Reaching the pinnacle from Doupo

Chapter 342 Seal, Persuasion

Thunder Realm, Tianlei Mountains.

The cool moonlight poured down from the sky, covering the entire mountain range with a layer of light silver gauze.

In the center of the mountain range, groups of palaces stand one after another. Under the moonlight, they are like ancient beasts, exuding a hint of ancient breath. At this moment, these palaces are brightly lit.

These days are considered festive days for the Thunder Clan, so many places are decorated with lights and filled with a festive atmosphere.

In a small town at the foot of the mountain, a lively market was specially opened.

Even if it is an ancient clan, the people who live in it are still humans... Those who are more powerful, in terms of their minds, are not fundamentally different from those in the outside world.

In the northwest corner of the central mountain range is a large and elegant manor. At the entrance, people come in and out one after another, and a strong aura permeates the air... This manor is the residence arranged by the Thunder Clan for everyone.

In a quiet secret room in the manor specially prepared for Danta, Xiao Yan sat cross-legged, emitting a fiery green light.

"seal up--"

At a certain moment, a clear shout suddenly sounded, and the green light that enveloped him converged and condensed, forming dozens of green fire patterns on his body. The fire patterns crisscrossed and turned into a rather mysterious magic array.

The moment the formation was formed, the green fire patterns began to quickly retract and gathered towards Xiao Yan's brows.

In the blink of an eye, a faint blue lotus mark condensed and appeared between his brows. The slightly chaotic fire energy aura before seemed to be purified and became extremely pure.

At the same time, the Wind Fury Dragon Flame aura on Xiao Yan's body also completely disappeared.

“This should be able to deal with most situations. As long as we don’t investigate in depth, even a semi-saint should not be able to detect this aura.” Taking a deep breath, Lin Yuan nodded slightly, retracted the sword finger that was pointing at Xiao Yan’s forehead, and took two steps back.

Xiao Yan opened his eyes, and after a brief perception, a look of surprise appeared in his eyes: "Brother Lin is very skilled. Even I can't sense the breath of Wind Fury Dragon Flame!"

In this state, no one would be able to detect it unless the Wind Fury Dragon Flame was released.

“It’s just the right time!” Lin Yuan waved his hand casually and chuckled, “Fortunately, your second kind of strange fire is the Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire that I’m familiar with. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to use the Azure Lotus Seal to completely conceal the aura of the Wind Fury Dragon Flame…”

"By the way, this seal was set by me controlling your Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire. You can remove it at any time... This is the solution."

As he spoke, he used soul communication to pass on the solution to the seal to Xiao Yan.

After taking a long breath, Xiao Yan slowly stood up from the stone platform and saluted towards Lin Yuan: "Thank you so much this time, Brother Lin."

After hiding the secret of possessing multiple kinds of strange fire, his safety factor has been greatly improved.

“No need to be so polite!” Lin Yuanxu raised his arm and said calmly: “However, you and I are old friends. If Brother Xiao doesn’t mind me being nosy, I have some words of advice for you. You might as well listen to them…”

Hearing this, Xiao Yan straightened his expression and said in a deep voice: "Please give me some advice, Brother Lin."

Lin Yuan nodded slightly and said meaningfully: "Brother Xiao's skills can control a variety of strange fires and evolve with the help of a variety of strange fires. It is indeed extraordinary. However, its difficulty and risk... may be much greater than you expected."

"Could you please explain in detail, Brother Lin?" When talking about this issue, Xiao Yan's expression suddenly became much more serious.

“Of course!” Lin Yuan nodded slightly and said thoughtfully: “You and I both know that the further you advance in a technique, the greater the gap between each level.”

"After you see the Heaven-level skills in the past few days, you will have a clearer understanding of this."

"If I'm not mistaken, your current technique should not have reached the Earth level. Your technique, with two strange fires as nourishment, can only reach this level. If you want to evolve into a Heaven level technique, I think you need the top ten strange fires..."

"But among the first ten strange fires, the first three are extremely difficult to touch, and the others are mostly owned by owners and are currently held by various ancient clans."

"Are you serious?" Xiao Yan's eyes narrowed when he heard Lin Yuan's words.

"Of course it's true." Lin Yuan smiled and told him the details.

"From what I know, the fourth Golden Emperor Burning Sky Flame is the ancient clan's inherited fire; the sixth Eight Desolate Destruction Flame, the seventh Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Flame, and the eighth Red Lotus Karma Flame are all in the hands of the Flame Clan; the tenth Nine Nether Wind Flame belongs to the Medicine Clan."

"As for the fifth one, the Flame of Life, it is the exotic fire that alchemists like me dream of. How difficult is it to find and subdue it... hehe!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yan also gave a bitter smile. He had heard Yao Lao talk about the Flame of Life.

Even his own teacher revealed an unconcealable desire when talking about this strange fire - to a pure alchemist, the Flame of Living Beings is as tempting as the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire.

The flame of life seems to be the flame created for alchemy.

Unlike ordinary strange fires which are fundamentally destructive, the most fundamental characteristic of the Flame of Life is that it possesses a special kind of life force.

Under the nourishment of this life force, as long as the medicinal seeds are put in, the seeds will grow rapidly. In other words, with the Flame of Life, there is basically no need to consider searching for medicinal herbs, as long as you have enough seeds.

In addition, the lifespan of the host of the Flame of Life will be greatly increased, and will be on par with those magical beasts that are famous for their lifespan.

To match such a miraculous power, the difficulty of obtaining this fire is also extremely great.

According to ancient records, after the flame of life is formed, its intelligence will be quite high, and it will naturally have the wisdom to seek benefits and avoid harm. Most of the time, it will not even appear in the form of fire, but will transform into an inconspicuous medicinal herb and hide. Even if you walk by it, you will not be able to recognize it.

At the same time, as the fifth ranked strange fire, the mature Flame of Life is a Dousheng-level combat force. Even if one is lucky enough to find it, 99% of alchemists cannot defeat it.

Only by possessing both powerful strength and amazing opportunity can one be lucky enough to subdue the Flame of Life.

Even though Xiao Yan thought that he was very lucky and his strength was... okay, but as for the Flame of Living Beings, he really didn't have the slightest confidence that he could subdue it.

After all, before his own martial arts reached the heavenly level, he didn't have much confidence in breaking through to the Douluo Saint level.

Besides, even if he managed to subdue the Flame of Life, it would be difficult to keep it. From what Lin Yuan had just said, he realized a disturbing fact—among the top ten strange fires, the higher the ranking, the stronger the power it belonged to.

As for the Flame of Life, this kind of strange fire that all alchemists dream of, if someone who doesn’t even have the strength of a Fighting Saint dares to possess it... that’s simply courting death!

Putting himself in Xiao Yan's shoes, he was not sure if he could suppress his greed.

For him, among the top ten strange fires, the only one that still has a chance and is quite suitable is Danta's Three Thousand Flames.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yan looked at Lin Yuan meaningfully, then pretended to be ignorant and asked tentatively: "What about the ninth-ranked Three Thousand Flames? Brother Lin, have you heard of its situation?" "Three Thousand Flames? It is in our Danta star field and has been sealed there for many years."

Lin Yuan pondered for a moment and said frankly: "I saw it once when I went to the star field before. It is indeed an excellent strange fire. However, so far, no one in Danta has successfully subdued it. As for the reason..."

"Have you seen the Three Thousand Flames? No..." Xiao Yan's eyes narrowed, and he quickly asked: "Do you know why no one has been able to successfully subdue it?"

The fact that the Three Thousand Flames have not been tamed yet is something that puzzles him greatly.

As someone who possessed two kinds of strange fire, he was very clear about the attraction of strange fire to alchemists. However, Danta obviously had many powerful alchemists, so after hundreds of years, why hadn't they been able to subdue the Three Thousand Flames?
So many powerful people have failed to tame it in such a long time. Xiao Yan does not think he can have much confidence.

"You've asked the right person!" Lin Yuan gave him a meaningful look and said, "I haven't confirmed this yet, so I haven't told Elder Xuan yet. Considering the relationship between Senior Yao and Elder Xuan, it doesn't hurt to tell you first..."

He exhaled lightly, and his tone became more serious: "If my guess is correct, the Three Thousand Flames are being kept in the star field by a powerful force... This fire already has its master!"

Xiao Yan was shocked when he heard this: "What? The Three Thousand Flames have an owner?"

A quarter of an hour later.

Xiao Yan had just gathered his thoughts, picked up a jar of sweet wine, walked out of the secret room with heavy steps, and walked slowly towards his room.

Too many things happened today, and now he just wants to get drunk.

“Xiao Yan, ah Xiao Yan, don’t let the opportunity I gave you down.” Looking at Xiao Yan’s departing back, a cold light flashed in Lin Yuan’s deep eyes.

"I have already disclosed some situations to you in advance."

"Although this is just hypocrisy on my part, I hope that you can take advantage of my words and this opportunity to strengthen your 'correct' determination and make the 'correct' choice. In this way, you and the Xiao clan will still have some hope in the future."

"In this life, you are destined to have no chance with the Three Thousand Flames and the Pure Lotus Demonic Fire. Giving up the Burning Technique early may not be a bad thing for you."

“If you insist on the Burning Decree, a path that may be related to the ancient emperor’s inheritance, perhaps one day in the future, Yuan Tianzun will have to take action to... eliminate you!”

“When that moment comes, no one will be able to practice the Burning Technique.” Putting away the coldness in his eyes, Lin Yuan slowly walked out of the secret room, looking up at the bright moon hanging high in the sky, with a hint of indifference on his face.

After realizing that this was an opportunity, he began to guide Xiao Yan to change his training technique.

To Lin Yuan, the evolutionary ability of the Burning Technique was not important, nor was its effect of fusing the Strange Fire. But the fact that no one else was practicing the Burning Technique... was very important!

The Burning Decree is a technique also practiced by the ancient emperor Tushe. It is difficult to determine whether it is related to the ancient emperor's inheritance.

In order to prevent any accidents from happening, he must make preparations early, in case when the inheritance of Tushe Ancient Emperor is opened, Tushe Ancient Emperor's will will directly ignore the difference in cultivation and directly select the person who practices the Burning Decree as the inheritor based solely on the degree of compatibility with Tushe Ancient Emperor.

After all, since the ancient emperor's inheritance can elevate a seven-star Dou Sheng to a Dou Emperor, then it seems that it is not impossible to elevate a one-star Dou Sheng or even a Dou Zun to a Dou Emperor.

For a Dou Di strongman, there is no essential difference between a one-star Dou Sheng and a seven-star Dou Sheng.

Therefore, even if the possibility of this happening is extremely small, we must be prepared - we must completely eliminate this possibility of an accident.

There are two ways to eliminate this possibility: first, let those who practice the Burning Technique switch to practicing other techniques; second, eliminate those who practice the Burning Technique by force.

Currently, Lin Yuan is trying the first method on Xiao Yan. Due to many conflicts of interest, he does not want to use the second method unless it is necessary.

Besides, he did not lie to Xiao Yan, and everything he told him was true.

However, speaking the truth at different times would produce completely different effects... and this time, he successfully made Xiao Yan realize that choosing the path of "Burning Decree" would make the future more difficult than he had previously expected.

The effect was quite significant. After learning that the Three Thousand Flames were also difficult to obtain, Lin Yuan could clearly sense Xiao Yan's inner turmoil.

"Xiao Yan, this is enough for now. Next..."

While thinking, some fluctuations came from the 'jade ring' on his hand, and a gentle smile suddenly appeared on Lin Yuan's face: "They are ready, so it's time to go out for a walk. By the way, let's also inquire about the news of the Thunder Clan..."

Thinking of this, he stretched lazily and walked leisurely towards Zi Yan's room.

Soon, several young men and women flew out of the courtyard where Danta was staying and rushed towards the bustling market at the foot of the mountain...
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The next day, early morning.

A ray of morning light fell from the sky, and the entire mountain range seemed to suddenly wake up and become lively in an instant. In the sky, figures flashed by, and all kinds of festive music also resounded over the mountain range.

"crunch-"

With a slight sound, the tightly closed door slowly opened. Lin Yuan, who had already tidied his clothes and wiped away all traces, slowly walked out of the Little Doctor's room.

His eyes swept across the courtyard, and he saw Qinglin, Ziyan, Danchen and Xinlan already waiting in the stone pavilion.

"Good morning, you guys!" Lin Yuan walked over quickly.

"Sir, you have been busy all night and must have worked hard... Where is Sister Xiao Yixian?" Qing Lin came forward with a smile, stretched out her slender hand, and gently smoothed out a wrinkle on Lin Yuan's clothes, but her words revealed a trace of undisguised resentment.

"The little medical fairy is dressing up and should be out soon." Lin Yuanxu scratched the back of his head and laughed.

"I'll go see Sister Xiao Yixian!" Qinglin put down her jade arm, turned around and was about to walk towards the room.

"Wait!" Zi Yan stepped forward quickly and stood between Lin Yuan and Qing Lin. She gave Qing Lin a look that showed she was disappointed with him. "You are so useless. I have taught you many times. How long are you going to wait? Look, I will demonstrate it to you once, and you can learn from it..."

Before she finished her words, Zi Yan grabbed Lin Yuan by the collar, pulled him to her level, and pressed her lips against his without hesitation.

At this moment, the air in the courtyard seemed to freeze and time stood still.

Qinglin, Xinlan and Danchen all froze in place at the same time. Then, blushes of shyness quickly appeared on their faces, as beautiful as newly blossomed peach blossoms.

Especially the youngest one, Dan Chen, who saw such an "exciting" scene for the first time in his life, subconsciously covered his lively eyes with his hands.

However, after a few blinks, a few small gaps appeared between her fingers, and two curious and shy glances slowly appeared from between her fingers. Her fair little face suddenly turned red, as if blood was about to drip out.

After a long time, Zi Yan let go of Lin Yuan. There was a hint of confusion in her eyes, but a smug smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. She said without question, "Come to my room tonight!"

(End of this chapter)