The instant his words fell, his slender hand had already passed through the scorching flames and seized the resplendent lotus seed.
As his hand closed around the lotus seed, a heart-piercing agony shot through Xiao Yan's palm.
It was a pain he had not experienced in a very long time.
Even with layer upon layer of Emperor Flame shielding him, even with its constant protection, the terrifying heat still turned Xiao Yan's hand crimson in an instant.
Refining the World-Purifying True Flame this time was, without question, almost the most perilous attempt to refine a heavenly flame in Xiao Yan's entire life.
None of the heavenly flames he had refined on the Dou Qi Continent had ever plunged him into such danger.
From the earliest Yin-Yang Saint Flame to the final Void Annihilation Flame, his attempts might have seemed dangerous, but in truth, he had always possessed a fair degree of confidence.
Only this time did even he lack absolute confidence.
For the flame seed before him was one that generations of Heavenly Sovereigns from the Fire Spirit Clan, masters in the use of fire, had failed to subdue. It was a flame that had left even an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign gravely wounded after a failed refinement, ultimately killing him-a supreme flame that threatened to annihilate Xiao Yan in body and soul.
Yet there was one secret that generations of Fire Spirit Clan Heavenly Sovereigns had never known: an important prerequisite for refining the World-Purifying True Flame was to cultivate True Flame World Purification to its third level, the World Purification Realm!
But reaching the third level of True Flame World Purification, the World Purification Realm, was likewise extraordinarily difficult, and one of the greatest means of achieving it happened to be refining the World-Purifying True Flame.
This seemed