Han Shanshan. His tone was calm and natural.

Han Shanshan's beautiful eyes widened abruptly. She stared blankly at Lin Yu, her lips moving several times before she finally found her voice. "You're not absorbing it?"

She pointed at the Sacred Radiance Cauldron, then at Lin Yu, her face full of disbelief.

This was the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, a heaven-and-earth treasure ranked eleventh on the Heavenly Flame Ranking. It was a supreme treasure that countless alchemists could never touch even after exhausting their entire lives.

They had traveled all the way from the Pill Tower to the Godfall Icefield and given everything they had to subdue the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.

And now, Lin Yu was simply giving it to her so casually?