113: Chapter 113 Soaring Strength

The sky was perfectly clear, and a figure stood above the sea of clouds.

Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yan slowly closed his eyes, feeling the strong wind from high above the sky.

His robes fluttered in the strong wind. Xiao Yan opened his eyes once more, his gaze like a torch, incomparably resolute.

"If one knows the locusts and pests fill the world, who in this world cannot be killed!"

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Netherworld Poison Flame: A Heavenly Flame that exists in the Netherworld Poison Swamp. After being tainted by toxic miasma for millions of years, the flame gains a Soul after a hundred years and takes form after a thousand. Upon Major Achievement, its color turns greenish, moving through the toxic swamp miasma like a ghost fire.

On a massive rock, Xiao Yan played with the poison flame in his hand with great interest. He had found it last night in the Rotting Poison Swamp within the Dark Forest.

It was rumored that this Heavenly Flame only existed in the ancient Netherworld Swamp. Since the aura of the Rotting Poison Swamp was extremely similar to the Netherworld Poison Flame, it was likely that this Rotting Poison Swamp was a newly formed Netherworld Swamp. Perhaps because this specialty was unknown, it was called the Rotting Poison Swamp.

The greenish flame emitted wisps of sparks. Ordinary people would be struck by severe poison just by touching a little, let alone refining it.

This was also the reason the Netherworld Poison Flame could survive for so long; ordinary people would never even consider this flame. Just thinking about this fire entering one's body would send a shiver down one's spine, right?

However, this flame was extremely suitable for Xiao Yi Xian. As long as there was poison, the Calamity Poison Body could continuously grow. This flame, which could endlessly generate severe poison, was undoubtedly a godsend for the Calamity Poison Body.

Naturally, Xiao Yan would not give it to Xiao Yi Xian. After he finished his own refining and Fusion, he would separate a mark and replenish it from time to time, which would be enough for Xiao Yi Xian to use.

After all, the power of a Heavenly Flame depended largely on how it was used. With Xiao Yan's strength to nurture it, the power of this Heavenly Flame would undoubtedly rise to a higher level based on its original foundation.

Looking at the Netherworld Poison Flame, ranked twentieth, Xiao Yan felt a bit worried. After devouring this one, there would be no news of any more Heavenly Flames. He did not know where he would have to search next.

Sighing slightly, Xiao Yan swallowed it in one gulp. The severe poison instantly spread, rampaging continuously within Xiao Yan's body.

"No wonder not many people look for this thing. An ordinary Dou Huang expert could persist for a long time under the burning of the nineteenth-ranked Green Lotus Core Flame, but if it were this poison flame, I'm afraid they would die from the poison before long..."

However, this severe poison posed no threat to Xiao Yan. Once the severe poison invaded, the powerful Heavenly Flames within his body would appear and immediately obliterate it.

After the Netherworld Poison Flame wandered through his Meridians for a few cycles, it was controlled by Xiao Yan's Soul and brought into his Dou Zhi Qi vortex, beginning a new round of devouring.

After the devouring succeeded, the flame changed color again, turning into a dark blue that approached black, but it was slightly brighter than black and contained blue components, making the color look calmer.

Xiao Yan could find no trace regarding this color change of the Heavenly Flame, nor did he care much. Anyway, as he continued to devour Heavenly Flames, this color would constantly change.

Absorbing this Heavenly Flame energy only raised his Realm by one star, bringing Xiao Yan into the Five-Star Dou Zun.

However, his Cultivate was not yet over. He took out the dark energy obtained from the Dark Forest earlier, and a dense black energy sphere appeared before him.

The massive dark energy caused the surrounding light to instantly dim the moment the black sphere appeared, with everything faintly shrouded in darkness.

The dark energy inside alone contained that of dozens of Dou Zun Realm experts. The strongest strand among them had reached the level of an Eight-Turn Dou Zun, only a few steps away from reaching the Semi-Saint Realm!

The remaining massive amount of dark energy was not inferior either. After all, the number of creatures within it was difficult to estimate; the Dark Forest alone spanned a range of tens of thousands of miles...

Feeling this pure dark energy, Xiao Yan revealed a satisfied smile. For the weak, this dark energy was naturally fatal.

But for experts, this was an extremely rare supplement. It was just that ordinary experts needed to be extremely careful when using it, refining it bit by bit.

After all, the dark energy within was no joke. Once it could not be controlled and the body and Soul were eroded, it would be difficult to remove.

Those Dark Elves had absorbed too much and lost control, completely falling into the darkness, requiring dark energy at every moment to maintain their sanity.

This was also one of the reasons they kept spreading dark energy. When an outsider became a qualified container for dark energy, they could be directly extracted and consumed.

The husk left after the extraction would be refined into a black sculpture, storing a little dark energy, waiting for someone fated to obtain it...

Naturally, Xiao Yan did not have these concerns. Not to mention that the Fallen Heart Flame could refine energy, the Yang Fire of the Yin Yang Twin Flames alone was enough to purify this dark energy.

However, purification was unnecessary. Once purified, most of the energy within the dark energy would be lost.

Therefore, it was better to first use the Fallen Heart Flame to extract it, then absorb it directly. After it turned into his own energy, he would use the Yang Fire to purify it, which would maximize the gains.

This was the convenience that Heavenly Flames brought to Xiao Yan; ordinary people simply could not replicate this method.

Slowly extracting a wisp of dark energy into his Meridians, the Fallen Heart Flame instantly pounced, beginning the first step of extraction. When most of the Impurities were removed, it entered directly into Xiao Yan's Dou Zhi Qi vortex.

As it merged into every part of his body, a very faint, tyrannical emotion was produced, which was then immediately purified by the Yang Fire continuously circulating in his body.

Xiao Yan perceived everything happening within his body, smiled slightly, and began the continuous refining.

The speed of refining was extremely rapid, but it would still take a long time to finish refining this incomparably massive dark energy.

Xiao Yan looked up at Xun'er, who was also engaged in her Cultivate in the distance, and began refining again. However, after this refining, he would additionally separate a wisp of completely purified, pure energy, which drifted towards where Xun'er was.

Feeling this massive, pure energy, Xun'er opened her eyes in surprise, and then saw Xiao Yan smiling at her.

Xun'er's pair of starry eyes were incomparably bright. She smiled at Xiao Yan, the sweetness reaching into Xiao Yan's heart.

"Ahem..."

Facing Xun'er, who was quite cold and calm in the previous second and incomparably stunning and sweet in the next, Xiao Yan could not help but be moved in his heart.

Suppressing the urge to get up, Xiao Yan nodded at Xun'er and continued his refining.

This Cultivate lasted for more than a month. During this period, Xiao Yan continuously went into seclusion to Breakthrough, finally reaching the level of a Five-Turn Dou Zun!

If some dark creatures were allowed to devour this energy, it would be more than enough to become a Semi-Saint, but for Xiao Yan, it was far from enough.

Not to mention the four-star level increase, the unique Cultivate method of Nine Turns to Sainthood required a massive amount of energy.

Each Turn was a refinement and compression of energy. When the energy in the body reached saturation, one would begin to compress the energy, leaving empty areas to saturate it again, and then compress it again...

Cycle nine times, and one could become a Saint!

The Dou Qi energy within Xiao Yan's body was incredibly exaggerated. Every compression of Xiao Yan's would also be an extreme. That this energy could raise Xiao Yan to a Five-Turn Dou Zun was far beyond Xiao Yan's expectations.

A dark blue color appeared in Xiao Yan's eyes, and intense dark blue flames floated around him. Now, just by not controlling the Qi in his body, Xiao Yan caused the surrounding space to constantly distort!

"Hehe, even an ordinary low-star Dou Sheng might not necessarily be my match..."