Silver light flashed across the pitch-black sky, accompanied by incessant crackling.
Every so often, the dazzling silver light illuminated the dark mountain forest as brightly as day.
"Aah!"
At the volcanic crater, a piercing, hoarse scream erupted like the howl of a wounded wolf.
As the howl rang out, a terrifying green flame swept out of Xiao Yan's body. Everything in its path was burned into nothingness by the domineering fire.
In his previous life, Xiao Yan had subdued the Green Lotus Core Flame with the help of a Blood Lotus Pill. Although he had no Blood Lotus Pill in this life, he had Emperor Flame, which had already merged with the Flame Mantra. Subduing the Green Lotus Core Flame again would naturally pose little difficulty.
As the green Fire Lotus Seed formed from the Green Lotus Core Flame's origin Core Flame entered his body, the anticipated scorching heat and excruciating pain never came. Instead, Xiao Yan discovered that the green Fire Lotus Seed had separated into tiny wisps of flame, which slowly traveled through his meridians, nourishing every inch of his meridians and bones at just the right temperature.
"Why is this happening?" Xiao Yan found it unbelievable. When the green Fire Lotus Seed first entered his body, he had felt the pain of burning flames, yet that sensation had now vanished.
Little did Xiao Yan know that his reincarnated body had been cultivated from Emperor Flame, the flame ranked first on the Heavenly Flame Ranking. The Green Lotus Core Flame, ranked merely nineteenth, was nowhere near powerful enough to burn his body.
Xiao Yan withdrew his Martial Soul and sat cross-legged. He began trying to merge the Soul Power within his body with the Green Lotus Core Flame, then actively guided it through his meridians.
A slight ache struck his head, and Xiao Yan suddenly felt fragments of memories pouring into his mind.
The sudden influx of information made his head feel slightly swollen.
"Eight Extremes Collapse: a close-combat attack skill renowned for its overwhelming offensive power. Once mastered, its attacks conceal eight layers of force. With all eight stacked together, it can split mountains and shatter stone!"
"Suction Palm: a control skill. Once mastered, it can draw in boulders weighing a thousand jin. When facing an enemy, its ferocious suction can forcibly rip the blood from their body!"
"Explosive Step: a movement skill that uses the thrust produced by an explosion of energy beneath the feet to increase movement speed."
As his mind gradually cleared, the training methods for these three skills had already been roughly etched into Xiao Yan's memory.
At the same time, a deep yellow Soul Ring condensed around Xiao Yan.
The age of a Soul Ring condensed through Heavenly Flame Ring Fusion was determined by the highest age Xiao Yan's current physical strength could withstand.
Without assistance from any external items, Xiao Yan's current body could withstand absorbing a Soul Ring of roughly four or five hundred years at most. That was also the age of his First Soul Ring.
The surging influx of Soul Power washed through Xiao Yan's body. His consciousness suddenly brightened, and he seemed to see himself immersed in a sea of fire, with a cluster of multicolored flames blooming at its very center.
As the Green Lotus Core Flame merged into it, the cluster of multicolored flames began to change. The green within its many colors gradually grew deeper.
Boom-
All the currents of heat surged outward. Xiao Yan felt as though that cluster of multicolored flames had become one with his body.
The feeling that came after absorbing the Green Lotus Core Flame was simply beyond words. It was as though he were floating weightlessly among the clouds, or had reached the pinnacle of bliss.
When Xiao Yan slowly opened his eyes, he discovered that absorbing the Green Lotus Core Flame seemed to have changed his body as well. His previously small, thin frame had grown a little taller, and his shoulders had broadened.
A faint green sheen now glowed upon his skin.
"It worked?" Delighted, Xiao Yan released his Heavenly Flames Martial Soul. The cluster of flames that had constantly shifted colors had now become pure green. With a turn of his palm, a streak of green flame shot out like lightning, burning an ancient tree nearby straight to ashes.
Immediately afterward, a deep yellow ring of light rose from beneath Xiao Yan's feet and circled up and down around his body.
"Is this a Soul Ring? What's going on? Why can I condense a Soul Ring without hunting a Soul Beast? Could my Martial Soul evolve by devouring Heavenly Flames?" Xiao Yan gazed at the yellow ring around him, then fell silent in contemplation, finding it all unbelievable.
"It seems I really don't belong to this world."
Just then, before Xiao Yan could comprehend the benefits the Green Lotus Core Flame had brought his Martial Soul, a sharp pain erupted in his head. He clutched his head tightly and dropped to his knees, his Heavenly Flames Martial Soul retreating into his body beyond his control.
A vast torrent of information about Eight Extremes Collapse, Suction Palm, Explosive Step, and other skills surged violently from the Green Lotus Core Flame's origin into his mind. Xiao Yan's face twitched rapidly several times. Enduring the swelling pain, he hurriedly sat cross-legged and closed his eyes to digest the information from the depths of his memories.
Self-Created Soul Skills were exceedingly rare on the Douluo Continent. Its natives almost all relied on hunting Soul Beasts to obtain Soul Skills. Only a tiny number of exceptionally gifted Soul Masters could create their own, such as Tang Chen's Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, Great Sumeru Hammer, and Clear Sky Nine Absolutes, the Sea God's Golden Thirteen Halberds, and Feng Xiaotian's Gale Demon Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes!
To put it plainly, Douluo was a primitive world with an extremely low level of combat power. On top of that, everyone had grown accustomed to obtaining ready-made Soul Skills by hunting Soul Beasts, reaping without sowing. That was why Self-Created Soul Skills were so pitifully scarce. Through the memories within the Heavenly Flame Origin's Core Flame, Xiao Yan could acquire the Dou Techniques he had practiced in his previous life, which likewise counted as a form of Self-Created Soul Skill.
Self-Created Soul Skills were always stronger than Soul Ring skills, because the power of a Soul Skill was affected by the age of its Soul Ring, whereas a Self-Created Soul Skill was not. The power of a Self-Created Soul Skill depended on the user's level of Soul Power.
The three skills Xiao Yan had obtained-Eight Extremes Collapse, Suction Palm, and Explosive Step-could also be considered Soul Skills. However, the Soul Skills he acquired by devouring a Heavenly Flame Origin's Core Flame and condensing a Soul Ring fell under the category of Self-Created Soul Skills.
To put it even more simply, he had remembered what he had learned in his previous life.
Several hours later.
Night fell. At a steep mountain ravine, a huge boulder suddenly tumbled down. The thunderous noise it made along the way startled the birds and beasts circling nearby, sending them hastily flapping away.
The first thing that came into view was a campfire. The flames burned through the firewood with crackling sounds, sending little sparks bursting into the air.
Two people sat beside the fire, one older and one younger. They were Tang San and his teacher. Grandmaster looked somewhat exhausted, evidently worn out from fleeing.
"Duo, duo!"
Tang San took two white radishes from the Twenty-Four Moonlit Bridges and tossed them to Grandmaster's Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao. Amid a series of excited duo-duo cries, Luo Sanpao quickly ate both radishes.
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