Night, in the new students' dormitory.
Inside Xiao Yan's room.
"Teacher, today was really dangerous. If the Green Lotus Core Flame hadn't protected me, that violently surging heart flame would have nearly burned me to ashes."
Xiao Yan still looked shaken. He had never expected the Fallen Heart Flame to erupt so suddenly, causing the heart flame he could normally endure to grow abruptly stronger.
If the Green Lotus Core Flame hadn't protected his internal organs, that heat, enough to melt steel, would certainly have killed him.
Beside Xiao Yan, Yao Lao stroked his beard in his soul form and smiled. "It certainly was sudden, but you were lucky, brat. With the Green Lotus Core Flame protecting you, you managed to completely exhaust that intensified heart flame despite the eruption."
"It originally would have taken you over another month to reach Five-Star Dou Ling. Instead, you advanced straight away, saving yourself a month of arduous cultivation. That is the enormous reward that follows danger."
Thinking of how his strength had improved, Xiao Yan was delighted as well.
A month or so was not to be underestimated. If two people had equal talent, but one encountered an opportunity that saved him a month of cultivation while the other could only cultivate step by step, the gap between them would only grow wider.
Unless the person in the lead became stuck at a certain realm, or the other person also encountered some opportunity, the latter would most likely never catch up.
On the Dou Qi Continent, cultivation had always been a race against the clock, especially for those with both talent and resources.
Otherwise, in this world where the strong devoured the weak, if danger came and you lacked the strength to protect yourself, only one fate awaited you: death!
Not everyone