117 Absorbing the hundred beast flame (1/2)

”Are you sure about your choice.” Elder San asked. ”We don't know what this flame is. It could be quite weak. There are much better flames in the treasury.”

”I am sure.” Bai Yun said. ”This is the one I want.” He would have to be crazy not to take it. This was probably the most valuable item in the entire world.

For a moment Elder San stood there and wondered whether to let Bai Yun have the flame. This flame had a great importance to the clan. Even though it looked quite weak, it was also the very first transcendent element ever collected by the clan.

After a while Elder San finally gave in. ”All right you can have it.” He said. Rather than just put it here, it was better to give it to Bai Yun. Who knows Bai Yun might even find out about the secrets of the flame. ”Then again, this flame is probably the only one you could actually absorb given your current cultivation. All the other beast flames might be too powerful for you.”

Bai Yun rolled his eyes when he heard this. Not only would he have no trouble absorbing any of the flames here, but the hundred beast flame was also the strongest flame here. Due to its special properties, it was extremely difficult for it to show its true power before it was absorbed.

Elder San walked into the room and started to press at a secret point on the podium. Slowly the restrictions that were placed on the hundred beast flame started to come undone. Elder San then took out a small bottle and carefully transferred the flame into it. He then bottled it up and gave it to Bai Yun.

After he got the hundred beast flames Bai Yun and Bai Mu quickly left the treasury. Bai Mu took Ba Yun back to the mansion. When they reached the mansion, Bai Mu took Bai Yun to the library and sat down and stared at him.

”What?” Bai Yun asked after a while.

”Out with it.” Bai Mu said. ”Why did you choose that flame? You wouldn't have chosen that flame for no reason.”

Bai Yun smiled when he heard his father. ”There is no reason. Just an instinct that there is something special about that flame.”

Bai Mu glanced deeply at Bai Yun. Then he nodded and said ”Fine. Here is a book on how to absorb a transcendent flame, along with some techniques necessary to do it. Now go and absorb the flame.”

Bai Yun quickly left the library and went back to his room. He then took out the small flame and held it in his hands.

The hundred beast flame was a powerful flame. It wasn't something Bai Yun could absorb with his current cultivation. Thankfully he had the god devil sense. Without it, Bai Yun would be burned to ashes by the hundred beast flame.

The process of absorbing transcendent elements was to take a transcendent element and transfer it into your dantian and then mark it with a special soul mark. There were two separate parts in this. The first part was to take the transcendent flame into the body and into the dantian. This required the help of a very strong body. Without it, your body could be destroyed by the transcendent element. There were also some special pills and materials as well as techniques that could reduce the burden on the body. Bai Yun had access to some of the most powerful pill recipes as well as techniques available to him. But thanks to the god devil sense, Bai Yun was sure that he did not need any of them.

The second part was to place your soul mark into the transcendent element. This required one to create a soul mark and place it on the transcendent element. This was a dangerous practice. The transcendent elements had their own spirituality. They would fight back against the soul mark. And this meant that there was a chance for the soul mark to fail. It was especially the case for beast flames which has a violent will.

There were different means to create the soul mark. Depending on the method used, they had differing chances of success. Bai Yun was currently studying a method created by the God of Alchemy that had a very high chance of success. Even with his great comprehension, it would take Bai Yun a while to completely comprehend the technique.

And the fact that all transcendent elements had to be stored in the dantian and they had spirituality meant that a person could only have one transcended element at a time. If you had two or more transcendent elements at the same time, they could clash against each other and the resulting collision could kill you. Of course, nothing was absolute. There were some special people with mutant dantians that could hold multiple transcendent elements at the same time.

And if you want to change your transcendent element, there were two ways that it could be done. The first to free the current transcendent element and to once again mark a new one.

The second method was to feed the current transcendent element to the new one. A free transcendent element had a small chance of feeding a much weaker transcendent element of the same type. This meant that a transcendent flame could only feed on a transcendent flame, and a transcendent earth could only feed on a transcendent earth, and so on. The powerful transcendent element would eat the weaker one and the soul mark would get transferred to the new one. This could only be achieved under some dangerous conditions and if the feeding method failed, you would be crippled at the very least. But some people still tried this method. This was because the new transcendent element also had a small chance of merging the abilities of the two original elements or even awakening some new abilities.

Bai Yun knew all this so he was very careful. Even with the god devil sense, if he was careless for a moment, the hundred beast flame would burn him up.

Bai Yun studied the soul marking method deep into the night. Once he was certain that the soul mark had been perfected, Bai Yun began the process of absorbing the transcendent flame.