Chapter 632

There are many strange fires in the world.

Even a Soul Transformation holy land might not be able to record them all.

But there are always some legendary strange fires that even low-rank rogue cultivators can mention casually.

For example, the Nirvana Holy Fire that reverses life and death, or the Sun God Fire that illuminates the world and repels all evil, and the Zhu Que Holy Fire known as burning everything.

For millions of years, there have been countless discussions about these three.

Because each one can be called the ultimate in fire, the supreme of ten thousand fires.

But who is the boss and who is more powerful has always been a subject of endless debate.

For high-rank cultivators like Luo Chen, they naturally wouldn't fall into that kind of boring discussion.

In their view, so-called strange fires are just like spells and magic treasures; there is no distinction between high and low, the key lies in the ability of the controller themselves.

Just like the True Fire of Withering and Prosperity that Luo Chen refined, through years of nourishment and constant refinement of the vitality of demon beasts, it has flourished and strengthened itself. Its current power is far beyond what it was when he was still in the Fenxiang Valley of the Yan Alliance.

If judged by the solidified grade, the True Fire of Withering and Prosperity was in a state of having just advanced to the fourth rank at the time of Fenxiang Valley, and now it must be at the middle stage of the fourth rank, and it contains terrifying vitality, with an unfathomable foundation.

The vitality within the True Fire of Withering and Prosperity is unquestionable!

Every time he burns a living demon beast, the vitality Luo Chen can share is only one or two tenths, and most of it is swallowed by the True Fire of Withering and Prosperity itself.

Even so, it has created Luo Chen's powerful physique at the fourth rank of the Desolate Ancient.

From this, it can be seen to what an immeasurable degree the foundation of the True Fire of Withering and Prosperity has reached today!

But even so, upon hearing of the fifth-rank Zhu Que Holy Fire, Luo Chen still shrank his pupils, revealing an expression of disbelief.

"Really?"

"How could it be fake!"

Tai Sui said in a low voice, with a trace of fear in his eyes.

"Within the Five Elements Heaven, the one I fear most is the sleeping Iron-Eating Beast in Mount Qianren, and the second is the Fire Spirit Zhu Que in Zhu Que Mountain. It's strange to say, but clearly a thousand years ago, there was no Zhu Que Holy Fire in the Blazing Purgatory; instead, after the True Lord passed away, such a fire spirit appeared, occupying the original Beacon Tower and deriving fire spirits."

Speaking to the end, Tai Sui also seemed to fall into confusion.

Luo Chen didn't know the secrets inside and wanted to ask, but Tai Sui himself didn't understand the inside story, so naturally, he couldn't tell him.

However, Luo Chen changed the subject and asked about other things.

"Wow, it's the legendary Flame Demon Core; this place actually has this thing!"

An exclamation came from Cave Master Moyun's mouth, and he couldn't wait to land his magic cloud and reach out to take an object.

It was fiery red all over, scorching and hard to resist.

Luo Chen watched from the side without domineeringly demanding it, even though the Flame Demon Core was as high as the fourth rank!

Cave Master Moyun glanced at Luo Chen cautiously, then solemnly put away the Flame Demon Core.

The reason for such behavior was that Luo Chen's domineering style had become increasingly unscrupulous.

Forcibly taking the top-grade Nine Yang Geng Metal, demanding Earth Yellow Crystals... every time, he didn't discuss it with him.

Forced by his "lewd might," Cave Master Moyun had no choice but to bow and yield.

However, unexpectedly, upon arriving in this Blazing Purgatory, the other party changed his temperament, and on the way to Zhu Que Mountain, he stood by and didn't want any of the fire-attribute treasures they encountered.

"Could it be that he changed his nature?"

Cave Master Moyun muttered.

After a while, he landed from the sky again and collected a large batch of top-grade Fire Spirit Diamonds.

These were exactly the Fire Spirit Diamonds that Luo Chen had sought in vain when he was refining his natal magic treasure, the Hunyuan Cauldron, years ago, but in this Blazing Purgatory, they were everywhere.

Luo Chen pursed his lips and said nothing.

Tai Sui secretly sized him up, and his heart was also somewhat puzzled: "That shouldn't be; Demon Lord Qingyang is not a generous person; there's no reason for him to turn a blind eye to these resources that are beneficial to his cultivation."

"Could it be that he has other plans?"

Luo Chen didn't care at all what they thought.

Since he revealed his ability and forced Tai Sui to take an oath, he had established a dominant position in the three-person team.

There was no need to care about their thoughts at all.

This was originally the scene that Ding Yi had fantasized about, only now Luo Chen had reversed the roles.

His gaze and divine sense were extending as much as possible, exploring the surrounding environment.

In his mind, he was recalling the information Tai Sui had told him earlier.

"Mount Qianren has many mineral deposits, the sea of quicksand has a master, and the main resources in the Blazing Purgatory are not these fire-attribute ores and demon cores, but source-less fires!"

Yes!

In Tai Sui's words, the Blazing Purgatory was a base specifically used by the Refining Song Tianmo Lord to collect and even cultivate source-less fires back then.

No one knew why the Refining Song Tianmo Lord wanted to collect so many source-less fires with different categories and uses.

But this place was hiding many source-less fires!

Those fire-attribute ores and demon cores were just byproducts of many strange fires.

And Luo Chen's goal was these source-less fires!

"Are they hidden this deep?"

Luo Chen muttered, searching for information nearby as much as possible, paying attention to the restlessness of the source true fire in his body.

Beside him, magic power surged again.

It was Cave Master Moyun who had seen a strange treasure and went down to collect it.

Luo Chen glanced at it, feeling slightly moved.

It was a treasure tree growing on the volcano, crystal clear, like glaze, and it looked very valuable at first glance.

Suddenly, Luo Chen's gaze stopped.

Cave Master Moyun, who was taking out a small shovel and digging hard, froze because Luo Chen had landed beside him.

"Demon Lord, do you want this..."

"You continue!"

Cave Master Moyun was stunned, his movements continued, just slower than before.

Luo Chen frowned, "Faster."

Forced by the demon might, Cave Master Moyun had to speed up the shovel; as the surface soil was dug away, the roots at the bottom of the Glazed Treasure Tree were gradually revealed.

"Eh?"

Cave Master Moyun was surprised to dig away the surface soil, looking at the soil layer below.

One piece of glaze after another, presenting all kinds of colors, was paved in the depths of the earth layer.

The roots of the Glazed Treasure Tree extended downward like blood vessels into those variegated glazes.

Seeing this scene, Luo Chen could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart.

"Sure enough, this is the legendary Glazed Fire Cedar. And where Glazed Fire Cedar survives, there must be Glazed Fire!"

Over the years, Luo Chen had never stopped reading classics.

Those classics were not limited to cultivation techniques, but also included medicine scriptures, pill books, weapon refining manuals, and more miscellaneous books that recorded all kinds of local customs and resources.

Perhaps the information in these miscellaneous classics was not necessarily correct, but they truly broadened Luo Chen's horizons and knowledge.

At his age of one hundred and sixty, in terms of "knowledge," he was definitely not inferior to those veteran Core Formation cultivators.

In fact, because his reading was extensive and comprehensive, he was even a step ahead!

Therefore, at the first sight of the Glazed Fire Cedar, Cave Master Moyun only regarded it as a fire-attribute plant, but Luo Chen judged from the surface to the inside the reason for its birth and what was necessary in its growth environment.

Glazed Fire!

A source-less fire from ancient legends.

It is said that in ancient times, there was a famous mountain, crystal clear, where one could see the inside clearly from the outside, its name was Guan Yu Shan.

Inside lived a source-less fire; as long as any living creature touched it, they would be burned into glaze.

No one dared to approach that Guan Yu Shan; even powerful desolate beasts didn't dare to touch its edge.

It's a pity that later, with the evolution of time and the vicissitudes of life, Guan Yu Shan disappeared.

But the name of that source-less fire that could burn people into glaze was left behind.

It is precisely Glazed Fire!

"Underneath this, there must be one!"

Luo Chen took a deep breath, and the moment Cave Master Moyun excitedly pulled out the Glazed Fire Cedar, he slapped the ground.

"Demon Lord, what are you doing?" Cave Master Moyun was startled.

Luo Chen bounced back, looking at the debris in his hand, and frowned.

Then, he shot into the sky, holding one palm high.

Suddenly, he dived down.

With surging Qi and blood and infinite giant power, it was the Mountain-Breaking Style of the Seven-Scatter Hands!

A muffled sound came from the void.

The next moment, amidst the horror of Cave Master Moyun and Tai Sui, they saw the mountain that originally grew the Glazed Fire Cedar begin to rumble and shake.

Large chunks of soil fell off the surface of the mountain.

Revealing streaks of brilliant glaze reflecting the bright red firelight.

Those glazes, receiving the violent blow of the Mountain-Breaking Style, were constantly cracking at this moment.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

In just a few breaths, the originally crystal-clear mountain was torn apart, full of cracks.

Luo Chen snorted coldly and stomped his foot!

The next moment, the mountain peak under his feet scattered like a castle built of gravel.

"Sure enough, it's here!"

At a single glance, Luo Chen saw a beautiful flame floating in the center of the scattered glaze.

"It's a pity, the grade is not high, only about the second rank."

Luo Chen showed a look of regret, but immediately became excited.

"Second rank is also fine, it's convenient for me to subdue it. If it were higher, it would be troublesome."

As one of the most dangerous source-less fires in the ancient times of the Mountain and Sea World, even the third or fourth rank ones were extremely tricky; the second rank ones were relatively easier to subdue.

Having lost the protection of the treasure mountain, the flame seemed to realize some danger and was about to rush out.

Just at this moment, a pressure like the might of heaven and earth covered the sky.

The Forest Fire Prison spread over a hundred zhang!

Inside it, Luo Chen opened his mouth and spat, and the True Fire of Withering and Prosperity flew out happily.

The green flame covered it like a large net.

The Glazed Fire flame sensed danger, and the firelight suddenly became intense.

Wherever it passed, the green flame began to condense inch by inch, being burned into pieces of glaze.

But the absolute suppression of grade made this resistance look like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

The True Fire of Withering and Prosperity, with an unquestionable momentum, completely surrounded the Glazed Fire flame.

Luo Chen sat cross-legged on the broken mountain, operating the "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture" to accelerate the swallowing of this fire.

All of this, said to be long, actually took only a few short breaths from Luo Chen's strike to breaking the mountain and swallowing the fire.

Cave Master Moyun and Tai Sui watched this scene, their eyelids jumping wildly.

"What is he doing?" Cave Master Moyun was puzzled.

Tai Sui said hoarsely: "He seems to want to use his source true fire to refine that source-less fire."

Cave Master Moyun's pupils dilated, his face full of disbelief.

"How is this possible; our generation's true fire is unique, how can it be mixed with other external things? Is he not afraid of death?"

Tai Sui's tone was slow, his expression extremely shocked.

"There is nothing impossible; someone has done this before."

"Who?"

Tai Sui stared fixedly at Luo Chen, "What do you think this Five Elements Heaven is used for? And why is it named Purgatory?"

Cave Master Moyun's heart jumped wildly, "Do you mean to say that the Refining Song Tianmo Lord also had similar actions? And even arranged such a place to raise many source-less fires just to facilitate swallowing and refining?"

Perhaps seeing a familiar scene, it evoked more memories in Tai Sui's remnant obsession.

He seemed somewhat dazed at this moment, muttering words that Cave Master Moyun couldn't understand.

"Nine-Refining Method... Beacon Smoke..."

Later, he looked around blankly, "These are nothing but the remnants left behind by the True Lord."

The remnants of a Void Refinement True Lord are a huge opportunity for a Core Formation cultivator.

When Luo Chen spent half a day completely swallowing the Glazed Fire, his True Fire of Withering and Prosperity became even more vigorous.

Even in the void, a phantom of a lush green small tree appeared vaguely.

On the small tree, branches grew wildly.

Looking closely, they were not branches at all, but streaks of pure fire tongues.

The red-robed Daoist sat cross-legged in the void, looking at the lush fire tree above his head, revealing a thoughtful look.

Cave Master Moyun saw this scene again, recalling the scene he had seen before.

"So, did Demon Lord Qingyang swallow a source-less fire at that time?"

Tai Sui's body was trembling uncontrollably, as if he had seen a natural enemy.

And at Luo Chen's chest, the soul-nurturing wooden plaque also appeared restless at this moment.

Han Zhan looked at the phantom of the small tree outside, his divine soul stirred extremely.

"Five Elements Heaven! Five Elements Heaven!"

"It's not a place where resources gather at all, but a place where the five basic laws of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth are spread."

"If one has enough patience to collect them one by one and constantly comprehend them, one even has a chance to comprehend the power of laws within the Five Elements Heaven!"

"Hateful, why don't I have a physical body, missing out on such a heaven-defying opportunity!"

When Luo Chen came back was no longer important.

Tai Sui and the others only knew that when the journey resumed, Luo Chen's strange behavior before became a matter of course.

He ignored all kinds of precious resources.

All his attention was placed on searching for the source-less fires hidden in the Blazing Purgatory.

Those things were hidden extremely deep.

But unexpectedly, Luo Chen seemed to have some guidance and could always find the general location.

When Luo Chen stopped again under a layer of clouds stretching for thousands of miles, they stood outside the valley mouth, all silent.

"Third-rank Red Lotus Earth Fire!"

"Second-rank Glazed Fire!"

"First-rank Variegated Demon Butterfly Flame."

"Third-rank Amber Flame!"

"Third-rank unknown demon fire!"

"Second-rank unknown demon fire!"

Two months later, Luo Chen calculated the source-less fires he had collected along the way.

Most of them were ones he could recognize, and a small part were unfamiliar.

And those unfamiliar ones were all filled with domineering demon Qi, some of which were similar to the magic power aura of He Yuan of the Primal Demon Sect back then, but even more so.

Luo Chen's mood was also becoming more and more happy!

He could feel the strengthening of the source true fire, and even the fire-attribute spells he occasionally cast, such as the Qingyang Great Handprint and the Lieyang Technique, had become increasingly powerful.

When Luo Chen stopped again under a layer of clouds stretching for thousands of miles.

Tai Sui, who had been silent, finally spoke.

"This time, how long will it take?"

Luo Chen looked up at the sky and said softly: "This time, it is estimated that it will take a long time, because I can feel that the Burning Heaven Fire in that layer of clouds is of a very high grade, rare in the world!"

At least, it was at the fourth-rank level!

Refining such a source-less fire would not only be time-consuming but might also be accompanied by great danger.

Tai Sui said in a low voice: "Three hundred miles ahead is Zhu Que Mountain; are you still going to delay? That Five Elements Lotus Platform involves your path to Nascent Soul!"

Luo Chen smiled slightly.

"Nascent Soul is indeed precious, but how can I not take the opportunity that lies before me? I can feel that this trip to the Blazing Purgatory will be of great benefit to my future cultivation, and it must not be missed!"

Tai Sui opened his mouth, but in the end, he didn't say anything to oppose it.

"Then take care; Cave Master and I will go one step ahead and wait for you at the foot of Zhu Que Mountain."

"Hmm."

Luo Chen nodded lightly, and then, in front of the two, his magic power surged out.

On his red Daoist robe, a layer of Qi armor emerged naturally.

Not only that, the Broken Moon Wings unfolded! The Forest Fire Prison unfolded!

His whole person was covered in a layer of green flame.

He entered the second form of the Forest Fire Prison directly, the True Fire State!

Subsequently, he shot into the sky and crossed into the thousand-mile red burning clouds.

Almost the moment he stepped into it, the red clouds in the sky boiled suddenly!

Strange phantoms rose and fell within the red clouds.

Some were horses, some were dogs, and there were also giant rocs spreading their wings and owls crying.

Clearly, the fourth-rank Burning Heaven Fire inhabiting the red burning clouds had already initially gained intelligence and possessed infinite power!

(End of chapter)