Gu He paid no heed to the enormous Purple Nether Flame Snake lying on the ground.
He turned a deaf ear to the heartbroken howls of the Snake-People Tribe's experts.
He utterly ignored the startled cries of the experts beside him.
All that remained in his eyes was that slowly rising mass of purple-black flame!
The flame sometimes took the shape of a sparrow, sometimes transformed into a giant bird. Purple-black light swirled through the night sky, like a slumbering deity radiating a pressure that made souls tremble.
In an instant, countless emotions flashed through Gu He's eyes...
Excitement! Ecstasy! Greed! Desire! Relief!
And... a faint trace of surprise.
This purple-black flame... seemed unlike any heavenly flame he knew.
It was not the three thousand burning flame, nor the nine nether wind flame, nor the netherworld poison flame...
"..."
But he soon cast that thought aside.
Whatever the case, this flame's power had undoubtedly reached the level of a heavenly flame. Perhaps it was an entirely new heavenly flame that no one had ever discovered!
At that thought, Gu He's heart throbbed even harder, and he could no longer conceal the possessiveness spilling from his eyes.
It was a longing for power, an obsession with a higher realm, a near-pathological pursuit of heavenly flames throughout his decades of refining pills!
"The heavenly flame... is mine..."
He muttered to himself, his voice hoarse and distorted, utterly unlike his usual gentle, refined manner.
Ignoring the powerful Snake-People Tribe enemies surrounding him, he made the pale-gold clan mark between his brows flare abruptly, brilliant as the blazing sun!
An immense power he had never revealed before, far surpassing what he had shown earlier, erupted from Gu He's body!
His aura was so powerful that even Yun Yun beside him turned to look...
**Peak