Because Ye Sheng was only at the Qi Cultivation Eighth Layer and had forcefully improved through a contract with the merfolk, Ye Qiu did not dare to let him fully contract the Dark Blue Ice Flame. Fortunately, the Dark Blue Ice Flame had not yet developed Divine Sense, so partitioning a small wisp of it posed no great issue.
The growth of a Heaven and Earth Strange Fire was slow, but different once contracted with a cultivator. A Strange Fire contracted by a cultivator would more easily develop sentience. Once Ye Sheng became stronger in the future, he could look for nutrients to help the Youlan Strange Fire grow. Perhaps it could even one day regain the might of the Dark Blue Ice Flame.
This time, the contract with the Dark Blue Ice Flame took longer than the contract with the two little merfolk, but because Ye Qiu suppressed it, Ye Sheng's cultivation did not continue to rise.
