Chapter 441: Earthflame Essence (1/2)

Chapter 441: Earthflame Essence

Dong Li seemed very excited.

The Beast Spirit Incantation the Dong Clan members practiced was a special incantation that allowed people to refine beast spirits into themselves and improve their battle prowess with the beast spirits’ strength.

However, the beast spirit would usually lose a large amount of soul power before merging with people. Therefore, the might of the beast spirit could almost never achieve the same level as when they had been alive.

Powerful experts from the Dong Clan would only attempt to strengthen their beast spirit after advancing to the Worldly realm, when they possessed soul power.

Even so, knowing how important and precious their soul power was to them, they usually wouldn’t waste it on their beast spirits.

Because of that, it was almost certain that beast spirits wouldn’t grow stronger after they were refined and merged with their owners.

That said, it was impossible for Dong Li, who was only at the Greater Heaven stage and didn’t possess soul power, to strengthen her black phoenix on her own.

Upon learning that the Spirit Pearl was able to gather and refine Specters and discarnate souls, she was instantly intrigued.

Her overjoyed and warm attitude made Nie Tian slightly uncomfortable.

He reach out his arm and handed the Spirit Pearl to her, saying, “Here. Have a try if you want.”

Dong Li seemed confused. “What?”

“See if you can extract soul power from it and use it to strengthen your black phoenix,” Nie Tian said.

With a quick glance at the Spirit Pearl, Dong Li shook her head repeatedly and said, “I don’t have the ability to refine these discarnate souls yet.”

“Well, it’s not that easy for me to refine discarnate souls either.” Gazing into the Spirit Pearl, Nie Tian discovered that the two wisps of discarnate souls from Jiang Bo and Lu Shen were swimming within it, but they still seemed to contain the negative emotions and broken memories of their past lives. Therefore, they couldn’t be channeled directly into his mind yet.

Furthermore, he had a feeling that there were still things about the Spirit Pearl he didn’t know yet.

Even though he assumed it would be safe to keep it before it gathered too many discarnate souls, he felt that changes would occur when it had gathered enough discarnate souls and Specters.

Therefore, he deemed this mysterious treasure forged by the Phantasms to be a potential problem, which could put him in trouble someday.

“Don’t let people see it. Now put it away!” Dong Li urged.

A mere glance at the Spirit Pearl, which was emanating misty, cyan light, made her uneasy. She couldn’t help but recall the horrifying illusions of mountains of corpses and seas of blood it had put into her mind when she had approached the center of the lake.

If it hadn’t been for Nie Tian, she would have lost her senses and ended up as another discarnate soul in the Spirit Pearl.

“Alright.” Nie Tian put the Spirit Pearl away.

Dong Li let out a sigh of relief and said, “I meant, next time you refine the discarnate souls within it, maybe you can share some with me.”

Nie Tian nodded. “Okay, I’ll try.”

Moments later, the Flame Dragon Armor suddenly shot out of the mouth of the volcano like a streak of flames.

Dragging a tail of flames behind it, it rapidly returned to Nie Tian’s bracelet of holding.

“That’s it?” Dong Li seemed surprised. “That volcano is still spewing lava and flames. Don’t tell me that the Flame Dragon Armor has absorbed enough flame power already.”

Eyes narrowed, Nie Tian examined the Flame Dragon Armor with his mind before saying, “It seems that the Flame Dragon Armor has only absorbed earthflame essence from the heart of this volcano. Earthflame essence was what it truly needed to replenish its flame power.”

“Earthflame essence?!” Dong Li’s expression flickered slightly.

“Why? What’s wrong?” Nie Tian asked.

Dong Li didn’t answer him right away. Instead, she scanned the volcano with her psychic awareness, and then said, “You’re right. It has only absorbed the earthflame essence within this volcano. But I bet you don’t know that once a volcano is loses its earthflame essence, it will soon go extinct. Plus, without earthflame essence, a volcano will lose its ability to gather flame power from its surroundings. Therefore, it will never become active again.”

Nie Tian nodded slowly. “I see.”

When the Earth Flame Beast had ravaged the Scarlet Flame Mountain Range in the Realm of Flame Heaven, he had learned something about flame crystals, earthflame essence, and Earthflame Crystal Strings.