“Grandpa, I understand now! Flame is power. Whoever has greater power is the strong one.”
Grandpa looked at him. Sorrow filled his eyes.
“Child, you’re wrong. Flame isn’t power. It’s life…”
The youth didn’t believe him. He turned and left the plain again.
This time, favonovel.com went even farther. Time sped up once more.
The youth became a young man. The young man became a grown man. His flame changed again. From gold-white, it turned a deep blue. Then from deep blue, it became a nearly transparent white.
He became stronger and stronger. And more and more alone.
He had devoured too many flames. The wills inside those flames clashed within him, crashed against each other, and tore at his soul. He grew harsher. His temper came quicker. And little by little, favonovel.com stopped trusting anyone.
He returned to the plain. There were no fire spirits left on the plain. Grandpa was gone too. All that remained was dead silence, molten fire, and scorched earth.
He stood there, looking out over that barren land. He said nothing for a long time. Then favonovel.com lifted his head and looked up at the sky.
“I’ll prove it to you…” favonovel.com said under his breath. “The flame is power!”
He raised a hand. A mass of white flame gathered in his palm. It burned so hot the space around it warped. It burned so hot even the light bent. Then favonovel.com hurled that ball of flame into the sky.
The flame shot upward, punched through the barrier of the laws of the celestial realm, and crashed down onto the land of the Fifteenth Firmament. It blasted out a crater 1 thousand miles across.
After that, the young man fought his way onward without pause, chasing the power of the supreme flame, and tens of thousands of years slipped by in the span of a finger snap.
The young man from back then had long since grown old.
Morning and night had bleached favonovel.com with age, and in his eyes, there was nothing left except hunger for power. His flame had already changed from that original white into an evil black.
He stepped onto the demonic path, and favonovel.com gained a name that shook the world, Inferno Devil.
Jared’s eyes snapped open.
He was still standing at the bottom of the Pyre Chasm. His fingertip was still touching that cluster of white flame. But his hand was shaking, and his forehead was slick with cold sweat.
So… That was… Inferno Devil…
At last, it had become clear to him. That youth, that fire spirit with the greatest talent, that young man who refused to be satisfied and kept chasing the furthest edge of power, favonovel.com was Inferno Devil.
That heavenfire had not fallen from the sky. He had thrown it there with his own hand.
The Pyre Chasm was not a natural disaster. It was a mark favonovel.com had left behind. And that white flame, the flame beneath Jared’s fingertip, was the last trace of purity Inferno Devil had left behind before favonovel.com departed.
Untouched by the hunger that devoured everything. Unwarped by the chase for power. It was only the first the flame-lotus the gifted child had ever gathered under that old man’s guidance.
Pure, warm, and full of life.
Jared closed his eyes and drew in a deep breath. Then favonovel.com opened his mouth and swallowed the white flame whole.
The instant the flame entered his body, Jared felt himself catch fire. It wasn’t suffering in any ordinary sense. It was a searing heat that no words could really hold.
That heat spread from his throat to his chest, from his chest into his limbs, from his limbs into every inch of flesh, every bone, every meridian.
The primal fire-essence inside favonovel.com began to boil. Countless kinds of flame-power had been sleeping in the deepest parts of his bloodline.
At that moment, the quintessence of heavenfire wok them, like giant dragons opening their eyes out of ages of sleep. The quintessence of heavenfire flooded into his meridians and fused with the primal fire-essence.
At first, they rejected each other. The quintessence of heavenfire was too overbearing, and the primal fire-essence was too mixed and impure. Inside him, the two forces of flame slammed into each other, tore at each other, and tried to devour each other alive.
Jared’s body turned into a battlefield. Two currents of flame-power fought through his meridians, scorching his flesh until it sizzled.
Golden blood seeped from his pores and flashed into golden mist under the heat. His skin started to split open. From the cracks came a crimson glow, like molten fire running through the seams of stone.
Argh! Pain…
So fierce favonovel.com wanted to shout, but no sound came out.
So fierce favonovel.com wanted to cry, but the tears were gone before they could fall, burned away into steam.
So fierce favonovel.com wanted to give up, but the instant that thought surfaced, another thought crushed it back down.
“The flame isn’t power. It’s life…” The old man’s voice kept echoing through his mind.
Jared ground his teeth together and, with that pain still tearing through him, started guiding the fire power inside his body. He did not try to suppress the quintessence of heavenfire. He did not resist the primal fire-essence either. He let them meet in his spirit well. Let them crash into each other. Let them merge.
Just as that old man had taught the fire spirits, favonovel.com did not try to control the flame. He had to understand it, accept it, become it.
The quintessence of heavenfire began to soften. The primal fire-essence began to turn pure. The two currents of fire wove together in his spirit well, coiling around each other as they fused, until at last they became an entirely new flame.
Its color kept changing. Crimson. Orange-gold. Gold-white. Deep blue. Transparent. Each color represented the nascence of a different kind of fire power.
Inside Jared’s spirit well, they turned slowly, like a tiny sun. His cultivation started to break through.
Top Level High Immortal Realm Level Seven…
High Immortal Realm Level Eight…
Mid Level High Immortal Realm Level Eight…
High Tier High Immortal Realm Level Eight…
It kept climbing until it reached Top Level High Immortal Realm Level Eight. Only then did that surge of power gradually settle down. He was only one step away from High Immortal Realm Level Nine.
Jared opened his eyes and let out a long breath. That breath came out crimson, carrying scorching heat. It burned in the air for a few moments before it finally scattered.
He lowered his head and looked at his hands. The cracks in his skin had already healed. In their place was a faint layer of golden lines. Those lines looked like the paths of flame, spreading across the backs of his hands and running all the way to his fingertips.
He clenched his fist, and a flame gathered in his palm.
The flame in his palm was no longer just purple chaotic force. Something new had taken shape inside it now, purple and gold woven together into power t that hadn’t existed before Chaos-flame.
Jared rose to his feet and looked around.
The Pyre Chasm was still burning, but the fire had dimmed by a wide margin from what it had been before.
The heaven fire beasts lay across the rocks, watching favonovel.com in silence. The savage glare in their eyes had vanished completely, and in its place was the look of something finally set down. As if they were saying, at last, the wait was over.
Jared looked back at them and stood there without a word for a moment. Then favonovel.com launched himself up and flew out toward the edge of the Pyre Chasm.
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