Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower

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Appearance

The tower is a massive, ancient-looking black structure protruding from an enormous pit with exceptionally smooth walls. Its unusual material radiates a refreshing coolness, sharply contrasting with the blazing heat inside 12.

• Cultivation rooms: Equipped with pale black stone platforms and Fire Crystal Card slots 12.
• Active training environment: Inserting a card releases pale red mist formed from invisible heart flame, rapidly raising the room’s temperature 12.

Cultivation Effects

Formless Heart Flame

Upon entering, a cultivator develops a wisp of Formless Heart Flame within their body. It spreads from the heart through the meridians, bones, muscles, and organs 12.

• Dou Qi purification: Refines circulating Dou Qi into denser, clearer currents 12.
• Physical tempering: Warm energy from the flame mist tempers the meridians and flesh 12.
• Impurity removal: Burns away residues accumulated through prolonged pill use; Lin Chen expels the remaining impurities as pale yellow, turbid breath 12.
• Foundation stabilization: A month of sixth-floor training stabilizes Lin Chen’s severely unsettled cultivation after he takes the Lesser Life Devouring Pill 12.
• Cultivation acceleration: Hu Gan recommends the tower specifically to offset the weaknesses caused by Lin Chen’s pill-driven advancement 6.

Training Method

• Cultivators insert a Fire Crystal Card into the room’s slot to activate the flame mist, then circulate their cultivation method while absorbing it 12.
• Lin Chen uses the Ninefold Phoenix Flame Art alongside an Ice Heart Pill for mental clarity, a Pulse-Protecting Pill for his meridians, and a Divine Fire Pill to accelerate cultivation 12.
• The tower’s heart flame is a lesser flame separated from the Fallen Heart Flame, not equivalent to refining a complete Heavenly Flame 17.

Access and Costs

Floor Access

Fire Crystal Cards have five tiers. Their tier determines how deeply a holder may enter the tower 6 12 19.

Sixth-Floor Fees

Restrictions and Hazards

• Periodic closures: The Fallen Heart Flame erupts intermittently, requiring the tower to be temporarily sealed while its seals are reinforced 12.
• Unprepared entry: The heart flame immediately scorches the entrant’s body. Onlookers expect an unprepared newcomer to struggle, although Lin Chen finds the tempering unusually pleasant 12.
• Other Heavenly Flames: Heavenly Flames can sense one another. Lin Chen avoids refining the Sea Heart Flame inside the tower because it might provoke the suppressed Fallen Heart Flame into an uprising 17.

Story Role

Main Timeline

Hu Gan arranges Lin Chen’s direct entry into the Inner Academy so that tower cultivation can repair the weaknesses of his pill-raised foundation. After his first month on the sixth floor, the expense prompts Lin Chen to return home and refine pills for sale 6 12.

Zi Yan subsequently lends him the No. 1 Training Room and additional Fire Energy. His next simulation becomes available after half a month of cultivation there. He then leaves the tower to refine the Sea Heart Flame elsewhere, rather than risk disturbing its suppressed flame 14 17.

Simulated Futures

• First simulation: Fire Energy obtained through Huo Huan and Han Yue’s intervention funds Lin Chen’s tower training, helping him break through to Dou Ling 3.
• Second simulation: A month of secluded tower cultivation brings Lin Chen to Dou Wang with a solid foundation. Later, combined tempering from the Green Lotus Core Flame and Formless Heart Flame stabilizes his Peak Seven-Star Dou Wang cultivation 15.
• Fallen Heart Flame crisis: In that simulated future, the suppressed flame escapes. Han Feng and Earth Demon Old Ghost invade the academy, and Han Feng steals it. Two gray-robed Peak Dou Zong experts later recover the flame during a subsequent attack 16.