Demon Flame

Biodata

Background

Xiao Dong chose a wisp of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s essence as one of his four starting talents before crossing to the Douluo Continent. After his Brain Martial Soul awakened, the milky-white flame appeared before him, entered his forehead without resistance, and settled at the Martial Soul’s center 1 2.

Its purification became an instinctive part of Xiao Dong’s body. He subsequently used the flame to alter people’s emotions and to cleanse or refine Soul Beasts and Soul Rings 3 9 11 18 21.

Appearance

The flame appears as a small, translucent milky-white wisp resembling polished jade 2 9.

• A faint lotus shape flickers within it 2 9.
• Xiao Dong can release it from his forehead, fingertips, or palm, and expand it into a net or sea of fire 9 11 20.

Abilities & Skills

Purification and defense

• Its power burns away physical attacks, poison, harmful effects, and mental attacks that reach Xiao Dong 3.
• It destroyed the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s million-year mental storm in less than half a second 11.
• Its presence caused Electrolux to abandon an intervention and retreat into Huo Yuhao 12.

Emotional and soul manipulation

• The flame can use a target’s emotions and desires as kindling, burning their body, soul, and Soul Power from within 1 3.
• Xiao Dong used it to strip Zhou Yi of resistance, loathing, and attachments while leaving her able to carry out tasks 9 10.
• Two smaller wisps erased Ning Tian’s and Wu Feng’s defiance toward him 14 15.

Refinement

• It stripped the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm of impurities and consciousness while preserving its essence and mental energy for Xiao Dong’s absorption 11 12.
• It cleansed hostile remnants from Soul Rings before Xiao Dong absorbed them 18 20 22.
• It refined other Soul Rings into origin energy. Xiao Dong fed that energy into his existing rings, raising his second, third, and fourth rings to one hundred thousand years each 21 23.

Combat technique

• The flame can fuel the first transformation of Xiao Dong’s Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations, a short-lived boost to combat power 20.