Chapter 49: Successful Devouring

As the Blood Shadow took the initiative to open its chest, Xiao Ming could clearly see the appearance of the Ten Thousand Beast Flame.

Its overall color was crimson, intertwined with the blood qi surrounding the Blood Shadow, and a bloody and violent aura was emitted above its constantly flying flames.

As Xiao Ming's palm approached, this Ten Thousand Beast Flame seemed to sense something.

In the blink of an eye, a destructive power with a violent aura slowly expanded out of the red flame as if it had awakened.

Outside, the blood energy of the Blood Shadow was being burned away.

Obviously, even if it was a young Heavenly Flame, the temperature was so terrifying that even the Blood Shadow, which was of the same origin, would drain its energy under its awakening gesture.

Seeing the Blood Shadow's energy being consumed, Xiao Ming fiercely accelerated the speed of his palm.

He still wanted to rely on the Blood Shadow to ward off people entering the same place as him while refining the Heavenly Flame, so he couldn't let it burn with the Ten Thousand Beast Flame.

The arm, covered by the bloody layer, quickly sank into this mass of the Ten Thousand Beast Flame.

Due to the terrifying heat, the blood-colored viscous layer covering the arm began to melt rapidly, and drops of blood-like liquid continued to drip down, and as soon as the liquid left the arm, it was quickly burned into nothingness by the red flames.

Although the bloody layer melted extremely fast in the flame, as it melted, the power of the Blood Lotus Pill in Xiao Ming's body released a steady stream of cold energy, which passed through his meridians and quickly repaired the melted bloody layer on his arm.

Not only his arm, but also the bloody layer on Xiao Ming's entire body began to melt as it came into contact with the Ten Thousand Beast Flame at such close range.

The blood-colored liquid dripped as if it was water, and to the naked eye, it looked like blood was seeping all over his body.

Xiao Ming ignored all these conditions and gazed unblinkingly at the constantly churning red flames.

His palms were in the middle of the Heavenly Flame, scraping furiously.

Under the bloody layer, sweat dripped from Xiao Ming's forehead and fell into his eyes, causing unusual pain and swelling.

Suddenly, the flames of the Ten Thousand Beast Flame shook violently, and the blood energy contained in the surrounding space was as if rampaging at that moment.

The corner of Xiao Ming's mouth rose, his palm firmly grasped a substance-like object, enduring the burning pain in his palm, he slowly pulled his arm away from the red flames.

When his arm withdrew from the red flame, a strand of red plasma-like liquid twisted slightly in Xiao Ming's palm.

"Is this the seedling of the Ten Thousand Beast Flame?" Looking at the strand of red blood plasma that gave off a terrifying temperature in his hand, Xiao Ming blinked and murmured softly.

As the seedling was extracted from the Ten Thousand Beast Flame, the red flames that were constantly burning the Blood Shadow's body gradually subsided, and a moment later, it turned into a small wisp of red flames that shot out from the Blood Shadow's chest, towards the strip of red plasma in Xiao Ming's palm.

The hole that had opened up in Blood Shadow's chest was also healing, it seemed that Blood Shadow was making up for the lost energy, and red blood qi was constantly entering Blood Shadow's body from everywhere.

Xiao Ming paid no attention to Blood Shadow's changes.

He put all his attention on the flame in his hand.

Walking over to the materials he had prepared, he sat down cross-legged.

First, he quickly summoned the spirit and allowed it to devour all the cold attribute herbs.

Then he took a deep breath and violently shoved the flame seedling in his hand into his mouth.

When the Ten Thousand Beast Flame entered his mouth, Xiao Ming immediately closed his lips tightly, while at the same time, his body violently trembled as if struck by lightning, and he suddenly turned miserably pale.

Xiao Ming's eyes slowly closed as he endured the burning pain coming from his body.

His mind gradually sank into his body.

As his mind sank into his body, within the many meridians of his body, the Ten Thousand Beast Flame that had previously entered his body had already split into small wisps of red flames.

As these red-colored flames passed, although Xiao Ming's meridians were protected by the condensed bloody layer of the Blood Lotus Pill, the terrifying high temperature was still slowly penetrating, although the residual temperature is not so hot, but it is undoubtedly a shattering blow to the most vulnerable meridians of the human body.

Under the baking of these high temperatures, the veins, originally spacious and resilient, were already twisted as if they were dry logs, looking extremely strange and terrifying.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Ming's mind moved and called the cold attribute herbs that were continuously refining back into his body.

As soon as he returned to his body, the spirit released a steady flow of cold attribute energy that covered the meridians.

The meridians that were covered by this energy quickly became covered with a layer of milky white ice over the meridians and bones.

The icy cold almost nullified the scorching heat that appeared in the body due to the Heavenly Flame, giving a sudden feeling of comfort.

Clearly, the cold attribute energy released by the spirit that had devoured so many medicinal herbs and treasures was enough to match the Ice Spirit Cold Spring.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Ming let out a sigh of relief.

Although he had expected it, in everything there is an eventuality.

If the cold attribute releasing spirit was not enough, although he could still risk devouring it, that would definitely have a great impact on his meridians.

At that time, for the sake of the safety of his own life as well as his future development, he would have to force those energies out of his body.

This was still because there was still a bit of room to manipulate the newly born Heavenly Flame, if it was a mature Heavenly Flame, Xiao Ming would definitely not be able to manipulate it like this.

Something like a Heavenly Flame was not something that could be forced out of the body just because one wanted to.

Even if Xiao Ming wanted to force this infant Ten Thousand Beast Flame, he could only say that he would try. The probability of failure was very high.

Devouring a Heavenly Flame with a probability of nine deaths and one life was not just talk.

Most people were burned by the Heavenly Flame, and were reduced to ashes before they had time to react.

Xiao Ming, relieved, mentally controlled the spirit to devour the scattered Heavenly Flame energy constantly flowing through his meridians.

An ordinary person devouring a Heavenly Flame would need to control these flames that were scattered in the body to gather them into a trace of origin in the meridians.

Each of these steps was extremely dangerous.

But Xiao Ming didn't need to go through all of this.

He just had to let the spirit take the initiative to devour these scattered flames.

The reason Xiao Ming swallowed the Ten Thousand Beast Flame instead of letting the Spirit directly devour it was because, besides being worried that the Spirit wouldn't be able to deal with the Ten Thousand Beast Flame, it was to disperse the Ten Thousand Beast Flame.

A full Ten Thousand Beast Flame was very difficult to deal with, but when it was dispersed, it was much less difficult.

When the entire origin of the dispersed Heavenly Flame is devoured, the Spirit can then condense a Ten Thousand Beast Flame within its body.

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After receiving Xiao Ming's command, the Spirit quickly went around the meridians to inspect them, and the red flame wisps that burned with cold energy were quickly swallowed after its passage.

While devouring them, the Spirit did not forget to refine them.

A few moments later, all the red energy in Xiao Ming's body surprisingly disappeared.

After devouring the Ten Thousand Beast Flame, the Spirit, which had a deep red color, finally re-entered Xiao Ming's Qi Spiral.

Obviously, just like devouring the Green Rock Mystic Water, it would still take quite some time to fully refine it.

Two hours later, Xiao Ming, who was sitting in the same place, suddenly experienced a surge of Qi.

With five muffled sounds ringing out one after another, Xiao Ming opened his eyes.

'Have I already reached the seventh-Star Dou Grandmaster? the energy that returned this infant Heavenly Flame was quite enough.'

Feeling his realm at Seventh-Star Dou Grandmaster, his Dou Qi had also not been affected in the slightest because it had been purified on purpose when he broke through.

Xiao Ming nodded his head in satisfaction.

It didn't seem to him that the returned energy was small, after all, this was just an infant Heavenly Flame, and all the energy couldn't be used for him to advance his cultivation realm. The spirit also had to grow, and his current realm was already very good.

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A/N:

Tomorrow's chapter concludes this training arc.