The Flaw of the Third-Ranked Heavenly Flame, Cultivating Half a Volume of the Flame Mantra!

That temperament certainly suited Zi Yan's style.

Qing Luo checked his bearings and said,

"Follow me!"

Zi Yan frowned slightly as she watched Qing Luo leave.

She knew that place.

It was the largest city in the Black-Corner Region, Black Emperor City, controlled by the Black Emperor Sect. Countless experts resided within its walls, including Dou Zong-level powerhouses.

He isn't trying to trick me, is he...

Zi Yan began to have doubts.

After thinking it over,

she did not openly follow Qing Luo to Black Emperor City. Instead, she descended into the ruins.

Relying on the Ancient Void Dragon's tyrannical physique,

she followed far behind Qing Luo from a great distance.

Zi Yan had already made up her mind.

If he truly harbored any ill intentions toward her, she would tear open space and leave. In any case, she could not just sit around and wait to die.

Very soon,

Qing Luo arrived above Black Emperor City.

Sensing Qing Luo's arrival,

Whoosh—

Whoosh, whoosh—

Several figures with powerful auras shot up from the Black Emperor Sect's main hall, appearing above Black Emperor City.

Leading them was the Four-Star Dou Zong Mo Tian Xing.

Behind Mo Tian Xing were several Dou Emperor elders of the Black Emperor Sect, along with the sect's young master, Mo Ya.

"Senior!"

The moment he saw Qing Luo, Mo Tian Xing said with utmost respect,

"We pay our respects to you, Senior, and thank you for sparing our lives."

As Mo Tian Xing respectfully saluted him, the Black Emperor Sect's elders

all bowed in unison and shouted together,

Qing Luo gave no response.

He simply scrutinized Mo Tian Xing.

Seeing this,

Mo Tian Xing hurriedly explained, "Senior, I have already informed them. The Black Emperor Sect will be disbanded at once, and they are all willing to join Jia Nan Academy."

"Good!"

Qing Luo nodded, then looked at Mo Tian Xing and asked, "Where is the Black Emperor Sect's treasury?"

"Senior, I will take you there!"

As Qing Luo finished speaking,

a refined and distinguished young man in his twenties stepped forward from the crowd and offered,

"This is my son, Mo Ya!"

Mo Tian Xing hastily explained.

Qing Luo nodded but did not respond to Mo Ya.

Instead, he looked toward the ruins behind him and said,

"Didn't you want me to compensate you with food? Why aren't you coming out? Do you still want the things here or not?"

???

The sudden turn of events

left Mo Tian Xing and the Black Emperor Sect's experts utterly bewildered.

"Yes, of course I do!"

Just as everyone was guessing what was going on,

a somewhat innocent voice rang out from the ruins. "You aren't lying? You're willing to compensate me with food?"

"What the hell?"

"There's someone else... She actually dared to negotiate with that killing god?!"

They could hear only her voice, but could not see any figure.

Nor could they sense the slightest Dou Qi fluctuation from those ruins.

This scene

also filled the Black Emperor Sect's people with curiosity.

Qing Luo was amused by Zi Yan's caution.

He truly did not know what Zi Yan was thinking.

If she was afraid of him, she had dared to follow him all the way to the Black Emperor Sect. But if she feared nothing, why was she now getting cold feet?

"They're only some herbs. They're worthless. Take whatever you want. I never lie!"

Qing Luo replied with a smile.

As Qing Luo's words fell,

that childish voice did not speak again.

Nor did anyone emerge from the ruins.

"I can guarantee that Senior is absolutely a man of his word. I am the Black Emperor Sect's sect master. If this friend takes a liking to the Black Emperor Sect's treasures, I am willing to give them all to her!"

"I will never go back on my word!"

Mo Tian Xing stepped forward and spoke to the ruins with great sincerity.

"Alright, I believe you. You're all adults. You wouldn't trick a child like me!"

As Mo Tian Xing's voice faded,

within the ruins,

a broken wall was pushed aside, and a timid little girl of seven or eight, her face smeared with mud, stepped out.

Seeing this,

Mo Tian Xing and the Black Emperor Sect's experts all gaped in shock.

Before this,

when she had dared to negotiate with Qing Luo, they had assumed she was some terrifying existence.

But she was just a little girl?!

The next moment,

Zi Yan's actions made every Black Emperor Sect expert's pupils contract.

Zi Yan swung her tiny pink fist.

With one punch,

she actually blasted a crack through space.

In the next instant, that petite, childish figure plunged headfirst into the void. When she reappeared, she had already arrived before them.

There was still not the slightest trace of Dou Qi fluctuation.

Yet everyone could sense the terrifying power contained within that petite body.

Shattering space with one punch—

even they could not accomplish such a thing...

"Miss... please follow me!"

Mo Ya put away the disdain on his face and said to Zi Yan.

Zi Yan glanced at Qing Luo.

"Go ahead. Take whatever catches your eye. You had better be quick—I have other matters to attend to!"

Qing Luo said with a light laugh.

"Mm!"

Zi Yan nodded vigorously and followed Mo Ya as they dove toward the Black Emperor Sect's treasury.

"Senior..."

After Zi Yan and the others left,

Mo Tian Xing had just opened his mouth when Qing Luo interrupted him.

"Find me a quiet room. I need to enter seclusion!"

"Alright!"

Mo Tian Xing agreed.

He led Qing Luo to a secret chamber in the Black Emperor Sect's core grounds.

The chamber door shut.

Qing Luo sat cross-legged, flames rising between his hands.

Bang—

Bang, bang—

Three Thousand Burning Flame, Fallen Heart Flame, and Sea Heart Flame—

the three Heavenly Flames Qing Luo had refined recently abruptly rose, floating around him.

Looking at these three Heavenly Flames, whose origins still remained, Qing Luo could not help but frown slightly.

After obtaining these three Heavenly Flames,

Qing Luo had used the terrifying status of the third-ranked Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to directly refine them and make them his own.

His strength had indeed risen slightly with the support of these three Heavenly Flames.

He had advanced step by step from Peak Dou Zun to One-Star Dou Saint.

But for some reason,

Qing Luo always felt that his refinement of the three Heavenly Flames was imperfect.

It seemed as though something stood in the way.

Relying solely on the third-ranked Heavenly Flame's status and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's purifying power, he could break down the Heavenly Flame origins, yet he could never fully absorb them.

The most obvious example was when Qing Luo had formed Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus by hand earlier.

Although he had managed to form it,

it still felt somewhat unfamiliar. He could not wield it as freely and naturally as Xiao Yan had after refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame in the original story...

After all, it isn't the second-ranked Heavenly Flame. It can't achieve complete assimilation like Nihility Devouring Flame...

Qing Luo pondered inwardly.

Then,

he had Mo Tian Xing bring him Han Feng's Storage Ring.

Inside Han Feng's Storage Ring, he found that half-volume of the Flame Mantra!

This Cultivation Method

was Tou She Ancient God's method for Attaining Emperorhood. It contained some of the traits of Tou She Ancient Flame, and Xiao Yan had relied on it to fuse all the Heavenly Flames.

The problem Qing Luo now faced should be answered by this Cultivation Method.

With that thought,

Qing Luo spread open the Flame Mantra and began trying to refine the three Heavenly Flames according to its circulation method.

Hum—

As Qing Luo began cultivating the Flame Mantra,

an instant later, within the milky-white halo of flames woven around his body, a power that did not belong to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame slowly began to awaken.

Behind Qing Luo,

amid surging flames, a flame Qing Luo had never seen before condensed, its body shimmering in myriad colors.

As the multicolored flame appeared,

a familiar sensation instantly enveloped the entire secret chamber.

It was Tou She Ancient God's aura...

The aura that had once imprisoned the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame for thousands of years, the aura the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame feared so deeply!