Chapter 279: Used Someone Else's Earth Fire Vein

279. Chapter 276: Used Someone Else's Earth Fire Vein

Ding Huan's gaze fell on the earth fire vent in the middle of the room, and he immediately stepped forward and opened the earth fire vent directly.

The earth fire erupted, and Ding Huan immediately felt a hint of longing arise in the fire seed in his hand.

Without the slightest hesitation, Ding Huan sprayed a mouthful of essence blood onto the fire seed, then with a flick of his hand, the fire seed dropped into the earth fire vent.

Boom!

The earth fire flames instantly exploded outward, then broke through Ding Huan's first defensive array.

Ding Huan hurriedly threw out formation flags to repair the defensive array.

He absolutely could not let the Pill Workshop find out about this. If the Pill Workshop knew, they would definitely not let him stay here and consume the earth fire.

Other matters could be delayed, but this one could not. This was a fated opportunity; once a fated opportunity was lost, it would never return.

Therefore, Ding Huan would rather compensate the other party tenfold afterward than stop the fire seed from sprouting at this moment.

For this acquired fire seed to sprout and condense a single flame, ordinary fire elements could not satisfy it.

The earth fire of this Pill Workshop was clearly of such a grade because there was an excellent earth fire vein beneath it.

The earth fire wrapped around the fire seed, and Ding Huan immediately felt the flame's aura growing stronger and stronger. He hurriedly sprayed another stream of essence blood into it while opening the earth fire to its maximum.

At this moment, Ding Huan felt the fire seed seemed to be cultivating the Great Cosmos Art on its own, madly absorbing the fire source of the earth fire.

The essence of the earth fire formed a vortex around the fire seed. This vortex kept growing larger, and Ding Huan could only madly throw out defensive formation flags to stabilize his defensive array.

The moment he relaxed even a little, this Pill Workshop would probably be devoured.

Just like that, the fire seed madly absorbed the fire source of the earth fire vein to nurture its sprouting, while Ding Huan madly stabilized the defensive array on one side and occasionally had to spray a mouthful of essence blood into the fire seed.

When this kind of fire seed sprouted, if one did not let the flame know of one's existence in advance, once it sprouted it would be very hard to control.

At this moment, Ding Huan finally understood why, after obtaining this acquired fire seed, Hao Wudao had kept it in his ring and never let the fire seed sprout.

Even he himself was not qualified to let the fire seed sprout now.

In other words, if not for today's coincidence—his choosing the Pill Workshop's earth fire room—this fire seed in his hand should have been scrapped.

At this moment, Ding Huan only hoped that the Thunder Rhythm Pill Workshop would discover the problem with the earth fire vein later.

Although he had paid to rent the earth fire room and was entitled to consume part of the earth fire,

if they knew he was using the earth fire vein to sprout his fire seed, they would absolutely never have rented it to him.

This fire seed was extremely important to him; in fact, he did not even know how important it was right now.

Not to mention in the Dao Cultivation World, but throughout the entire Triple Heaven Star Land, and even from the memories Ding Huan had obtained from the skin scroll—

most of the immortal-god existences who could become top-tier powerhouses all possessed their own flame.

Ding Huan had made up his mind: regardless of whether this earth fire vein could sprout his fire seed, he would give the Thunder Rhythm Pill Workshop ample compensation.

……

The Thunder Rhythm Pill Workshop truly had not noticed, because recently the Workshop's business had really been poor.

Until nearly a full day had passed, when a clerk finally felt that something seemed off about the pill room Ding Huan had rented—the earth fire seemed to be rioting inside the pill room.

How could this be allowed?

The Thunder Rhythm Pill Workshop's earth fire was a top-grade earth fire. Once it rioted without suppression, not only the Workshop but the entire Ten Thousand Treasure City would be in danger.

He reported the news up immediately. The Workshop's master was not in Ten Thousand Treasure City; upon hearing of the earth fire riot, he frantically rushed back toward the city.

This earth fire was his treasure for rising to prominence, and the sole reason the Thunder Rhythm Pill Workshop could exist.

If not for special circumstances that required him to leave Ten Thousand Treasure City for a trip, he would never have left the earth fire for a single step.

The Workshop's master, Fu Qijian, rarely showed himself in person. However, anyone who could open a pill workshop in a place like Ten Thousand Treasure City and implant an earth fire vein of such grade beneath it was clearly no simple matter.

The moment he returned to the Workshop, he knew his earth fire vein was being madly plundered. He swiftly opened the first pill room, then turned on the room's earth fire switch.

Only a single flame that could be snuffed out with a hand—he could not possibly fail to know what had happened.

Fu Qijian sneered. Did they think that just because he rarely showed his face, his belongings were easy to snatch?

He turned and left the room, standing outside Ding Huan's pill room.

Someone was brazenly plundering his earth fire vein, right on his own turf.

Ding Huan sensed someone appearing outside his pill room. He knew that panicking would do no good.

Just as Ding Huan was preparing to continue reinforcing the defensive array to buy more time for the fire seed, the fire seed suddenly let out a faint cracking sound, and a pale yellow flame only an inch long appeared before Ding Huan.

Ding Huan was overjoyed. With a sweep of his hand he grabbed the fire seed, then with a thought, the fire seed appeared within his Sea of Consciousness.

A fire seed one had sprouted oneself was indeed better—one could easily store it in the Sea of Consciousness or the dantian.

This fire seed had just sprouted and clearly did not wish to leave the earth fire like this, but Ding Huan was unwilling to let it continue absorbing the earth fire vein.

The room's restriction was knocked.

Even Ding Huan admired Fu Qijian's self-cultivation. If it had been him, with someone plundering his earth fire vein, he would never have knocked on the restriction—he would have already brought out the Parting Spear.

When Ding Huan opened the restriction, he was still sighing inwardly—there was still so much for him to learn.

Even if he wanted to kill the other party, there was no need to go berserk from the very start.

Opening the restriction, Ding Huan saw a man standing at the door: fair-skinned and beardless, the man looked like a sharp sword, his long hair tied up in a cultivator's topknot, appearing extremely neat and clean.

"May I ask how to address you?" Although killing intent coiled in Fu Qijian's heart, he still cupped his fists and asked.

Ding Huan cupped his fists apologetically:

"Ding Huan of Blue Star Sect. May I ask if you are the master of the Thunder Rhythm Pill Workshop?"

Fu Qijian said coolly, "So it is Sect Master Ding. I've long heard of your great name. I am indeed Fu Qijian, master of the Thunder Rhythm Pill Workshop. I have one matter to ask—are you intending to take my earth fire vein?"

Fu Qijian's words were extremely polite, and Ding Huan was very clear that the space all around him was completely locked down by Fu Qijian's killing momentum.

The moment he dared to move, Fu Qijian would strike with full force in the next instant.

Ding Huan was quite embarrassed:

"Master Fu, actually this whole matter was truly full of coincidence. I did indeed come for the Thunder Rhythm Pill Workshop's earth fire, but I only wanted to rent it to refine a few talismans.

"I didn't expect something to come up midway, and I had no choice but to forcibly borrow some earth fire from your esteemed workshop. This was my fault, and I'm willing to bear the losses of your workshop."

Fu Qijian said coldly, "You didn't borrow just a little — you took half of my pill workshop's earth fire vein."

Ding Huan took out a ring and handed it to Fu Qijian:

"Workshop Master Fu, this is my compensation. If it's not enough, please feel free to speak up, Master. I will certainly find a way to make up the difference for you."

Fu Qijian's hand swept out, and Ding Huan's ring landed in his palm.

Whether Ding Huan compensated or not, Ding Huan would not walk out of his Thunder Rhythm Pill Workshop today.

Because no matter what Ding Huan offered as compensation, he would say it wasn't enough.

In fact, he was certain Ding Huan's offering would not be enough. Although his earth fire vein was not top-grade, it was already infinitely close to top-grade.

An earth fire vein like this, one could absolutely not find a second one on the Triple Heaven Star Land.

The moment his divine sense fell into the ring Ding Huan had given him, he froze on the spot.

His earth fire vein was valuable, but it wasn't worth as much as what Ding Huan had offered.

In the ring Ding Huan had given: one hundred million high-grade spirit stones, and ten War Soul Crystals.

Those were just the small portion — he actually saw one top-grade spirit vein and ten high-grade spirit veins.

Ding Huan knew his compensation was enough to cover the other's loss, but he also knew this earth fire vein was very likely the other's bread and butter.

As for high-grade spirit veins, Ding Huan had several dozen in his ring, but top-grade spirit veins — Ding Huan only had one.

Ding Huan compensating this top-grade spirit vein to the other party could be considered quite generous.

Fu Qijian's next words got stuck. If even this wasn't enough, then he would simply be too greedy.

Especially the War Soul Crystals — those were something he had been longing for.

He had heard that dozens of people came out of this Opening Heaven Battlefield, and he had been preparing to purchase a few War Soul Crystals. He never expected War Soul Crystals to appear right in his hands.

"This..." Fu Qijian was a man who cared about face. He hesitated for a moment, then still said:

"The items are enough. I'll only take five high-grade spirit veins — I cannot accept the top-grade spirit vein."

After speaking, Fu Qijian took out a ring and handed it to Ding Huan. He took out five high-grade spirit veins, then returned the top-grade spirit vein to Ding Huan.

The earth fire vein was very important to him. Now that Ding Huan had used it, no matter what was said, it couldn't be taken back.

Since Ding Huan had shown such sincerity, he no longer had any intention of pressing the matter further.

Ding Huan truly hadn't expected that on the Triple Heaven Star Land, there would still be someone like Fu Qijian.

He felt quite moved. He took the ring, stored the top-grade spirit vein, then handed the ring back to Fu Qijian:

"I have plenty of high-grade spirit veins — you should still take these five back. I do only have one top-grade spirit vein, and I'll be needing it very soon. Since you won't take it, I'll just keep it."

Fu Qijian felt the same emotion as Ding Huan. He had thought someone like himself was extinct, never expecting to meet Ding Huan today.

Having only one top-grade spirit vein, yet willing to offer it as compensation.

He sensed that Ding Huan probably wasn't afraid of him — this was purely intuition, with no reason behind it.

"In that case, I won't stand on ceremony." Fu Qijian took the five high-grade spirit veins back.

"Does Brother Fu cultivate the Sword Dao?"

Ding Huan sensed a sharp edge on Fu Qijian, like a sharp sword leaving its sheath. Even though Fu Qijian was trying hard to conceal it, he still couldn't hide it.

Fu Qijian nodded:

"Yes."

That was quite normal — the Sword Dao aura on him, anyone could see it.

Ding Huan spread his hand, and a sheathed-less sharp sword suddenly appeared in his palm.

Fu Qijian stared at the sharp sword in Ding Huan's hand and froze on the spot.

The sword body was flawless, sword qi swirling around it. Because there was no scabbard, that noble aura could not be concealed no matter what.

Even more precious, this sword had never tasted blood.

Whoever obtained this sword first would be able to achieve a perfect bond with it.