After he poured countless Pill Lightning Pearls into it, the divine soul flame finally carried a destructive fluctuation. Unfortunately, that destructive power had been created through external means, leaving a gap between it and heavenly flames born of heaven and earth. Its power was still slightly inferior to that of true heavenly flames, but Xiao Yan was already more than satisfied.
Yet whenever he nurtured this divine soul flame, he would see Little Yao squatting beside him, grinning foolishly. Only after asking did he learn that, as a Heavenly Flames Spirit, she had originally lacked the ability to bear children. Now, she regarded the divine soul flame Xiao Yan had created as the fruit of their love...
Xiao Yan was utterly speechless about this. When he learned that Little Yao had even given this artificial heavenly flame a girl's name, even his toes cramped... Heavenly flames... had genders?
Cultivating the flame seed was only the first step. To strengthen it, he would have to keep feeding it flames. However, Xiao Yan had no spare beast flames, and this world had no such thing. Just as he was about to find some ordinary flames to use instead, he suddenly remembered his Heavenly Demon Phoenix Slaughterhouse. Didn't those feathered beasts have beast flames? Their quality was quite high, too, making them perfect materials for strengthening the divine soul flame.
And so, after having their blood drained, marrow extracted, feathers plucked, and wings torn off, the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan had another procedure added to the list: beast flame extraction. This piled frost upon the snow of their already miserable lives in captivity. Nourished by these Heavenly Demon Phoenix beast flames, the wisp of divine soul flame grew ever stronger. Perhaps because it had absorbed too many of them, faint phoenix cries could