Collecting the Origins of Twenty Exotic Flames

As kaleidoscopic darkness flashed before his eyes, Cang Lan's true body swapped places with his clone. Gripping little Cang Lan by the neck, he arrived at the Exotic Flame Plaza.

Looking out, the palace bathed in rosy light had instantly become a vast expanse of white. Visibility extended only a few miles, but even this glimpse through a narrow tube was enough to reveal the immense scale of the Exotic Flame Plaza.

Having witnessed the grandeur of the Cloud Palace, however, this vast white plaza seemed more like an uncut piece of jade.

On both sides of the plaza stood towering pillars thousands of zhang high, their majestic and boundless aura bearing down upon him.

A soul-shaking pressure surged into his body like a tide, carrying a terrifying weight that nearly suffocated him.

"So this is where the final treasures of the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion are gathered?"

Cang Lan mused inwardly.

One had to know that the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill beside him was suppressing the pressure left behind by the Dou Di, yet he could still feel an incomparable oppression!

No wonder only Dou Sheng experts could enter this final dungeon.

If a Dou Zun expert came here, they would probably suffer reverse-flowing bloodlines and explode to death before even reaching the Exotic Flame Plaza.

Feeling the monstrous pressure crashing toward him, Cang Lan stirred his thoughts, and the Blazing Sun Sacred Body within him began operating madly.

At the same time, the Heaven-tier Cultivation Method, the Blazing Sun Divine Art, displayed its effects.

Compared with the chaotic worldly energy outside, the energy gathered on the plaza was far more gentle, as if it had been refined, stripped of its primal violence.

As the cultivation method circulated, streams of pure energy poured continuously into his body like a surging river. Even without deliberately cultivating, the energy constantly washed through his meridians!

Boom—

As the vast and terrifying energy entered his body, Cang Lan's Three-star Dou Huang cultivation was forcefully blasted open, and he broke through directly to Four-star Dou Huang!

This time, with the improvement of the Blazing Sun Sacred Body, his repeatedly tempered meridians expanded once more without the agonizing pain of tearing apart.

In its place, faint currents continuously stimulated his entire body, sending a subtle numbness straight to the crown of his head.

"Awesome!"

While the Blazing Sun Divine Art devoured worldly energy like a whale, the Blazing Sun Sacred Body also absorbed pure energy to temper itself, making him incomparably tough.

At this moment, Cang Lan's most immediate feeling was that his body was brimming with limitless vitality.

Compared to a moment ago, he could now give Bibi Dong at least one more lively lesson!

The Blazing Sun Sacred Body lived up to its name.

It tempered the body, ensuring that enduring like the blazing sun was no longer an unspeakable male concern.

And... this physique seemed to have brought other changes too. He had... grown a little taller!

Though the change was not great, it made quite a difference.

But whether he had grown taller or not, only Bibi Dong had the right to speak on the matter!

Still, compared to the true treasures within the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, advancing to Four-star Dou Huang was merely an appetizer.

Tilting his head upward at a forty-five-degree angle, Cang Lan gazed deeply at the faint glow radiating in the distant sky.

The worldly energy within the Exotic Flame Plaza was not as violent as that outside entirely because of those glimmering lights—the origins of Exotic Flames!

One had to know that the most precious natural treasures on the Dou Qi Continent were Exotic Flames.

The lifelong dream of almost every alchemist was to refine an Exotic Flame for their own use.

A group of big shots had even created the Heavenly Flame Ranking specifically for them.

The higher an Exotic Flame ranked on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, the greater its power.

Even if they were not alchemists, once the Exotic Flames at the top of the ranking emerged, they would still attract the contest of countless experts.

It could be said that before each of the top ten Exotic Flames finally settled down, they had witnessed countless bloody storms.

For after refining an Exotic Flame, whether in the speed of refining worldly energy or through unexpected methods of attack, it could greatly bolster an expert's foundation.

Yet before him stood twenty clusters of Exotic Flames that would stir up bloody carnage the moment they appeared in the outside world!

Mysterious Yellow Flame, Green Lotus Core Flame, Sea Heart Flame, Three Thousand Blazing Flames Fire... Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.

Every Exotic Flame ranked from twenty-third to fourth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking was here!

Though their remaining energy from ancient times until now was negligible, that assessment came from the perspective of a Seven-Star Dou Sheng.

It did not apply to a Dou Huang like him in the slightest.

Moreover, no matter how weak the energy contained within these Exotic Flames was, it was still their origin.

As long as he refined them and gave birth to seeds of heartfire within his body, even if they were only sparks, they would one day blaze across the plains again!

"Little Fledgling, summon the twenty clusters of Exotic Flames from the stone pillars. I have use for them."

Looking at the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill standing nearby, Cang Lan gave the order calmly.

"Why does Lord God Lan need the origins of Exotic Flames!?"

Upon hearing this, the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill was filled with uncertainty.

Why would a god with strength beyond that of a Dou Di take an interest in Exotic Flames whose energy was less than a tenth of what it once was?

A trace of confusion flashed through the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill's eyes. Then, with a gesture of his palm, twenty glowing specks fell from the stone pillars thousands of zhang high!

"Bzzz—"

Twenty streaks of multicolored light shot across the sky, followed by a light mist formed from the burning energy of heaven and earth, causing the surrounding space to warp.

At the same time, the temperature between heaven and earth surged sharply along with the rapidly descending streaks of light.

In the end, twenty basketball-sized Heavenly Flames fell from the Sky Curtain and hovered above the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill's palm.

"Condense!"

The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill let out a low shout. With a flick of his palm, a strange spatial fluctuation erupted.

The basketball-sized Heavenly Flames rapidly gathered and compressed atop his palm...

Until they finally became twenty multicolored beads the size of longan fruits.

"God Lan, this old man has already compressed the Heavenly Flames."

The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill handed over the multicolored beads. Upon closer inspection, one could see a circle of mysterious ancient runes floating over each bead, directly imprisoning the Heavenly Flames within!

"Little Nascent, well done!"

Cang Lan nodded approvingly, took the twenty beads, and stored them in the system space.

With the origins of the Heavenly Flames, he could now directly swim through the lake of heaven-and-earth energy condensed by the Nine-Colored Spirit Nurturing Lotus without worrying about problems arising in his meridians!

"God Lan, is there anything else you need this old man to do?"

The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill smiled faintly.

Being acknowledged by a god filled him with a trace of pride.

At the very least, following the Divine Lord, he would not appear completely useless.

Only by demonstrating his own value could he remain by the Divine Lord's side longer in the future. Perhaps even that sliver of an opportunity to become an Emperor would appear.

"Move Tou She Ancient God's stone statue back to the Cloud Palace."

"Then tear open space and send him out!"

Cang Lan instructed, looking at the little Cang Lan transformed from the Thunderous Spirit Puppet.

"Send him out!?"

Hearing this, the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill stared blankly at the little Cang Lan, who looked like Cang Lan's illegitimate son. A hint of disbelief flashed through his eyes.

"God Lan, you... are sure you want to teleport this child out!?"