bookrebus Chapter 438: Nice Lotus Fire Essence!
Chapter 438: Nice Lotus Fire Essence!
"Ah, finally some good missions."
A bright smile appeared on Li Yun’s face as he looked at the new mission windows before him. It felt as though a very long time had passed since he last saw this familiar system notification.
"I have already killed a few people who came after me," Li Yun muttered as he carefully assessed the missions. "I hope the system counts those as well. As for the last three missions, they will probably take quite some time before they can be completed."
After understanding the contents of the missions, Li Yun put away the system notifications and focused on what he was about to do next.
He immediately sat down cross-legged and began cultivating.
The first art he chose to cultivate was the Vermilion Sun Incineration Art.
Li Yun took out all the flame cores he had collected. At this moment, he had more than three hundred flame cores in his possession. When so many flame cores shattered at the same time, pure flame energy surged into his body like a blazing tide, causing his entire figure to look as if it had been forged from fire.
Under such conditions, the Vermilion Sun Incineration Art advanced at an astonishing speed.
One hour passed.
Two hours passed.
Half a day passed.
Then an entire day passed.
At a certain moment, Li Yun’s body shook violently. When he swung his sword, flames spread outward from the blade. The flames were condensed but not chaotic, blazing but not uncontrolled. They burned with a restrained and powerful rhythm, making it clear that he had cultivated the Vermilion Sun Incineration Art to the sixth layer.
At the same time, Li Yun’s cultivation directly broke through to the 4th level of the Essence Qi Realm. The Flame Intent within his body also surged wildly, rising all the way to eighty percent source mastery.
"Good."
Li Yun smiled faintly as he sensed the increase in his strength. "With this, my combat power has risen again. Now, I should be able to fight cultivators at the middle stage of the Mortal Core Realm, including those at the 4th, 5th, and even 6th levels of the Mortal Core Realm."
As he felt the power flowing through his body, a cold light flashed in Li Yun’s eyes.
"Crown Prince Xing Tian, it is time to settle this score."
Even so, Li Yun was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, he remained in the cave and continued consolidating his newly improved Vermilion Sun Incineration Art.
The Five Element Supreme Divine Art was a low-grade Heaven Rank cultivation art, and Heaven Rank cultivation arts had a total of twenty-seven layers of mastery. However, the Vermilion Sun Incineration Art alone was only a top-grade Earth Rank cultivation art, and Earth Rank cultivation arts had twenty-one layers of mastery, which was six more than the fifteen layers of Profound Rank martial arts.
Because of this, Li Yun spent three full days stabilizing his gains and solidifying the sixth layer of the Vermilion Sun Incineration Art.
"Now I can finally use the martial technique contained within the Vermilion Sun Incineration Art."
Li Yun muttered softly as he walked out of the cave.
Boom!
At that moment, a massive roar suddenly erupted from the distance. The sound was like countless heavenly thunderclaps exploding at the same time, so loud that cultivators below the Essence Qi Realm would likely have their eardrums shattered by the shock.
Li Yun looked toward the source of the sound and saw that a massive volcano had suddenly erupted in the central region of the Crimson Flame Secret Realm.
Billowing flames shot into the sky like a vast pillar of fire. Scorching magma poured down from the sides of the volcano, releasing terrifying heat that caused the temperature of the entire Crimson Flame Secret Realm to rise sharply.
Along with the towering pillar of fire, a strand of brilliant golden-yellow light rose into the air.
The light was incredibly dazzling. Even the rolling flames and surging magma could not conceal its radiance.
A spirit treasure.
This was actually an Earth Rank spirit treasure.
"Let us go and take a look."
Li Yun moved immediately. He activated the Heavenly Lightning Codex, and a pair of Lightning Wings unfolded behind his back. His speed became as fast as a flash of lightning, and in the time it took for an incense stick to burn, he arrived near the erupting volcano.
At the crater, raging flames continued to burst upward like a pillar of fire reaching into the sky. At the very top of that pillar, nine lotus flowers condensed from pure flame were blooming.
These nine flame lotuses seemed to exist in a world of their own. Although they floated within the fire pillar, they were strangely isolated from the surrounding flames. In the center of the nine lotuses hovered a single drop of liquid that was as clear and bright as a ruby.
"Nine-Lotus Fire Essence."
When Li Yun saw that crystal-clear fiery-red liquid, his eyes immediately sharpened, and a trace of desire appeared on his face.
This ruby-like drop of liquid was a top-tier existence among Earth Rank spirit treasures, known as Nine-Lotus Fire Essence. Its value far surpassed ordinary top-grade Earth Rank spiritual materials and could even be compared to certain Heaven Rank treasures.
Its greatest effect was to cleanse a cultivator’s essence qi. By using the power of extreme fire, it could burn away impurities hidden within the essence qi and make the energy purer and more stable.
One had to understand that the purer a cultivator’s essence qi was, the more stable their future Essence Qi and Mortal Core would become. It would also lower the difficulty of future cultivation and breakthroughs.
However, if there were too many impurities in the essence qi, not only would breakthroughs become more difficult, but the chances of qi deviation and essence qi backlash would also rise greatly.
Because of this, for cultivators below the Earthly Core Realm, especially those in the Essence Qi Realm and Mortal Core Realm, Nine-Lotus Fire Essence was an extremely rare treasure.
Of course, Li Yun’s chaos qi was already the purest form of energy and did not need the purification effect of the Nine-Lotus Fire Essence.
However, that did not mean the treasure was useless to him.
He could directly devour the liquid using Devouring Intent and turn its power into cultivation, allowing his realm to rise even further.
Because of this, even Li Yun could not help feeling tempted by the Nine-Lotus Fire Essence.