I am a mortal who has achieved enlightenment through burning my secrets

Chapter 191 Earth Fire

After witnessing firsthand the ability of the Great Luo Palace and the Earth Demon Puppet to absorb heavenly lightning, Mo Jianli readily agreed, since this method was designed to help both the human and demon races accumulate strength.

According to incomplete statistics, almost every hundred years, one Void Refinement level expert from either the human or demon race will perish under the Heavenly Tribulation, while countless others will fall under the Lesser Heavenly Tribulation. With the help of this item, both the human and demon races will surely be able to usher in another major period of development.

Thus, with the endorsement of the strongest of the human and demon races, a thirty-three-story building called the Great Luo Palace was built in Tianyuan City.

A method of transcending tribulation by renting magical treasures has also spread among many cultivators, drawing astonishment from everyone. Can magical treasures really be borrowed so casually?
Many people have doubts about this claim, but for those who are not confident in their ability to survive the tribulation, it is a glimmer of hope. Therefore, ever since this building was completed, thunderclouds have been a constant presence every day.

Although there are many cultivators undergoing tribulation, it's impossible for someone to be there every day. However, Xiao Wuji stayed in the Daluo Palace every day, leading his group of people to try and participate in the heavenly tribulation, which is why this strange scene was created.

However, to avoid his future tribulation becoming too powerful, Xiao Wuji usually had his subordinates take the hits. He himself would observe from the sidelines, wearing a purple crystal jade robe engraved with the Heaven-Deceiving Array.

With the Heaven-Deceiving Array Pattern, as long as one doesn't reveal their aura, they can wander freely under the Heavenly Tribulation without being struck by lightning. This kind of joy is something ordinary people simply cannot experience.

This situation of thunderclouds obscuring the sun lasted for two full years before it began to ease. The thunder he collected in those two years was enough to last him for a very long time.

Well, that is, provided that his second soul doesn't come looking for him...

Black Leaf Forest!

"It's incredibly nourishing, truly incredibly nourishing!"

Xiao Wuji pulled a towering tree out of the Yellow Springs and then began to absorb the wood-attribute energy within it.

It has been more than a year since he broke through to the Nascent Soul realm. After he killed the Black Phoenix Clan member, he was hunted down by the Integration stage cultivators. If he hadn't seen the situation was bad and run away, if his Nine Palaces Divine Speed ​​Technique hadn't been so profound, and if there hadn't been some spatial rifts that he had "eaten" left over nearby, he might not have been able to escape.

This truly left Xiao Wuji speechless. He was merely a lowly "Nascent Soul cultivator," yet he had been directly targeted by a Nascent Soul level expert. Only someone with a ten-year-long stroke would have done something like this. Shouldn't villains be brainless? Wait, this time it seems he's the villain...

After he entered the spatial rift that day, he arrived in the desolate land outside Tianyuan City, and it took him more than a year to reach the Black Leaf Forest.

In comparison, the territory of the Spirit Race is much safer.

Because the Great Five Elements Technique was far too effective against the spirit race with its five elemental attributes, the silver-rank wood spirit he had just devoured, which was comparable to a late-stage Void Refinement cultivator of the human race, didn't even last a single move against him.

After finishing, Xiao Wuji smacked his lips and said with a slight sense of dissatisfaction, "It's a bit lacking. I really want to taste the flavor of a gold-grade wood spirit."

A gold-tier wood spirit, comparable to a human at the Integration Realm, would be impossible to defeat under normal circumstances. However, with the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Technique, he felt he could still put up a fight.

"Forget it, we're in an unfamiliar place, let's have some snacks first. After I've mastered the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Technique, I'll go and cause trouble for those gold-rank wood spirits!"

After leaving the Crystal Palace, Xiao Wuji activated the Reincarnation Technique and used the Azure Emperor Wood King Technique to revive trees. In the blink of an eye, Xiao Wuji transformed into a Wood Spirit Clan cultivator.

At the same time, to avoid being divined by others, Xiao Wuji directly condensed the Heaven-Deceiving Array Patterns into an array, and cultivated a Heaven-Deceiving Array Divine Power in his Purple Mansion.

With his combined supernatural abilities, even a Mahayana cultivator would find it difficult to discern his identity. This was the source of his confidence in remaining in this place.

Space birdcage!

Xiao Wuji threw the fire-attribute "dragon balls," transformed from heavenly lightning, into a ball of black flame.

The flames were as black as ink, and the rolling black flames vaguely coalesced into a black human face. Streams of devouring power surged out from the face, frantically tearing at everything around it.

This flame is none other than the Void Devouring Flame, ranked second on the Strange Flame Ranking. Of course, this thing is just a terrestrial flame; he can't defeat the Void Devouring Flame's true form. Even if he were lucky enough to obtain it, he wouldn't dare choose it.

The so-called sub-fire is a flame that is differentiated from the primordial fire. This sub-fire can possess some of the abilities of the primordial fire, but its power is much weaker. In a sense, it can be considered a clone of the strange fire.

Above the ordinary sub-fire, there are two special sub-fires, known as the Heaven and Earth sub-fires, and the Void Devouring Flame in his hand is the Earth sub-fire!

Earthly Fire differs from ordinary Fire; it is considered the nascent form of Void Devouring Flame, containing some of the laws of Void Devouring Flame, making it extremely powerful.

The Emperor's Fire, even more powerful than this, requires splitting the source of the strange fire in two while remaining undying—something ordinary strange fires simply cannot do. Such a sub-fire already contains all the laws of the original strange fire; given sufficient energy, it can directly grow into a second, complete strange fire.

The Earth Fire in his hand was something "he" had snatched from Hun Xuzi.

Counting from when he was still in the lower realm, he had to fight six times before finally drawing this one Earth Fire.

This earth fire was incredibly powerful, almost as strong as the fused strange fire within his body. But Xiao Wuji was not in a hurry to refine it.

He had originally intended for his second primordial spirit to use this opportunity to cultivate the Great Devouring Technique, but he was now somewhat unable to contact it, perhaps because the second primordial spirit had worn the Heaven-Deceiving Array Pattern. After all, the Heaven-Deceiving Array Pattern could sever causality.

After suppressing the Void Devouring Flame Sub-Fire onto the wick of a lamp-shaped sacred weapon, Xiao Wuji tossed a handful of fire "dragon pearls" into the lamp, then let it devour itself. He wanted to fatten up the sub-fire first, and then wait for his second primordial spirit to return and begin its slaughter.

Setting the strange fire aside, Xiao Wuji then began cultivating two supernatural abilities.

One sect is called the Seven Emotions Great Hand Seal, and the other is called the Six Desires Evil Dragon Qi.

Both of these supernatural powers require the seven emotions and six desires of the mortal world to cultivate, and Xiao Wuji was precisely such an ordinary person full of these emotions and desires.

By drawing upon the power of two great supernatural abilities to absorb his seven emotions and six desires, he could temporarily reach the state of Ice Heart. Once he fully comprehended the mysteries of Ice Heart, he would return these emotions and desires to their source, dissipate the supernatural abilities, and return them to his own body. At that time, he would be able to directly break through to the Ice Heart realm. Then, even using only his mental strength, he would be unafraid of Nascent Soul cultivators.

With hands forming a mudra in front of him, all the emotions in his heart were peeled away from his body, eventually merging with the magical power within him to form a special kind of power that could evoke the seven emotions...

When the power of this emotion reaches a certain level, it will transform into a powerful array of supernatural abilities within his dantian. He doesn't have that much emotional power, nor does he need to use it.

The power of lust will continue to arise, just like the three corpses in a person, impossible to eradicate. All he needs to do is to lose lust for a period of time...

(End of this chapter)