Cultivation begins with harvest.

With a little breath, he opened his mouth and exhaled, and a ball of blue flame grew with the breath, becoming the size of a kettle in the blink of an eye. The rolling heat wave still distorted the airflow in the daytime.

It weakened slightly, but a breath of magic power was expelled from it, and it immediately returned to normal, burning steadily.

With a thought, the ball of flame flew around, transforming into various shapes of birds, beasts, and soldiers. In the blink of an eye, it pounced on the ground, turning into countless small flames that seemed to have grown legs and leaped rapidly across the ground. Unfortunately, it moved without making a sound, otherwise it would have been a fascinating scene.

With another wave of his hand, the flames coalesced once more, only now they were a size smaller.

The series of changes and actions consumed the magical power within.

As soon as he opened his mouth, Kui Yan, like a weary bird returning to its nest, entered his mouth, was swallowed in one gulp, and returned to his liver.

Driven by interest, Chen Guang tried many more times, managing to condense the energy from his fingers, the back of his feet, and other parts of his body, but the speed was far slower than spitting it out from his mouth.

Ordinary magical flames are far less powerful than spiritual flames, even if it is only the Kui Flame, one of the five basic spiritual flames acquired through practice.

Being able to freely condense Kui Flame is already a powerful means of combat. Going further, combining it with combat techniques, with a layer of Kui Flame constantly appearing on the body's surface, that would be the prototype of a powerful combat system.

Suddenly, Chen Guang had a flash of inspiration. He took out a Yin Fire Pill and swallowed it. A wisp of Kui Flame appeared at his fingertip. The cyan flame contained wisps of black energy. He touched the ground with his finger. Without the support of magic power, the Kui Flame quickly dissipated. However, some black flames on the ground continued to burn tirelessly. It took an incense stick's time for the flame to gradually extinguish. The stone slabs on the ground cracked under the burning, and charred stone particles appeared in the cracks.

'The duration and power of the Yin Fire have increased, but the power of the Kui Flame has been diminished because it is no longer pure.'

The Qingma Kui Flame is only at the entry level. The liver can still hold more Kui Flame, so the pill still needs to be refined. However, there is a limit to how much it can be taken. The Five Visceral Flames are based on five kinds of acquired basic spiritual fires. The five elements complement each other and are constantly generating. Under the balance of self-operation, they can nourish and strengthen each other, and also temper the five internal organs.

If one cultivates a single aspect too perfectly, it can actually be harmful.

Chen Guang only planned to cultivate to the minor completion level for a short period of time, which would be enough.

If you add too much, your liver fire will become excessive, which can easily lead to illness. Even so, you will not be able to fully replenish the five internal organs within about ten years. You will either have to abandon this secret technique or endure the onset of liver disease.

During this period, the last nine Concentration Flowers finally matured, and the final harvest included eight Concentration Pills, fourteen sticks of Azure Spirit Incense, and twenty copies of the Azure Mountain Visualization Diagram.

The formula for the Concentration Pill has also been unlocked. Its difficulty is higher than that of the Crimson Fusion Pill but lower than that of the Azure Flame Pill. Moreover, this basic type of pill, along with pills like the Qi Nourishing Pill and Blood Qi Pill, is among the eighteen types of pills that are detailed in the Crimson Heart Pill Scroll.

Compared to directly granting enlightenment, the profound understanding brought about by dismantling the Red Heart Scroll is not much less profound.

Zhong Qi also arrived at Chen Guang's branch hospital on this day, a few days earlier than the agreed time.

"I found a senior brother from the Yantang Sect. His alchemy skills are superb. I plan to ask him to refine a few batches first, and then come and pick a few plants," Zhong Qi explained.

"They are all ripe," Chen Guang said. "Senior brother may also have the potential to cultivate the Nine Calculations, and be able to predict the future. These Concentration Flowers are ripe today, not too early and not too late."

Zhong Qi nodded, then took out a stack of coins: "As agreed, three Ice Pine Trees and nine Concentration Flowers belong to Junior Brother, and I am willing to pay a price higher than the market price—"

Chen Guang interrupted Zhong Qi, saying, "Senior Brother, please don't say such things anymore. I also used the Ice Mist Array to cultivate these spirit beasts and plants. How should this be calculated? How much should I give to Senior Brother, and how much can I keep for myself? Senior Brother can take the twenty Concentration Flowers. I also hope that Senior Brother can bring me more demon beast blood so that I can use it to cultivate Blood He Shou Wu."

"Junior brother is truly kind and righteous," Zhong Qi sighed.

In the end, it was written down in black and white in triplicate. The spiritual contract had some rules, and how things were divided was determined. Now, the details of the redistribution were within the scope of the spiritual contract. There was no need to re-sign the spiritual contract, but evidence should be left to prove that this was the case, so as to prevent anyone from having bad intentions and giving conflicting accounts in the future.

Zhong Qi left with twenty Concentration Flowers. As for learning how to fight with them, that would have to wait a few more days.

This is a good time to refine some elixirs.

That very night, Chen Guang finally refined a Qingma Kuiyan Pill of excellent quality. This was the first time. Even though the addition of Mangli Wood improved the quality of the pill, it did not change the quality. The Qingma Kuiyan Pill was indeed just a makeshift one. Chen Guang had a feeling that if the pill formula was improved, the best he could achieve with the current formula was only an excellent quality Qingma Kuiyan Pill.

Chen Guang had neither the interest nor the ability to improve it. This was merely a pill used for cultivating secret techniques, and its effects were limited to this. The effort required to perfect and elevate a pill formula was incomparable to the rewards. Improving the quality would only make a difference between taking a few fewer pills and taking a few more.

Importantly, the appearance of this pill allowed the accumulation of rewards for the Azure Flame Pill to complete the second stage of accumulation.

The second-stage rewards for the pills have always been quite excellent.

The Yin Fire Pearl of the Yin Fire Pill and the Crimson Heart Pill Scroll of the Crimson Melting Pill both contain immense value, naturally making people anticipate what the third type of pill might reward them with.

"The Azure Flame Pill has completed the second stage of harvest accumulation, and the magic technique 'Forest Star Flame' has been obtained."

A massive amount of information flooded into Chen Guang's mind.

This is a technique for refining spiritual fire. Based on the Kui Flame, it absorbs the power of the stars and can eventually form a more powerful spiritual fire—the Forest Star Flame.

The Forest Star Flame possesses the characteristic of being extinguished and reborn like waves, and because it possesses the power of stars, each wisp of flame is as heavy as a boulder.

Chen Guangguang could sense from that description that once Sen Xingyan was fully cultivated, it would definitely be a powerful killing move, perhaps even threatening some Foundation Establishment cultivators.

However, it is much more difficult to cultivate. It is not a secret technique and there are not many shortcuts. Even with resources, the cultivation progress cannot be accelerated much. It relies entirely on the control of fire magic to refine flames while attracting and accepting the power of stars. This process is repeated and requires countless temperings before a trace of forest star flame can be generated.

My understanding of the Flame Control Technique is not enough here.

The only area where one can take shortcuts is the power of stars, by using other spiritual objects to draw upon the power of stars.

The Forest Star Flame cannot be used as a "seed of fire" itself; once a wisp is used, there is one less left. Therefore, it can only be used as a killing move. Once released, the consumed flame will never be restored and will need to be reconstituted.

"If everything goes smoothly and without obstacles, under the best conditions for cultivation, and with four or five hours of cultivation each night, it will take about six months to refine one wisp of Senxingyan. However, some of the refining techniques involve extremely advanced fire magic that I don't understand. Furthermore, the absorption of stellar power is related to celestial phenomena, sometimes more, sometimes less. It's said to be one wisp every six months, but in reality, it will probably take several six months before we can begin refining. And once the refining actually begins, it won't just be one wisp every six months."

There are too many good things, and there are more and more things to cultivate. Even without the daily constraints of cultivating magical power, this is still the case.

No wonder most cultivators are only proficient in one skill, or at most, they may also practice one or two other cultivation arts, but none of them are very proficient.

Chen Guang also proceeded cautiously, but when it came time to give up, he was decisive and made choices.