"What kind of spirit flame is that? An alchemist! And an alchemist with powerful combat abilities at that!"
As a Two-Star Great Dou Master was burned into a stick of black charcoal, the several Da Dou Shi present were filled with fear.
"You're formidable, venerable senior! The beast flame is yours!" Someone lost his nerve and immediately retreated.
A middle-aged man in an alchemist's robe appeared. He was a Third-Rank Alchemist and a Five-Star Da Dou Shi!
Cao Fei's expression was composed, spirit flames blazing between his hands as he spoke coldly and authoritatively. "Let me test you! We'll see whether your beast flame is stronger or mine is."
"Beast flame?" A trace of mockery mingled with Yao Lao's weathered voice. Controlling Xiao Tian's body, he shot forward like lightning.
The Bone Spirit Cold Flame collided with Cao Fei's mass of azure-red beast flame. In an instant, terror spread over Cao Fei's face. He felt his Azure Lion Spirit Flame's power abruptly wilt as though it had encountered heavenly fire, and it was swallowed outright.
"Aah!!"
One of Cao Fei's arms was burning with Bone Spirit Cold Flame. Like poison clinging to the bone, it forced him to sever that arm before he could keep his entire body from burning.
"You! This is..." Cao Fei's eyes were terrified. He fully understood that his opponent's spirit flame was not a beast flame at all, but a heavenly flame!
Yet before he could utter the words "heavenly flame," Yao Lao burned him to death with a lightning-fast flurry of attacks.
Good grief! Yao Lao really is vicious! Xiao Tian finally understood the power of heavenly flames. Especially against combat-oriented alchemists, the gulf in standing between heavenly flames and beast flames was glaringly obvious.
With Cao Fei's death, the surrounding Da Dou Shi all trembled to their very cores, their souls nearly fleeing their bodies.
"If none of you are fighting for it anymore, then this old man will pocket this beast flame!"
With the Frenzied Flame Fire Wolf's beast flame secured, Xiao Tian was overjoyed.
"Sir! Please wait!" A merchant from Qingshan Town called out. "May I ask whether you can refine a third-rank Bone Cleansing Pill? I'm willing to offer a generous reward."
Yao Lao did not respond. Controlling Xiao Tian's body, he swiftly departed and returned to Wutan City.
Inside the Xiao Clan, Xiao Yan looked at the Frenzied Flame Fire Wolf's beast flame before him with surprise and delight.
"Kid, hurry up and absorb it. With experience absorbing a beast flame, refining a heavenly flame someday will be a little easier," Yao Lao said.
Because of the butterfly effect of their double transmigration, the Flame Mantra could absorb beast flames to upgrade. Xiao Tian did not know how the pain of absorbing a beast flame compared with that of refining a heavenly flame, but he thought that Er Huo was, after all, the protagonist of the Dou Qi world. A mere beast flame would be nothing to him.
"Then I'll start!"
Although it was a beast flame, refining it at Xiao Yan's age of eight was still a little beyond him. In barely a minute or so, he was drenched in sweat, his face contorted with unbearable pain.
"Hold on!" Yao Lao said sternly. "Calm your mind and focus. Meet violence with violence."
"Go, little brother Er Huo! Don't submit to a measly beast flame!" Xiao Tian switched into taunting mode.
Xiao Yan immediately steeled himself. Big Brother is right. If I can't even control a beast flame, how can I talk about subduing a heavenly flame?
Xiao Yan gritted his teeth, blood beginning to seep from the corners of his mouth. Meeting violence with violence, he forcibly refined the Frenzied Flame Fire Wolf's heavenly flame!
Wolf howls echoed through the room, utterly savage, but soon they filled with terror! They gradually grew unruly!
Yao Lao was very pleased. This kid Xiao Yan had tremendous endurance too, and he was ruthless with himself.
Watching little brother Er Huo finish refining the beast flame, his blood vessels blue and purple all over as though about to burst, Xiao Tian nearly got a fright.
"Er Huo, how is it?"
Sensing his body's current condition, Xiao Yan smiled. "Although the outside of my body looks a little bad, the inside is indeed a little bad too. But as the Flame Mantra circulates, it's feeding back a stream of self-healing Dou Qi. It won't take long for the internal and external injuries to heal."
"You'd better apply some Rejuvenation Powder anyway." Xiao Tian emptied an entire bottle of Rejuvenation Powder onto Xiao Yan.
"Aah!!" A stinging sensation like salt rubbed into a wound suddenly struck, making Xiao Yan cry out in agony! Yao Lao could not help bursting into laughter.