Inside the spacious cave, Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan sat on the ground. Yao Lao had also emerged from the ring and hovered in midair.
Xiao Yan gazed at the Green Lotus Core Flame between them, his eyes burning with desire and his heart afire. After a moment's hesitation, he looked at Xiao Fan.
Sensing Xiao Yan's gaze, Xiao Fan smiled faintly. "Why are you looking at me? What, afraid I'll snatch your Heavenly Flame?"
"N-no!" Xiao Yan protested. He seemed about to say more, but Xiao Fan cut him off with a wave of his hand, then said to Yao Lao and Xiao Yan, "Teacher, junior brother, let me show you something." With that, he gave a mysterious smile.
Hearing Xiao Fan's words, Yao Lao and Xiao Yan turned curious gazes toward him.
Xiao Fan closed his eyes, gathered himself inwardly, and connected with the heavenly flame origin already imprinted within his body.
Poof!
A ghostly white flame ignited in Xiao Fan's right hand, drawing Yao Lao's and Xiao Yan's attention.
"That's Teacher's Bone Spirit Cold Flame." Xiao Yan exchanged a glance with Yao Lao. "So the aura we sensed back in the desert was yours, senior brother." While Xiao Yan and Yao Lao were still reeling in shock, another flame, this one green, rose from Xiao Fan's left hand.
The green flame writhed and burned in Xiao Fan's palm, like a mirror image of the Green Lotus Core Flame between the three of them.
"This... this is..."
Even Yao Lao lost his composure and stared at Xiao Fan in shock.
"Green Lotus Core Flame!"
As though trying to determine whether this was truly the Green Lotus Core Flame, Yao Lao's soul form even drifted beside Xiao Fan's palm. He watched the flame solemnly, carefully comparing it with the