Chapter 314: Xuan Huang Flame and Netherworld Poison Flame
As the lowest ranked Heavenly Flame, dead last on the list, the Xuan Huang Flame was much easier for Xiao Yan to refine compared to the Green Lotus Core Flame in the original timeline.
At the very least, there were no assassins chasing after him, allowing him to refine it in peace.
With Yao Chen, a walking cheat code of a mentor, personally guiding and assisting him, Xiao Yan soon successfully obtained the Xuan Huang Flame!
When Yao Chen saw Xiao Yan successfully refine it, he was moved to tears, because this meant that he had finally completed the task given to him by the Guardian Elder!
Now, he could rest easy and focus on wandering the world with Xiao Yan, training him, and waiting for the Three Year Agreement.
By then, he would personally deliver Xiao Yan to Wu Tian mission accomplished!
He really had no other choice.
After all, that terrifying Guardian Elder had promised to help him reconstruct his physical body.
Trusting his precious disciple, Xiao Yan, with this task? Impossible.
If he relied on Xiao Yan to restore his body, he'd have to wait at least eight or nine years.
And in eight or nine years, he could probably recover his full Dou Qi cultivation himself!
So, Yao Chen firmly believed in Wu Tian's words.
Someone as terrifying as that man would never break his promises.
With this conviction, Yao Chen made his next decision
To keep helping his dear disciple "grow stronger"!
And for someone cultivating Flame Mantra, the best way to increase power quickly was to absorb more Heavenly Flames.
Thus, they set out once again on the grand journey of seeking more flames.
As luck would have it
Or perhaps because Xiao Yan was simply born with a fire affinity
They ended up encountering trouble with Poison Fire Sect in the Chu Yun Empire.
More specifically, they provoked them because Xiao Yan's face just looked punchable.
Seriously.
That "born to be beaten" look of his just rubbed people the wrong way.
And so, the Poison Fire Sect picked a fight with this hidden monster, completely unaware that they were courting death.
In a twist of fate, Xiao Yan soon discovered their secret.
Beneath the Poison Fire Sect's headquarters lay a mysterious underground realm, one that bore an uncanny resemblance to the Inner Academy of Jia Nan Academy.
And the reason behind their poisonous fire techniques?
It was because their sect was built on top of a terrifyingly dangerous Heavenly Flame!
Compared to Xuan Huang Flame, the new flame Xiao Yan found was far more terrifying.
Not because of its raw power, but because it was a flame that nobody not even alchemists would dare to touch.
After enduring countless hardships, they finally arrived at an endless swamp, where a ghostly green fire hovered ominously over the poisonous marshland.
And the moment they saw it
Both Xiao Yan and Yao Chen's faces immediately displayed two big words
NOPE.
NOPE.
NOPE.
Because this Heavenly Flame was none other than
The Netherworld Poison Flame, ranked 20th on the Heavenly Flame List!
The Netherworld Poison Flame was a flame birthed within the Ancient Netherworld Poison Swamp.
For millions of years, it had absorbed the boundless poisonous miasma that pervaded the swamp, feeding on the toxins and growing ever stronger.
Over the centuries, it gained sentience, and after a thousand years, it fully formed, its ethereal green color resembling ghostly will o' the wisps drifting through the toxic haze.
Just imagine it
A vast, pitch black swamp stretching into the horizon…
And amid that eerie darkness, a single sinister green flame silently drifting through the poisonous mist…
That scene alone was enough to send shivers down anyone's spine.
Because this flame was nurtured entirely by poison, it was pure venom in its strongest form.
If someone so much as brushed against a single spark, their body would be instantly poisoned.
Trying to absorb and refine it?
That was nothing short of suicidal.
For this reason, almost no one dared to seek it out, and few people even knew of its existence.
And when Yao Chen and Xiao Yan finally laid eyes on it
They both immediately rejected it.
This thing was just way too damn poisonous.
Even back when Yao Chen was at his peak as a Dou Zun, he never even considered obtaining the Netherworld Poison Flame.
Because using a poison based flame for alchemy?
That was asking for trouble.
What kind of pills would that even make?!
You'd refine a pill to help someone break through…
Only for them to die from poison right afterward.
How the hell was an alchemist supposed to operate like that?!
Alchemy wasn't just for personal use you had to sell pills to others.
If every pill you refined killed the buyer, where were you going to get more resources?!
So, Xiao Yan initially refused to take the Netherworld Poison Flame.
…
So then, how did he end up possessing it?
…
Simple
Because his dear mentor, Yao Chen, convinced him!
As a legendary alchemist, Yao Chen assured him that once he refined the flame, he would gain full control over its poison.
That meant he could even use it for alchemy without any toxic effects.
And so
They went through hell and back to refine the Netherworld Poison Flame.
Then, to test it out, they found a secluded place and crafted a pill.
Afterward, they sold the pill at an auction a top tier Third Tier Azure Spirit Pill.
It fetched a high price, the buyer was ecstatic
And then he dropped dead from poison.
Dissolved into nothing.
Not even ashes remained.
That very night, Xiao Yan was placed on the Chu Yun Empire's blacklist.
Even so, Xiao Yan himself suffered greatly from absorbing the Netherworld Poison Flame.
Because its deadly poison constantly corroded his body.
If not for the Xuan Huang Flame within him, refining and controlling the Netherworld Poison Flame would have been impossible.
Even now, the two flames inside his body were in a constant state of conflict.
Xiao Yan had never once dared to attempt fusing them.
Though the idea tempted him, he did not have the courage.
If their fusion resulted in an even stronger poison based flame, his body wouldn't be able to withstand it.
Even if he successfully refined it, his body would be in perpetual agony.
So for now, Xiao Yan had yet to develop his so called "Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame."
Speaking of which
Xiao Yan must have watched Journey to the West too many times before transmigrating.
Why else would he name his move "Buddha's Fury Lotus Flame"?
If he had read Water Margin instead
He'd probably be using a technique called "Pan Jinlian's Rage" instead…
…
At this moment, the flames dancing in Xiao Yan's hands no, in "Yan Xiao's" hands filled the Snake People experts with shock.
This man possessed two Heavenly Flames.
Could he be the one that the Guardian Elder had warned them about?
"Xiao Yan! Are you Xiao Yan from the Xiao Clan?!"
Moba Si and Yan Ci, two of the Snake People commanders, immediately pointed at him, their voices filled with excitement.
Xiao Yan: "…"
MMP…
Yao Chen: "…"
Heh… Good luck, kid.
Meanwhile, the dying Hall of Souls enforcer let out a sinister laugh
"Jie jie jie~ So this little bastard is the Xiao Clan's outcast? Yao Chen, Medicine Venerate, you sure picked a tender body this time!"
BOOM!
With one final explosion, the Hall of Souls enforcer's body vanished into thin air…
Xiao Yan: "…"
Where the hell is his body?!
Yao Chen: Sigh… I really have gotten weak, haven't I?
(End of Chapter)
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