For a Scarlet-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast cultivator, even knowing that cultivating these techniques within Black Flame Mountain would provide them no help in the outside world, anyone who was not an idiot would understand how important this was.
The Scarlet-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast clan had lived here for generations because they regarded Black Flame Mountain as a vital foundation of their clan territory, as well as their final refuge for survival.
Although no one believed the Scarlet-Eyed Flame-Horn Beast clan could perish, anyone who successfully cultivated Black Flame Mountain's secret arts would later receive the status of a clan-recognized inheritor disciple and gain greater authority.
They would shoulder the mission of protecting their clansmen's last chance of survival. At the same time, should they need to enter Black Flame Mountain, this would become their strongest form of self-protection.
Thus, this had become a kind of honor. Cultivators without either of those two spirit roots would feel dejected, for the feeling of sitting atop a treasure mountain yet being unable to claim it would only make them more envious.
During the Soul Search, Li Yan also saw that cultivating Black Flame Mountain's secret arts was not simply a matter of judging the chances of success according to the earth-and-fire sequence. What, in the end, were the actual odds?
That was merely a general probability. If a cultivator possessed only an earth spirit root out of the two, yet that spirit root was not their primary spirit root—
And that cultivator's primary spirit root was water, wood, or metal—then compared to a cultivator whose primary spirit root was fire, the latter's chances of successfully cultivating Black Flame Mountain's secret arts might actually be higher.
To successfully cultivate Black Flame Mountain's secret arts, possessing these two spirit-root attributes was not enough. A cultivator also had