Chapter 20: Fusion of Strange Fire

In the training room, Jiang Xing, with the experience of devouring the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire, easily separated the original flame of the Fallen Heart Flame.

He poured the Earth Spirit Pill from the jade bottle and swallowed it without hesitation. The Earth Spirit Pill is a sixth-grade elixir that helps protect one's mind and eliminates fire poison.

When devouring the Fallen Heart Flame, it generates Heart Fire characteristics. The Earth Spirit Pill can help refine the Fallen Heart Flame to the greatest extent. As expected, after taking the Earth Spirit Pill, Jiang Xing's previous worries were swept away. He let go of all distractions and became calm.

Jiang Xing then swallowed the Fallen Heart Flame he had just extracted.

As soon as the Fallen Heart Flame entered his body, Jiang Xing felt a familiar burning sensation. Although it was stronger than when he swallowed the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire, it wasn't the first time he had felt it, so he could bear it.

After entering his body, the Fallen Heart Flame tried to run wild. Jiang Xing condensed several nets of Dou Qi within himself, attempting to trap the flame, but he overestimated his fighting spirit and underestimated the terrifying power of the Fallen Heart Flame. The high temperature emitted by the flame instantly burned the Dou Qi nets into nothingness as soon as they got close.

This Fallen Heart Flame was fierce!

Jiang Xing had no choice but to condense his Dou Qi again. However, this time, he didn't try to form the Dou Qi nets again. Instead, he decided to form a thick wall and drive the Fallen Heart Flame toward it.

After continuous effort, Jiang Xing finally managed to drive the Fallen Heart Flame to the designated location.

Fusing the different fires required erasing the intelligence of the flames, so Jiang Xing controlled the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire to attack the Fallen Heart Flame. Although the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire ranked lower than the Fallen Heart Flame, Jiang Xing's fighting spirit replenished its energy, giving it an advantage.

One flame had a supply of energy while the other didn't. The outcome was predictable.

After considerable effort, the intelligence of the Fallen Heart Flame was finally dispersed by the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire.

The Fallen Heart Flame, now devoid of intelligence, calmed down and stopped running wild like before. Jiang Xing used his fighting spirit to push the Fallen Heart Flame into his meridians and began circulating the Burning Technique to refine it.

Refining the Fallen Heart Flame was not particularly dangerous, so Jiang Xing quickly completed the process.

The next step was the most important and dangerous: the fusion of the different fires.

However, Jiang Xing did not start immediately. He had consumed a lot of his fighting spirit while driving the Fallen Heart Flame into his meridians, so he needed to recover.

Facing this difficult and dangerous step, Jiang Xing had to be in the best possible condition.

He took out a sixth-grade Qi-recovering pill from his storage ring. The pill worked similarly to Xiao Yan's Qi-recovering pill, accelerating the recovery of fighting spirit in a short time. However, the quality of Jiang Xing's pill was higher, so its effects were more potent.

After taking the Qi-recovering pill, Jiang Xing's consumed fighting spirit quickly recovered.

Once he felt ready, Jiang Xing focused his mind on his body.

The Fallen Heart Flame was now suspended above his cyclone, and Jiang Xing summoned the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire.

As soon as the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire appeared, the Fallen Heart Flame began to boil.

Different fires are natural enemies. When they meet, they instinctively want to devour each other, absorbing the other's energy to strengthen themselves.

Jiang Xing controlled the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire to approach the Fallen Heart Flame and activated the Burning Technique. As the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire drew closer, the Fallen Heart Flame boiled even more violently.

Jiang Xing tried to stabilize the two fires by inputting his fighting spirit, but it didn't work. The closer the fires got, the more violent they became.

With no other choice, Jiang Xing increased his fighting spirit input.

Fortunately, this had an effect, and Jiang Xing finally managed to bring the two fires together.

When the two different fires came into contact, there was a crackling sound like firecrackers, followed by waves of pain. Despite the pain, Jiang Xing knew he couldn't afford to be distracted. This was the critical moment of fusing the fires.

Jiang Xing activated the Burning Technique's Dou Qi, inputting it into both flames. With the Dou Qi's coordination, the explosions weakened, but the fires still did not fully merge.

He continued increasing the input of fighting spirit until he noticed that the two differently colored flames were slowly beginning to merge.

However, when Jiang Xing reduced the input of Dou Qi, the point of contact between the flames began to explode again.

Panicked, Jiang Xing quickly increased the input of Dou Qi, and the flames began to merge once more.

The process consumed a tremendous amount of Dou Qi, forcing Jiang Xing to take Qi-recovering pills to keep up.

As time passed, Jiang Xing lost track of how long he had been fusing the flames.

The blue flame and the colorless flame, which had been in opposition, were now fully merged, forming an emerald green flame.

Seeing the new strange fire formed by the fusion of the Green Lotus Earth Core Fire and the Fallen Heart Flame, Jiang Xing let out a long sigh of relief.

"Phew, it finally worked!"

The successful fusion of the strange fires filled Jiang Xing with joy and relief.

Perhaps because of his relatively strong constitution, Jiang Xing did not experience the aftereffects that Xiao Yan had after fusing strange fires in the original novel.

After absorbing the strange fire, Jiang Xing's cultivation level returned to the one-star Dou Zong level. Additionally, the Burning Technique broke through from the lower level of the Profound Realm to the higher level.

Jiang Xing couldn't help but complain, "This Burning Technique evolves a bit too slowly!"

It took absorbing two strange fires to break through to the advanced level of the Profound Realm.

He had considered absorbing beast fire first to increase the Burning Technique's level before absorbing strange fire, but he ultimately decided against it.

Absorbing beast fire could indeed increase the Burning Technique's level, and Xiao Yan had done so in the original novel.

However, after Xiao Yan absorbed the Amethyst Winged Lion King's beast fire, he never absorbed any other strange fire.

Was it because beast fire was weaker?

Clearly not. The beast fire of a Dou Zun-level monster is as powerful as or even surpasses some of the lower-ranked strange fires.

If Xiao Yan couldn't find other strange fires, why didn't he use a large amount of beast fire to increase the Burning Technique's level?

Jiang Xing suspected that there might be side effects to absorbing beast fire, so he hesitated, fearing it might ruin him.

Moreover, beast fire isn't a strange fire. To truly enhance the Burning Technique's power, strange fire is needed.

However, Jiang Xing's suspicions were misplaced this time. In reality, practicing the Burning Technique could also involve absorbing beast fire without any side effects.

The reason Xiao Yan didn't absorb beast fire to improve the Burning Technique later on was that, after practicing the Burning Technique for a long time, absorbing beast fire no longer caused it to evolve. It wasn't due to any side effects.

"I wonder how long it took to fuse the strange fire? I don't know if the queen has woken up yet?"

Before absorbing the strange fire, Jiang Xing had handed the colorful little snake to the Snake Tribe's chief elder, asking her to take care of it.

Jiang Xing stood up and left the training room.

After leaving his residence, Jiang Xing headed towards the chief elder's residence to check if the queen had woken up during the time he was refining the Fallen Heart Flame.

However, before he got there, he saw Qing Lin approaching him.

Qing Lin, upon seeing Jiang Xing, ran over happily and said, "Master, you're out of seclusion!"

Qing Lin was still dressed in her usual light green outfit, but she had grown taller, and her once slim figure had become fuller and more mature.

Jiang Xing smiled and nodded at Qing Lin, asking, "Qing Lin, how long have I been in seclusion?"

"Master, you have been in seclusion for a month."

Jiang Xing murmured, "Has it been a month?"