Chapter 239: Why Does the Burning Technique Burn?
The twenty-fourth strange fire?
No, the little Fat Lin on the Void Spiritual Platform shook his head slightly. He was not the twenty-fourth strange fire. Perhaps the fire seed that could be nurtured by the strange fire Green Lotus within him had the potential to be the twenty-fourth strange fire, but in the end, it was merely a part of Jiang Lin's strength and could not directly be equated to Jiang Lin himself.
In other words, the mysterious flame nurtured within him was just Jiang Lin's "companion spiritual fire." Unless Jiang Lin perishes, this companion spiritual fire that could potentially emerge would never become the twenty-fourth strange fire.
"However, if a Dou Qi master could really nurture a strange fire and imprint their life-long insights into the world as a strange fire..." Jiang Lin's red-gold spiritual eyes suddenly flashed, and a bold hypothesis emerged in his mind. "Some strange fires might be nurtured by the heavens and earth, but some... perhaps are the life-long insights left by top-tier experts after their demise!"
"And this hypothesis makes a lot of sense. After all, if you ask what a strange fire is, it's a flame that carries some rule of the world! And what is a spiritual weapon? It is a heavenly spiritual tool that carries the traces of some Dao! In a certain sense, they both converge to the same end!" Jiang Lin's calm heart was stirred by this crazy speculation, and it was hard for him to calm down.
"Strange fires on the rankings, like the Sea Heart Flame, Green Lotus Earth Heart Fire, and Bone Spirit Cold Fire, still follow the principles of heaven and earth formation. But others, like the Golden Emperor Burning Sky Flame, have no formed principles at all—they just appear out of nowhere! For example, the twenty-second ranked Beast Spirit Flame is clearly stated to be the result of the essence of beasts and their bloodlines!"
Buzz!
A tingling sensation spread from Jiang Lin's scalp down his body. His soul and body involuntarily shivered at that moment, and after the shiver, Jiang Lin felt as if he heard a crisp cracking sound, something within his soul seemingly shattered. Waves of pure soul power surged from his spiritual platform. Jiang Lin only felt his mind lighten, as if he had broken free from some kind of prison, suddenly able to soar freely into an empty starry sky. When he turned to look below, he found that the path he had come from was still a blurry gray.
The little Fat Lin on the Void Spiritual Platform silently looked at his pudgy arms. A faint crack appeared on his arm, covered in shimmering mysterious patterns, and it extended for about the length of a finger.
His soul realm had finally improved again, reaching the peak of the mortal realm, and was beginning to transform into the spiritual realm, shedding his mortal body and transcending the ordinary!
But compared to these visible changes, the greatest gain Jiang Lin had obtained was the transformation in his thoughts.
Inside the cave, Jiang Lin slowly calmed the dazzling flames that had gathered from his cultivation, opening his bright red-gold spiritual eyes with a calm and focused gaze on the world before him.
Jiang Lin's perception of the world had undergone a strange transformation.
He felt as if his soul had broken free from some kind of shackles. His thoughts were much freer now, no longer clouded like before.
"Did I... have an epiphany?" Jiang Lin looked at the pitch-black cave, his eyes showing a hint of hesitation as he muttered softly.
"Perhaps... only the higher-ups of the Spirit Clan would know." Jiang Lin shook his head and slowly suppressed the doubts in his heart. He had only begun to question the strange fire, questioning its quantity and principles, which led him to start doubting many of the 'long-established' and 'self-evident' things in this world.
Jiang Lin felt that the Spirit Clan might know something, but as he recovered some memories from his early years, he felt that it would be best not to approach the Spirit Clan.
However, there is a saying: the more you know, the more doubts arise in your heart, the clearer your mind becomes, the more painful life becomes.
As Jiang Lin was stroking his chin, in a daze, pondering about the strange fire Green Lotus in his abdomen, he suddenly sensed a surge of powerful energy waves from the outside world.
"Is he starting to devour the strange fire and upgrade his technique?" Jiang Lin's red-gold eyes gleamed with a sharp light as he stood up and walked toward the cave exit.
At the edge of a mountain ridge in the rolling emerald mountains, a young man surrounded by blue and eerie flames sat cross-legged on the ground, his body cracked, face twisted in agony as he desperately activated his technique, trying to absorb the Green Lotus Earth Heart Fire!
Sensing the threat, the Green Lotus Earth Heart Fire began to erupt again. Even though Xiao Yan had already subdued it, the Green Lotus Earth Heart Fire began to attack him indiscriminately, transforming into blue lava that wreaked havoc on his body. But this time, unlike before, Xiao Yan, having previously absorbed the Green Lotus Earth Heart Fire, had developed a certain resistance to it. He was no longer helpless against its counterattack.
However, the raging blue fire still burned Xiao Yan's clothes and hair, and his body started to crack open, with blue fissures covering his body! The blue fire Dou Qi, assimilated by the Green Lotus Earth Heart Fire within Xiao Yan, barely managed to keep his vital organs intact, but there wasn't enough Dou Qi to help him complete the absorption of the Green Lotus Earth Heart Fire!
"Stop! We're not cultivating the Burning Technique anymore!" At this critical moment, Yao Chen, standing beside Xiao Yan, suddenly turned pale. Watching Xiao Yan, who was like a small boat in a violent storm, about to be wiped out at any moment, Yao Chen's heart trembled. He had thought of Xiao Yan as a tool to achieve a certain goal, but now, he finally realized that over the past three years of adventures, he had come to see the young man as his true disciple!
"I told you to stop!" However, Xiao Yan did not listen to Yao Chen's command. Instead, he kept pushing against the Green Lotus Earth Heart Fire's resistance, using his depleted Dou Qi to force the Burning Technique to operate!
Above the cliff, Jiang Lin silently stood there, his red-gold spiritual eyes shining under the sunlight as he looked at Xiao Yan, who was in imminent danger from the strange fire. His eyes flickered.
"Once the strange fire enters the heart and lungs, you're done! Stop!" Yao Chen finally could not stand seeing Xiao Yan continuing this reckless act. Gathering a terrifying white flame in his hand, he directly struck at Xiao Yan!
At this moment, Xiao Yan, who was suffering from the strange fire's burning, roared, "I can do it! I will succeed!"
Buzz!
A surge of powerful and pure blue Dou Qi erupted from Xiao Yan's body. The terrifyingly pure Dou Qi, while damaging his meridians, also protected them!
(END CHAPTER)
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