The Ultimate Fire Master of Avatar

Chapter 47 Foundations, Inspiration, and Traitors

It was a rare opportunity to be taken out by Uncle Airo, so Zuko took the key Airo gave him and headed straight for the Kahn family. As for Uncle Airo, he seemed to be looking for someone to play chess with, so he didn't go back with him.

Enjoying tea, playing chess, and playing music—this is Uncle Ai Luo's ordinary retirement life, which he finds quite enjoyable, and there's nothing wrong with it.

As soon as he entered, he saw his friend sitting cross-legged under a tree in the yard, meditating.

Although the posture was that of meditation, the head was tilted to one side, the body was loose, and the sound of even breathing could be heard, indicating that the person was asleep.

"Kahn, what are you doing?"

Upon hearing Zuko's voice, Kahn snapped out of his daze, instantly resuming his posture. With his eyes closed, he pretended to be deep in meditation and replied:

"I'm meditating, can't you tell?"

"But you were asleep just now. Why did you suddenly start meditating?"

"Because this is a fundamental skill, and a meditative state helps with thinking."

Kahn pretended not to hear the first half of Zuko's sentence and explained casually.

Ai Luo's suggestion seemed pretty good, because his situation was actually that of a latecomer to the field; when he transmigrated, the original owner had long since passed the stage of practicing basic skills.

Although he possessed extraordinary talent and quickly inherited the original owner's memories and skills after inheriting them, and made rapid progress with a solid foundation, there seemed to be a lack in his basic skills.

So he prepared to start with meditation to experience the basics of training again, and also to think about the development of fire control techniques, but he accidentally fell asleep.

He wasn't sure if meditation helped with thinking, but it seemed to help him sleep, though he would feel sore all over after waking up.

"You've already begun your training as a Grandmaster of Fire Control."

After hearing the whole story, Zu Kou sighed with envy.

However, he was already used to it. Anyway, he had been suppressed by Azura since he was a child, and now there was just another one, Kahn, which was no big deal.

Zu Kou comforted himself in this way.

He quickly rallied, picked up a leaf from the ground, and said:

"Speaking of basic skills, I think this is more interesting."

As he spoke, wisps of smoke began to rise from the center of the leaves, and then they burst into flames.

But that was all; it didn't reach the point of flame. It just started burning from the center outwards, burning a large hole in the center before the burning stopped at the edge.

The leaves are neither completely burned nor stopped burning, as if time has stopped at that moment, which looks quite magical.

"This one?"

Kahn also recalled the original owner's training as a child, a training in fire control to ensure that he would not harm himself when using fire control techniques in the future.

He became interested and picked up a leaf, slowly burning it until it reached its limit. He then held the flame, keeping the edge of the leaf just a thin line. Any more than that would have completely burned the leaf, demonstrating his skill.

In terms of fire control alone, Kahn might already be worthy of the title of grandmaster.

However, he was more concerned about something else:

This method of making the flames burn is not like simple fire control, but more like the control of heat that he had in his mind.

As he mentioned before, flame is the phenomenon that produces light and heat when a substance burns.

Putting aside the possibility of controlling the light, this alone had already excited Kahn.

Theory is theory, and reality is reality. He knew that it was difficult for all his wild ideas to come to fruition, but the fact that one of his ideas had become a reality still showed him a considerable possibility.

Could this be the starting point that Ai Luo wanted him to pay attention to?

He couldn't guess what Airo was thinking, but he had already decided that, regardless of success or failure, the first step in researching and developing fire control techniques would begin here.

Zu Kou didn't stay with him for long before leaving. It wasn't that he was kicking him out, but rather that Zu Kou had to hurry to Mei's place. He had very little free time these days, so he had to make the most of his time.

In this situation, it's already quite good that he can still share the spoils with everyone, and that people will stop by to visit him.

Tsk tsk.

Kahn made a disdainful sound.

Speaking of which, not only Zuko, but Azura also seems to have been busy. I haven't seen her much lately. Considering what she said before, she's probably practicing that secret technique.

It seems he has to work harder too, at least to maintain his current strength and status, and not be pushed down by Azura!

He went back inside and brought out a glass of cold water—doing experiments indoors was still too dangerous—and carefully poured the gas into the glass, recalling the output power of the gas in his body when burning leaves.

After a while, steam began to appear in the water in the cup, and then it boiled. He successfully heated a cup of cold water into boiling water!

It really works!

The successful first experiment invigorated Kahn, who then began the next phase of the experiment.

"Yu" means to control. If it can only impart heat energy, then the importance of this ability will be greatly reduced.

Kahn tried to control the heat in the glass of water as if he were controlling a flame. Once he felt it was about right, he carefully touched the glass—

It's not hot.

He picked up the glass; the inside felt icy cold to the touch, but the water inside was still bubbling and boiling!

It succeeded, and it went more smoothly than anyone could have imagined, to an almost unbelievable degree.

Although he knows he is exceptionally talented, isn't this going a bit too far?

Is it actually that simple?

While pleased, Kahn couldn't help but feel a moment of doubt, but he quickly put it aside.

"Let's continue with the experiments," Kahn said enthusiastically.

In the evening, perhaps because something good had happened, Airo seemed to be in a good mood. When he returned home happily, he found a cup of hot tea right next to Kahn, which made him even happier.

"Did you plan to come back at this time specifically to prepare this for me?"

"Yes."

Kahn responded with a smile.

Ailo picked up the tea and took a delicious sip. Kahn had lived with him for so long, but his tea-making skills were still mediocre. It seemed that all his talent was in fire control.

Even so, Airo still drank very happily, after all, it was prepared especially for him by Kahn.

This child was well-educated; he's so filial!

A slightly smug Airo didn't notice that Kahn's smile today was different from usual; it was exactly the same smile Azura showed when she played pranks.

"Uncle Airo, I've made some new discoveries about fire control today, and I'd like to show them to you."

"A new discovery?"

Airo's attention was still on the tea, but his interest had been piqued.

Just then, Kahn reached out and pulled at the water glass in Elo's hand. At the same time, the temperature of the hot tea in the glass suddenly dropped rapidly and froze into ice at a speed visible to the naked eye!

"This is.?"

The icy coldness of the teacup made Airo shiver involuntarily. Looking at the teacup in his hand, now covered in frost, Airo's eyes were filled with surprise. Kahn had indeed shattered his expectations time and time again.

But more than any expressions of shock or praise, what Airo wanted to say first was—

"You unfilial disciple! Hurry up and defrost the tea!"

(End of this chapter)