Chapter 2 - The Teachings of Xin Huo (1/2)

Zhong Yue was stunned. This was not a voice that he had imagined, but other than himself, there were only the bones of that strange man…

Could it be…

Even with his fearless personality, his face still turned pale white and his body started shivering.

"What are you looking at? I am here!" The voice sounded again, it was unhappy, "Young man, I'm talking to you, what reign is the Fuxi in now?"

Zhong Yue stared at the lamp in his hand as he tried to speak. The voice came from the lamp!

A golden bird with four wings was weird enough, the dark black haze that consumed things was even stranger, but all of these were not nearly as strange and weird as a lamp that spoke!

"Your bloodline is so weak that I can barely detect it, has the Fuxi Celestial Race really declined to such an extent?" the voice from the lamp said with deep emotion.

Fuxi Celestial Race? Is it talking about me? Zhong Yue wondered.

He moved closer to look at the lamp, but there was nothing abnormal under the lamp cover. The lamp flame was faint and vague—only a finger high. He could not tell where the voice came from.

Suddenly, he gazed right at the lamp flame. It was not a lamp flame, it was a big-headed doll the height of a finger!

The big-headed doll was white-skinned, and was wearing exquisite golden-yellow clothes. Its hair was red and if one did not pay attention, it was easy to mistake it for a lamp flame!

Such a peculiar living being exists in the world?

Zhong Yue blinked and looked at the lamp flame child curiously. The lamp flame child was irritated by his gaze and said furiously, "Youngster of the Fuxi Celestial Race, I'm asking you which Fuxi reigns over the land, you have not yet answered my question!"

"Fuxi?"

Zhong Yue recovered his thoughts before he smiled and said, "You speak of the Xi Sovereign? The Xi Sovereign is in a class by himself, he is the Earthly Sovereign Heavenly Monarch. He is the only one, where do these others come from? Furthermore, I am not of the Fuxi Celestial Race, I am a human."

"No! No!"

The flame child jumped furiously like a flame wobbling vigorously in the lamp, "This is so wrong! Fuxi is a title, not an individual's name. It is the appellation given to the Earthly Sovereign, the Taihao Heavenly Monarch! Before I fell into my slumber, there were already nine reigns of Fuxi! The first Fuxi became the Heavenly Monarch, ruled for eighteen thousand years, then he passed the throne to the second Fuxi Yiyi. Yiyi held the crown for fifteen thousand years and the throne was then inherited by Shiyi, then Taihao, then Haoyi, Shaoyi, JiJie, and lastly Xihao. There were nine reigns of Fuxi!"

Zhong Yue was dumbfounded by these words. He had once heard from the elders of Swords Gate that Fuxi was the Earthly Sovereign Heavenly Monarch during ancient times. They said he was the one and only one of his class, but now this weird lamp flame child said there were nine of them?!

The lamp flame child walked back and forth in the lamp as he mumbled, "How long have I been asleep? How can this brat not know what Fuxi is? He is definitely of the Fuxi Celestial Race, despite the bloodline in him being a little thin. However, he said that he is a human, what in the world is this human race? Why have I not heard of it before?"

The lamp flame child jumped out of the lamp and into Zhong Yue's arms. It left burning sensations as it walked along Zhong Yues shoulder. The lamp flame child muttered again, "There must be something that happened during my slumber, something that I'm not aware know of? What is the time, what year is this? All the years I have been sleeping, what era have I awoken to…"

Zhong Yue interrupted his diatribe, "I hear that the time of reign of the Xi Sovereign was hundreds of thousands of years ago and that he was the saintly sovereign from the ancient era. Now we are in the era of the Human Sovereign… Oh yes, what are you exactly?"

Zhong Yue scratched his head, he was a little hesitant to call the lamp flame a kid. At this time, the lamp flame child said with a heavy heart, "My name is Xin Huo, during the time of Sui Sovereign… Nevermind, forget about it, you don't even know what Fuxi is exactly, it is a waste of time telling you. Bring me out of here, I need to find and pass down the flame and heritage of the ancient teachings to a new successor. In exchange, I will give you a bit of benefits!"

The child disappeared suddenly. Just as Zhong Yue was puzzling over it and looking around in confusion, he heard the voice of Xin Huo coming from his mind, "This is the soul nourishing art you practice? As one of the dignified Fuxi Celestial Race, you dare to practice such a primitive and pathetic cultivation technique? You are a disgrace and a living humiliation to the Fuxi! Stop looking around, I am in your psyche ocean, you only have to concentrate your psyche and imagine a sea of stars hidden in your forehead. There is the space between your eyebrows, you can find me there. I will teach you, follow my instructions…"

"Imagine and visualize the psyche ocean? That requires a profound state, there are not many outer disciples who can do this! The method you are going to teach me, does it really allow me to see and visualize the psyche ocean?"

Zhong Yue was very doubtful, but he followed the instructions that Xin Huo had given him. Suddenly, his view changed. He saw himself at a strange place, floating atop a lake of water!

The lake was crystal clear, with a radius of a hundred feet. A Sword Gate could be seen floating above the lake.

The Sword Gate was shaped like a sword that was split in half.

Zhong Yue was shocked, now he could really see his own psyche ocean!

He had not seen his psyche ocean with his own awareness, even after years of cultivation and visualization. The main reason was he was not at that level yet. He had not really thought that under the Xin Huo's casual instruction, he would be able to do so instantly!

Such a rapid cultivation speed, no one would believe him even if he shouted it out loud!