The Bone Flame Ring Became the Palm-Heaven Bottle

Wutan City, Xiao Family.

Xiao Yan stood before the sickbed, his childish face full of worry, the intensity of his emotions seeming to make his body tremble.

His memories from a previous life had awakened, and Xiao Yan regained them at this moment.

Dou Qi Continent, Jia Ma Empire... After clearly understanding his identity, Xiao Yan knew that the person on the sickbed was already beyond cure and would soon give him an important heirloom.

It was a ring known as the Bone Flame Ring, containing Yao Lao's soul. It was a very classic old-grandpa cheat.

As he thought that, a bottle was handed over from the bed.

Faced with this unexpected object, Xiao Yan's mind went blank. Even after returning all the way to his room, he still had not quite recovered.

Where was my ancient black ring? Xiao Yan stared at the small green bottle in his hand, his head full of question marks.

Naturally green in color, it was somewhat smaller than an ordinary medicine bottle. Several dark green leaf-like patterns were imprinted on its body, and they felt raised to the touch, as though real leaves had been directly embedded into it.

He weighed it in his hand. The bottle was quite heavy, and its material was neither ordinary jade nor any special metal.

Xiao Yan had read extensively. Both the appearance and material of the small bottle in his hand almost perfectly matched the mysterious little bottle in his memories. He forcefully twisted the tiny cap sealing its mouth shut.

When he could not twist it open at all, he became a little more convinced.

Xiao Yan waited until night fell. In the dead of night, he opened the window and let the moonlight fall upon the small bottle.

Under his rapt gaze, he soon discovered something unusual.

Beneath the moonlight, the small bottle emitted a faint whitish glow. If one did not inspect it carefully from close range, it would be impossible to notice.

Its appearance matched, and it could even absorb moonlight. Excitement surfaced in Xiao Yan's dark eyes. The Bone Flame Ring had become the Palm-Heaven Bottle!

The Palm-Heaven Bottle was also an exceedingly classic cheat. Its best-known ability was absorbing moonlight to condense green liquid, which could ripen medicinal herbs. A single drop of green liquid could increase a herb's age by a hundred years.

Of course, if it were a complete Palm-Heaven Bottle with a bottle spirit, its functions would not end there. Moreover, in different realms, even a Palm-Heaven Bottle without a bottle spirit differed in both the speed and circumstances of condensing green liquid.

In the Mortal Realm, condensing green liquid caused a huge commotion, with one drop forming every seven days. Upon reaching the Spirit Realm, the disturbance became smaller, and one drop could form in three days.

He wondered how it would behave on the Dou Qi Continent.

Xiao Yan found a small animal-hide pouch and placed the bottle inside. He then left his room and took it out in an open, deserted area.

If the small bottle behaved on the Dou Qi Continent as it did in the Mortal Realm, it would frantically absorb moonlight in such an open space and form a white halo the size of a washbasin.

Xiao Yan stared without blinking. The small bottle did not react so intensely. Its movements were as slight as they had been indoors, precisely like its behavior in the Spirit Realm, its glow almost imperceptible.

After repeated experiments, on the fifth day, Xiao Yan gave the cap a light twist. The tightly sealed cap came off. Peering into the bottle, he saw a bean-sized drop of emerald-green liquid inside, casting the entire inner wall in a glistening green hue.

Clearly, the Palm-Heaven Bottle had a different effect on the Dou Qi Continent than it did in the Mortal Realm and Spirit Realm.

Here, it absorbed moonlight with very little commotion and needed only five days to condense one drop of green liquid.

Xiao Yan knew that this green liquid was like poison to animals, so he directly chose plant seeds as his test subjects.

He found a flowerpot, planted a Spirit-Gathering Herb seed, placed it in his room, and dripped green liquid onto it as he waited for the result.

Twenty-year Spirit-Gathering Herbs were one of the materials used to refine the fourth-tier medicinal pill Qi-Gathering Powder. They were extremely expensive and could generally sell for around fifteen thousand gold coins at an auction house, yet their seeds were quite common.

Spirit-Gathering Herbs had extremely high requirements for the natural energy of their growing environment. After absorbing it over long periods, as soon as the level of natural energy dropped even slightly, the herbs would swiftly wither and die.

The reason people could still harvest twenty-year Spirit-Gathering Herbs and have alchemists combine them with other ingredients to refine Qi-Gathering Powder, which helped people condense a Battle Qi vortex, was that Spirit-Gathering Herbs, like dandelions, could produce a great many seeds at once.

Those seeds drifted away on the wind, and among them, perhaps some lucky ones would land in places where natural energy was rich and stable enough to support them until they reached a great age.

The next day, a lush green plant had grown from the previously bare flowerpot.

It was nearly indistinguishable from ordinary wild grass, but its tip flickered with a lustrous glow. It was indeed a Spirit-Gathering Herb, and the stronger its glow, the greater its age.

Looking at the light emitted by the Spirit-Gathering Herb in the pot, which was almost like a small piece of Moonlight Stone, Xiao Yan easily determined from the information in the books that it was a hundred-year Spirit-Gathering Herb.

A hundred-year specimen was even rarer. It could be used to refine medicinal pills of a higher grade than Qi-Gathering Powder, and it was worth more than seven or eight times as much as a twenty-year Spirit-Gathering Herb.

Having suddenly obtained a medicinal herb that could easily be exchanged for more than a hundred thousand gold coins, Xiao Yan nevertheless lay on his bed staring into space. At this moment, he no longer felt any joy at having tested the Palm-Heaven Bottle's effect on the Dou Qi Continent or gained a hundred-year Spirit-Gathering Herb.

Like a ring containing an old grandpa, the Palm-Heaven Bottle was a classic cheat with an extremely high degree of freedom. How to make the best use of it required careful planning.

Xiao Yan knew his own advantages well. His talent was extraordinarily high. He had begun cultivating at the age of four and, without much resource support, had reached the ninth stage of Battle Qi by the age of ten.

Now that Yao Lao had not crippled his strength and turned him into trash, and he could rely on medicinal herbs ripened by the Palm-Heaven Bottle, even if he could not exchange them in Wutan City for something like Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid—a special medicine that could accelerate Battle Qi cultivation without side effects—exchanging them for a Qi-Gathering Powder would not be a problem.

With the medicinal power of Qi-Gathering Powder assisting him, he would not need to spend a long time accumulating the energy needed to condense a Battle Qi vortex. After breaking through to the ninth stage of Battle Qi at ten years old, he could become a Dou Practitioner.

After becoming a Dou Practitioner, he could cultivate a technique. As for whether he absolutely had to cultivate the Flame Mantra, there was no such necessity.

On the current Dou Qi Continent, there were two ways to break through and become a Dou Emperor.

First, obtain an Emperor-Grade Nascent Pill, perfect it, and use the complete Emperor Pill to break through.

Second, refine Nihility Devouring Flame or Pure Lotus Demon Flame, use them to open the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor statue, and obtain its inheritance to become an emperor.

Neither of these methods had anything to do with whether one cultivated the Flame Mantra.

After becoming a Dou Practitioner, Xiao Yan felt he could completely exchange high-age medicinal herbs for a Profound Tier technique to gain a faster cultivation speed.

The benefits of cultivating a high-grade technique from the very beginning were numerous and immense: a high-grade technique allowed a Battle Qi vortex to contain more Battle Qi; the quality of cultivated Battle Qi would also surpass that produced by low-grade techniques; activating Battle Qi in battle would be smoother; and its high cultivation efficiency went without saying...

Taking all these factors together, becoming a Dou Practitioner at ten and cultivating a Profound Tier technique—how fast would that be? Even Xiao Yan could not imagine it.

Of course, if he could obtain the assistance of medicinal pills, his speed would become faster still. His talent and comprehension in alchemy happened to be even stronger than his talent for cultivation.

Yao Lao was often absent from alchemy instruction. After the first Buddha's Fury Lotus, he fell asleep, leaving Xiao Yan without guidance for third- and fourth-tier alchemy; then Xiao Yan fell unconscious beneath the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower and was immediately captured by Wu Protector, losing all instruction completely.

The medicinal herbs ripened by the Palm-Heaven Bottle could, first, be exchanged for alchemy knowledge for self-study; second, be exchanged for alchemy materials, allowing him to fear no losses; third, higher-grade medicinal pills required only rare medicinal herbs. Once his alchemy improved, he could endlessly enjoy high-grade medicinal pills and accelerate his cultivation.

Beyond his understanding of his talents, Xiao Yan also had an accurate grasp of the locations of certain treasure sites.

There was one inside the cliffs near Thousand Medicine Hall's herb-gathering site in the Magic Beast Mountain Range; beneath the eastern part of Stone Desert City grew the Green Lotus Core Flame...

That Green Lotus Core Flame was exceedingly unusual. It grew within a green lotus pedestal formed from condensed vine roots and stems. Since it grew through plants, it could naturally be ripened with green liquid.

Xiao Yan steadied himself and sat up from the bed. Those matters were still far too distant for him. For now, he had to first cultivate his Battle Qi.