Chapter 47: The Seedling of Heavenly Flame
What the others who entered this secret space passage earlier felt, Xiao Ming didn't know.
Anyway, when he entered the space, his first sensation was that it stank!
It wasn't the kind of stench of rotting rats in the sewers, nor was it the kind of smell from that pool of corpses during the time he picked up the Green Rock Mystic Water, but the smell of blood that was so strong that it was the smell of condensed blood.
This smell was hard to describe in words, and it was the first time Xiao Ming had smelled it in his life.
Xiao Ming's second sensation was heat!
This heat was not as horrible as the stench of blood.
It was still within Xiao Ming's tolerance range.
This caused Xiao Ming to breathe a sigh of relief.
"Blargh, what the hell is this place, it stinks!"
"Blargh, why is it so dark in here! It's dark and smelly, I can't see, hey! Where are you?"
"Ah! What is this thing? Get out of the way!"
This space was indeed incomparably dark, with no visible fingers, Xiao Ming turned his head and looked in the direction the voice was coming from.
What he saw in front of him left him in a cold sweat.
In the distance, a faintly glowing figure was approaching at high speed, accompanied by a loud noise caused by breaking the speed of sound.
And as it approached, Xiao Ming could feel the temperature around him rising.
"Run, it's the same blood shadow as the red humanoid outside!" someone in the darkness shouted in panic.
Unfortunately, a few seconds later, after a few muffled grunts, Xiao Ming could no longer feel anyone else's breath.
Xiao Ming understood that those few people were already cold!
The culprit was the human shadow in front of him at that moment, head bowed and emitting heat.
'Was it another blood shadow?'
Xiao Ming looked at the Blood Shadow that remained in front of him, seemingly watching him with a blank stare and inwardly said.
'The Blood Shadow that fought Su Mei and the others definitely didn't come back so quickly, after all, although the Blood Shadow was terrifying, the formation fighting it was also very terrifying.
It would never be possible to defeat or kill them so quickly.
Besides, he was still standing not too far from the passage.
He would definitely feel if the Blood Shadow returned.
So this Blood Shadow was definitely a new one.
Although he knew that this was a newly appeared Blood Shadow, Xiao Ming was no longer very scared, and his tense body suddenly relaxed.
Because, the Blood Shadow in front of him was simply frozen and had no intention of attacking him.
This was thanks to the refinement technique he had just learned, which had made the blood-red marks on his body disappear.
With the loss of the mark, the Blood Shadow would ignore him.
Even if Xiao Ming attacked it, the Blood Shadow would not strike back, a mechanism set up by the founder of the formation to prevent his own disciples from accidentally touching the Blood Shadow and then being killed by mistake.
In the end, the Blood Shadow condensed by the Blood Qi Condensed Shadow Protection Formation had no intelligence, it simply coldly executed commands.
Of course, rushing to this place was already too risky, and Xiao Ming did not intend to continue to risk attacking the Blood Shadow to see if it would fight back.
He merely looked at the Blood Shadow's chest area in surprise.
And what did he find?
There was a faint red flame inside the Blood Shadow's chest.
And this flame was not too clear for Xiao Ming to see because the Blood Shadow's body was blocking it.
But vaguely, he thought he saw several magical beasts floating in the flames.
"Could it be a Heavenly Flame?" Xiao Ming reacted with a jolt and said with wild glee.
In his impression, there was indeed a Heavenly Flame that was similar to this flame.
It was the Ten Thousand Beast Flame, which ranked twenty-second in the Heavenly Flame Ranking.
It is formed from the soul and lineage of ten thousand beasts.
The flame contains the fierce and vicious aura of the beast race and can absorb and contain most of the beast flames.
Thinking of the characteristics of this Heavenly Flame, Xiao Ming conjured a pink flame.
It was also known as his Peach Blossom Flame.
As soon as the Peach Blossom Flame appeared, the surrounding darkness lit up and a set of magical beast skeletons were revealed.
Controlling the Peach Blossom Flame in his hand, he slowly threw it towards the Blood Shadow's chest.
Blood Shadow was indifferent to the Peach Blossom Flame, allowing it to come into contact with its body.
The Peach Blossom Flame intertwined with Blood Shadow's blood qi, emitting a screeching sound, and since Blood Shadow had no sense of resistance, after lingering for a few moments, the Peach Blossom Flame finally entered Blood Shadow's body.
As soon as the Peach Blossom Flame entered Blood Shadow's body, before it could wreak havoc, the flame on Blood Shadow's chest rose violently.
Peach Blossom Flame was swept away by it, and the surroundings fell back into grayness, with only a faint glow two or three meters away from Blood Shadow.
Xiao Ming was not angry when his own flame faded away and could no longer be perceived, but instead laughed out loud.
"Hehehe, this must be the Ten Thousand Beast Flame!"
The reason Xiao Ming was so certain was not because of anything else, it was because it had easily absorbed the Peach Blossom Flame.
One had to know that what he had released was not a doppelganger of the Peach Blossom Flame condensed from Dou Qi, but the Origin Flame of the Peach Blossom Flame.
After this flame had been devoured by the spirit, Xiao Ming had been able to firmly control it.
Even when facing a more advanced masterless beast flame, it should not be under its control, and be so easily swept away and devoured.
Only a Heavenly Flame could do it so easily.
'But, isn't this Heavenly Flame too weak? It only looks like a small flame, it should be just a little stronger than a Heavenly Flame seed, right? And why has this Heavenly Flame appeared here?''
Xiao Ming pondered as he thought about the conditions for the Ten Thousand Beast Flame's formation and looked at the untold number of demonic beast corpses around him before finally coming to a sudden realization.
'It must be because this clan took the magical beasts to condense the blood shadows and then created this Ten Thousand Beast Flame by mistake, it's a Heavenly Flame that was created by man'.
Xiao Ming's assumption was correct.
The original Secret Realm clan had created the great clan protection formation, and although they normally did not use it, in order for the formation to work at critical times, they had a habit of throwing magical beasts into it on a regular basis to maintain attrition.
The blood energy of beasts is much stronger than that of humans, and there is no moral burden in capturing them.
In addition, the beasts can be tamed, used as labor when they are young and have the useful parts ripped off when they are old, and the rest is not buried and instead is thrown directly into the formation.
It can be said that magical beasts are simply the best consumables for this formation. Over time, the blood and souls of many magical beasts were gathered into this formation, and eventually, through various coincidences, the souls and blood of ten thousand beasts came together in a strange way, and the seed of the Ten Thousand Beast Flame took shape.
It is estimated that the person who originally created this formation did not think that a Heavenly Flame could be produced in his own great formation.
After all, the conditions and time to produce a Heavenly Flame were too demanding.
It is not even known how long this Heavenly Flame seed had been in dark space before becoming a seedling.
However, calling it an artificial Heavenly Flame was not too accurate, it could be said that the Blood Qi Condensation Formation only created the conditions for the Heavenly Flame to take shape, but the Heavenly Flame was not something that could be produced just by having the conditions.
Chapter 47: The Seedling of Heavenly Flame
What the others who entered this secret space passage earlier felt, Xiao Ming didn't know.
Anyway, when he entered the space, his first sensation was that it stank!
It wasn't the kind of stench of rotting rats in the sewers, nor was it the kind of smell from that pool of corpses during the time he picked up the Green Rock Mystic Water, but the smell of blood that was so strong that it was the smell of condensed blood.
This smell was hard to describe in words, and it was the first time Xiao Ming had smelled it in his life.
Xiao Ming's second sensation was heat!
This heat was not as horrible as the stench of blood.
It was still within Xiao Ming's tolerance range.
This caused Xiao Ming to breathe a sigh of relief.
"Blargh, what the hell is this place, it stinks!"
"Blargh, why is it so dark in here! It's dark and smelly, I can't see, hey! Where are you?"
"Ah! What is this thing? Get out of the way!"
This space was indeed incomparably dark, with no visible fingers, Xiao Ming turned his head and looked in the direction the voice was coming from.
What he saw in front of him left him in a cold sweat.
In the distance, a faintly glowing figure was approaching at high speed, accompanied by a loud noise caused by breaking the speed of sound.
And as it approached, Xiao Ming could feel the temperature around him rising.
"Run, it's the same blood shadow as the red humanoid outside!" someone in the darkness shouted in panic.
Unfortunately, a few seconds later, after a few muffled grunts, Xiao Ming could no longer feel anyone else's breath.
Xiao Ming understood that those few people were already cold!
The culprit was the human shadow in front of him at that moment, head bowed and emitting heat.
'Was it another blood shadow?'
Xiao Ming looked at the Blood Shadow that remained in front of him, seemingly watching him with a blank stare and inwardly said.
'The Blood Shadow that fought Su Mei and the others definitely didn't come back so quickly, after all, although the Blood Shadow was terrifying, the formation fighting it was also very terrifying.
It would never be possible to defeat or kill them so quickly.
Besides, he was still standing not too far from the passage.
He would definitely feel if the Blood Shadow returned.
So this Blood Shadow was definitely a new one.
Although he knew that this was a newly appeared Blood Shadow, Xiao Ming was no longer very scared, and his tense body suddenly relaxed.
Because, the Blood Shadow in front of him was simply frozen and had no intention of attacking him.
This was thanks to the refinement technique he had just learned, which had made the blood-red marks on his body disappear.
With the loss of the mark, the Blood Shadow would ignore him.
Even if Xiao Ming attacked it, the Blood Shadow would not strike back, a mechanism set up by the founder of the formation to prevent his own disciples from accidentally touching the Blood Shadow and then being killed by mistake.
In the end, the Blood Shadow condensed by the Blood Qi Condensed Shadow Protection Formation had no intelligence, it simply coldly executed commands.
Of course, rushing to this place was already too risky, and Xiao Ming did not intend to continue to risk attacking the Blood Shadow to see if it would fight back.
He merely looked at the Blood Shadow's chest area in surprise.
And what did he find?
There was a faint red flame inside the Blood Shadow's chest.
And this flame was not too clear for Xiao Ming to see because the Blood Shadow's body was blocking it.
But vaguely, he thought he saw several magical beasts floating in the flames.
"Could it be a Heavenly Flame?" Xiao Ming reacted with a jolt and said with wild glee.
In his impression, there was indeed a Heavenly Flame that was similar to this flame.
It was the Ten Thousand Beast Flame, which ranked twenty-second in the Heavenly Flame Ranking.
It is formed from the soul and lineage of ten thousand beasts.
The flame contains the fierce and vicious aura of the beast race and can absorb and contain most of the beast flames.
Thinking of the characteristics of this Heavenly Flame, Xiao Ming conjured a pink flame.
It was also known as his Peach Blossom Flame.
As soon as the Peach Blossom Flame appeared, the surrounding darkness lit up and a set of magical beast skeletons were revealed.
Controlling the Peach Blossom Flame in his hand, he slowly threw it towards the Blood Shadow's chest.
Blood Shadow was indifferent to the Peach Blossom Flame, allowing it to come into contact with its body.
The Peach Blossom Flame intertwined with Blood Shadow's blood qi, emitting a screeching sound, and since Blood Shadow had no sense of resistance, after lingering for a few moments, the Peach Blossom Flame finally entered Blood Shadow's body.
As soon as the Peach Blossom Flame entered Blood Shadow's body, before it could wreak havoc, the flame on Blood Shadow's chest rose violently.
Peach Blossom Flame was swept away by it, and the surroundings fell back into grayness, with only a faint glow two or three meters away from Blood Shadow.
Xiao Ming was not angry when his own flame faded away and could no longer be perceived, but instead laughed out loud.
"Hehehe, this must be the Ten Thousand Beast Flame!"
The reason Xiao Ming was so certain was not because of anything else, it was because it had easily absorbed the Peach Blossom Flame.
One had to know that what he had released was not a doppelganger of the Peach Blossom Flame condensed from Dou Qi, but the Origin Flame of the Peach Blossom Flame.
After this flame had been devoured by the spirit, Xiao Ming had been able to firmly control it.
Even when facing a more advanced masterless beast flame, it should not be under its control, and be so easily swept away and devoured.
Only a Heavenly Flame could do it so easily.
'But, isn't this Heavenly Flame too weak? It only looks like a small flame, it should be just a little stronger than a Heavenly Flame seed, right? And why has this Heavenly Flame appeared here?''
Xiao Ming pondered as he thought about the conditions for the Ten Thousand Beast Flame's formation and looked at the untold number of demonic beast corpses around him before finally coming to a sudden realization.
'It must be because this clan took the magical beasts to condense the blood shadows and then created this Ten Thousand Beast Flame by mistake, it's a Heavenly Flame that was created by man'.
Xiao Ming's assumption was correct.
The original Secret Realm clan had created the great clan protection formation, and although they normally did not use it, in order for the formation to work at critical times, they had a habit of throwing magical beasts into it on a regular basis to maintain attrition.
The blood energy of beasts is much stronger than that of humans, and there is no moral burden in capturing them.
In addition, the beasts can be tamed, used as labor when they are young and have the useful parts ripped off when they are old, and the rest is not buried and instead is thrown directly into the formation.
It can be said that magical beasts are simply the best consumables for this formation. Over time, the blood and souls of many magical beasts were gathered into this formation, and eventually, through various coincidences, the souls and blood of ten thousand beasts came together in a strange way, and the seed of the Ten Thousand Beast Flame took shape.
It is estimated that the person who originally created this formation did not think that a Heavenly Flame could be produced in his own great formation.
After all, the conditions and time to produce a Heavenly Flame were too demanding.
It is not even known how long this Heavenly Flame seed had been in dark space before becoming a seedling.
However, calling it an artificial Heavenly Flame was not too accurate, it could be said that the Blood Qi Condensation Formation only created the conditions for the Heavenly Flame to take shape, but the Heavenly Flame was not something that could be produced just by having the conditions.
