Chapter 289: Spirit Flame Upgrade

Lou Mu Yan’s eyes lit up. She had been thinking about this cluster of Spirit Flames earlier, but she didn’t accept it immediately, “Does your Netherworld Flame need Spirit Flames to evolve? If you need it, you can refine it first.”

Mo Yan’s indifferent eyes were stained with a small smile, “This Spirit Flame isn’t very useful to the Netherworld Flame, hurry up and go refine it.”

Lou Mu Yan being able to restrain the longing in her heart and give up the Spirit Flame to Mo Yan made his long-frozen heart melt a little more.

“You really don’t need it? You’re not lying to me are you?” Lou Mu Yan looked at Mo Yan seriously.

If Mo Yan’s Netherworld Flame needed it, she would definitely never snatch it from him.

Mo Yan smiled without a good attitude and said: “I really don’t need it. This level of Spirit Flame is completely useless to my Natal Flame.”

Lou Mu Yan rolled her eyes at him. So it seemed that he disliked that this Spirit Flame’s level was low, “Sure, sure, it doesn’t enter your eyes, but I’m greedy for it, so I won’t be polite.”

This Spirit Flame does have the effect of mutating and upgrading her Purple-Gold Spirit Flame.

After she finished speaking, with a wave of her sleeves, she collected the Spirit Flame and ran into the wooden hut to start refining. Mo Yan watched her leave with a rare warmth in his eyes.

Ten days later, a stream of Spiritual Force of Heaven and earth flowed continuously into the wooden hut. Although it didn’t form Spiritual Clouds, but there was a rather considerable amount.

“I wonder if Owner will successfully advance to Sword Sovereign this time or not.” Bing Ji transformed into his human form and rubbed his chin with a look of anticipation in his eyes.

Mo Yan laid lazily on a piece of white animal skin to bask in the sun, “She won’t. Advancing too fast will cause the foundation to be unstable. She won’t do such a thing.”

“That’s true. Miao Miao’s advancement is also too fast, will her foundation also be unstable?” Bing Ji asked with slight worry.

Mo Yan raised his eyes and glanced at him with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, “It won’t. Demonic Beasts are different to humans. What’s more, Miao Miao has the Golden Dragon bloodline, so there’s no such thing as unstable foundation beneath Tier 9.”

This time, not only was Lou Mu Yan cultivating in seclusion, but Miao Miao and Xue Xue also felt the bottleneck of advancement break at practically the same time, so the two Demonic Beasts also found a place to advance.

Inside the wooden hut, Lou Mu Yan refining the cluster of orange Spirit Flames wasn’t as easy as she imagined.

Although the Orange Blaze Spirit Flame wasn’t as high-level as the Purple-Gold Spirit Flame, but it also understood danger, and wouldn’t allow itself to be swallowed by the Purple-Gold Spirit Flame willingly.

While Lou Mu Yan suppressed the Orange Blaze’s resistance and let the Purple-Gold Spirit Flame devour it smoothly, she also had to endure the pain of burning meridians of her whole body from the Spirit Flame.

After another ten days, she changed her sweaty clothes and with a refreshing flip of her palm, a cluster of two-coloured Spirit Flames emerged.

Then, she didn’t stop, but used the energy of refining the Spirit Flame to advance her cultivation base.

Spiritual Force gathered around and all surged into the wooden hut. Lou Mu Yan transformed the Spiritual Force into Spiritual Energy and used the green mist in her dan’tian to purify it again and again.

When the Spiritual Energy was pure to its limit, she also successfully advanced from Middle-Phase Sword Monarch to Advanced-Phase Sword Monarch.

This sort of speed was actually already amazing, and as long as she wanted to, with a little Spiritual Force Gathering Array, she could directly advance to Peak-Phase Sword Monarch. But she didn’t do so.

Mo Yan was rather correct. It wasn’t always better to advance one’s cultivation base as fast as possible. She liked to lay a solid foundation and the purer her Spiritual Energy was, the better it would be for her to condense her Golden Core in the near future.

After the advancement was completed, she didn’t leave the wooden hut, but instead, took out that set of Earth Rank Sword Skill to research, and some of its ingenious uses benefited her a lot.

Although she was an Almighty from the Spiritual Realm, but she didn’t reach for what was beyond her grasp. There were also many things in this world that she should learn and accept with an open mind.

A month later, Miao Miao advanced into Tier 7 and Xue Xue also broke through to Middle-Phase Tier 7. Miao Miao could now transform into a human form, which made Xue Xue jealous for a long time.

Demonic Plants must reach Tier 8 to be able to transform into a human form. All of Lou Mu Yan’s Spirit Pets, aside from Xue Xue, could now transform, only that Mo Yan had never transformed before.

“Owner, let’s go into the mountains to play.” Because Miao Miao advanced too quickly, she now looked like a little girl of about three or four years old after her transformation.

Lou Mu Yan squeezed her fleshy pink face and said with a smile: “This is a Class 1 Danger Zone. Even if Tier 8 Demonic Beasts entered, they may not survive. You better stop dreaming.”

Miao Miao and Bing Ji were a bit similar in one aspect. They liked to play very much and simply couldn’t sit still.

“Aye, then that’s fine.” Miao Miao sighed.

“And in another month, we’ll be leaving. You and Xue Xue should hurry up and consolidate your cultivation base.” Lou Mu Yan stroked her nose and said.

“Alright.”

With three days left before the great war, Lou Mu Yan walked out of the wooden hut and flew out of this area.

Because Demonic Beasts were also preparing for the battle, so although they were in a Class 1 Danger Zone, but they hadn’t encountered many powerful Demonic Beasts.

When Lou Mu Yan returned to the border city, Lou Mu Bai and the others were all a little anxious, and only when they saw her return safely were they relieved.

After chatting with the others and catching up, Lou Mu Yan called Lou Mu Bai and Ling Fei Yang to talk privately in one of the inn’s rooms.

“Yan’er, did something happen?” Lou Mu Bai asked worriedly, seeing her solemn expression.

Ling Fei Yang looked up at her intently. He just felt that what she was going to say today had something to do with him.

“Mm. After I left individually before, I met that Great Master Wu who refined the Sumeru Light Boat. It turned out that he was…”

Lou Mu Yan briefly talked about the encounter with Great Master Wu and Ling Qiu, but she didn’t reveal Mo Yan. Instead she told them that the news was what she interrogated from Great Master Wu himself.

It wasn’t that she couldn’t trust Lou Mu Bai and Ling Fei Yang, but the more they knew, the less safe they were.

[BANG!] Ling Fei Yang’s expression was exceptionally grim, and the teacup in his hand was crushed by him.

Lou Mu Yan sighed and comforted: “Elder Cousin Brother, maybe Eldest Uncle didn’t die in the Black Mist Canyon. After all, the Soul Tablet left in the Ling Clan hasn’t completely broken.”

All direct line and elite pupils of each Clan basically had a Soul Tablet representing their life. If their Soul Tablet was broken completely, then it meant that the person was already dead.

“But Father’s Soul Tablet is filled with cracks. Even if he’s not dead now, he must be in extreme danger.” Ling Fei Yang revealed slight pain, “I didn’t expect that the person who harmed Father would be his direct aunt.”

“That woman must’ve been possessed to be so ungrateful simply for a man.” Lou Mu Bai’s expression was also very ugly.

Ling Qiu’s talent was even better than their Maternal Grandfather, and so she was raised by the Clan with importance. But who knew that ultimately, they fed a white-eyed wolf1.

“She’s in this competition space?” Ling Fei Yang restrained his emotions, but the coldness in his eyes didn’t dissipate.

Lou Mu Yan nodded: “Mm. After the finals, I’ll take you both to her. If she can be saved without devouring and refining a Divine Soul, then I’ll try my best to wake her up.”

Speaking of refining Divine Souls, Lou Mu Bai and Ling Fei Yang’s expression condensed some killing intent—Lou Mu Yan was almost killed by her too.

“Why does Mu Yan want to save her? Is she worthy?” Ling Fei Yang furrowed her brows, a look of disgust in his eyes.

Lou Mu Yan curled her lips, narrowed her eyes, and said: “Don’t you think it’s too cheap for her to die just like this? Maybe she might know some news about Uncle. As long as Eldest Uncle’s Soul Tablet hasn’t completely broken, there’s still hope, no?”

Plus, that woman might also know some background information of that Great Master Wu.

Ling Fei Yang also had a glimmer of hope in his heart when he heard her say this, “Yes. Maybe she has news of Father. It’s really too easy on her to just let her die like this.”

After discussing a little more, they cultivated in the city and waited for the Great Decisive War.

[DONG DONG DONG!]

Three days later, a melodious bell rang.

Lou Mu Yan stood up and quickly leapt towards the direction of the city wall, and countless figures in the entire city also ran in that direction.

The time had come for the Great Decisive War with the Demonic Beasts in the finals.

1an ingrate.