275: Chapter 275 The Origin of Emperor Tuoshe! The Golden Body of Burning Heaven

On the massive stone statue of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor, formidable spiritual power fixed the spatial channel.

Xiao Ting transformed into a bolt of lightning and entered it in an instant, arriving in a world constructed entirely of flames.

Above a vast sea of fire, waves of flame rolled and churned, each one possessing the power of an ordinary strange fire.

This sea of fire contained power that transcended the world, a strength that the Fighting Qi Continent currently did not possess.

Xiao Ting unleashed the power of his soul, instantly locking onto a soul imprint within the sea of fire, and waved his hand to cast a stream of spiritual power.

The soul imprint of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor was awakened, and the sea of fire began to churn violently as a flame bud emerged from within.

The bud bloomed, revealing the scene within; an old man with plain features and wearing grey robes appeared, sporting a mane of colorful, magnificent flame hair.

With just a glance, Xiao Ting saw that the essence of these flames was condensed from the sources of various strange fires.

"The cave dwelling I left behind has finally been opened."

The old man lifted his eyes to look at Xiao Ting, and his calm, lake-like eyes rippled with immense waves.

As the last Dou Di of the Fighting Qi Continent, he knew that this world no longer contained the Source Qi required to break through to Dou Di.

He was able to break through because the cultivation technique he practiced was special; by fusing all the strange fires, especially the Void Swallowing Flame and the Purification Lotus Demon Flame, he was able to rely on countless resources to trigger a qualitative change from quantitative accumulation, taking that final step.

Therefore, in his conception, if his cave dwelling were to be opened, the strongest person to enter would at most be a peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng.

But the current situation was that he could not see through the person who had entered at all, feeling a sense of vastness like an abyss.

He was a Supreme who stood above the Fighting Qi Continent.

Then, the person before him was a Supreme among Supremes who had completely transcended the Fighting Qi Continent and reached another level.

"Tuoshe Ancient Emperor, I should call you Di Yan."

Xiao Ting flashed and arrived in front of the energy avatar of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor.

"I am quite curious, which strange fire were you originally?"

The original identity of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor had always been a mystery.

The most widely accepted speculation was the Fallen Heart Flame, because the cave dwelling of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor was directly beneath the Jia Nan Academy, where it was known that two Fallen Heart Flames had been born.

Perhaps the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor was once a Fallen Heart Flame, and after obtaining the Flame Mantra, he began the path of devouring strange fires to become stronger.

But some also speculated that it was a special Green Lotus Core Flame, because the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor took a thousand years to form, ten thousand years to gather spirit, and another ten thousand years of cultivation, after which he encountered the technique Flame Mantra and began wandering along the underground magma, living by devouring fire.

In short, when the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor obtained the Flame Mantra and began devouring strange fires to grow stronger, he was already over twenty thousand years old—a genuine old antique. Without the Flame Mantra, he would be completely incomparable to the Void Swallowing Flame and the Purification Lotus Demon Flame.

"The very beginning, huh." A look of reminiscence appeared in the eyes of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's avatar as he replied indifferently, "I was originally the Mysterious Yellow Flame."

"A Mysterious Yellow Flame and a Fallen Heart Flame met, both wanting to devour the other, leading to a great battle, and eventually, they fused to become me."

"After being reborn, it took a thousand years to form a nature, ten thousand years to gather spirit, and then I began to embark on the path of cultivation."

Xiao Ting was not too surprised by this answer.

The Yan Clan possessed five types of strange fires; originally, the strongest was the sixth on the strange fire ranking list, the Eight Desolation Destruction Flame.

Then there was the seventh-ranked Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Flame, the eighth-ranked Red Lotus Karma Fire, and the seventeenth-ranked Volcanic Stone Flame.

Yan Jin, using his own understanding of strange fires and his strength, fused the Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Flame and the Volcanic Stone Flame into a new strange fire, which could fight to a standstill with the Ancient Clan's inheritance fire, the fourth-ranked Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame.

There were techniques that allowed strange fires to fuse, and some had succeeded in fusing two strange fires.

Therefore, it was normal for specific celestial timing and geographical advantages to cause two strange fires to fuse into a newborn strange fire.

"Is your main body still alive?" Xiao Ting asked the second question.

"It is still alive." The Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's flame avatar nodded slightly, "But it is sealed somewhere. I cannot sense the exact location; I only know that its condition is not very good. If it cannot escape in about a hundred years, it will completely dissipate."

"If there is a chance, I will save your main body. I want the inheritance here; you have no objections, right?" Xiao Ting asked.

"Whether you save it or not, the inheritance here will be handed to you; the main body left those rules long ago." The Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's flame avatar smiled, "Moreover, given your strength, I could not refuse even if I wanted to."

The Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's avatar knew that even if the main body were here, it could not refuse Xiao Ting.

Not being refined was already Xiao Ting being considerate.

"Then I will accept it without being modest." Xiao Ting smiled gently and raised his hand to cast an imprint.

The next moment, this world of flames began to shrink, aggregating in a way that exceeded human comprehension.

After a hundred breaths, all the flames in the entire world had disappeared, leaving behind only a golden illustrated page, engraved with patterns and lines of various strange fires, carrying various peculiar source fluctuations.

On it were inscribed four large characters: 《Burning Heaven Golden Body》.

The Burning Heaven Golden Body was comparable to the Eternal Immortal Body.

It was a precursor dharma body to a type of Primal Dharma Body.

However, the Eternal Immortal Body still existed, while the Burning Heaven Indestructible Body had already been shattered after the Extraterritorial Evil Clan occupied half of the Great Thousand World.

This illustrated page was the true Flame Mantra; the one Yao Lao obtained back then was a copy left by the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor, missing many key points of cultivation, or rather, it was the original version that required re-devouring strange fires to form.

And the 《Burning Heaven Golden Body》 was the cultivation method for the dharma body formed by the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor after devouring enough strange fires.

Xiao Ting raised his hand to take the 《Burning Heaven Golden Body》, then looked at a special mass of energy that had emerged nearby.

This energy was transformed from the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's flame avatar, truly the Emperors Source.

Xiao Ting moved his mind and entered the Purple Heaven Flame space, finding Xun'er who was in the middle of cultivation.

"Xun'er." Xiao Ting called out softly.

"Brother Xiao Ting." Xun'er opened her eyes, smiled brightly, stood up, and threw herself into Xiao Ting's embrace.

Xiao Ting reached out to wrap his arms around her waist and kissed her directly.

Xun'er's body seemed to be made of water, and she went limp in Xiao Ting's arms.

The events that followed were not for outsiders to know.

Three days later, Xiao Ting appeared in the Heavenly Tomb.

Xiao Yan was cultivating with Xiao Chen and Xiao Xuan.

"Third Brother, two ancestors." Xiao Ting appeared beside the three of them.

"Brother Ting!" A look of surprise and joy appeared on Xiao Yan's face, and he laughed, "You finally returned. You didn't encounter any danger in the Great Thousand World, did you?"

"My luck was good; as soon as I ascended, I met a reliable senior. Now, I have successfully broken through." Xiao Ting recounted his experiences from the past year or so.

This also gave Xiao Yan and the others some preliminary understanding of cultivation in the Great Thousand World.

"Talent is very important. Becoming a Dou Di and awakening the Dou Di Bloodline can improve the talent and strength of the entire clan; this is a special feature of the cultivation method of this plane."

"I have already stepped into the Earth Supreme level; it is impossible for me to slash myself to become a Dou Di. Moreover, even if I became a Dou Di, I probably wouldn't be able to transform the bloodline of the entire clan."

"Therefore, breaking through to Dou Di and revitalizing the clan is something that requires you, Third Brother."