Silence fell for a moment.
Yes, that was all the Qilin Flame there was. Even cutting off Li Zhi's head would yield no more.
And this was the Qilin Flame originally meant for Pei Ye to kill Yu Sicheng.
Black Cat sat on a branch and watched Pei Ye. Pei Ye said nothing.
The Chi Flame had already swallowed a wisp of Qilin Flame, but Qilin Flame was different from Vermilion Lotus Flame.
Or rather, material fire was different from mysterious fire and qi fire.
The Chi Flame could absorb a flame's properties by swallowing it, then reproduce them in his hands. The Chi Flame was itself a mysterious fire; wherever there was Spirit Profound, it could burn. Vermilion Lotus Flame was also a mysterious fire, fueled at its base by the same Spirit Profound. Thus, once that flame had been deciphered, the blossoms of fire could shift freely between Chi Flame and Vermilion Lotus Flame.
Qilin Flame was subject to the same law, but unlike Vermilion Lotus Flame, it was a genuine "material fire," born from the burning of Qilin True Blood. It was further removed from Chi Flame, making its reproduction more laborious and time-consuming.
The Chi Flame swallowed flames by fully analyzing and tracing them to their source, then reproducing them through Spirit Profound, rather than conjuring them from nothing. Pei Ye had True Qi and Spirit Profound, but he had no Qilin True Blood. Although true blood that was essentially an Immortal Hunter's was also a form of Spirit Profound, it could not, after all, become available for his use so immediately.
Of course, this had been anticipated. Black Cat had told him about it long ago, but he had never imagined then that the choice would come so abruptly. The "Great Edict Usurpation" had not