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Kanli Mountain, Guanxuan Monastery.
Cheng Xinzhan turned his hand over, summoning the Empty-Cyan Baleful Fire he had just refined. The cyan flames danced in his palm, and in his eyes as well.
Heavenly fire born when tribulation lightning struck the ten-thousand-year azurite in a tree's heart, locked within its bark-wasn't that Fire in the Wood?
The more Cheng Xinzhan thought about it, the more convinced he became.
Samadhi True Fire was immortal fire, already a legend from the distant past. It was said to be refined by combining three extraordinary fires: Fire in the Sky, Fire in the Stone, and Fire in the Wood. By now, never mind Samadhi True Fire-even the sky, stone, and wood fires that composed it were vanishingly rare. As for precisely what fires qualified as sky, stone, or wood, opinions differed, with no settled conclusion.
Solar Bing Fire, refined by drawing sunlight from the void, qualified as Fire in the Sky; this was probably the least disputed identification. Yet while sunlight was common, people capable of extracting Solar Bing Fire from it were exceedingly rare. By now, Solar Bing Fire had become one of Cheng Xinzhan's gilded calling cards.
Fire in the Stone, as its name suggested, naturally meant fire within stone. The No-Mind Heavenly Candle flame that had descended alongside the tribulation lightning during Cheng Xinzhan's Second Wash Golden Core Tribulation was Fire in the Stone. This extraordinary fire from meteorites beyond the heavens was also the prevailing interpretation of Fire in the Stone, though very few people had either seen or possessed it.
Precisely because the No-Mind Heavenly Candle flame was so rare, some also believed that the earthfire and magma burning among subterranean rocks qualified as Fire in the Stone. Clearly, however, Cheng Xinzhan had seen plenty