Chapter 374: A New Power (1/2)

Chapter 374: A New Power

“So my soul has grown even stronger now.” Jian Chen thought with surprise. However, he wasn’t completely happy. Even after his soul had grown stronger, the only thing that had changed was his ability to perceive things, nothing else.

Suddenly, Jian Chen’s entire body trembled slightly as he closed his eyes and began to meditate. All sorts of energy from his surroundings was felt through Jian Chen’s perception; at this moment, Jian Chen’s world had exploded with beautiful colors from every spectrum.

He could see just about any color imaginable to the human eye. There was the faint glow of white, the dark color of black, the dull shine of red, the heavy shade of yellow, the rich blue and the lively green.

Seeing such a rich world of color, Jian Chen was stunned. These colors were the six elements of the world that he was never able to perceive before. In the past, aside from the Radiant Saint Force or the world energy, he couldn’t detect any other element.

But now, he could sense the other five elements along with the Radiant Saint Force. With such a sight like this, Jian Chen couldn’t help but think that he was dreaming.

“Could this be what happened when the Sword Spirits fused with my soul?” Jian Chen thought to himself as a way to try and explain just what could cause such a phenomenon like this.

Slowly opening his eyes, Jian Chen began to move his right hand. Opening and closing his fingers, Jian Chen suddenly realized that the room was rather hot in temperature before a flash of red light began to gather around his hands. In a moment, a faint sea of fire could be seen on it.

In disbelief, Jian Chen looked at the miniature sea of flames in his hands with a thunderstruck expression as if he couldn’t believe what had just happened.

Despite the flames being so close to Jian Chen’s hands to the point of contact, he felt no heat at all. It was almost as if the flames were an illusion and not real.

“Fire! There’s a fire, fireeee!” Suddenly, a frantic shout could be heard from outside the room. Jolting him out of his inner thoughts, Jian Chen suddenly realized the room had suddenly burst into flames.

In his moment of stupor, the flames gathered in his hand had disappeared. When he was in such a state, he had nearly forgotten just how flammable this room was.

“Bang!” The door to the room was abruptly kicked apart as the simple clothed wearing fatty charged straight into the room with a frantic cry, “No no no, there’s a fire! Come on, Jian Chen, we have to get out!” As if he was flying, the fatty flew toward Jian Chen’s bed and carried him out of the room.

In a moment, the flames from the room began to soar high into the sky as if devouring the heavens.

“Put out the fire! Hurry, someone get some water!” Several shouts rang through the air as a dozen simple clothed villagers came running forth with buckets of water.

“Tianyu, what happened? Just how in the world did a fire start?” Suddenly, the father of the fatty appeared out of nowhere as he addressed the flames eating away at the house.

Wailing, the fatty looked toward his father with a wretched but innocent face, “Dad, I don’t know either. Everything was perfect! Just how could the house catch on fire, there wasn’t even any light sources anywhere!”

Hearing that, the father’s eyes turned toward Jian Chen with a leveled stare, but he said nothing.

The fatty’s eyes swiveled toward Jian Chen as if he had come to a conclusion as well. With a gasp, he cried, “Dear gods, Jian Chen, don’t tell me you’re suicidal!”

Jian Chen stood up by himself with some difficulty. Although his wounds looked like they were healed on the surface, anyone that looked at him would know that any small movement caused Jian Chen a tremendous amount of pain.

“I am terribly sorry, this was not intentional.” Jian Chen let out a small smile on his face, indicating that his mood had improved a bit from earlier.

“Oh my my, Jian Chen. I beg you a thousand times over, don’t be depressed! You’re so young, you can’t go kill yourself! You absolutely must continue to live!” The fatty fretted as he looked at Jian Chen, thinking that he had done something foolish in his moment of depression.

At the sight of the fatty fretting over him, Jian Chen couldn’t help but let out a small smile, “Don’t worry, I won’t kill myself.”

After making sure that Jian Chen was not pretending, the father laughed, “It seems you’ve already gotten over it.”

“Quick, put out the fire!”