The Fallen Heart Flame ranked fourteenth on the Heavenly Flame Rankings. Once swallowed and refined, it could temper the Dou Qi within its wielder at all times, earning it the name "cultivation cheat."
The Fallen Heart Flame's previous master had been Skyfire Venerable Yao Tianhuo. Unfortunately, his greed knew no bounds. Before Jia Nan Academy had been built, he discovered a second Fallen Heart Flame in the underground magma world beneath its future site and tried to forcibly fuse and refine the two.
But Yao Tianhuo possessed neither the Flame Mantra, which evolved by devouring Heavenly Flames, nor Ye Uchiha's abilities: Toyouke-no-Mikoto, which could devour all energy and matter, and Ukanomitama-no-Kami, which granted accelerated regeneration. The conflicting properties of the two Heavenly Flames triggered an energy upheaval, and the backlash killed him.
After losing its master, the Fallen Heart Flame remained in that underground magma world, gradually developing a trace of intelligence. It silently kept watch over its master Yao Tianhuo's remnant soul until one day, Mang Tianchi, an elder of the Lei clan traveling the continent, discovered and captured it. He then established what would become the Dou Qi Continent's foremost institution of higher learning there-Jia Nan Academy.
There was no question that Heavenly Flames could develop intelligence, much like trees and flowers becoming sentient spirits in fantasy and cultivation worlds.
However, the time needed for a Heavenly Flame to develop intelligence was far too long, and powerful humans would often capture and refine one as soon as they discovered it. To high-ranking Alchemists in particular, a treasure like a Heavenly Flame was as irresistible as a sexy, alluring mature woman encountered on a dark road by a lonely old bachelor who had gone forty or fifty years without **. They simply could not restrain themselves.
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