Chapter 3: Can't Burn You to Death!

"Virtual Divine Spark, what is it?"

Lin Yan murmured.

After Lin Yan claimed the newbie gift pack, he "saw" a transparent, pyramid-shaped thing appear on his flame core.

However, this thing didn't seem to be activated yet — there wasn't the slightest movement.

Lin Yan set it aside and looked at his panel.

Right now, he had just over a thousand energy points, and fifty evolution points.

Below the skill bar, a new bar had appeared:

"Resistance: Water Resistance 30%."

Water Resistance could reduce Lin Yan's energy consumption by 30% on rainy days.

Yes, Lin Yan could burn even in the rain, but the energy consumption would be enormous!

Lin Yan decided to spend his evolution points.

"Flame core level increased successfully. 10 evolution points consumed. Successfully upgraded to Level 2 Wildfire."

"Flame core level increased successfully. 20 evolution points consumed. Successfully upgraded to Level 3 Wildfire."

Upgrading to Level 4 Wildfire required 30 evolution points — Lin Feng didn't have enough evolution points.

【15,15】 After the upgrade, Lin Yan's panel changed drastically:

After upgrading, Lin Yan's interface changed dramatically:

【Host: Lin Yan

Flame Core Level: Level 3 Wildfire

Flame Layers: Three Layers

Maximum Temperature: 700 degrees

Evolution Points: 20

Energy Points: 1026

Current Income: 1 point/sec

Current Consumption: 2 points/sec

Skills: Berserk Burning, Eye of Investigation

Resistance: Water Resistance 30%

Item: Virtual Divine Spark (Inactive)

Other: None yet】

After upgrading to Level 3 Wildfire, Lin Yan's consumption had actually increased!

Yet his income had decreased.

The reason was simple.

Level 3 Wildfire burned at a higher temperature and more fiercely — those few dry branches would be burned up in the blink of an eye.

Lin Yan's mind stirred, and he actively shrank the flame; his consumption dropped again.

Although he still had just over a thousand energy points now, once the income stopped, even if he shrank the flame, he couldn't last an hour.

Lin Yan activated his skill, Eye of Investigation.

Then his field of vision was raised.

The place he was in was a boundless wasteland, with no sign of human habitation in sight.

The wasteland had lush vegetation, and all kinds of poisonous insects and venomous snakes were extremely numerous — not even a trace of human activity could be seen.

Clearly, this was a desolate, uninhabited wasteland!

Then Lin Yan noticed that, a few dozen meters from him, there were still some dry branches.

However, Lin Yan wasn't happy about finding these dry branches.

Being a genius, Lin Yan's brain spun rapidly.

Even if he moved over now and burned those dry branches, he could sustain himself for at most a few more dozen minutes.

If he couldn't even solve the survival problem, what was there to talk about regarding evolution!

"In that case, let's have a wildfire that sweeps the plain!"

Lin Yan said to himself.

This was his style — if you're going to do it, go big!

Yes, the surroundings were all green grass and trees, and right now it looked like the turn of spring and summer, with vegetation growing very luxuriantly.

But, so what!

Lin Yan looked at his panel, at that Berserk Burning skill!

This skill could let Lin Yan instantly raise his temperature several times over and burn furiously!

Although the consumption wasn't small either, once the fire spread, Lin Yan's gains would far exceed his consumption!

"Awooo!"

Just as Lin Yan was planning his wildfire-sweeping-plain, a wild beast covered in black fur, looking somewhat similar to a wolf, walked over, lifted one of its hind legs, and, aiming at Lin Yan's shrunken little flame, prepared to pee!

"This guy really picked a good spot."

Lin Yan had limited energy points and was planning his wildfire-sweeping-plain, so he didn't intend to waste energy points tangling with this wild wolf, and moved his "little legs," shifting a distance to the side.

Mm, he was a fire that could move on its own.

"Ao!"

Seeing Lin Yan move, the wild wolf curiously lowered its head and looked at Lin Yan.

Its eyes were full of puzzlement — it was probably wondering why a flame would move on its own.

After looking for a few seconds, the wild wolf still couldn't figure it out, so it pulled its head back, also shifted a bit to the side, and lifted its hind leg again — from the looks of it, it was preparing to extinguish Lin Yan with a stream of pee.

"Damn!"

Lin Yan was furious.

He hadn't wanted to bother with a beast, but now the bastard was pushing its luck, was that it?

Lin Yan stopped hesitating and suddenly activated the skill "Berserk Burn."

"Boom!"

Flames shot up in an instant, even producing an explosion-like muffled roar.

The wild wolf was swallowed by the flames in a flash!

"Awoo!"

The wild wolf howled in agony, rolling all over the ground, but couldn't put out the flames no matter what.

Because Lin Yan had already leapt onto its back, holding it down and burning it.

The wild wolf ran around wildly, but it was all to no avail.

The flames were carried everywhere by it, igniting some scattered dead branches, but it didn't cause a large-scale blaze.

Before long, the wild wolf was burned into a pile of ash by Lin Yan.

"You burned a wild wolf to death, Evolution Points +2."

The system's notification chime sounded.

Lin Yan took a look: this burst of Berserk Burn had cost over a hundred energy points, but the gain was as much as over two hundred points — equivalent to a net profit of a hundred energy points!

Besides that, he'd also gained 2 Evolution Points!

"As expected, constantly burning is the true way to evolve."

This wild wolf gave Lin Yan hope.

"Then let's start a prairie fire!"