Chapter 187 - Eternal Flame (1/2)

Chapter 187 Eternal Flame.

  

Chapter 187 – Eternal Flame

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After the two sisters ate their satisfying meal together, Lin Ming pulled out another type of healing medicine and sprinkled it onto Na Yi’s back. Under the combined effects of these two medicines, Na Yi’s wound quickly mended without even leaving a scar.

Finding that Na Yi’s upper clothes were completely torn apart, and that there was some improper scenery revealed, Lin Ming took out some old clothes from his spatial ring and tossed them towards Na Yi.

Afterwards, Lin Ming asked Na Yi, “Do you know if there are any peculiar thunders or fires within the Southern Wilderness? For instance…”

Lin Ming stretched out his hand and a garnet colored flame suddenly bloomed within his palm. The tongues of flame from this fire formed petals just like an exquisitely dangerous lotus.

Na Yi was shocked. This was the first time that she had ever seen a flower-shaped flame like this!

Although the flame was only the size of an egg, the heat waves that emanated from it were enough to cause her to step backwards several steps. The temperature of this flame was simply inconceivable.

Not only that, but when Lin Ming had been fighting the monkey-faced man, he hadn’t even used this flame. That meant that he had been going easy on them!

For an Altering Muscle youth to fight against two peak Bone Forging martial artists and not even need to use their full strength was already an unimaginable level. To Na Yi, this youth was simply terrifying.

Mm… wait… how did Lin Ming’s cultivation…

Na Yi’s eyes widened; she suddenly wasn’t able to sense Lin Ming’s cultivation. For a martial artist in Body Transformation – and even most Houtian realm martial artists – they weren’t able to restrict their true essence from emitting within their bodies. Because of this, it was often very easy to spot what level of cultivation someone was at. When true essence entered the organs, that was Viscera Training. When true essence entered the bones, that was Bone Forging.

There were even some martial artists whose aura was like a billowing bonfire, where commoners who had no martial arts cultivation were able to sense their awesome strength.

Only a martial artist who had cultivated to the realm of completing a true state, in which true essence was gathered in their entire body would be able to mask their cultivation. For instance, if they were an extremely formidable peak Houtian realm master like Qin Ziya, or a genuine Xiantian realm martial artist.

If they converged all of their true essence and aura into their bodies, then they would appear no different than a common person. Only someone whose cultivation was higher than them would be able to see the complete depths of their strength.

However, at this moment, Na Yi could only see the faintest true essence fluctuations within Lin Ming’s body. If she didn’t know him, then she should have assumed that he was a martial artist who had just started down the path of cultivation, an outright newly minted youth who wasn’t even at the First Stage of Body Transformation.

“Mo Lin, your cultivation… how did you…”

Lin Ming paused for a moment; he immediately understood Na Yi’s questioning doubts. He himself had only just discovered that after absorbing the reverse scale blood, there had been some bizarre changes to his true essence.

In the past when Lin Ming cultivated, whether it had been practicing the ‘True Primal Chaos Formula’ or swallowing the Blood Lingzhi to increase his blood vitality, or even using the Heretical God Seed to compress his true essence, all of it had been similar.

All of these were quantitative changes to his true essence. For instance, they would remove impurities and let his true essence become purer, or thicker, or even increase the density of his true essence through compression.

The nature of his true essence had never changed.

But now, after Lin Ming had stumbled into an accidental fusion with the reverse scale blood, his true essence was showing a qualitative change. This sort of change didn’t happen overnight, rather it was slow process that happened over time.

Lin Ming couldn’t confidently say to what end these changes would bring him to, but he was able to approximate that whatever changes that would occur would be to his greatest benefit. After all, the reverse scale blood was something that even the mighty elders in the Realm of the Gods would be jealous of. The bloodline of a True Dragon was certainly far superior to that of a human mortal.

Because his true essence had undergone a qualitative change, Lin Ming found that his ability to control and manipulate his true essence was growing. When he attempted to control his true essence, he found that he would unconsciously converge all of the true essence and aura within his body, and achieve a state similar to returning to one’s origin. It could be said that he had achieved similar results through a different route.

Someone like Na Yi, who was only a martial artist at the Viscera Training stage, would never be able to comprehend Lin Ming’s current cultivation.

Lin Ming grinned, no longer restraining his aura. His true essence emanated from him, and his cultivation of a peak Bone Forging martial artist presented itself to the world.

Na Yi suddenly gasped. She remembered that when Lin Ming had entered the Sorcerer Pagoda, he had only been at the early Altering Muscle stage. After stepping into the Divine Kingdom, his cultivation had actually been boosted to the peak Bone Forging stage. This was over a stage and a half of cultivation! What had Lin Ming been doing for these past seven days and seven nights?

Why had Na Yanda been inside for only a few hours, while Lin Ming had actually stayed within for a full seven days?

“You reached the peak Bone Forging stage so quickly…”

“Mm. I had a fortuitous encounter within the Divine Kingdom. My luck was good and I made a breakthrough. Ah, about that question I asked before, is there some sort of strange flame anywhere within the Southern Wilderness?” Lin Ming continued to press the question he had asked a moment ago.

Na Yi found it strange that Lin Ming was able to hide his cultivation. It couldn’t be that he had actually reached the realm of returning to his original state, could it? Regardless, after hearing that Lin Ming had returned from the Divine Kingdom, she stopped indulging in her ridiculous ideas, and said, “There should be. The Fire Worm Tribe uses a fire as their totem. Their tribe has a legacy flame. This flame is said to be eternal and is kept by the current ruling Shaman. I don’t know if this flame is the strange flame that you are looking for.”

“Mm? Eternal?”

Lin Ming was surprised. If there was an eternal flame, then that flame would be a Flame Essence!