244: Chapter 236 Seeds and Flames

As the Law of Incense deployed by Chi Ming and Qing Lan gradually suppressed the Law of Anger of the Spirit of Wrathful Fire, the special plant in the magma chamber that hosted the spirit began to wither rapidly.

Once the power of the Law of Anger was completely erased and the Spirit of Wrathful Fire lost consciousness due to its emotions becoming peaceful, only a crimson seed and a faint, flickering flame remained before Xu Yan and his two spirit beasts.

Looking at the flame and seed before him, Xu Yan seemed to sense something. He let out a surprised "Eh?" and then spoke to Chi Ming beside him, "Chi Ming, use Reversing Fire on that flame."

The familiar pale red glow lit up on Chi Ming's body and then descended toward the flame.

However, the energy consumed by Reversing Fire this time far exceeded the amount used previously on those fire creatures.

It was only after exhausting all of Chi Ming's spiritual power, plus sixty percent of the power transferred losslessly from Qing Lan, that the Reversing Fire was finally completed.

With the success of the Reversing Fire skill, the state of the flame also underwent a change.

If its original state was like a candle in the wind that could be extinguished at any moment, the flame after Reversing Fire gave off a sense of being newborn and vibrant from the inside out.

Clearly, Chi Ming's Reversing Fire had successfully saved the dissipating Spirit of Wrathful Fire. However, the price was the complete disappearance of its original will and memories, replaced by a newborn and ignorant new consciousness.

Of course, that wasn't the most important part.

The important point was that, in Xu Yan's perception, this Spirit of Wrathful Fire—which could temporarily be considered in a "newborn" state—was in a "contractable" state.

It should be noted that in the Beast Taming system of Blue Star, not every beast is eligible to be tamed.

Generally speaking, creatures from worlds or secret realms outside Blue Star are not suitable for humans to contract. Only after the secret realm or world they belong to becomes linked with Blue Star and is permeated and transformed by Blue Star's rules can they potentially turn into contractable spirit beasts.

However, not every secret realm is qualified to be permeated by Blue Star's rules. Clearly, this trial secret realm where Xu Yan and the others were located had not obtained that qualification.

Of course, where there are general cases, there are naturally special cases.

A very small number of existences can be in a "contractable" state even without being permeated or transformed by Blue Star's rules.

For these existences, this situation is not a weakness.

On the contrary, it is Blue Star's recognition of their excellence and uniqueness.

Such existences in Blue Star's Beast Taming system are without exception representatives of excellent talent, potential, rarity, and even luck.

Their rarity is measured by secret realms; they are one-in-a-thousand or even one-in-ten-thousand existences, meaning one might not even appear in thousands or tens of thousands of secret realms.

And now, such an incredibly rare "newborn spirit beast" had appeared right in front of Xu Yan.

After scanning the magma chamber with the two spirit beasts to ensure there were no other hidden dangers, Xu Yan walked quickly to the center of the chamber and reached out to take the seed and flame floating in the air.

He probed them with his mental energy, and under the effects of his two Innate Talents, Heavens Mandate Guidance and Myriad Affinity, the general information of the seed and flame soon appeared in Xu Yan's mind.

The seed was nurtured by the essence of the volcano and should have originally been a Child of the Volcano born of heaven and earth. However, before it could fully grow, it encountered the Spirit of Wrathful Fire. The Mandate Spiritual Plant, which was originally favored by luck and could have grown into a pillar of the world, ended up becoming the nourishment and "base" for the Spirit of Wrathful Fire.

While the laws of both sides were clashing, the spiritual plant that had been reduced to a base burned its few remaining bits of consciousness to draw upon the volcano's power and initiate its final struggle.

The fact that Chi Ming and the others could secure victory so quickly was due not only to their own laws countering the enemy, but also to the spiritual plant base's reverse absorption of the Spirit of Wrathful Fire's power.

Although a large amount of energy was lost because Xu Yan had collected the ingredients, the spirit seed still reclaimed quite a bit of energy from the Spirit of Wrathful Fire. Unfortunately, the price of burning its consciousness was that it would never again have the chance to develop sapience.

Then, Xu Yan's Myriad Affinity talent began to exert its influence.

Already possessing a high level of favorability, Xu Yan had also successfully cleared away the Spirit of Wrathful Fire—the scourge that had enslaved its "child" and messed around with its body. With no sapience and only instinct remaining, Xu Yan directly replaced the spiritual plant's original status as the "Favored of the Volcano."

Then, the former "Child of the Volcano," who had reclaimed part of its power but lost the chance for sapience forever, received another "nutrition fee." It reclaimed the potential lost due to the Spirit of Wrathful Fire's interference, turned back into a seed, and became the volcano's "greeting gift" to Xu Yan.

The originally combat-oriented spiritual plant had now transformed into a resource-type spirit seed. Once planted, it would regrow to Monarch Rank in a very short time, and reaching Overlord Rank would only be a matter of time.

Furthermore, because it had absorbed the power of the Spirit of Wrathful Fire, the fruit it produced would have the ability to regulate anger.

After the seed, next was the newborn flame that the Spirit of Wrathful Fire had turned into.

Species: Spirit of Emotion (Anger, Flame Form)

Level: Soldier Rank 0

Bloodline Level: Low-grade Overlord

Attributes: Mental, Fire

Innate Talent: Emotional Incarnation - Wrath (Absorbs anger to grow rapidly, increases the strength of emotion-type skills, and makes targets more susceptible to emotional influence)

Skills: Nameless Fire, Heart-Eroding Curse of Wrath, Endless Anger, Wrathful Fire Body Incineration, Emotionalization

Law: Anger (Sealed)

A Spirit of Emotion with Overlord potential and its own Law, capable of absorbing anger to grow quickly, and even able to achieve an intangible, formless Emotionalization state that was even more illogical than elementalization. There was nothing more to say; it was a top-tier spirit beast for emotion-based schools like the Seven Emotions or Seven Sins.

However, looking at the information fed back into his mind, Xu Yan couldn't help but sigh.

It was a very good spirit beast. In the outside world, even if their own path wasn't the emotion school, most Overlord Rank Beast Tamers would be tempted by such an existence with explosive strength and potential.

Unfortunately, it wasn't suitable.

Or rather, it had come too late.

If Xu Yan had encountered such a top-tier spirit beast shortly after breaking through to Monarch Rank, he would have very likely chosen to contract it, even if the team already had the mental-type Xiong Nian.

Unfortunately, as Xu Yan's own strength and that of his spirit beasts improved, his own horizons were also rapidly expanding.

In Xu Yan's view, the spirit beast before him was decent, but it was merely decent.