"If this keeps up, I'm still going to die!"
A few minutes later, Xiao Tian felt his mouth go dry, with barely any moisture left in his body. In the end, he died of dehydration.
After reviving, however, Xiao Tian discovered that he had still absorbed quite a bit of the Heavenly Flame's fire spiritual energy, which was altering his meridians and Dou Qi.
"Keep going! This young master is going all out against you! Let's see whether you can stay alive or whether this young master will die!"
As he absorbed more of the Heavenly Flame's fire spiritual energy, Xiao Tian's meridians were reshaped and altered, developing some immunity to the purple-gold Heavenly Flame.
After paying the price of dying from dehydration once more, the revived Xiao Tian fully adapted to absorbing the Heavenly Flame's power and began devouring it with his cheats firing on all cylinders.
The Heavenly Flame's inner flame contained Heavenly Flame Origin. As Xiao Tian absorbed most of its origin, the Heavenly Flame stopped harming him and instead treated him as one of its own.
At the edge of the meteorite disaster zone, the Dou Wangs and Dou Emperors noticed that the purple-gold, tiger-shaped Heavenly Flame was shrinking. None of them understood what was happening.
"Gu He, what's going on?"
Gu He frowned and shook his head despite himself. "It's too strange. This Heavenly Flame born from a meteorite from beyond the heavens may be taking shape and shedding its dregs, gradually becoming a refined Heavenly Flame. Time is against us. Once it becomes a refined Heavenly Flame, it could burn even a Dou Emperor to death. How could we possibly refine it then?"
"But the magnetic field here restricts us too much. This damned meteorite."
Jia Xingtian spoke in a cold, authoritative voice. "What if we destroy the meteorite?"
Yun Shan said gravely, "We can try."
"Extreme Wind! Death Kill!"
As Xiao Tian refined the purple-gold Heavenly Flame, he felt his surroundings shake violently. His arm felt as though it had been torn open, and blood gushed out.
"What's going on?!"
Xiao Tian looked and saw that the thing that had torn his arm open, leaving his flesh peeled back and his bones in excruciating pain, was a sharp fragment of rock glowing red-hot.
"A meteorite fragment?"
"Damn it! Good thing this young master absorbed most of the Heavenly Flame's origin, making us practically of the same origin. Otherwise, I'd have to revive again."
"Damn it! They're actually attacking the meteorite, trying to smash it completely to break the flame's magnetic field!" Xiao Tian understood at once.
"No! I have to refine the purple-gold Heavenly Flame faster!"
In fact, the meteorite's hardness exceeded the expectations of Yun Shan, Jia Xingtian, and the other experts. Even when they unleashed Earth-tier Dou Techniques and drew upon the power of heaven and earth, they still could not tear open large sections of the meteorite.
"At this rate, it'll be next year before we smash this meteorite!"
Pill King Gu He stared fixedly at the Heavenly Flame. Suddenly, he caught a hazy glimpse of a human figure, and his expression turned horrified. "This is bad! An expert is already refining the Heavenly Flame! Right at its very center!"
"What?!"
Jia Xingtian's expression darkened. "Entering the very center of a Heavenly Flame is beyond what a Dou Emperor can do!"
"I'm afraid it's a Dou Zong expert!" Yun Shan tightened his grip on his spirit sword, his gaze sharp.
"Whether he's a Dou Zong or not, we absolutely cannot let him refine the Heavenly Flame! We must stop him!"
"Use long-range Dou Techniques and bombard the Heavenly Flame! Send it into a frenzy!"
Several Dou Wangs and two Dou Emperors struck. The radiance of their Dou Techniques tore through the sky amid dragon cries and tiger roars, bombarding the Heavenly Flame like missiles!
Fuck! Xiao Tian cursed inwardly as he landed on his backside, the powerful bombardment leaving his internal organs feeling unsettled.
"Whoa! The Heavenly Flame actually saved my life."
"Damn it! Grandpa Nalan! You're going to get me killed!"
"Wait, this young master isn't afraid of dying!"
Xiao Tian gritted his teeth. Knowing he had been discovered, he hurriedly became a prone camper and focused on refining the Heavenly Flame, feeling the Flame Mantra evolve!