Salamander Blue Flame

A torrent, like boiling magma, surged rapidly from Long Chen's palms into his meridians.

"Boom."

A roar echoed within Long Chen's meridians as the heat flow rushed in like seawater back-flowing into a river channel, causing intense pain throughout his entire body.

He tightly controlled the flow rate of the energy within the inner core; if that terrifying energy were allowed to pour directly into his body, his meridians would instantly burst.

The Fengfu Star spun rapidly, outputting massive amounts of Spiritual Qi to exert maximum effort in controlling the speed at which the inner core's energy entered his body.

He needed to let his meridians gradually adapt to that violent heat; this was, after all, the inner core of a Fire Lizard Beast, the place where its life's energy was condensed.

If the inner core were detonated all at once, its terrifying power could instantly kill several Rank 3 Demonic Beasts.

Even so, Long Chen still felt unbearable pain in his meridians as the terrifying heat flow continuously scorched them.

Furthermore, the violent aura within kept surging; it was an instinctive desire for destruction, wanting to burn everything around it.

Fortunately, Long Chen had prepared well in advance. With the effect of the Fire Gathering Pill, he had coated his meridians with a protective film, which could reduce the damage caused by the inner core's energy.

At the same time, Long Chen also secretly rejoiced. Thanks to his recent promotion to the seventh heaven of Blood Condensation, his meridians had been strengthened once again. Otherwise, even with the protection of the Fire Gathering Pill, he might not have been able to endure it today.

Everything is difficult at the start, but once the beginning is handled well, the subsequent process becomes much simpler.

Long Chen continued to slowly absorb the inner core's energy. The energy within the inner core was immensely vast, and Long Chen dared not increase the speed. It took a full three hours before he finally absorbed all the energy from the inner core.

After completely absorbing the Fire Lizard Beast's beast fire, the terrifying energy completely incinerated the original beast fire.

Now, Long Chen's meridians were filled with the energy of the Fire Lizard Beast's inner core, which was, in fact, the Fire Lizard Beast's natal fire.

The strength of the Fire Lizard Beast exceeded Long Chen's imagination; if it hadn't been for the Fire Lizard Beast being weak after giving birth, he would have been in big trouble.

Now, the Fire Lizard Beast's natal fire was surging within Long Chen's meridians. Long Chen used his Soul Power to quietly wear away the violent emotions it brought.

Fortunately, the Fire Lizard Beast's natal fire did not possess true intelligence. Long Chen used the method of "boiling a frog in warm water" to easily wear away its inherent will without worrying about any backlash.

Once the will of the natal fire was eliminated, Long Chen took a deep breath. Whether it would be a dragon or a snake would be determined by this one attempt.

"Condense."

Long Chen let out a cold shout, and the energy within the Fengfu Star surged out, frantically driving the beast fire forward from the very tips of every meridian.

Those beast fires had already lost their original will. Like a tidal wave, they crushed forward, like galloping steeds, heading straight for the Dantian.

"Boom."

A loud explosion came from Long Chen's Dantian as all the beast fire crashed together with a roar.

"Puff."

Long Chen spat out a mouthful of blood, and a trace of paleness appeared on his face.

"Damn it, it actually failed. I knew my luck wasn't that good."

Long Chen gasped wildly; that last maneuver had exhausted him, but unfortunately, the scene he had originally envisioned did not occur.

"Although it didn't succeed, I seem to have seen the image of a rune. This means there is a way."

Long Chen wanted to capture the Fire Lizard Beast's natal rune through the eruption of the beast fire.

Because the Fire Lizard Beast was a fire-type Demonic Beast, and its beast fire was ranked ninety-seventh on the Beast Fire Ranking, it possessed a Bloodline Legacy.

Such a Demonic Beast had rune power within its inner core, but such runes could not be used by humans.

However, Long Chen had come up with a method: to make the beast fire collide within his body and erupt with violent power, so that in that instant, he could capture the power of the rune.

Because the inner core Long Chen had obtained was almost complete, as long as Long Chen could make these powers erupt, he could make the rune reappear.

The Fire Gathering Pill that Long Chen had swallowed could not only protect his meridians, but its greater purpose was to gather flame power to the maximum intensity.

If someone else did this, their Dantian would immediately burst, but Long Chen didn't care; his Dantian was a dead silence anyway, with nothing to explode.

"Again."

"Boom." "Boom." "Boom." "…"

Consecutive explosions, consecutive vomiting of blood; Long Chen felt as if he were about to collapse, but one belief kept supporting him.

That was that this method was absolutely feasible, because the rune he saw was becoming clearer and clearer each time, it was just that the time the rune appeared was too short to control.

"Boom." "Wait… Sigh, failed again."

After this eruption, a rune was clearly visible within the flames. Long Chen was using his Soul Power to communicate with this rune, but unfortunately, the flame power dissipated, and the rune vanished.

"I can't do it anymore, I need to rest for a while."

Long Chen's face was full of exhaustion. His body was strong, and he wasn't afraid of spitting a few mouthfuls of blood, but driving the flames and the great collision of "a hundred rivers flowing into the sea" required the consumption of powerful Soul Power.

Especially after the collision, when the rune appeared, he needed to use ten times the Soul Power to capture that rune.

Now, after crashing more than a dozen times in a row, his body could take it, but his Soul could not bear it anymore, and he felt as if his head was splitting with pain.

He hurriedly took a Soul Calming Pill to quickly recover his Soul Power. More than an hour later, his Soul Power had recovered a little.

"This time, I must succeed."

Long Chen took a deep breath. Although he had failed before, Long Chen had accumulated a lot of valuable experience and was becoming more and more confident.

He once again used his full strength to drive the beast fire scattered within his meridians, starting to rush toward his Dantian. The momentum was massive, even more violent than the previous few times.

"Boom."

The beast fire collided within the Dantian, and the terrifying energy entangled together. A rune immediately appeared within the flames.

"Faster… faster… come over here, baby."

"Hum."

Suddenly, Long Chen's mind shook. A strange fluctuation rippled through his Soul, and a new memory appeared in the depths of Long Chen's Soul.

"Did I succeed?"

Long Chen suddenly opened his eyes and stretched out his hand. A cerulean blue flame rose up. Although it was only a foot long, the terrifying high temperature caused the green grass within a ten-foot radius to wither rapidly.

Long Chen slowly closed his eyes and took a deep breath. With a fluctuation in the depths of his Soul, he opened his eyes again.

"Boom."

The flame in his hand suddenly leapt violently, and within the flame, a rune was clearly visible.

When this rune appeared, the surrounding withered grass instantly turned into fly ash, and the area within a ten-zhang radius was scorched black.

"Haha, I succeeded, I…"

Long Chen had only laughed halfway when he suddenly felt the world spinning. A strong sense of exhaustion washed over him, and unable to hold on any longer, he collapsed and fell asleep.

When Long Chen woke up again, he found himself lying on the bed, covered with a brocade quilt.

"You're awake! What were you doing? When we found you, you were covered in black, and there was a burnt smell." Tang Waner walked in, holding a wet towel, which had clearly just been washed.

"Hehe, I was conducting a great experiment," Long Chen said with a smug smile.

"You almost roasted yourself. Don't tell me you were researching a type of barbecue," Tang Waner laughed, reaching out to wipe Long Chen's face.

Long Chen was startled and hurriedly took the wet towel, saying, "I'll do it myself. It's really embarrassing to trouble the President."

Tang Waner's pretty face flushed slightly, and she wrinkled her little nose, snorting softly, "You still have times when you're embarrassed? When you were picked up, you looked like a little beggar. If it weren't for Sister Qingyu and me, would you be this clean?"

Long Chen was startled. Only then did he realize that his clothes had been changed. He hurriedly looked inside his clothes, and couldn't help but feel relieved; fortunately, his inner garments hadn't been changed.

"Bastard, what kind of look is that?"

Tang Waner let out an angry shout and pinched Long Chen's arm hard; Long Chen's look really annoyed her.

"Waner, are you bullying Long Chen again?"

At this moment, Qingyu walked in and just happened to see Long Chen's grimacing, miserable state, and couldn't help but say with some reproach.

"Sister Qingyu, why do you always side with this guy? It's clearly him bullying me," Tang Waner said with some grievance.

She was also puzzled as to why this bastard had such good luck; every time he had the upper hand, it was always seen by Qingyu.

Long Chen chuckled and said, "Sister Qingyu, you misunderstood. I was just joking with Waner."

Tang Waner glanced at Long Chen, and her expression softened a little. That glance at Long Chen meant: at least you know how to talk.

"By the way, what time is it now?"

"What do you mean what time is it? You've slept for two whole days. It's already the afternoon of the third day," Tang Waner said.

"Ah, I've slept for two days?"

Long Chen was startled and hurriedly jumped out of bed, "Waner and Sister Qingyu, close the door and turn the Spirit Stone Formation to the maximum."

"What are you going to do?" Tang Waner couldn't help but be stunned.

"Don't ask, just do it quickly."

Long Chen walked to the main hall, took out all the medicinal herbs he had bought, laid them out one by one, and at the same time took out the Pill Furnace and placed it on the floor.

Tang Waner and Qingyu followed Long Chen's instructions, closed the stone door, and at the same time turned the Spirit Stone Formation to the maximum.

Because usually when the door was open, or when not cultivating, to avoid waste, the Spirit Stone Formation was turned off, which could extend the service life of the Spirit Stones.

If the Spirit Stone Formation in their room was turned to the maximum, the energy of eight Spirit Stones could only last for three hours.

Calculated this way, Tang Waner's Spirit Stones were only enough for half a month, so she saved them whenever she could.

When the Spirit Stone Formation was turned on, the massive Spiritual Qi within the Spirit Stones began to release rapidly, and the dense Spiritual Qi instantly filled the entire Immortal Cave.

"Long Chen, are you going to perform Alchemy?" Qingyu asked with some confusion.

"Hmm," Long Chen responded while checking the medicinal herbs.

He needed to lay out all the medicinal herbs in a certain order so that it would be more convenient when performing Alchemy, and he wouldn't have to worry about taking the wrong medicine.

"Then should we go out?" Tang Waner asked tentatively. Although she didn't know much about Alchemy, she knew that an Alchemist could not be disturbed while performing Alchemy.

"No need, I'll need your help in a while," Long Chen smiled slightly.

After speaking, he stretched out his hand, and a blue flame rose up, illuminating the entire Immortal Cave. Now it was time to show the results; let's hope it doesn't disappoint me.