After leaving the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Xiao Yan headed straight for the Tagor Desert. Although more than two years remained before his agreement with Queen Medusa expired, he clearly already possessed the strength to tear it up unilaterally. He had spent long enough in the Jia Ma Empire and had no desire to waste any more time here, so he intended to cut through the tangled knot with one swift stroke. Once he retrieved the green lotus core flame, he would return to the Xiao Gate, open the spatial scroll, and head to the Central Plains.
However, upon arriving in the Tagor Desert this time, Xiao Yan encountered a storm of unprecedented proportions. With his strength as a Four-Star Dou Zun, he was naturally unaffected by it. What he had not expected was to discover a peculiar heavenly flame at the very center of that storm.
The wind fury dragon flame ranked eighteenth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking and generally formed only in the eye of a desert storm. Since it took the shape of a tornado, it would also rampage through any corner of the desert like one, making it extremely difficult to find. Xiao Yan had never expected to discover another heavenly flame here. Naturally, he would not let such a rare opportunity slip away, and he acted at once to capture it.
With his current strength, refining a heavenly flame of this rank required scarcely the effort of blowing away dust. However, precisely because its ranking was too low, the improvement the wind fury dragon flame brought was extremely limited. It did not even raise his cultivation by a single star, and the Flame Mantra failed to evolve again as well.
Xiao Yan had already anticipated this outcome. After all, the Flame Mantra was now a