Chapter 149 - The Monarchic Azure Flame (2/2)

[You’re saying your flame is so freakish that it can suppress a heaven and earth spirit flame just as the latter suppresses beast flames?]

[Did the world even have such a thing?]

“Humph, he’s clearly faking and bragging yet none of his words sound believable.” Xie Tianyang mocked.

Vicious Pill King laughed, “Kid, you take me for a three-year-old? The world does not have such a savage flame. If you can take it out, then I will directly kowtow three…”

Suddenly, his voice was choked with the appearance of an azure flame above two of Zhuo Fan’s fingers. It was as calm as candlelight, unimpressive in the slightest.

But this plain azure flame descended on the world like a monarch. Its invisible pressure befell like a mountain.

The cackling Bone Soul Truefire now seemed to have found its nemesis and scurried back into Vicious Pill King’s body, never to come out again.

Not even at Vicious Pill King’s incessant urgings.

If a heaven and earth spirit flame was so decisive, then Liu Yizhen’s, Yan Fu’s and Tao Danniang’s beast flames were even worse.

They had no spirituality but they nonetheless trembled under the azure fire’s pressure and died out.

When the monarch of flames descended, no common flame dared to burn!

All the fires died out in a blink, even the other alchemists’.

Only Zhuo Fan’s frail azure flame let out a soft glow.

The shock was incomprehensible. Even Vicious Pill King stared slackjawed.

“W-what is this? The heaven and earth spirit flame ran?” Vicious Pill King’s body was swaying. He was the owner of Bone Soul Truefire and could feel it shivering in fear, “What flame is that?”

Zhuo Fan looked at his azure flame with a smile, “Who knows? It’s been given to me anyway.”

His cheeks twitching, Vicious Pill King trembled.

[Why is it that I wasn’t lucky enough to have someone give me such a strong flame?]

When he chanced upon the Bone Soul Truefire, he’d been so thrilled he couldn’t sleep a wink for how much fortune smiled upon him. He could’ve died happy!

But here, now, in Zhuo Fan’s presence, his bit of luck was lackluster, to say the least.

“Now, do you still want to refine?” Zhuo Fan snickered, letting the azure flame sway in front of him.

Vicious Pill King’s eyes reddened from envy. How the hell could he still refine? His entire mind was set on that frail flame.

He was almost consumed by the desire to just seize it.

Zhuo Fan laughed, knowing perfectly well what Yan Song was thinking, “Now do you believe me? Well then, Vicious Pill King, let me ask you. Who’s the petty one?”

Vicious Pill King felt like crying.

[Goddamn it! This punk is unfathomable! Three rounds ago he spoke not a grain of truth and now he said the most unbelievable things yet it turns out to be the whole and unfurnished truth!]

[Curses! His plots are too sinister for me to unravel!]

Despite being filled with regret, Vicious Pill King still reddened as he admitted, “Pardon me, Grandmaster Song. I have wrongly mistaken a gentleman for being petty.”

“Ha-ha-ha, lighten up. It’s enough to know that I’m a perfect gentleman.”

Zhuo Fan laughed and not only made the old man redden harder from shame but even flaunted, “Then, wanna go ahead and refine? Or maybe, together?”

[You joking? Refine with you? How, when any and all flames were snuffed because of yours?]

[I get why this punk said there was no competition if both refined together!]

Vicious Pill King sighed and admitted it despite the humiliation it brought, “Pardons, Grandmaster Song. I was overconfident. I shall go ahead and refine first.”

“Alright. With my generous nature, I shall let you begin.”

Zhuo Fan smiled and took back his azure flame while crossing his arms. Even so, he couldn’t help himself from muttering, “Stingy, how unreasonable!”

His voice may have been soft, but all heard him.

Vicious Pill King staggered. He was truly pissed but felt more aggrieved than anything else.

[I rarely want a fair fight and what do I get? Humiliation. Being good is not all that cracked up to be.]

He was oblivious though that as he was feeling sorry for himself. Zhuo Fan nodded in his mind and his mouth widened into a broad and satisfied smile…