Chapter 339: Fire Laws

Fan Jiandan said joyfully, "You should be able to wipe out the Myriad Realms Commerce Guild in one fell swoop, right? Last time, how did you and Brother Jia take out that group chasing you..."

Ding Huan had no mood to talk: "You lead the way first, I need to see if my friend is still alive."

"This is a positioning sphere, your iron pot is faster." Fan Jiandan handed a crystal sphere to Ding Huan, while she herself unceremoniously stowed the flying ship and stepped onto Ding Huan's iron pot.

She seemed to not care at all that Ding Huan might leave her behind.

This was indeed a void position sphere. Ding Huan once again pushed the iron pot's speed to the maximum.

Standing inside the iron pot, Fan Jiandan exclaimed, "So your iron pot hadn't reached its maximum speed before? If you'd been at this speed from the start, even if I still had escape talismans, I wouldn't have been able to catch up to you."

"I'll hand over the control of my flying treasure to you. You lead the way there, I need to do some things." Ding Huan said.

"Brother Huan, don't worry. I guarantee I'll get us to Bian Kuixing Continent at the fastest speed." Fan Jiandan said excitedly.

She had never controlled a flying treasure of Ding Huan's caliber before.

Returning to the inner cabin, Ding Huan set up a defensive array. Only then did he spread his palm, and that flame seed appeared in his hand.

After absorbing two earth fire veins over several decades, the flame could no longer be called a flame seed. It carried an orange-red color and looked quite pretty.

This was an acquired fire seed. If an acquired fire seed was nurtured well, advancing to a congenital one was not impossible.

If nurtured poorly, then becoming a waste fire was also normal.

After obtaining this flame seed, Ding Huan hadn't mistreated it. One superior-grade earth fire vein and one top-grade earth fire vein were entirely devoured by this fire seed.

It could be said that switching to any other person, even the number one powerhouse of the Triple Heaven Continent, probably couldn't afford to feed it.

Ding Huan took out that blue scorching crystal again, secretly wondering whether this blue scorching crystal, after being devoured by this flame, could advance and help him forge a long spear.

The orange-red flame sensed the blue scorching crystal, and suddenly the flame surged, then the flame directly rolled over.

A violent aura surged forth. Ding Huan hurriedly tossed the blue scorching crystal into the flame, secretly thinking, why does this thing look like it doesn't belong to him?

This flame was hatched with his essence blood, and he used earth fire veins right from the start. When the flame seed was absorbing the earth fire veins, he had also thrown out essence blood several times.

Logically speaking, no matter how much this flame craved the blue scorching crystal, it should still consider his wishes.

But just now this flame practically came up to snatch it. If his hand hadn't been quick enough, his hand would have been injured.

One's own flame burning one's own hand—this was the number one bizarre tale under heaven.

Because when the flame devoured the blue scorching crystal just now, it wasn't docile at all, but carried an extreme craving and ferocity.

A vague sense of unease rose in Ding Huan's heart.

This feeling was like raising a dog with great effort, giving it everything good, but because the owner fed it a little late, the dog bit even the owner for the food.

However, Ding Huan's gaze was quickly drawn to the flame. After this flame wrapped around the blue scorching crystal, it surged into flames over three zhang high.

The color of the flames gradually shifted from orange-red to pale cyan, and the aura grew increasingly powerful.

When the flame was devouring the blue scorching crystal, it appeared extremely ferocious. Even though the protective array contained it, Fan Jiandan, who was controlling the iron pot outside, also noticed.

The blue scorching crystal gradually vanished completely within the flame. The flame also slowly calmed down. When it fell into Ding Huan's hand again, it was already a small pale cyan flame.

The small flame danced on Ding Huan's finger, appearing very excited.

Ding Huan was also overjoyed. This flame had definitely advanced.

He spread his palm, and that unknown material obtained on Earth was grabbed out by him. His divine sense rolled, and the flame in his hand surged to a zhang in radius, wrapping the iron block within it.

To Ding Huan's disappointment, this material was wrapped by the flame and burned for over half an incense stick's time, yet still showed not the slightest sign of melting.

It couldn't even melt, let alone refine artifacts?

No matter how hard Ding Huan tried to drive the flame, the flame's temperature simply couldn't rise.

Ding Huan felt like he had strength but couldn't apply it. He cursed angrily:

"What use are you? I used two earth fire veins, several top-grade spirit veins, and starry sky spirit veins to nurture you. A blue scorching crystal hadn't even been offered and you swallowed it. Now you can't even melt a piece of iron, and you call yourself an acquired fire seed? Pfft!"

The reason he cursed like this was, first, the flame had cost him so much effort, yet until now it still couldn't refine an iron block.

And second, earlier this flame not only disobeyed his command but almost burned him, making him unhappy.

Actually, when the flame began devouring the blue scorching crystal, Ding Huan had already planted the thought of discarding this flame.

As if understanding Ding Huan's words, this flame suddenly surged again, and the flame actually rolled toward Ding Huan.

A violent aura of death pressed over—this was the rhythm of burning Ding Huan to death.

Ding Huan's heart sank. He knew he had been set up.

This flame definitely had a problem.

Whose own flame would want to burn its master to death?

A sudden piece of information flooded into Ding Huan's consciousness: as long as he admitted fault and continued to find earth fire veins to nurture the flame in the future, the flame would still stay by his side as before.

Is he dreaming?

Ding Huan closed his eyes. The Great Universe Art circulated frantically, and one Great Universe Art Zhou Tian after another was constructed by him.

Each Zhou Tian drew this flame into it, then frantically absorbed the spiritual source, earth fire vein aura, and fire-system Dao rhyme within the flame.

Other cultivators, even if they encountered this situation, probably could only retreat and discard the flame, or submit and continue obeying the flame's words.

Because even if they wanted to take back what belonged to them, they couldn't do it.

But Ding Huan couldn't even be bothered to communicate with this flame. It ate his things and used his things—spit it all out.

The Great Universe Art could absorb all Dao rhymes, laws, and genetic codes of all things between the universes. After the cosmic star river formed, earth fire veins could also be absorbed.

Sensing that Ding Huan still dared to resist, that flame surged even more, expanding to a range of over a dozen zhang. The violent aura was countless times stronger than when refining that unknown material earlier.

Even if Ding Huan were Bai Chi, he knew this flame had never intended to obey him or help him refine materials to forge a long spear.

The flame followed him entirely to get him to feed it.

The flame's attack now was this flame's true strength.

The flame just swept once, and all the clothing on Ding Huan's body was rolled away. The terrifying scorching aura landed on Ding Huan's skin, instantly burning his flesh into a charred black mass.

When Ding Huan underwent Tribulation Crossing, he had experienced things far more terrifying than this. What was this flame?

Letting the flame burn on his body with sizzling sounds, Ding Huan's Great Universe Art Zhou Tian frantically stripped the earth fire vein aura from within the flame seed.

At the same time, the blue flame crystal energy just absorbed by the flame was stripped away from the fire by the Great Universe Technique, Zhou Tian.

No other technique could achieve such stripping—the Great Universe Technique did it effortlessly.

Sensing Ding Huan's intent to destroy it, the flame grew even more frenzied than Ding Huan, erupting with a thunderous crack in the void and burning hotter and wilder still.

Ding Huan's wounds grew increasingly severe, but to him, these were nothing at all.

For Ding Huan, injury was the one thing he feared least.

As long as his consciousness remained, no one could make him submit to death.

After the Great Universe Technique stripped away the spiritual source and earth fire vein's aura, Ding Huan continued stripping the fire elemental law's dao rhythm.

As the Zhou Tian of the Great Universe Technique continuously stripped the fire's fire-element dao rhythm, the flame's frenzy and heat gradually weakened.

Ding Huan knew the flame had missed its best chance to kill him.

Or rather, the flame had never had the ability to kill him from the start.

With each Zhou Tian, the flame's fire-element law aura weakened by a fraction; the flame seed's flicker reverted from pale blue to orange-red, then continued fading.

A weak message reached Ding Huan's consciousness—the flame had surrendered, begging him to stop stripping its fire-element law.

Ding Huan acted as if he had not sensed the message; not only did he not slow down, the Zhou Tian of the Great Universe Technique accelerated further.

He didn't kill Lao Liu because he still needed Lao Liu to trace the footsteps of ancient Huaxia immortals. He didn't kill this flame? Hmph—it simply imagined too much.

A piercing, agonized cry rang out from the flame in Ding Huan's hand, and Ding Huan halted the Great Universe Technique.

The flame was gone. In his palm appeared a gray pebble.

Ding Huan knew this must be the remnant left behind after he fully stripped the flame of its fire-element law.

With the flame gone, the consciousness upon the remnant vanished entirely.

Ding Huan stared at the gray pebble in his hand, wondering whether the flame seed's consciousness had arisen on its own or was left behind by some great being.

Regardless of its origin, Ding Huan had no intention of keeping the pebble.

His cultivation was still low—he dared not take the risk.

Thinking this, Ding Huan immediately forged a Corrupting Dao Erosion Seal, wrapped the pebble in it, and hurled it into the void.

Before long, the pebble would be corroded down to nothing. Even if the consciousness within had not been fully extinguished, it would dissolve into nothingness amid the starry expanse.

Ding Huan activated the Great Universe Technique again, then discovered with astonishment that a clear fire-element dao rhythm now existed within his consciousness's star river.

Is this the fire-element law?

He opened his palm, and a cluster of blue flame appeared on his fingers.

Ding Huan felt a sudden insight—he closed his eyes, and waves of dao rhythm flowed around him.

When he opened his eyes again, the flame on his fingers had turned deep blue.

"I never expected my first comprehended law would be the fire-element law," Ding Huan murmured.

He had finally touched the edge of law—he had always dreamed of one day comprehending space or even time law.

He had never once imagined his first comprehended law would be fire.

Clearly, after fully stripping the artificial fire seed of its elemental law, a pure fire-element law had entered his star river.

With his Great Universe Technique's comprehension ability, once this clear fire-element law appeared in his star river, it was impossible for him not to comprehend it.

Feeling the flame of law, completely linked to his spirit and fully under his control, Ding Huan was filled with delight.

Had he known stripping this artificial fire seed's law would let him comprehend the fire-element law and forge his own law-flame, he would have done it long ago.

No—he couldn't have forged his own law-flame even if he had stripped the artificial fire seed's fire-element law earlier.

Because he had not yet ascended to the Star River Realm.

The Star River Realm was his Dao's dividing line.

Within his cosmic consciousness's vast, boundless star river flowed the infinite dao rhythms of the universe, countless laws of all things.

Only after entering the Star River Realm did he gain the right to approach law, the right to comprehend the myriad heavenly laws.