His hazy consciousness drifted through this space, yet everything around him felt like a sea of chaos. His perception of his surroundings remained somewhat blurred, but fortunately, awareness had gradually begun to return.
This consciousness was naturally Xiao Yan's. During his frenzied struggle to devour the World-Purifying True Flame, his soul consciousness had collided violently with the flame's original consciousness. They had even devoured and refined one another, eventually sinking together into this chaos.
In a sense, Xiao Yan had now become one with the World-Purifying True Flame, and he had merged his Emperor Flame into it as well. At this moment, he was the World-Purifying True Flame, and the World-Purifying True Flame was him!
Once he completely integrated his consciousness into the World-Purifying True Flame and used it to forge a new body, he would have fully refined it.
Of course, this process would inevitably be extremely lengthy. For now, his first task was to utterly erase the World-Purifying True Flame's remaining consciousness.
Within the chaos, another radiant little dragon lunged toward Xiao Yan, snapping its jaws.
"Now, this is purely a battle of consciousness..."
Watching the radiant little dragon charging straight at him, Xiao Yan let out a cold laugh. In the next instant, his consciousness transformed into fire pythons that roared as they surged forward to devour the little dragon.
The World-Purifying True Flame was indeed incomparably powerful. Even reduced to this state, its consciousness remained formidable. Yet however powerful it was, it was merely a flame that had spent tens of thousands of years in solitude. Xiao Yan, on the other hand, had lived two lives, undergone the Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation, and been tempered by countless hardships. His will was already as hard as iron. No matter how fierce the will of a spirit born of